I am not a spy who can come and go as they so choose. I am loyal to the throne, no matter who sits upon it. What are you loyal to?

Danai Gurira as Okoye

how come in infinity war they didnt just kiss the infinity stones off thanos’s fingers like in robin hood

comprehensive analysis of sam & cap meeting for the first time

damn it sam save it! save it! don’t let him go! -says the first thing that pops into his head-

‘what the fuck buy a guy several drinks first?’

steve:

you can tell this is his Move. he tells this to all the ladies. there’s no way you can get someone listening to marvin gaye and not get laid instantaneously

are you looking at those arms sam?? bc i am

this is the face of a man who is DTF

mcu but it’s just the memes

I can do this all day.

The one thing about Endgame I can’t get past, the one thing that first WandaVision and moreso The Falcon & the Winter Soldier made brutally, abundantly clear, isn’t even Steve’s super shitty ending, it’s that the Avengers made things infinitely worse by reversing the Blip.

It’d be one thing if they’d made the Blip never take place, or restored everyone one millisecond after they disappeared — things they absolutely could have done, by the way — but they didn’t. They brought them all back five years later. It’s insane. It’s sociopathic.

First of all, a lot of people didn’t disappear that day. They died. People who got hit by suddenly driverless cars, people who went down on pilotless airplanes, people skydiving when the instructor disappeared, people whose doctors crumbled to dust mid-surgery, babies who wasted away in their cribs because their parents got Snapped. None of those people got restored in the Reverse Snap. They just stayed dead.

Second of all, everyone got brought back right where they’d disappeared. Which is fine in theory. Except isn’t it pretty lucky no one was sitting in that chair when Monica got restored? And also that apparently no one had moved that chair in five years? So what if you were on a plane that’s no longer in the air? What if you were on a boat that’s no longer in the middle of the ocean? What if you were skydiving and now there’s no parachute? What if you were on the top floor of a building that’s since been demolished? What if you were in your car in the middle of the freaking freeway? That’s thousands more deaths, conservatively.

But forget about all those dead people for a sec. TFatWS makes it explicit that the world is in complete chaos because of the Reverse Snap. People are displaced, families have been torn apart, people are angry and scared and no one knows what to do. It’s so clear that if the Avengers weren’t going to undo the Snap completely — if they weren’t going to undo it at the moment it happened — then they shouldn’t have undone it at all. That it would have been kinder, better to have let the Snapped stay Snapped. Not just for the sake of the people left, but for the people who disappeared.

Imagine the absolute hell of materializing five years in the future to find someone else living in your house, someone else married to your spouse. To find out your baby died or your mom or your partner. And by the way you have no credit, you have no money, no job history, no possessions, nothing. But good luck trying to rebuild your life and all! Aren't you glad we brought you back? You're welcome!

If the MCU ended with Endgame and no one ever had to think about the ramifications, then fine. Whatever. It’s a happy ending. What a cool final battle!

But it didn’t end there. And as such, it’s not a happy ending. It’s deranged. The Avengers are villains.

And it’s just so weird that no one in-universe seems to acknowledge this. That what the Avengers did was bad. That all this chaos, all this suffering, is entirely their fault.

“Yeah, things suck, but I sure do hope Captain America 1.0 is having fun on the moon! Man, we all miss Iron Man!”

W H A T

I don’t know how to deal with that. I don’t know how we, as an audience, are supposed to reconcile with that. I don’t know how they think they can make that decision seem heroic when every subsequent movie and show just makes it retroactively worse.

every so often i get the impulse to paint another old-timey portrait so here’s an edwardian-era steve🎩

obligatory leyendecker-style bucky and steve

CHRIS EVANS as Steve Rogers Avengers: Infinity War (2018)

✪ Stealth Suit

sam wilson always adding a healthy dose of reality to the mcu

tell me again about how peggy carter never taught steve rogers how to fight?

you

clearly

aren’t

paying

enough

attention

dear

What I love about this in an odd way is that all of these fighting techniques tend to be used by smaller and weaker people. In the first two: you get them off balance, take them by surprise. In three and four: incapacitating someone so they can’t continue to harm you. Five and six: again, surprise and using nearby objects because if they can’t get to you, they can’t hit you. Finally, the last two: overturn their center of gravity, get them off balance, get them to fall. These are all things Steve should have been taught before he went standing up to bullies and they are all things that Peggy Carter made sure he knew when he was big enough to keep bullies from hurting other people.

She taught Steve before he was big. She didn’t know (and if she had an idea, she definitely didn’t know for certain) that he was ever going to get big. She taught little Steve Rogers how to fight, because everyone else at basic training treated his presence like a joke, and because she was hands down the most qualified.

Or course Steve already knew how to fight, but he knew how to fight like a big muscular person, which he wasn’t. Most of his knowledge of fighting came from being hit by other people, by bigger people, by men. You can bet Bucky tried to teach him, but Bucky was big and strong and not qualified to know what would work best for STEVE.

Peggy Carter taught Steve to fight within his abilities, within his limitations, USING his size to his advantage. Be fast, be resourceful, bend your knees and get low and use their momentum against them, and when it gets serious fight dirty.

Peggy Carter taught Steve Rogers to fight like a woman, and that is why he always fucking wins.

This commentary is the greatest fucking thing.

M'baku being like That™ a hundred percent of the time.

# the curve of Steve’s back # many thoughts head full

i can only assume that anon is under the impression that i hate steve’s endgame plot because i’m mad that he didn’t hook up with bucky and/or sam or some shit

no

i don’t care

i don’t ship steve with anyone

i mean, sure, i’m pissed that the mcu caught the gay panic so hard that they refused to let steve and bucky’s friendship arc have any sort of payoff because somebody could watch and think they’re GAY but that’s not my problem with steve’s ending

here’s my problem with steve’s ending:

in catfa steve says “there are men laying down their lives.  i’ve got no right to do any less than them” and then he does it

in catws peggy tells steve that sometimes the best thing to do is to start over, and then he tears shield apart and starts over

in cacw steve says he can’t walk away when he sees a situation headed south, and then a situation does head south and he can’t walk away

in agent carter, peggy lets go of steve quite literally, spilling his blood into the water and saying “goodbye my darling” and then she goes off and has a life of her own because she was always her own person and in fact her whole storyline has always been about being defined on her own terms and merits and not by the men around her

in endgame peggy has been dead for like seven years after having a long, fulfilling life with her actual husband and her children, whereas some of steve’s other, dearest friends were horrifically murdered in front of him in their prime, but because everyone has to have a fairy tale wife and kids ending, he spends the whole movie acting as if peggy’s the one he saw dissolve

then they save the world and everyone’s brought back into the future to find time has moved on without them, a trauma STEVE KNOWS INTIMATELY, and the exact sort of bad situation he’d be unable to walk away from, and he walks away from it, and from the friend he was willing to die to save multiple times, and from his other best friend too, without even a word to Sam even though he knows Sam has dealt with suddenly losing a friend before and had a miserable time of it, and then he goes back in the past and overrides Peggy’s life for a happy ending he wouldn’t even want, and in doing so ignores HYDRA growing in his wife’s work and ignores Bucky being tortured in Russia and Tony’s parents being murdered and every bad thing he’s read about or witnessed in the future because apparently that’s something Steve Rogers would do ever

excuse me while i vomit out everything i’ve ever eaten

and the hell of it is, they so SO EASILY could have just had the pym particle shit malfunction and get him STUCK in the past instead of making him behave completely contrary to everything about him, if he absolutely had to have a wife and kids and a picket fence

just ugh