okay but the screenwriter for Thor: Ragnarok is obviously intimately aware of what it’s like to have siblings because like…the snake scene? Bickering at every opportunity? Throwing things at each other for no real reason? “You know this guy?” “I have no idea who this person is”? Smirking when your sibling does something cool because ‘nothing but respect for MY sibling’ and then turning around and punching each other in the face right afterward? Stabbing each other for fun and then going ‘oh come on you big baby, that didn’t even hurt’? The fucking ‘Get Help’ scene? Like bruh…that is some Truth in Hollywood right there
In honor of this post reaching 10K notes, I have more examples of Siblinghood Done Right in Ragnarok:
*parent leaves the area* “THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT!”
“You’re just…the worst.”
*internally* bitch I am the only one that gets to kill my sibling back off!
That little conciliatory pat on the back Loki gives to Thor after Thor says “Jane and I dumped each other”
“I swear I left it right here”
*casually talking to each other about something mundane with the underlying threat of violence everpresent in both of your voices*
casual jibes and banter about the way each other dresses (“Why would I do that? I’m not a witch.” “Then why do you dress like one?”)
“YES! THAT’S WHAT THAT FEELS LIKE!”
but also the concealed worry about your sibling getting actually hurt, even though you know they’ll probably be fine
Loki’s extremely obvious eyerolling when those girls approach Thor in public and ask for a selfie
*sibling walks in while you’re trying to cause trouble and enjoy yourself* “oh shit”
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.
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