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i feel like this aged well

i swore i wouldn’t post about my loki conspiracies on here but i swear if sylvie laufeydottir isn’t just a loki variant who prefers to present as female i’m gonna eat my laptop

1. the surname laufeydottir means she was the child of laufey. not loki’s wife - nordic names don’t traditionally work like that, so if marvel’s fucked that one up i’m coming for their throats

2. the helmet she’s wearing is comic accurate to lady loki, including the broken horn, which is such a specific detail that they obviously want us to think she’s lady loki. i doubt they’d do a 180 after seeing how the last two were received (ralph bohner, power broker)

3. she literally says loki is her, and reacts to the name loki in a way that suggests she is absolutely A Loki and just hates the name

4. the tva would know if she wasn’t a loki variant, right??

i know, i know, she’s blonde. she doesn’t have heavy makeup. they probably just wanted to visually distinguish her from hela and loki, especially if other loki variants are shown, since she’s meant to be The Variant. regardless i’m willing to die on this hill and if marvel decide to pull some batshit move where actually she’s another secret sister or whatever i will accept any and all bullying for my mistakes

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I hate that Sylvie is already being called the villain after 30 seconds of screen time where all she did was bomb the sacred timeline which basically robs the entire universe of their free will, while over the last two episodes we have clearly seen that the TVA and the time keepers are the real villains. Sylvie is beautiful and she does nothing wrong.

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my computer’s giving me trouble, so this is all i could put together. since it’s only one gif, i included a filtered ver alongside the original 👋

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i swore i wouldn’t post about my loki conspiracies on here but i swear if sylvie laufeydottir isn’t just a loki variant who prefers to present as female i’m gonna eat my laptop

1. the surname laufeydottir means she was the child of laufey. not loki’s wife - nordic names don’t traditionally work like that, so if marvel’s fucked that one up i’m coming for their throats

2. the helmet she’s wearing is comic accurate to lady loki, including the broken horn, which is such a specific detail that they obviously want us to think she’s lady loki. i doubt they’d do a 180 after seeing how the last two were received (ralph bohner, power broker)

3. she literally says loki is her, and reacts to the name loki in a way that suggests she is absolutely A Loki and just hates the name

4. the tva would know if she wasn’t a loki variant, right??

i know, i know, she’s blonde. she doesn’t have heavy makeup. they probably just wanted to visually distinguish her from hela and loki, especially if other loki variants are shown, since she’s meant to be The Variant. regardless i’m willing to die on this hill and if marvel decide to pull some batshit move where actually she’s another secret sister or whatever i will accept any and all bullying for my mistakes

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I though we had move on about "Peggy wouldn't approve" phase for Sharon, but I guess not

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nah, this ain’t true. she wasn’t a villain before tfatws. and they’ve made it clear in interviews since that they don’t consider her ‘evil’, so that doesn’t fit either.

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fuck it, here’s a wholeass post about the skrull sharon theory because literally nobody can stop me.

so! for anyone who’s somehow managed to miss this, there’s a relatively prevalent fan theory right now that the sharon shown in tfatws was in fact a skrull. the reasoning behind this is that there was a VERY significant change in her personality, ideals and motivations that happened offscreen, with the audience left knowing virtually nothing about what her deal is. her being the power broker goes against everything we’ve seen of her so far, and against her comics character, so it seems like a very strange decision.

coincidentally (or not!) this happened at the same time marvel just so happens to be setting up secret invasion - a project that presumably follows a plot similar to the comics in which key characters and prominent figures are replaced by skrulls. with sharon’s current powerful status, she would make an ideal person to replace, and the fact that she was alone in madripoor for several years (note: she wasn’t actually blipped, and the reason for her being shown as missing in endgame was due to her status being unknown by the avengers) means she would be easily swapped without anybody noticing. additionally, the only post-credits scene after the tfatws finale was sharon getting a pardon. this is interesting since the two most recent projects (far from home + wandavision) both had skrull post-credits scenes. what if tfatws’ post-credits scene was secretly a skrull scene too?

altogether, these things seem to make for a plausible theory that would explain some otherwise very strange writing choices. however, right now, i just don’t think it holds water for a few reasons.

first up, there’s the fact that this would undermine sharon’s current anger directed at everyone who fucked her over. because man, was she ever fucked over. she effectively became a fugitive for the guy she kissed, only for him to leave her stranded for years before promptly travelling back in time to be with her great aunt instead. endgame steve, man. the fact that she’s bitter about this is very much justified, and i don’t really like the idea of them just getting rid of this entirely by turning around and stating that actually these were never her own feelings all along. plus, the idea of them waving away the anger of specifically a female character doesn’t feel like a great choice. the mcu is still very much in its baby stage when it comes to writing female characters who are allowed to actually show emotion, so i doubt it’s something they’d really want right now.

second, i think secret invasion probably won’t play out the way a lot of people are expecting based on the comics. the skrulls in the comics have served as an allegorical tool a few times. in the early years, they were mostly a stand-in for the red scare (pretty cringe stuff). during the plot of secret invasion, though, they read more as an allegory for religious extremists infiltrating a society in order to destroy society. if i’m being entirely honest, i kind of hate it. this run was published in 2008, right when the ‘war on terror’ was a significant focus of american media. as a result, the skrulls were written as a not-so-subtle stand-in for islamic extremists, which is exactly as bad as it sounds like. i definitely don’t have the time or the knowledge to fully break this down, but just know that it’s insensitive at best and downright harmful at worst. i’m sure there are things to like about secret invasion (hey, the un-fridging of bobbi morse! can’t complain there!), but i think an adaptation of it would be absolutely abysmal without major changes.

luckily, there’s fair reason to assume there will be. captain marvel handled skrulls very differently to the comics, instead making them a stand-in for an oppressed minority of immigrants. it’s overall an adaptational choice i like very much, as this is able to do good rather than harm. this also, however, means a by-the-book adaptation of secret invasion would be catastrophic. making your immigrant allegory secretly evil is pretty inexcusable, and i doubt there’s a way they can pull it off without it coming off exactly as xenophobic as it sounds.

because of this, for the plot of secret invasion, i think it’s more likely that the skrulls will instead be working alongside fury as allies. this isn’t a post about my own personal secret invasion theories though, so i’ll leave that there. my point is that so far, we don’t have any reason to assume the skrulls are evil aside from how they’ve been portrayed in the comics, and i don’t think for these reasons that the comics are a good basis for theories on this particular topic. tldr: the skrulls haven’t been shown to be evil yet, so assuming a villain is one is a bit of a jump.

additionally, the argument that sharon being the power broker means she’d be a good target for a skrull is a pretty flawed one. for sharon to have this power in the first place, she would already have to be the power broker, which means her new character direction can’t be waved away like that. the alternative here is that she was replaced before the skrull became the power broker - however, a fugitive ex-agent who can’t leave madripoor without fear of being arrested is pretty low down on the list of desirable situations, so i doubt any skrull would want to be her in the first place. she had very few existing links, and no real connection to power before clawing her way up through Crimes™️. in short, it doesn’t really make sense.

finally - and this is more of a personal preference - it just feels like lazy writing. i know, i know. the tfatws reveal wasn’t exactly paddington 2 levels of media artistry. but undoing a character’s arc (even if that arc was offscreen!) by just stating they were a skrull all along is pretty lame. it sets a bad precedent for the future. i don’t like erasing bad writing with more bad writing, and i don’t think the skrull theory really solves anything here.

so yeah, here we go, i don’t think sharon’s a skrull. could i be wrong? absolutely! this might actually be the most glorious, incredible twist of all time. or maybe it’s a horribly written twist that i’ll hate. either way, i don’t currently think it makes sense, so here’s this. sorry for the horrible formatting (mobile, lol) and the rambling (maybe i’ll clean this up later, maybe not, who knows)

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anw i was still so hung up on the idea of marvel giving sharon actually cute clothes so i drew this :DD

Just a bunch of random ideas piled of how sharon's fashion sense would be (the blue one's an undercover thing)

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THANK YOU this has been driving me a little bit crazy

Just because I keep seeing posts about this....

For the love of god Bucky did NOT set off the metal detector. SHARON DID!!!

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actually the worst sharon take that i’ve seen so far is that stealing cia secrets is the moral equivalent to being a nazi literally everybody but this person now has a valid opinion in my books

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Tfatws SPOILERS!!

The Falcon and the Winter Soldier gave us the new iconic and epic heroes and villains, for the next Captain America film:

And last, but not least...

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Shouts out to the hair and costume departments for putting Karli and Sharon’s hair in ponytails and dressing them practically for a fight 🙌

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sharon in that end credit scene be like

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i think if people are posting anti content in the main character tag, i’m allowed to go off at these people for sport

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holy shit i can’t believe i’ve been going off about sharon’s phone for weeks but i didn’t notice this good catch

Here’s a small detail that I’m not sure everyone has noticed, but Contessa Valentina is using an iPhone in the scene with John Walker’s wife Olivia.

Now you might wonder why I’m pointing this out, but if you remember an interview with director Rian Johnson back in 2020, he revealed an apparent industry secret that Apple does not allow fictional bad guys to use Apple products.

This is why Sharon Carter, who is later revealed to be the Power Broker, a villain, is not using an iPhone in her scenes.

And it’s also why the Flag Smashers also do not have iPhones, including the one that was handed to Bucky that he later uses to lure the Flag Smashers to be arrested.

So if we take this detail into consideration, then there’s two options. Either Contessa Valentina is not going to be an explicit bad guy and thus her ambiguity allows Marvel to loophole this Apple-ban-on-bad-guys thing, or because the show itself never states her to be a villain that Marvel can get away with her using Apple products for now but if she’s later revealed to be villainous then they have to change her phone.

I guess what I’m saying is we may have to pay more attention to what phone Contessa Valentina is using in the future to see if she’s playing more for the good guys or the bad guys.

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All I see in this tag is whiny babies who worship zemo (god knows why) and feel bad for Walker but draw the line at sharon being the power broker.

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the two responses to power broker sharon have been ‘this makes no sense and goes against her comic characterisation’ and ‘step on me’