This is my favorite superhero family!
Okay remember how in Son of Neptune, Mars gifts his son Frank The Art of War by Sun Tzu? Said it was his mother’s favorite book? Apparently (I have not read the book so I can’t say for certain) The Art of War is a very elementary military tactics book, including: ‘don’t starve your troops, steal enemy supply lines, don’t fight battles you know you won’t win’ kinda stuff. Kinda because the author was an experience war general writing to future generals that were likely the sons of actual war generals who have no idea how combat works.
Which wouldn’t even apply to the rest of the Argo 2, they know to steal stuff, keep the team healthy etc. If Annabeth gets ahold of this book, she’ll consider it stupid and too basic.
So this isn’t some glorious book on how to wage war and stuff, it’s literally just the bare minimum.
Like I get Rick is trying to connect how Mars and Ares differ, and how Mars wants to share a book that Frank’s mom liked (relating to the godly parent) but he definitely fumbled something there. However, it’s even funnier if you think of the “in-story” reason.
Either A, he’s calling Frank stupid and making sure he’s not some nepo baby.
B, he never read the book, he just seen the book on Emily Zhang’s shelf and assumed it was her favorite
Or C, it was Emily’s favorite book because of the comical implications that multiple dinguses back in the BC thought you don’t need to take care of your own troops in a war, and thus lost so badly, that Mr. War General had to specify to not do that.
Carter, why are you going through the airport with a bird?
Okay hot take but if we ever get to fight one of the Dooms in Marvel Rivals, I want it to be epic AF, like a really fun fight… and then I want the other Doom to have been taken out by Moon Knight and Squirrel Girl embarrassingly. Like he was going to automatically win by doing something but unfortunately, the two heroes standing in said way is these two. The only grace that Doom is afforded is that none of the heroes ever mention it because Squirrel Girl wouldn’t even bother and Moon Knight is pretty sure he hallucinated a tide of squirrels drowning the mad doctor (he did not).
No I do not explode hamsters here, I draw here. I just thought the name sounded cool.
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