I made a bunch of comments about MMFFCC in a new thread, because I couldn’t find this old one on my own! Thanks to Rabit for digging it up for me.
Strangely given my love of Egypt, I had no comments on Anubis stuff, but when we get to the Discord realm, I do have one thought: the makers of the Animated Series would DEFINITELY have been the origin of the stupid hair dryer voice.
Also a thing they didn’t say about Claustrophobic Delusion is that for Captain Cosmic, the threat of falling off the bridge into empty space wouldn’t be very disturbing, because he flies around in space all the time, his fear of not having ground under him would have been overcome within days of him starting to adventure around the galaxy. What would be less familiar to him is the idea of NOT having infinite freedom of movement in all of a trio of 360 degree rings around all his axes. He’s not in danger of falling off that bridge, he’s confined to that bridge, which would indeed seem claustrophobic by comparison.
I then proceed to do some yelling at my podcast device screen about the rather awkward and vague description of the Nexus of the Void they do, when it’s right there how they can describe properly…they even mention Insula Primalis! The void is like LAVA. Lava is melted stone; Void is melted reality. It is the underlying elements of reality, melted and jumbled together like liquid molecules of a normally solid substance; that explains why it’s dangerous, it explains why it shifts biomes around itself, it even explains why there are dangerous creatures in it (Ruin is essentially an Extremophile, only instead just being like a bacterium adapted to extreme heat, it’s a Xenomorph-style ultimate survivor which thrives on the primal unmaking power of the Void).
By contrast to Void being melted reality, which can solidify into musical magic the way lava solidifies into obsidian (I almost wrote ObsidAeon), I would say the Realm of Discord is more like shattered reality; instead of bubbles of a recognizable biome oozing together and blending at the edges, Discord is more like complete or incomplete pieces of reality which are still solid, but don’t fit together like they should, and grind against each other and have sharp edges.
My commentary on Zhu Long is mostly best kept to myself, but I will say that one easy explanation for why he’s ambiguously Japanese or Chinese or Tibetan is that he’s from like twenty thousand years ago, and those were not distinct cultures at the time, or at least we can say that’s true because there isn’t a surviving historical record to claim otherwise. In real life, katanas and shurikens and ninjutsu in general were all invented by actual Japanese people in the 1400s or whatever, but who knows, in the pages of Sentinel Comics, one of Zhu Long’s henchmen went to Japan in a black ninja suit with a katana and some shurikens, tried to stab a daimyo and was caught by his yojimbo, and the daimyo looked at this stealthy stabby person’s kit and went, “say this is a good idea” and that’s where Japan started having those things. It’s a good enough answer for comic books.