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Original comic book Thanos was a super-powered intergalactic gangster (with a helicopter). First (and, IMO best) retcon Thanos had him as the leader of a nihilistic cult (The Black Order), that he founded to carry out his goal. His goal was this: as a teenager he believed he had seen Death...

You'd have to ask my readers who is most memorable. Most fun is a different story... and that would probably be a villain from an old RPG in my college days (his name was Mayhem, or Morris Emmerson, as he was subtly admitted several times, the non-canon son of Frank Oscar Randolph Charles...

Believe that falls under "Fair Use" - I make a lot of pop culture references in one story, and had to downplay a few for legal reasons on PocketFM (mostly with songs included - can give the title and a few words but not a full line unless I own the copyright). Quoting the jedi code or having the...

Varies depending on number of characters and type of conversation. One of my favorite minimalist examples was from Brust's The Phoenix Guard which was kind of a tribute/parody of The Three Musketeers cycle. He has three characters talking, but the dialogue is so short and simple it doesn't...

What's the title? Does it have any special characters like -, ', ( or ) in it? Those can mess up search results.

Well, they should have an initial reaction to each other reflecting how the relationship ended - if they left on good terms, they should be friendly, casual. If they left on bad terms, cool, maybe even adversarial. Since you mention the relationship was toxic, odds are one of them still views...

I'm always willing to get critical feedback. Even happy to get it if worded constructively or just politely. Now I admit, I may sometimes need to cool off for a minute before I can take it as constructive if its a long list or something, but usually I see the intent and can make corrections...

Right - the real issue should be: "People cannot make money on other people's intellectual property (IP) without their express permission*, even if writing a fan fiction about that IP," not "should fan fiction exist on this platform" or even "should fan fiction exist at all" which seems to be...

The most effective case of revealing this kind of detail I've seen was the former abused kid (now a teen I think) stating matter-of-factly some things that were done to him - what he says sounds ambiguous and innocent at first, but the person he's telling it to realizes what he's describing with...

If that's the entire system, and you didn't gloss over details, then it does need something more, but if you just simplified everything and that's a description OF the system, you're fine. It makes it more of a "modern era" game than a "traditional fantasy (Lit)RPG" but works (if I left out the...

It depends on how they do it - polite and helpful? Yes, please - especially if they also point out some positive things. Negative and mocking? Go read something else then.

I have a lot of characters I'd consider doing spin-off stories with but some of those stories wouldn't last more than a chapter or two. Carol and Liz (Liz being the Warrior/nurse who was never intended to be an MC but became one; Carol is an aesthetician/Healer who I waffled on making an MC for...

For sufficient levels of drunkenness, all birds are edible.

First and foremost, the character has to be someone YOU enjoy writing. You will murder any sense of engagement if you grow tired of your MC. Also keep the MC somewhat consistent - if you plan to have them take a "heel turn" make it feel natural, not "Oh, today I'm gong to be Evil. Maybe I'll...

Kind of like: "Zor And Zam" The king of Zor, he called for war And the king of Zam, he answered. They fashioned their weapons one upon one Ton upon ton, they called for war at the rise of the sun. Out went the call to one and to all That echoed and rolled like the thunder. Trumpets and drums...

Would vary based on the type of power but, most likely, given human nature and my own personality, use it to remove truly evil people from the world, but, like the kid in Deathnote (Light, I think it was?), eventually go too far and become a kind of serial killer to protect myself and my family...

Then that should be decent.

Had this happen literally in Between Earth and Pyrroth - a character who was meant to be mostly a running gag wound up becoming one of the main characters just because I needed to add one more character and she was sitting right there (well, mostly sitting, making sarcastic jokes and doing...

{(M to F) Genderbender; Superheros; Urban Fantasy; Strange powers; Ancient Prophecy; Conspiracies} Kelly Morgan Pierce thought he had a good life - until he hit on that mobster's wife. He should have died in that alley but the universe needed him elsewhere - and to live as a woman. A woman with...

Had a few moments where I thought I'd have to do something like that, but then remembered something mentioned earlier and it all worked out. The worst - and I don't remember which story or character this was - was when I actually had to change a character's eye color after about seven chapters...