#Young Avengers verse

[redheadarcher]

@nomatterthecost said: 67 for a clumsy starter starter call 2.0 // accepting !

She had to admit she’d stopped paying attention to whatever Kate was saying the moment she glanced to the side and saw a girl walking into the café where they were sitting. Sure, what Kate was talking about was probably way more important, but Scarlett just couldn’t help it.

Everything about that new girl caught her eye—her hair, her eyes, her whole vibe. Scarlett watched as the girl ordered at the counter, nodding at Kate occasionally without looking back at her or even catching a single word.

While she internally debated whether it was a good idea to go over and talk to said girl, Scarlett reached for her coffee to take a sip, but distracted, she ended up knocking the cup over. A silly accident that never should happen but...

The mess pulled her attention back to what was happening right in front of her and to her friend. "Oh, crap!" she muttered, standing up to grab some napkins, kind of not knowing what to do, which was crazy.  “Oh god, I’m so sorry Kate! Did it spill on you?”

[ctrsara]

This part of the Spider-man stunt show and most of Web Slingers at Disneyland is basically irondad fan-fiction. Change my mind.

Transcript (as close as I can get it):

Tony calls Peter in his suit.

Peter: Hello? Tony: What? No, you don't say 'hello' like that. You say 'Go' or something cool. Are you testing new upgrades to the suit? Peter: Oh. Hey, Mr. Stark. I mean, go. Uh, I mean, uh, yes. Tony: Well be sure you calibrate the stay-finders; I don't want to scrape spider off the wall. And hey, have fun! Peter: You got it, Mr. Stark! Go! I mean... stop? Tony: (can't understand - probably complaining about the futility at trying to teach his mentor to be as cool as him)... Anyway, be careful. Peter: He worries.

Peter and S.H.A.R.O.N (who is not anyone's best AI work) in the W.E.B. lab.

Peter: If you could just initiate the safety protocols, that would be greatly appreciated.

S.H.A.R.O.N: Problem with that, Peter!

Peter: Anyway, if you want to sling a web, all you gotta do is just sling your arm in the direction you want to shoot the web, and that's it. It's awesome.

S.H.A.R.O.N: Peter, your spider bots are continuing to replicate, and are consuming everything in their path.

Peter: They seem to be stuck in self-replication mode. If you could just handle that for me, please?

S.H.A.R.O.N: On it! Contacting Mr. Stark.

Peter: Don't call Mr. Stark! Don't call Mr. Stark. Sorry for shouting. Could you just call someone else and ask them to do it?

The whole pre-show for Web Slingers (and even the audio from the ride) is so much fun. Look it up on YouTube!

[immortalmuses]

Empyre: Aftermath Avengers #1

It hasn't ended. And it never will.

[sampilled]

I feel so negatively about mcu casting choices

[thoseprettierthings]

Hailee Steinfeld you are ethereal

[avengerphobic]

I made up a universe for a johnnywyatt fic but I like made Doom a woman in a throw away line but now I'm thinking about her

[revel-arts]

The Midnight Suns Pt 7: Wiccan, the Demiurge

Pt. 1, Pt. 2, Pt. 3, Pt. 4, Pt. 5, Pt. 6, Pt. 8, Pt. 9, Pt. 10, Pt. 11, Pt. 12

Of all of the potential Sorcerer Supreme candidates, Billy has the most earnest heart of a hero. Unfortunately, his good intentions don’t always go the way he wants.

And as a reality warper like his mother, Scarlet Witch, his mistakes can have dire consequences.

[raeofgayshine]

You know what, I think I do deserve to be pissed that someone commented on my fic something to the like of “Wow don’t you hate seeing your favs ooc? You should go read this fic instead *insert fic title*”

Like bitch the fuck? Also it was on the latest chapter, you really went that far? Maybe it’s just a bot but I swear if that’s a real person that’s so fucking rude

[victoriousfidelity]

verse drop, 1/7 (mcu canon verses).

[menndax]

TAG DUMP

[thecosmiccircus]

Discord Marvel Studios Q&A with Alex Perez (June 2024, Part 2)

Part two of Alex Perez’s answers to the June Discord Q&A are below, with part one posted here! Alex had a lot of fun talking about the future of Marvel Studios productions here. We hope you find his answers interesting! Be sure to follow The Cosmic Circus on social media to keep up with the latest articles, interviews, and reviews! Kang’s future in Marvel Studios’ Multiverse Saga JoeMarvel:…

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Relive the 90s with Marvel '97 Variant Covers

Relive the 90s with Marvel '97 Variant Covers #comics #comicbooks

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[thoseprettierthings]

Hailee Steinfeld bts for People Magazine

[ceilidho]

toxic gaz thoughts u say??? to me gaz is so older brother’s best friend coded. the POSSIBILITIES. growing up with him and having birthday parties, sleepovers, movie marathons. having him over for dinner so often it’s like he lives with you. older brother’s best friend gaz who teases you mercilessly when you’re young and never stops but now that you’re older it feels a little different?? like the stares linger. and you swear he’s accidentally brushed against your chest *three* times now when he’s over for brunch with your family. swear that whenever he’s home from the military suddenly the guys you were about to go on a date with just cancel on you. at least gaz is there to cheer you up by taking you on a nice drive. he’s touched your leg so often by now it doesn’t feel strange to feel his palm heavy on your thigh.

I’ve literally written about this before 😭😭 my fave ideas for Gaz have always been:

- older brothers best friend (as opposed to Soap being your best friends older brother)

- work husband and work wife verse (office)

- best friend who offers to give you a baby because you’re getting anxious about not settling down and then he slowly moves you into his life all under the guise of “but it’s better for the baby” (HIGHKEY manipulative)

- some kind of vigilante / avenger au because Gaz has a certain righteous quality about him and a stubbornness in thinking that he’s morally right (like imagine an au where he’s a new friend and he finds out someone in your past hurt you or you used to be pretty mercilessly bullied……he’s the kind of man to go hunting them down one by one after that)

[gavillain]

Agatha All Along season finale discussion because AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. Spoilers on the road ahead!

So a LOT happened in this two parter, so I'm just gonna hit the major points in order...

So despite my thinking that two of the Salem Seven survived because of the number of sword fall sounds last episode, they are apparently all dead. Which, y'know what, I don't mind. They weren't really meant to be actual characters, mostly just Nazgul-esque opponents to add some extra stakes, and having Lilia successful destroy them all with her sacrifice is the most earned ending for them.

When we get to the final trial, it's more or less the three remaining witches stuck in a room having to resolve their purposes on the Road. For Jen, we had her unbinding herself and the reveal that Agatha was the one who bound her. Admittedly, I kinda feel like that reveal was underdone, and it mostly just seemed like a quick asspull to resolve Jen's storyline at the eleventh hour. However, I really felt for Jen and the catharsis of unbinding herself, so I can't complain too terribly much.

Secondly, we resolve Billy's ambitions to restore Tommy, and this one, I was generally more favorable about than Jen's. Billy basically helped put Tommy into the body of another boy who died prematurely, one who was being drowned in an apparently very toxic environment. In the comics, Tommy was in and out of juvie all his life, and the Young Avengers find him in a supermax prison because of his powers. So, I'm assuming Thomas Shepherd, the boy whose body Billy hijacks, is in juvie or some correctional facility, and that's where we're gonna pick up with him in Vision Quest. Also, Agatha's line about "sometimes boys just die" was a fucking ARROW TO THE HEART, especially with the backstory in the following episode.

Then for Agatha, she completes the road's test by growing a sapling that she finds in her locket holding Nicholas's hair and emerges from the road back in Westview, where Rio is waiting for her. And DAMN was the final battle against Rio one of the coolest in Marvel. With Billy going FULL Wiccan mode and Agatha siphoning off his power but not enough to kill him. It was your standard Marvel final battle, but I really enjoyed the spectacle of it and how insurmountable of a foe Rio felt like. Agatha almost betraying Billy so that she can live but then changing her mind and sacrificing her life for his was such a powerful moment of full circle for her. After everything she's done to other witches and to Billy's own mother, for her to finally embrace death (and LITERALLY embrace the kiss of Death) was super powerful and showed how the road genuinely did change her. Personally, I usually hate redemption arcs, but this one, I actually really liked and supported because it wasn't about Agatha giving up her sense of self to be someone else, it was about making a choice out of love in the moment. I thought it was a beautiful way to resolve the story, and I was wondering what the heck else they were going to do with the last episode.

And then we got the reveal that I saw a few people guessing that Billy created the Witches' Road and that Agatha had never been on it, and I think that was a really well deserved reveal that hit for me exactly as it was intended. I loved that Billy created it because he has "the same tell" as Wanda with WandaVision. He made this grand fantasy adventureland, and that's SO cool! He, too, apparently is capable of spontaneous creation like Wanda, and I'm curious how they're going to tie this in with the MCU lore about the Scarlet Witch. In the comics, Billy is the Demiurge, and I'm interested in finding out if Marvel is going to bring in that concept or if they're going to do something new with the prophecy of Scarlet Witch. Maybe a secret hidden verse to the prophecy? We saw Billy's statue in Mount Wundagore in Multiverse of Madness, so maybe old Chthon knew a lil' somethin' else. I also liked the reveal that the Witches Road was a con that Agatha used to lure unsuspecting witches into giving her their powers. That was clever, as was the way that it tied in with her backstory.

SPEAKING OF, that backstory with Nicholas Scratch was the most heartbreaking thing, and I loved every minute of it. Her bond with Nicholas and the way that she showed genuine humanity to him was a side to Agatha we only saw the periphery of in her relationship with Billy, so seeing it fully realized was SO powerful and so well done. Rio giving her a good seven(ish?) extra years with Nicholas also speaks volumes because in Rio's mind, she was doing Agatha a HUGE favor that violated the cosmic order and to some extent, she DID because it showed Agatha a purpose beyond just power. However, it also probably hurt her worse than just taking Nicholas upon birth. She gave Agatha years to love and get attached to her son, and that, I'm sure, made the wound of losing him that much deeper (and Kathryn Hahn's acting with those screams of anguish upon finding Nicky dead were SOUL CRUSHING - she KILLED it). So, yeah, interesting that it was such a double edged sword. I also thought the twist that Nicholas and Agatha wrote the Ballade together as their little song and it eventually spread because of him singing it to other witches was REALLY clever and REALLY powerful.

And, finally, Agatha is back as a ghost, and she's sticking around Billy as his spirit guide/mentor, which I really like. I'm sure some people are going to take umbrage at Marvel cheating death again, but this is a show that racked up bodies of major characters left and right, and Agatha being dead and a spirit I'm sure is going to have big changes for her and her power and characterization going forward. Plus from Evanora Harkness, it's an established part of the lore. So, for me, it works, and I like it. I also like the touch of her looking more like her comics counterpart with gray hair in ghost form, and I'm honestly REALLY excited to see Billy and Agatha as a dynamic duo continue on in future Marvel properties.

Overall, I LOVED Agatha All Along. It was an incredible journey, and it was the most I've enjoyed a Marvel property in awhile. I feel optimistic about the future of this particular corner of the MCU, and I'm so glad I got to go with everyone down the Witches Road :)

[theaestheticmerchant]

i think i've figured it out. the actual reason whedon's avengers writing, especially with the hulk and black widow, felt so weird and out of place. maybe this has been said or meta'd before but it's literally just because he was still writing them like they were buffy and angel characters, just with a new paint job and new faces, the entire time.

especially with bruce and natasha. and i mean, it worked when it was his gothic horror ocs, but less so when it's established marvel characters — but replace bruce/the hulk with angel, especially season 3-era angel after he comes back from acathla's realm and he's basically a feral beast who's scared of everything but also scares everybody too because of what he's done for a good few episodes, and natasha with buffy, especially any era buffy where she's more likely to suffer from some great and terrible burden (like, hm, i don't know, thinking she's a monster because she can't have kids due to military genetic experiments?) and spend her time monologuing her great shakespearean tragedy. the whole beauty and the beast-style "girl calms down giant monster who's scared and traumatized even though she is too" dynamic suddenly seems a lot more logical when you think of it that way and see them in that light, even if it doesn't make any more sense for bruce and natasha specifically here.

the tropes fit perfectly when you just switch out the marvel aesthetic for a buffyverse one. and of course, it works in the buffyverse because he can do whatever he wants with his ocs, but it felt so weird in marvel because he wasn't writing a marvel story. he was still writing shakespearean gothic young adult tragedy, but it had real superheroes in it this time instead of vampires and monster hunters.

even the villain makes more sense. take loki out and slot him in as, instead, a buffyverse big bad, especially a vampiric one. instead of his staff, it's a magical artifact, and instead of being from the nine realms, he's from a demon dimension — the chitauri portal at the end being a means to open a rip to a hell-world and let demons and the apocalypse through, like what acathla would've done, like what the judge tried to do, or the end of angel as a whole.

it's literally just one giant buffyverse episode he wrote using marvel characters while he was still in buffyverse mode. even the "mewling quim" line makes more sense — 100% that's something a big bad in his original verse would say while being weird and intimidating and scary and so of course it feels off and not quite right as a marvel story because it literally never was an actual marvel story in the first place