#the-mcu-theory

[mischievous-thunder]

Wade's not gonna remain "cum-loser" for much longer and you know that too, Logan.

[f-misc]

"He's a hundred and ten years old"

...did they celebrate bucky's birthday together?

the wiki has bucky's birthday as march 10th, 1917. and the celestial island summit in ca:bnw took place on april 16th, 2027. so bucky's 110th birthday was just last month. sam's not rounding. he knows bucky's a hundred and ten because they just had his birthday...

...I need to know how long of a time "missed you too" is covering...did they spend bucky's birthday together?? have they just not seen each other for only a month? or, if it's been longer...did sam call bucky on his birthday? text him?? he has their picture framed on the best shelf in his office for christ's sake; he must have done something.

how many old man jokes has he made.

[xxplastic-cubexx]

with these hands i can draw whatever i want

[honda-odyssey-the-queer-allegory]

I saw someone talking about this earlier, but I love the concept of The Winter Soldier being a ghost story. The IDEA of the Winter Soldier. Something you see out the corner of your eye. A ghost that leaves a trail of bodies. Something you never saw coming and never saw leave.

In CA:TWS the Death Squad mentioned by Bucky (idk how to spell the whole thing) is considered more dangerous. But in the 60 or so years that he was the Winter Soldier, he was the one people feared. Yes, the Death Squad was successful, but that was the work of 5. He created a reputation by being a one man killer. Not only that, but an efficient and deadly machine with one mission. To comply.

I kind of wish we got to see more of the Winter Soldier in action (but don't get me wrong, seeing Buck as the Winter Soldier makes me sad). Having more elaboration and action would be interesting though.

[chaotic-teen-cy]

Dude I just noticed something and I wanted to see if anyone else saw it to or if I'm just slow.

Was watching this scene and I looked at Morgans glove and I'm like hey, that kinda looks familiar

Because it looks like Peters glove. And I might be insane but like.... Don't it look the same??

And we know from Deadpool and Wolverine that they kept his old helmet. Who's to say they didn't keep his gloves?? From Morgan nonetheless. Idk I just thought that was cool.

[fyregrl]

Hear me out:

That didn't happen.

Like, that literally didn't happen.

Something stuck out to me. Lilia yelling "I hated this the first time!" immediately followed by Teen Billy yelling "Lilia's being weird again!"

When else has Lilia been weird?

During the first trial when she blurted out "Try to save Agatha!"

And in the second trial when she started saying "Alice, don't..."

Try to save Agatha. Alice, don't.

Alice, don't try to save Agatha.

What if at some point, episode five went from actually happening to Lilia having a vision? And in the next episode, she'll be able to stop what's going to happen by finishing her sentence--Alice, don't try to save Agatha--thus keeping Alice from dying and Billy from throwing the rest of them off the road.

I better be right about this

[ex0rin]

i'm CRYING why is he like this 😂 (x)

[im-a-very-good-lawyer]

For the "Foggy is in witness protection" believers... who else thinks Karen Page is in on it?

While Disney HAS been known to change personalities of their acquired characters before that they justify with a time jump (Luke Skywalker), it just seemed... odd that she wasn't willing to sit with Matt for 5 more minutes, after he asked for it multiple times. She hasn't answered any phone calls. It just... seems like an odd choice.

And script writing could be messy, or the phrasing and acting choices could be intentional. When Karen refuses coffee, Matt says he knows she's lying, and she wipes her faces and turns away from him. She says she came to the trial for Foggy and then stumbles for her next words to say.

And a year is a long time to have to heal in witness protection, but clearly Fisk's injuries took a while to heal if Vanessa is mad at him for how long she was lonely for.

Maybe I'm a clown for thinking Disney and the updated creative team understand the heart of what Daredevil's TV show has been. Maybe I'm a clown for thinking that reshooting episodes 8 and 9 mean anything. But it's not like Karen and Foggy haven't worked together before behind Matt's back. And maybe I just want to hope.

[back-on-my-bucky-bs]

Totally serious Thunderbolts theory:

Sam's busy finding people to add to the Avengers roster while Bucky is being paired up with a team of delinquents, some who mean well more than others.

So in between that and running for fucking Congress, Bucky just calls Sam up like "babe I know you're busy and all but we're so not qualified for this shit pls help" and Sam's so unbothered, laughing over the phone, and is just "good luck babe, kiss kiss, bye." And hangs up.

And Bucky's like "fuck I can't be here" and full mentally checks out going Winter Soldier mode because between Alexei "Red Human Disaster" and John "Gaslight, Guilt Complex Agent" Walker, he hasn't had enough therapy to handle them let alone a bunch of traumatized feral super powered women.

But by the end he adopts them all anyway and then he comes home like "Sam we have kids now, no I know one of them is older than you and the other one is Walker, I don't care they're ours now" and Sam just has to except that they're parents now.

Then Joaquin shows up the next day in a cardboard box that has the words "free puppies" written on it, and Sam tells Bucky they have one more kid to add to their collection.

[velvet4510]

Maybe an unpopular theory that doesn’t make sense but I personally think the reason Evanora is a ghost is that Rio hated her so much for abusing Agatha that she refused to take Evanora to the afterlife as a punishment.

[georgie3116]

*Natasha making a video in case she ever gets amnesia*

*Camera Zooms in on Yelena Chilling on the couch*

Natasha: This is Yelena. She is your sister.

Yelena: …

Natasha: If she offers you food, it’s safe to take it.

*Natasha turns the Camera on herself*

Natasha: You probably paid for it, anyway.

[idkbroletssee]

"Billy is ungrateful to Wanda" is such a shallow take.

The Kaplans sheltered him from ending up LIKE Wanda-alone, unbound & misguided with all that crazy potential. They instilled good values, making him the brave and empathetic kid who stepped up, controlled his powers, chose to be good, and will root for Wanda cuz he sees the good in her too(Children's crusade).

Wanda is supposed to be grateful to them.

[xxplastic-cubexx]

chat if i may speak

[vidalswife]

I don't want Agatha to die, but let's just think about what it would be like if the kiss they share is the kiss of death.

Can you imagine, they've spent all these centuries apart, longing for one another, yearning, pining for one another, all while "hating each other"? Rio took Nicky, and we've pretty much all figured this out by now. Can you imagine the gift she would be giving to Agatha by taking her life? Agatha would see her son again, and even more titillating, she would never have to spend another moment without Rio. I can see it, Rio on her knees, holding in her arms a dying agatha. Agatha just nods, and then she kisses her. Rio has never wanted anyone but agatha, she's on this road, probably HOPING, she would die, or that maybe she would forgive her. Rio knows that if she goes, she will be hers forever. So yeah, they could kiss, or they could share a kiss that would take away Agatha's mortality; one that would unite them forever, and give agatha back what she has wanted back her entire life.. Nicky.

[asterinthesiren]

oh my god. oh my fucking god. i just had the most insane and delusional realization/theory about agatha and rio. hear me out ok

first lets recap. agatha's colors are purple, and rio's colors are green. purple is a mix of red and blue, and we associate red with rage, passion, love and blue with sorrow and grief. green is a mix of blue and yellow, blue being the same and yellow as happiness. bUT HERE'S THE THING OK. yellow is also associated with obsession, sensationalism, and cowardice.

we know for a fact that agatha and rio are bound by their sorrow. they share grief--of being hurt (agatha) and of hurting someone they love (rio). HOWEVER, agatha channels her grief through her rage. she turns her blue into red, and we see this in her snark, her devil-wears-prada act, flaming everyone around her.

and rio? she sensationalizes her grief.

she answers agatha's rage with mocking confidence, challenges her passion with her own obsession, hunting her down but never quite killing her--she processes her grief through this facade of sensationalism, but underneath it all is her own cowardice--which the better word for it here is shame. she clearly regrets having to kill(?) nick, but the question no one seems to be asking is this:

why didn't Rio just leave Nick alone?

yes we assume she's the personification of death. but she said it was her job, which means she has someone she answers to. if rio is everything she seems to be, why didn't she challenge whoever it is that gave her that job? if she loved agatha so much, why cause any harm to nick (her son) at all? it looks like she accepted it so willingly, which is why i think agatha hates her so much. so in my mind, i'm thinking rio is always regretting that choice, and she might have thought it cowardly or shameful. because what could have possibly been powerful enough to punish her?

WHICH LEADS ME TO BELIEVE that Rio's trial is having to face that choice again: Rio's trial is going to be about sacrifice. about LIFE.

and i think it fits with the themes of maiden-mother-crone. there's this really good post that i 100% agree with that delves more about the themes (@shutupineedtothink), but essentially what this person talks about is how jen's trial is birth, and rio's trial is life, which completes the witch cycle. i posit that jen's trial is about confronting death. jen is a midwife. midwives don't just make sure that the baby is delivered safely, they are there first and foremost for the mother--because the mother's life is what ensures the baby's. birth is such a dangerous process, because at any moment both mother and baby could die. the midwife's role is to avoid both from happening.

and that exactly opposes jen's essential conflict: rather than confront death (whether that's the death of her powers, the death of her legacy, or the death of belief in herself), she avoids it. thus, the crux of her trial is for her to confront death, and in doing so, face herself. she's been hiding behind the fact that she's bound to excuse all of the choices she's made so far--the trial, then, forces jen to remember that she's not defined by her binds. her potions and knowledge all help the coven dance with death and leave (mostly) unscathed.

the same goes for every witch--the road opposes their essential conflict and forces them to face it:

alice's conflict is denying the identity her mother passed on to her: how can she protect herself, her loved ones, if she doesn't know her own power? if she doesn't know herself? (in comparison to jen, who already knows her capability and denies it (and has it taken from her), alice refuses to know it when it's being handed to her on a silver platter)

agatha's is most likely her power: she defines herself with it, after earning it with blood sweat and tears from years of study and experience. but without it, who is she? what can she do?

lilia's is her past: she is hopelessly stuck in it. she can't shake all of the things she's seen and experienced. and if she's stuck in the past, how can she be able to face the future?

teen is still a bit of a mystery, but i can guess that his conflict is that he doesn't know where he really comes from--and why he's being hidden (we'll end it at that bc there are so many ways that could go)

THEREFORE WITH RIO, her trial is going to be about saving lives, as opposed to taking them. if rio really is the personification of death, she's the one being in the world who absolutely cannot be attached to anyone or anything. and she's THE green witch: she deals with ephemeral things all the time. flowers bloom and die, animals prey on each other, hell even the seasons are a metaphor for death. but here she is, hopelessly in love with agatha. thus, with rio, i think the road will put her in a position where she has to choose between agatha and teen. if she chooses agatha, she'll risk losing agatha's heart forever, because that will be the second betrayal. if she chooses teen, agatha will die. so i think it'll force her to come up with something to save them both. she has to go against her nature of taking lives the way she didn't when faced with that choice earlier with agatha and nick.

because what else does the yellow in her green stand for?

LIFE.

[murrpa]

Wade, coming from another universe, kidnaps Logan from his universe,

“Wolverine… he’s a hero in my world”

Wade said, and Logan is dead in Wade’s universe.

‘Worst’ Logan, on the other hand, is living in his, so my questions are:

Did Logan ever meet Wade in his world, and did he die with all the X-men? Was Wade any different in that universe? How close were they? And…. could’ve this been the reason Logan didn’t really hesitate the kidnapping… bc he recognized him and got the opportunity to see Wade again?!?!

then after he obv fell for him but that’s not the point