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Age of Ultron!

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MASSIVE SPOILERS AHEAD. SO MASSIVE

  • Quicksilver
    becomes the first big real casualty of the MCU. (Unless I’m forgetting
    someone. Which I probably am.) I thought the Cradle of Plot would be
    used to save him, but nooope. Poor ‘ol Quicksilver. I half wonder if he
    wasn’t offed just because Fox’s version of him was more interesting.
  • Hawkeye
    is actually kinda the heart of this film, to my not unwelcome surprise.
    He has a wife! And kids WHO CALL NATASHA ‘AUNT NAT’ HELP ME MY HEART IS
    EXPLODING. I remember the wife and kids from the Ultimates, where they
    were all shot in the head. On orders from Natasha. Don’t read the
    Ultimates, kids.
  • Black Widow herself was very good in this
    movie, although I’m not really feeling the Bruce/Natasha thing. I prefer
    them as friends. Also, the glimpses of Natasha’s past were EXCELLENT
    and I really can’t put into words how MUCH there should be a solo Black
    Widow movie. (I know…there have been rumours. Maybe this’ll be the
    year they finally come to fruition.)
  • Tony was Tony and Steve was
    Steve? I dunno, I’m not quite as invested in those two as a lot of
    fandom is. I like that their friendship is finally starting to take
    shape, though.
  • Tony and Thor listing Pepper and Jane’s
    respective achievements and fighting over which woman was ‘better’ was
    obviously a well-intended scene so I can’t quite bring myself to be mad about it, but I just know it’s going to be used by fandom and the mainstream media to pit the women in question against each other. Just like they do with real-life women. Yay.
  • Rhodey! He had quite a big role, actually. Good!
  • And FALCON! I was so pleased when I heard he was going to be in it, I love Falcon. He’s only in two scenes, but still, I bet Anthony Mackie exploded with excitement when told about the second one.
  • Paul Bettany as Vision was WONDERFUL, I hope he has a big role in the next one
  • Scarlet Witch was good, but not as good as her comic book counterpart, whom I keep meaning to read more about.
  • Nick Fury’s Crowning Moment Of Awesome was very, very awesome and I loved it.
  • There were…wait for it…FIVE WOMEN! in this film. Natasha, Wanda, Maria Hill, Laura Barton (wife of Clint), and Helen Cho. I thoroughly expected Helen to die in one scene (she is virtually the only woman of colour in the MCU after all) but she was actually alright, and I’m glad.
  • Also, it just scraped by the Bechdel Test, because Natasha and Laura are friends and they talked! And I want there to be more female friendships in the MCU so I am so glad about that.
  • There was a little bit of stuff about civilians casualties/protection/civilians not wanting to be protected by people they can’t trust. That’s the sort of stuff I like and I expect there will be more of it in Civil War, although I am greedy and want it now. (Is this what Daredevil is, because if so I am so there.)
  • I am 99% sure a familiar face from The Winter Soldier shows up and, as a fan of the minor characters usually more than I am of the main ones, I was so pleased to see him.

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hmasfatty:

castielwillavengesherlock:

loki-cat:

hajinkz:

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this scene is just golden because tony was never planning to reveal his identity as iron man. but right when blondie laughs and says ‘i never said you were a superhero’, she obviously hit a nerve and tony literally goes ‘alright, you wanna play? i can play’, LOOKS HER STRAIGHT FUCK IN THE EYE, AND TELLS THE WHOLE WORLD HE’S IRON MAN. A SUPERHERO.

well played tony

well played

#the real winner here is christine#who is doing a great job at being a journalist#all she had to do was put a small dent in his man-ego and he outted himself as iron man#if it weren’t for her he probably would’ve kept quiet#the only person worthy of applause is christine everheart lmao#and i love how she refuses to stand up#you did a good job#four for you#people think that tony’s the winner here for going all like ‘boom im iron man’ but she made a superhero reveal his own identity#like#please#well played #via clintbarttons

Team Christine Everheart!

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niobiumao3:

fosterslabrats:

It does amuse me when people say that Jane and Thor don’t have enough time on screen for people to ‘find them convincing’, when people ship Phil Coulson and Hawkeye together DESPITE THE FACT THEY HAD ONE CONVERSATION AND THEY WEREN’T EVEN ON SCREEN TOGETHER.

The hilarious thing is how ‘they don’t have enough time together’ is the start of a long line of goalpost adjustments.

Once you point out their onscreen time together is comparable to, say, Tony and Pepper and vastly in excess of Tony and Steve, then it becomes, ‘Well but they barely know one another’. When you indicate that Steve and Tony have, to all appearances, only just met in Avengers, now we’re on to ‘But they have a rich comics history’. And then when you point out Jane and Thor have been interacting in the comics since 1964 1962 (I should have gone with my instinct, it was 1962), it’s ‘Well but this is a very different Jane’. And then you remind them that the MCU is not the comics, and they finally fall back on ‘Well but she’s whiny and clingy and not a good female character like *insert one of the ass-kicking women like Sif or Natasha or Maria here*’.

And so finally the goalpost has reached its real level: ‘Jane Foster in the MCU is not what I think a woman should be. She’s too focused on her career and helps the hero save the whole universe and possesses an Infinity Stone without dropping dead on the spot and has had the eponymous protagonist of the story tell her she’s right and should keep striving instead of the other way around like it usually is with the dude’s woman counterpart and that’s just too much involvement for me’. 

In other words, Jane is on her own footing in terms of skill and competency, separate from Thor. It’s not Jane who wanders into Thor’s story; it’s Thor who wanders into hers. And the fandom is beside itself to negate her in all ways as a result, to an extent they don’t Natasha or Maria or Pepper (though Pepper gets a lot of erasure too, let’s be real), including but not limited to setting almost-impossible-to-meet standards for her to have a relationship with an alien who wields a weapon made of matter harvested from a stellar core and who can control the weather. All of that last bit is totes okay, but them diving headlong into a relationship? UNPOSSIBLE.

Woops. I ranted. I should finish my coffee.

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bonitabreezy:

likeatreebesidetheriver:

but can we consider that Rhodey does, in fact, outrank Steve Rogers? 

now picture rhodey meeting steve and steve snapping a salute

that is all

and Rhodey would be totally serious about it until the second Steve walked out of the room and then he’d totally turn and look at Tony with crazy eyes and Tony would be like “JARVIS TOOK PICTURES FROM EVERY ANGLE YOU’RE WELCOME”

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missvoltairine:

anaquana:

missvoltairine:

I bet Rocket Raccoon didn’t even know that a new Groot would sprout from that stick, I bet he just put that stick in a pot because it made him feel better and worse at the same time and then he carried it around because what else could he do with his grief

This is actually MCU canon. James Gunn has verified that Rocket did not know that Groot could regrow himself.

take that, people who reblogged this to shit on my headcanon

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