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From Justice League #17, the end of the “Throne of Atlantis” Arc, aka how to make someone turn around and pity-adore the antagonist. I’ve included the “I loved you like any brother should” speech and the panel where Orm fights on his brother’s side after relinquishing rule. But it’s the last two pages that pushed this into “Arthur, that’s your dumb baby brother! I love him; how could you?”

Overall Context: Vulko (the onlooker in the third image with the panel voice-over from Arthur about how alone he is) manipulates current king of Atlantis, Orm, into attacking the surface world as a plan to replace him with the elder half-human illegitimate Arthur – a plan that works out perfectly except for all the collateral Atlantean and human civilian causalities and having to also unleash the Trench (creepy fish monster people).

widewonderworld:

Was Ray Fisher cast as Cyborg for his voice alone because like?? he has the calmest, smoothest, most beautiful speaking voice ever?? Like I realize that’s a weird thing to focus on in a very nuanced performance about a man who is alienated from his own body, but a big part of Cyborg’s conflicts (as I understand it) is about his own foreignness – he doesn’t look like anybody, he can’t do what other people do for good or ill, and while his cybernetic body can do a lot of amazing things, it can’t be pushed to a higher limit the same way an organic body can. 

But this is all in contrast to how comforting Vic’s voice is? Like if I’m in distress and all of a sudden this weird robot man drops out of the sky with a scary-looking red light coming out of his chest in the DCEU world of genociding aliens and clown criminals, I’m about to have a heart attack on top of the panic attack I’m already having. But then Ray Fisher’s voice tells me it’s going to be okay and do I know if anybody else needs rescuing nearby, suddenly I realize there’s a hero in all that and I’m going to get out of this fine. 

I just really love Ray Fisher okay?