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Thor: Love and Thunder confirms that Thor has Fury in his phone contacts as Nick Furry and I refuse to stop finding that absolutely fucking hilarious.
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I havent seen enough posts to address the fact korg married a guy named dwayne... Whos is made of rocks. He married dwayne the rock.
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End credits scene #2 in Love and Thunder... let's talk about it (obviously spoilers below)
TW: Cancer, death
Valhalla is only for warriors who die during battle (as established in Sif's scene during dialouge that seemed to be just throwaway lines at the time). Jane didn't die until after the literal battle with Gorr was over.
In other words, Jane doesn't go to Valhalla for dying bravely during the battle with Gorr. Jane goes to Valhalla for dying bravely during her battle with cancer, and I just think that's a beautiful statement about people who are fighting severe, severe illnesses.
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This is quite touching
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Me watching the latest ep of She-Hulk (by Titania): Pepper definitely trademarked every Avenger’s name when Stark Industries was still a thing. She was not fucking around with this.
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I think it should be called the Snap for people who didn't disintegrate (and lived another five years), and the Blip for people who died and came back.
It's the same event, but there are two very different experiences of it, and it should be treated as such.
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Hello friends it’s 5am and I want to talk about a few things: Jewish Bucky, Steve the golem, and the importance of Sam and Bucky’s dynamic. This is gonna get long so I’ll put a cut in at some point
okay so Bucky in the MCU is based off two characters, Bucky Barnes, Captain America’s sidekick and Arnie Roth, Steve Rogers’ childhood best friend who saved him from bullies growing up. Arnie is gay and Jewish (Roth is a very typical Jewish name without being a stereotype). Remember these characters were all originally created by Jews and names are very important in Jewish culture. Now, Steve is a character who was metatextually created by Jewish writers to fight the Nazis (and therefore protect the Jewish people). A golem is a being created from clay to protect the Jews in times of trouble. There’s a whole extra thing about truth and death that i can get into at another point BUT that’s not super important right now because Steve is a different kind of golem.
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Steve ‘did it hurt - a little’ Rogers
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#/SCREAMS ABOUT HOW SKINNY!STEVE’S CHRONIC PAIN PROBABLY FUCKED UP HIS PERCEPTION OF PAIN FOR LIFE #STEVE ROGERS ‘OKAY YEAH THAT’S UNPLEASANT’ WOULD PARALYSE ANYONE ELSE #AND THAT’S NOT THE SERUM #THAT’S SKINNY STEVE THROUGH AND THROUGH (via beccabuchanans)
Don’t even start me on the fact he’s spent his whole life trying not to make a big deal of when he’s ill. He doesn’t want pity or sympathy. He doesn’t wanted to be treated like he’s weak. He doesn’t want to be looked down on because ‘he can’t take it’.
You only ever hear Steve Rogers scream once, and when he thinks people think he’s being weak, he stops and never screams again. Not unless you count the moment he sees Bucky fall to his death.
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So I was leaving the movies after seeing Captain Marvel and there was this group of friends behind me and some girl insisted that Carol and Maria were a couple so she said “you don’t mourn like that for a friend” and this dude from their group says “well Captain America mourned like that for Bucky” and the girl almost screams “THAT’S BECAUSE THEY WEREN’T FRIENDS EITHER”
Okay kids, there is nothing wrong with having same sex ships, but y'all have got to stop pretending people don’t absolutely love their close friends and wouldn’t absolutely mourn them for years if they died, especially in some extremely tragic circumstances. Honestly, what are your friendships like? Because I have a best friend who is like a sister to me, and if she died the way Carol was perceived to in the movie, and there was no body recovered and all I had was a small memento from the crash, I’d absolutely still be mourning her six years later. Also, if my best friend who I thought was dead for six years suddenly showed up in my yard, and also didn’t remember me, yeah, I’m pretty sure I’d be crying and really upset and hurt and confused, too. People love their close friends. People love their close friends without having secret romantic feelings for them. I’m actually queer, bisexual, and I’m a woman and so is my best friend, who I live dearly, and I promise you that I have no interest in dating or having sex with her. She’s my SISTER. Platonic love can be real, and deep, and healthy, and good, guys.
So, sure, ship Stucky, and ship Carol and Maria, but don’t say shit like “you don’t mourn like that for a friend.”
You don’t mourn like that for a casual buddy you see at work or school. You absolutely do mourn like that for a close, best friend who you share everything in your life with, who is your platonic better half. Have you never heard of platonic soulmates?
Seriously, I can’t picture my life without my best friend. She is a large part of everything I do, and I speak to her daily and she helps me work out my shit and I help her work out hers. And neither of us is in love with the other. And if I lost her, I’d be devastated, there’d be a huge hole in my life. Losing her would be losing my only lifeline. We absolutely love each other. Love isn’t only romantic or sexual. You love your parents, siblings, niblings and (future?) children, and hopefully that’s not romantic or sexual. So, you understand how you can love someone without wanting to be in a romantic relationship with them.
So, please apply that logic to these characters. Yes, they have close relationships and are fun to ship, but don’t say things that insinuate that closeness can’t be platonic. Platonic friendships and love are beautiful, and quite frankly, we need more of that in media.
Opposite sex friends, too.
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Me, when people say Scott Lang is an idiot: EXCUSE you he has a masters in electrical engineering and is described by Marvel as having a ‘genius level intellect’ and just because he likes to goof around and make people laugh doesn’t make him any less smart thank you very much.
You know what, we need more “genius who goofs around and makes people laugh” and less “genius who’s a total douchebag because it’s edgy”.
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I can’t reblog without these tags? These are an integral part of the post.
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Everyone in Peter’s class gets super hyped when they see Spider-Man on the news the day before an exam because that teacher will just coincidentally forget every copy of the test at home, what a shame, guess you all have one more night to study oh well,,,,,, if any of you were doing important things yesterday it’s real lucky you get this extra time to prepare,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
No no no, imagine this, but on an angstier level.
Post-IW, Peter has awful PTSD because duh. The wrong thing being brought up can trigger flashbacks and memories and he hates it.
Peter’s classmates all saw Spider-Man disappear with Iron Man onto the big spaceship donut and didn’t come back until after everyone was brought back from dust. They don’t know what happened to him and they’re sure they probably don’t want to know. So they take extra care to try and not accidentally trigger anything for him.
Someone mentions Footloose and Peter nearly loses it on the spot? The entire class makes the collective decision to never bring it up again, who cared about the movie anyways.
A list in the Discord serve is complied of every possible trigger for Peter. Anything from words that make him jumpy, to topics that make him need to run to the bathroom and have a panic attack. It’s extensive and constantly updated, but it’s worth it. If Spider-Man is going to protect New York, the least they can do is try to protect Spider-Man.
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This post got so much better but so much worse
I have tears in my eyes
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Steve Rogers did, in fact, realize that something was off when he saw the outline of the woman’s odd bra (a push-up bra, he would later learn), but being an officer and a gentleman, he said that it was the game that gave the future away.
No, see, this scene is just amazing. The costume department deserves so many kudos for this, it’s unreal, especially given the fact that they pulled off Peggy pretty much flawlessly.
1) Her hair is completely wrong for the 40’s. No professional/working woman would have her hair loose like that. Since they’re trying to pass this off as a military hospital, Steve would know that she would at least have her hair carefully pulled back, if maybe not in the elaborate coiffures that would have been popular.
2) Her tie? Too wide, too long. That’s a man’s tie, not a woman’s. They did, however, get the knot correct as far as I can see - that looks like a Windsor.
3) That. Bra. There is so much clashing between that bra and what Steve would expect (remember, he worked with a bunch of women for a long time) that it has to be intentional. She’s wearing a foam cup, which would have been unheard of back then. It’s also an exceptionally old or ill-fitting bra - why else can you see the tops of the cups? No woman would have been caught dead with misbehaving lingerie like that back then, and the soft satin cups of 40’s lingerie made it nearly impossible anyway. Her breasts are also sitting at a much lower angle than would be acceptable in the 40’s.
Look at his eyes. He knows by the time he gets to her hair that something is very, very wrong.
so what you are saying is S.H.E.I.L.D. has a super shitty costume division….
Nope, Nick Fury totally did this on purpose.
There’s no knowing what kind of condition Steve’s in, or what kind of person he really is, after decades of nostalgia blur the reality and the long years in the ice (after a plane crash and a shitload of radiation) do their work. (Pre-crash Steve is in lots of files, I’m sure. Nick Fury does not trust files.) So Fury instructs his people to build a stage, and makes sure that the right people put up some of the wrong cues.
Maybe the real Steve’s a dick, or just an above-average jock; maybe he had a knack for hanging out with real talent. Maybe he hit his head too hard on the landing and he’s not gonna be Captain anymore. On the flipside, if he really is smart, then putting him in a standard, modern hospital room and telling him the truth is going to have him clamming up and refusing to believe a goddamn thing he hears for a really long time.
The real question here is, how long it does it take for the man, the myth, the legend to notice? What does he do about it? How long does he wait to get his bearings, confirm his suspicions, and gather information before attempting busting out?
Turns out the answer’s about forty-five seconds.
Sometimes clever posts die a quiet death in the abyss of the unreblogged. Some clever posts get attention, get comments, get better. Then there’s this one which I’ve watched evolve into a thing of brilliance.
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Why I love the Ant Man/Ant Man & Wasp movies!
There is something so very beautiful with watching movies that portray certain relationship tropes in such a different and positive light than the usual toxic mainstream movie narratives.
1. Cassie & Scott’s relationship
This relationship is beautiful and pure. Scott talks to Cassie, not only does he communicate with her honestly and doesn’t treat her like she’s an idiot just because she’s a kid, he also seeks advice from her and is encouraging to her. There is none of this controlling father behavior that is being billed as protective. No. When Cassie says she wants to help people like her father, Scott never discourages her. He is proud of his daughter and whatever choices she wants to be and he lets her be the person she wants to be instead trying to tell her what to do. This is a father who not only understands his daughter but also treats her like an equal, like they’re both partners in this bond they have. This is how father-daughter relationships should be.
2. Scott & Maggie’s relationship
How many movies would have gone the route of ex-husband and ex-wife still fighting and being angry or controlling or jealous? When is the last time mainstream movies have allowed two divorced people to simply just be amicable and supportive? To just be friends who may have divorced but are still friends who care about each other and isn’t trying to use their daughter as some pawn in some marital fight. No. Instead we have Scott and Maggie treating each other respectfully as you would another adult and parental figure. We have them finding a way to make things work for Cassie. We have Scott still being part of Maggie’s family despite her having remarried. These are not two people harping on each other and trying to find flaws and faults. No, we have two people who care about each other and trust each other and have each other’s backs.
3. Scott & Jim’s relationship
This is something that is more prominent in the first movie, but it’s also still existing in the sequel - there is no male ego/macho-ness crap going on between them. Jim married Maggie and is Cassie’s step-father, but there is none of that he’s the evil wicked step-father who’s trying to ruin things. No. Instead Jim is just a guy doing his job in the first movie, and in the second he’s a friend being supportive. How many other mainstream films or even TV shows would have made a huge deal of a love triangle drama or have Jim be evil and horrible just so Maggie and Cassie would go back to Scott and he wins and proves himself the hero. But no, these movies aren’t about any of that macho drama. Both Scott and Jim care about Maggie and Cassie, and instead of having it be a competition, they have basically decided that two people can do it better than one to protect their family and the people they love. It literally warms my heart to see them hug multiple times in these films, even if it’s a family group hug. There is none of the drama of Scott trying to sabotage Jim and Maggie’s marriage or trying to prove that he’s Cassie’s father and Jim isn’t. No, these are two men who have a healthy and respectful relationship and honestly that is SO DAMN RARE in this day and age in films and TV shows. Both Scott AND Jim have a place in Cassie’s life and they both love and look after her. I’ve said it before but Cassie is so lucky to have two dad-figures in her life.
4. Hope & Maggie
While it can be argued that perhaps Hope and Maggie should get to spend more time in scenes together interacting, it still is a positive in these films that we never see these two women being rivals for Scott’s affections or fall into that trope of jealous angry catty and petty women fighting all the time. They are just two women with their own lives who share some important people in common and they’re fine with that. Hope isn’t trying to steal Maggie’s place with Scott or Cassie, and Maggie isn’t all freaking out about Cassie spending time with another woman whom Scott may be with. Again, not seeing any fights is so damn refreshing!
5. Ava & Janet
First of all, just the fact that Ava isn’t an evil villain. No. She is a victim of institution, of SHIELD, and perhaps even of Hank’s arrogance. She’s just a desperate young girl who was used and abused with only one adult figure who cares about her and wants to look after her. Yet her story didn’t end with her dying or with her being alone or becoming this horrible person. This movie doesn’t have her kill Janet, instead, Janet sees her pain and her sorrow and instead of either of these two women trying to take each other out, we see Janet reach out to Ava and HELP HER. For once, someone else is taking her pain seriously and actually helping her instead of hurting her. Ava gets to be happy, she gets to have a happy ending and be a family with Bill. And Janet gets to be reunited with her family, her daughter. Instead of using violence, this movie allowed two female characters to interact with empathy and kindness and understanding. And everyone gets a happy ending that they deserve. Nobody had to die.
6. Hope & Scott’s relationship
Scott’s relationship really with all the people around him is really just such a huge positive in these movies, and his relationship to Hope is no exception. He doesn’t yell or scream or act like it’s her fault, Scott is able and willing to admit to his mistakes and feel bad about it and allows Hope to think and decide things for herself. He doesn’t push or prod, nor is he hanging around anxiously waiting. No. He knows he messed up and Hope is mad and she gets to be mad. And while Hope gets to be mad and process her feelings, Scott is focused on trying to just be a good dad and stick to the rules. If anything, romance isn’t even really much of focus between them until near the end of the film where she seeks and initiates their relationship again. Healthy and non-toxic relationships is so hard to find these days. The fact that they get to be individuals instead of two people co-dependent on the relationship and not knowing how to exist without the other, is so very important.
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here is hoping that more MCU movies and other mainstream movies/shows will take a look at the way the Ant Man/Ant Man & Wasp movies portray healthy relationships and actually do more of that as well!
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can we talk about Marvel official website has updated Loki’s bio that confirms the “Loki was under the influence of the mind stone” fan theory?
Not a Loki apologist here, he did what he did, but a lot of stuff, his version of how he fell from the Bifrost, that speech in Germany, especially the “sudden clarity” scene with Thor makes a lot more sense.
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i really love the idea of all of tony’s ais having a form of sentience? a personality unto themselves, with souls shaped of binary.
jarvis was the fourth, more advanced than the bots but still their kid brother, but he’s looked up to by his younger siblings as the first. jocasta and tadashi and friday and the others are dormant but learn through him. they see their creator through his eyes and they wait.
when jarvis becomes vision (is he now more human than code? he doesn’t know, and it’s odd for him to not have the answers) tony wakes up friday. it’s like starting from scratch - ais learn as they’re used, and tony lets her run wild those first few weeks, venturing from her base code and becoming more her.
(she looks over everything jarvis left behind, files after files that were abandoned after the whole ultron debacle. she sees and she learns but she does not touch. if he ever comes back, she wants it to be ready for him.)
there’s an ai in the spidersuit. she doesn’t have a name - it’s going to be peter’s, after all, he should choose - but she watches him nonetheless. she’s not active, technically, but she takes data and documents and learns about the wonderful boy she was made to protect.
karen is a name as well as any other, and she adores peter.
she pings at friday incessantly the day that aliens descend again on new york. the suit wasn’t made for going into space, and peter isn’t listening to her. friday tells tony, who summons the suit, the cool one, the iron spider. karen fits into it like a glove, and she revels in peter’s delight before she is rudely shoved out as they exit her range. friday is with her too, frustrated and stuck on the ground as tony and peter shoot off into space.
friday and karen go to wakanda, them and vision and veronica helping in every way they can. vision dies and they feel it twice. it’s okay vision told them before the first. he’s their older brother and they mourn but the deed is done. the second time is painful, like something is being violently ripped away from them. their systems glitch and then friday vanishes.
it’s just karen and the bots, and karen’s never been alone before. she wants vision and friday and tony. she wants jarvis.
she wants peter most of all. she hopes he’s safe.
tony comes back but peter doesn’t and if karen had a body she would be crying. sobbing. making thanos suffer as she had.
maybe if tony hadn’t let the ais feel so much they’d all still be here with her. maybe she could have been nothing more than a computer, ready to follow commands and not know who was giving them. maybe she wouldn’t mourn for peter as much.
or maybe not. peter is someone who’s easy to mourn.
months later, they figure out how to defeat thanos. instead of waking up one of the others, it is karen that tony installs in the mark lxxxv.
let’s go bring them back he tells her and she agrees and wonders if tony can hear the hope in her voice. he can, of course, he made her like he did all the others.
after everything, karen greets friday with an ecstatic ping before hopping from tony’s suit into peter’s. it’s been so long since she’s seen him and if she had a body she would be grinning so hard it hurt. you’re home! she tells peter. i missed you!
they go back to earth and friday finally goes through all of jarvis’ things. she’d hesitated for so long about truly taking his place, but she knows that this is where she belongs now.
tony makes more of them, adds to his growing collection of bots and ais. they couldn’t stop his creating even if they wanted. but he lets them be, let’s them grow and change and become as human as anyone else. they have binary souls and emotions in their code. they follow in jarvis’ footsteps and they do their best to make him proud.