#this also opens up more space for Cassie to fight for the 1 position in Seattle

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OKAY THEY HAVE A PLAN????? Just signed Ivory from the Reign on a one year deal with a mutual option for 2026

So intrigued trying to figure out what the hell KCC’s plan is for goalies

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WandaVision Episode 3 Theories Explained

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This article contains spoilers for WandaVision episodes 1-3, and the wider Marvel Cinematic Universe.

The internet is full of places to go and thrash it out with likeminded overthinkers if you become obsessed with a particular TV show. Lost, Breaking Bad, Twin Peaks and Game of Thrones all boasted thriving fan communities who had a blast dreaming up theories about where their series’ story was heading. Now, Marvel’s WandaVision has tapped into the natural curiosity of viewers with its wall-to-wall Easter eggs and mysterious MCU nods, and people have gone full ‘It’s Always Sunny red string meme’ over them.

You don’t need to dig too far to find comment sections, YouTube videos and Reddit threads jam-packed with theories about WandaVision, so we’ve been mulling over what might be going on beneath the surface.

Here are some of the most intriguing fan theories about WandaVision, three episodes in…

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Just as Ultron’s consciousness could escape into the internet during Avengers: Age of Ultron, a developing WandaVision theory posits that Vision didn’t exactly ‘die’ by Thanos (and Wanda’s) hand in Avengers: Infinity War, but found a safe space to hide online instead, much like JARVIS did after Ultron destroyed him in the lab.

By creating a new reality stitched together from old TV sitcoms and potentially using the late Tony Stark’s burgeoning BARF tech, Wanda may have found a way to slowly bring Vision back to his body without the Mind Stone as an essential component – hey, Shuri thought was an option – but if these efforts to retrieve Vision from the internet are all above board, why is SWORD so desperate to get information on what’s happening inside Wanda’s Westview nook?

Pinches of Paprika Out of Ten: 10

Camp Lehigh

Camp Lehigh has popped up in the MCU a fair few times so far. The New Jersey military base was where Captain America trained in the 1940s, has been a SHIELD facility, a HYDRA hub, and a storage home for the Tesseract. Lehigh even housed Arnim Zola’s brain after his body died. Since Westview is supposedly in New Jersey, is it really Camp Lehigh?

There’s a theory that after the Avengers compound was destroyed during Avengers: Endgame, Wanda may have been taken to a hastily-rebuilt Camp Lehigh in the midst of her grief, eventually constructing a forcefield around an altered version of it at some point and shutting out SWORD, hence SWORD’s continuing efforts to penetrate it.

Pinches of Paprika Out of Ten: 8

Power Swap

Some viewers were puzzled by Vision’s accelerated speed when he flipped through the playing cards during his magic act in episode 2 and when he ran to get the doctor in episode 3, which we haven’t really seen before as part of his powers. Vision can phase through matter, and can also fly at an accelerated speed, but these moments felt more Quicksilver-ish in their nature. Has Wanda or whoever is behind the creation of Westview pieced this new version of Vision together with shattered memories of others that she’s loved and lost?

Pinches of Paprika Out of Ten: 8

Welcome to Skrullville

Wanda’s Westview neighbors may not be willing or able to reveal their true nature yet, but some people are wondering whether they will turn out to be a gang of shapeshifting Skrulls, just like Ben Mendelsohn’s Captain Marvel character, Talos. How the Skrulls could have possibly become roped into the scenario is currently anyone’s guess, but we do know the alien race will play a pivotal role in Marvel’s upcoming Nick Fury-centric Disney+ series, Secret Invasion.

Pinches of Paprika Out of Ten: 7

Young Avengers

Now that Wanda’s twins could conceivably grow up to become their Wiccan and Speed comics counterparts, it may be a chance for Marvel to pave the way for Young Avengers, a team whose line-up has previously included Kate Bishop (soon to be introduced in Disney+ series Hawkeye), Cassie Lang (Ant-Man’s now-grownup daughter) and America Chavez (already reportedly cast in Doctor Strange in the Multitude of Madness). We wrote more about Billy and Tommy, and what they could mean for the MCU, right here.

Pinches of Paprika Out of Ten: 5

The Butterfly Effect

We’ve been told that WandaVision will set up the events of Marvel’s Sorcerer Supreme sequel, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, so fans have been keeping their eyes peeled for ties to Strange’s comics history and his MCU story so far. Episode 3 seemed to make a couple of nods to the good Doctor – after Westview’s OB-GYN Dr. Nielson checks on Wanda’s pregnancy progress, Vision assures him he has nerves of steel, and calls him “Mr. Doctor”, a callback to Strange’s banter with villain Kaecilius (Mads Mikkelsen).

There are also the butterflies that materialize as Wanda is preparing to give birth to her twins, one of which lands on Vision and looks very similar to the first ‘out of place’ thing Strange sees after he’s taken on a mind-melting tour of the multiverse by The Ancient One in Doctor Strange. As he heads up into the Earth’s atmosphere, Strange notices a single butterfly remarkably like those that flutter into Wanda’s nursery, and when The Ancient One begins to talk Strange through opening his mind’s eye, she asks “What is real? What mysteries lie beyond the reach of your senses? At the root of existence, mind and matter meet. Thoughts shape reality.” Hmm…

Rewatched Doctor Strange and noticed something…..interesting from WANDAVISION

Pinches of Paprika Out of Ten: 5

Westview Is Mephisto’s Womb

There’s a theory flying around online that Westview is acting as a kind of mystical womb that will eventually give birth to a fully-realised Mephisto in our world. The Marvel Comics villain and all-around pain in the ass has already been teased in a trailer for Disney+’s Loki series, but may first come to fruition inside Wanda’s powerful-but-twisted reality.

A specific creature has featured in each episode of WandaVision so far. Some fans think these are Mephisto’s evolving “animal stages” – first appearing as a lobster to represent “mating for life” (they don’t, but sitcom Friends played a large part in the myth), a rabbit representing reproduction, and a stork manifesting during the “birth” stage of episode 3. Will Wanda and Vision get a young puppy in the next episode? Probably!

An trailer image from a future episode of WandaVision, where you can see a doghouse marked “Sparky”

Pinches of Paprika Out of Ten: 5

Hawkeye Will Save the Day

Apart from Vision, Clint Barton is the Avenger with the closest relationship to Wanda. He inspired her to take action and fight her way through her fear during the final battle with Ultron and his hoards in Avengers: Age of Ultron, and it was Clint who came to her aid when Tony Stark put her under house arrest in Captain America: Civil War.

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At the time, Tony took his frustrations out on Steve for helping to concoct the plan to pull Wanda out, saying Steve rescued Wanda “from a place she doesn’t even want to leave, a safe place.” Scarlet Witch didn’t take much convincing to leave the Avengers’ compound during Civil War, so Tony’s assertions felt off, but in WandaVision she genuinely doesn’t seem to want to leave her safe bubble.

Though many online rumors point to Doctor Strange facing off against Wanda at the end of the series, will Hawkeye actually be the one who breaks through to her?

Pinches of Paprika Out of Ten: 5

No It’s Becky

It’s long been rumored that Evan Peters has a role in WandaVision. The actor continued to play the X-Men’s Pietro Maximoff, aka Quicksilver, long after the MCU had killed off its own version of the speedster at the end of Avengers: Age of Ultron, and he quickly became a fan favorite. Could WandaVision’s upcoming Roseanne homage be key to how Peters briefly enters the MCU?

If you recall, Roseanne Barr’s successful sitcom replaced her daughter Becky with another actress – Scrubs star Sarah Chalke – when original star Lecy Goranson left, and the audience was expected to accept it. With Wanda’s mind now lingering on the loss of her twin brother Pietro, this could be the kind of classic TV trope we could expect to see, and it would also be a fun-but-bittersweet appearance for Marvel fans who have probably seen the last of Peters as Quicksilver in the X-Men film franchise.

Pinches of Paprika Out of Ten: 4

Ad Infinity

HYDRA has clearly been a factor in WandaVision’s commercial breaks, with the organization’s logo appearing during two of them so far, but what if the theme of the ads goes beyond its callback to Wanda’s pre-Age of Ultron experiments under HYDRA boss Baron Wolfgang von Strucker, and represents the unique capabilities of the Infinity Stones, too?

A growing swathe of MCU fans think the Stark toaster represents the Power Stone, the Strucker watch represents the Time Stone, and that the team behind WandaVision weren’t really hiding Hydra Soak’s likeness to the Space Stone/Tesseract during episode 3.

Post-Endgame, the stones were reduced to the atomic level by Thanos, but the Space Stone may still be out there in its Tesseract form thanks to Loki’s thieving hands. It can’t be a coincidence that Hydra Soak is the more fully-formed MacGuffin here, can it?

Is it just me or those the “Hydra Soak” look a lot like the tesseract… from WANDAVISION

Pinches of Paprika Out of Ten: 3

Have you heard any compelling new theories about WandaVision since episode 3 arrived? Let us know in the comments.

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10 Characters Who Should Probably Retire From The MCU Soon

All good things must come to an end. While the Marvel Cinematic Universe itself looks set to continue indefinitely until either the Sun burns out or people stop watching superhero movies, its individual character arcs can’t go on forever. That’s why Robert Downey, Jr. and Chris Evans triumphantly ended their MCU tenures this year with the perfect conclusion for each of their characters’ arcs in the final moments of Avengers: Endgame. Downey said recently that he and Evans “will be there to welcome others as they retire their jerseys.”

RELATED: MCU: 7 Times Pepper & Tony Were The Best Couple (& 3 Times They Should’ve Broken Up)

So, here are 10 characters who should probably retire from the MCU soon.

10 The Hulk

The Hulk has finished his character arc, which has many MCU fans wondering what his place in the franchise’s future is. The Phase 4 slate announced by the studio proves that he has no place in the franchise’s future. As perfect as Mark Ruffalo was for the role of Bruce Banner, he’s told Banner’s story now.

His Jekyll-and-Hyde struggle with the Hulk took him to space and had him stuck as a gladiator on Sakaar for two years and then got him killed by Thanos (to then be resurrected by Heimdall) and then left him unable to join in the fight on Wakanda. Now, he’s Smart Hulk, his internal conflict has been resolved, he used the Infinity Stones to save the world, and we’ve left him in a good place.

9 Thor

It’s a shame that Thor’s time in the MCU could be coming to an end, because it feels so recent that the character became interesting. Taika Waititi turned him into a comedy character and Chris Hemsworth leaned into the wackiness, which aside from making the character more exciting, has also made the subtler dramatic scenes displaying Thor’s despair even more powerful.

However, his arc has seen him lose a battle for the first time and live with the guilt and depression for five years before finally getting his groove back. He’s getting another solo movie, but it’ll see him hand off the reins of his mantle and his kingdom, so it could be time for Thor to retire.

8 Rhodey

James Rhodes’ place in the story of the MCU has always been as a supporting character to Tony Stark. Whereas Sam Wilson, who was similarly introduced as an Avenger’s supporting character, was given Cap’s shield and mantle in Avengers: Endgame, therefore taking his place in his absence, Rhodey has no place in a world without Stark.

If Marvel had made the War Machine solo movie they promised years ago, that would be one thing, but they didn’t, and the time to make one has passed. Rhodey has enjoyed plenty of great moments in the MCU, but there doesn’t seem to be a place for him in the future.

7 Ant-Man

Although Ant-Man has only been given two solo movies in the MCU, he was integral to saving the world in Avengers: Endgame and, as a result, is in a good position to end his superhero career. Plus, with his relationship with Hope going well and his family troubles all smoothed over, his character arc in the MCU is effectively over.

RELATED: Ant-Man 3: 5 Reasons We Need It (And 5 We Don't)

Kevin Feige has mentioned that the five-year time jump aging Scott Lang’s daughter Cassie into a teenager (“You’re so big!”) set her up to take on her own superhero mantle, so maybe Scott will be passing the torch in the next couple of years.

6 Hawkeye

Clint Barton is actually about to hand off his superhero alter ego to a successor, so there’s a good chance he will be retiring from the MCU. The Hawkeye series on Disney+ will revolve around Clint training Kate Bishop, his successor in the comics, to take on the “Hawkeye” mantle and replace him in the Avengers roster.

The MCU has gotten plenty of mileage out of Clint’s relationship with his family and the extent he went to in order to bring them back from the dead in Endgame, so his journey is over. If he gets one last moment with Black Widow in her upcoming prequel to sum up their relationship and bring everything between them full circle, that’ll be it.

5 Happy Hogan

Happy Hogan has always been a fun character. From getting undermined by Tony Stark to being disrespected by Pepper Potts to groaning cynical complaints at Peter Parker, Jon Favreau has always played Happy as a likably sarcastic guy. And he’s always been a “regular” guy, to off-set the superheroics of characters like Black Widow and Iron Man (his hallway scene with Natasha Romanoff remains one of Iron Man 2’s greatest moments).

However, Tony is out of the MCU, Pepper is probably out of the MCU, Natasha is out of the MCU, and now, sadly, due to a rights dispute with Sony, Peter Parker’s out of the MCU, too. So, where does that leave Happy?

4 Bucky

Bucky has been a key player in the MCU since Phase 1 and he’s enjoyed a very complex character arc, which was played brilliantly by Sebastian Stan. He was Steve’s best friend who “died” in World War II, but was actually brainwashed by Hydra as an assassin and sent after Steve in 2014.

Then, he started to remember his past life and committed to undoing his brainwashing, even getting himself cryogenically frozen in Wakanda so that Shuri could sort out his head. Now, he’s all better and he’s about to take on a heroic role in his own Disney+ series The Falcon and the Winter Soldier. After that, there won’t be much use in keeping him around.

3 Pepper Potts

Gwyneth Paltrow said in the months leading up to Avengers: Endgame’s release that it would be her final appearance in the MCU. However, she did say that if Marvel asked her to return for a cameo appearance or a supporting role in another movie, she’d be open to returning.

RELATED: MCU: 10 Ways Pepper Potts Could Return In The Future

Pepper has been with this franchise since the beginning, like Tony Stark, so she deserves a proper send-off. It’s likely that she’ll retire as CEO of Stark Industries and focus on raising Morgan and signing giant charity checks, but Marvel owes it to the character to show this and not just leave it to be assumed.

2 Rocket

When James Gunn was hired back to direct Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, he said that one of the biggest reliefs was getting to finish Rocket’s character arc. We first met Rocket as a cynic who didn’t care about anybody but himself (and also Groot). He was very reluctant to help Peter Quill save the galaxy and he was even more reluctant to accept love from his new family.

However, over the course of the last two Avengers movies, we’ve seen him grow into a sensitive hero. With Gunn ending Rocket’s character arc, it might be time for him to leave the MCU.

1 Loki

Loki’s “final” appearance in the MCU has been teased for a while now. He was killed off in Thor: The Dark World, but this turned out to be a fake-out as he posed as Odin and took over Asgard. He was killed off in Avengers: Infinity War, but then he used the Space Stone to alter the past and save himself in Avengers: Endgame.

Now that he’s getting his own six-episode solo series on Disney’s new streaming service, Disney+, it might be time to finally end Loki’s character arc and retire him from the MCU, despite the fans’ adoration for him.

NEXT: 10 Funniest Characters In The MCU

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What do you think of Animorphs 33 The Illusion & and/or 36 The Mutation?

#33 is here

#36: 

Short opinion: Okay, the plot is a little random, but there is more than enough amazing characterization in this book to make up for it.  

Long opinion: I have always loved this gut-punch of an opening.  The moment of Jake grabbing the phone at 3AM, still half asleep, and hearing Cassie in tears on the other end has always pulled my stomach out with a meat hook every time I read it.  That moment–and Jake’s inability to do more than blurt a quick lie before hanging up–only gets topped by the moment immediately after when Jake tries to help the dying hork-bajir and Cassie gently stops him from prolonging the inevitable.  The fact that Hahn has only a few hours of freedom in his entire life, and that they come on his deathbed, drive home the message that the Animorphs cannot give up this fight no matter how hard it gets, because there are 50 other hork-bajir who went through the same hell and no one else to avenge them.  Applegate once again refuses to flinch away from the nastiest horrors of genocide and war, showing that the hork-bajir bodies are viewed as nothing more than a natural resource by the andalites and the yeerks alike.  

Hahn’s death also justifies the argument later on where it’s Cassie who comes out with the bloodthirsty desire for revenge (“We have to sink the Sea Blade, destroy it. Make them regret ever thinking about invading the ocean… What they did to the Hork-Bajir was evil. We need to teach them a lesson.”) whereas it’s Marco who says they need to think things through because they do not get wrapped up in revenge missions (#36).  There are not a lot of moments where Cassie drives the group forward with an emotional stake, but when she does, watch out.  That moment of characterization works so well specifically because it’s a contrast to their usual behavior but also gets strongly justified by the situation in which they find themselves.  

Later on, during the actual battle with the Sea Blade, we get one of my (and Cates’s) favorite moments of the whole series.  The kids surface after having morphed orcas and demorphed and remorphed and demorphed again, each time being cut to ribbons by the Sea Blade’s dracon beams in their attempts to ram the ship, and they all pause as they get ready to dive yet again.  And Jake feels this huge surge of love for all of them, “my best friend. My cousin. My girlfriend. A nothlit and an alien. My friends. Bedraggled. Wet. Cold. Incredibly tired. Hair plastered to their heads. Lips blue. Bodies shivering. And I was asking them to do it again. Again! For the third or fourth time in less than an hour. To morph and dive deep, deep into the chilling dark ocean” (#36).  Jake understands that every single one of them has places they’d rather be–Marco has already admitted he’d rather be taking a math test than be out there–and yet there they all are, ready to fight and die at his command.  He understands the sheer magnitude of what they are doing, embracing this mission so much larger than themselves in the name of a few dozen hork-bajir they’ve never met.

Their personal sacrifice isn’t about one bright moment of heroism and then a glorious death.  It’s about making the decision for the fourth time in one night to go let themselves get shot nearly to death to try to sink the Sea Blade.  It’s about getting up and going out there at all, no matter how cold and exhausted and traumatized and worn-out they are.  Jake knows exactly what he’s asking of them, and hates himself a little for asking it, but he also knows that all five of them will come through for him without hesitation and he can trust each of them with his life.  

The narration of this book also has a major motif of emphasizing the dark side of Jake’s arrogance: that he seems to think he’s capable of omniscience if he just tries hard enough.  Yes, he gets handed a crapton of responsibility at a very young age and more-or-less rises to the occasion, but he also puts far more weight on himself than he really deserves. This is one of those missions where none of them are quite sure about the right way in or out, where they succeed at what they set out to do–sinking the Sea Blade–but take a pretty roundabout way to do it, and where they’re basically flying blind into an unknowable situation.  Jake spends the entire time being way too hard on himself, whether he’s “cursing” himself for not immediately noticing the shine level on a chain-link fence, calling himself “stupid” for not starting at a higher altitude when chasing the Sea Blade in falcon morph, wondering “Had I been so bent on avenging Hahn’s death I’d taken foolish risks?” like eight times during the mission, and having “one last flash of regret: Amphibians, Jake” when they get captured (#36).  Later his narration says “I should have thought of it, should have realized that morphing and fighting our way out of the nets was the lesser of two dangers… Should have fought our way out… Should, should, should. I hate the word” and by then we can’t help but agree.  

He doesn’t actually make any major mistakes at any point during this book, even correctly realizing that the Animorphs don’t want to start a war with the Nartec until they know what they’re up against, but he seems to think that he should be able to think of absolutely every possible outcome no matter what the situation is and that anything that goes wrong is his fault.  It’s more that he has this huge, impossible idea in his head of what a leader should be, and then he desperately struggles to live up to that ideal even though he’s doomed to fail.  I’ve said it before: this kid needs to put down the Joan of Arc and George Patton biographies.  He needs to learn that history wasn’t simple and heroic the way that so many books portray it, but that it probably involved just as many scared, lost children fumbling their way through impossible decisions as his own life does.  (Too bad he was dead for so much of MM3, because if anyone could have benefitted from that little field trip to the grittiest parts of famous battles, it’s Jake.)  

Anyway, Jake doesn’t come to any major turning points in his leadership style in this book (see: #1, #16, #21), nor does he have any huge personal revelations (see: #6, #31, #53) but this book also does take the time to show just how much the daily grind is grinding him down.  He knows that he wouldn’t be where he is without his friends, but also that he’s not going to be able to keep this up forever.

There are a few other awesome moments of characterization from this book.  We get to see Visser Three being actually quite pragmatic for once, concluding that it’s not pleasant but he better team up with the “andalites” because he doesn’t have another way out of this situation.  He’s definitely still himself throughout the whole scene, killing anyone who annoys him and making it extremely apparent the whole time that he hates their guts, but he also figures out a lot faster than either Ax or Jake that they all need to work together if they have a chance in hell of escaping.  They never have a heartwarming moment of bonding or anything, just do what they need to in order to survive and then go back to trying to kill each other.

Also: Rachel and Tobias cope with the sheer bizarreness of their life so much better than the other four.  Rachel says “I hate it when you don’t get taken prisoner with us,” and Tobias just calmly answers, “Yeah, well, I was worried about you, too.”  When the Sea Blade floods with all the Animorphs inside, Rachel dives over Tobias to protect him and holds him up long enough to morph.  Both of those two are calmly gathering information on the various preserved ships when they first find the Nartec “museum,” whereas Jake and Marco, and to a lesser extent Ax and Cassie, are too busy freaking out.  Rachel decides the Nartec are “B.G.s” until they have an actual name for the species, and Tobias makes a joke about the rock band.  That’s not to say that either one of them copes particularly well with the violence or the trauma, just that their relationship so very clearly grew up amidst the extreme strangeness of Rachel being a superwarrior and Tobias being a bird, and that’s always been their default setting.  

There are a also a lot of hints throughout this book, but especially in that last battle with the Nartec, that the Animorphs are not the clueless kids who once dared each other to be the first one to touch a bug.  They form into a phalinx while fighting the Nartec army, spreading and breaking that front line as they take advantage of the enclosed space to fend off a much larger force than their own.  Jake takes point position, and the instant he gets injured Rachel takes over without hesitation.  They calculate how long they have to hold off the Nartec so that Ax can get the Sea Blade working and would probably succeed in their plan if not for the security measures.  Even fatal wounds get treated as fairly mundane, an inconvenience that Jake has to calculate into his battle plan but not a serious cause for concern.  It’s also a marker of the Animorphs’ sheer badassery at this point in the series that after the Sea Blade sinks Jake, Cassie, and Rachel all demorph then remorph while underwater.  This battle isn’t like one of those early ones where they scatter or panic at first contact with the enemy (#1, #4, #7, etc).  They are a smooth, single fighting unit that retains its cohesion and successfully fends off a much larger army in order to accomplish a goal.  Jake is right: he’s got the best friends that a kid could possibly ask for.

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CanvasWatches: Avengers: Endgame

Well, I have to admit: the new trailer finally sold me on Detective Pikachu! Yes, the first trailer showed off uncanny valley designs with a suspicious genwunner undercurrent, but the trailer played before Avengers: Endgame showcased more designs that were from later generations and more aesthetically pleasing, and hinted at clever writing from a sincere love of Pokemon. It did the job trailers are meant to do: sold me on seeing it.

Sonic the Hedgehog will be a fun mess. Just need to decide if it’s worth a theater ticket, or just a rent.

Okay, I’ll talk about the MCU now.[1] There have been a couple more films since I last discussed the franchise, so I’ll play catch up, then talk Endgame and update my ranking list.

I have been rewatching the films sporadically in pieces, because my current job is essentially babysitting teenagers at varying emotional stages, so they’re on the TV sometimes. Oddly, haven’t seen anything before The Rift mentioned in the last review. Might try to rectify that, but I also need to catch up on Pixar films.

So, the new MCU films!

(Spoilers for all the MCU films follows)

Ant-Man and the Wasp

It’s good! Ant-Man and his cast are the only Earthbound characters I continue to care about. (Which I’ll get into more later). They did a very tidy job of elevating Hope van Dyne to a title character and advancing her character without being obnoxious about it. I am super in favor of female leads, but not a big fan of neon signs saying “Girl Power!”

The films do a good job of playing with scale, adding a third “Giant Man” stage to the options, and I care about the Lang/Pym/vanDyne family and their struggles. The villain(s) are also fun, playing with a Tracer-esque time displacement element that allows phasing, and making the motives of the bad guys completely sympathetic.

And they didn’t kill anyone. Gold star. I like people not dying.

Comedy’s still strong, and the callbacks to Ant-man were tasteful. I want more.

Captain Marvel

Okay, I know I risks boos here, but…

Good world building, character revelations for Nick Fury, and moving in and out of the cosmic stage and the earth stage (which carry different aesthetics and tones) but…

I’m not big on Captain Marvel as a character. She’s a rash, confident, quippy hero person, which is fine, except we have so many rash, confident, quippy hero people already. She didn’t distinguish herself as a distinct person to me, and it doesn’t help I’m also unclear about what her power set is.

The twist with the Skrulls was nice. I’m familiar with the general Skrull concept, so the twist worked even on those who know about the bad guys already. The 90s were a fun time to see, and I enjoyed everything around Carol Danvers.

It’s just… Captain Marvel felt generic to me.

There’s a chance for development later, but for now… it’s a’ight.

Avengers: Endgame

This one had the actual war in it. They should’ve called this one Infinity Wars. Maybe call the last one Infinity Gauntlet or Thanos Rising or something.

So, Thanos won in the last movie. How to fix that? Find Thanos and take the gems and fix things? Well, Thanos destroyed the Infinity Stones a week ago. That’s lame. Thor beheads him and stomps off.

There’s also a good comic nod when they show his armor hung up as a scarecrow.

So, how long do we all mope?

Five years.

Five years.

And they don’t reverse this time jump, which is going to make the timeline of the films an even larger headache!

And, worse still, we lost Abby Ryder Fortson. Sure, Cassie Lang survives, but she also aged a decade in five years and there’s no comfortable way to tell a story with young Cassie anymore. Which is tragic, because that actress was super on point in both Ant-Man and Ant-Man and the Wasp. She nailed being an adorable little mirror of her father, and it was a great dynamic to give a superhero.

But, nah, Scott Lang was in the Quantum zone for five years, but perceived by him to be five hours, so there’s not even an opening to fit in a film within the five year jump and depict that father daughter dynamic.

I want to like the commitment. Making bold decisions and not reverting to the status quo is something I’m here for. But Ant-Man is owed one more film, and Cassie was important to me. And an older teenager just wouldn’t be able to play the dynamic the same way as a precocious preteen.

But I guess I shouldn’t dwell on the past.

Plot continues, some characters attempt to move on, Black Widow clings to hope, Tony Stark starts a family.

Then Scott comes in to say “Hey, how about time travel?”

And everyone else says “That’s dumb.”

And Tony Stark says “That’s dumb.” But it naggles him, and he figures out how to traverse the quantum realm.

So time travel is solved! Time to get the Infinity Stones from backwards in time.

So we get some nostalgic walks to the past films, including validating The Dark World. Because that was the only time the Reality stone was in play.

Also, they fridge Black Widow.

That’s been a regular problem with the sole female presence of the original Avengers. She was there to support other characters. The buddy-buddy of Hawkeye, Hulk’s confusing love interest (because Betty Ross was… lost in a drawer somewhere between Incredible Hulk and The Avengers, and they’re too embarrassed to admit it), and assisting Cap in Winter Soldier. Besides angst about being an assassin and not being able to have children[2] she never had the space to be a character outside of what she was to others.

And she literally gave up her life for a man.

Maybe I missed something in the dull SHIELD-era stuff, but Black Widow never resonated with me.

So the stones are gathered, placed on an Iron Man gauntlet, and Hulk (now at peace with himself, he’s a half-step between Banner and Hulk) does the reversal snap.

But past Thanos comes in for one last fight.

We get a fun scene where Captain America, Iron Man, and Thor all try to fight him, which even gets to the point where Cap uses Mjolnir,[4] and it’s very good.

But Thanos gets sick of it, and calls down his army.

Which looks bad.

So Dr. Strange teleports in with those who were on Titan.

Then, other mages teleport in with everyone.[5]

And I believe I felt what most people felt during the first The Avengers. Because it was going to be an epic, all-hands fight, but this time there’s a good number of good guys I care about, the antagonistic force has context now, and there’s a clear goal: keep the Gauntlet away from Thanos.

A giant, crowded fight scene, and it was easy to follow the action.

Plus everyone gets a moment sign.

Though, that does bring me to a nitpick: Spider-man asks Captain Marvel, whose arrival destroyed a giant space war ship, who’s going to help her during her turn with the Infinity football. Dumb question, Peter.

But then all the named female characters show up to be like “We’re here to help! Girl Power!”

And it kind of undermined Captain Marvel? Like, she’s massively powerful, but the narrative implying all the women need to band together to help her when the last couple of football passes were men going solo seems demeaning.

But I’m a white guy writing about nerd movies, so whatever.

During this battle I realized something important: the costumes (except Thor and Spider-Man, who had plot reasons) were on point. Everyone looked like their iconic selves. Iron man had a good Red/Gold balance, and the suit was mechanical. Captain America looked like Captain America. Rocket had his jumpsuit and goggles. Captain Marvel had the right jumpsuit and short hair.

They all looked correct. It was great.

I have one last nitpick: Tony Stark did not deserve the Thanos kill.

Yes, they’ve been trying to play up his fear and paranoia of Thanos since the nuke scene from The Avengers.

But Thanos didn’t do anything directly to Stark. They barely knew each other. Stark got a family, an amount of stability. He’s a playboy, billionaire, philanthropist. Tony Stark was fine.

Nebula was maimed. Turned machine in both body and mind. She suffered a lot under Thanos and by Thanos. She had an arc through this movie. Nebula should’ve killed Thanos.[6]

I would’ve also accepted Gamora, if they wanted a big name character.

But, nah, got to give the big finish to the man who started the franchise off. Sure.

Tony dies, and it’s a good death because his death achieved a big victory. Which is what you should do when you kill a character: have their death be their moment of awesome and a good narrative closure to the degree of their importance. No-name backgrounds characters can be comfortably killed off with a backhand, but to kill off an Iron Man, who has been relevant since the start of the franchise and started an era, his death needs to be worth twenty plus movies of set up and close an Era. Which Endgame did.

Black Widow, meanwhile, had been around for almost as long, had been poorly served by the narrative, and her death brought her arc no closure. Her story just stopped, and it’s unsatisfying.

Which is the main point of Endgame: bringing closure. Iron Man dies, and has earned his rest. Captain America, given access to time travel, retires and (importantly) passes on the mantle.

Actually, that’s an interesting question: who’s taking over Cap’s battle commander role? Because Iron Man has his replacements in Spider-Man (for tech and science upstarty-ness) and the Pyms (for big concept sci-fi) and Pepper Potts can still provide funding and infrastructure backing. Captain America makes Sam Wilson the new Captain America, but Sam hasn’t taken a leading role yet, so making him the new Avengers Leader might be an awkward transition.

The point is, the original six Avengers got their closures (of varying quality). Brash adventurer Thor continues his adventures in space, Tony Stark died but left a positive legacy to override his war profiteer history, Captain America get his lost time back, Hulk found peace with himself (which happened off screen, but eh, he was fun). Hawkeye and Black Widow… well, they started out as “they’re here, too!” characters, and they ended as “and they’re done, too!” characters.

Now, it’s time for the next generation, and it’ll be fun to watch.

Ranking and Overview

Well, the big narrative is finished, and it got better as it went along. The first phase was marred by the trend of “Super heroes, but in our grim and gritty world” that the Nolan Batman Films inspired. Thor began to loosen the tone, and Captain America was hint towards more grandiose elements, but it wasn’t really until Guardians of the Galaxy that the creative team looked around and said “This is inherently silly, right? Can we just… have fun?”

And from there, every new franchise had fun, while the originals had to keep their serious faces on.

Anyways, I’m going to rank them now from worst to best:

The Incredible Hulk

Avengers: Age of Ultron

Thor: The Dark World

Iron Man 2

Iron Man 3

Captain America: The Winter Soldier

The Avengers

Iron Man 1

Thor

Captain America: Civil War

Doctor Strange

Captain Marvel

Black Panther

Captain America: the First Avenger

Thor: Ragnarok

Avengers: Endgame

Avengers: Infinity Wars

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2

Spider-Man Homecoming

Ant-Man

Ant-Man and the Wasp

Guardians of the Galaxy

Despite being two parts of a full story, I ultimately decided Infinity Wars and Endgame were different enough to split them for rankings.

And I enjoyed Infinity Wars a little more.

And I think this confirms my self-assessment from last time: I enjoy fun, strong characters, and bold choices over trying to be real or attempt drama. I like to escape with my escapism!

Now, where do I think the movies go from here?

Honestly, I feel they’ll be able to do three more phases (for six total). In that time frame, Guardians of the Galaxy and Ant-Man will get third films, while Black Panther, Doctor Strange, and Captain Marvel each get two additional films. Complete trilogies before their cast become part of team-ups to bolster other films. There may be a few other franchises introduced, but besides Fantastic Four, I feel like Marvel is starting to need to dig too deep (especially since they burned the Defenders on Netflix shows. Daredevil could’ve been a film character).

The X-Men work better, narratively, away from the rest of the Marvel Universe, so hopefully they keep to their own, separate franchise.

So, complete trilogies, grind towards two or three more Phases,[7] then it’s time for reboots.

As for overarching plots, I feel like we’re not going to get another multiphase big bad. Doctor Doom would be a great next step, as he represents political hand wringing, technology, and magic in a single megalomaniac, and I feel like we’ve gotten to the tonal point where Doctor Doom can be properly hammy. But it’ll be a single phase. Then one or two more big bads, possibly ending with some sort of villain team-up and time travel shenanigans to bring everyone (everyone) back for one, finally grand finale.

Then Reboot.

Maybe start with Captain America next time. Or the Fantastic Four. We’ll have to wait and see.

For now… I’ve got a Digimon project I keep hyping, and I have been meaning to rewatch Star Wars.

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Kataal kataal.

[1] I will note I stepped out for the Star Wars trailer. I’m gonna see it, so I want as little spoiled as possible. But the title and JJ Abrams being back at the helm has me concerned. [2] Which I think gets an unfair rap. I always felt that detail was just a pin in the life Widow was built for. She submitted to invasive surgery and cut off options to be what she was. It’s a symbol, not just poor writing.[3] [3] Age of Ultron still sucks, though. [4] For the record, I believe he’s known he could use it since Ultron, but he was being polite to Thor. [5] Except Black Widow. [6] Plus, comic accuracy points! [7] Amazon has two box sets for the phases with art based around an infinity stone each, so completing the set with six total phases makes sense.