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Namora giving that push and Attuma enjoying the time of his life. As for Namor and Shuri.... not so much....
It's called General privilege
Attuma has no regrets. Namor does.
1941 Namor the Submariner Vs The Human Torch
Be prewarned! This is a long post people!
This was written long before I saw Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, but only needed some minor edits to make it work with that movie.
The Talokanil have extremely long lifespans compared to humans, though none as long as Namor or Thor (for example). This way we can start to build a relationship between Namor, Namora and Attuma here.
Open on Talokan at night time. Guards on night watch are snatched one by one. We look from the last guards pov as they hear the commotion then see their comrades bio luminescent lamps dropping down in the ocean. The unseen attacker gets closer and closer, snatches the guard's partner and then them, Merrano's face (just for a second), blackout.
Cut to Jim Hammond (Human Torch) in his human disguise. He has been given a placement with the NYPD through the Strategic Scientific Reserve (SSR). As an employee of the SSR he must secretly keep his ear to the ground for shenanigans in New York (mainly Hydra). He proudly vows to serve and protect.
Cut to another night time raid on Talokan.
Namora: Namor, wake up it's happening again.
He chases and loses Merrano but finds a seaplane with Talokanil being bundled inside. He swims towards it but it takes off. He flies after it and disables the engine. It lands bumpily. He frees the prisoners and interrogates the crew. They are Americans, just taking payment to deliver Talokanil (the Americans refer to them as Atlantis people and mermaids) to a floating fortress in the Atlantic. He leaves them stranded (with a warning) and heads for the fortress location with the Tri team (Namora and Attuma with water breathing apparatus). The scientists are from all over the world but they all work for Hydra (complete with snazzy green and yellow uniforms!).
They split up to scout the structure.
Jim is finishing up his first shift when he gets a call from Howard.
He was made aware of American seaplane pilots being repatriated after being stranded at sea off the coast of Mexico.
They have an incredible story of kidnapping mermaids and a floating fortress and a man with ankle wings. Something in the tale leads Howard to believe them.
Namora and Attuma come across the Atlantean living quarters. They are kept in a room with several sea water sprinklers which they all gather around, desperate to get some water over their gills. The Tri Team are horrified.
Attuma sets to working on their escape. Namora continues to scout.
Namor comes across Merrano in a seawater tank. He knows he should carry on covertly and meet back up with the team, but he can't ignore the traitor. He smashes the tank and engages in battle.
Merrano is much stronger than Namor remembers. He gets regular doses of a specially adapted version of Erskine's serum that adds to his Talokanilian strength. If he misses a dose, the strength wears off.
They are fairly evenly matched, but Namor is gaining the upper hand. Then Hydra goons arrive and set the flamethrowers on them. Namor, dehydrated, is subdued and captured.
He wakes to Merrano complaining about how he could have been killed by the flamethrowers. This is addressed to Johann Schmidt who is admiring his unusual specimen. His colleague, Arnim Zola, is particularly fascinated by the ankle wings and the fact that Namor isn't blue out of the water. Schmidt asks a suffering Namor where his friends are and, getting unsatisfactory answers, boasts about the horrible experiments his people are undergoing (discovery requires experimentation). The continued threat to his people does not break him.
Merrano is still complaining…
Schmidt: Do you still want to conquer Atlantis?
Merrano: Yes, of co-
Schmidt (interrupting): You can achieve this without Hydra?
Merrano: No.
Schmidt: Then shut up!
Arnim Zola: We need more specimens to study. We need more technology from Atlantis before we can strike.
Namor (spying Namora above, grinning): Actually, it's called Talokan.
She takes them by surprise, besting Schmidt and the scientists. She frees Namor from his arid prison and protects him as he is weakened. As they are surrounded by onrushing guards Attuma arrives with refreshed Talokanil.
The Talokanil are strong, but only the Tri Team have their weapons. They more than hold their own in the fight but are starting to fall to Hydra's flamethrower troops.
Outside we see the Talokanil conch division surface (they were always part of the plan but Namor couldn't keep his rage at Merrano in check leading to an early confrontation). This division will mind control humans in BP:WF but here they summon a Kraken with their toot horns.
Namor has been trying different tactics to limit their losses and stay in the fight until reinforcements arrived. When he hears the conch division he has Namora lead a retreat to the submarine bay. The Talokanil are escaping to the water with Hydra in pursuit when the Kraken strikes.
Namor has his Warriors take out any land dwellers escaping from the sinking fortress. No mercy. Though Schmidt, Zola and Merrano will all have to make an escape.
The survivors are returned home to much fanfare and remembrance of those who were lost. Namor is pissed off.
The next day.
The SSR go to investigate the reports of the floating fortress and find the wreck. They are mistaken for a raiding party by the Talokanil. They are attacked and their boat destroyed. Howard witnesses these incredible scenes (i.e. his team getting attacked by blue people and dragged underwater) from his propeller plane. He just about manages to get away from Namor who chases after him. He radios a message to HQ telling Jim to get back to work and listen out for anything out of the ordinary, especially if it involves blue people.
The SSR team are taken prisoner, though they protest their innocence. They are American.
Namor takes the Tri Team to attack a target on American soil. They trash the Coney Island lighthouse in retaliation and anyone who tries to stop them is put in their place.
Namor wants to go further inland, but Namora and Attuma are unsure as they cannot breathe the air like he can.
He sends them back and goes on to New York alone.
Jim overhears the call about blue people trashing the Coney Island lighthouse and takes Betty to investigate. She complains that it is not their beat and that it sounds ludicrous, but Jim says he has a hunch.
Namor is accidentally sucked into a sewage pipe, and comes out near a power station. He trashes the power station.
Jim and Betty survey the massive damage done to the lighthouse. The people who tried to stop the vandalism say it will take years to restore it it, but restore it they will. Jim asks about the blue people. They say they didn't think the police believed them. Jim says he does.
They say that two blue people swam back thattaway but the one with wings on his ankles swam up the river towards New York. Betty rolls her eyes.
Namor is accosted by a nervous security guard and accidentally kills him in anger after being shot. He flees another after being shot at again, though they miss this time. He is too tired, injured and weak to fly away so he runs.
NYPD Police start a big manhunt for a man with winged ankles. This information is not released to the press as Howard used some leverage to make them do it. The officers naturally don't believe the story. Jim does, of course, and he and Betty take part in the hunt.
Namor is fairly easy to spot on the run with his swimming costume and winged ankles (also with a bullet wound), too tired and injured to fly and can't get close enough to the water.
Whilst being pursued he causes havoc, wrecking New York along the way. Sometimes accidentally because of his strength while fleeing, other times on purpose using his super strength to help him escape. He is also still pissed off but pretty scared now.
Namor disguises himself with a homeless man's clothing. He manages to hide out in Central Park till near dark. He has a flashback of the security guard's death. He is quite terrified, out of his depth, literally.
He climbs in Central Park lake to calm down, but is spotted and soon has police on his tail again.
He escapes and swims down the Hudson. Namor is tiring. Police helicopters and boats are closing in. He can't outrun them.
He makes it to the Statue of Liberty. He uses his superhuman strength to barricade the door. Some sightseers are trapped inside, terrified. He says he will only harm those who would harm him or his people. He makes his way up to the head to recuperate.
Police set up outside. Officer Betty Dean is trying to talk him down with a megaphone. Jim says tell him that The Human Torch is on his way (The Torch is well known on the streets of New York for fighting crime). Namor says he doesn't care. He can beat the surface dweller's champion. Jim makes excuses and leaves the scene, turning on his flame in secret.
(If we're going with Sandy as a grown woman/romantic partner in Namor's solo movie then she can have a small role in this movie. Say, the Pierces are watching this on TV. Sandy says she has to go, she can help. Then she does go, despite her parents' protests.)
Torch flies up to Lady Liberty's head and tries to threaten Namor into coming down, Namor does not respond well to threats.
The police have breached the doors, released the civilians and are coming up. Namor decides to fight. Somewhat rested he is now able to fly and fight. He takes on the Torch and fights well. He has to break from the Torch periodically as his touch is dehydrating. In flight Jim is his match, but Namor will not run away. The Torch thinks he has the upper hand, but Namor really shows his strength. He strikes Hammond and knocks him all the way down to the police gathered at the base of the statue, including Betty
Namor stops the fight to check she's alright.
The Torch is back up…
THT: You nearly killed those police officers.
N: You were attacking me! I have a right to defend myself and my people.
THT: You trashed New York! And what's more, you did kill a man...at the power station.
B: He's right, you did.
Namor says the death was an accident but refuses to apologise, America attacked Talokan first. They both tell him America is not attacking his home as they didn't know it existed but he doesn't believe them.
The argument escalates.
Namor and Jim basically tell Betty to stand back (her response is something like 'for goodness sake') so they can fight again.
Namor is quite durable so can stand up to the heat without getting badly burned but he is becoming dehydrated. This is his weakness. Jim notices and tries to press his advantage.
Namor plunges back into the river and swims south, heading for open water.
Jim manages to catch up and grabs him, tries to pull him out of the water. The contact with water weakens Jim a little, Namor notices and tries to pull him down.
They do make landfall and have an epic battle back on Coney Island, wrecking the place. The residents are up in arms! 'Not again!' they cry.
After crashing together into an industrial building Namor mistakenly jumps in a water tank thinking it will lead into a tunnel like the one at the power station. Instead he is trapped.
Jim busts open the water tank and the spill knocks Namor out.
He comes to behind Howard Stark's unbreakable glass, though Namor tries.
Stark, Torch and Agent Flynn are discussing what can be done.
Officer Dean is being kept in an interview room nearby as Namor seemed to respond to her. Jim reveals his true identity and asks for her help.
((If we are having a Sandy storyline) Dean picks out an officer radioing that he has been approached by a Sandy Pierce, a woman, who is claiming to have befriended Namor. She also claims her father, Henry, went into business with the Talokanil. This would corroborate Namor's story that he is a prince of the underwater kingdom. Stark says he knows a Henry Pierce who's in the oil business.
Officer Dean goes to Namor says is it okay if she brings in a visitor, who claims to know him. He gets flustered when he sees it's Sandy.
Dean is called out. Sandy half convinces him that the USA is not attacking Talokan).
Officer Dean comes back with another visitor after a raised voices outside (Flynn doesn't think the visitor should go inside). President Roosevelt!
The PUSA further convinces Namor they are not enemies, "In fact, if your people are under threat, we will lend you our Human Torch and the resources of the fine men and women of the SSR to find the culprits"
"Thank you President Roosevelt"
"I must insist on a written apology for the family of the security guard that was killed. Accidental or not.
It won't bring him back, and I can't guarantee a pardon, it is a serious crime. But it would be a first step towards an understanding between our people."
Namor is uncharacteristically lost for words.
"Perhaps, with the help of your (two) friends here, we can negotiate a peace treaty between our nations...
And then, Prince Namor, I would ask for your help in return."
(Sandy and) Officer Dean encourage Namor through this whole exchange with the PUSA.
The SSR prisoners taken at the fortress are released at an agreed location and taken back to headquarters for medical checks.
Cut to boat with Jim, Betty Dean (Namor insisted she came) and Howard Stark following Namor, Namora and Attuma (J (aside to Betty): They really are blue… BD: Says the bright red man…)) to the ruins of the fortress where his people were taken. Hydra is long gone but Howard has a macguffin which allows them to track Talokanil. Most traces lead back to Talokan, but there are some heading to Europe. They follow the trail to (country? Spain maybe?) and discover Meranno and his mind controlled Talokanil army. They divide and conquer (dehumidifier for Stark, Betty Dean, Namora, Bobo and Jim's group, super strength for Namor) and manage to rescue the majority of Namor's people. Merrano is defeated but escapes again.
Namor returns to Talokan with Betty and the peace treaty and declares that he will help the allies against the axis.
Post credits:
Super-Axis
Lady Lotus, Master Man, Warrior Woman, Meranno/U-Man.
Lady Lotus admonishes Meranno and introduces him to the other members of the Super-Axis
1945 Captain America: Super-Axis
Need a better title…
We open with the scene from Captain America: The First Avenger, where SS officers demand to see Schmidt as the Führer wants the tesseract weapons for regular soldiers, not just Hydra. In addition he is worried about the growing threat that Schmidt poses.
Here we see that he means to conquer the world, including Berlin. He kills the officers, shocking Arnim Zola.
This scene would be cut from CA:FA and put here instead as, up till now, he has had the support of the Nazi party.
He now needs to bring his plans forward before he loses the element of surprise. He goes to visit Lady Lotus.
She has Hydra goons waiting on her, hand and foot. Schmidt remarks that she seems to be making herself very comfortable (implying that she is mind controlling them (which she totally is)). She says if she's going to be stuck with Hydra she may as well make the most of it.
Schmidt asks her to enact the next phase of their plan as the murdered officers will be missed soon and the Nazis will investigate their "disappearance". They can't allow any disruption after all they have worked for. She reminds him that it is not her plan. He says her parents are not safe in the internment camp so she should do as she is told. She agrees through gritted teeth.
She has installed sleeper agents at the London SSR base and also in Talokan. They had been in Hydra's custody but were 'liberated' by the allies and Invaders in the previous movie.
She activates them by psychically reciting a series of seemingly unconnected words to them, similar to Captain America: The Winter Soldier. This means she doesn't have to control them all the time they just follow more general psychic instructions (e.g. you work for Hydra now).
The brainwashed Talokanil free the captured Meranno and Krang who lead them in an assault on Talokan. Namor, Namora and Attuma lead a resistance.
The brainwashed SSR agents free the captured Warrior Woman and Master Man who lead them in an assault on the SSR base in London. Agent Carter, the Human Torch and Howard lead a resistance.
Meanwhile Captain America and the Howling Commandos have just gone radio silent as they hunt down Zola, who is still on the Hydra train. The train scene proceeds as per the movie. Bucky is lost.
After 3 films showing Bucky and Steve's friendship, the fall will have more emotional weight.
Not knowing who is friend or foe, Namor's Tri-Team are forced to flee Talokan. They head to London.
Steve and co arrive at the SSR base early on the second day of the siege, Namor's team in the evening and turn the tide of the battle. Members of Super-Axis escape.
Peggy and the team are forced to fight their friends, some of whom are killed. Those who survive activate their cyanide capsules and die. The London base and the surrounding area is badly damaged.
This gives more urgency to the Zola interrogation scene and more poignancy to the blast damaged pub scene between Steve and Peggy.
Zola gives up Schmidt's last stronghold. The whole team head out there to stop him using his tesseract powered weapons of mass destruction on the world.
Steve gets them in and they spread out, looking for a way to defeat Super-Axis and stop Red Skull. Peggy and Jim find Master Man and Warrior Woman and a battle ensues. Jim goes toe to toe with Master Man and his personal squad of Hydra lackeys. Julia plays a game of cat and mouse with Peggy. It gets perilous for Peggy at times, but she is canny and manages to wound her with her pistol. Willie is bested by Jim again. Both the super soldiers retreat.
Steve and the Howling commandos are mopping up Hydra minions and pursuing Red Skull.
Howard and the Tri-Team find Lady Lotus with her brainwashed Hydra goons. Attuma and Namora easily defeat the goons. A furious Namor tries to kill Lady Lotus (she cannot control him). She turns Attuma and Namora against him.
Howard calls for them all to stop and listen.
He manages to convince Namor that despite her actions she is also a victim of the Red Skull, that she's not really had a choice. That she told him at least part of the truth when they captured her before. That her parents really are interred in California and Schmidt has been using them as leverage.
Howard suggests releasing all the brainwashed Talokanil in return for her release. Namor cannot countenance this. Howard says if she removes her control, you can defeat Meranno without fear of harming your people. He tells him about the harrowing scenes at the SSR base and the cyanide capsules.
Namor says he cannot let her go after what she has done.
Howard says why would she release your people if you don't.
Namor thinks. He says if she betrays him he will find her and kill her.
She releases Namora, Attuma and all the others. We have a very brief scene of Meranno, about to have himself crowned king of Talokan, being turned on by dozens of formerly brainwashed subjects. He flees.
Lotus says what about my parents?
Namora says, why not get them yourself? There aren't many who could stop you.
She says what about Red Skull?
Howard says leave Red Skull to us.
Steve meets up with Peggy and Colonel Phillips in the hallway as per the movie and they get after Schmidt, Steve stowing away on the plane.
Meanwhile, Meranno has arrived and joined up with Super-Axis and the remaining Hydra soldiers. The SSR team converges on their position. We cut back and forth between their battle and Steve's infiltration of the plane.
The fight between Cap and Skull should be huge as this is the last time they will fight.
Peggy manages to finish what she started and caps Julia (not before kicking some SSR butt though). Willie tries to get to her and gets caught in the crossfire. As she dies, Julia calls him an idiot.
Willie appeals to Jim as they were friends. Jim is conflicted as he has the real Jim's memories, but ultimately decides that that isn't really him and leaves Master Man to die alone. Meranno and the other Hydra forces are holding their own, but then the pursuing Talokanil turn up and the base is overrun.
Red Skull acidentally makes himself disappear with the tesseract at the climax of the battle. Steve takes control of the plane.
Peggy joins him on coms. Crash. Downer.
Red Skull has now been an impressive antagonist 3 times in a row for Cap, much better.
1st Post credits:-
We see an older Japanese American couple playing Go while others internees mill about and chat etc.
We see the guard outside wandering off.
We zoom out and see ALL the guards wandering off.
We see the residents start to realise something is going on. They look out the windows. The older couple look up momentarily but then continue their game.
We see Lady Lotus enter and say (in Japanese), "Nothing ever interrupts your Go game, does it…"
They finally look up and see who it is, their daughter.
"Hasu chan!"
They embrace. Everybody else crowds around. She smiles and says (in Japanese), "Let's go"
This scene is actually hilarious when you deep the fact that in the midst of a full out attack on Wakanda, Attuma took the time to find Okoye to antagonise her 😂 He really said “Lemme just see what my lil warrior bae is up to 👀” And what’s sending me is Okoye definitely planned his entire funeral in her head in those mere seconds of tense eye contact between them lmaooo
Okoye: *in turmoil trying to save Wakandan civilians*
Attuma: *standing on top of a Wakandan building searching aggressively* *spots her*
Attuma: 😈🫵🏽💥
Okoye: 😐😠😡🤬🔪
We need to discuss the way Alex talks about Danai. He always sounds so in awe of her. He’s like fanon Attuma come to life. I’m so glad Danai got him as her “dance partner”.
This scene is actually hilarious when you deep the fact that in the midst of a full out attack on Wakanda, Attuma took the time to find Okoye to antagonise her 😂 He really said “Lemme just see what my lil warrior bae is up to 👀” And what’s sending me is Okoye definitely planned his entire funeral in her head in those mere seconds of tense eye contact between them lmaooo
Okoye: *in turmoil trying to save Wakandan civilians*
Attuma: *standing on top of a Wakandan building searching aggressively* *spots her*
Attuma: 😈🫵🏽💥
Okoye: 😐😠😡🤬🔪
