#Dar-Benn

[insanityclause]

#tom hiddleston #zawe ashton #the marvels #dar-benn

[daisy-mooon]

Behind the jokes and badassness, Captain Marvel is a fascinating character to me, because of how death follows her.

She causes an explosion. That explosion, which gives her powers and her immortality, canonically kills her. The Kree Empire resurrects her and makes her as Kree as they can. She shares Yon-Rogg's blood and his life, she's his creation, she's his victim, she's the one who causes his downfall, she's the one that destroys the system, the society, the planet that allowed her to be abused.

It's the Kree that see her as a killer and Annihilator. She's a monster of their own making, but it influences every species and planet she touches. Her victories cause death and her mistakes cause more death. Carol's triumph, the death of the Supreme Intelligence, results in the death of probably millions of Kree, and by consequence, almost causes the death of Hala's star.

"I'm only human" Carol says, before killing the Empire that is the reason that she can't ever be human again.

"We'll be back for the weapon," Ronan says, but that weapon will kill everything he stands for.

"Your life began the day it nearly ended," The Supreme Intelligence says, coldly, calculatingly. It's an AI. It doesn't have a good concept of death. It doesn't fully grasp that Carol had genuinely been killed that day, because she's still in front of it. Carol kills it.

"Death seems to follow you," Dar-Benn says, before she causes an explosion with the bangles, trying to defeat Carol. The explosion kills Dar-Benn.

Death follows Carol. Death follows Carol! Mar-Vell is dead. Maria is dead. Talos is dead. Soren is dead. Ronan is dead. Minn-Erva is dead. Korath is dead. Dar-Benn is dead. Yon-Rogg is, probably, dead. The Supreme Intelligence is dead. Natasha is dead. Tony is dead.

The only people in Carol's life who aren't dead are Kamala, Monica, Yan, Valkyrie, and Fury.

She watches helplessly as Dar-Benn almost murders Kamala after Kamala tries to save Dar-Benn's life, tries to find a way to solve the violence without death.

She watches helplessly as Monica gets torn into another reality, which for all she knows, she could die in. The tear in reality that was caused by Dar-Benn's death.

She tries to hide Yan's existence from her friends and tries to warn him and his people. The Kree soldiers aren't fighting to maim, they're fighting to kill. He escapes death by his own fighting skills and the fact that the Kree would rather focus on killing Carol than him.

Valkyrie and Carol interact once, and she only calls when she needs help after a fight, not during. Think about it. Valkyrie and the Bifrost could have helped the trio enormously. But Carol doesn't call until the fights are over. It would be very easy for a regular Asgardian warrior to die compared to superhumans.

And Fury... have you seen how often Fury comes close to dying? He's alive from skill and luck. He is lucky that he isn't dead.

Captain Marvel is so, so fascinating. Her story begins with her own death, and the more it goes on, the more death happens around her. Nobody is safe. She causes almost all of them, even the ones of her friends - not directly, but through the consequences of her actions. The consequences of her victories and mistakes. The consequences of her anger and revenge, her power and powerlessness. It is caused by both the Human and Kree sides of her, by both Carol and Vers, Captain Marvel and the Annihilator.

Carol is immortal. She can't die. And death follows her anyway.

#captain marvel #carol danvers #the marvels #the marvels 2023 #the marvels spoilers #marvel #mcu #marvel cinematic universe #kamala khan #monica rambeau #dar-benn #nick fury #kree species #character analysis #its my *blorbo* and *i* get to be insane about her #im going to need an avengers level security force protecting kamala from now on #yon-rogg #character study #rambling #does this make sense? no and idgaf #death mention #1k #hitposttag

[kevinfeiges]

Zawe Ashton as Dar-Benn THE MARVELS (2023), directed by Nia DaCosta

#marveledit #filmedit #themarvelsedit #MCU #The Marvels #Dar-Benn #Zawe Ashton #marvelcharacter8 #**

[noodle-fc]

The Marvels is more fun than I've had at a Marvel movie in years. I strongly suspect its detractors, whether they realize it or not, dislike it because it's written by women, directed by a woman, starring four women.

#The Marvels #MCU #Marvel #Brie Larson #Iman Vellani #Teyonah Parris #Zawe Ashton #Captain Marvel #Ms. Marvel #Carol Danvers #Kamala Khan #Monica Rambeau #Nia DaCosta #Dar-Benn #Ms Marvel

[justzawe]

I won’t go into detail because I don’t want to spoil the movie for anyone who hasn’t seen it yet, but I’m so proud of Zawe! She did amazing and I’m happy that she gets to put this Marvel feather in her cap. I do wish they had fleshed out Dar-Benn’s character more, but it is what it is and Zawe’s performance was stunning anyway. I hope she’s proud of herself and it’s so very sweet that Tom is so openly proud of her as well. 💚

#zawe ashton #the marvels #dar-benn #personal

[marvels-meme]

#marvels-meme #marvel #mcu #the marvels #marvel cinematic universe #the marvels 2023 #shitpost #dar-benn #zawe ashton #FHJSDHFJSDFJDAS

[bebx]

#tom hiddleston #zawe ashton #tom x zawe #the marvels #loki #loki series #captain marvel #dar-benn #general dar-benn #marvel #mcu #marvel cinematic universe #thor #marvel phase 5 #kevin feige #loki season 2 #carol danvers #loki laufeyson #loki odinson #loki tv #loki show #mcu loki #twhiddleston

[general-dar-benn]

Zawe Ashton as Dar-Benn in ‘The Marvels’

#zawe ashton #the marvels #mcu #nia dacosta #brie larson #teyonah parris #iman vellani #marvel #edit #Dar-Benn

[asgardian-angel]

These Two in Cahoots

#loki #tom hiddleston #dar-benn #zawe ashton #marvel #let's talk loki #disney #captain marvel #loki's army #tom hiddleston zawe ashton #thor #carol danvers #avengers

[daisymooonart]

inspiration: https://www.tumblr.com/couch-house/726203092679491584?source=share

#daisymooon.art #i was gonna draw kamala and monica as well but i don't have enough time :( #digital art #art #fanart #aggie.io #marvel #drawn on aggie.io #carol danvers #captain marvel #dar-benn #dar benn #the marvels #the marvels 2023 #marvel fanart #mcu #marvel cinematic universe #digital fanart

[marvel-master]

Dar-Benn: I just want to save my planet.

Audience: Awwww

Dar-Benn: I’m going to save it by killing other planets.

Audience: …

#dar benn #marvel #dar-Benn #dar benn incorrect quotes #inccorect quotes #incorrect #incorrect marvel quotes #the marvels spoilers #the marvels #the marvels incorrect quotes #incorrect dar benn

[insanityclause]

The Marvels Star Zawe Ashton On Dar-Benn, Quantum Bands & MCU Future

#zawe ashton #dar-benn #tom hiddleston #loki #charlie cox #matt murdock #daredevil #the marvels

[daisy-mooon]

Kamala describing Dar-Benn as "evil but beautiful" to her parents via Zoom call had me on the floor. There was no heterosexual explanation for this movie.

#kamala khan #ms marvel #the marvels #the marvels (2023) #dar-benn #shitpost #marvel #mcu #marvel cinematic universe

[kevinfeiges]

Ms. Marvel (2022) || The Marvels (2023)

#marveledit #msmarveledit #captainmarveledit #themarvelsedit #** #MCU #The Marvels #Dar-Benn #Zawe Ashton #Ms. Marvel #Aisha #Mehwish Hayat

[denimbex1986]

'Try and explain the motivations or internal psychology of recent Marvel Cinematic Universe villains. If one engages in this exercise, one will be quickly disappointed to see that many of these foes have no real relevance to the world audiences inhabit. Dar-Benn from The Marvels, for instance, was justifiably mad about what happened to her planet and her response to that trauma was to suck up the sun(?). Kang in Quantumania was so vaguely defined that it was impossible to get a read on the character. Kro in Eternals, meanwhile, was such a throwaway baddie that even MCU diehards likely forgot he existed! Compare such subpar adversaries to Kevin "Kilgrave" Thompson (David Tennant), the villain of the first season of Jessica Jones.

A man with the ability to control minds, Thompson kept detective Jessica Jones (Krysten Ritter) under his control for months on end. As a result of this experience, Jones struggles with PTSD and has withdrawn herself from the world. Throughout the first season of Jessica Jones, Kilgrave proves a terrifying foe and one who, despite carrying such heightened superpowers, perfectly embodies several terrifying elements of reality, such as male privilege. Kilgrave’s inability to see other people as human or even consider the humanity of those he controls is a stylized depiction of how often men in Western societies similarly refuse to gaze into the point-of-views of marginalized genders. His superpowers may have been rooted in comic books, but Kilgrave was decidedly a villain ripped from the real world. This is just one of many fascinating attributes of the character that make Kilgrave somebody who needs to return to the wider Marvel Cinematic Universe pronto.

Kilgrave Deserves to Be One of the Netflix Elements Brought to the Marvel Disney+ Shows

As Marvel Studios fleshes out its multimedia plans for the rest of the 2020s, it’s clear many elements of the Marvel/Netflix shows from 2015-2019 will be incorporated into the broader universe. When programs like Daredevil and Luke Cage were running, there was a bit of a divide between these shows and the larger movies. Characters on these Netflix entities would occasionally reference Captain America or Iron Man, but the first three phases of the Marvel Cinematic Universe movies never acknowledged these characters in return. Starting with Hawkeye and Spider-Man: No Way Home, though, certain actors and figures from the Netflix shows have been carried over into the bigger Marvel Cinematic Universe projects. It’s still unclear (though presumably unlikely) if the narratives of the Marvel/Netflix shows are still canon, but folks like Charlie Cox’s Daredevil are now fixtures of modern MCU media.

While that doesn’t mean Avengers: The Kang Dynasty will be focusing exclusively on Danny Rand/Iron Fist (Finn Jones) and Willis Stryker/Diamondback (Erik LaRay Harvey), it does mean a bevy of Marvel/Netflix characters are now at the disposal of future Marvel Studios programs. Kilgrave would be a fantastic character to incorporate into these forthcoming projects, especially since his presence as a more grounded figure would fit in with some of Marvel’s upcoming TV ambitions. Projects like Echo and Daredevil: Born Again are being marketed as adult-skewing programs that aren’t afraid to engage in thornier, more challenging material. Kilgrave, a man who commits murder and rape rather than pursue nebulously defined cosmic MacGuffin’s, would be a perfect villain to fit into this narrative landscape.

Plus, Kilgrave isn’t somebody who’s been seen in tons of other media beyond the comics. While he's shown up in a pair of video games and occasionally appeared in animated TV shows like The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes, Kilgrave has largely been restricted to the comics and his appearances across the three seasons of Jessica Jones. This isn’t a character like The Joker that’s been done to death in pop culture, there’s lots of new territory one could explore when it comes to Kilgrave. This could even include giving him his purple skin from the comics, a trait Jessica Jones hinted at with his default purple suits, but never went all-in on. That visual detail encapsulates how much there is still to do with Kilgrave.

It doesn’t hurt that Kilgrave is played by a beloved actor like David Tennant, whose fanbase only seems to grow as the years progress with his roles in post-Jessica Jones programs like Good Omens. Tennant is always a welcome presence in any capacity and getting him back for further MCU projects as one of his most famous and chilling characters would be an exciting development. It’s not like Tennant was a “nobody” before Jessica Jones (he had Broadchurch and Doctor Who, after all!) but he’s only become even more prominent since that Netflix show wrapped up its run. That uptick in notoriety has included a string of notable voice-over roles in Disney projects like Ducktales and Ahsoka, a sign that the parent company of Marvel Studios is keen on a good relationship with this performer. These qualities tied into the esteemed career of David Tennant would surely be another incentive to get Kilgrave back into the MCU picture.

David Tennant's Kilgrave Would Give the MCU a Tangibly Terrifying Villain Again

The most important facet of bringing Kilgrave into the MCU, though, would be finally bringing back tangibly terrifying villains back into this sprawling saga. Recent MCU titles haven’t been entirely devoid of solid baddies (The High Evolutionary in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 was an enjoyably over-the-top creation) but too many modern foes in this franchise leave something to be desired. Dar-Benn, Kang, Gorr the God Butcher, Kro; they’re all too removed from anything resembling discernible reality. While Thanos proved truly haunting because he was a big purple alien who acted like a weary human being, few recent cosmic MCU baddies have registered as remotely in touch with the real world.

Kilgrave would solve that problem and then some. This figure was truly terrifying in his nonchalant evil, while his ability to manipulate the minds of seemingly anyone Jessica Jones encountered provided a vivid visual metaphor for how omnipresent toxic men are in American society. They’re everywhere, even when they’re not physically in the room! Embracing such a terrifying baddie rooted in heavy real-world material (like the sexual trauma he inflicted on Jessica Jones) didn’t weigh down Jessica Jones as a show but rather gave it extra gravitas. That’s not the kind of praise one could offer recent MCU baddies obsessed with convoluted cosmic justice. David Tennant is always a welcome sight in any piece of pop culture, but him returning as Kilgrave would be especially helpful for the broader Marvel Cinematic Universe.'

#David Tennant #MCU #Kilgrave #Jessica Jones #Krysten Ritter #Kang #Quantumania #Eternals #Dar-Benn #The Marvels #Luke Cage #Avengers: The Kang Dynasty #Kevin 'Kilgrave' Thompson #Daredevil #Spider-Man: No Way Home #Hawkeye #Charlie Cox #Echo #Good Omens #DuckTales #Ahsoka #Broadchurch #Doctor Who

[justzawe]

zawe Team Marvel-ous.

The Marvels is now streaming on @disneyplus ! Our movie release landed smack bang in the middle of the strike and so there hasn’t been ample opportunity to thank the people who TRULY make these films what they are - stunt teams, visual FX, hair, make up, wardrobe, prosthetics, trainers, PA’s, technicians of every kind, camera operators, medical staff, gaffers, superhero boot makers, the person who blows a leaf blower in your face for amazing wind in the hair shots - the list really does go on! We’ve all sat through the credits of these films and it’s like watching a second movie in itself. It takes an enormous village.

I want to thank you all, Team Marvels, for the most incredible experience. I will continue to shout you out! I don’t have tags for all of you yet, but will keep adding! You all deserve your recognition, you were just the best to work with. To my stunt team, make up, hair and wardrobe HEROS especially - you carried me through this and I will be forever grateful.

Enjoy these brilliant folks’ work! 💫

#TheMarvels #DarBenn #disneyplus

#zawe ashton #the marvels #dar-benn #instagram #behind the scenes #pics