Can We Talk About The Way The Knights Being Pretty Much The Only Medieval Thing In Nimona Is Such A Good

Can we talk about the way the knights being pretty much the only medieval thing in Nimona is such a good visual metaphor for the way their bigotry is literally holding them in the past?

WAS ANYONE GOING TO TELL ME JIMMY OLSEN WAS 14 OR WAS I JUST SUPPOSED TO LISTEN TO A RADIO SHOW FROM THE 40'S MYSELF

Was planning to have this posted before Jaime’s film came out but then I decided to do my complicated shading style for it so here we are

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[Background only version and ID under cut]

ID:

[Digital Illustration of Jaime Reyes’ blue beetle on left side of canvas, he’s faced portrait side and has his right arm and leg up, his right arm is clenched into a fist while his left is relaxed at his side. Behind him is a yellow and orange stained glass window with Khadji Da on the main panel and circular patterns on most the rest except for a small rectangular panel on the bottom which has Jaime’s heart-like symbol on it. The piece is bordered with a paper texture which only Jamie’s left wing overrides.]

Details I noticed in my third watch through of Nimona:

(I’m so normal about this movie)

Ballister’s sword originally had a G engraved on it which has been made into a makeshift B via scratchings.

My guess is that the sword either used to be Goldenloins or his families and Ambrosius gave it to Bal at some point as kids (given that Ambrosius is the only one I can think of with a G name)

Also about the sword: people have been pointing out the religious themes (like with the T in “true villain” looking like a crucifix) on that note the symbol on Bal’s sword in this shot looks a lot like the Christian fish

Ballister literally hopped the fence and broke into the knights practice to beat up a dummy as a kid before getting tackled by a bunch of knights

I just thought he was doing an obstacle course when I saw it before but nope! This makes everything about him becoming a knight so much funnier. Also the fact they have this footage? Amazing 100% Ambrosius has it saved to tease Bal with, no way he isn’t embarrassed about that

On a sad note; dang the institute really drilled in “do what I say, be a good kid and don’t break the rules” cause Bal as an adult didn’t even want to break the rules when his life was on the line vs as a kid breaking and entering into an ongoing knight practice while being chased

The director asks Ambrosius for a sword during the roof scene but Ambrosius looks at her and back at Ballister before telling her she needs to get to safety

He saw how angry she looked and knew she’d try to hurt Bal so he sent her away instead

Where Nimona as Ambrosius broke the wall on the miniature of the city being foreshadowing for the end of the movie

Bal batting Nimona off when she starts mocking him for caring about what Ambrosius thinks

So clearly a recurring conversation given Bal’s ‘whatever’ gesture here lmao

Ambrosius being really timid with this crowd of people and overly polite

He’s chasing down a criminal/the love of his life and barely even says excuse me 😭😭 and he half heartedly asks them to move before immediately folding and giving an autograph, we love a man whose great at public speaking but still has social anxiety

Ambrosius’ eye roll as soon as Todd shows up

(He’s so done with him)

Todd’s actual name being Thodeus

Idk why I just assumed this was a different guy the first watch through

Another direct quote from 40’s radio show Clark! This line just lives in my head rent free, he’s always just so excited to break shit 💀💀

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Kinda part 2 of this? (not really but it’s also fanart of radio Clark)

ID under cut;

Image 1:

3 panel vertical comic of 1940’s radio show Superman

Panel 1; Superman is hovering over a lit roof window, he’s smiling and holding up his right hand in a fist saying “there’s the skylight!”

Panel 2; Close up of his fist as he punches and breaks the window with a *krrk* sound effect

Panel 3; back to full body shot of superman now with his hands on his hips and smiling triumphantly over the now destroyed window as he says “there WAS the skylight!”

Image 2;

A digital drawing of Superman in the centre of the canvas sitting crisscrossed his left hand waving and his right neatly in his lap as he beams at the viewer. There is a hard yellow light coming from the audiences right hand side and a yellow dotted rectangle in the background to help highlight Clark. Text with an arrow pointing to Clark on his left side reads “nuisance to property everywhere”

Gentle reminder;

Burying your gays as a trope doesn't apply to media where literally every character is queer and only one of them dies

That's just called regular character death