Crowning Moment of Awesome Week: Bad-Ass Mothers

[auggie18]

So, I'm pretty sure that this is Crowning Moment of Awesome/One Perfect Moment week, so I'm gonna make a post. Fun!

Our first bad-ass momma? Why, the only superhero who has actually been raising her kids for the past fifty years, the Invisible Woman!



Of course, when they fought over her kids, she needed him alive, so she took a slightly different approach.







Unrelated to the whole mother thing and slightly out of character line aside, kinda love this moment.



And of course.



You have no idea, kid.

And from the DC side of things, we have another blue-eyed blonde who won't just sit down and take it when you insult the girl who is like a daughter to her. Even if you are an amazon.



Not to mention what happens if you try to take her actual daughter.







And back to the Marvel side of things. Really, Emma, messing with Wanda's kids is what launched the chain of event comics that has been going on since Disassembled. It's not a very good idea.



Mera's another mom you don't want to mess with.



Ultimate Aunt May shows Electro why you NEVER F*CK WITH HER NEPHEW.




Hell, even old school Aunt May got in on the action after the vulture kidnapped her nephew.


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Damn.

And slightly off my original topic, though she is a mother, the picture I will be ending all of my theme posts with this week:



Punch him, Maddie. Punch him for all the crap he's going to put you through in the future. Excellent.


Hope you enjoyed that! Might post a second parter when I'm back home and can get to my other comics. We've still got moments like Jessica Jones beating the crap out of Norman Osborn when she thinks he killed

Comments

[mrstatham]

It's moments like that one above where I don't see how anyone could like Emma Frost. She's meant to be a respectable teacher and one of the frontline emissaries of mutantkind?

[celestialchild]

I feel like she just gets written so back-and-forth. Like sometimes she's amazing and heroic, and then other times she's scum of the earth. Always a badass, but that's not the point.

I mean, I don't read MARVEL, but this is always the impression I have whenever I read excerpts. It just seems to depend who penning her.

[stolisomancer]

She's pragmatic, which is the whole point. Emma generally wants good things in her modern appearances - safety for the children she's teaching, etc. - but she does not give a fuck how she gets what she wants.

Kitty makes a point to her in Whedon's run that Emma has no business teaching an ethics course, and I always thought that was pretty spot-on. Emma's version thereof should be her standing on stage with "The Ends Justify The Means" written on the chalkboard behind her; she then points at it for a solid minute, drops her microphone, and struts away.

[icon_uk]

I'd say she'd be perfect for teaching ethics, as she will have a completely objective POV about them. :)

[mercia]

I... I really love that line. I'm going to steal it and use it everywhere. EVERYWHERE.

[valtyr]

I think you're right, actually - someone who's instinctively moral often can't articulate the why of it. Emma will help them question their premises.

[celestialchild]

This does solidify the way she is written quite a bit. Thanks.

[crabby_lioness]

Emma Frost is the classic example of a pragmatist as opposed to an ideologue. She has a goal, mutant independence, for which she is willing to do anything and for which she has done anything. Over time she's found out that certain approaches work better than others, so she does them more often now. But she will never be an ideologue. She will never put principle over pragmatism in the long run.

[valtyr]

And in the middle of a full-out fight, she uses what is apparently a fairly unintrusive mind whammy to try and remove a couple of kids from the battlefield.

Truly, history's greatest monster. Compared to, say, Thor whacking a kid in the stomach with Mjolnir.

[mrstatham]

Right. Because Thor going to one extreme makes EVERYTHING Emma has done over the years okay. Sure.

[valtyr]

Well, I've no idea why you drew that conclusion from what I said.

[mrstatham]

Well, you're using the example of what Thor did as though it justifies Emma's continued dubious morality and actions, when really, Thor smacking someone in the stomach with Mjolnir doesn't really have anything to do with how Emma Frost has been presented since her creation.

[valtyr]

No, I'm not.

I'm saying the pictured incident is really not that bad. Emma's done a lot of bad things. This isn't really one of them.

[zabilac]

I have a new-found respect for these woman.

[celestialchild]

Moms kicking ass makes for an awesome post. Ugh, read these scans up, down and sideways. :3

Also, is that second scan of Susan from Civil War? It looks like Steve McNiven's pencils...

[stolisomancer]

McNiven also drew the relatively short-lived Marvel Knights 4 series, which was basically a long string of random awesome moments for the entire team.

[crinos]

Yeah, 4 was freaking awesome. It actually makes serious, thoughtful FF stories which are ACTUALLY mature, as opposed to what most comic people think is mature with shocking deaths and crap.

[akodo_rokku]

And he also draws Sue really, REALLY hot.

[sir_razorback]

heh.. There's a scene with Aunt May and the Chameleon that was pretty cool too. Pretty much owns him without lifting a finger (unless you count cookies).

[cythraul]

I think i read that one. I want to say it was from just before Civil War...

[akodo_rokku]

It was during, Chameleon came after May after Pete unmasked.

[bjornwilde]

I feel like Lionheart needs to be here but I don't have any scans. = (

[sailorlibra]

For the record, the women in the scan with Black Canary and Mia are not real Amazons. I say this not because I doubt that Dinah could kick the ass of a real Amazon, but because real Amazons weren't that jerky (at least before the DCnU).

Also, this post is pretty dang awesome.

For the kickass women!

[big_daddy_d]

1. Boosh!


2. And I have to post this. It is LAW!

[cythraul]

[stares]

"I hope your death is long... and full of suffering."

Wow, May. Just... wow.

[sir_mikael]

I agree it's unexpected to hear May say that but in her defense I'm pretty sure Vulture killed her fiance not at all long before this.

[violetclm.livejournal.com]

Once, Sue got so mad at Galactus that she put a force field inside his chest and expanded it. It didn't work, because apparently the body we see isn't his actual body, but she sure tried to kill him as directly as possible. Never mess with her.

[valtyr]

Awesome, I've never seen the one with Sue, um, tentacle-attacking Doom.

Thanks for posting these. :)