mcu
More boss things in Age of Ultron
Dr. Helen Cho
Dr. Helen “looking at Tony Stark’s interface like have I gone back to the stone age?” Cho
Dr. Helen “only came to your lame party for science and a gander at the extraterrestrial demi-god booty” Cho
Dr. Helen “mind with infinite access to the net, information, and tech needs me alive because I am still the only one who can operate this machine” Cho
Dr. Helen “completed AoU’s Pinocchio allusion by having the ‘life’ granting powers of the Blue Fairy and rocking those sleek blue scrubs” Cho
Dr. Helen “responsible for the creation of Vision” Cho
Dr. Helen “clearly set up to bring back Quicksilver” Cho
Dr. Helen “honestly whoever picks up the storyline after Joss, if she stays dead Imma be so mad” Cho
It’s okay, she’s not dead! She was walking with Maria at the end.
livebloggingmydescentintomadness:
#i love how terrifying her face is in the second gif#like she’s all flirty#very similar to how she talked to sam that morning#but her demeanor is completely fucking different#like with sam and steve she’s natasha#she’d eat them alive but in the good way#which baddies she’s the black widow#where she will flirt and then murder them#and idk just the fliry greeting and the terrifying grin was such a good connection to her codename#i just#i love this movie so much#natasha (via buckysexual)
that guy is pissing his pants over that smile this kind of fear is what i aspire to inspire
Avengers Throwbacks
I redrew the Avengers: Age Of Ultron character posters in the style of their first appearances (doing my best impressions of Joe Simon, Jack Kirby, Don Heck, and John Buscema).
Unfortunately, Tumblr has no way to embed the photo slider functionality that lets you compare the illustrations to the photo posters, so you’ll have to view them on this page to get the full effect.
Created for Shirts.com.
(This is the real source of the artwork attached to that bloody post going around, where someone has nicked this artwork in order to bullshit people about Marvel ‘basing’ their movie posters on this ‘original artwork’. I guess the fact people buy it (despite it being a far-fetched notion that Marvel would do duch a thing to please a handful of obsessive fans) just goes to show that Kat Willeard did an amazing job of mimicking the style of these artists. But while that’s currently garnered 30,000+ notes, the actual artist has been cheated out of any recognition!
No but this scene is extremely important and it’s why I’m angry at people who say that Steve’s characterization sucked.
Steve is the only one who understands where these two kids come from. Hill is trying to distant Steve from them because right after he says this line she says: ‘’We’re not at war anymore.’’. She’s trying to prove that Steve did the right thing because when the country is at war we all make some hard choices that we are not proud of. In war everything is permitted, and Steve did the right thing because he was doing it for the right cause. Hill is basically saying ‘You did it to protect your country and to save people and to make a difference, but these kids have no excuse for volunteering to these scientists.’
But how does Steve reply to that? To her ‘’We’re not at war anymore’’?
He says ‘’They are.’’
And it is SO important because Steve sees the big picture. For most Americans the war is something ugly that their grandparents had to deal with, something in the distant past that left mark but is also way behind them. But just because there wasn’t a war in America for over 70 years doesn’t mean that other countries have been so lucky. And Steve GETS IT. It doesn’t mean that he’s not mad. It doesn’t mean that he will not fight them if they’re on the opposing sides. But he knows where they come from. And he won’t let them be reduced to some monsters who let German scientists experiment on them.
Because if Steve was anything but American during WW2, if he wasn’t on the ‘winning team’, he wouldn’t be labeled as hero.
I had a lot of criticisms of the movie but I will say this: This bit was SPOT ON for Steve. He’s always big on compassion and putting himself in other people’s shoes and in many depictions has a very complex and nuanced view of the world (such as understanding that blind jingoism /= real patriotism and that a real American patriot would question their country when it goes against it’s better values). ult! Steve was kinda a blindly nationalistic jackass but this is very IC for a Steve based more on 616 Steve.
I’m not actually a monster, but it sure feels that way sometimes. Fertility is a funny thing. It’s not generally a topic of polite conversation because it makes people uncomfortable. But sterility has been a topic of wide conversation lately thanks to the latest Marvel mass installation, “Avengers: Age of Ultron.” In the film, Natasha Romanoff, better known as Black Widow, the trained assassin played by Scarlett Johansson, gets both a new love interest in Mark Ruffalo’s Bruce Banner (aka the Hulk) and an expanded back story that delves into how, at a young age, Natasha was broken down and trained to be a killing machine. The process culminated in forced sterilization, an occurrence she still mourns.
THANK YOU.
I have more to say about this, because it gives me a lot of feelings.
I’ve gotten the impression – and feel free to correct me on this, because it’s 100% just an intuition – that the majority of women writing negatively about the “monster” comment aren’t actually infertile.
Now, I’ve gotten that impression because none of them are writing about the very real, very valid feelings infertile/unwillingly sterilized women have about their bodies and lives.
And every time I read something forgiving of this scene, it’s always been from the perspective of a woman who can’t have kids. I know this because they’re all incredibly explicit about it, either feeling empowered about the subject or just feeling the need to justify their opinion that the scene wasn’t offensive.
So, feminists and social justice types tend to talk a lot about respecting the words and perspective of minority groups and not telling those groups how they should be feeling.
Thus far, the voice of infertile women seems to be saying the same thing: this scene spoke to me, I related to it, and I don’t think it lessened her character. It wasn’t about baby lust, and it wasn’t even really about how infertility made her less of a woman (though that is a real and valid feeling many infertile women share).
So maybe some of these very vocal writers need to quiet down for a minute, and listen to the group on whose behalf they’re so offended.
I am by no means a Whedon apologista – I would actually consider myself not much of a fan, having not enjoyed Buffy/Angel/Dollhouse much at all (though I am a Firefly fan) but –
This.
One of my best friends has struggled with infertility for over a decade and this scene reminded me so much of the pain and self-blame and anguish she’s expressed over the years. I understand about different interpretations of text, etc., but I was very taken aback to find out later that people walked away from that scene thinking that the film had condemned Natasha as “a monster” for being unable to conceive.
To me, that scene was about two people who had faced a lot of anguish over having their choices stripped from them (I haven’t seen a lot of people mention that Bruce cries out that he’s a monster first, because gamma radiation made him infertile) and see themselves as monstrous because of it. Tragically, that is a perception that people who are infertile often come to form about themselves. There is nothing in the film to suggest that the narrative agrees with it.
I’ve been feeling like a lot of people shouting about this scene miss this: That Natasha was able to move past that damaged self-perception she’d been programmed with – that she was broken, a freak and a monster not meant for more than killing – enough to reach out to the one person in her life who abhors violence, make herself vulnerable and try to forge a connection was, to me, an extremely empowering and healing moment for the character.
Not to mention terribly brave.
Some great responses. Thanks.