#are you listening kevin feige

[starkwlkr]

Hii!! I had one for the Marvel!Actrice stories.

Can you make one where she gets her hollywood star on the walk of fame the same day that Kevin Feige gets one and Hugh makes a whole speech about her? Thought it would be cute to fit in :))

hopelessly devoted to you | hugh jackman

an: was about to make this hopelessly devoted to hugh.. lol get it? to you? to hugh… I’ll go home (again, reader has no faceclaim so you can imagine anyone you want <3) there’s a big fish and sebastian vettel quote in there so enjoy <3

The day of the walk of fame ceremony was here. It was a hot sunny day in Los Angeles, but you were keeping positive. You were finally joining the walk of fame.

Your whole family was there to witness the moment. Olivia even brought her Polaroid camera to take photos. She had a whole scrapbook filled with Polaroids. Your family was seated in the front row as the ceremony started. Several of your past costars like RDJ, Elizabeth Olsen and Winona Ryder were in attendance to celebrate the milestone.

The presenter started of by giving a speech about your accomplishments while you stood to the side. It felt like forever but eventually the first speech was about to be said by none other than Hugh.

“Twelve years ago, I was here receiving my star. My family was there and it was one of the best days ever. I remember you, my love, saying something in your speech that had stuck with me ever since. She said ‘you are, and ever shall be, my greatest delight’ and that’s what you are to me. We met when we were young. When I first saw you, the world around me had receded into a blur and all I saw was you. To quote one of our favorite movies, ‘they say when you meet the love of your life, time stops, and that’s true’. You have given me the best family and so much love. Also I quickly want to say that if anyone here thinks love at first sight is bullshit, I’ve got my proof right here,” he gave you a quick kiss on the lips as the crowd cheered. “I’m just happy that I met her so early so I didn’t spend a great time looking for her. And to wrap things up, because I can see our daughter shooting glares at me . . . My love, your star here is not just a mark of your achievements, but a symbol of the love and respect you’ve earned from all who know you. I love you, forever and always.”

And with that Hugh and the rest of the crowd clapped for you. You were practically in tears listening to Hugh’s speech. You were definitely going to scold him later for making you cry.

“You deserve this and more.” Hugh whispered to you as he gave you a hug and a kiss on the forehead.

“I hate you right now, you made me cry,” you wiped away a tear. “I love you.”

[holygroundsound]

you’re on your own kid is karen page’s song. she listened to it and thought about her past and everything she’s been through in nyc and had a very cathartic cry. i was there so i can confirm

[valiantphantomangel]

There is nothing wrong with being shy

Request: could you please do something like Chris Hemsworth X Reader where she’s somewhat new to the marvel cast and is quite shy and whilst Chris is trying to make her feel comfortable he accidentally finds out she’s ticklish?

A/n: My Tumblr was once again not working so I'm gonna do it this way for this request and it took a hell of a lot longer then expected but here it is, i hope you enjoy 💜

You had no idea how you could have gotten so lucky, it all just started as a joke.

Audition to play Thor's sister. That was all it said in the page that your best friend send you, thinking of it as a joke you applied for the role.

A few days later you suddenly got an email from THE Marvel Studios, you almost fainted when it appeared in your inbox and before you could utter 'ta-da' you had opened and sped through the email, you read it again and again and again not believing that this was happening.

They were sending you some lines that you had to say, record and send to them since you were one of the last three candidates.

Not long after you send in your little scene and a week later you were flying to Atlanta to start filming.

Now that you are standing in your trailer, nerves racing through your body as you try to stop your hands from shaking, never in a million years did you think that it was possible for you to be in a Marvel Movie, as a main character!

You met Chris a few days ago and he was the sweetest guy you ever met, always making sure that you were comfortable and ready for the scenes. Today was the day that you would start with your first big fight scene and the nerves were getting the better of you.

Sitting alone in your trailer while your leg was bouncing up and down, in just a top and sweatpants since you would change into your costume later as you waited to be called over.

Suddenly there was a knock at the door to which you shouted "come in".

"How are you doing, nervous?" Chris asked with a smile as he walked in and closed the door behind him.

"yeah you can say that, I couldn't even eat with the nerves" you grumble as you flop onto the couch and look at him sideways.

"You have no need to be nervous Hun, you're absolutely perfect and one of the best teen actresses that I've worked with" he said with a soft smile as he poked your side as a joke.

Not expecting it you let out a soft giggle which both of you heard and you looked up at him with wide eyes.

Chris was grinning like the cheshire cat as he looked down at you and quickly sat down on your thighs and traced your ribs.

"Is little Y/N ticklish? That's adorable" he cooed while ghost tickling your bare stomach.

"Don't you darEHEHEH" you try to protest but fall into a giggle fit as he squeezed your sides.

"Oh I do dare, how else would I hear that cute little laugh of yours my lady" He said in his Thor voice as he continued to attack you.

"My laugh is not cuTehHIHIHI, CHRISHAHAHHA" you scream laughed as you trashed around.

"Yes Y/N" Hemsworth said innocently as he spidered over you tummy.

"STOPHAHHAA ITHIHIHI"!!!

"No not else you tell me what's wrong"

"NEVERHAHAHAHAHGAGA"

"Then I guess I'll just have to continue" he sighed as if it hurt him and blew a raspberry in your neck.

You continued to stay resilient until he moved from your tummy to your feet.

"OkAY OKAY OKAY I'll tell youhihihihi" you say still breathless from the giggles.

"I'm listening"

"It's just that- argh I'm nervous that I'm going to screw up everything and that they don't want me to act anymore and that I'm too shy that they don't want to talk to me anymore" you sighed as you sat up.

"Oh darling, they would never. Kevin feige loves you and every crew member can't stop talking about how polite you are to them, there's nothing wrong with being a bit shy, Even Downey was impressed with your acting and that's saying something" Chris said with a smile as he pulled sat next to you and pulled you into his side, with his arm over your shoulder and rubbing comforting circles over your arm "And I think you're the best young actress that I've worked with, next to my daughter of course"

I tried to find something to say but couldn't so you just settled for curling up next to him, filming could wait for a few minutes. And even though you didn't say anything, Chris knew perfectly well what you wanted to say.

[insanityclause]

When Tom Hiddleston landed his career-changing role in Marvel’s Thor back in April 2009, he never dreamed he would be playing the character for nearly 15 years. To be fair, no one did—except maybe Marvel’s mastermind Kevin Feige, who had begun laying the cinematic groundwork for a multi-billion dollar franchise. At the time, Hiddleston happily threw himself into extensive research and prep to play the duplicitous brother of Thor (Chris Hemsworth).  “I was cast in April 2009, and I had about eight months to build the character from the ground up,” Hiddleston says on this week’s Little Gold Men. “So that was a deep dive into everything Loki from any comic book, any Norse myth, any saga, everything—from the whole run of Marvel comics to the ancient Scandinavian stories, and how he pops up in The Ring cycle for Wagner, and Jim Carrey is wearing the mask of Loki in The Mask.” Hiddleston was trying to discover “this sense of, what's Loki's impact on human imagination and culture? And then synthesizing all of that into the story we’re telling. That was such a delightful period of discovery and curiosity.”

Hiddleston’s scene-stealing portrayal made him an instant fan favorite, laying a formidable foundation for a character who went on to appear in six more films and the stand-alone series Loki. The two-season series threw the character into a new dimension and timeline, stripped him of all his creature comforts, and gave the actor new challenges to tackle.

“In successive iterations, [my approach] has been, how do I keep it interesting?” he says. “I genuinely say this to myself and to others: ‘We're not reheating yesterday's meal in the microwave. We're cooking up something new.’ It's trying to find new ingredients or new challenges for the character, for us as actors, so that it feels like the same person is growing. Because that's what human beings do. They don't stay the same, they grow. Sometimes they regress, but there's always movement.”

Hiddleston has gone on to star in a wide array of projects outside the Marvel universe, of course, from his Emmy-nominated, Golden Globe-winning work in The Night Manager to Jim Jarmusch’s acclaimed romantic vampire drama Only Lovers Left Alive and Steven Spielberg’s epic War Horse. But he’s definitely spent the most time with the God of Mischief. And though no official announcement has been made, the final episode of Loki season two strongly indicates the closing of a formative chapter.

The actor and executive producer stopped by Little Gold Men for a thoughtful discussion about the gift of developing and playing a single character for so long, the surreal fun of working with drama school classmates turned costars Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Wunmi Mosaku, and getting to come up with the character's last line (for now). Listen below, where you can also read excerpts from the conversation.

Vanity Fair: Did the series version of Loki feel a little more stripped down, or did you have the same kind of mindset playing him as you did in the films? Tom Hiddleston: Yes. I think it was stripped down literally in the sense of taking away the costume, but stripped down spiritually and in his soul. I thought [the concept] was such a brilliant idea, and it wasn't mine. It was [executive producers] Michael Waldron and Kevin Wright, and the great and the good at Marvel Studios. I thought for any character, if you were presented with your life and watching a kind of highlight reel of it, what would it add up to? Would it be satisfying? Would it be meaningful? Would it be amusing? Would it be disappointing? And I thought to do that with Loki especially, as it's the journey of a life that the audience is familiar with, but he hasn't seen it. I just thought it was a brilliant conceit. And then I leaned into this idea of the leopard being challenged to change his spots. Because you'd have to if your life ended up in murder by Thanos and humiliation. You'd want to try something new.

And that was really fun, developing a story which was actually very philosophical. It asks the question of Loki, as I hope it asks the question of all of us: Are we in control of the course of our lives? Do we have any free will, and can we break free from any kind of predetermination? It seemed like a great question, and a fun way to ask it.

You’re also an executive producer on the series. How did you take on that role? What did you get to do?

Honestly, it was such an honor and I loved it. I loved the extra imagining and problem solving. I was invited into the writer's room really early, season one, even earlier on season two. And to borrow the words from Lin Manuel Miranda, to be in the room where it happens, and to sit around the table and break story and crunch through the great creative ‘what if’ questions—what if Loki did this? What if Mobius [Owen Wilson] did that? What if they couldn't find Sylvie? What if the TVA ran on an energy source, and it wasn't energy, it was time?

Can you take any credit for bringing Ke Huy Kwan or your RADA buddies Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Wunmi Mosaku on board? I love that that was a little bit of a through-line, that you all got to work together.

Well, when their names came up, Gugu and Wunmi particularly, I was able to say, those guys are great. And Ke was just an amazing idea because actually, [his character] Ouroboros was coming to life on the page. Somebody suggested Ke, and Everything Everywhere All At Once had just come out. And I was like, genius: somebody call him now before we lose him. He was so joyful and optimistic and happy to be there, so honored to be there. He'd wanted to be in a Marvel project his whole life, I think, and, and he brought everything and more to that character.

The day he landed, he came from the airport straight to the studio, probably thinking, ‘I'll just say hello and go back to my digs.’ And Owen and I were actually rehearsing the scene before Mobius and Loki meet OB for the first time. And he came in and he listened. And then we got to the bit where we were like, ‘You're in the next bit. Do you want to do it?’ He said ‘Okay!’ And he stayed and rehearsed for three hours. I think he felt completely crazy having just [traveled] across the continents, but it was so brilliant. And the chemistry was so immediate between the three of us, and so funny. We all love Ke.

Thinking about your journey with this character and all the places he has taken you, has there been a surreal aspect to it? I think about you being in drama school with Gugu and Wunmi—now you're getting paid to play.

It's a wonderful question, and I'm never unaware of the great gift that this job is. Especially because it happens all the time,: I go out into the world and I meet young people or children, and they're so amazed that they’re meeting Loki. I'm obviously not Loki, but the response is so immediate and so emotional and so joyful. What a gift. It's the best job in the world. And I never dreamed back then that I would be part of something with such reach and for so long. It just is the most unlikely, surprising, delightful thing. And we—Wunmi and Gugu I've known for a long time. It is amazing to look and go, ‘Can you believe we're here, we're doing this?’ It is exciting too, because it feels right in some way and they're great actors. They are brilliant.

Do you get recognized as the character, or are people starting to recognize you for your other work?

Oh, it's always different. I went to a friend's birthday party the other day—a friend and his wife, both turning the same age. They got a taco stand. I went to get my taco and the guys were like, ‘Only Lovers Left Alive, man. Love that film.’ And I said, ‘Thank you very much. That's very kind.’ Some people say The Night Manager. Some people stop me in the street and go, ‘It's you! You're the dancer.’ And they're referring to some talk show, some bit of dancing I did on a talk show from like a thousand years ago, which really tickles me.

Speaking of dancing, I wanted to bring up your physicality. With the most recent season of Loki in particular and that time slip, did you have to have massages and stretch after? Because it seems like such a jarring movement.

It's jerky, yes. I had to put my body under a kind of relentless physical stress. But I think it pays off in the way it's presented. In terms of movement and physicality, it comes from my own admiration for other performers when I sense that there is a really, alive and visceral physicality in the performance. Some of people are great actors, very cerebral, very intelligent, but sometimes not always fully embodied. And I love the actors who are giving me a sense that the whole body is occupying whichever space that is. They could be on a horse, they could be driving a car, they could have just run in through the jungle. I don't know, it could be anything, but a real sense of physicality is always something I admire in other actors.

One of my favorite things in doing a little research about your work on this season was that you got to craft Loki’s last lin,e and it also maybe came from going on a run. Can you talk about that? Well, first on running, I love it and it is a big part of my life. And a big part of my creative life. Running outside, in space, in the world with only your own legs to carry you and your own breath to fuel you, I find incredibly freeing. And it's where I do some of my best thinking and dreaming and imagining. Things bubble up from inside you. So I often run at the beginning of a day, very early and with an awareness of what's coming, what the scenes of the day are. Sometimes things will bubble up. And maybe that's just extra oxygen in the brain, who knows? 

But to the point about that last line: one of the things I kept trying to guide our team back to was that the whole series, both seasons, was really about finding purpose, or re-finding, re-defining, re-discovering a sense of purpose. And I think a primal need in all of us, is that we need our lives to mean something. So I kept coming back to this line from The Avengers, ‘I am Loki of Asgard and I am burdened with glorious purpose.’ And we kept thinking, well, if Loki has a second chance, he gets to redefine his purpose or re-imagine it. I went for a run and was listening to some film scores, and it was a beautiful day. I was thinking about the journey of playing this character and where it started, and all the people that I have had the great good fortune to work with and become friends with—that completely unique kind of soul-sharing relationship where you make something together. And I remembered the end of the first Thor film, and how emotional that felt and. I just suddenly thought, that's what he should say—but it should mean something completely different. Loki's last line in Thor, directed by Kenneth Branagh, is, ‘I could have done it, Father. I could have done it for you, for all of us.’ And of course his effort to gain his father's pride has been misguided and ill thought-out. And then at the end of Loki season 2, 14 years later, he turns to Mobius and Sylvie and says, ‘I know what I want I know what kind of god I need to be. For you. For all of us.’ It felt very resonant somehow. I hope the audience picked up on that.

Are you able to just say goodbye when it's wrap time, or do you have any sort of meditative, formal way of saying goodbye to a project or a character?

That's such a good question. I think it's a very honest, immediate feeling of relief, which they say is the most intense human emotion. You'd think it was anger or grief or something, but actually relief is—the way relief kind of washes through you, and a sense of finality that some finish line has been crossed and there are no more miles to run. And for me anyway, huge amounts of energy have been stored inside myself which had been poured out over time—over maybe 20 weeks or however many months. 

I love that feeling of completeness. The great joy of what I do for a living is that it involves very intense, very close working with a team. And the pride that you can feel with your teammates, with your crew, with your cast—you just hang around and say goodbye, but it never really is goodbye. And there's just a sense of, like, “that'll do, pig,” you know? Yeah: that'll do, pig.

[stopandimagineloveforever]

Yesterday Hugh and I had one of our many difficult morning conversations while I supervised his hair application. He expressed interest in changing the title of our film from “Deadpool & Wolverine” to something snappier. He slowly slid a piece of folded toilet paper across the table. I unfolded the toilet paper and read two simple words written in crude, store-bought mascara:

“ABSOLUTELY WOLVIE”.

In seconds, I had Anaheim, California on the line. I conversed with a Mr. Kevin Feige, whom I’m told works in and around Marvel Studios. I hit him with the new title.

He said, “Ryan, a title change this late in the game is not only impossible, but you’d need a ‘melon-baller lobotomy’ and a big, magic dumb-dumb wand to even attempt such a malignantly stupid and totally unforced error”. His words, not mine. But what Keith Feige doesn’t know… is that I’m not a great listener. It’s come up a LOT in my relationships. All I heard was, “You have my full support! And the full support of Marvel and its parent company, Robert Downey Jr.”

So here we are… Shawn Levy and I will not let Hugh Jackman fuck this up for himself. We gotcha boo.

#AbsolutelyWolvie in theaters everywhere, July 26th.

-- Ryan Reynolds

😂🤣😂🤣

[wonderlandmind4]

So far the MCU Kevin Feige if you see this please listen gave us these traits of Matt:

-His slutty whoreness

-Hallway fight scene

-The physical traits of his abilities and blindness (the way he pulls his papers out and laid them on the table and honestly that’s just Charlie as a phenomenal actor and basically Matt in his soul)

-Blind Jokes

-Badass lawyering

-Even more of an acrobatic parkouring spider monkey

What I would love to still keep and have:

-Matt’s titties out at least 95% of the time

-Matt’s scars, and I mean all *counts* 1000 of them

-Foggy aka his husband aka Elden Hensen

-Karen Page aka Debra Ann Whol

-His other husband Frank

-Another black thin as tissue paper suit just because

-Dat Ass

-More badass lawyering

-Keep the grittiness as best they can when the situation calls for it

-Long one shot fighting scenes

-Remain as practical as possible

-Maggie

I will probably add more later, thank you and good night

[gunsandspaceships]

Navigation v5 (Part 2)

Part 1 is here.

How Tony made his decision about the Time Heist: Part 1, Part 2

About damage to Tony's property: Happened often

That MCU is not 616 and how Multiverse works: MCU is not 616, FAQ, Multiverse, For Kevin Feige

We also played a game "Tony or Steve" and found out some interesting facts

Fanfic recommendations:

Acute Stress Response series (Belis): New part

Readers waiting for a new chapter

Other topics:

Summary of the MCU, Tony's life motto

Iron Man (novelization)

Tony is a dog at heart: Why, Saint Bernard

But likes cats: Cat person

Who is the nicest guy of the OG6: Data on: Tony ("My faults", "Thank yous", "Sorrys: Part 1, Part 2"), Steve, Thor, Bruce, Natasha, Clint Who thanks the most Who apologizes the most Who admits his/her fault the most Results

War, military and weapon manufacturing: Iron Man 1 villain, Hypocrisy, We are all profiteers, Pros and cons of Tony being weapon manufacturer, You didn't get it, Wor(l)d problems

Some criticism: Tony's inappropriate jokes, Womanizer?, Wall of Shame

AI: Don't trust bots, Seriously

Thanos: His not-so-good plan to save the universe, Real plan

Steve: Blaming others, Why Bucky is not the new Cap

Pepper: And her sexual life with Tony, Her behavior since IM2, Birthday, Monaco, Ring

Clint: Has superpowers

Howard: His obsession with shields, Young, Daddy Issues, Tony steals things from his father

Peter: Not listening to anything Tony says

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Biker Tony

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Tony's birthday 2024

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Thor: Smart, Tactile

Da Vinci of our time

Superheroes' world

Mass Effect: Tony - Garrus Vakarian, Plot similarities

Boopday: One, Two

Captain Morgan

Tony MD

1602 Tony: Opinion

Avengers vs GotG: Infinity Stones

Tony's masks: Iron Man, Iron Man 2, The Avengers, Iron Man 3, Age of Ultron, Civil War, Homecoming, Infinity War and Endgame

Video: "Our brave father", "Unstoppable"

Games: Marvel Rivals

RDJ and Genre discrimination in movies: Oscars 2010, "Real movies", Art, RDJ and Schubert, RDJ's Best Performance, Iron Man and Nolan, Meme, "Love and support"

Part 3

[becky5203]

I hate seeing people go off about Emma Fuhrmann’s replacement saying that “nO oNe eVEn cArED aBOUt hER”. Like, guys. Guys. Be real right now. You can admit that that was a crappy thing Marvel did. Whether it was Kevin Feige or Peyton Reed or some other random executive that made the decision to recast her and not even tell her, you can admit that it was a messed up thing to do. If you had been there and been a fan of hers after Endgame came out you would’ve seen how happy and excited she was to be Cassie and it’s not just that she had it taken away, they didn’t even have the decency to give her a call. We still don’t even know why she was recast but I’m willing to bet it’s just because Kathryn has more star power; which is ridiculous because not only was Emma’s scene objectively one of the best in the movie* but the whole start of the franchise was when they were taking a chance on the unknowns in Hollywood. I’ve even seen people say that Emma looked too old to play Cassie, as if she isn’t the exact age Cassie is supposed to be and Kathryn isn’t in her mid twenties. Listen, I get it. If you’re a fan of Kathryn, or just excited to see the movie and don’t really care about the Endgame Cassie, then you’re probably inclined to say “Who cares? Move on.”, but Emma probably did. She probably cared when the biggest thing in her career so far was ripped away just because she had a smaller name. She probably cared when she was treated as easily disposable and replaceable. So no. We’re not gonna “move on”. We’re gonna be annoyed about it because it was an objectively bad thing to do. If they wanted Kathryn for the role they should have put her in Endgame. Didn’t want the official Cassie to be shown yet? Too bad, don’t write a scene explicitly showing Cassie and get the poor girl’s hopes up, only to toss her aside like stale bread. I want to make it clear, I’m not trying to bash Kathryn; I’m sure she’ll be great. I’m just, like a lot of other people, still mad at the decision and whoever made it; also the way it was handled. So it really rubs me the wrong way when I see people acting like this was not an insane thing to do, like it wasn’t a remarkably cruel thing to do to a girl who was only 18 or 19 at the time, like it wasn’t emblematic of everything wrong with Disney and Marvel Studios right now. They don’t see people, they just see a dollar sign. You don’t have to pretend it’s anything else.

*Because people may ask. Yes, Scott and Cassie reuniting is one of the best scenes in the movie. And yes, I know, art is subjective and people are free to feel however they want about it, but I think we can all admit that even if it’s not your favorite in the movie it’s just, objectively, an excellent scene. Think about some of the best moments of the movie. “On your left” + The Portal Scene. Cap Weilding Mjölnir. “I am Iron Man”. Great scenes, amazing scenes, memorable scenes. But those scenes are all ten years and countless movies worth of build up. They’re cool and they great to experience but for them to fully land you have to have been there taking notes for every Marvel release of the past decade. That’s not the case with Scott and Cassie reuniting. With that scene, you may not know who Scott is, you may not know who Cassie is (and given how a large part of the MCU fandom at the time didn’t care for the Ant-Man movies, not many really did know), but you do know how important Cassie is to Scott and you know exactly how much he’s lost, how much they both have. You feel the full emotional weight of that scene and it’s not because of ten years of buildup or some fan service pay off moment, it’s because of Paul and Emma.

[iseathegalaxy]

THE MCU IS GETTING A SOFT REBOOT, LISTEN

what if the main timeline, the sacred timeline, the one we've known for over a decade, the one we've always known to be 199999 is getting erased for good?

we've been hearing kevin feige say the mcu is actually 616 for a while now and we've all (including iman "ms marvel" herself) called bullshit on that because that's the thing that's always made the MCU make sense with the stories they've been telling, the fact that it is not the same timeline as the comics, that's always been the whole point.

however, this tweet now makes me think the following: what if, now that disney owns literally everything marvel-comics related so as to have it all be part of the cinematic universe, they do go for the soft reboot (the rumours that have been going around) as the way to make the main timeline earth 616??

we all saw the ending of loki s2 ep4 and, unless a fucking miracle happened afterwards, everything got blown to shit, the sacred timeline is no longer, so they're probably waking up to the timelines all broken and messed up and they'll be in a "shard" of one so maybe the point now is gonna be making all the pieces left fit into a single timeline?? that way they can literally pick and choose what they keep, what they remove, and, most importantly, what they add !!! I'm talking miles, the x-men, f4, deadpool, and so, so much more.

in the end, sure, they wouldn't have managed to save everyone, but we knew that was imposible, but this way they at least aren't forced to make the choice "which timeline gets to live and why this one over the rest because the sheer chaos of all of them together is unmanageable" but rather they have to piece a new one together because there's no other choice, there's literally not one timeline left whole to "choose".

this is just my theory, my brain's been going insane thinking about that cliffhanger and the future of the MCU as a whole and this one tweet (from an unofficial/official account, mind you) just sent me spiralling, hopefully I made sense

[beheworthy]

Thor Love and Thunder deleted scenes - 1 & 2  These 2 scenes show that Zeus visits Thor and Jane in the hospital to give Thor the thunderbolt. He advises him on how to use energy for thunderbolt and gives directions for Eternity. Jane makes the choice to go with Thor. Out of other options, they use the goats to travel there.

It's nice to see Thor get some fatherly interaction and behave like his former self: the smile at 'I have many sons', not speaking much but actually listening, being intelligent enough to know what was said in Roman. Little things.

However, these scenes show us an entirely different version of the film. If we go by them, Thor never 'killed' Zeus and left Omnipotent City on possibly good terms with him, given how he casually strolled directly to Jane's hospital bed to talk to Thor and they're all cool with each other.

The Shadow Realm confrontation might have happened as is because Jane is injured and Valkyrie is also out of the picture entirely. Thor is about to go face Gorr alone w no Valkyrie or Jane or Thunderbolt or Stormbreaker or even Mjolnir and not knowing how to reach Eternity perhaps (whatever could go wrong?). But with Zeus giving him the thunderbolt and Jane joining in, the entire climax of the film changes again.

Rant incoming:

Sh*t like this makes me wonder do they shoot 13 different versions of everything and 15 different movies, hoping to find the actual film in editing? That's such a massive waste of the cast and crew's time and effort. These aren't even deleted scenes. These are alternate universes from movies that could have been. Multiverses, if you will.

Deleted scenes are fun additional details the audience could do without. Like Thor returning the mug he broke or Frigga berating/begging Odin to end Thor's exile. Or they're a different/alternate version of existing scenes that may change the context of some things in the story. Like Odin freakin’ letting Frigga die. You could or could not add them but at the end of the day, they don't make a difference to the eventual story.

But in Thor4, if you add Zeus visiting the hospital, you gotta scrap out the entire confrontation at the Omnipotent City. If you add Jane just choosing to ignore Thor's heartfelt request to stay at the hospital and Thor not freaking reacting to it as well (??), you gotta change the entire climax again. I hope to god in the multiverse where this scene of Zeus showing fatherly affection to Thor exists, the scene from the theatrical cut of him ripping Thor’s clothes for fun, looking at him creepily and saying ‘pretty boy’, and inviting him to the o*gy doesn’t. Go to jail, Marvel.

I just-- it doesn't make sense. What even was the original story? Was there a story at all? This is important because Thor is the only character in the MCU to get the elusive 4th film. If you're going to continue a series against the norm, it should be because you really have a story to tell. Like Mad Max: Fury Road, Dexter: New Blood, and John Wick: Chapter 4.

Though I don't think producer Kevin Feige cares much about things like core story and character progression because Thor brings in the $$$. And director Taika Waititi doesn't either because he shot over 4 hours' worth of movie that he can surely cut out a theatrical version from - with every possibility on the cards, whatever the test audience reacts well to.

It's the cast and crew that are the real victims of this methodical merciless studio filmmaking. It's been well-documented that the VFX artists working on Marvel projects have been heavily overworked. A lot of their hard work could have been saved if there was a more definitive story structure so over half the footage they tirelessly worked on wouldn't end up on the cutting room floor. To add insult to injury, Waititi went on to mock them for giving their sweat, blood, and tears to his project. Classy.

Poor Christian Bale shaved his head to play Gorr, only to have most of his scenes cut from the film. Natalie Portman also did physical training for her role.

And Chris did the most extreme training he has ever done for this film. He already did excruciating training for the extreme physique as is. Add to it the dehydration for the shirtless scenes and not eating meat for kissing scenes - just willingly making life difficult for himself. Could have saved him a lot of torturous training by not shooting 13 different versions of every scene out of which 12 won't make it to the final film.

I'm aware that shooting movies works like that - you shoot different versions of scenes that don't make it to the final edit. They signed up for shaving their head and dying training to maintain the impossible physique. All I'm saying is that it's sad that it's all in service of material that just doesn't do them justice. It’s all vapid corporate thinking with no vision.

[the-scarlet-witch-22]

soooo... could you share with the audience some hints of the latest scene/chapter of the Lark Ascending you've been writing? could you tell us any piece that inspired it, if there's any? (though knowing you, i believe there is)

an off-topic question now, but if Wanda and Agatha were to learn any other instrument, what it'd be? i'd love to see Wanda learning the cello but i might be biased 🫡

i hope you're having a great day! 💜🫶

Omg hiiiii bestie!! 🫶🏻🫶🏻

I am working through chapter three, where we will finally see the return of my favorite redhead witch (Kevin Feige, take some notes). But the past two days my brain has been fixated on writing out a later chapter, actually. While I did select The Lark Ascending as the main piece the sequel is inspired by, the climax was heavily influenced by this arrangement of Falling Slowly by The Prague Cello Quartet. I listened to this a while ago and immediately had the entire chapter planned out in my head. Most of the story builds upon itself, slowly, and I’ve dropped a few hints as to where it will lead to :) I’m also in love with this arrangement, it's so beautiful and tender...I cry a lot while listening to it, hahaha. It captures every small moment and detail that ultimately leads to this reveal :)

Ah this is so long but as for Agatha & Wanda hmmm.. I do get cello vibes from Wanda as well, but I also think the harp. A lot of people see the harp as just a delicate instrument, but it's incredibly intricate and extremely difficult to master… definitely Wanda vibes in my opinion. As for Agatha, I sort of head-canon her as a music prodigy. I'm subtly referencing that in lark, actually. If she wasn’t a pianist though I would most likely see her as a percussionist- specifically being insanely talented on the marimba.

I could talk marvel characters and what instrument they would play allllllll day tbh. Thank you for the ask, friend 😭 I hope your day has been wonderful 🩵

[thedevilsoftruth]

Haven't posted in a while, but something that was really bugging me a lot was some shit I noticed when rewatching the Moon Knight series that I think a lot of comic book fans could relate to. I know, Mr " um actually " comic book guy is talking right now but imma need you all to bare with me here for a second. and before any of you start typing, please remember everything said here is MY opinion. All I ask is that you're respectful. I'm going to start of with how I don't understand the hype around this motherfucker.

Literally the most whiniest mf in the ENTIRETY of the MCU. The only people who can like or tolerate this bitch are mfs who have 9 hours of daily screen time on TikTok, listen to hyperpop music and think that he's a soft uwu meow meow baby girl hurt emo princess boy.

Moon Knight is literally one of the most metal superheros out there and the directors saw that and said, " now imagine that but we make his woman so much better than him and water him down and completely change his back story and then wipe our asses with it, spit on it and then pretend we were trying to show representation. " Like what the fuck are you fucking doing?

My first problem is that I felt like this show focused too much on Layla and her relationship to Marc... Nvm, Sorry I lied. Not Marc, fucking STEVEN. This show isn't about " Layla ", its about MARC and Steven and JAKE. (I'll talk about Jake later) Like can we just... " Are you an Egyptian superhero? " " I am. 🥺" GIRL BYE 💀💀 this part of this show was so bad it made eternals look good. This was cringe on the level of seeing your mother do a dab. All that episode 6 was about was Layla kicking ass and that's it. I don't understand why Kevin Feige has the urge to make everything about badass women. Like theres ABSOLUTELY nothing wrong with that, I love badass women and we need more women superheros, but I'm just saying, I came here to watch MOON KNIGHT not Layla El-faouly.

So funny how they make a show about Marc Spector and he only gets like 20 minutes out of the 6 hours of the entirety of the show. I think the most time he got on screen was like episode five and maybe two but that's about it. It felt like he was only there to make things depressing and to make Steven Grant have better character development because he himself is just so fucking boring and not funny. Marc Spector is so much more than " I got hit as a kid and my alter ego is fucking my ex wife. " He's a Jewish antihero struggling with a personality disorder that's eating his life away and a toxic relationship with a man who's been basically lying, emotionally abusing, and manipulating him since his CHILDHOOD. What I love most about Marc Spector is that he's not like all other these mighty superheros, he's just some dude. He just some dude with real human struggles like you and me, trying to figure himself out and navigate through his disorder. Marc should have had a bigger role in this show but I guess Steven Grant and Layla were more interesting than him. Steven is the main course, Layla is the desert and Marc is the salad off to the side that's barley been eaten.

Steven Grant is not a shy British man with great manners who works in a gift shop and is giving in his moms flat, he's a savvy millionaire ( who's from Chicago, Illinois, so as Marc and Jake ) who works in the film industry and lives in a mansion. Those are two completely different characters. Everyone that I've seen who's criticized Steven in the slightest has said that he was bland, boring, and the producers were trying too hard to make him funny. You can't try to have something that's just straight up sad happening with a character and then pretend that it's funny and try to make it into comedy. That's just not how it works and it's not realistic. That's why movies like The Crow are good and movies like Renfield are bad. The Crow takes itself seriously and is genuinely sad but lightly sprinkled with comedy, Renfield wanted to be a bit sad, but ruined itself by trying to hard to make every scene funny.

The only good scene in this entire show is the scene where Marc says, " you are you the only real superpower I ever had " or whatever the fuck. I didn't pay attention because all I could think about was the scene from frozen where Anna fucking froze and Elsa cried about it and then unfroze her with her tears or something. I guess her tears must have been really hot.

What I'll give Muhammad Diab credit for is casting. Having Layla be Egyptian is good, and having Oscar Isaac casted as Marc is also really good. Everyone In the comics is white for a character normally centered around Egyptian bullshit. They also got Khonshus personality right and that's about it.

I hate how the producers said that this show was all about " representation" and then didn't add Frenchie, who is a gay french guy in it or Bushman who is a black mercenary because he was " too much like Killmonger " ( which doesn't make any fucking sense because they are drastically different on so many levels but okay. ) they also said that this show is they're most brutal and violent show yet, but they were " violent " ( and bloody-ish ) the first three episodes and then just kinda gave up towards the end.

For the last thing, I'm gonna talk about Jake finally. Just pretend that I'm sighing right now. Like a really audible, dramatic sigh.

I get they wanted for us to differentiate the differences between each personality with accents but Jake doesn't need to speak Spanish. He doesn't speak Spanish in the comics and having him do it is completely unnecessary. I get it's Hollywood and Hollywood needs to make everything sexy and attractive, but Jake Lockley is the least sexiest alter of Marc Spector. He doesn't wear a suit with black leather gloves or drive a limousine, he's a fucking taxi cab driver with a really weird mustache who wears a turtle neck. When I think sexy, I don't think taxi driver. And it ruins the point of Jake Lockley as well because Marc uses Jake to see what's going on on the streets in New York. New York is really busy and crowded, so people are more prone to using a taxi, not a limousine unless you're bougie and rich.

Anyways that was my rant. Good night.

[sincericida]

Sony try to nostalgia bait for people to come back. Sony just want money, man... She trying to make up money lost on "Morbius "and will be lost on "Madame Web" and "Kraven". Sony, listen toso Kevin Feige.

Sony, if you want to see my money, do "The Amazing Spider-Mam 3" and "Secret Wars".

[thisweekinfandomhistory]

"As long as RDJ got jerked off with a wad of thousand dollar bills directly into Kevin Feige's face, that's all that really matters."

The Endgame episode is giving me energy to survive and THRIVE today, holy shit.

Welcome to salt miiiiiiines

Also I (Emily) would need to listen to that episode again to be sure, but I'm like...99% positive that it was me who said that.

I mean. I honestly can't imagine that combination of words coming out of V's mouth and I say things like that on a daily basis so I'm pretty sure this is an Emily quote.

Anyway, thank you for listening, for the reminder, and for sharing our salt with Endgame.

[romanken]

hi lev i very much appreciate your thoughts on civil war and i like the movie for what its worth bc stevebucky .... they were something here. but i just wanted to know ur opinion of it in the context of a captain america movie? i always felt like it should have been an avengers movie bc like. steve barely gets any real character development and i will always be pissed off that tony gets a flashback with his parents but the only thing steve gets in his OWN movie is that his moms name was sarah. whether it was ever going to be a real concept or not i think the original idea for cap 3 of sam steve and natasha looking for bucky + taking down hydra bases could have been sooooo much better. anyways thank u for listening ur like one of my fav mutuals ^-^

HUGE agree!!!! The captain america: serpent society that was lied about by my worst enemy kevin feige you will ALWAYS be famous. I like civil war for what it is but it is 100% an avengers movie not a cap one which is probably it's greatest crime. Tony had three whole movies of his own AND he was the emotional center of the two avengers movies out at the time so him being the focus of Steve's third movie was so evil... Giving his relationship with his parents the same amt of screentime as stevebucky literally jokerfied me in 2016. cacw could've EASILY been an avengers movie given how neatly it leads into infinity war and there's so much they could've done with shield's collapse + the search for bucky + dismantling hydra to create an Actual third cap movie. Actually they should've just went fuck it and made a movie just of stevebucky growing up together and of missing scenes during the war and I would've sat my ass down in that theater...

[avengersrewatch]

E11: Panther's Quest

Finally! Black Panther joins the Avengers! But first, we have to make it through this episode.

Captain America is telling the other Avengers about the black catsuit guy. And then Panther immediately attacks. This is pulling from Panther's first appearance with the Fantastic Four, where he fights them and then reveals it was all a test. So Panther is testing these Avengers.

To be honest, these Avengers don't do that well in the test, in my opinion. Cap gets in one good hit, and Hank is able to figure out he has a vibranium suit.

It's fun for me when Panther beats up Hank in Giant Man form at least. So it's better than most of the fake fights on this show. (He's so little but he hits Hank in soft places and knocks him over. I would love to see that in live action, Kevin Feige!)

Again we get a depiction of Wakanda that is lesser than the Ryan Coogler films. Panther is basically asking the Avengers to help him overthrow M'Baku's government because "the people are the problem" in that they follow "the old ways." It's cringe.

We also learn Tony Stark tried to get vibranium from King T'Chaka to make weapons before he was Iron Man. Thankfully T'Chaka was like, "Um, no." Panther gives Tony a little side eye that I enjoy.

Long story short, M'Baku has given HYDRA access to the vibranium of Wakanda. And we know from previous episodes it's because M'Baku struck a deal with Klaw. But like, come on, M'Baku. Why are you working with the Nazis? You are literally a huge stereotype of how racists view Black people, why would this go well for you?

M'Baku in the movies is so superior to the early comics and this show. (There is a new M'Baku in the comics now who is just a whole different guy.)

Wasp asks, "So who's up for invading Wakanda?" I like you Wasp, but that is not cool.

So our FIVE Avengers (Cap, Panther, Iron Man, Ant-Man and Wasp) go invading. Thor has straight disappeared in this episode and it is not explained. Maybe they couldn't figure out how Black Panther could take down Thor so they just left him out? Because this episode picks up RIGHT after the last one left off and he was there a minute ago.

The only thing that makes sense is that he saw Jane Foster while fighting in the previous episode, because he trails after her like a puppy. So good for Thor, he's probably making out with Jane instead of invading sovereign nations.

One part I do like is when Tony veers off the flight path T'Challa laid out, and they are immediately shot down by Wakandan forces. Tony says, "you owe me a jet!" and T'Challa's like "that's on you for not listening to me." WHICH IT IS. You can't plan a coup and not even follow the plan.

T'Challa's like "good luck with the Wakandan army, I have to go fight M'Baku for the throne, kbai!" Tony orders Steve to follow him.

For the record, M'Baku believes the vibranium has corrupted Wakanda and he's selling it to HYDRA because he wants to get rid of it and get rid of all technology. And M'Baku in the movies isn't a big fan of Shuri's tech. His tribe lives more simply. But he also doesn't deal with Nazis. That's the part I'm having trouble with, honestly. I'm not being hyperbolic by calling them Nazis, a lot of these guys are the same guys Cap was fighting in the 40s.

Maybe M'Baku can't Google them with because he hates technology so much.

But for all his talk of tradition, when T'Challa challenges him for the throne he refuses to fight and sends the dora milaje to kill T'Challa which also doesn't make sense to me. (Doesn't M'Baku love to fight?) But Cap intervenes and takes on the dora while T'Challa engages M'Baku and defeats him with his "rage."

There is also another fight where Klaw turns into some kind of purple sound ghost at the vibranium mine. Jan and Tony are cute during this fight but I can't describe it.

T'Challa is made king and declares that "the old ways" must end. He's putting a "Council of the People" in charge of Wakanda and joining "the Outsiders" as an Avenger. Because Wakanda must become part of the world now?

He's not even staying behind to put that in writing? Or see how it's implemented? I have concerns.

... but not enough to stop me from being excited the next episode is GAMMA WORLD, the much anticipated return of two Avengers.

Rating: Eh, if you're interested.