#avengers rewatch

[rocinantescoffeestop]

I’m eating a dessert with blueberries. Tony’s eating blueberries in this scene. It’s like we’re connected. :)

[avengersrewatch]

E16: Widow's Bite

Speaking of lady superheroes, here is something else I don't like about this series (and it seems like I have a lot of complaints even though I am rewatching this cartoon because I like it better than other versions): the Hawkeye and Black Widow subplot.

Since the beginning mini-episodes, Hawkeye has thought Black Widow betrayed him to Hydra and that she was a double-agent. And that's fine, even though everyone watching knows she's not evil by now because Black Widow has appeared in the movies at this point. So she's actually more familiar than Hawkeye to a lot of viewers.

So he has been hunting her down and this episode is a lot of continuation of that. I think it makes Clint look stupid that he hasn't figured it out. Because it is definitely made clear in this episode, as if it wasn't set up before, that she is still working for SHIELD and trying to protect him while she is undercover.

I feel like Widow should be part of the Avengers team by now, but instead both Widow and Mockingbird continues to work for SHIELD and Janet remains the only lady on the team. I can't quite figure out why this should be.

Of course this is also the era of "Marvel thinks girl toys don't sell" so maybe that is why?

It's also unclear exactly what the Avengers are at this point. Tony points out that they are supposed to be dealing with the Breakout (the super villains who escaped prison which is the whole start of the series) and Widow isn't one of them. Which would make sense as a reason the organization exists. But they also do other missions, like the alien robot we just saw in the previous, so why can't Barton try to bring this criminal to justice. Nick Fury tries to say because HYDRA is too complicated, but... is it? It doesn't seem that way on the show.

What I like about this episode:

Captain America and Black Panther duo. It's such a fun dynamic. Steve and T'Challa go after Hawkeye, but without permission from Tony. Steve says no one can take on HYDRA alone and T'Challa says he knows what it is like to be blinded by vengeance. So together, they know better than Hawkeye but don't actually stop Hawkeye, just hover like parents hoping their kid will make friends at pre-school.

I repeat T'Challa and Steve are acting like they are Clint's two dads, hoping he and his new bff Bobbi, beat all the Hydra agents up but if he doesn't, they will swoop in and rescue him. (Which they do.) Meanwhile, they are secretly high fiving in the Quinjet that Hawkeye made a "little friend."

After Mockingbird pops up and Hawkeye decides to team up with her, T'Challa says "at least we know his weakness now if he were to turn on us." Like that's a thing he's been worried about. T'Challa is going to fling women at Clint if he goes rogue. I don't know why this makes me laugh so hard. (It's kind of a Batman thing to say.)

There's also a funny bit when they lose Hawkeye, Tony is mad and says he told Hawkeye not to go after Hydra why did they help him? And T'Challa and Steve are both like "I didn't hear you say that." (Steve says it sounded more like a suggestion than an order, and T'Challa says in Wakanda the words of avenge and revenge are the same. So you guys were just confused about the definitions of words, I get it.)

Just when Steve is freaking out that Hawkeye's signal is lost, T'Challa's like "I have faith he will contact us," and an unknown signal appears in the middle of the ocean. Hawkeye's location. T'Challa's like, "That's my boy."

Cool shots of everyone running at the hydra guys. Panther shreds Grim Reaper's arm scythe.

Odd thing:

Madam Hydra (Viper edition) is introduced and there is a scene where she pulls the pin of a grenade out with her tongue, that is cool but also weirdly suggestive for a kid's cartoon.

Unless this cartoon isn't intended for kids in which case Hawkeye is REALLY dumb.

[sersi]

Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) dir. Joss Whedon Avengers: Endgame (2019) dir. Anthony and Joe Russo

[thenoman-sland]

[ivysos2001]

Never forgiving marvel for not giving us a rogue avengers movie bc we didn’t get enough of these three being badasses on the run together

I’m basically imagining catws meets buddy cop movie vibes (with some romanogers thrown in there ofc bc I’ve been rooting for them since 2014)

Like I love this trio sm and this would’ve been such a cool era to see on screen so I’m sad marvel left us almost completely in the dark about it

[hurtspideyparker]

trying to choose a movie to watch: do I miss my pookie (Iron Man trilogy)? My baby girl (CA: Winter Soldier)? My wife (Black Widow)? Do I wanna watch a romance (X-Men: First Class)? A slice of life (Avengers: Age of Ultron)? Comfort film (Spider-Man: Homecoming or FFH)?

[hxad-ovxr-hxart]

currently missing the classic "everyone lives in avengers tower and oh look there's Peter and oh my god don't forget Clint can hear you he's in the vents" kind of marvel life I used to live and now I'm just staring at some of my favorites fanart drawings of their gravestones and yeah this hurts guys

[spockvarietyhour]

Defiant & Avenger "In a Mirror Darkly Pt. 2"

[whos-hotter-jjba]

Hottest JoJo Character Bracket - 3rd Place

[moonlightsdream]

DRAMAS in 2024: 14 | Avengers Social Club 부암동 복수자들 (2017) — dir. Kwon Seok Jang, Kim Sang Ho   

[rocinantescoffeestop]

I want a fic about Tony and Erik Selvig doing nerd shit or just talking about nerd shit.

[avengersrewatch]

M17: Welcome to Wakanda

If you are watching on Disney+, this "mini" episode is the third part of the 7th episode called "The Man in the Ant Hill."

It's really called "Welcome to Wakanda" because it's all about establishing Wakanda and T'Challa and actually has fuck all to do with Ant-man.

Not only do I hate that this got shoved into Ant-Man's episode, I hate it a lot.

I hate how the character we will come to know as M'Baku says "come and face de man ape!!" in a weird-dumb accent. I hate how Wakanda is vaguely African but might also be Central America for all we know because it's just "ethnic". The way foreign countries are in a lot of movies.

I hate how T'Challa is like "if you fight M'Baku, dad, yo will lose," and the explanation of why T'Chaka has to fight is basically "we are a backwards people and don't know how to pick our leaders."

Ooh I hate the design of M'Baku.

I don't like that the two dora milaje we do see are interchangeable and have no personality.

This episode makes us feel a lot for T'Challa who has to watch his dad die. But in making T'Challa smart they make the rest of the Wakandans kind of dumb.

A few things I do like,

I do like that though T'Chaka is hilariously small compared to M'Baku, he gets a few good hits in during the fight. I mean, T'Challa has some gray hair here. I'm not sure how old he is supposed to be but I am figuring T'Chaka is no spring chicken.

The composition of the shots when M'Baku hits T'Chaka and he dies in the (convenient) rain does make me a little teary. It's his dad! I am not a monster!

I'm also conflicted about the Klaw-M'Baku alliance. I know that is how a lot of Western countries destabilized "third world" nations. Is by backing dictators. But I also think it contributes to M'Baku seeming dumb. Like he can't have thought of this himself. He needed Klaw to become King of Wakanda.

LOL. I do like this portrayal of T'Challa. It seems like I hate everything, but it's just so inferior to the Black Panther films Ryan Coogler gives us. I think as an origin story it's also not as good as the BET Motion Comic version of Reginald Hudlin's run on Black Panther. (Like if you want to introduce children to Black Panther.)

Rating: Do Not Recommend

[wandavisionedits]

Wanda Merlin vs. Wanda Maximoff The Scarlet Witch | two-handed power

[swingsetindecember]

nothing made me angrier as noticing oracle's product placement in iron man 2 and 3. like tony stark uses oracle.

that piece of shit platform that crashes when you try to do a purchase order is what iron man uses. like i am FERAL. for anyone who has had to use oracle, please chime in because my god. if they actually spent that money on something other than product placement and made a functioning platform then good god. anyway, this is how i know i am old because i got angry at the oracle product placement

IT'S EVEN IN AVENGERS. ORACLE IS USED BY THE AVENGERS. IT EXPLAINS SO MUCH WHY THEY GET HACKED BY HYDRA AND WHATEVER VILLAIN OF THE WEEK

i hate it here

[m1dv1ght]

Another Marvel Fic idea, okay so i recently saw a post that was like, what if Howard Stark tried to recreate the serum and he tested it on Tony yadayadayada that not really important but it gives context on how I thought of this.

BUT IMAGINE if Howard had another kid, older than Tony (specifically a daughter because im imagining Emma Dumont as Polaris for the fc) and like Howard tries to recreate the serum and he tests it on her and like she ‘dies’ or something but tony was really young so he has vague memories of his older sister and like its just silently agreed upon to never speak about her.

Until years later Fury is talking about bringing someone else into the Avengers initiative, and Tony is just… thats my big sister, and he is like shook because not only is she alive but she looks the same as she did when she died, and she hasn’t aged a day. OR MAYBE takes place Age of Ultron and she gets found with Wanda and Pietro and And then, idk something happens thats all i got so far.

[billygoat26]

Y’all, unfortunately I don’t have a PHD in Deadpool, but I have assumptions

Buddy boy jokes through life, we know that much from the comics (from what I’ve read anyways) and the movies. It’s his thing, what we all know him for. The Merc with a Mouth.

BUT- he can be serious. And ooooh boy when those jokes stop you better run while you can.

Only reasons why I think this are (spoilers for Deadpool and Wolverine below)

When they were in the Honda Odyssey I think it was called (right before the fight scene many of us agree was more gay than gay sex) Logan/Wolverine had pretty much insulted Wade’s entire being, and his love life. And we KNOW it hurt him, you can see the subtle change in his expression, even though it was masked literally. Then after that he said the whole “I’m gonna fight you now” and then they fought, blah blah blah.

That little itty bitty moment of silence, vulnerability, all that fun shit means that there’s a limit. We all have one, after all.

In the first Deadpool movie he was a little more serious when dealing with Francis- except in like, the first half during the major car collision and when Wade beat the shit out of Francis and all that fun stuff- and when trying to save Vanessa.

And god, was he destroyed in the second movie when Vanessa got killed… he was a mess, even for him! Trying to find any way to see her again, constantly hurting himself in ways that would kill any ordinary person just so he could catch a glimpse of her again. Hell, he even went back in time to SAVE her!

Which brings us back to the newest movie.

Vanessa had pretty much dumped him. They’re still friends, at least as far as I remember, I’ve only seen the movie once and it’s been on my mind since two days after it released when I watched it. And we know he was hurt by it and we know he got rejected from joining the Avengers (which I’m pretty sure, if I remember correctly, he wanted to join to basically earn Vanessa’s approval again) and after his rejection he sort of just… stopped. Gave up on being Deadpool, hung up the suit and found some job where he worked with Peter.

So basically, Vanessa is that limit. I think, anyways. He might joke about stuff (I’d assume) relating to her, but no matter what it’s a sore spot. Something he hates himself for messing up and would try anything to fix.

So, cue the entirety of the movie to save his timeline and all that fun stuff, and OH MY GOD THE AWKWARD BUT PROBABLY HOPEFUL MOMENT WE SAW WITH HIM AND VANESSA AT THE END AGGGHHHHH-

And how Logan had told Wade to go talk to her- MY HEART- AAAAH-

Anyways…

I’ve lost track of what I was originally rambling about- I think it was Deadpool’s limits or something and movie-wise (I dunno if the “Vanessa” of the comics for him is different or not, I haven’t read enough of them to know for sure) that limit, the line to never be crossed, is Vanessa. She’s the main one, and the others are damn important to him too but I think Vanessa holds the biggest place in his heart.