Avengers: Infinity War

same

roz otm that they never really seemed to get a proper handle on the black widow as a character - whatever they do with the solo movie i hope they get a chance to give scarjo a decent arc

also i really wanna see the gorgeous pouting david harbour squeezed into that black widow outfit

Now would be the time to employ the early-'70s trope of the Black Widow stripping nude at the drop of a hat.

Yeah, I couldn't help but think that if they absolutely did invent a time machine that could in fact be used to pull entire spaceships full of armies out of the past and into the present... and Past!Kemora is happily in the present to party with Present!Nebula and learn to love Resurrected!Quill again... then what's keeping them from just nipping back and grabbing a random Tony? or a random Widow? Some kind of Time Ethics?

GAmora

(sorry)

I mean, Dr. Strange could have travelled back in time and averted all of this in the first place, couldn't he?

The only real problem I have with the "rules" of these movies (and it's really true for all action movies, just more so with superheroes) is they do a pretty poor job defining the powers of said heroes, who seem to vacillate between degrees of selective invulnerability and immortality, not to mention that everyone appears to have the resilience and healing of a character like Wolverine. Whether Dr. Strange and Captain Marvel or, yeah, Scarlet Witch or even Vision (RIP), I never quite know what they are capable of or even supposed to be capable of. That's one thing, say, the X-Men movies got right: you generally know what everyone does. These MCU movies sort of coast on the iconography while skimping on the specifics.

One prequel (midquel? some dumb neologism including -quel) I wouldn't mind seeing, if done right, is Cap's solo adventures through time. Assuming something intersting occurred along the way which diverted him from Forrest Gumping himself into previous films.

Oh is it Gamora? I think I kept willing it to be Kemora because it's weird she'd be named after Sodom's sister city

Tilda Swinton tried to explain Time Ethics (lol) to Bruce but Loki, Gamora and Cap fucked it up beyond repair by not staying/going back to where they should have.

xp It's a pretty good question - I suppose the Time Ethics is basically what Tilda Swinton was saying - it'd be producing a timeline without a Tony or Widow, which would be a shame - a timeline without Thanos+army, not so much.

Well, except for the part with Thanos destroying half of all life in the universe and all that.

I think, per the issues raised in the Dr. Strange fillum, that the payment for all this time fuckery is going to come due at some point in the future. Possibly/hopefully in a way that involves Kang. Kinda hope they just deal with like paradoxes and reality unraveling and shit though without actually featuring much more time travel in the onscreen narrative.

I think with Cap the idea is that there was always this guy getting older with Peggy Carter, staying out of the news, picking up the groceries.

I think you might need another go at that, Josh.

Oh, I see. My bad!

We at least know one character's powers in explicit detail: Hawkeye shoot arrows and sometimes swordfights.

I think with Cap the idea is that there was always this guy getting older with Peggy Carter, staying out of the news, picking up the groceries.

otm

i thought it was a lovely little touch that previous movies had established that peggy had gotten married at some point - i wonder how long the marvel team knew that steve was going to be her husband

since they read the end of that superman arc i guess

it's going to be sooo awkward for Cap when Peggy's niece Sharon is born.

lol

guess that's why they made him up to look like joe biden, america's creepy uncle

i discovered today that this film posits the end of Major League Baseball after lolvillain snapped his lolfingers

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I gotta say though, Old Steve Rogers was maybe the best onscreen aging I've seen in film -- couldn't tell if it was makeup, digital or a combination.

xp nah, just the end of the Mets

Guys, guys, Cap+Peggy 2-gether 4-ever is an alternate timeline, not the one where she marries some rando and has a niece named Sharon.

honestlt thought Ol Cap was being played by Clint Eastwood for a few seconds

xpost how did he end up back in the original timeline as an old man then if this is a new timeline? (i don't actually want an answer cause this shit makes no sense at all.)

and also that only works if we're sure that Sharon's a niece from her not-Cap husband's side. i don't think it was ever mentioned lol.

Bruce said that it would seem to them that Cap was only gone for five seconds but that it would take him as long as it took to get all the gems back to their proper places (plus one unplanned decades-long side trip spent with his lady friend).

no its the current timeline but hes d-low looped back in

That's not how Endgame-rules time travel works.

An acquaintance of Facebook that I keep forgetting to unfollow posted this ridiculous comment about Stan Lee rolling in his grave and the "PC police / MSNBC writers" "destroying" the MCU.

When someone with more time and commitment than I pressed him on it, guess which two shots he very specifically hated about the movie?

I'm only sort of joking when I say all comicsgaters should be chemically castrated.

Like as if it's not enough to be a gross douche, you have to support your gross douchedom by demonstrating active ignorance of decades of comics history.

^^^ This. I know Stan was far from perfect, but it's so weird to see him suddenly trotted out as if he were going to be railing against diversity in the MCU casting.

Is a fake Stan going to continue to be inserted in Marvel films wherever they can find an excuse to do so?
Had just thought the tradition might have a natural end. Nuff said , like.

Hey, this AVENGERS ENDGAME thing sounds pretty cool. Anybody know where I can read an article about it?

— Dave Kehr (@dave_kehr) April 29, 2019

That's not how Endgame-rules time travel works.

^fanfic

I saw this last night

a) Loved it

b) cried my face off for almost the entire second half of the movie #saddo

c) I love you 3000 ;_;

"When someone with more time and commitment than I pressed him on it, guess which two shots he very specifically hated about the movie?"

the scene with all the women heroes advancing and....beats the fuck out of me but probably something with Captain Marvel.

and her new butch haircut

That she’s had in the comics for years

america’s ass was the other one, i’d guess

i'm assuming the "cap moderates a survivor's group" bit

God knows. Cap passing off the shield to a non-white person? Or perhaps the fact that he didn't make an 'ew' face when a dude talked about dating another dude? Who knows what's gonna trigger these emotional infants, and, frankly, who gives a fuck? I hope the Avengers will have made the full transition into the Rainbow Squad of Inclusion five years from now just to give the regressives a series of debilitating coronaries.

Old Lunch hit it with the first guess.

I'm assuming Captain Marvel just pissed him off in general, but he was really insistent that Captain American has to be white.

i'm curious if Sam is really going to be Captain America given that we already know Falcon is getting his own show on Disney with Hawkeye. Or will it be Hawkeye and Captain Sam? I dunno!

I"m glad Anthony Mackie will be around longer though and get some more character development since I think he's a good actor.

He's going to be super pissed when Tessa Thompson becomes Thor in the next phase xp

Yeah, Sam was one of the characters that really grew on me as I was rewatching the other movies with my son.

Oh god, yes. I unfollowed him today, so he'll have to rage without me. I can't deal with these comicsgaters.