Bucky Barnes sees a fucking raccoon firing a machine gun while cackling like a maniac and instead of losing his shit he just shrugs, picks it up and spins it around Mary Poppins style
Listen Bucky “Type B 4 Life” “Too Chill Even Without Cryo” Barnes has been rolling with unreasonable shit his entire fucking life.
– Pre-serum Steve. I feel I don’t need to elaborate on this too much
– Steve rolling on up to the POW camp like the lovechild of Adonis and Hercules and all Bucky has to say about it is if it hurt or if it‘s permanent
– “I’m drinking alone and look like the human equivalent of a room that got “cleaned” by a kid shoving all their stuff under the bed; I clearly just suffered a massive physical and psychological trauma; my entire understanding of what was physically possible, as well as my place in the world and in the life of my Most Important Person, has just been flipped upside down, bent in half, and beaten to death with a crowbar. Naturally I am going to jump right back into a war zone with a crack squad led by a Greek God who I once watched throw up in a Coney Island trash can.”
– “oh this guy who watched me assassinate the director of SHIELD just threw his weapon at me, but I’m not ordered to kill him so I’ll just throw it back and fuck off while he’s distracted.”
– “I completely accept and won’t argue against being mindwiped, even though I am clearly terrified of it, simply for asking questions my handler doesn’t like.”
(ok this is getting depressing)
– just got arrested, triggered into going on a rampage, crashed a helicopter, and woke up in an abandoned…someplace with your arm in a vice? The only thing to do is immediately suit up and rush off to an airport in Germany so you can take a plane to Siberia to stop someone’s evil plan alongside people you mostly don’t know and Steve “so what are we” Rogers
because I hate this “sharon carter was reduced to nothing but a love interest!” narrative, here is what it’s actually like when a character is reduced to just a love interest:
take Princess Tilde from the Kingsman movies:
she’s, by definition, basically nothing but a love interest (which is pretty much poking fun at the bond movies but w/e). she is very much her own person as we saw in the first movie (fighting back, standing up for what she believes in), but she’s in these movies to give Eggsy some sort of moral compass, emotional happiness, and the drive to finish the job. she’s sexualized and they hook up literally instantly after they met (which hey if a really hot guy rescued me I would too), and the only time we see her is a) when Eggsy is working through his grief over Harry, b) when he contemplates compromising the mission because of his feelings for her, c) when he’s mourning their relationship, and d) when they get married at the end of the movie. her main purpose is to serve as a normal, emotional anchor for a man who wants to feel normal even with the job he has. I love Tilde, and I love their relationship, but… facts are facts.
now let’s move on to Sharon Carter:
let me just say, the entirety of civil war wouldn’t have happened if it wasn’t for Sharon. she was the one who found Bucky. if it wasn’t for her, Bucky would be dead and Steve would be mourning not just Peggy but Bucky as well, and it’d be a whole ass mess. she was the one who stood up against hydra in winter soldier. she was the one who could fight back against the winter soldier just as well as Natasha could. she risked her job and her livelihood to help Steve and co. in civil war. she doesn’t serve as a means to give Steve conflict or emotional depth, but instead, we’re always shown time and time again that he’s grateful for her help. because without her, he wouldn’t be where he is today, he wouldn’t have any of his friends alive, and he’d probably be dead or arrested if we’re being honest. sharon carter can exist as her own character without Steve, and be a damn good one at that.
steve rogers’ love interest is Sharon Carter. it doesn’t mean she’s just a love interest.
It really spoke to me, because usually the job of teaching a boy to tie a tie is left up to the father figure. Peter’s parents are dead, and Ben died the year before. Ben would have taught Peter to tie his own tie for homecoming, had he still been alive. This means the job was left to May. As we can see she clearly doesn’t know how to tie a tie, and in true modern day fashion turns to videos on the internet, but get this. She’s learning to tie it with him. I repeat. Instead of putting the video on and letting him have at it, she’s also learning along with him.
I appreciate Iron dad and spiderson as much as the next person, but I think we often forget that May was forced to transition from aunt by marriage, to mother figure. Then when Ben passed, she took on the role of being an aunt, mother, and father to Peter. She’s raising a teenage boy all on her own.
Half of both her and Peter’s support system is gone, and she manages to keep on like a trooper, while still supporting Peter.
She truly is an amazing woman who deserves such love and recognition.
You guys literally saw and heard Thanos’s own daughter saying her father tortured her and took pieces out of her and replaced them with mechanic ones to make her a better fighter.His own daughter and you have trouble believing Thanos tortured Loki to make him rule Earth or at least push him to the point where he thought he wanted it?Like we don’t have enough clues that scream that he was tortured (aka “We’ll make you wish for something as sweet as pain” loki being on the edge of tears and break down many times etc.)
If Thanos did so horrible things to his own daughter I can’t imagine what he did to a young broken prince that he saw as another puppet to rule the galaxy.Can you?
1. Tom Hiddleston signed a six film deal, so we can expect him to be in Avengers 4.
2. Loki is known as a ‘Silvertongue’, so his choice of words is always extremely important. So, when he says “undying fidelity”. I think this is an allusion to the fact that he is not dead.
3. Further on from the ‘Silvertongue’ point, Loki says “I promise you, brother, the sun will shine on us again”. This seems too far out of place to be a coincidence. I think Loki is trying to subtly tell Thor that he has a trick up his sleeve that may end up saving them.
4. Loki has already feigned death so many times, is it really so far fetched to think he has done it again?
5. He disappeared from the scene for several minutes and we have no idea what he was doing during that time. He then reappears super cocky and arrogant which is a direct contrast to how terrified he’d been a few minutes prior. This seems to suggest that perhaps he is using an illusion of some sort.
6. He emphasizes the fact that he is a “God of Mischief”, thus perhaps hinting to Thor that he is about to perform a trick, or to allude to the audience that all is not as it seems.
7. Loki did not change into his Jotun form after he died. This seems odd because his Aesir form is an illusion, so it should have disappeared when he died. Furthermore, there are a couple of mentions of Loki being “the rightful King of Jotunheim” and “not Asgardian”, which may be an attempt to draw the audience’s attention to this fact.
8. It was very uncharacteristic of Loki to act so impulsive by stabbing Thanos with a small dagger. It seems to me that the attack was more of a distraction than a real attack. The Loki we know would have attempted to use some sort of illusion or trick in order to attack Thanos and mean it.
9. Tom Hiddleston mentions in a recent interview that “Chaos isn’t something that’s threatening to Loki” and that “Everything is fine”. This seems to suggest that Loki is alright, and hasn’t actually died.
10. Loki’s choice of last words, “You will never be a god”, introduces the idea that maybe Loki has survived due to the fact that he’s a God, and cannot be killed so easily.
11. If the Russo brothers wanted to make Loki’s death truly believable, they would have had Loki using his illusions, and Thanos seeing straight through them and then killing him. The fact that none of Loki’s powers were used at all, makes it seem that he has perhaps feigned death.
12. Finally, I refuse to believe that Thor’s last words to Loki are “You really are the worst brother”, it just seems so wrong to me after all they’ve been through.
I cannot express how much I love the fact that Homecoming made Aunt May a woman in her forties, someone who might actually have been a sister to the parents of a fifteen year old. It changes the dynamic so much from the comics, because we get a sense of May as an agent in her own life, a woman who has a career she balances with her family, a woman who should’ve had decades more with her husband, a woman who is trying to be Mom to Peter instead of a kindly grandparental type. I can accept white-haired retiree Aunt May for an adult Peter out in the world, but this baby Spiderman ought to have a mom, and moms who watch this movie deserve to have Aunt May.
I was weary of a young Aunt May at first, but you’re right. He does need a mom in his life and for as much as I love Iron Dad, I gotta respect Momma May here because she is a fantastic pillar in Peter’s life.
I reblogged this earlier, but reblogging again because this shot just wrecks me. It’s such a simple thing, the shaking of the spoon as he brings it up to his mouth, but it tells us how fucking destroyed he is right now. He’s in shock, he’s angry, his grief probably can’t even be fully conceived at how deep it is at this point, and his guilt… holy fuck he’s feeling it. We’ve seen Thor keep things together pretty well over the course of the MCU, with exception of the ‘death(s)’ of Loki and the death of Mama Frigga, but here it goes beyond all that. Through the cracks, we see a brief glimpse of what’s truly happening inside him. His anger and need to see Thanos finished is the glue that’s really only keeping him together right now.
Also, he’s physically exhausted. He took a beating from Thanos, THE POWER STONE right to his head, suffered floating around in dead space after the ship exploded, and lived to tell the tale. Thor is made of the toughest stuff there is, but damn if he isn’t feeling it. This is probably his equivalent of being run over by a bus a few thousand times.
things i will never be over, natasha romanoff edition:
the increasing engagement with teammates, and specifically team-as-family as a steady character arc
i will yell forever about the Red Room spy/assassin training to lone mercenary to becoming an agent of shield and then an avenger and then to articulating that one of her priorities was staying with her team.
that she is putting in the work for the actual atonement part of a redemption arc
relatedly, she never balks from people’s criticisms of her. she’ll push back if she thinks they’re being unfair, but she doesn’t take offense
for someone who said that love is for children, she has an awful lot of people in her life that she would sacrifice everything she’s worked for to save
she accepts that other people’s choices are not her choices and that’s okay
she doesn’t devalue herself. other people might, but she knows what she’s worth.
What I keep getting stuck on is how little of this is explicit text in the films. Like, it’s THERE- we’re not pulling this out of nowhere; there’s textual precedent- but if you aren’t looking for arcs across the films, these character traits and her overall growth are, it seems, pretty easy to miss.
Which I recognize is what happens when you’re not a title character, but this storyline is CATNIP and I cannot believe they’re not letting us get fan-stoned off it more blatantly.
bucky’s look in infinity war is likely a callback to his howling commandos uniform
AND YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, Shuri designed it that way on purpose.
From the end if the no end credits scene, she doesn’t call him “Bucky”, she calls him “Sergeant Barnes”. She wants him to own himself again, his achievments, the good he’s done and the lives he’s saved. She wants him to own his identity again, and though he still says “Bucky” in response, I feel she would still call him that. Not to be annoying but out of respect.
I feel, in my heart, she designed it with that in mind. And you KNOW, he picked up on that.
Wide Spread Interests 