#antimcu

[kitcat992]

Rewatched Avengers 2012 last night.

Y'all remember when the MCU had sets with green screen instead of *just* green screen?

I never expected to rewatch this and have SO much fun with the practical effects (like Thor's old costume) and heavy use of practical sets that used CGI to enhance the realism, not create it entirely. It's truly the best campy, doesn't-take-itself-too-seriously experience.

Like, YES, there were green screen backgrounds in this movie — and BOY have they aged terribly (can't wait til Shitgame does the same and people stop drooling over it so much) But it was still *lively*, ya know? It still had character.

Okay yes that's a green screen background but on a SET. With PROPS.

Time went on and things turned into....

Barely a prop or set piece in sight. Costumes only, and you're lucky when they aren't CGIed too.

Listen if you like this stuff, do you boo.

But goddamn I wish we could get back the days of less green screen. It's fun.

#anti mcu #antimcu #anti green screen #avengers 2012 #avengers #anti endgame #mcu discourse

[imjustheretoseetheprivateblogs]

What I wouldn’t give to be able to peruse the Marvel fanfiction tag without encountering the MCU

#marvel #Marvel Comics #anti mcu #antimcu #comics #comic books

[waluigis-biggest-fan]

Why I Hate the MCU

I hate every movie after the second wave with 2 exceptions, both before the halfway point. I like the early wave but that's only because the movies have nostalgic value.

The second wave is the beginning of the decline but Ant Man and Guardians of the Galaxy are pretty good. The entire second wave otherwise is dull and uninteresting. Its what happens when Marvel tries to be 'serious'

Civil war is a boring. Barely anything happens.

Doctor strange is alright. Not especially unique but it has some pretty neat visuals.

There. We're done with the exceptions.

I'll get Spider Man out of the way. In addition to being just another MCU movie, this isn't Peter Parker. He's a mumblecore imbecile suffering from adhd.

Thor Ragnarock is too concerned with making jokes.

Black Panther was only loved by critics because they didn't wanna be called racist. It's a good movie and I think it's creative. So creative it used up all the creativity in Marvel for 10 years. But its only a Marvel movie, setting it in Africa doesn't make it revolutionary and its still a very America-centric view of the culture.

Infinity War was atrociously boring. I had more fun watching Batman Forever.

Ant Man and Wasp made me fall asleep. I do not fall asleep during movies.

Captain Marvel is an undynamic protagonist who has so little personality and is so token, I was able to exchange her for a bracelet at Chuck E Cheese.

Avengers Endgame was actually fun during its first and second half but the ending ruins everything. Also it undid literal years of character development for Gamora and Peter.

Black Widow was another generic movie with no stakes. Its jokes weren't funny and it introduced my least favorite MCU character Yelena who has even less character than Carol Danvers.

Never watched Eternals.

Shang Chi was just another Marvel Movie.

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of KFC has continued the trend of killing characters before they can be developed.

and I haven't watched Thor 4.

But my main issue with the MCU is its impact on culture. The MCU is a movie franchise and there's only like 5 movies coming out every year as opposed to the hundreds of different comic runs being put out every year. The MCU doesn't have any extremely unique products. Everything is so homogenized and identical and it takes up airspace for other media. You don't see any unique movies anymore, you just see Marvel and other franchises with maybe 1 or 2 movies worth a damn a year.

It's also just generally an inferior canon to everything else from Marvel properties.

#antimcu

[sarcasticace]

Remember how Billy and Tommy tried to age themselves in order to get over the death of their dog or how Hex!Vision actively opposed Wanda/questioned his existence, suggesting the three had some degree of individuality separate from Wanda or simply being an imaginary hex construct...

But then MoM decides... you know what, Wanda was corrupted by the Darkholm off-screen. Who cares about bringing her children to life using dark magic. She’s willing to kill dozens if not hundreds of people across the multiverse, ruin other people’s lives and family, all to kidnap “real” living versions of her children from a version of herself who has assumedly been living a happy life as a single (?) mom.

#MCU #Marvel #Wanda Maximoff #Multiverse of Madness #Scarlet Witch #AntiMCU

[laufire]

I just saw a spoiler for the last in the line of those 3128 absurdly insipid new mcu shows and lmaoooooo. not only are they still parading this rotting corpse around but now they're determined to ruin shit retroactively?? and some of you guys still pay actual subscription money to disney for this???

#to be clear even pirating it would be a terrible waste. if only of time #talking to the void #my thoughts #marvel thoughts #antimcu for ts #jic #marvel #secret invasion #james rhodes #if u know u know

[tonkysexist]

The MCU strikes again. No Terrigen Mist. No Inhumans. Just more tech bullshit.

#i hate it here #antimcu #kamala khan #ms marvel #inhumans #marvel

[mega-ringsandthings-world]

Thinking about the pure love and tenderness and loyalty in that one scene in spiderman when Peter is unconscious in the train and everyone carries him in and promises to keep him safe, like?? They love him. He’s just a kid. He saved them. They know, and their gonna keep him safe. He saved them. There’s-

#spiderman #tobey maguire #tobey maguire spiderman #antimcu

[bisexual-spider-man]

He’s gonna get his ass fired.

#sebastian stan #antidisney #antimcu #antiendgame #bucky barnes #spider-man #spider-man meme #spider-man pointing meme #spider-man pointing at spider-man #stucky #memes #my memes #edits #myedits #meme edits #guns #swearing #userbispidey #tag later

[smartshipfriday]

don’t let the “tony stark is female coded because he’s sExY” people find out about dick grayson

#marvel #dc #mcu #antimcu #antitony #tony stark #iron man #dick grayson #robin #nightwing

[lamujerarana]

Ugh, I am just genuinely so angry that openly sexist MCU writers decided to invent a relationship between Peter and Tony out of thin air when that narrative focus could have gone to Peter’s relationship with Aunt May. There is no precedent at all in 616 for a relationship between teen Peter and Tony. Teen Peter thoroughly despised Tony (he hated everyone, so don’t take it personally). So they WEREN’T actually drawing from the comics at all. And the thing is? I cannot think of a single reason for the invention of this relationship between teen Peter and Tony and the concomitant narrative marginalization of Aunt May that isn’t rooted either in ageism, sexism, or crass materialism.

But imagine if, instead of introducing this entirely unnecessary relationship between Tony and Peter, that focus had gone to Aunt May. To Peter wanting to live up to Aunt May’s example of personal responsibility, her need to help everyone around her. Which is true in the comics. Imagine if we saw an Aunt May who was a dedicated activist and involved in numerous charities (which, again, she does in the comics and has for decades). Because that’s what you do. You help everyone around you. You fight with everything you have to make the world around you better. Imagine if that had been where Peter learned to be a hero. From his Aunt May, who already always had been. (Again, true in the comics.)

As someone who FUCKING ADORES Aunt May, I am furious that they didn’t go this route. We could have had something wonderful. There are so few examples of young men who are inspired by elderly female mentors. It’s always about their relationships with men, which is, of course, incredibly sexist.

I feel that the people who are so okay with how sidelined Aunt May has been in the MCU just...can’t imagine what it would look like to have this sort of relationship between a male superhero and an elderly woman. What movies that feature elderly women could look like, PERIOD, since narratives for elderly women are few and far between. I will never forgive Disney for erasing someone who is arguably the most prominent and iconic elderly woman in all of superhero comics, especially given that their stated reasons for doing so are so transparently sexist. It’s clear that they cannot imagine any narratives for elderly women that don’t revolve around men, or for women in general that don’t revolve around their attractiveness to men.

And that’s exactly why we needed it. That’s exactly why we need more women having input on these films. We know that women don’t just cease to exist as people with hopes and desires and lives of our own the moment we hit 65.

EDIT: I’m including the actual quote from an interview with Civil War screenwriter Stephen McFeely for Aunt May’s deaging, just so we can all be furious together:

SM: It only makes sense. It never quite made sense why Aunt May was so damn old compared to Peter Parker. It was like she was more like his Grandmother’s sister than his mother. So it was either reclassifying who that old woman is, or make her a younger woman. And I think that gives you a lot more places to go in storytelling for a SPIDER MAN movie because you have an Aunt May with a life as opposed to a woman who is only concerned with, you know, is Peter going to get the eggs.

You heard it here first! Elderly women cannot have lives of their own. I’m sure this is news to women everywhere, so, thanks, McFeely, for informing us of the fact that our lives end the second we turn 65, and that we’ll be reduced to waiting in a kitchen for men to bring us eggs so we can then cook for them (a clear dig at TASM). It’s important for us to realize what’s waiting for us in our old age! /sarcasm

#may parker #spiderman #peter parker #marvel #comics #antimcu #criticism

[kitcat992]

The recent Marvel content I've consumed — Guardians of the Galaxy Video Game from 2021, and the absolutely MIND-BLOWING, award worthy, beautiful, too-good-to-be-true Across the Spiderverse — have been a firm reminder for me that Marvel spans far beyond the MCU, and as a long time Marvel fan, we DESERVE content like this and not whatever shit poop Kevin Fegie dumps into a toilet bowl.

I've been so conflicted with my love for Marvel ever since Endgame. It's almost embarrassing to associate with the very thing I've loved since childhood, especially as the MCU takes their low bar and keeps setting it lower than before. I literally cringe when I see whatever latest Power Rangers quality content they give their fans. It's humiliating.

But last night I got to see Across the Spiderverse, after replaying the GotG game for the second time. And I've never been more rejuvenated as a Marvel fan from these two entities alone.

The LOVE for the characters, the Grade A writing, the care taken into the content given to us — I feel *loved* as a fan from just these two things. Respected as a fan.

Meanwhile, the MCU keeps shoving down everyone's throat whatever CGI trashfest they can throw together in a blender as fast as possible — with writing that would make chatGPT embarrassed.

Nonono, I'd like to thank Across the Spiderverse and the GotG Game for reminding me the MCU isn't the only representation of Marvel, and Marvel is so much better than the MCU.

I'd love to end this with "do better, MCU" but I gave up on them right after Endgame, disowned them after No Way Home, and have no plans to return to the abuse. But godDAMN I've never felt better being a Marvel fan.

Go see Across the Spiderverse. I sobbed. Like a baby. So fucking gorgeous

#anti mcu #antimcu #marvel #across the spiderverse #Guardians of the Galaxy video game #gotg game

[mndvx]

WANDAVISION – Episode 4 ››› Teyonah Parris as Monica Rambeau

#wandavision #teyonah parris #monica rambeau #teyonahparrisedit #tvedit #wandavisionedit #marveledit #wandavision spoilers #my gifs #it's me your favorite antimcu back at it with yet another mcu gifset

[thesleepingnotsobeauty]

Hank and Janet deserved better from the MCU 

#Rider says something #AntiMCU #antman #wasp #hank pym #janet #janet van dyne

[sarcasticace]

Marvel writers heard “with great power comes great responsiblities” and thought... yes, that means when Peter learns that Stark created a pair of glasses that allows him to invade the privacy of millions, instead of questioning it, peter shall use it to delete an embarrassing picture of himself off of someone else’s phone. Also, he’ll accidentally call a drone strike on a different kid then give those glasses to the villian who he only met a few days ago.

#AntiMCU #MCU #Spiderman #Far From Home #AntiFFH

[fyeahfantasticfour]

Apparently, if my limited research into the topic is anything to go by, Disney itself doesn't exert much control on the comics overall beyond standard corporate stuff. Apparently, the one responsible for the F4 being treated so badly is Ike Purlmutter, who is in charge of Marvel Entertainment ie the comics/tv shows/cartoons, which is separate from Marvel Studios, who does the movies. Purlmutter is rumored to have a personal vendetta against Fox, because they own the rights to F4

As a person who has spent many hours researching this extensively, let me tell you that until 2015 – i.e., the year the Fantastic Four comics were canceled, the decision being made, according to Hickman, in 2014 – Marvel Studios was a subsidiary of Marvel Entertainment, which has been a subsidiary of the Disney Company since 2009. Feige reported to Perlmutter, who reported to Disney, at the time the F4 comic was canceled. It’s only been since 2015 that Marvel Studios, like Marvel Entertainment, became a direct subsidiary of the Disney Company. But still, let’s not kid ourselves, Disney retains full control of both of their subsidiary companies. Nothing happens that they don’t okay or order.

There’s an article where Marv Wolfman explains that Disney got immediate and full control of the comics the moment they bought Marvel Entertainment:

What does Disney actually get for their $4 billion right now? Maybe television and comics? Former Marvel editor-in-chief and Disney Adventures creator Marv Wolfman thinks so, even if he’s not too hopeful about that whole “comics” thing:

Publishing. Well, that’s the big one, isn’t it? At least for us. Actually, only for us.

And, after Marvel Studios moved to the Disney Company, another article said:

Indeed, this new structure puts Feige much closer to Disney’s corporate inner-circle, so it’s possible he leaves Marvel sometime in the future for another big position under the Mouse House’s insanely large banner.

And, also, this article points out that Disney ordered that no new X-Men characters be created in the comics to prevent Fox from owning the film rights and ordered the cancellation of Fantastic Four for similar reasons – the films make more money than the comics ever could:

Disney doesn’t want Fox to develop its own MCU because it wants to profit from those properties, and it doesn’t want moviegoers to be confused by two rival MCUs that are expanding at the same time. Therefore, Marvel believes axing the Fantastic Four comic book and eliminating new characters in the X-Men could disrupt Fox’s long-term plans and possibly force Fox back to the negotiating table.

So, yes, Disney DOES have the power to make decisions for Marvel comics, films, television shows, etc. They own Marvel Entertainment, Marvel Studios, Marvel everything. Disney is definitely responsible for the cancellation of the F4′s comic, regardless of Perlmutter’s “vendetta,” which I frankly think is a convenient way of shifting blame off of Disney for an unpopular decision in the press. This smells to me of a deliberate plot cooked up by Disney/Marvel execs (yes, including Perlmutter) to get the rights to the F4 back for next to nothing. And, yes, Disney’s avaricious business policies have proven repeatedly that they are fully capable of exactly that.

The fact of the matter is that a single F4 film produced by Marvel Studios – between box office and merchandising – will net more money for Disney than the comics could earn in YEARS. Maybe decades. The cancellation of the F4′s comic is all about film revenue for Disney, and it always has been.

So, yes, personally I blame Disney for all of this. Disney, Marvel Entertainment, Marvel Studios, it’s literally all the same company. They’re not separate entities at all. I don’t think we can or should think of them as such.

#marvel* #asks #antimcu* #antidisney* #mod: lamujerarana #fantastic four* #markhamillz

[handsmotif]

i keep losing followers for reblogging antimcu posts HAHGLKDSAL