Currently thinking about the You-See-Colors-When-You-Meet-Your-Soulmate-And-Lose-Colors-When-They-Die trope and how it might apply to Endgame time travel shenanigans and giving myself feelings
FUCK FUCK FUCKITY FUCK FUCK FUCK
Tony Stark in Avengers: Infinity War & Endgame A Fully Realised Dad
Tony Stark being soft
THEY SHOULD HAVE LET HIM TALK TO HIS ACTUAL DAD.
Not Asshole Dearest. I’m still so upset they took this to try to give that fucker a redemption arc. Howard wasn’t fucking worth it!!!!!!
This!!!
actual footage of me trying to figure out how the exact same people who made Captain America: The Winter Soldier also made Avengers: Endgame
Okay, I’m not reblogging this from anyone in particular because it’s more than one specific person, but I just want to say, there’s a reason I phrased this “the exact same people” and not “the exact same directors” or just “the Russos”.
Winter Soldier and Endgame had the exact same creative team. The Russos were the directors, Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely were the writers, Kevin Feige was the executive producer.
To reiterate, the same people who wrote Winter Soldier also wrote Endgame. That means the same people who wrote, “None of us can go back,” were the same people who then wrote Steve going back to the woman who literally said those words to him!
(Also, like, the plot of Winter Soldier actually makes sense?? Like, if you “don’t understand time travel” then don’t use it as a plot device??? Or at least bring in another writer who does???? Winter Soldier is an actual movie, not just a collection of cool gifs and callbacks that doesn’t hang together if you actually think about it for more than half a second.)
The point is, I’m not just blaming the Russos here. I’m blaming the whole damn creative team. And they’re all the exact same people responsible for both movies.
That’s what I’m having trouble wrapping my head around.
the same people who wrote steve saying “this isn’t freedom; this is fear” wrote him retiring under mccarthyism.
So are we seriously not going to talk about how Steve and Peggy can only stay together post-endgame so long as he never tells her that he’s essentially a body-snatching future version of himself from a parallel dimension who’s intentionally placed himself into her timeline in order to take over the life of her original Steve, optimistic and unjaded, who is still frozen under the arctic circle, never to be found because nobody knows to look for him? Are we really not going to talk about that
We gonna talk about how Steve assumed the identity of a war hero and married the woman who loved him, then left the guy trapped in an ice block for all eternity, dooming him to his own most traumatic fate. Are we
I’m just saying, you sacrifice your life to save millions of lives, then wake up four hundred years later to San Francisco under water and shit and go ‘holy shit what happened to my friends’ and someone’s like ‘well actually this guy who looked just like you showed up out of nowhere with no explanation, married your lady friend and lived happily ever after with grandkids and shit. Said something on his deathbed about digging him up soon but we figured that was the dimentia. Good thing you floated down here when the arctic melted huh. Hey do you remember when polar bears were real and oxygen was free’. I would Shit
Endgame-Steve’s happy ending is literally every other person’s waking nightmare
… I completely missed that WOW
Also to keep the timeline from changing further, Steve would have to just… ignore the return of Hydra. “Peggy hired Arnim Zola as part of Operation Paperclip. That sounds like a problem for past me. By which I mean iceberg me’s future.” -Steve, probably.
… this gets worse EVERY TIME someone starts thinking about it
Shall we also talk about how Endgame!Steve erased Peggy and (her real husband) Daniel Sousa’s kids from that timeline too? He did the exact thing Tony wasn’t willing to do when he first came to him with Scott’s Time Heist idea: potentially risk erasing children from existence by going back in time. And Steve didn’t even potentially risk it when he went back in time at the end of the movie, he actually purposely did it. You can’t tell me he didn’t know, or at the very least consider, the consequences of what – and who – he would be erasing by going back in time to be with Peggy. He knew she got married. He knew she had kids. He knew she moved on from him with her life and wanted him to do the same from her. He knew she was happy with how her life turned out. She TOLD him this in TWS. And yet he didn’t care. He took all of that away from her anyway. I don’t even like Peggy, but what Steve did to her character and story is misogynistic as fuck.
And what about what Steve did to both versions of Bucky? Dooming alternate!Bucky to the exact same fate that his future self suffered by sitting around doing nothing to save him from being taken, tortured, brainwashed and weaponised by HYDRA. Abandoning present!Bucky, the man he caused collateral damage and even civilian casualties for in several European countries back in CW, and leaving him to now fend for himself in the present timeline with limited friends, support networks, or knowledge about the modern world. Remember, Bucky would still be a wanted fugitive for the crimes he committed (willingly or no) as the Winter Soldier, and Steve has essentially thrown him back to the same wolves he’d tried protecting him from in CW. So much for “til the end of the line”, right? “Even when I had nothing I had Bucky.” – well now Bucky has nothing because Steve wanted everything.
There’s really no way to twist or justify Steve’s ending and make it unselfish, whether he went back to an alternate timeline or the same timeline or whatever else the four horsemen of Endgame have been trying to spin. Ya’ll hardcore Cap Stans can all scream about how he “deserved a happy ending” all you want, but that wasn’t it. Steve took away somebody else’s happy ending in order to get his. That’s not noble. That’s not selfless. That’s not heroic. That’s bullshit. It’s selfish, entitled and disgusting. And if you still think that that’s something he “deserved” to do, then I really don’t know what to say.
Sorry dudebros the only part of the mcu i can remember is when Tony Nat and Bruce are all lying around together surrounded by cushions n half-empty chinese boxes while discussing strategy for an upcoming battle
Mood. That’s the best part of the movie.
Reblogging because my eye caught something interesting in the first gif. Tony is using ‘repulsor hand’ gesture there. Which is different from a bog-standard ‘stop’ hand gesture. His fingers are more separated, curved. The thumb’s more forward. Sort of a little relaxed looking, outside of the suit, because the bulk of the suit prevents straighter, closer fingers and the flatter palm-profile.
Reason Number 10,563 why I love RDJ and his portrayal of Tony Stark. Because by this point, Tony’s been using the suit - using THAT GESTURE *how* many times? Of *course* his out-of-suit body language would echo what he does in the suit by now.
I was literally just thinking the same thing and then you put it in words! 💓 @sherzasboss
Holy shit
Cassie? Dad? You’re so big!
This scene honestly fucked me up. Scott loves his daughter SO MUCH, and he tried SO HARD to be there for her – from doing his best to get and keep parole after doing his prison time so her could have visitation, to taking a deal and living under house arrest after the Sokovia Accords so he could see his daughter and be present for her childhood.
And then he misses it anyway.
He misses five years and in that time his little girl grows into a teenager and he didn’t get to be there for any of it, and he doesn’t get those years back. He doesn’t get to be there for her like he’s tried so hard to be and has always wanted to be, and that’s one of the cruelest things you can do to Scott Lang.
Cassie’s alive, but in a way he still lost his little girl. There’s a profound relief here that she’s alive, but there’s a deep grief too, and it hits me like a gut punch every time.
Same energy
Hahahaha accurate XD
Okay but think about how, in the alternate 2012 timeline, the Time Heist Squad left behind an entire elevator full of Hydra agents who think Captain America is one of them. Think about how Captain America just had his patriotic butt whooped by a doppelgänger who told him Bucky’s still alive and then complimented his ass. He must be so confused. The Hydra agents must be so confused, but like, they’re Hydra. It’s probably in the Secret Evil Organization Handbook to never, ever talk about who’s in it. It’s like the very first rule of being a successful sci-fi Nazi: If you somehow get a guy called Captain America to join a secret Nazi organization, you do not talk about it. You keep that on the down low so that you have the ultimate double agent on your side. So Captain America is probably wandering around in the Good Ol’ 21st century, confused out of his mind, likely wondering what WiFi is and how he can find Bucky and where he can find Bucky and how could Bucky still be alive and is it America’s ass, really? And then one of the SHIELD agents that he’s met maybe like, twice before walks up to him and before Steve can even give so much as a How Do You Freakin’ Do the motherduffer is whispering Hail Hydra in Steve “I committed multiple felonies for the chance to punch Hitler in the face and I never actually got to do it” Rogers’s ear and shoving a briefcase full of soldier enhancement serum and Pentagon secrets and like, the secret recipe for Coca-Cola or whatever it is that secret Nazi organizations care about into his hand. And Steve. Steve may not know how Twitter works. He may not know emoji etiquette yet. He may not know why bananas are suddenly so weird or why having a lot of people following you is now a good thing. But Steve. Steve knows how to fight him some Nazis. He takes the suitcase. He Hail Hydras back. And then he busts his (America’s) ass back to Avengers Tower like guys you will not believe what is going down I thought we were done with Nazis in the FORTIES. Cue the Avengers trying to take down Hydra super early in the game without anyone knowing it’s the Avengers that are attacking the Hydra bases so that Steve can keep playing the double agent. Cue them trying to figure out who they can trust and who they can’t in SHIELD. And every time—every time—they bring someone else into the fold, they have to explain to them they have an agent who’s infiltrated Hydra, and every time, the person in question thinks it’s Natasha.
And no. It’s Steve.
“How in the hell did you convince them that Captain America is a Nazi?”
And that’s the best part.
Because they have no idea.
YES 😂😂😂
do you know what would have been a powerful moment in endgame?
while tony's absorbing the power of the infinity stones, ready to snap his fingers to defeat thanos, knowing he would die, he feels a hand place itself on his arm.
he looks up.
it's steve, looking down at him with pain in his eyes, but he's smiling anyway like it didnt matter. and then a smaller hand clasps his free one, and its pepper, staring at him in adoration.
they're sharing the power of the infinity stones, he realises.
clint was the next one to touch him, on the shoulder opposite to steves, his bow abandoned on the floor. and then it's bruce, who clasps a giant hand around steves arm, and natasha is next; she entwines her fingers with clints and closes her eyes again the sudden rush of power that came with the stones, and thor holds his own hand in natasha's, stormbreaker on the ground at his feet. rhodey is kneeling on the floor next to pepper, and with a quirked lip, he places his hand in hers.
one by one, everybody joins. wanda, scott, quill, strange, danvers, valkyrie, t'challa, nebula, barnes, wilson- with each point of contact, tony feels the rush drain away. instead of pain, he felt power.
thanos is frozen, fear stricken on his face, and he knew- in that moment he knew.
"we won," steve whispers like a prayer.
every single body in that battlefield held each other in one way or another, and in the center of it all was tony stark.
he shakily lifts the arm being held by steve, and when he snaps his fingers, he knows all will be okay again.
AAAHHHHHHHHH YES
In short period of time they were stranded together on an alien spaceship Tony managed to get Nebula to open up without fear of being punished for it, he put a band-aid on years and years of horrors Thanos made her endure. She was always compassionate and had a great potential for good, but with Thanos she was too afraid to show it and was bullied into feeling the constant desire to live up to his expectations.
Tony made her feel she was good enough, he did not treat her like a weapon, he was not afraid of her and she knew she had his complete and utter trust.
Nebula helped him greatly on the spaceship and was a terrific companion, she later became a very valuable member of Avengers who continued to treat her as their equal and not a threat.
Tony created a path on which Nebula finally found herself, her happiness and serenity.
I love them
Steve Rogers in Avengers: Endgame (2019)
Lmao yep
endgame steve after a few days: yeah so…peggy actually dumped me after like three months bc she realized we weren’t That compatible After having to spend more than Like. 15 minutes at a time together…and eventually married her actual husband..and had kids. so that’s why the timeline didn’t separate! but i got stranded with no WiFi for 50 years bc i didnt have any more pym particles
sam: bro. What?
steve: I got the ring from the dollar store on the way over here bc i didn’t wanna look dumb :/
bucky: that ships BEEN sailed bro
sam: bro. WHAT?
steve: at one point i almost got polio bc i forgot i never got vaccinated
sam and bucky:
AHAHAHAHA 😂😂😂
#soft
Can we just… He offers it to her. She pushes it back, because he needs it more. And he accepts. There’s no posturing, no puffing up and playing the hero because the woman is obviously the weaker of the two. It’s just… it’s refreshing. And meaningful. And such a Tony thing to do.
Fuck 😭😭😭
