#ultron 8

[gelu-the-babosa-multiversal]

My two ever FAV versions of Ultron. Literally like night and day ajshdja

La hermosa chatarra y el inservible IPhone!

[merrymarvelite]

Cover of the Day: Avengers #171 (May, 1978) Art by George Pérez and Terry Austin

[towritecomicsonherarms]

The greatest crossovers that never happened.

[nevertrulyset]

Can't believe (actually can) they brought Patrick Stewart back as Professor Xavier in that Doctor Strange movie only to have him quote himself from X-Men: Days of Future Past and then die violently like he did in Logan.

[unhingedmarvelandclassicwhobuff]

I suppose those are some valid arguments against why she would know from hearing thoughts that she was among Hydra. And you do have a point, even if she did know, by the time she would have had the ability to find that out they were already in pretty deep, and I doubt they would have been able to escape even with their powers if Hydra decided to dispose of them. [That might be a reach, as she was able to immobilize all of the Avengers, but she was only able to do that after quite a bit of practice that she clearly did not have when she used her powers on Tony.]

Incidentally, a of people (mostly the antis) do like to make the claim that Wanda practiced her powers on innocents, but I don't see it. What do you say to that claim?

And I see your point about her line in WV: she did say Ultron promised her that destroying the Avengers would make a better world. It may have been a callback to that. From what little we are shown of Sokovia, they did all seem to hate the Avengers, though that isn’t really elaborated on. Did Hydra radicalize all of them? Did they think the Avengers were terrorists? I don’t think this is ever really explained beyond “Sokovia hated the Avengers”.

Agatha asking all the questions I have been asking since Age of Ultron.

[hay-389]

You know what gets me???

2012 me, having just turned 10 years old, watching the rolling credits to The Avengers and turning to my mom and saying, “That was really good, I hope they make a sequel.”

[literaryavenger]

Happy Birthday

Summary: It's your birthday and the only person who doesn't seem to be excited about it is you.

Pairing: Bucky Barnes x Reader

Warnings: Mentions of death. Angst. Fluff. Language probably. My poor attempts at being funny.

Word Count: 2.5K

A/N: This story was completely self-indulgent, but I hope someone out there likes it!

Masterlist

You’ve always been very reluctant to celebrate your birthday.

You haven’t had a birthday party since you were 12. The following year your mom died a couple of days before and neither you nor your family were in the mood to celebrate anything.

It wasn’t by any means unexpected, she had been sick for a few years, but it still hit you hard.

You were the youngest and were far too young when she first got sick to really understand everything going on.

You were 8 and all you really remember is watching your mom get more and more sick until eventually there was nothing more the doctors could do.

Her death hit you hard and you closed yourself off, never talking about it or even crying after the day of her funeral. To this day you’ve still never cried, in front of others or even by yourself.

You started exercising to channel all your energy, refusing to do anything more like the therapy your family suggested. 

When you were 15 you discovered SHIELD and decided you wanted to help others, so you signed up for the SHIELD Academy, working your hardest and pushing yourself to your very limit.

You ended up being not only the youngest cadet ever, but the youngest to actually graduate and then the youngest recruit at SHIELD at only 16 years old.

Natasha was very impressed when she heard about you and took a liking to you, convincing Fury to make you part of her team during her missions and teaching you everything she knows.

That’s how you ended up in the Avengers Initiative, not that you felt you didn’t deserve it since you know how hard you worked and everything you gave up to work towards this achievement. 

The team themselves were initially skeptical since you were barely 18 during the battle of New York, but they were quickly proven wrong when they saw how well you handled yourself against the Chitauri. 

You were devastated when SHIELD fell, but carried on as an Avenger, battling Ultron and then moving to the Compound with the team.

You met the actual Bucky for the first time when you were 22, during the whole Civil War thing with Baron Zemo. Like Natasha, you were on Tony’s team, fighting mostly Pietro, but the conflict eventually ended. 

It took Tony some time to get over the whole “Bucky killing his parents while brainwashed” thing, but, as he likes to say, he can’t call himself a genius without admitting that Bucky didn’t have much of a choice. 

Thanks to Tony’s help Shuri was able to find a solution to Bucky’s brainwashing faster than she would’ve alone, meaning Bucky didn’t have to go back into cryo and was pretty quickly cleared to join the team, about a year after the airport battle in Leipzig.

You were warmly accepted by everybody and, the more the team grew the more you felt at home with these people.

And now you wish you could burn down the whole compound because, somehow, Tony convinced you to have a birthday party for the first time in 13 years because, in his words, 'you only turn 25 once'.

Good news is you managed to make him limit the guest list to the team and other people close to you like Maria Hill and Fury. Bad news is you’re still gonna be the center of attention, which you hate.

You couldn’t stop Tony from making everyone dress up for the party, and you couldn’t stop the team from getting you gifts even though you insisted all you wanted was everyone together and to have fun with them since for the longest time nobody ever even knew when your birthday was. 

What you didn’t realize was that the only person more worried than you about your gifts was Bucky.

Since he joined the team the two of you have gotten close, starting with his first training with the team where he very loudly told Steve about his disbelief that someone as young and small as you could actually be an asset to the team.

You quickly put him in his place by taking him down after less than two minutes of sparring, taking full advantage of his underestimating you because he “didn’t want to hurt a pretty little thing like you.”

Admittedly he was impressed and wasn’t shy about letting you know that, while the rest of the team snickered at his initial shock when you pinned him down.

You became friends after that, not as close as you’d like but friends nonetheless.

If you were honest with yourself you’ve been harboring a little crush on the supersoldier, but he’s never shown any interest so you resigned yourself to just being his friend.

Something that you did come to treasure, though, is your and Bucky’s late night talks.

It started with you walking in on him in the kitchen on a late night where you couldn’t sleep, nothing new to you, but the two of you barely talked other than acknowledging each other.

You took a bottle of water and left.

A couple of days later you ran into him again and you stood there in silence while you made yourself a cup of tea and then left for your room.

A few days later again he was just sitting there and said nothing as you made your tea, except this time you put a cup in front of him and silently took a seat next to him at the counter.

Two nights later when you arrived at the kitchen he was already there with a cup of tea in front of him and one in front of the seat next to him.

You didn’t want to assume it was for you, but you took a chance when you noticed it was the cup you always used, a blue mug with Stitch on it that says “Let’s get weird”. Your favorite in fact.

You hesitantly sat down next to him and, without you having to ask or without even looking at you, he told you that the nights you stay up late because you can’t sleep you tend to be more quiet during the team dinners and while you hang out afterwards.

You didn’t say anything in return and just sat there, trying not to overthink how much he seemed to watch you.

But the more nights you spent like that, the more you two talked and you gathered quickly that Bucky is a very observant person, nothing more.

You loved the time you spent together after dark where you’d talk about everything and anything, but come morning it was almost as if it never happened, which you came to accept.

It weirdly made the nights you spent talking even more special, which was almost every night.

But back to the present, you’re currently getting ready with Natasha and Wanda, who know much more than you about hair and makeup and are always happy to help you out with getting ready for Stark parties. 

You put on the black cocktail dress with rhinestones all over the corset and a slit down the left side, then the three of you make your way to the party room and you take a deep breath before entering.

Everyone is already there, all dressed up in fancy clothes as they all shout “Happy Birthday”.

You laugh and say hi to everybody while they all take turns hugging you, there’s not too many people but everyone important to you is there.

Even Laura and Clint’s kids are there, which you consider a second family at this point, since Laura always did treat you like a daughter.

You hate to admit that it's a nice party.

Knowing you, everyone makes an effort to not put you too much at the center of attention and you just go around talking to your friends like every other party.

Eventually time comes for the cake and, the moment you kind of dreaded, opening the gifts.

Since it's the first birthday you allowed the team to celebrate everyone decided to go all in for your gifts, which you picked up on from the very first gift you open.

Pietro got you a first edition of “The Picture Of Dorian Gray” which is your all time favorite book, Wanda and Maria got you a leather jacket and an amazing pair of boots that you knew were expensive because you were all out shopping together when you came across them.

Steve got you a gold heart-shaped locker with a picture of the team inside it, Natasha got you a charm bracelet with a little charm to represent everyone on the team, and Sam got you a cute necklace with your birth stone on it.

When you open Fury’s gift you start laughing since it's a gun, a SIG SAUER P226 to be precise, which is very Fury.

“It was my first gun when I joined SHIELD.” He says with a smile and you smile back, knowing how much thought he put into this gift.

You open Clint’s gift next, a bow and arrow that he already taught you how to use, and Laura got you a pair of diamond earrings.

Your heart melts when you open Lila, Cooper and Nathaniel’s gifts, respectively a friendship bracelet, an Avengers action figure of yourself and a Stitch plushie.

The three of them hug you tightly as you say thank you and now you only have two gifts left, Tony’s and Bucky’s, and they’re both little boxes. 

You open Tony’s next, thinking it’s some fancy necklace or earring but you frown when you see a car key.

“Is this the key to your car?” you ask Tony, knowing full well you’re holding the key to an Audi R8 Spyder, the car Tony’s let you borrow so many times you’re now wondering if he’s gifting you his spare set of keys.

“No.” He says casually “It’s the key to your car.”

You’re even more confused and simply stare at him with your mouth gaped, not really processing the information.

“Y-you… You got me a car?!” You almost yell out of shock and everyone else starts laughing at your antics when you start basically jumping up and down and hugging Tony, squealing like a little girl.

“Well, come on, let’s go see it!” Tony says enthusiastically after you’ve calmed down, and you get up, just as enthusiastic, but are stopped by Steve’s voice.

“Wait, wait. You have one gift left.” He says, picking up the small box and giving it to you. “It’s from Bucky.”

You were so pumped up by the car, you almost forgot about it and completely miss the mischievous look Steve gives Bucky and the murderous glare Bucky gives back.

You also miss Bucky starting to protest before you open his gift, but he instantly shuts up when he sees your face falling the second you open it.

It’s a small necklace with a blue rose in it, it really looks like something you’d give a little girl more than a 25 year old woman.

You look at it for a minute, running your finger on it before you raise your head and look at Bucky.

The whole room goes silent as they all watch you worriedly, everyone noticing immediately that tears are streaming down your face.

Nobody understands what’s happening and nobody knows how to react or what to do, it’s like they’re all frozen by the sight of you being vulnerable for the first time ever. 

Meanwhile Bucky’s heart is beating so loud he’s sure everyone around him can hear it, and he feels himself starting to panic at the thought of having ruined your birthday with that stupid gift.

Everybody else got you expensive gifts and all he did was get you a small, cheap necklace that reminded him of a story you briefly talked about once on one of your late night talks about a necklace you had as a kid.

He saw it at the mall while looking for a gift for you, remembering the sweet smile you had on your face when you mentioned it and the fleeting sad look he thought he saw when you told him you lost it when you were 12.

He was really proud of himself for that gift, but the more he saw the other gifts you got the more he regretted his choice, especially after Tony gave you a fucking car.

And now you were crying, not saying anything while just looking at him.

He doesn’t know what to expect from you at the moment, nobody does, he thinks you might yell, throw his gift back at him, tell him how much you hate it and him.

But you surprise everyone by throwing your arms around Bucky’s neck, hugging him tightly while crying into his shoulder.

You honestly forgot telling Bucky about that story and certainly didn’t expect him to remember it, especially since you always got the feeling that he didn’t care about your talks as much as you.

You just assumed that come morning he deleted everything you told him to make room for more important things, and you didn’t blame him.

But he didn’t.

What you didn’t tell him about the necklace is that your mom gave it to you because blue roses were her favorite, you had that necklace since you were born but you somehow lost it the day of her funeral.

That day you lost the two most important things in your life and cried yourself to sleep, and that was the last time you allowed yourself to be weak and cry.

Until today.

Bucky hesitantly wraps his arms around you, rubbing your back hoping to get you to calm down. He looks around at the rest of the team, panicking a little and not knowing what to do.

Everyone else is as clueless as he is, never having seen you in such a state before.

Bucky starts apologizing, his heart breaking at the sight of you crying, and he feels horrible that it’s because of him.

You shake your head quickly and pull away a little to look at him, wanting to reassure him you’re not sad or angry but incredibly happy, but words refuse to come. You take a deep breath to calm yourself and finally manage to speak.

“Thank you. You have no idea how much this means to me.” It’s quiet, but it’s something, and it’s enough to make Bucky let out a breath of relief at knowing you don’t hate him or his gift.

He brings you back in for another tight hug, almost forgetting about everyone else in the room as you hug him back without hesitation.

You’re honestly not even embarrassed at crying, all you care about at the moment is Bucky, his arms around you while he lets you bury your face in his neck, like you’ve been wanting to do for years now.

“Happy birthday, doll.” He whispers in your ear and, for the first time in 13 years, you really feel like it is.

[imagine-knowing-a-name]

𝒽𝒶𝓁𝒻 𝑜𝒻 𝓂𝓎 𝒽𝑜𝓂𝑒𝓉𝑜𝓌𝓃

In the aftermath of Ultron, you think your whole past is gone: your hometown, your colleagues, your friends. But when you run into a familiar face at the Avengers Compound, you realise a part of your past remains, and your present may be less lonely because of it.

AKA Wanda x GN!R, childhood friends who reunite and start to bond all over again - will post shorts parts about their interactions as they're written, so send asks/leave comments to let me know where you'd like the story to go!

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part 1 : i miss who i used to be

part 2 : memories feel like weapons

part 3 : and we don't notice any time pass

part 4 : but he doesn't know who I am

part 5 : 2am, who do you love?

part 6 : here we are, no one else

part 7 : memories make us wanna go back

part 8: like flowers and blue skies

part 9: maybe I'm living for the danger of the fall

part 10: do I really suck? I only call when it's late

part 11: saying I love you when I don't even know

part 12: been here all along, so why can't you see?

part 13: even children grow older

part 14: running wild through the concrete jungle

part 15: scared of what's next so we just keep on running

+ more to be added!

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Flufftober Day 8: Chopping & Piling Wood

A/N: hello, I’m back at it again with another fic about Nightwing. Also, disclaimer: I have no idea how chopping wood goes outside of what I’ve seen in Avengers: Age of Ultron so bear with me please 😅 also, surprise appearance of the rest of the batfam?? It's not based on Titans I just really like Brenton Thwaites -mod ghost

Ship: Dick Grayson x GN!Reader

Summary: Being randomly invited to a cabin two hours outside of your boyfriend's home town by a billionaire would sound like the beginning to a horror movie if the billionaire wasn't your boyfriend's dad

You and Dick had been dating for long enough that he felt comfortable to introduce you to the family, as much as he was nervous about it. You two were living in his apartment in Blüdhaven together, but Bruce had invited the two of you to come to the Wayne family cabin that sat about 2 hours outside of Gotham City. 

“We don’t have to go if you don’t want to,” you reassured Dick as you put another shirt in your bag, “I know that you’re nervous about me meeting your family, and it’s usually the person meeting the family that’s nervous.”

“Are you asking because you’re nervous?” He joked, trying to deflect as he packed his own bag that he was taking to the cabin with him. He faltered when he saw you raise an eyebrow at him, sighing as he flops onto the bed on his back. “Alright, ya caught me.” Dick grumbled as you sat next to him, 

“No, really? I had no idea” You chuckled, starting to run your fingers through his hair. “You wanna talk about it?” 

Dick paused as he thought about that for a moment, shrugging. “I don’t want to cancel on Bruce if he’s trying to be normal.” 

“That didn’t answer my question.” 

“…I have a lot of…bad memories in that cabin. I don’t know why Bruce is making it some family vacation spot.” 

“Does he know that you told me about Nightwing?” 

He shakes his head. 

“That could be why, or uh…I don’t know, maybe he’s getting soft in his old age.” You suggested, making him laugh. 

“You’re hilarious. I’m sure they’ll love you.”

“As much as you do?”

“No one can love you as much as I do.” Dick leaned up to kiss you before you stood up again, going back to packing up your bag,

 “Just say the word and we’re out of there, got it?”

“Got it. But what’s the word? Bird?” Dick practically snickered, the grin on his face making your heart feel all warm and fuzzy. 

“How old are you?” You rolled your eyes at him but you couldn’t help but laugh at his goofiness, “but seriously—“

“I know, don’t worry, it’ll be fine. Thank you for worrying about me, though.” He stood up to go back to getting ready, dropping a kiss onto your head as he stepped into the bathroom. 

A few hours and a lot of I Spy later, you two showed up at the cabin, with both of you wearing one of his hoodies. You slipped your hand into his after grabbing your bags from the trunk, walking up to the cabin door. Dick had insisted that the two of you drive here and just meet everyone else at the cabin, which you were sort of grateful for. If he was nervous about you meeting his family, why wouldn’t you be? 

You stood a bit behind him as he knocked, and the man you assumed to be Bruce answered the door. The man loomed in the doorframe, staring down at the two of you with one of the most intimidating auras you’d ever encountered. You were moments away from your heart starting to pound in your chest before you saw what looked like his attempt at smiling. 

“Hello, Dick,” he greeted before turning his gaze to you, “and you must be his new partner, I’m Bruce. It’s nice to meet you, Dick’s told me a lot about you." He extended his hand to shake yours, and his grip was firm but not as tight as you were expecting. Authoritative, yet welcoming. It was an interesting combination to say the least. 

“I am, and uh, thank you. It’s nice to meet you, as well, I see where Dick gets all of his good manners from.” You try to keep the conversation light, and it seemed to be appreciated by both Dick and Bruce. 

“That’s very kind of you, but I’m surprised that you two are the first ones here, I was just about to chop up the firewood for later.”

“Oh, I can take care of that if you want,” you offered, a little desperate to make a good first impression, “it’ll give you guys a bit of time to catch up without me hanging around.”

“I like having you hang around,” Dick spoke up at that moment, his hand gently squeezing yours. 

“You both can go, I have some more preparation to do inside before the others arrive. I’ll take your bags in, though,” Bruce offered, seeing how Dick wasn’t quite ready to be separated from you despite the two of you being in a car together for multiple hours. 

You both gave him your bags before letting Dick lead you over to a big shed that contained all kinds of supplies. 

“We’re not, like…cutting down whole trees, are we?” you asked, which made Dick laugh as he handed you an ax.  “No, of course not, Bruce wouldn’t let me do something like that even if I wanted to. C’mon, I’ll show you.” He continued to lead you back out of the shed to a big pile of logs toward the back of the cabin that was presumably meant for chopping. “Need me to show you how to chop it, too, or are you okay?”

“No, I’m okay,” You started pulling a log from the stack at the same time as Dick, but got more than a little distracted by watching him. The muscles in his arms flexing as he picked up one of the logs, the way the golden hour light glinted over his hair and features in a sort of yellow-y glow. You could honestly stare at him for hours, vaguely wishing that you had the ability to freeze time for moments like these.

“You still with me over there?” Dick called with a teasing grin, waving a hand in front of your face as he held himself back from laughing,

A dark blush flooded your cheeks as you realized you’d probably been staring at him for a while if he noticed, “What?--Yeah, of course.”

“Couldn’t stop staring at my gorgeous face?” He chuckled as he stepped closer, tugging you into his arms.

“What would you say if I told you I wasn’t staring at your face?” You asked with a laugh, a gasp escaping him.

“I had no idea I was with someone with such a dirty mind! You better reel that in before we’re not alone anymore.” Dick dramatically responded, obviously still messing with you.

“I don’t know how I can when I have a boyfriend like you.” You replied in a voice barely above a whisper, making him pause before he leaned down to kiss you like the sappy couple the two of you were.

Bruce eventually chopped the wood instead, seeing as you and Dick were constantly getting distracted by each other, which was entirely normal for newer couples, but not exactly ideal for manual labor. So instead of being outside, you ended your day on the couch in the cabin, curled up next to Dick and talking to his siblings as they arrived one by one.

[breckstonevailskier]

And then they did it again later in the movie.

They're lucky Vision turned out benevolent. Because What If...? showed us what would've happened if Vision wasn't on the side of life:

😬😬😬😬

I could rant for hours on end about how much I despise every single aspect of the Blip, but I'll limit myself to saying that yes, Tony indirectly insisting that the trillions of people who undoubtedly died as collateral damage in the Snap should just stay dead is, in my opinion, the single most evil thing he ever did. Also, I think Bruce deserves at least some of the blame for actually listening to him.

And yeah, while I love Clint, I can't stand what Endgame did to him, and the fact that he is never called out is insane.

Wanda is not and should never be a villain.

[stuckysimp]

I'm like 8 years too late, but oh well - I've had this Captain America Civil War rant stuck in my head for a while and I need to get it out after re-watching it. (This is gonna be long af, but bear with me).

I feel like a lot of people missed the actual point and plot of the movie (and the marketing definitely didn't help). The whole "team cap vs team iron man" stuff becomes irrelevant after like the first 20 minutes of the movie. But of course, it's still quite a big part of the movie and I'd like to take a moment to explore what I think, the different character motivations are around why they signed or didn't (or would / wouldn't).

The only reason Tony "I successfully privatised world peace" Stark signed the accords in the first place anyway is because of his massive survivors guilt complex which we see triggered by the woman who approaches him at the end of his speech to the MIT students. Like this man does not give a single shit about the government, and much like Steve Rogers, he just wants to keep people safe. Unlike Steve, however, he doesn't trust himself to do so and thinks of himself needing the be kept in check, for someone else to take the blame (though he'd probably internalise it anyway, let's be real).

Rhodey has always kind of been more on the side of the government, even if that meant going against Tony - think Iron Patriot - so it makes sense that he'd want to sign. He understands that a group as powerful and dangerous as the Avengers needs to be kept in check, but what he doesn't understand are the risks around that. In a perfect world, it would be fine, but unfortunately government systems are stupid and corrupt.

Peter was only really in the fight in the first place because he was a child blindly following this big celebrity guy he idolised. He didn't know enough about the situation to properly analyse it, just being fed and believing whatever Tony told him (and he had no reason to go against him, so why would he? This was his shot, he's been chosen by THE Tony Stark to help). "Mr Stark said you'd say that" "he said you're wrong, you think you're right, that makes you dangerous." I 100% believe that if Peter had read the accords, that he would have been on Steve's side anyway.

Vision is an embodiment of 'good' and 'peace' - essentially everything that Ultron was supposed to be, but wasn't. He has no reason to be against the accords if it will keep people safe and he makes the point during their conversation of "our very strength invites challenge. Challenge incites conflict. And conflict ... breeds catastrophe. Oversight ... oversight is not an idea that can be dismissed out of hand." It's also very much the beginning kind of puppy love between him and Wanda in this movie, meaning that he will want to protect her. No matter what. Even if it means "locking her in her room."

Nat was seriously one of the only people in this movie with a brain cell lol. I firmly believe that if the accords had been properly put in place, she would have followed them until she no longer thought the government's instructions were 'right' and would have gone against them anyway. Her main goal in this movie was trying to keep the Avengers, her family, together and ultimately do the 'right' thing.

T'challa didn't give one shit about the accords lmao, he's damn king. No, he was only there in the first place to take revenge on his father's death (which at the point of the airport fight scene he still thought it was Bucky's fault. He later discovers, after following Steve and Bucky to Siberia, that it's Zemo's, and locks him up).

Steve's concerns with the accords are valid, and honestly I wouldn't have signed them either. To be told "sign, retire, or get locked up" isn't really a big winner for me lol. And the thing is, Steve's done this. He fought in WW2, he got paraded around like some big hero while men died, and he did nothing. It wasn't until he went against orders, that he actually did something helpful (saved the captured 107th division in Azzano). So, no, he's not going to be side-lined when people out there need help. That's just not who he is.

Bucky had no part in the accords, and as soon as he got introduced into the movie, that plot point became irrelevant. He was framed by Zemo, and then used to rip the avengers apart. The accords was just another log to add to the fire at that point. He followed Steve because "till the end of the line" and all that. He literally, heartbreakingly, says "I don't know if I'm worth all this," but he follows anyway.

Scott, much like Peter, is kinda just happy to be there. He's following CAPTAIN FREAKING AMERICA into battle without hesitation. But like, let's be honest, given his whole movie and character, I very much doubt Scott would be on Tony's side if he had read the accords.

Clint got dragged out of freaking retirement for this shit, and he didn't actually get involved until after Team Cap already knew about Zemo. That's why he's there. Not because of the accords, but to help Steve get to the Quinjet to get to Siberia and stop Zemo before he can go through with his assumed plan to wake up the five super soldiers who'd been stashed there. (Of course, this isn't actually Zemo's plan, but we'll get back to that later).

Wanda is going through some serious self loathing during this movie, and the incident in Lagos doesn't help. Like at all. Ma girl just wants to live her life and be left alone at this point and she's getting all of these horrible things thrown into her face by Secretary Ross. She doesn't want to be controlled, she doesn't want to be a weapon, she wants to be free. "You locked me in my room." - Girl already probably hates Tony Stark due to her family being killed by one of his bombs and Ultron, so she's mad anyway.

Sam is on Steve's side from the start. With the accords, to fight Zemo, all of it. During the 'discussion' between him and Rhodey, he says "So let's say we agree to this thing. How long is it gonna be before they LoJack us like a bunch of common criminals?" He doesn't trust Secretary Ross, and is clearly hesitant to add his signature to the accords. (not that I blame him).

The main actual villain and 'plot' of the movie after the first part with the accords, was the whole thing with Zemo wanting to tear the Avengers apart to get revenge for his family dying in Sokovia. He takes advantage of the accords, and of Bucky / The Winter Soldier to do this but it's not really discussed which annoys me. It's a MAJOR part of the film, yet all I ever really see being discussed are the accords affecting the decisions of characters throughout the film with no consideration of the wider picture.

From when the UN meeting is blown up, the Avengers are being manipulated by Zemo working in the background throughout the film. He frames Bucky for murder, and Steve - who has been looking for Bucky for the past 2 years - goes after him like ‘tf man’. Bucky gets taken in and Zemo uses the opportunity to activate the Winter Soldier programming, learn about Hydra’s super soldier program, and of course - “Mission report. December 16, 1991.”

This leads to Bucky’s escape and attack, Steve and co going on the run, and eventually the airport fight. The meaning of this scene gets lost, I feel, when people relate it back to the accords because it’s not about that anymore. Not really, not for anyone. Especially not for Steve, or even for Tony.

Tony at this point, most definitely feels like his world is being torn apart. He’s losing control, he’s spiralling, and Steve just isn’t listening. He’s blinded by his anger to the bigger picture and he just wants to get a handle on the situation to deal with it further.

Steve’s forgotten all about the accords, his priority is keeping Bucky safe and stopping Zemo. He tries to tell Tony, tries to talk to him, but Tony isn’t listening either. I mean their whole interaction just before the fight shows this:

(the dialogue below has been condensed to show the key lines - basically I got rid of other characters talking irrelevantly)

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Steve Rogers: Hear me out, Tony. That doctor, the psychiatrist, he's behind all of this.

Tony Stark: Anyway, Ross gave me 36 hours to bring you in. That was 24 hours ago. Can you help a brother out?

Steve Rogers: You're after the wrong guy.

Tony Stark: Your judgment is askew. Your old war buddy killed innocent people yesterday.

Steve Rogers: And there are five more super soldiers just like him. I can't let the doctor find them first, Tony. I can't.

- later -

Tony Stark: And you've been a complete idiot. Dragging in Clint. 'Rescuing' Wanda from a place she doesn't even want to leave, a safe place. I'm trying to keep . . . I'm trying to keep you from tearing the Avengers apart.

Steve Rogers: You did that when you signed.

Tony Stark: Alright, We're done. You're gonna turn Barnes over, you're gonna come with us. NOW! Because it's us! Or a squad of J-SOC guys . . . with no compunction about being impolite. [Steve looks aside.] Come on.

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Not to mention that Tony, after learning that Zemo impersonated and killed the actual doctor dude that was supposed to see Bucky whilst he was in confinement, he DISOBEYED the accords and Secretary Ross to go and help Steve stop what they thought at the time was the reactivation of the five super soldiers who'd been left in cryo freeze.

He follows Steve and Bucky to Siberia to help them, not to fight them. That only changes because of Zemo showing the footage of Bucky, WHILE UNDER BASICALLY MIND CONTROL, killing Tony’s parents.

In this scene, Tony 100% has every right to be angry. Unfortunately, he’s the kind of person who cannot see past his anger. He gets in his head, he spirals, and he tries to kill Bucky based on blind rage. (IT WASN’T BUCKY’S FAULT DAMMIT).

And yes, Steve was 100% in the wrong for not telling Tony. This whole scene could have been very easily avoided if Steve had just pulled Tony aside and had the difficult conversation about his parents death. Tony deserved to know, and Steve was only sparing himself pain by doing it. Dick move Steve, 0/10.

The fight between the three allows Zemo, having successfully completed his plan of eliminating the super soldiers and tearing the avengers apart, to slip away. With his work done, he tries to end his own life, but T’challa stops him and arrests him instead.

Steve and Tony’s fight was unnecessary, dramatic, and heart-breaking, and I’m very glad they managed to make up later, but ye. I think, at the end of the day, they’re all just dramatic idiots with communication issues lol.

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Thank you for reading my long ass essay lmao, apparently I have a lot of feelings about this movie 😂

[three-headed-monster]

to recap:

the 10-1 game to edmonton near the end of the season was heartbreaking to thom

only bested by the "traumatising" tampa bay 8-0 game early in the season, after which he got sent down a little while after

"shout out pat brisson" and he did. twice!

thom spoke about knowing connor bedard through their mutual friend kent johnson and some nhlpa events at hte beginning of the year, there's a whole little section with them talking about the heartbreaker celly that bedard has done

the michigan student section (children of yost) is certified Crazy by bords, and he thinks its insane that people can find other teams' ex girlfriends or tinder profiles, etc to chirp them for it

he went golfing in south carolina early in the off-season, and when the host said "that's such a white thing to do", his response was "oh, i know"

praised boko imama, said he's a different beast

talked about how he loved to chirp at michigan, but doesn't do as much now, in the professional leagues

he's never technically been in a nhl or ahl fight, but does provide some insight into how he chooses a guy to grab onto during scrums (doesn't pick the shortest guy all the time, but also says 'oh shit' if he grabs a big guy)

there's something about the squid game tv show and biscuits? they're making a joke but they're laughing over it, so it's unclear to me what they were trying to convey. maybe that thom is soft like dalgona candy 💀

said that the title of his book would be "bwater" which is a play on his last name (de l'eau in french is "of water" so bordeleau is similar). this is also when he raises his glass all fancy

hates tom holland's spiderman because he's a big iron man fan and he feels like people are connecting the two characters too much now

legitimately goes on a rant about how iron man is one of the best mcu characters, with power to rival all the reality-breaking characters, and also says it's not tony's fault for creating ultron

would want gabriel macht from suits to play him in a movie (although he refers to macht as "the guy who played harvey spector")

[ds9slut]

I'm fully obsessed with James Spader right now-- I can't believe I wasn't even aware of him until early July of this year...

Like I had watched The Office so I knew Robert California but I thought he was super creepy. I did notice, however, that Ultron had a very nice voice, but I didn't pay any attention to who voiced him.

The first time I really noticed James Spader was at my grandma's house, watching The Office, and season 8 was playing. I was on my period and my hormones were raging, I was on my phone kinda bored, and suddenly I hear this deep sexy rumbling voice. I look up and it's Robert. And suddenly I find him the most attractive guy I've ever seen, the confidence, that amazing voice, literally everything about him... In that moment, I finally understood the dad bod hype.

[will80sbyers]

Do you still have the list of movies that inspired ST4? I had a picture of it but I lost it and I haven't been able to find it since. Please and thank you in advance.

Yep!

Long post warning lol

300

2001: A Space Odyssey

47 Meters Down: Uncaged

12 Monkeys

28 Days Later

13th Warrior

Ace Ventura: Pet Detective

Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls

Altered States

Amelie

American Sniper

Analyze This

Annihilation

Aristocats

Armageddon

Assassins Creed

Avengers: Age of Ultron

Arrival

Almost Famous

Batman Begins

Batman V. Superman

Basket Case

Battle at Big Rock

Beauty and the Beast

Beetlejuice

Behind Enemy Lines

Beverly Hills Cop

Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey

Billy Madison

Black Cauldron

Black Swan

Boondock Saints

Borat

Bram Stoker’s Dracula

Burn After Reading

Broken Arrow

Blade Runner

C.H.U.D

Con Air

Cast Away

Congo

Constantine

Children of Men

Cabin in the Woods

Crank

Casablanca

Carrie

Crimson Tide

Clueless

Dukes of Hazzard

Don’t Breathe

Death to Smoochy

Doom

Dark Knight

Dogma

Deep Blue Sea

Dreamcatcher

Drop Dead Fred

Die Hard

Die Hard 2

Die Hard 3

Don’s Plum

Dances with Wolves

Dumb and Dumber

Edward Scissorhands

Enter the Void

Ex Machina

Event Horizon

Emma (2020)

Forrest Gump

Fargo

Fisher King

Full Metal Jacket

Ferris Bueller

Fallen

Fugitive

Ghost

Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Ghostbusters

Good Fellas

Girl Interrupted

Godzilla: King of the Monsters

Get Out

Good Will Hunting

Hackers

High Fidelity

Hellraiser 1

Hellraiser 2

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Hidden

High School Musical

Hurt Locker

Heat

Hunger Games

Highlander

Hell or High Water

Home Alone

I am Legend

It’s a Wonderful Life

In Cold Blood

Inception

I am a Fugitive from Chain Gang

Inside Out

Island of Doctor Moreau

It Follows

Interview with a Vampire

Inner Space

Into the Spiderverse

Independence Day

Jupiter Ascending

John Carter of Mars

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom

James Bond (All Movies)

Julie

Karate Kid

Knives Out

Kingsmen

Little Miss Sunshine

Labyrinth

Long Kiss Goodnight

Lost Boys

Leon: The Professional

Let the Right One In

Little Women (1994)

Mad Max: Fury Road

Magnolia

Men in Black

Mimic

Matrix

Misery

My Cousin Vinny

Mystic River

Minority Report

Mr. and Mrs. Smith

Neverending Story

Never Been Kissed

No Country for Old Men

Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors

North by Northwest

Open Water

Orange County

Oceans 8

Oceans 11

Oceans 12

One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest

Ordinary People

Paddington 2

Platoon

Pulp Fiction

Papillon

Pan’s Labyrinth

Pineapple Express

Peter Pan

Princess Bride

Paradise Lost

Primal Fear

Prisoners

Peter Jackson’s King Kong

Reservoir Dogs

Ravenous

Rushmore

Road Warrior

Rogue One

Reality Bites

Raider of the Lost Ark

Red Dragon

Robocop

Shooter

Sky High

Swingers

Sword in the Stone

Step Up 2

Spy Kids

Saving Private Ryan

Shape of Water

Swept Away

Star Wars: Return of the Jedi

Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back

Superbad

Society

Swordfish

Stoker

Splice

Silence of the Lambs

Source Code

Sicario

Se7en

Starship Troopers

Scrooged

Splash

Silver Bullet

Speed

The Visit

The Italian Job

The Mask of Zorro

True Lies

The Blair Witch Project

The Lord of the Rings Trilogy

Tangled

The Craft

The Guest

The Devil’s Advocate

The Graduate

The Prestige

The Rock

Titanic

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

The Fly

Tombstone

The Mummy

The Guardian

The Goofy Movie

The Peanut Butter Solution

Toy Story 4

The Ring

The Crazies

The Mist

The Revenant

The Perfect Storm

The Shining

Terminator 2

The Truman Show

Temple of Doom

The Cell

To Kill a Mockingbird

Timeline

The Good Son

The Orphan

The Birdcage

The Green Mile

The Raid

The Cider House Rules

The Lighthouse

The Book of Henry

The A-Team

The Crow

The Terminal

Thor Ragnarok

Twister

The Descent

The Birds

Total Recall

The Natural

The Fifth Element

True Romance

Terminator: Dark Fate

The Hobbit Trilogy

Unforgiven

Unbreakable

Unleashed

Very Bad Things

Wayne’s World

What Women Want

War Dogs

Wedding Crashers

What’s Eating Gilbert Grape

Welcome to the Dollhouse

Welcome to Marwen

Wet Hot American Summer

What Lies Beneath

What Dreams May Come

War Games

Who Framed Roger Rabbit

Weird Science

Willow

Wizard of Oz

Wanted

Young Sherlock Holmes

You’ve Got Mail

Zodiac

Zoolander

[ultralightpoe]

that one you did for the midnights event with bucky????? oh my god. Vigilante Shit where she was the ex widow. I love the way you write Bucky with the widows and you mentioned maybe wanting to expand on them a bit but maybe with the reader dealing a little more with her ptsd. I found that I struggled quite a bit before I got to the anger part of it al. i'm biting at the walls of my enclosure, begging for that lore. BEGGING.

BEGGINNGGGG.

I love the angst you write <3 8>

Okay wait because I have a bit of a funny story to tell about 'the angst I write', and I have never been able to stop laughing about it.

I had another account years ago when I first started, back when Clint was in the vents and Thor only had pop tarts and the Avengers all lived together happily and whereas I had fluff fics, I always did a little better with my sad/angst fics.

But that was because I had always channeled my own experience in my writing and I often struggled with depression and some things that had happened to me. Well one day I wrote a, you guessed it, Bucky fic and I had used it as a vent for myself in a tough spot and channeled that feeling into a story. I posted it to Tumblr, I believe this was in 2015 maybe 2 months after Ultron, and it did well.

Except I remember very vividly the very first comment under the fic read 'Reader stronger than me because I would have killed myself if that happened to me'.

At first I was so shocked because the fic was in fact my situation, then I took it as a compliment because I am pretty strong. reader or not. I laugh about it now, but whenever someone complements how I write 'Angst' my thought always goes back to that first comment. Lmao.

Anyways I look forward to working on this request and I appreciate the love and support.

-Ultralight

[unhingedmarvelandclassicwhobuff]

Agreed. This is easily my second-most hated moment in What If behind the entirety of the Vision/Zombie Wanda twist. 

I think the writers of this show just hated both of them (and Tony for that matter, but in fairness that I fully agree with).

Ultron vs. Thanos cracks me up. Like. There's rushed storytelling, and then there's "I don't have time for this shit at all."

This episode wants to be about Ultron becoming a living Infinity Gauntlet but there's simply no reasonable way to get from point A to point B. Trying to pry the Time Gem away from Dr. Strange alone would probably have to be a whole episode unto itself. You think Kamar-Taj didn't pull some kind of magical bullshit once the nukes started flying?

How Ultron would even become aware of the Infinity Gems, yet alone reach them is a long and complicated story to tell on its own.

But ain't nobody got time for that. So Thanos conveniently gathers all of the Gems offscreen, including the one situated here on Earth. He also manages to somehow plunder Asgard and Xandar for Infinity Gems without leaving them any worse for wear. And he does it during Age of Ultron for no adequately explained reason.

Then, once Thanos has finished waging a stealthy Infinity War a few years early, he teleports to Ultron and stands there like a useless poof. Doesn't do anything. Doesn't attack. Doesn't even say anything. Just shows up and lets himself be killed. He seriously only came here to die and deliver the Gems to Ultron.

This is the most nonsensical narrative shortcut in the entire show. It has to happen because otherwise this premise doesn't work. But that very fact alone speaks to how unworkable this premise is. Infinity Ultron is a cool idea in a vacuum, but they really had to strain credibility in order to justify his existence.