there's so many posts for mutuals, but you know what? If you aren't a mutual, I am handing you a lil duck. please take care of them. here's some ice water with some strawberries in it. treat them.
The one thing about Endgame I canât get past, the one thing that first WandaVision and moreso The Falcon & the Winter Soldier made brutally, abundantly clear, isnât even Steveâs super shitty ending, itâs that the Avengers made things infinitely worse by reversing the Blip.
Itâd be one thing if theyâd made the Blip never take place, or restored everyone one millisecond after they disappeared â things they absolutely could have done, by the way â but they didnât. They brought them all back five years later. Itâs insane. Itâs sociopathic.
First of all, a lot of people didnât disappear that day. They died. People who got hit by suddenly driverless cars, people who went down on pilotless airplanes, people skydiving when the instructor disappeared, people whose doctors crumbled to dust mid-surgery, babies who wasted away in their cribs because their parents got Snapped. None of those people got restored in the Reverse Snap. They just stayed dead.
Second of all, everyone got brought back right where theyâd disappeared. Which is fine in theory. Except isnât it pretty lucky no one was sitting in that chair when Monica got restored? And also that apparently no one had moved that chair in five years? So what if you were on a plane thatâs no longer in the air? What if you were on a boat thatâs no longer in the middle of the ocean? What if you were skydiving and now thereâs no parachute? What if you were on the top floor of a building thatâs since been demolished? What if you were in your car in the middle of the freaking freeway? Thatâs thousands more deaths, conservatively.
But forget about all those dead people for a sec. TFatWS makes it explicit that the world is in complete chaos because of the Reverse Snap. People are displaced, families have been torn apart, people are angry and scared and no one knows what to do. Itâs so clear that if the Avengers werenât going to undo the Snap completely â if they werenât going to undo it at the moment it happened â then they shouldnât have undone it at all. That it would have been kinder, better to have let the Snapped stay Snapped. Not just for the sake of the people left, but for the people who disappeared.
Imagine the absolute hell of materializing five years in the future to find someone else living in your house, someone else married to your spouse. To find out your baby died or your mom or your partner. And by the way you have no credit, you have no money, no job history, no possessions, nothing. But good luck trying to rebuild your life and all! Aren't you glad we brought you back? You're welcome!
If the MCU ended with Endgame and no one ever had to think about the ramifications, then fine. Whatever. Itâs a happy ending. What a cool final battle!
But it didnât end there. And as such, itâs not a happy ending. Itâs deranged. The Avengers are villains.
And itâs just so weird that no one in-universe seems to acknowledge this. That what the Avengers did was bad. That all this chaos, all this suffering, is entirely their fault.
âYeah, things suck, but I sure do hope Captain America 1.0 is having fun on the moon! Man, we all miss Iron Man!â
W H A T
I donât know how to deal with that. I donât know how we, as an audience, are supposed to reconcile with that. I donât know how they think they can make that decision seem heroic when every subsequent movie and show just makes it retroactively worse.
petition for guillermo del toro to be the director of the venom sequel, because heâs the only man who can be trusted to accurately and faithfully portray the romance, the sizzling passion involved in monster fucking.Â
#TONY'S CORPORATE BACKGROUND (TM) #FUCKING SHOWS IN HIS STANCE yes i'm listening please elaborate
Confident Business Executive Power Pose my friend
head up
shoulders back
stomach in
and, more interestingly, in tonyâs case: as a wannabe entrepreneur going through training and seminars and stuff, i was personally advised that, if i think my hands might betray lack of confidence (trembling, fidddling with shit, excessive face-touching, etc), i should keep them loosely out of sight or try to talk using them, while compromising chest openness as little as possible (ie, donât fold your arms across your chest) (which, by the way, tony does A LOT throughout all movies, and itâs a huge huge huge hugE defensiveness/insecurity body language tell, but anyway, thatâs a whole other post)
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tony seems to be pretty aware that his hands are the achillesâ heel of his Fake Confidence â˘, and indeedÂ
check out that right hand. if you watch it in the movie, youâll see that he keeps clenching it and unclenching it
the thing with the hands also places tonyâs drinking in a very particular place. some alcoholics do develop the compulsion to not only drink (obviously), but also to physically hold a glass when they are feeling pressured, or [whatever emotion thatâs associated with the urge to drink]. smokers might develop a similar thing (think about people who hold unlit cigarettes between their fingers even when theyâre trying to stop)
(Kill Me, he doesnât let go even when theyâre being attacked. he actually holds on tighter, Kill Me)
also, this stance seems to be particularly prominent in avengers movies, which implies that this is where tonyâs felt the most conscious urge to deliberately project confidence
which, you know. clearly means he was feeling insecure as fuck the whole time
Robert Downey Jr. has a much darker past, we have read it and we already know it, but he is hiding it from us doing an overly proud demeanor.
Chris Evans has anxiety and major commitment issues, he talks about it and we already know it, but he always has his radiant smile drawn on his face to hide from us.
Chris Hemsworth's family life was once at a risk of divorce with kids, but he and Elsa managed to keep it afloat despite all obstacles, and they are going for a happily ever after like nothing happened.
Jeremy Renner has done wrong in his past, caught into a false accusation, but now he has his daughter's custody and he lives a peaceful life, even without us knowing.
Scarlett Johansson, abused as a child actress, has to do romantic scenes with actors twice her age during her teenage, going marriage after marriage with her daughter, but yet scored a double Academy nominations and continues to be a role model for girls all around the world.
Tom Holland, with the pressure of rising to the fame as a child, he still continues to entertain the world even though his fans are somewhat childish and very intrusive.
Sebastian Stan, an immigrant who lacked social skills in the past, incredibly shy and yet hide all those from his fans because he knows that they all love him dearly.
Mark Ruffalo, continues to save the world by going against all those big companies as an environmentalist, has a really strong political opinion, but yet being so down to Earth around us.
Brie Larson, facing all backlash from the social media, for voicing her heartfelt opinion, still going on to inspire young girls around the world to stand up for themselves.
Last but not least, Chadwick Boseman, giving his best for 4 Marvel Movies (Civil War, Black Panther, Infinity War and the Endgame) and 3 Non Marvel Movies (Marshall, 21 Bridges and Da 5 bloods) from 2016, while having stage 4 colon cancer, fighting until he was succumbed to the death. And we never knew.
Be nice and kind to everyone, not only in the various social media platforms, but also in the real life. Because we really don't know what is going in their lives.
Once you realise that, you maybe too late to even correct your mistakes. â¤đ
I guess this is how Iâm processing what weâre all going through right now. I had the stray thought, âWhat is Spider-Man doing during all this?â and this happened. On the one hand, itâs kinda sloppy and inconsistent, but on the other hand, I had the idea Sunday night and Iâm posting this Wednesday night. 5 color pages in 4 nights is pretty good work. Anyway. Hope everyoneâs safe out there.