#i'll probably watch deadpool and maybe another thor if taika directs it

[swaglexander-the-great]

You're not gonna watch endgame?? Why not?

Ok, before I say why, i just want to clarify: my reasons are to do with my opinion. I don’t have anything against other people watching it, or having fun with it, that’s awesome. These are just my personal reasons for not watching it.

I’m tired. I’m just tired of the whole franchise. The cowardice of the directors (not making any heroes LGBTQA+, having the bare minimum of POC heroes and no main Asian heroes [Dr Strange was a great opportunity]), the plotlines (we’ll get to that later), the sloppiness, the forced relationships, the mischaracterization of a lot of individuals. The balance between mistakes/bad conduct and good content has swung negative for me, and I’m just tired

The cowardly plotlines. Everyone is a hero and nobody makes hard decisions. True, they’ll self sacrifice till the cows come home, but sacrifice other people for the greater good? We saw in Infinity war they’d rather kill a bunch of Wakandans indirectly than directly murder one robot man. Having a hero choose to sacrifice others would have been interesting, but instead they were cowardly.

Mistreatment of Thor. This one really is personal, because he’s my fav. Constantly, he gets sidelined, his powers get buffed or nerfed according to the movie, his personality swings like a yo-yo for no reason (I like what Taika did, and I personally headcanon he went a little kooky bc he was by himself adventuring for a few years, but that didn’t get explained), and from what I’ve heard, his pain, depression and grief gets turned into a massive comedy act in Endgame. Making fun of mental health is never ok. Also people constantly wielding his hammer cheapens its purpose to me. He always get sidelined for things he could easily do  - take the nuke out of NY in Avengers, for example, easily follow ultron to base in AOU - and it’s all to do with lazy writing, because they don’t know how to do deal with an extremely powerful character. I saw a wonderful post about if he had used the infinity gauntlet instead, and it made far more sense than what I’ve heard happens. (Here it is, I found it)

Bad female characters. Marvel only knows how to write a Black Widow character (sexy fighter). They’ve got better in their stand alone films, but there’s still only 1 major one (Cpt Marvel) and 3 side characters (Valk, Shuri, and Okoye) who are good. There were some in Spiderman too, but i don’t think they’ll play any major roles in Endgame.

I’ve stopped caring about 90% of the characters. Hawkeye sadly never had a character. Neither did Black Widow or Scarlet witch tbh. Tony stopped being a lovable gremlin ages ago. Steve has no character/very bland character in ensemble movies, and will never get a natural ending being in a relationship with Bucky (this was even foreshadowed probably by mistake in Winter Soldier). The Guardians of the Galaxy are very similar to the Avengers’ characters. Vision didn’t have a character either (Avengers Assemble even does him better). Just…I don’t really care about most of them, see 1.

Shock value. I don’t care if someone dies or not. Just make it a good story. I’ve been told endgame has some good twists, but I don’t trust the R*sso Br*th*rs anymore, and see 1.

Sloppy writing. Especially with Infinity war and AOU in mind. The villains were awful, no character, not interesting. The battle at Wakanda was avoidable and actually winnable if they had any competent generals writers (see this).  Thor not chopping off Thanos’ arm or head when he 100% could have.  Ultron not actually taking over the internet or hijacking all of tony’s tech. The fucking farm. I guess at this point I’m just expecting more of the same frustration. See 1.

It’s a superhero movie. I get it’s meant to be fun, simple and flashy, but that’s not how it’s hyped. It’s presented as something that’s meant to be mind blowing, clever and ground-breaking. It’s probably a good film, but in my opinion it doesn’t deserve the massive hype. They left behind ensemble fun in Avengers 1 (was that even fun or just in-fighting? idek anymore) and see 1.

They got so obsessed with the overarching big bad plotline that they haven’t developed relationships between characters that much. Are half of the Avengers even friends? I don’t know, I’ve never seen them interact. Does Natasha drink with Thor? Do Bucky and Tony just get along now? Dr Strange and Carol? Bruce and Spiderman? idek. See 1. Tbh the whole franchise would have probably worked better as a tv series.

i don’t like giving disney money,  they’re satan

so yeah, long post about that. If ya don’t care about my opinion, don’t read, because that’s all this is.