When last we left off, we had an Aquaman clone who managed to be even more useless than his Superfriends incarnation and accidental genderqueer representation through sheer ineptitude.

Now we get "Mr. Blizzard." The phrase "very powerful" gets used once again, this time to describe a "cold demon."

Antonio manages to mispronounce his name twice in a row. First it's Mr. Bizzard, then Mr. Wizard.

I would make a running tally of the number of times "number one nemesis" and "very powerful" get used in this video, but that would require me having to go back and watch this mess all over again.

how can everyone be a number one nemesis and everyone be very powerful

Being a demon, Mr. Blizzard falls under the "Solar" category in DETS--the category that doesn't actually get mentioned in the acronym. ("S" stands for "Skill" here).

Everyone gets their own number one nemesis.

And they seem to interact with said nemesis more than their actual teammates, going by what little Antonio gives us.

if everything was in the acronym this wouldbe a long assed thing

DEATSSSSSSS or some shit

True...

"He's very powerful, he produces very, very strong snowstorms... but he has a nemesis."

GASP! What a shocking development!

is his nemesis rock salt

No, because that would be entertaining and provide some element of narrative tension.

His nemesis is called "Whiteout." Because we needed another powerset clone in this cast.

So despite being a demon, Mr. Blizzard loves his friends dearly and wears a mask because he's sensitive about what others say about his appearance.

And we have another clumsy edit!

"And earthlings have, what, uh, have gathered around Mr. Blizzard and made him, you know, make er[cut]a very strong person in the Association, and he's one of, uh, Darius's most trusted, uh, pals at the, at the mansion that they have."

...oh, so that's how you do a strikethrough in Plurk.

methinks he should prepare a script or something of what he wants to talk about so he's not going uh well um hmm err all the time

Nice going there, Antonio. You cut out actual content (actual value of said "content" notwithstanding) and left in all this nonsensical rambling

He has "notes."

think he needs more than that

That only covered 40 minutes' worth of content from what he claimed. He just stretched it out to over an hour for extra view time/to manipulate the YouTube algorithm.

he's not gonna get Youtube famous

...at least not for anything good he'd probs be famous from being featured in some cringe compilation

At this point, I wish he would end up becoming a cringe meme

I mean I'm glad he's like, genuinely excited for this thing he's doing, but he really needs to...make it less ripoff and more original

it takes a LONG TIME to do that

it's taken me six years to get to where I am for Ares Arcana, from it being a GW AU with people's names changed to something entirely original

but you need to have the dedication to do that, and idk if he has that

He's just lazy, and that's what irritates me the most, I think.

I mean the barebones isn't actually that bad

but when in five seconds I can come up with more interesting things for his shit than he could, then idk

He puts in zero effort toward making his videos look good, zero effort toward making his characters unique or appealing...

Blizzardman or whatever's archnemesis should be named Rock Salt

and he is the Saltiest of Villains

But he expects to become famous and successful regardless.

Pffft

He couldn't even be bothered to make his hero/villain dynamics interesting. Just give everyone the same powers and bam, instant rogues gallery.

Oh boy, here we go...

He's talking about watching Superfriends and X-Men as a kid and thinking that he'd make his own superhero universe one day.

"And I understand that some people might be like, 'Well, you copycatting.' Well, I don't look at it as copycatting, I'm just looking at, you know, having my own characters, putting spins on my own characters, they won't look like anybody else [sic] character... they, they might have certain abilities, the names might be similar.

"But we are running three different universes on our own, starting out of the gate in the Team Tiggio, uh, anime universe..."

So what's he implying here? That he's too busy creating three different series (one of which is a Naruto clone) to put in more effort?

That's not what "putting your own twist on these characters" means, Antonio.

And like you've said, Karu, you've been working on Ares Arcana for years. Antonio's supposedly been working on this for years and this is what he has to show for it.

and I can come up with something better in FIVE MINUTES

And having Blue Tornado be bitten by a pufferfish instead of a spider apparently qualifies as "thinking outside of the box."

if he's been working on this for years, he must not be working on it often over the years

you know, just bits here and there over a span of time

nothing really in depth, just "let me create a character real quick that sounds cool" but when pressed on what makes these characters more than one dimension, he struggles because he doesn't know anything beyond their names

He thought pufferfish were interesting enough to base his star hero off of... but didn't actually give him any abilities related to pufferfish.

imagine being able to shoot poison needles at things

or something

being able to blow up in size when angry like Mrs Puff

and then rolling out a la Jigglypuff on your enemies

look, I just came up with a cooler superhero in two seconds

based on an actual puffer fish

And with that tangent spent insisting that these characters are totally not just a long series of copycats out of the way, on we go to our next heroine, Gale!

is wind involved

Don't forget, we have a villain named Puffer, so maybe he has those powers. We'll see when we get to Team Bad Guys.

"Gale is very small, but she's very strong."

Ren do you really think the villain named Puffer will be cool and puffer fish like

She summons gale force winds!

"So yes, a lot of our characters do have certain type of elemental abilities, and that just the way we running the universe..."

"Because I'm the author and I said so" is not an excuse, Antonio.

Shhhhh, let me dream while I still can.

"So everybody won't have these abilities 'cause some people will have, you know, hand-to-hand skill training, you know, everybody that are not Deviations."

And he actually pronounced it correctly this time!

"Gale and Gust are opposites of each other. Both of them have similar abilities, when, um, Darius send, uh, when he's, when he's detected that Gust's in the area and Gust is about to blow down a building for example, she needs to, you know, they need somebody to get in and cut loose.

...why do I feel like that didn't really make sense with how he siad it

"And the person that they send to cut loose is definitely, um, it's Gale."

So they both use wind powers and hand-to-hand combat. But Gust is taller than Gale, so they're opposites.

...Antonio that's not how that works...

this isn't bad yaoi where height rule is a thing

I'm speculating that the height difference is why they count as opposites, given Antonio doesn't provide any other reasons.

"Uh, another character, uh, that we have is Onyx. And Onyx goes by the real name of Raven."

No last name. Just Raven, like how the Professor X copycat apparently only goes by Darius.

my first thought was "that's a Pokemon" but that's spelled Onix

Because he just had to make which heroine he's ripping off this time even more obvious...

"She is, uh, a handi, she loves to use hand-to-hand combat, uh, but in the field, she also can do different abilities. Her number one nemesis Clamorous."

"she can punch and kick but also can do different abilities" thanks for that WHAT ARE THOSE DIFFERENT ABILITIES

Onyx and raven are both shades of black... a superheroine who supplements her power with hand-to-hand combat...

Sound familiar yet?

We're about to find out!

"Um, so they have a battle of the screams."

"They like little birds, the way they go at each other, little banshees, if you wanna say, because they screams are so high pitched."

"So Onyx and Clamorous offsets each other with the screams."
That's not what offsetting each other means, you twat...

Nice going, Antonio. You made Black Canary and evil!Black Canary sound more like opposing guests on Jerry Springer than superhumans.

Also, they're supposedly fighting over the attention of a male hero we'll be hearing about soon.

"Another one of our characters is the number one sidekick from the Green Whale, and this character goes by the name of Orca."

Because introducing Orca right after his mentor would have made too much sense, I guess.

"The Green Whale's sidekick is Orca. Orca is the sidekick..."

Orca supposedly isn't as strong as Green Whale, but he's still "very strong, very smart in battle..."

is Orca an actual orca tho

Who knows? But let's put a pin on that and go back to Onyx, because boy oh boy, is she a special case compared to her "inspiration."

he should've had this organised so he focused on one char in their entirety instead of going back and forth

SO THERE IS THIS CHARACTER NAMED ORCA AND ORCA IS THE SIDEKICK TO GREEN WHALE. NOW LET ME TALK ABOUT A CHAR I ALREADY INTRODUCED. like. just keep it to one char. maybe make vids just focused on whatever char

Black Canary: Irish descent, uses supersonic screams and hand-to-hand combat, has a romantic connection with Green Arrow that is sometimes troubled due to his infidelity.

Onyx: both aliases are a shade of black, is compared to a "little bird" and a "banshee," uses supersonic screams and hand-to-hand combat, battles her nemesis over the romantic attentions of Green Arrow Bowman.

He's done that with one of his other series, Elvira & Friends.

I'm guessing since he hasn't become successful yet using that strategy (big surprise), that's another reason he's going for one super long video here.

Now, back to the sidekick who may or may not be an actual whale!

"When they are battling Puffer, because Puffer is just as big as the Green Whale, but what makes Puffer, and we'll get in that, to that soon, is his poison."

So if you eat him, you'll die?

"If he bite you or scratch you, then, you know, the poisons can, um, affect you, you know, you know, have a long-term effect."

"That just the way it is. Everybody wanna be the strongest." --Antonio's motivation for 98% of his cast in a nutshell

And we have officially learned nothing about Orca, other than he's "very strong and very smart."

But not as strong as Green Whale, who, may I remind you, apparently only has the power to talk to creatures that don't even live in the ocean.

We learned more about Puffer, and it boils down to "he's venomous and wants to take over the oceans and then the surface world."

I don't think he knows what the venom does

I WANT TO KNOW ABOUT THE NEUROTOXINS

Maybe we'll learn more when we get to his actual introduction?

when the heck is that gonna be

there is a lot of information but none of it sounds really useful like half of these characters could be combined tbh

But for now, let's find out about Bowman!

I read that as Batman

tl;dr, he's Green Arrow, but different

Because it's his bows that have different effects, not the arrows?

I guess that's why he's Bowman and not Arrowman...

</shitty pun>

1) How does using a different bow affect the arrow that's shot from it?
2) Nah, carrying around multiple bows in the field won't be cumbersome at all...

idk Link seems to manage just fine in BotW with all the various shit he carries...

And really, he's still using trick arrows. It's just that there's an extra (and stupid) step in the process.

And he knows capoeira, because he's Brazilian. Because of course he has to practice an exotic martial art.

I mean I do know a lot of Brazilians who know capoeira

that aside

Btw, Antonio pronounces Bowman with extra emphasis on "man."

bowMAN

in case you think Bowman is a woman

no no BowMAN

Yeah, but will his heritage actually be used to add depth to his character, or will it just be an excuse to justify him knowing a cool fighting style?

the latter

Now get ready for the most idiotic name in this entire universe

/sits

/holds breath

"We have another, uh, fighter in the Association, and this, uh, he goes by the name of Plunger."

Antonio's emphasis, not mine.

Plunger

like

/holds up toilet plunger

because that is all I can think of why would you name a superhero that

No, no, see, his powers use playing cards and dice, and he has a gambling problem!

So he's (hopefully) named after the lever on a slot machine, geddit?

/cue "It's not stupid, it's advanced!" from Invader Zim

>powers use playing cards

does he speak Cajun

We'll see!

"Plunger is a crimefighter." Naw, really?

"He don't wanna live in no mansion, you know, because he has his own..."

So somehow the not-Xavier Institute has become the not-Avengers Mansion.

And Plunger doesn't want to live in a mansion because he... has his... own mansion...

So he's part of Darius's superhero team, but not really, because he wants to do things his own way, or something?

"But he has never used that gambling problem t-to, with his special abilities to steal from anyone."

Because we can't have our character flaws actually lead our characters to do bad things!

what

either you're in or you're not you can't be half in

do the playing cards explode

"He just lose honestly. And losing honestly is sometimes not the best way to do things."

PLUNGER ARE YOU A CHEAP IMITATION BOOTLEGGED KNOCK OFF GAMBIT

Gambit did it so much better

Aaaand yup! The cards explode!

Oh, how lovely. He uses his powers to make stuff explode if he thinks you're cheating him in a game!

"It ain't gonna kill you, if he don't want it to..."

Because even if he's too virtuous to use his powers to cheat at gambling, he's still an asshole with them.

"Also he got a number one nemesis that goes by Cardshooter."

Great, so the one guy with a semi-creative, or at least unusual power is yet another copycat.

And didn't Gambit just use playing cards out of personal preference?

it has been a LONG TIME since I X-Men'd but I believe so

"Cardshooter" that is the worst fucking name

Worse than Plunger?

no you know what Cardshooter is the second worst

sorry, Plunger has to be at the top

let me guess: he shoots cards

so I did a bit of googling because I honestly couldn't remember Gambit's power and that BOTHERED ME because he was my fave growing up

Gambit has the ability to mentally create, control, and manipulate pure kinetic energy to his desire.

so yeah he can blow up shit with his mind basically

which is cool

he uses playing cards because why not

he doesn't use them because they explode like....what kind of superpower is that, playing cards explode to your whim???

And at least Cardshooter involves cards and not an entirely different method of gambling altogether.

Gambit uses cards because he's a skill card-thrower

what's Plunger good at even

like okay you can make cards explode (???) but like. what...is he even...good at...

And wait a second, how the heck would "I make cards and dice explode" help anyone cheat at gambling?!

Unless he has more subtle methods of control than that, but Antonio doesn't tell us anything like that.

where does the gambling even come into play, like what is the point

Nope, instead we're moving on to FlashRush.

Rush

Oh, it gets better once his "number-one nemesis" comes into play, just you wait.

is their name Speed

You'll see!

"What make, what make Rush so cool is, he thinks he's the stron--not the strongest, but the fastest runner in the world. So in the Blue Tornado universe, one of the fastest runners that we have is Rush."

that's really redundant

He's a braggart about his speed, but gasp! He might not be the fastest thanks to Blue Tornado also getting super strength and speed from that pufferfish bite.

Yeah, just go ahead and pull that out of your ass, why don't you...

So we have the old "is Flash or Superman faster?" dynamic copied here...

"Rush number one nemesis is called Flux."

"They are known nemesis because, let's get this: they are brothers."

[deadpan] oh no not brothers

also like. what's the point of these other people when Blue Tornado can also conveniently do most of this shit

More characters means more merch?

(No seriously, Antonio doesn't have a single book out for any of his series yet, but he's still selling t-shirts with his characters on them.)

I think we're finally down to the final Association member: Shambles.

Which sounds more like a villain's name, but why surprise us with a passable hero name now, right?

"Shambles, to him, he's the strongest there is, as he has never reached his true powers."

Welp, we have our Hulk clone.

Dude's base height is 6'7", but the angrier he gets, the taller and stronger he gets.

Shambles is a great description for this whole thing tbh

And DETS and the Association want to limit the amount of fighting Shambles does to minimize collateral damage.

I can only imagine what these chars actually look like

Word to that.

We've only had a single image so far, and that's of Blue Tornado.

I just imagine Megaman in a tornado for some reason

Wearing the most generic costume you can imagine.

cape and tights

I'm still back at Plunger who uses exploding cards somehow to cheat at gambling

Actually, no cape or tights, but take a look:

o h

Also included: the messy background I've had to look at this entire video

I get a very 80s like, Power Rangersish vibe

And no, Plunger doesn't cheat

what are all those boxes in the background

He just blows stuff up in the faces of people who do

what am I looking at

how does he know they're cheating tho

This is the office where I work.

(it'd be better if he somehow used it to cheat tho tbh)

HE'S RECORDING THIS SHIT AT HIS WORKPLACE?!

He just does, okay? Jeez, stop asking so many questions

YUP

(It'd make him more interesting as a character, at the very least.)

He owns the company, so he can kind of do whatever he wants, I guess?

HE'S RECORDING AT WORK OH MY GOD

who the hell does that tho

OH I CAN'T WAIT TO GET HOME TO DISCUSS THIS

To be fair, he recorded after hours.

I GOTTA DO THIS IN MY OFFICE

But he compiled the footage during work.

even so that's just. why

...I just noticed, Blue Tornado's right eye isn't outlined.

did he draw this himself

No, I think a former employee did years ago?

ARE THOSE GILLS ON THE SIDE

idek

so...so he has a Youtube about this stuff and some merch...does he have a website or anything

I... think those are muscles? Or ribs? Or maybe they are gills?

would be an odd place to emphasize muscles tbh

Yup. And it looks awful.

oh god

I can only imagine

Thankfully our actual company website actually looks like a competent individual designed it.

But we've gone through the entire Association and still have about 15 minutes left in the video.

I wonder what Plunger looks like...

if his outfit isn't like, slot machine themed, I will be so upset

He doesn't have character art. No one does, aside from Blue Tornado and I think maybe the head villain?

But I'm going to make another entry to address the fearsome might of...

The Clique

Puffer or whatever--wait what

oh my god

yyyyyyyyyyyup