#like they’re just making him gay for representation points and giving him some throwaway husband character

[sadquickchristmassnowman]

question for you all

(the husband is NOT abed. important info)

(read the tags for my “abbreviated” thoughts If You So Desire)

#because like #obviously he’s gay like I think we all agree his character makes no sense unless you read him as gay #so him having a wife would likely completely counteract all that queer coding and just be. completely wrong for him #which would be difficult to watch tbh #BUT #if he has a husband it means the writers acknowledge his queerness but are ignoring what that means for his relationship with abed #like they’re just making him gay for representation points and giving him some throwaway husband character #voltron style #actually both of these options are kinda voltron style tbh #but one of them is referencing klance and one is referencing shiro or whatever his name is #I’ve never actually seen that show thank god that migjt be too much for me #ANYWAY I got very sidetracked #so yeah him having a husband would also be. ouchie. like what about abed. what about everything theyve been through #what abouuuut trust #jesus christ okay that’s enough tags #just curious abt yalls thoughts on this #community #nbc community #community nbc #abed nadir #troy barnes #trobed #troy and abed #community tv #six seasons and a movie #community movie

[amaluelmwood]

I’m going to put this all under a cut for people who haven’t seen it yet etc, but... some thoughts about Endgame. 

I mean. The first thing y’all should know (if you don’t already) is that I am a long time Tony Stark fan. My first MCU film was Iron Man. My first MCU character love was Tony Stark. Tony is my favourite, has always been my favourite, will always be my favourite. 

(It may also help to know that I am autistic and my love for Tony Stark is definitely also tied up in Special Interest territory, and also in making-me-feel-better-during-depression-and-shit-life-circumstances territory)

So.. I’m admitting a bias for Tony Stark right off the bat. Just, getting it out there etc. 

With that said.

The more I think about Endgame... the more I hate it. 

1. This film. THIS FILM. Did Tony so fucking dirty. I am perfectly capable of understanding why the writers went with this end for him. Hero’s death. Let him rest. End of an era. Maybe RDJ wants a clean cut. etc. But it was shit. It was badly fucking done. Tony Stark had ten years of character growth. Tony Stark made sacrifice after sacrifice after fucking sacrifice, until he made the ultimate sacrifice. That was a not-payoff. That was... I don’t even know what that was. I hate it. I understand that I am biased, but... that was fucking bullshit. It was also bad writing. It was also entirely predictable - I knew going in that this was going to happen. I... legitimately cried in public. 

2.a. Why the hell was Tony’s payoff given to Clint? Clint had barely been in the last few films. He’s been supremely underused and he was an asshole in AOU, CW. Like - really? Why am I suddenly meant to care about a guy who was an asshole and then disappeared?

2.b. Why the hell was Tony’s payoff given to Steve? And in such a really fucking stupid way? Steve’s ending was... seriously, what the fuck was that? You can come at this a hundred different angles and in all of them, it’s stupid and bad writing. A sample: So... after WS and CW, where he spent two whole movies being obsessed with saving Barnes and fucking over... literally everyone over it... he’s now abandoning him to the future alone? By going back and marrying Peggy, he’s just wiped out her entire line of descendants. Or, if he was always her husband in secret, he... spent 70 years in hiding? and Peggy... kept him secret somehow? And he had a brief romance with his own niece? Oh, and he also... left Bucky with HYDRA? He left HYDRA to infiltrate SHIELD? He.. left behind all the innovations and cultural shifts and so on etc to go.. and live in the fucking 40s? Where women and poc are less than secondclass citizens? I could go on. but I’m also just going to say: uhhh.. The serum severely slows down ageing. 

3. They fridged Natasha. Really. Really. Bad writing. The sacrifice that would have made better sense there would actually have been Clint, accepting that he’s gone too far down the path of darkness and using this opportunity to make a sort of amends for it. But no. Instead, we get ‘Natasha has lost purpose, is depressed, dies’. Right. 

4.a. Where the fuck was Carol? She’s the literal heavy hitter of this collection of enhanced people for fucks sake? What the actual fuck was all the build up of her film, and the extra scenes at the end of her film and IW? Setting her up as an important character for Endgame? And then... nothing? I mean, she’s stronger and more resilient than .. Hulk. Anyone else think of that? like, hi? She could have EASILY wielded the damn gauntlet/stones and survived unharmed? Hello? No? No. Apparently having her godmoding self turn up to kill the ship was what they wanted to go with. It looked cool, sure, but... 

4.b. An alternative to Tony literally sacrificing himself AGAIN. 

The gauntlet is thrown his way. Stephen gives him the hint. Tony goes to grab it, perfectly ready and willing to commit the ultimate sacrifice again, kill himself and his future, his hopes and his dreams, to save his family and the rest of the universe.

At the last second, Carol grabs it, ‘It’s ok Doctor Stark! You’ve made enough sacrifices, let me get this one.’ 

Carol fixes everything and her godmoding power means she’s barely scratched. Tony learns he doesn’t always have to make the sacrifice, it’s not always on him to fix other peoples messes, there are people around he can rely on... he can rest. 

5. Fuck the Russo’s. Cowards. Absolute fools. 

6. Also, what the fuck was that 30 second Russo cameo as a gay guy? Are we meant to be patting the Russo’s on the back for that throwaway never to be seen again ‘representation’? When we've got Brunhilde? Loki? Carol? You know, actual canon queer characters? Double fuck you Russo’s. 

7. ALL THE FEMALE ENHANCED/HEROES TO THE RESCUE except... wow... is that really all we had? Through, like, twenty films? I know that was meant to be an awesome look at these baddass ladies scene, but all it did for me was point out quite how few of them there were. Pepper-as-Rescue was awesome, though. 

8. Fatphobia. Fat. Phobia. Again, I know it’s a visual shorthand. But it was the fucking laziest, disrespectful, fatphobic bullshit writing. 

9. What the.. fuck was that Professor Hulk? 

10. Give me Tony back you cowards. 

---

I mean. I generally hate time travel stories anyway? Because they’re so.. stupid. But this film... This film did not do time travel well. Like. At all. I also knew that time travel was the only way they were going to do it. I knew that going in. And I still hated it all. 

But... there were some things I enjoyed. 

Tony and Peter reuniting. That goddamn bearhug. God. Crying. 

Tony telling Steve exactly how he feels, finally. (Except, Steve... still didn’t apologise...) 

The look on Stephen’s face as he gave Tony the hint, clearly knowing it was going to kill him.

Pepper as Rescue. Carol killing Thanos’ ship. Everyone turning up at the battlefield to save the day. Morgan. ‘I love you 3000′ Literally everything about Tony as a father, actually. 

Thanos’ expression of utter defeat as he finally realised that was it. 

‘It is America’s ass’ ‘Hail HYDRA’ 

Loki mimicking Steve in the penthouse. 

... 

None of it made up for what has.. basically killed me. I’m not sure if my relationship with MCU can survive this. Tony Stark IS the MCU for me. It started with him, I’ve been with him through it all. It may.. have died with him. For me. I guess I’ll see. 

#tony stark #MCU #endgame #avengers endgame #spoilers