I’m not even one of the people who thinks Infinity War was a bad movie, I just think they could have done so much more with it with relatively few changes, in ways that frustrate me.
Like if they’d changed Thanos’s motivation just slightly– if they’d framed it as him trying to, essentially, weed the garden of life in the universe so the rest of the plants could grow healthier, rather than just a coin toss- it could have prompted every other character to wrestle with the question of who gets to make the call of who’s worthy of living and who has to die to enable that.
Basically every MCU hero has been actively responsible for, or at least complicit in, destroying locations and individuals they consider the bad guys. Some of these, we as audience are on board with; when you take down Hydra, for example, or the Chitauri, it’s hard to argue. But Thor courted war, and Tony made weapons, and these are things their character arcs have hinged on them moving beyond but that history lingers. Natasha was on the wrong team before Clint recruited her, and Hulk went on rampages. Steve and Sam and Rhodey were all in the US military; even as ‘good guys’ they have blood on their hands.
Thanos’s goal could have triggered introspection, even as they were trying to take him down, in a way that could have recontextualized the entire MCU to date. Where is the line where you can decide who’s allowed to live and die? Where is the line where you can’t be redeemed? Obviously, Thanos is on the wrong side of every answer, but just raising the question could have made the the more personal for virtually every Avenger.
The fact that Steve hasn’t told any Marx Brothers level corny jokes in the MCU is a crime and you know it. I swear to god. That was the brand of humor popular in the thirties and forties. Steve would absolutely say “I once shot a nazi in my pajamas.” And everyone would be like “really?” And he’d totally deadpan be like “yeah, how he got in my pajamas I’ll never know.” And while I’m certain that Thor, Clint, and Peter would fuckin love that everyone else would hate it. Natasha might personally kill him I’m not sure.
museum curator, watching steve waltz into the smithsonian, the memory of having the stolen cap america authentic howling commando era uniform returned dirty and ridden with bullet holes still fresh in their mind: hide the VALUABLES
steve, reaching over the rope to poke at something on display: it’s my goddamn stuff???
I’M SAYIN’, every single level of management at the Smithsonian must have had an extensively well-documented migraine after dealing with the colossal shitshow raised by such thrilling items as “sock (woolen)” pulled from the pack of one “Rogers, Steven G., 1918 – 1945 lol whoops he’s back″
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