Agents Of Shield - Season One Cast As D&D Classes

Agents of Shield - season one cast as D&D classes

It's a shockingly balanced party comp!

Phil Coulson - Aberrant Mind Sorcerer

Melinda May - Battle Master Fighter

Skye - College of Glamour Bard

Grant Ward - Mastermind Rogue

Jemma Simmons - Knowledge Domain Cleric

Leopold Fitz - Battlesmith Artificer

Analysis and villains under the cut

Bonus:

Antoine "Trip" Triplett - Horizon Walker Ranger

Mike Peterson - Berserker Barbarian

Party Comp: Daisy and Coulson are both the face of the operation, while Daisy relies more on charm and Coulson on tricks and gadgetry. May and Ward, as specialists, are martial. We see May focus harder on direct combat compared to Ward's more covert infiltration and elimination. Jemma is the heart of the team and with it, the faith, and holds knowledge closely in her heart second only to Fitz, an engineer with a literal fleet of drones.

The party has a dedicated healer with a pair of support who are combat capable, then a pair of frontline martials and an occult-conscious face.

Add in Trip and Mike and party gains a tank and another support fighter. Like I said, shockingly balanced.

Villains:

John Garret - Deathlock Mastermind, "Powerful deathlocks recruit lesser creatures to help them carry out their missions and, in this capacity, become the masterminds behind vast conspiracies and intrigues that culminate in the accomplishment of great acts of evil."

Raina - Night Hag, "Night hags take perverse joy in corrupting mortals."

Twister (1996) Reboot Part 2 - a new villain

Do we need a new villain?

No! We don’t! Shockingly enough, this movie predicted with wild accuracy a current theme in analytical meteorology, which is the pervasive reach of privatization. Private firms like AccuWeather currently have the capacity to provide subscription-based weather alerts for private individuals and companies that pay for the service; whereas the National Weather Service is floundering under a lack of funding. John Oliver did a really good summary of the issue here, but I 100% reading further into it.

So we can keep the villain as a meteorologist-driven-by-capitalistic-desire-rather-than-altruism and keep the story relevant and compelling. Jonas as Twister’s villain has only a thin connection to the heroes as an acquaintance from college. We can go in two directions from this: make a broader story by creating a villain closer to AccuWeather, or make a more personal story by making a villain -even an explicit antagonist- with a better defined relationship to the heroes.

More on my take on a Twister reboot villain below the cut

For my reboot, I would want a more personal story. One of the greatest disaster movies of all time, the Norwegian Bølgen, focuses only one one family and the people they tangentially interact with during the eponymous disaster wave. This setup makes for a very compelling story with memorable characters. Keeping the scope of the narrative small (reminder that Twister takes place over the course of a single day and is never more than a half an hour from Wakita) is always good if you want your movie to float like a butterfly in terms of pacing, and sting like a bee in terms of action.

For the sake of a little zest in what would otherwise be a potentially repetitive narrative, lets make the villain an active antagonist who opposes the main group. Under the guise of chasing the same storm system, this villain was sent as a saboteur to stop the heroes from collecting the necessary data. They set up roadblocks that force the heroes to take detours that may or may not be trespassing, then call the police when they trespass.

What’s their motivation? Is it pure greed-driven malice and desire to be better than their counterparts? That worked well for the original Twister, but I never felt satisfied with Jonas as a character. I felt he was important to the narrative, but his decision making was inconsistent and he didn’t deserve the end he got. Let’s make our villain something just a little more complicated. Went to the same school as one of the ensemble protagonists (not the main protagonist) but didn’t get the same financial aid. Whereas the protagonist they know could get on with their life and do what they want, the villain needed to take the highest paying job to start taking care of loans, and that brought them here.

If I wanted to make a very entertaining villain, I would make them a good person who could have been one of the heroes in another life, had college tuition not forced their hand. Show them concocting schemes to derail the protagonists in the same scene that they help people who were struck by an earlier tornado.

In the end they just get beat. They’re outmaneuvered by the heroes, or maybe in all of their scheming they failed to realize they drove directly into the path of a tornado and end up being thrown out of the movie. The only good part of Jonas in the original movie is that he didn’t take up a lot of time, whereas in this theoretical reboot more dedication would be needed to properly develop then remove a sympathetic villain-by-circumstance.

tl;dr - the real villain is America’s crippling student loan debt and privatization problems.

Reblogging this again because I found a link to the original image and just, wow. It isn't a live image of a real cell, but 100% of the structures were built using xray crystallography and the general layout is from thousands of slices of a human pancreatic cell taken by electron microscopy.

I really can't get over how good the vesicles look

It’s like two people who don’t exist are interacting