#my mcu rambles

[psalm40speakstome]

🎵 “How long do I have with my dance partner this time.” 🎶

Please the man’s clearly in love and Carol had a disguise/hat/thing ready and waiting to visit one of the worlds ‘she calls home”

[daisy-mooon]

Behind the jokes and badassness, Captain Marvel is a fascinating character to me, because of how death follows her.

She causes an explosion. That explosion, which gives her powers and her immortality, canonically kills her. The Kree Empire resurrects her and makes her as Kree as they can. She shares Yon-Rogg's blood and his life, she's his creation, she's his victim, she's the one who causes his downfall, she's the one that destroys the system, the society, the planet that allowed her to be abused.

It's the Kree that see her as a killer and Annihilator. She's a monster of their own making, but it influences every species and planet she touches. Her victories cause death and her mistakes cause more death. Carol's triumph, the death of the Supreme Intelligence, results in the death of probably millions of Kree, and by consequence, almost causes the death of Hala's star.

"I'm only human" Carol says, before killing the Empire that is the reason that she can't ever be human again.

"We'll be back for the weapon," Ronan says, but that weapon will kill everything he stands for.

"Your life began the day it nearly ended," The Supreme Intelligence says, coldly, calculatingly. It's an AI. It doesn't have a good concept of death. It doesn't fully grasp that Carol had genuinely been killed that day, because she's still in front of it. Carol kills it.

"Death seems to follow you," Dar-Benn says, before she causes an explosion with the bangles, trying to defeat Carol. The explosion kills Dar-Benn.

Death follows Carol. Death follows Carol! Mar-Vell is dead. Maria is dead. Talos is dead. Soren is dead. Ronan is dead. Minn-Erva is dead. Korath is dead. Dar-Benn is dead. Yon-Rogg is, probably, dead. The Supreme Intelligence is dead. Natasha is dead. Tony is dead.

The only people in Carol's life who aren't dead are Kamala, Monica, Yan, Valkyrie, and Fury.

She watches helplessly as Dar-Benn almost murders Kamala after Kamala tries to save Dar-Benn's life, tries to find a way to solve the violence without death.

She watches helplessly as Monica gets torn into another reality, which for all she knows, she could die in. The tear in reality that was caused by Dar-Benn's death.

She tries to hide Yan's existence from her friends and tries to warn him and his people. The Kree soldiers aren't fighting to maim, they're fighting to kill. He escapes death by his own fighting skills and the fact that the Kree would rather focus on killing Carol than him.

Valkyrie and Carol interact once, and she only calls when she needs help after a fight, not during. Think about it. Valkyrie and the Bifrost could have helped the trio enormously. But Carol doesn't call until the fights are over. It would be very easy for a regular Asgardian warrior to die compared to superhumans.

And Fury... have you seen how often Fury comes close to dying? He's alive from skill and luck. He is lucky that he isn't dead.

Captain Marvel is so, so fascinating. Her story begins with her own death, and the more it goes on, the more death happens around her. Nobody is safe. She causes almost all of them, even the ones of her friends - not directly, but through the consequences of her actions. The consequences of her victories and mistakes. The consequences of her anger and revenge, her power and powerlessness. It is caused by both the Human and Kree sides of her, by both Carol and Vers, Captain Marvel and the Annihilator.

Carol is immortal. She can't die. And death follows her anyway.

[boxofbadaddiction]

Ya know what I hate. That when Bruce Banner transforms into the Hulk he turns into this 8ft tall beast of a man, but when Jennifer Walters turns into She-Hulk she's just like...Green and sorta tall.

Like?? I don't want this:

[Image found on Google, source: Marvel.com]

I want this:

[Image found on Google, source: Marvel.fandom.com]

[kyuyua]

I still love the fact that the entire Ironstrange community decided that Stephen fell in love with Tony after viewing 14000605 possible timelines bc he watched him die for everyone on Titan, watched him sacrifice himself for people he just met and essentially for the entire universe, watched him fall over and over and over again just to stand up and keep fighting because he had to. He’s seen every decision Tony could ever make, has seen every sacrifice-play he’s made, every victory and defeat, and decided ‘this one.’

Like, Stephen’s seen this man at his worst and at his best, probably knows him better than anyone else ever could, and he fell so in love with him. I will go down with this ship.

[prettydjarinsoloinspires]

before season 2 aired i thought we would never get our original Mobius back. I thought they were going to shove Sylki down our throats. i thought i was going to have to slough through a poorly written, unbearable season of tv just to get little crumbs of Loki and Mobius interacting.

but this. this far surpassed anything i could have hoped for. even if this story hadn’t been Loki’s i would have devoured it. it was clever and well thought out. it was well written with amazing sets and lighting and music. it played up strengths from season 1 that i thought for sure they had long abandoned. like the incredible and compelling setting that is the TVA. and making the cast an ensemble with the already stellar cast they had (and adding the instantly lovable O.B.). Tom was excellent. Owen was phenomenal. and every scene we got with them together was a gift.

the story was crafted with care and forethought and amazing attention to detail. you can’t say that about most big budget studio stories these days. i’m so in awe of everything this season was. it far surpassed season 1 for me and honored the legacy of Loki in a way i never could have dreamed. i honestly think it will go down as one of the most epic seasons of tv ever, for me.

it may have ended bittersweet, but it really didn’t feel like the end of Loki and Mobius’s story to me. it definitely feels like there’s more to tell. and i can’t wait.

[uhthor]

the marvels was an absolutely delightful movie FULL of lesbians and i loved every second

[technicalthinker]

I think I wasn't really ready for this episode to tie together the events with Loki's entire arc. I expected it to tie up the plots of the season, maybe setting up future ones, which it kind of did but,

The way it tied up/referenced/came full circle with the first Thor movie? And The Avengers? That is what makes it hit different for me. It showed a love for the character that just got to me.

[starlightbelle]

Sometimes I wonder if Loki hadn’t been killed off in Infinity War, what would his role have been moving forward? Like would he have a role with New Asgard? Traverse the galaxy with what his brother has been up to recently??

Keeps me up at night

[gloriousburden]

sorry for not posting i haven’t really been able to think properly enough these past few days to be able to put together any kind of coherent post so here’s some of my favorite pictures of loki as compensation ❤️

[livstarlight]

Wakanda Forever is really the culmination of everything about a storytelling project I could love. Emotion, complexity, thought, reflection, self-grow.

We have the clash between two extraordinary cultures that the moment they dare to venture outside their borders are constantly challenged and pressed, and that costant pression puts them against each other when in reality they are more similar than you could ever think. But the world has dictated they shouldn’t be allowed to thrive, to be themselves, and that puts them even more at odds. Until they start seeing how the things that connect them are more than what separate them.

Every character has its own role and arc, with light and dark at the same time, but there are these two... who are so amazing they aren't just product of their people. They are so different, but so viscerally similar and connected by circumstances and experiences, even if they elaborate them in a very different manner, who might as well be mirrors of each other. The good and the bad. And the way they manage to balance being a beacon of their own cultures and their own characters with all that computes... strenghts and struggles... Wow. It's so well done it’s incredible, breathtaking, ENORMOUS. (Ryan Coogler you fucking genius)

But at the center of everything this is a movie which revolves around grief, about who we are in the end, how everything affects our life and how we grow from and with it. It's a story with a heart so big it trascends.

How. How could I not love everything about this story. How could I not spend every hour, minute, moment of the day to think about it. Relish in it. And talk about it non-stop to everyone willing (and not) to listen.

[lyrashifts]

i keep trying to remind myself that when it comes to shifting, i should be patient with myself and try to enjoy the journey. i try to think of how satisfying that first shift will be, simply because of how much effort it took to get there. i don't think i could appreciate shifting half as much if it were simple or easy, or if i shifted on my first try - and, of course, it is simple and easy, but i haven't yet come to that realization since i haven't shifted yet.

just remember that there's nothing fun about a hero mastering their powers without struggle. the struggle is what makes mastery so much more valuable. so appreciate the journey while you still can.

[psalm40speakstome]

When Park Seo Jun showed up singing. My soul left my body

[tenochconamor]

Namor's trauma started before he was born.

Namor was born a king without a kingdom. Because of colonialism, slavery and disease his mother was coerced into ingesting a potentially dangerous substance to keep them safe.

He was born different, revered and worshipped yes, but also restricted by the burden of the responsibility of leading his people from a young age.

Namor's people called him K'uk'ulkan but his mother called him something else. When she taught him the language of her ancestors, she called his name, when she taught him their history, she called his name. When she taught him how to care for himself and his people after she was gone, she called his name.

Namor watching his mother grow old and die was not his first encounter with trauma but it was the first time he was aware of it. How helpless did he feel, worshipped as a god to his people but powerless to slow the effects of aging on his mother. His mother would have been the only person alive to keep him grounded, the person he could share his very human worries with, the first person he loved, the only person who knew his name.

Namor only wanted to bury his mother and honor her wishes but, nothing goes as planned for Namor, nothing ever does. If Namor had any sort of childhood innocence left after his mother died, the anger he felt watching people like him tied up, whipped and enslaved, set it ablaze. He lost his mother, devised a way to breath on land to honor her wishes and killed a man in cold blood for the first time all in a short amount of time.

El nino sin amor ~ a child without love.

Namor wears his trauma like an amour. Holding on to the dying words of the Spanish priest he killed, Namor sees the world that could produce such unnecessary suffering as his enemy.

So he creates a divide. There are only his people and his enemies. His people he would protect, provide and care for with every resource available to him because they're his connection to the first and only person that really saw him as human, the only one that ever spoke his name. Namor would move mountains for the people he loves. He would bring down the sun for them. He would fight everlasting wars for them.

[lumochiart]

THE WAY I GASPED

[4doorssys]

[thatrandomsarahchick]

Dp x MCU prompt:

Just had a random Danny Phantom X MCU thought, not sure if anyone has done it yet.

Pariah Dark is the Ghost of Thanos, the Mad Titan.

In his dimension, he does the second snap and wipes everything away. Unfortunately for him, the stress on his body kills him this time. Thanos wakes up in the Infinite Realms and sees a whole new reality to conquer, but the strongest of beings there all band together to take him on.

They are about to End him permanently when Clockwork/a powerful seer/a time traveller stops them. They can see all of time, and know that the only futures in which reality isn't wiped out completely has Thanos entombed in a sarcophagus, where he will slumber until a champion comes forth to defeat him and bring peace and harmony between the Living and the Other of the multiverse.

Thanos is stripped of his identity as penance to those lost in his rage. He is labelled a Pariah, and all those who aid him are to be cast aside as such. Thus, his new title is bestowed: Pariah Dark, Herald of the Dark Days of the Infinite Realms. The watching of the timeline is left to the ghosts of the Watchers, those who reside over each reality, who become Observants upon death. They manage to chain and enslave Time itself, bending it to their bidding until the time of The Champion, where it is to mentor the child ghost so that he may Rise and best Pariah Dark in one on one combat.

Unfortunately, as the saying goes, 'power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.' The Observants grow used to their power and don't want to give it up. They know that Phantom is the prophesied Champion, and with him comes the end of their reign.

Could throw in some random MCU characters here somewhere. Maybe some villains brought across to stop Danny? Or heroes sent by Clockwork to aid him. I don't know, I haven't thought any further than this.