#Avengers trailer

[korraofthereef]

SHUT UP.

Silence yours mouths, I don’t wanna hear another fuckin word about this.

I LOVE BUCKY’s PUDGY STOMACH.

As long as this man is healthy, eating, and prospering in today’s society, idgaf

[drenched-in-sunlight]

this is how they are in my head

[coffeeandjuice]

random doodle of Yelena and her guinea pig I drew in 2 minutes

[marvellover76]

Mobius: Please tell me you didn't drag Wade into this.

Y/n: I didn't drag Wade into this.

*knock on the door*

Loki: Who's that?

Y/n: I think you already know.

[whereisthespicymustard]

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SAM WILSON in CAPTAIN AMERICA: BRAVE NEW WORLD (2025)

[savleye]

The comments on the new dragon age trailer that just dropped can best be summed up in this screenshot

[chaxan08]

Yelena Belova, ever since her debut in the MCU, especially after the Thunderbolts trailer:

Yelena: It's not my fault I help girls realize that they're lesbians.

[moralsareathingofthepast]

9 DAYS UNTIL WHAT IF SEASON 2 I MISS HIM SO MUCH I MISS HIM I MISS HIM I MISS HIM I MISS HIM

[lilstephenlover]

Wong: how much longer are we going to let them do that? Stephen: *rubbing the bridge of his nose* just... just give him a minute Y/N: *still pushing the doors of sanctum that are clearly labeled pull*

[imdonnalynn]

You will not tell me there isn't a comparison.

Thunderbolts & Guardians = LOVIN' THE VIBE!!!!!!

[triscribeaucollection]

More Old Guard!Avengers heartache

Nat

There was one, before her.

A man who sailed oceans vast and wide, with only the stars for company and direction. He hailed from a realm of scattered islands and warm water, spent his long years traveling between tribes, sharing stories, news, and gifts. A demigod, those people called him, born mortal but blessed by higher powers, loved and honored.

And yet, when he dreamed of a woman’s first death, realized another like him had been blessed, he left his home behind without a second thought to sail beyond the horizon. It took nearly a century, as he knew nothing of her part of the world - nor did she realize her dreams of wind and water meant another was out there, so the searching was only on his part. When they did eventually meet, it of course happened upon a battlefield.

She fought against men riding horses, something new enough that the fight was going poorly for her. And then, up from the shoreline came a massive warrior like no other, who wore little clothing, carried odd weapons, hollered in a strange tongue and half won just by scaring the horsemen away. When she saw him, the woman realized what her dreams had truly meant.

She wasn’t alone.

Even without words, the two of them looked at one another and understood.

Wandering a land occupied by the descendants of those who’d moved in and replaced her long-dead tribe, present without purpose, that in and of itself finally felt like a true blessing from the gods.

...it lasted less than forty years.

The sailor never again returned to the waters of his birth. He and she learned enough of each other’s words to converse, learned to fight in tandem as they slowly traveled away from her native forests, down the coastline back the way he’d first come. But then, they happened across a village burning. Somewhere in the following chaos, as they put a stop to the raid, the sailor’s wounds ceased closing. His blood kept pouring. And he continued laughing. She didn’t realize anything was wrong until after they’d won, when she turned with a smirk, only to cry out in horror.

Her friend slowly sank down to the ground, smiling even as he died.

Your turn, now, he told her, in a final whisper. Find... next one.

After her tears dried, the remaining villagers helped move his body back onto the little log and sail vessel that carried him across the world. She took a few supplies, and a single magnificent seashell, before she set the entire thing ablaze.

(Another three thousand years passed before she dreamed of the man with a bow.)

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Clint

They lived in the center of a farming region.

Every harvest, families brought their grain and livestock to the market, which tripled in size from all the tents and carts and merchant stalls. The barely town, everyone called it. Never truly permanent, but never really gone, either.

He wasn’t much of a farmer. His wife kept a garden, a few sheep for wool, but when they went to town to trade, it was with the pelts of the animals he hunted all year long. His arrows always struck clean, taking prey through the eye and brain, leaving the hide intact to be skinned, cured, and sold at a good price. Keener eyes than a hawk, others would say of him, impressed and pleased by the quality of the pelts. 

The best furs he kept back, though, to clothe his wife and children in the depths of winter, when they’d all snuggle together by the fire in their small house, safe from the howling wind and snow monsters.

Until a spring when different monsters appeared.

Dark smoke and distant screams brought him racing back to his family’s home, just in time to shoot three snarling men trying to get inside. Clean shots, like always. Through the eyes, into the brain. He told his wife to leave everything, to just grab the baby while he carried their older son and daughter, and they hurried away into the woods, along the hidden trails he knew by heart. But when he finally judged them far enough away to be safe...

He told his family to stay put for at least two days.

And then he went back.

More smoke. More screams. More men with arrows in their eyes.

But eventually, he ran out of arrows. And fighting, true fighting in close quarters... that, he wasn’t nearly so skilled with.

He woke after dark, facedown in a ravaged field. Unhurt, despite the wounds he remembered gaining. Despite the jagged holes and blood stains in his clothing. Quietly, he found a new, unbroken bow, scavenged arrows from dead bodies. Went and found the last few remaining invaders, and killed them one by one. When the sun returned, he found a place to hide, and slept.

His family obeyed, and didn’t creep out of the forest until another day passed. By then, other survivors also began to emerge from the soot and mud, to gather in the field where barley town stood every harvest season. Resources were shared, plans made, a new longhouse and rough wall erected.

All during that process, he kept his distance. Stayed hidden.

Whatever caused him to come back from being dead, he didn’t dare risk bringing near anyone else. Especially not his family. Surely it could only be the work of some dark, evil power, something that jumped from one of the invaders into his body instead, or perhaps a divine punishment for using his hunter’s gift upon other men. Whatever the reason, he never let himself be seen.

Years passed. The former seasonal market became a true town, houses and watchtowers and communal buildings surrounded by a wall that grew taller and thicker. From a distance, he watched his baby boy begin to walk and run; saw the grey begin to creep into his wife’s hair. Dreams haunted him every night, visions of what could have been mixed with flashes of battle, of bright red hair against darker splashes of blood, glinting weapons and changing landscapes.

His skin never wrinkled, his hair never turned white.

His children grew up. Married. Began families of their own.

His wife never took another husband.

More than twenty years of watching over them, of harrying away other groups of invaders, of hunting extra game in winter and leaving dead animals at the gate, he finally received something of an explanation.

From a woman with bright red hair. Who spoke slowly, in a thick accent. Who carried an ax he’d seen cutting through flesh and bone in his dreams.

We guard, she told him. Not bless. Not curse. Duty.

Guard.

That... felt right.

He stood guard for his family, for barley town as a whole.

And he’d keep doing it, until his duty ended, and he could go down into the grave waiting for him, someday.

(Over the decades, ‘Barley Town’ became ‘Barton’. He couldn’t hold onto all the names of his wife, his daughter, his sons, or his grandchildren. But he held onto that, if nothing else.)

[oliveoomph]

Brie Larson is Carol Danvers/Captain Marvel

Captain Marvel (2019) Avengers: Endgame (2019) The Marvels (2023)

[kazamajun]

Did Kazumi want Kazuya killed?

I like Kazumi a lot as a character. Her design and music themes are bangers. One thing just always bothered me though, how she seemingly loved Kazuya but then requested that Akuma kill him back when he was only five years old. So I did a little investigating to try and make sense of it, rewatching both the story mode and intros and old trailers, and what I turned up was quite interesting.

Evidence for:

Akuma's pov flashback where Kazumi says "Kill him for me... And also... Kazuya..."

Akuma seems to believe it's what she wanted, and is how he interpreted the promise to Kazumi.

Evidence against:

The wording and phrasing is questionable. "Kill him" ... "and also" - why not just say "kill them" if she meant both? Additionally, ellipses are most often used to indicate omissions of words. What is being cut out?

This is perhaps answered where we get a more fleshed out version of the scene, like the 2014 SDCC trailer. The same footage is also in Japanese here, if you'd rather spare yourself the English dub. Transcription of dialogue: "If I die, if I can't stop Heihachi, then you must do it for me." "Kazuya? That boy is still too young. And Heihachi will soon realize that he was born with my powers. Heihachi is more powerful than you realize. Who knows what Heihachi will do to Kazuya or to countless others? It is up to me. I must stop Heihachi." "Even if this power consumes me and kills me in the process." No mention of killing Kazuya, in fact she seems concerned for his welfare. Why worry about him like this if she's asking for him to be killed? Evo 2014 reveal trailer transcription: "You're here. That must mean the time has come. Kazuya? I must stop him. I must stop Heihachi. By now I'm sure that Heihachi has realized he was born with my powers." Similar to the SDCC one, just shorter, as this one came out first. And again the same implication that she's worried about Kazuya's fate. From the PS4 opening cinematic: "My beloved Heihachi will inevitably engulf the world in war and destruction resulting in the loss of many innocent lives." No Kazuya mention at all.

Kazuya himself does not seem to believe it. He calls it absurd and laughs, and in the final confrontation with Heihachi, Kazumi's theme plays towards the end of this whole sequence. Also while not in the story mode; in the opening cinematic (and also in the trailers linked above) Kazuya says "You killed my mother!" before their fight, indicating that he is avenging her.

Kazumi has a reason for wanting Heihachi dead. The Hachijos sent her there as a 'sleeper agent' of sorts to take Heihachi out if he became a threat to the world, which he does after killing Jinpachi and taking control of the Zaibatsu. Kazuya, being a five year old, is no such threat obviously. It does not make any logical sense. If the Hachijos were in the habit of killing their own offspring, their lineage wouldn't go far. And if him being Heihachi's son was the concern, why even have him? Additionally, she genuinely loved Kazuya, something even Heihachi admits. Either way, a young child does not fit the profile of the 'scum' that the Hachijo apparently try to wipe out.

Miscellaneous:

Heihachi seems not to believe it initially; although his reason for questioning it is purely the passage of time as Akuma waited over 40 years to fulfill this promise.

A potential thought as to why Kazuya was perhaps not mentioned as one of Akuma's targets in the other cinematics occurred to me as perhaps it being a plot point that they wanted to keep under wraps, but this was easily debunked by the story trailer a few months before the console release, showing the fight between Kazuya and Akuma. There is also a showdown between them in a 2016 trailer that matches neither of the story mode battles.

If Kazumi thought that Kazuya needed to be killed, she could theoretically have done it herself, easily. After her illness that activated her devil gene, Heihachi believed she was not in control of herself and she supposedly never remembered her attacks on him after she went back to 'normal'. And yet, during those times, her target was only ever Heihachi. If Kazuya was supposedly a threat to be ended too - why did that never happen when she lost control?

Late addition/edit: In Akuma's reveal trailer, the wording is altered again to "And also unfortunately, my dear son Kazuya" but this line is said AFTER Akuma has made the promise to Kazumi to repay his debt. And again, it is vague. Unfortunately Kazuya what? Unlike all the lines re Heihachi, she never actually says he must die. A potential reading of this could be that Kazumi felt Kazuya would be better off dead than suffering whatever Heihachi would do to him -- but then, if the goal was a mercy killing, waiting 40 years after the damage has already been done makes NO sense.

Conclusion:

It is my personal evaluation that Akuma most likely misinterpreted Kazumi's words (or perhaps misremembers them as it's been decades - hence why the dialogue in the flashback is an abrupt and chopped-up handful of words vs the more extensive scene seen elsewhere) and that her wish was for Heihachi to be taken down for the sake of the world, and her son. Akuma, being who he is, would lean towards interpreting any kind of ambiguity as referring to violence and death.

In an out of character sense, the vibe I get is that originally Akuma's hit list was only supposed to be Heihachi but at some point late in development they decided they wanted to have a Kazuya vs Akuma fight added in too hence that no-context bit in the 2016 trailer that doesn't match any scenes in the actual final story; and then the mangled flashback of Akuma's happens in the story mode to facilitate the fights that happen in the final version of the game.

But in an ic sense, Akuma misinterpreting Kazumi seems the most likely to me. I don't think he was deliberately lying, his vibe is sincere enough and he calls her Kazumi-dono which shows great respect. IMO, it's good to remember that characters can be wrong about things sometimes and that just because they believe something that doesn't necessarily mean that it is true.

[coffeeandjuice]

GUYS THE THUNDERBOLTS TRAILER COMFIRMS BUCKY WASHES HIS ARM IN THE DISHWASHER HELP 😭😭😭

[animeaddict578]

Agony: This is literally so dumb

Scream: The higher I am, the better I can see

Agony: You can fly

Scream: Hush now Agony, I am searching

[whereisthespicymustard]

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AGATHA HARKNESS in AGATHA ALL ALONG | TEASER TRAILER (2024)