they’ve really dumbed down the powers of everyone in the mcu to make it more “realistic” as if I show up to these fucking movies looking for realistic scenarios. I’m here to escape, bitch. It’s all about the escapism fuck realistic shit.
These movies would be so much more enjoyable if they didn’t get so bogged down in realism. Like your cinematic universe does not have to abide by the rules of ours. Magic being real can be a given. Time travel can be real. Like it’s really so unimaginative and limiting to be so grounded in reality. There are so many more possibilities when you present aspects of a fictional world as fact.
And they also love to compromise a character’s mythos to make it more realistic which is my pet peeve. Like black widow has her own goddamn serum that keeps her in peak physical condition and preserves her youthfulness and she’s been alive a long ass time in canon and mcu nat is really just a fucking disgrace. Sharon Carter was dumbed down to prop up Steve when she’s a master hand to hand combatant and spy and far more qualified than Steve in MANY areas yet all we are shown of her skill is in the last 2 seconds of cap2 where she shoots a gun real good. Like it’s seriously a mess. And don’t even get me started on Gamora. She’s the deadliest women in the universe and she ffuckign loses in hand to hand against peter “dumbass” quill??? What the FUCK! What the actual fuck! That scene in Gaurdians 1 seriously makes my blood boil. It would’ve made far more sense for her to win easily and peter pursue her and along the way they team up. I’m just so ffucjfu. Like what the fuck. And mcu Wanda. I don’t know how you can call whatever the fuck that mess is the scarlet witch. It’s bad. It’s real bad.
Also very funny how the most glaring examples of this are women. Like the men (excluding loki) are basically the same. It’s upsetting and I’m feeling homicidal
this really sounds like the problem isn’t attempt at realism, but misogyny.
The weird thing is that they could’ve made one small tweak to make that whole sequence less egregiously shitty. They could’ve had so Wanda was the only one who could destroy the stone, but she refused to do it. And because Steve didn’t want to be That Guy and force someone to kill the man she loved, he could’ve called on T’Challa’s help because Wakandan technology was the only other thing on Earth with a chance to shatter the stone.
You still could’ve had the big Wakanda showdown with Thanos’ forces, which, let’s face it, we all wanted to see, but instead it would’ve been to win Shuri time to figure out how to destroy the stone. And this gets interrupted when the bad guys break into the lab, and destroy Shuri’s equipment, and now it all falls to Wanda to end this.
And you still could’ve had the sequence at the end with Wanda destroying Vision’s stone herself, identically. Except instead of the whole thing being preceded by the plot element of “black people risking life and limb to preserve the personality of one robot dude because if he died his white girlfriend would be sad :(”, it would’ve played out more clearly like “Wanda realizes that nobody else can do this for her, time to put her romantic feelings aside and make a sacrifice in order to save a lot of people”, without the element of selfishness that exists in the current movie. Because like, even in the movie, Vision was willing to make the sacrifice, and it was Wanda refusing. And to an audience that’s only understandable up to a point.
So like. Too bad nobody realized how tone deaf the entire thing with Vision was, because there were definitely ways to fix this.
It’s so frustrating that with the quantity of useless garbage that made it onto the screen in AoU, Whedon decided this scene was expendable. In a few seconds, it illustrates how the influence of SHIELD/Hydra has shaped the Sokovians, and by extension, the Maximoff twins. It also plays into Steve’s growing unease with the role of Captain America and how it may conflict with his personal values, a development which culminates in his decision to drop the shield at the end of CW. Instead we get endless iterations of that stupid, out of character language joke.
I hate in the MCU or anything when the aliens or whatever are attacking and everyone’s just ‘oh yeah we be chilling just cowering over here’ as if seventy percent of humanity isn’t really angry all the time like catch these hands motherfucker I’ve bitten people for trying to steal my chips you think you can just steal my whole fucking planet YEET HERE COME MY TEETH film people be using responses to natural disasters but I promise if human sized things came to throw down humanity would be ready to fuck them up like yeah you got laser guns I got this dope ass stick I just found let’s go you ugly fuck
silentwalrus1: #yeah bicht!!!!!!#gimme the battle of new york with fuckin chitauri comin down and the shift manager of the times sq H&M has finally had Enough#Tracie bout to kill this alien with a traffic cone#’ JUST PRETEND THEY’RE TOURISTS’ she screams choking out goddamn Lizard Lite with her lanyard#10 feet away a park slope mom is beating an alien to death with her four year old’s knockoff eco friendly razr scooter#every single retail employee gets ten years’ worth of therapy in one day#captain america’s kill count: 83 aliens#kathleen from accounting: 94 and also her boss
Humans are biolent, angry little creatures who live under a constant state of stress and have very little sense of self preservation. #whatsmykillcount would be trending in Twitter while people posted videos on every available platform. Like honestly Earth is not the one.
You never know you’re from a Death World until somebody tries to conquer it.
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