#OOC. keanu & steve especially....

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Salty Ask List

What OTPs in your fandom(s) do you just not get?*

IronWidow, IronHawk, IronDarcy.... nothing against any of them. But with the goldmine of close canon relationships Tony has, and potentially fascinating ones he could have (Bucky, Loki, Strange, StarLord) these choices just feel so random. Like, why waste Tony on Hawkeye or Darcy? 

Have you ever unfollowed someone over a fandom opinion?

I’m very tolerant of other opinions, especially on fictional characters; but shipping anything I deem pedo (like “Starker”) is where I draw the line. I also tend to block self-proclaimed “anti-Stark” blogs, becaues those people tend to have legitimate issues. 

Do you have a NoTP in your fandom? Are they a popular OTP?*

Again, anything pedo. Tony/Peter, Shuri/Bucky, etc.  Granted, I do ship Bucky with Ava and Wanda, but both can plausibly be seen as college-age young women--as opposed to Peter and Shuri, who are given canon high school ages. 

Is there anything you used to like but can’t stand now?*

Steve Rogers. Re-watching early movies always blows me away with how lively and likable he is. And makes me madder at how the Russos did him dirty. 

Have you received anon hate? What about?*

Not in the MCU fandom, oddly enough.  

Most disliked character(s)? Why?

Steve Rogers. I don’t have an eternity to go into the details, but basically he’s an obnoxious Gary Stu, half his stanbase seem to be fangirls with legitimate issues regarding a love for violence and a lack of empathy, and the other half are misogynist incels. 

Most disliked arc? Why?

"Civil Fart.” Because it’s insultingly bad. Everyone is OOC and a moron, and Cap’s Gary Stu-ness is through the roof. 

Unpopular opinion about XXX character?

Steve Rogers, at his absolute best, is a bland, generic character, played by a moderately competent actor with a generic style. Chris Evans could be replaced with Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, James MacAvoy, and any other one of Hollywood’s generic lead men, and we’d get about the same performance and character. Again, at Steve’s absolute best.  When he’s not written as an asinine Gary Stu, and/or being played like Evans is processed by Keanu Reeves.  

If you could change anything in the show, what would you change?

How much time we got? 

Instead of XYZ happening, I would have made ABC happen…

Tony should’ve made Bucky his new arm, instead of Shuri

Wanda should have ended up with Bucky or Loki, instead of the spleen in the spandex 

Lara Barton should be Clint’s sister, or ex-wife. (Not both, obviously.) 

Instead of rewarding Tony’s tragic, self-loathing, and totally untrue belief that only he can save the universe and that he doesn’t deserve happiness or hep, I’d end “endgame” like the first GotG movie, with all the Avengers coming together to hold the Gauntlet with Tony so he lives. 

Hawkeye should’ve died instead of Nat. 

What is the one thing you hate most about your fandom?

Captain America stans--especially his misogynist fanboys who project all of his most glaring Gary Stu traits and character flaws onto Carol Danvers. 

What are your thoughts on crack ships?

Provided there’s no pedo, I love them. The crazier the better. 

Popular character you hate?

Captain America and Vision. 

Unpopular character you love?

Wanda Maximoff. She has her fans, but it seems far more common to find haters than fans of MCU-Wanda. I can’t blame anyone for hating her, since the movies really do fumble her story arc and character, and make her look really bad. I’m just able to overlook that stuff. 

Most shippable character?

Tony Stark is the fandom bicycle for a reason. He not only has many of the best onscreen relationships in the series, but he also has so many unexplored/underused potential relationships all over the franchise, and instead, the Russos just force the same repetitive Iron Man vs. Captain Stu down our throats ad nausiem. Thank god for fanfiction. 

Least shippable character?

Vision. Yes, even less than the Cap. At least I can believe Steggy, Staron, Stucky or Steve/Groot, even if they’re all boring. But Vision? I am hard pressed to see him having genuine chemistry with anyone. Bar “Infinity War” where they managed to make me care about his and Wanda’s relationship.