He’s in the exact same pose I do when I see a spider on the ceiling
Ga bolga nice.
But he was famously beardless.
Great find. Who’s yer wan in the shamrock outfit I wonder
He joined the Guardians of the Galaxy in an alternative universe.
Man that pose looks sore.
I put this in a paper about Cú Chulainn for my master’s in Gaelic Lit at UCC. It was the first my professor had heard of it. Always nice to bring a little pop culture back to the discipline it originated from.
Think that was in junior cert history mid 90s
It’s strange seeing a man drawn in that pose. Usually cheesy comic book writers of the past would position women characters like that so they could show off both their chest and ass at the same spine breaking time.
I would like to see him in the MCU.
That’s an imposter. He was one ugly bastard once the violence started.
I wish someone would make a high budget film about Cúchulainn, maybe 300-style. Such an epic story.
Some more info on it. He fought *with* the guardians of the Galaxy, he wasn’t a villain.
> Cuchulain appeared in Guardians of the Galaxy in 1993. As in Irish mythology, he is said to have been the greatest warrior Ireland had ever seen. He was born in the 1st century A.D., and was the son of the Irish Sun god, Lugh, and Dechtire, Conchobar Mac Nessa’s sister. He grew to be a great warrior by the age of seventeen, and was proclaimed the guardian of the Book of Kells. While fighting Medb, the mythical warrior queen of Connacht, he was beheaded by her soldier. 3000 years later he is awakened by Shamrock, and together he, Shamrock, and the Guardians of the Galaxy defeat Samhain, a demon who is out to destroy the Book of Kells. Cuchulain then departs to explore the 31st century and restore Ireland.
He’d have the shirt off any man’s back.
Fun fact: some recent issues of X-Men (specifically a book called Marauders) were about the mutants securing the supply of their medicines to Ireland, which were disrupted when the UK withdrew its recognition of the mutant’s sovereign nation. A Dublin crime gang led by someone who looked suspiciously similar to Conor McGregor tried to sieze the remaining medicine.
[Morrigan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Morr%C3%ADgan) also showed up around the same time in another X-Men comic demanding they use their immortality to sacrifice themselves to her over and over.
I remember he made a more recent appearance around the 2005 in a Thor comic series, “Blood Oath” that leaned real heavy into the mythology stuff.
The basic premise is that Thor’s pals, the Warriors Three, while hunting a great whale, mistakenly killed a frost giant who had taken animal form. Loki had set them on the trail of this ‘whale’ in the first place, knowing that this Frost Giant would be too stubborn or stupid to change back once a fight had begun.
So in typical mythology fashion, to right this wrong, Thor and the Warriors are tasked with retrieving a bunch of sacred doodads to appease the Frost Giant King.
One of these items on the list is the Spear of Cu Chulainn, which has been bound in a cauldron of blood to ‘contain its’ bloodlust’.
All of the Irish pantheon of the Tuqtha de Danann qnd the Fonorii canonically exist in the MCU, same as the Olympic and Egyptian, Hindu, Britannic etc gods. They’re basically a race of extra-dimensionql superhuman that werre worshipped as gods but then some bigger and more powerful space aliens called the Celestials showed up and told them to stop fucking with human affairs.
Smashed them up too !
And his spear, “Gae Bulg” or something
There’s a lot of Irish mythos like cú chulainn in smt, which is surprising for a Japanese company
Ah he’s some man
He also fought thor in one I remember. He cut the head off thor’s fat friend
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He’s in the exact same pose I do when I see a spider on the ceiling
Ga bolga nice.
But he was famously beardless.
Great find. Who’s yer wan in the shamrock outfit I wonder
He joined the Guardians of the Galaxy in an alternative universe.
Man that pose looks sore.
I put this in a paper about Cú Chulainn for my master’s in Gaelic Lit at UCC. It was the first my professor had heard of it. Always nice to bring a little pop culture back to the discipline it originated from.
Think that was in junior cert history mid 90s
It’s strange seeing a man drawn in that pose. Usually cheesy comic book writers of the past would position women characters like that so they could show off both their chest and ass at the same spine breaking time.
I would like to see him in the MCU.
That’s an imposter. He was one ugly bastard once the violence started.
I wish someone would make a high budget film about Cúchulainn, maybe 300-style. Such an epic story.
Some more info on it. He fought *with* the guardians of the Galaxy, he wasn’t a villain.
> Cuchulain appeared in Guardians of the Galaxy in 1993. As in Irish mythology, he is said to have been the greatest warrior Ireland had ever seen. He was born in the 1st century A.D., and was the son of the Irish Sun god, Lugh, and Dechtire, Conchobar Mac Nessa’s sister. He grew to be a great warrior by the age of seventeen, and was proclaimed the guardian of the Book of Kells. While fighting Medb, the mythical warrior queen of Connacht, he was beheaded by her soldier. 3000 years later he is awakened by Shamrock, and together he, Shamrock, and the Guardians of the Galaxy defeat Samhain, a demon who is out to destroy the Book of Kells. Cuchulain then departs to explore the 31st century and restore Ireland.
He’d have the shirt off any man’s back.
Fun fact: some recent issues of X-Men (specifically a book called Marauders) were about the mutants securing the supply of their medicines to Ireland, which were disrupted when the UK withdrew its recognition of the mutant’s sovereign nation. A Dublin crime gang led by someone who looked suspiciously similar to Conor McGregor tried to sieze the remaining medicine.
[Morrigan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Morr%C3%ADgan) also showed up around the same time in another X-Men comic demanding they use their immortality to sacrifice themselves to her over and over.
I remember he made a more recent appearance around the 2005 in a Thor comic series, “Blood Oath” that leaned real heavy into the mythology stuff.
The basic premise is that Thor’s pals, the Warriors Three, while hunting a great whale, mistakenly killed a frost giant who had taken animal form. Loki had set them on the trail of this ‘whale’ in the first place, knowing that this Frost Giant would be too stubborn or stupid to change back once a fight had begun.
So in typical mythology fashion, to right this wrong, Thor and the Warriors are tasked with retrieving a bunch of sacred doodads to appease the Frost Giant King.
One of these items on the list is the Spear of Cu Chulainn, which has been bound in a cauldron of blood to ‘contain its’ bloodlust’.
When they try and take the spear, it… [does not go well.](https://64.media.tumblr.com/9c0cbbfc98292e55e6a393f74d8c7cf5/tumblr_mv5m57TJ6T1rx884lo1_1280.jpg) (Gore warning, Volstagg- literally loses his head.)
All of the Irish pantheon of the Tuqtha de Danann qnd the Fonorii canonically exist in the MCU, same as the Olympic and Egyptian, Hindu, Britannic etc gods. They’re basically a race of extra-dimensionql superhuman that werre worshipped as gods but then some bigger and more powerful space aliens called the Celestials showed up and told them to stop fucking with human affairs.
Smashed them up too !
And his spear, “Gae Bulg” or something
There’s a lot of Irish mythos like cú chulainn in smt, which is surprising for a Japanese company
Ah he’s some man
He also fought thor in one I remember. He cut the head off thor’s fat friend