(Gif by @starkked, not mine, just so I could get a closer look at Mantis’ body language)
Okay, but can I just say how freaking proud of Mantis I am here? Look at her! She holds her head high, back straight, looks directly in the eyes of the person she is talking to, and says with pure confidence and very vehemently what she means to say.
It’s such a far cry from how we first met Mantis on Ego’s planet – she may have been enthusiastic like a child whenever she discovered something she liked (“crappy puppy” included), but aside from that, she was subdued for a big part of the movie, shoulders drawn up, not making eye contact as long as Ego was in the vicinity, thinking of herself as a “useful flea”. Her whole body language screamed “don’t attract negative attention, be useful, don’t be in the way”.
Here, she stands proud and tall.
If I love anything in Infinity War, then it’s Mantis being confident – and that in the face of strangers on top of it.
