#marvel incoming

[cainternn]

deadpool and wolverine thoughts

[lefthandarm-man]

Steve Rogers // Captain America

and his habit of putting his hands on his belt

[fangirls-just-want-to-have-fun]

me at the end of episode 5 of agatha all along:

[lukasadss]

Was thinking about baby Logan as Laura's single dad,, derailed from there

[milesgmorales]

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) | Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023)

[ffverr]

If you know me you know this sparks something deep in me

[racefortheironthrone]

On the subject of UBI, I always ask about the MCU UBI: Tony is a billionaire who lives a life of luxury, Bruce has a serious chronic illness that requires expensive medical care, and Trevor just wants to sit round all day drinking and doing drugs. I take the UBI guys more seriously if they can say what each man gets from a UBI.

That's a somewhat odd choice of characters to think about how a UBI would function in the MCU.

So yes, Tony Stark would get a UBI. Relative to his private income, his UBI check would be totally inconsequential - and given the level of taxation needed to support a UBI, it's pretty much guaranteed that Tony would be paying far more in taxes than he would be getting back in UBI payments.

This is not an accident or a mistake or a flaw in the system; this is how a healthy social policy should function. When Social Security was established in 1936, FDR made a big deal of the fact that even John D. Rockefeller would get a Social Security check - because it hammered home the point that everyone contributes, and everyone benefits. Reciprocal solidarity would short-circuit the divisive politics of distribution and redistribution and cement a permanent majority coalition in support of a universal welfare state.

Bruce Banner would also get a UBI check. Now, his financial situation is a little unclear - originally, Banner was a top research scientist at Culver University with U.S military contracts, so he would probably have been in the top 10% of incomes (affluent but not wealthy). After his transformation into the Hulk, however, Bruce was a wanted fugitive with no way of earning income.

After that, Bruce was an Avenger - and this is where things get odd. As established in Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Avengers in the MCU don't get a salary: Tony gave them free housing and paid their Avengers-related expenses, but Sam Wilson notably relied on his veteran's pension and government contracts for his living (thus why his banker could justify turning him down for a small business loan rather than admitting to structural racial discrimination) and Steve Rogers even with his veteran's benefits, Social Security, and SHIELD salary couldn't afford a place in Brooklyn. This means that, while Bruce doesn't need to worry about money for his research and can save on rent, he does actually need the UBI for everything else.

This is very different from in the comics, where Avengers get quite decent salaries:

$4k a month in 1983 dollars works out to around $150k a year (on top of free housing at the Avengers Mansion), putting them solidly in the top 13% of U.S personal incomes.

As for Trevor Slattery, I feel like your description is unfairly characterizing a working actor. Slattery was not a major success in Hollywood - hence why he took Aldrich Killian up on his job offer and became part of a criminal conspiracy - and he does have some serious substance abuse issues, but what he does in his private life is his own business. Hell, even when he was abducted by the Ten Rings, he kept working as an actor. That being said, Trevor is going to have a hard time getting UBI, both because he's a wanted fugitive and convicted felon (which would end his eligibility in the U.S) and because he's now living in a rural village in another dimension.

[partybarty]

WHY IS DJOKOVIC AT THE MELBOURNE DERBY LMAOOOO

[whumporpass]

MCU Loki? (I may just want to hear Tom Hiddleston scream.)

[phoenixcatch7]

I know 'person with secret to hide spots other person with secret to hide but doesn't say anything' is like. Thee trope in superhero crossovers, but come on! Some of these guys have been doing this for decades! There's tons of heroes that have gone to pretty extreme lengths to be Completely Imperceptible in civilian life.

Don't you think it's scarier, after all is said and done, to sit there and think I didn't notice a thing? I wouldn't have ever realised? I would never have known? To know that someone you were familiar with - close with, even! - had this whole other personality and skillset and powers and experiences and life just behind the curtain, and they hid it so completely you didn't even see it was there.

'I always knew there was something off' what if you didn't. How world shaking would it be to be so utterly blindsided? To know that this person had somehow learned to so deceptive?

[xenocorner]

Strange sketch using @padshiyangel's design that I saw around (re-blogged earlier today). I just loved the hair so dang much it's similar to Defender Strange but LONGER and with that extra boom with the gray bangs and just MH-

[fionapplespiano]

I’m not willing to accept that Jean got pregnant with Rachel during that psychic thrust with Scott, because that would mean that the baby would be born in late January, and I just can’t have that.

Rachel Summers is a Virgo. Period.

[chocolate-cream-soldier]

Well that was a Finale!!!

[paneldump]

Speedball in Marvel Comics issues #1000-1001

[spartasghost15]

Random thing that popped into head for a Wonderbeast + Daughter Jubilee thing, but...

In my thingy, Jubilee got adopted by Simon & Hank when she was like 16, and (kinda part of drawing I'm making as well), but they had a fairy forest wedding, but it was small. Jubilee and Simon came across some of the old images, and here's how it went... hehe hehe

Jubilee: Oh wow! Never knew you guys had a fantasy wedding!

Simon: It was Hank's idea, you know, I may have been a slight egotistical actor, but man, did he want to go big.

Jubilee: Really? It was his idea?

Simon: You know, he may have all those physiology, medical, and textbooks but in his free time, he loves fantasy books, last night he started reading lord of the rings again.

*Silence*

Simon: I love that nerd Juby, I love your other father alot.

[616felicia]

ultimate spider-man (2024-) #8

walter hardy's introduction as the black cat + his family cameo that includes his wife and daughter (felicia perhaps..?)