#MCU things

[legalandnotease]

One claim I often see Tony fans making is that Steve was being selfish for not "considering children born during the Snap" in the team's desire to bring everybody back.

This is obviously a form of emotional blackmail After all- how could *anybody* want to erase *billions* of children?

Well, this claim is wrong for a number of reasons

1: There is no evidence of large-scale births or an increasing birth rate during the Snap. Tony fans often say that there must have been millions and milions of children born during the Snap, but this makes no sense because, as a general rule humans do not simply "get over" losing their entire family an "move on".

Even losing one child can be an emotional blow that person never recovers from. Clint Barton lost all 3 of his children, and we know he did not simply "move on" and start a new family.

People do not simply recover from such things in a few years and create new families. It almost never happens.

Furthermore, population dynamics come to play: some planets lost as much as 3/4 of their population due to Thanos pre-Snap genocides.

Even for those who lost "only" half though this would mean half of all birthing females and existing children snapped.

Fewer birthing females means..... a lower birth rate. Also take account of things like infertility and the fact that some women who lost thier children would have been beyond childbearing age: notable case - Queen Ramonda.

Even assuming people were interested in relationships and reproduction (and most were not) the birth rate during the Snap would have been expontentially lower then it was before.

Real life disasters and catastrophes also reveal that it takes a long time for the population to recover. The Black Death killed 1/3 to 1/2 of the population of Europe in the Middle Ages- and it took something along the lines of 3 to 4 centuries for the population to reach the level that it had been before the plague struck.

Literally: it can take HUNDREDS of years for the population to recover. The idea that the world would have returned to normal after only 5 years is ludicrous.

2: The children killed by the Snap.

Half of the human race were snapped. This would have included children. Potentially hundeds of millions of children were killed by the Snap. This is far more than the number who who have been born during the Snap.

There's another issue however: many children would have died after the Snap.

Sick children whose parents or doctors were snapped and were unable to get the medical treatment they needed

Young children whose parents were snapped would have died within a few days if nobody found them.

Children in poorer countries would have been the first to succumb to things like famines and food shortages caused by the Snap.

However, children in rich countries would have followed. Food shortages and the breakdown of intractructure would have caused problems witht the availability of food and medical supplies. Diseases would have become more common without the medicines to keep them in check, and poor sanitation.

In other words, potentiallly hundreds of millions more children would have died after the Snap in addition to those who had been Snappped.

None of those children would have been bought back by Bruce's Snap in Endgame. They would have stayed dead. All because of Tony's selfish insistence that he "didn't change anything from the last 5 years".

So, no matter how Tony fans want to try and twist things: Tony Stark was quite prepared to sacrifice *hundreds of millions* if not billions of children for the sake of his desire to preserve his personal paradise.

He did not, in fact, "save everybody" at all. He saved only those bought back after the Snap and ... not really even them as they had to contend with years of social and economic problems.

You know what the most interesting irony of it all is though? Tony fucked over all those people for nothing. Pepper was already pregnant before the Snap, so reversing it would not have erased Morgan anyway.

[manicmanuscription]

Alright after an hour on Pinterest for help and one annoyingly long visit to the eye doctor I have officially put together my celebration bingo! Here are the rules:

Can be apart of these listed fandoms

- ACOTAR, TOG, Supernatural & MCU

Doesn’t have to be reader insert but it can! Poly ships are welcome too :))

First come first serve

I don’t care how smutty or fluffy it is have fun!

these are all oneshots ranging from different word count

Thank you so much guys for all your support and love! I love you all so much and I can’t wait to see your requests!! 🖤

[starktonyx]

Bucky Barnes in Thunderbolts* New Avengers’ end credit scene (2025)

[geehollow]

Disney+ trying to dissuade me from ending the subscription by saying "but look! We also have these things" and it's love and thunder and multiverse of madness

[robinhuntr]

[mioakem]

the imagery in this part of the ep was actually insane like this is genuinely beautiful

[geehollow]

I'm so sorry I'm so sorry I know these are important and poignant moments in the movies but this is such a "bitch you didn't" face and it cracks me up

Loki’s reaction when you take away from him two persons he loves.

aka. filled with absolute hurt

(x) <- og post

[itachi86]

you know even though i love steve and peggy, i think the more character developmental story would've been if natasha didn't die and steve was able to move on with her

[legalandnotease]

I did some research yesterday for a post about Bucky and I found something very interesting.

You know how Bucky reportedly had a sister named Rebecca/Becky?

Well, unlike James, Rebecca was not a common or popular name in early 20th century America. I looked on a couple of lists and could not find it.

Except on one.

It was listed as a popular name... for Jewish Americans in the 2nd Decade of the 20th century!

Is this further evidence that the Barnes siblings are in fact, Jewish?

[legalandnotease]

Yet in 2021 what do we get?

Malcolm Spellman saying "was he really just a killer in his DNA" and "can he ever be a hero?".

I mean no offense to people who love what he did with Sam in TFatWS but that there? That is character regression for Bucky.

The character who Stan Lee literally said was "one of the good guys". The character who was a hero from The First Avenger and now they're like *lol he can never be!"*

looking at the current state of america maybe it was that deep when they took a character whose whole thing was being against fascism & oppression & moving forward not backwards and sent him back in time to the “idyllic” 1950s to claim his prize for his sacrifice (a wife) leaving abandoning his friends (a disabled veteran and a black man) to deal with his mess

[mischievous-thunder]

What's not clicking, Logan? Wade's in love with you!

[natr0manova]

seeing people's reaction to the new yelena clip makes me realize again how badly the mcu fucked up natsha's fighting style.

like, all black widows are literally suppossed to be olympic level gymnasts, acrobats and aerialists.

that's kinda their thing...

but the mcu decided to make natasha wrap her thighs around a man's head 24/7 instead of making her fighting style what it's suppossed to be: acrobatic, artistic and even kind of ballet inspired.

"B-b-but it's not realistic!!😖🥺😢 She has the super soldier serum!!" It's the mcu! there literally was a purple man, who wiped out 50% of the universe using pretty stones.

I think you guys can survive when a woman (who's been trained in acrobatics & gymnastics since she was a little girl) uses highly acrobatic/gymnastic skills in her fighting style. And it's still not confirmed whether or not the Widows have some sort of serum but it's realistic (at least for me) that after decades of training one can pull off such skills without a serum.

[mellosghosts]

in my heart this joke is in the movie, but unfortunately im afraid only we, hughjackmaniacs, would get it 🥀

[ambivalent-amphibian]

/neutral

[papanowo]

what is their problem like actually

[attractive-nuisance-esq]

hey so like does everyone know that Like A Prayer is most definitely a song about going down on someone?? like is the younger generation aware? did you guys know that Wade and Logan’s two pivotal scenes were set to a song about how blowing someone can be a religious experience?????? because this is Very Important information