#Stick to the Status Quo

[greencatalystcomet]

the marvel heroes are personifications of the song "stick to the status quo" from high school musical except they ACTUALLY ARE SUPPOSED TO BE THE HEROES

every popular marvel movie/show (avengers, black panther, avengers age of ultron, falcon and the winter soldier, daredevil, avengers infinity war, captain america winter soldier, spiderman homecoming, just to name a few) has the villain as the character that wants to facilitate change. often in a way that has the viewer agreeing with the villian. until the villain commits mass murder for seemingly no reason, and this allows the hero to show that the moral of the movie is 'change is bad' and change can only be achieved by commiting horrible attrocities, so its best to just keep things as they are.

this should not be surprising considering who makes and produces movies. people who produce and show movies are the people at the top of the food chain. they obviously dont want things to change, because from their perspective there is not enough wrong with the world that it needs to change. we, the viewer of these movies, should know better. our lives would greatly benefit from changes to the system (particularly the capitalist system that is making the producers of these movies so content and rich). the producers of these movies are trying to influence us into no longer wishing for the change that would make our lives easier, because it would make their lives slightly less privileged.

the line "it is better by far keeping things as they are" from high school musicals 'stick to the status quo' comes to mind. the key difference being, of course, that this is a line showing the main villain (sharpay's) point of view, whereas in the mcu this would be the belief of the heroes, the belief of the avengers.

the only exception to this, at least that i can think of, is the tv series loki. the tv series loki is the only marvel story i am aware of where the hero of the story is actively trying to dismantle the systems in place and create a better one. it makes sense with the mcu's history, then, that this is the only story where the main hero was formerly a villain. and this story, while it does end with loki successfully dismantling the broken system and creating a better world, does not exactly end happily. this story ends with our main hero, loki, doomed to sit at the end of time for all of eternity to prevent every existing timeline from collapsing. if this was viewed in a vaccum, it would be an intriguing, heart wrenching ending. when its viewed in conjunction with the rest of the mcu, it almost seems like they said okay. you can have a systemic change. but you have to pay the price. you cannot just have a systemic change for the better, it has to be shown that change is always at least a little bit bad. and mostly, change is always bad for the driving force behind it (in this case, loki). the main person precipitating systemic change is never allowed to get a happy ending in the mcu.

later in the song 'stick to the status quo' sharpay and her brother (the villains, to reiterate) say "and we gotta get things back where they belong" this is clearly viewed as the villainous statement. people in the lunch room (where this song takes place) are incredibly happy about the changes taking place, and are relishing in their newfound freedom. in any mcu story (apart from loki) this would be a stubborn statement from captain america, or whoever the main hero is of that story. high school musical understood that change is necessary to increase freedom, but the mcu pushes the narrative that change can only occur at great cost to innocent life (or the cost of the hero's happy ending)

i was inspired to make this post by this video, you should definitely all go watch it if you were even a little intrigued by this post (it doesnt have any of the random high school musical references and the mcu points are much more articulately communicated)

[queen-daya]

Ryelsi Shots (Part 4/?)

I only view the movies as canon, so kindly refrain from commenting unless you have something positive to say about this ship.

[easthighseblos]

Seb and Carlos singing iconic Sharpay songs

1x09 → 3x04

[destiny-in-the-universe]

Okay, so- I’m hoping to watch this movie eventually but this song… is so RC9GN coded. Thank you for coming to my TedTalk.

You can’t tell me I’m wrong. It just is. Thank you and goodnight (but not really because I’m going to one of the ask blogs-)

[karimamk]

High school musical is showing on tv right now, and it was 46 minutes in with commercials, and I accurately pinpointed the exact minute of where it was in the movie before the commercial ended because I know this movie by heart 🥲😂🥹 why am I like this

[highschoolmusicalshowdown]

HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL SHOWDOWN

[sxnshxnxxnddxxsxxs-fics]

sipho upon zoning and dissociating to the point she loses time: this is not what i want, this is not what i planned, and i’ve just gotta say, i do not understand, something is really, somethings not right, really wrong, and we just gotta get things back where they belong.

[profoundlyprocrastinating]

I just realised the premise of Divergent is basically the HSM song Stick to The Status Quo, but as a YA dystopia

https://youtu.be/yE07FbWmew8?si=_8AarT_BO1V8-tQp

[swampyharmonic]

Holding out for a hero

Holding out for a hero til the end of the night

Cuz you gotta be cool, follow one simple rule

Don’t mess with the flow, no no

[taegularities]

I did not have a hard time reading from a reblog, although you just need to scroll down a bit to find the continuation part. It’s fine for me though!

ahhh okay okay thank you so much!! <3 was worried it'd mess with the flow or smth, but good that it worked for you!! might def be better than splitting every chapter bc then we'd finish cmi with like 35 parts lollll

[allottavabassa]

I forgot how good the High School Musical choreography is :)

shoulder tap

point

shoulder tap

point

hand

basketball

[a-very-sparkly-nerd]

THIS IS NOT WE'RE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER OF US. NOW IS NOT THE TIME TO STICK TO THE STATUS QUO.

WHEN DID QUEER PEOPLE START HATING EACHOTHER. WE ARE IN THIS FIGHT TOGETHER.

THERE IS NO USE IN FIGHTING TO BE ALLOWED TO LOVE AND BE TRUE TO OURSELVES WHEN WE ARE PITTED AGAINST THE VERY PEOPLE WE ARE FIGHTING ALONGSIDE.

[expensivemistake]

Erica Schultz' Elektra run so far has been intensely frustrating to me, because on one hand, she clearly has more love and knowledge about Elektra as a character than Zdarsky ever did. Little details, like Elektra's burner phone from when she was an assassin, or just giving her a character outside of Matt – these things are pretty good, and I like them. She clearly understands the feel of the character, and she's certainly done more for Elektra than Zdarsky ever did.

But I feel like every Elektra story of hers so far has fallen short in the same way. And I think it's because she's depicting Elektra a little more like herself, but seems ignorant to how unhealthy, uncomfortable, out of character, demeaning and unnecessary Daredevil!Elektra actually is. And she keeps squandering opportunities to shed the mask.

Maybe it's that her hands are tied. Or maybe it's that she genuinely likes writing Elektra in this way.

But there's something endlessly frustrating about the marketing for Unleash Hell using "Murder is an Art!" as a tagline, but then doubling down on the fact she doesn't kill now.

They're giving Elektra her font back. They're giving her a red band comic. But they refuse to let her reclaim her own name, or to have a life outside sharing Matt's identity just to please him. It's so exhausting.

[cacw]

frostpaw isnt some sweetheart idiot catholic schoolgirl shes smart shes an adult and she knows better now and shes not completely clueless she never really was and she does have a personality that doesnt solely revolve around hating her mom and having a windclan girlfriend. frostpaw is angry and lonely. frostpaw killed somebody