Marvel Noir Month: Cap-IM Universe Medley Fest

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There's still a bit of time to finish up and share your fills for Avengers Academy Month, but in the meantime, it's the 15th, so welcome to the next month of Cap-IM's Universe Medley fest!

You can create as many works as you like across as many different mediums as you like! This is a no-pressure, low commitment challenge to encourage you to try something new, stretch your creativity, and check out other versions of Steve and Tony.

For our full fest guidelines, including our annual schedule, please click here.

This month, welcome to Marvel Noir!

Marvel Noir is a comic series that came out in 2009/10 and featured a number of Marvel characters reimagined in a late 1920s and 1930s setting with film noir and pulp fiction influences. Think of 30s hard-boiled detective stories, a Steve and Tony dynamic like Nick and Nora from the Thin Man, or Indiana Jones.

We care only for Tony Stark, codename Byron Ironsides, a famous adventurer whose expeditions are chronicled in Marvels: A Magazine of Men's Adventure. Tony is still Iron Man, traveling the world in search of magical items and punching Nazis with distinctive armor. At the end of the comic run, having faced betrayal, a weak heart, and an evil Baron Zemo, Tony decides to focus on making the world safer as WWII approaches.

Although Steve doesn't exist (yet!) in the Noir universe, his pre-war life overlaps the era of Iron Man Noir. It's not hard to imagine Tony Stark meeting pre-serum Steve looking for work, or Iron Man joining Captain America to fight the Nazi and HYDRA menace. You can also make Steve's backstory entirely different—this is your chance to make Steve and Tony childhood friends, sworn enemies or reluctant allies without canon events to sway you!

Let your imagination soar, and have fun going noir stares broodingly into the distance.

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WAYS TO PARTICIPATE

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If you would like to earn a badge for Marvel Noir Month, you must submit your work before the end of 15th July.

UNIVERSE MEDLEY:
If you post a Stevetony work set in the Marvel Noir universe in the next month, congratulations! Share it on a Cap-IM community platform, add it to the AO3 Collection and BAM! You've participated!

UNIVERSE THEMED PROMPT FEST:
Got inspiration? Fill out our prompt form to inspire creators! You can also come along and fill a prompt for the universe of the month, or two, or three… the sky's the limit! We have plenty of past prompt lists to browse through.

Don't forget to share your work with us, and post in the AO3 Collection!

UNIVERSE REMIX CHALLENGE:
Like to remix or see how people remix your own works? Awesome! The challenge is that your remix has to be set in Marvel Noir this month! You can remix a work already set in Marvel Noir as long as you keep your setting the same.

Read the guidelines for this challenge and then sign on up to create a work!

RUN A MINI-CHALLENGE:
Love a universe with all your heart and have an idea for a flash challenge? Let's do it! Get in touch with the mods to claim a month and you can run it on cap_ironman's community platforms! The cap-im mods can also support you in setting up modding the mini-challenge.

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CLAIM YOUR PRIZE!

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This is a fest encouraging fun exploration in various Marvel universes, and we'd like to invite you to share your milestones with us!

Badge Milestones

• I created a work this month!
• I created my very first work in this universe!
• I created something for each of the 12 months!
• I hosted a mini-challenge!

If you do any of the above this month, let us know by filling out our Prize Claims form.

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If you have any questions or comments, read our event guidelines, email us at cap.im.events@gmail.com, or get in touch!