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vroomvroomwee · 6 months
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You know what one of the nicest things about Doctor Who is? It's that, at its core, this show is fundamentally a sci-fi show, and how whenever they're running away from fighting aliens and monsters and what not, they never beat them by using force or physical conflict (unlike every new and old generic marvel movie) these silly guys (gn) always find a way to outsmart them, or find an actually science based solution, or talk them down. And that just shows they understood the essence and genre of the show, and I think that's so cool
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saricess · 21 days
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getting back into reading mcu fanfics and I forgot people still like the “irondad” thing with peter 🤢
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starliteonearth · 6 months
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This might piss some people off but it really feels like Sylvie doesn't need or want Loki in her life romantically, or even platonically. She seems perfectly content to be by herself and doesn't seem desire to be in a romantic relationship, with anyone. She's hit that point of it's me time, i'm focusing on me, on my happiness, on my well-being, and dating is not on my mind at all. Look at all their interactions in this season. It's always him going to her, reaching out to her, and she always walks away in the end. Even in the latest episode, at the bar when she's the most serene I've ever seen her, it all seemed like a final goodbye for her, closure, telling him to move forward with his life as she's doing with hers. And then she picks up her stuff and walks away.
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cloudinterlude · 9 months
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"Steve doesn't have to be perfect all the time--" But he is, so now what?
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callmebrycelee · 2 months
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HAPPY 46TH BIRTHDAY, KUMAIL NANJIANI!!!
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jinxquickfoot · 7 months
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Isn’t it great to be the good guy who has never made a single mistake? How horrible and nasty are Team Cap for making poor Tony so sad and hurt? Well, at least he has Peter and Rhodey. They’re not acting weird. Don’t worry about it.
Everything is perfect.
OR
When a creature with Tony’s face takes Peter and Rhodey hostage in Avengers Compound, it’s up to Team Cap to save the day.
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championsofmyheart · 2 years
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DEATH AND DESTRUCTION
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Big brother?: big brother Loki x little brother reader.
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Age 10: reader kun is Loki's biological brother. Laufey had send him to Earth because he didn't want him anymore and deemed him weak. He looks exactly like his big brother Loki (he wears Kid Loki's outfit but with fingerless gloves, the gold parts are silver and has longer hair.) and unlike his brother Reader kun is very young and is a very sweet boy when you get to know him. This takes place after Age of Ultron. Odin has Loki stay on Earth so he can learn how to do good. Sif is not pleasant, Oh and Laufey and Peitro survived and once again Civil war never happened.
King Laufey of Jotunheim stands in front of a portal that leads to Midgard holding a frost giant boy about ten years old in his arm. Glaring disgustedly at the small boy he said in a harsh whisper "I have no use for a weak child." He said coldly to his own son who has terror in his voice "D... Dad?" The boy whimpered as Laufey glares hatefully "DON'T CALL ME THAT EVER AGAIN." He yells to the boy who shakes in fear "Goodbye Y/N." he said throwing his son (more like yeeting) into the portal.
On Earth:
Bruce Banner and Tony Stark are in the lab. Tony making blue prints and Bruce trying to figure out how Peter makes his web fluids "How does Peter do it?" Bruce asked his science bro who is also curious.
At Peter's apartment: he is sick BTW.
"Achoo. Is someone talking about me?"
Peter asked blowing his red nose.
Back at the the tower:
As the two are about to call the young friendly neighborhood hero a bright light stops them. They turn to see some sort of portal open up confused they go over to the portal until something slams into Tony.
Tony looks down to see something unexpected "A kid?" He asked Bruce is also surprised by the surprise guest "We better get him to the medical bay, he's freezing! The poor kids skin is blue." Tony said grabbing a spare lab coat, swaddled the kid in it and ran to the medical bay while Bruce ran to get the others.
As Tony ran to the medical bay he heard the boy whimpering "Hey it's going to be ok buddy!" He told the boy as he entered the closes room and laid the boy down in the bed "Dad... I'm sorry. I... I'll try to do better." The boy whimpered Tony could only look shocked at the boy but it disappeared when Bruce and the others entered the room.
Bruce hooked the boy to the machines in the room and asked Friday to turn up the heat.
Everyone began circling the boy in the bed.
Everyone couldn't help but stare in curiosity at the boy. He had dark H/L hair and wore some really strange clothing that reminded them of Loki's clothes but with silver.
"He's so tiny." Wanda said "The poor kids so cold he's gone blue." Peitro said gesturing to the shivering Child "MY FRIENDS. WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING AT?" Thor boomed in his loud voice making the poor boy jump in terror. Everyone (except Thor and Loki) was shocked to see that the boys eyes were completely red "This kid isn't human." Clint said "What's going on my friends?" Thor asked until he saw the boy "My friends why is there a frost giant child in here?" Thor asked trying not to yell however Loki roughly picked the young frost giant up from the bed and held him roughly about to yell at the clearly scared frost giant child who was now shaking but when Loki's hands touched the boys waist they saw that the blue skin started turning into the same complexion as Loki, his ruby red eyes turned emerald green but his hair was the same black color, all in all the kid looked like a mini version of Loki but his face had softer features that made him adorable "You are... like me." He said looking the young boy up and down "The kid looks exactly like reindeer games." Tony said looking between the god of mischief and the young boy "Your my big brother?" The youngest boy asked poking Loki's cheek in curiosity "We have to take the boy to Asgard to show mother and father." Thor said in surprise looking at the boy "My name is Y/N by the way. Y/N Laufeyson. Well I'm no longer Laufey's son since he cast me out of Jotunheim." Y/N said opening his mind making Wanda gasp as tears run down her face "He is telling the truth." She said hugging Y/N making him hug her back Loki was in rage by his biological father's actions he just threw this innocent little boy away like he was nothing "I want to kill Laufey." Loki said as it began to snow until Thor placed his hand on his shoulder and Y/N's small arms wrapped around his neck. Loki's eyes shoot open wide from the small embrace from the young boy. He felt protective of him "I can do a DNA test to see if you are brothers." Tony said earning nodes.
"We should." Thor said wanting to be sure if Y/N was Loki's little brother. After getting some hair from Y/N and Loki. Tony put the strands into the DNA scanner and waited for results to print.
After waiting the results finally printed as a 100% match "You are my brother." Loki said looking you up and down "Let us be off brothers." Thor said taking you in his arms making you laugh "Don't drop him you fool." Loki said as Thor called for Himdal.
At Asgard:
The all father and all mother couldn't believe what they were seeing.
You a young boy that looked like their adopted son but younger and smaller.
Their boys explained to them of your situation and that you are Loki's biological brother.
They made their way down still looking at you and you looking at them in curiosity.
As they stand in front of you Odin places his hand on your head with Friga doing the same.
Upon this gesture you smiled a sweet innocent smile making the all father and mother smile back as they can see Loki in his younger days within you "I see no reason why he can't stay here." Odin said making you happy "We shall throw a feast to celebrate the newest prince of Asgard tonight." Odin said while Frigga can only have tears of joy on having another child to teach magic "Come son, we shall get you fitted for an outfit for tonight." Frigga said taking your small hand in hers "Alright mum." You said with a smile already accepting the all father and mother as your new parents making Frigga fight back tears.
Later at night:
you happily did a turn for Odin and Frigga in your new outfit for the feast,
It looked just like Loki's but with silver armor, a silver circlet with small bendy horns and instead of trousers you had on leggings. They clapped happily at how much you looked like Loki "Come son the feast is starting soon." Odin said taking your left hand while Frigga took your right hand and all of you walked towards the feast.
You sit in between Frigga and Loki as Odin gives his speech to welcome you into Asgard while a servants serves everyone ale or cider.
Once the glasses are full Odin raises his "Tonight we honor Y/N Laufeyson now known as Y/N Odinson. Mine's and Frigga's new son and your new prince." As he says this he lifts the glass higher and bellows "LONG LIVE PRINCE Y/N OF ASGARD." He yells "LONG LIVE PRINCE Y/N OF ASGARD." Frigga, Loki, Thor and the people of Asgard yelled back then drank their drinks.
You and your big brothers are getting food from the feast when you saw three men and a woman walked towards you "So this is the new prince?" A man with a full beard like your new father asked "I bet he's like his brother." The woman said spitefully "Sif! Please he is just a boy." Thor said in a protective manner while Loki pulled you behind him "Ohh please. He's already got you wrapped around his little finger." She said pointing her weapon at you making you clinch to Loki's cape "Sif stop it! He's only a child." A man with short blond hair and a beard with a mustache said "Ai Sif! What's gotten into you tonight?" A man with black hair asked Sif making her angry "AM I THE ONLY ONE THINKING THAT THIS LITTLE BRAT COULD BE LYING ABOUT HIS FATHER!?" Sif yelled in rage "He is no doubt like Loki, one day he will turn his back on us and betray us all." She said earning the attention of everyone making people whisper but everyone gave Sif death glares "She calls herself a warrior?" A woman said "She's ruining the new princes night." A man said.
Soon people began calling Sif out "Sif, in all my years of letting you get away with how you've treated Loki tonight you just proved that you have been abusing your power as a warrior." Odin said walking up behind you with Frigga in tow with disapproval in her motherly eyes as she places a hand on your head.
To make this short Sif was taken out of the party by guards and she was put in the dungeon for the rest of the night for pulling a weapon at you and saying stuff you aren't supposed to repeat and the feast went on with out interruptions until you started feeling sleepy "Dear I think it's someone's bedtime." Frigga said pointing to you "we'll take him to bed mother and father." Thor said picking you up making the all father and mother smile "Good night son." They said together as the each give you a kiss on the head "Goodnight Mom and Dad." You said as Loki and Thor walked out of the hall feeling exhausted themselves as they took you to your new chambers.
Thor gently puts you down so you could change into PJs "goodnight big brothers." You said as they smiled and closed the door.
After the party everyone retired for the night at 1:00 in the morning dual to it starting to rain and then thunder causing you to wake up in fear.
Your now clutching your stuffed fox that your new parents gifted you after you arrived in Asgard but even that didn't calm you from the booms of the thunder so you decided to go to Loki's room (hearing from him that Thor snores like Surtur.) as your walking down the corridors the thunder booms again making you sprint and barge into Loki's room onto his bed causing him to make an oomph sound "Y/N, What's the matter?" He asked as a thunderbolt crashed down making you curl up into him "Ohh." He said seeing that your afraid of thunder "Shh it's alright little one." He said kissing your head as both of you cuddle unaware that Odin, Frigga and Thor are at the door seeing the whole thing "He really has changed since his temporary banishment to Midgard." Odin whispered proudly while Frigga gave him a smile "I'm proud of you brother." Thor said seeing his two little brothers sleeping peacefully.
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elspethdixon · 11 months
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I'm a newbie to the Stony fandom by way of the MCU and was told the Resurrectionverse was one of my first must reads. Is there anything I should know going in that I wouldn't because I don't know the comics well?
That’s a complicated question. I’m going to post a short version that just lists major differences from the MCU and a long version that’s a summary of the comics backstory.
Short version: RR&R is a fixit fic for the 616 comics version of Civil War (and a previous event called Disassembled). The two biggest and most important differences between MCU and 616 Civil War are:
1) In the comics, Steve and Tony are much closer friends then they ever were in the movies/have been close friends for a decade, and
2) Instead of an international set of “accords” about superhero activity, the Civil War conflict is about the American government wanting to make every superpowered person join a registry and be subject to government oversight (this is thousands-to-millions of people rather than a few dozen because the comics also include mutants/the X-Men, and “Mutant Registration” is a political goal that anti-mutant conservatives in the comics have wanted for decades, we know from various X-Men storylines where people come back in time from alternate futures that in timelines where it’s implemented it often leads to very bad dystopian things), with Steve on the “fuck this idea and fuck you”/tear the system down side and Tony on the “if we cooperate maybe it won’t be as bad”/try to reform the corrupt system from within side. Bucky Barnes/the Winter Soldier has nothing to do with it. Also the conflict ends with Steve surrendering and then getting publicly assassinated by bad guys.
Other important differences:
Spider-Man is an early-20s adult who is married to MJ.
Tony Stark is about twenty years younger/the same age as Steve and is less of a manic-depressive quippy maverick and more of a clinically depressed control freak (who has never been romantically involved with Pepper). In the past he struggled with severe alcoholism and is now sober in the “I never drink alcohol ever” way.
Nick Fury is a white guy with a completely different backstory and personality from MCU Fury (and there was never an Agent Coulson, his right hand man is a guy named Dugan).
Hank Pym and Jan Van Dyne/Ant-Man and the Wasp were two of the original Avengers and are in their 30s with zero children (Hope doesn’t exist). Hank canonically has bipolar disorder and in the past has done both crazy mad scientist things and shitty relationship-destroying things while manic.
Luke Cage is married to Jessica Jones and they have a kid. There is a character named Spiderwoman/Jessica Drew. She is a physically enhanced former ninja who has nothing to do with Spider-Man.
Dr. Strange was involved in the whole Civil War thing on Steve’s/the anti-Registration side. The anti-Registration Avengers are crashing at his house (instead of in Wakanda) when the story starts.
Clint was never part of SHIELD and has a totally different backstory (he’s not in the first fic for reasons of temporary deadness but appears in the sequels).
Thor and the Asgardians are supernatural being/possibly actual deities rather than aliens. Thor was briefly dead during the whole registration fight but got better.
Jarvis is a human rather than an AI.
Sam Wilson/the Falcon has a pet bird that he’s psychically soul bonded to.
Bucky did not kill T’Challa’s father and T’Challa is not significantly involved in the Civil War conflict beyond glaring disapprovingly at it from Wakanda.
Wanda Maximoff/the Scarlet Witch is a mutant and one of Magneto’s kids. Prior to the whole Civil War thing she disastrously lost control of her powers and went crazy, destroying the Avengers’ headquarters and killing Vision and Clint (she later brings Clint back via those same powers). At the start of the story she is MIA.
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darksxder · 10 months
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EVENT!
ally’s birthday bash!!! / 400 follower celebration!
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thank you so much for following and supporting me! sorry my work has been few and far between lately! but that changes with this event!!!
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gay-jewish-bucky · 1 year
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found the funniest shit from a shipper in the anti-st-ggy tag
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imagine comparing people not liking your ship to the violent assault of someone for simply being perceived as (or known to be) queer by their attacker
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jakelcckley · 2 years
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Dont hate me on this, but I really was on the verge of leaving the mcu fandom. Back then, i was really excited because of the neverending connections between the movies and the plot building to one character/movie for the next phase, but then i became really overwhelmed with all of the new marvel series. (hawkeye, falcon and the winter soldier, etc. im not hating on the series tho)
Then i heard about The Moon Knight, it was very refreshing to see it as a standalone series, It's like a relief. it didn't show any cameos/connections from any other past characters of mcu (except that one thing about it being related to the black panther).
If they will continue season 2 and build a connection there to the other characters of mcu or continue it as a standalone series; either of the two, i will still watch it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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ginger-grimm · 7 months
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BIRTHDAY BASH EXCHANGE
Renzo Barnes Character Profile for @dolce-elegy
I hope you like it!
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notoyax17 · 2 years
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Captain America and the double-edge blade of “Context” from the outside perspective.
So... here’s the thing. The MCU, being a movie, allows us to have and add the context of Steve’s thoughts and beliefs to his actions. The framing of the movies and plot tell us to believe that Steve is “the good, moral man.”
But this is just telling us what Steve believes and what the writers believe. Anyone that’s consumed media can tell you that it’s really really easy for writers/directors to accidentally portray their characters in a way that sends a message that they hadn’t intended on. 
And the message that they accidentally conveyed? Steve may unknowingly be a Hydra sympathizer or a fascist sympathizer.
(Not a Nazi sympathizer, which is...close, but specifically a Hydra one.)
That’s sounds horrible, right? Super way off base? 
And it IS. That’s kinda my point. They didn’t mean to make it seem like that, but in universe, it would be stupidly easy for any journalist to make that case, regardless of whether or not it’s true.
PEGGY CARTER
Steve’s first love was Peggy Carter. Steve and Peggy are actually strikingly similar to each other, disenfranchised (due to health issues/stature and gender, respectively) trying to prove themselves and needing power to do so. They are both very quick to disregard the law, up to and including committing treason, when convenient to pursue their goals.
It’s important to note that it’s to pursue their goals, rather than just saying to do what’s “right.” Steve committed treason in his multiple attempts to join the army when actually being allowed to do so would have only gotten him and anyone trying to defend him killed. He didn’t need to join the war to help with the war effort. It’s just wanted he wanted for himself (Bucky - “Sure, because you’ve got nothing to prove...”). Peggy, despite no evidence and Howard Stark being her “friend”, decided that Howard intended to use Steve’s blood for nefarious purposes, so she stole the vial, which IIRC was part of government research since SI is a military contractor, and destroyed without so much as talking to him about it first. Supposedly because she didn’t want Howard to profit off of it, never mind any ways that those samples could have help the medical field or the army.
They would both go on to lead their own Stark funded organizations - SHIELD and the Avengers.
Which leads to the next big issue. A desire to have or retain power. 
SHIELD should be self-explanatory. Needing their fingers in every pie, secretive, breaking laws left and right to get things done, monitoring and capturing enhanced if they don’t work for SHIELD, etc. SHIELD’s policy’s reflect Peggy Carter’s desire for control of as much as she could get her hands on. There is no reason for SHIELD’s existence outside of not trusting anyone else to get the job done “right” and her distaste for the lack of trust/respect that she got from others in the spy/government community. 
Steve ran into the same problem with the Avengers, the unwillingness to let go of his own complete control over the team once the accords came calling. There is something to be said that, of all the people in that initial meeting, the ones considered most intelligent (a super spy, a literal rocket scientist, a genius engineer/most prolific CEO in the world outside of Pepper Potts, an android with the entire wealth of knowledge on the internet at his fingertips) all agreed on signing the accords. 
He turns them down but when given the option again, in order to avoid the first sign of real consequences for his actions coming down on his head, he nearly takes it. He only turns it down based on a weak excuse (Wanda’s “internment” in the sprawling compound. He fought in WWII. He should know what real internment is. Tony’s baffled response about her basically being “grounded” makes more sense than internment considering the size and amenities of the compound, Vision’s presence and the fact that the team frequently refers to her as a kid), escapes the moment he has a chance and continues on.
Which brings us to the next point, and also something Steve and Peggy have in common.
WANDA and ZOLA
This is actually where the real issues start.  
Both Peggy and Steve recruited a known Hydra agent into their ranks with minimal to no real oversight. 
SHIELD has a habit of recruiting people based on their “usefulness” rather than their belief in the cause or their goodness of character (I could go on a long rant about SHIELD’s really shitty record when it comes to asset management, but that’s something for another day). 
They both trusted their own judgement on these people. Their trusted their own judgement on their new charge’s character, on their ability to handle or control them, etc. And neither are the types to actually fully acknowledge being wrong, as stubborn as they are. 
So, despite committing outright atrocities (Zola was experimenting on soldiers in Austria - Bucky happened to be one of the few/the only one to survive that. Wanda unleashed the Hulk on Johannesburg just a day or so before), both were welcomed into the ranks with the slate wiped clean. Zola allowed enough freedom to work directly with Howard Stark and to make something that allowed him to upload his mind onto a computer. Wanda was running missions with Steve, against Hydra, despite being “untrained.”
And, of course, the moment those two were not looking, the world was visibly paying for it - Zola’s Hydra infiltrating SHIELD and the Winter Soldier’s missions, Wanda’s entire thing in WandaVision.
Apparently, fucking half of SHIELD turned out to be Hydra. That’s... that’s honestly an appalling level of incompetence for the so called spies of spies to have missed that, okay.
There is also Steve’s immediate sympathy towards the Maximoff twins in AOU. Something that Maria Hill herself notes as kind of off base, even if she doesn’t make a big deal about it. 
Steve, of all people, shouldn’t be sympathizing with twins’ joining Hydra to supposedly protect their country. Not less than one year after the clusterfuck in DC. He should be baffled. He should be shaking his head at people that would compromise themselves in that way.
He should NOT be looking at a pair of willing Hydra agents and seeing himself in them.
(There was no coercion there, they were not tricked. Wanda can read minds and... you know, they were sent after the Avengers.)
(I remember that conversation, that moment, being when the Shine of Captain America, who I had loved in TFA and TWS, started to wear off, and it just got worst as the movie went on.)
And then, Steve, the enemy of Hydra, takes the word of these actual Hydra agents who tried to kill their team yesterday over that of his own team and attacks them when they are in the process of creating Vision.
With no proof outside of Wanda’s word. The word of someone that has no problem admitting that she hates Tony Stark (and would thus have a motivation to lie to turn his team against him). The word of someone that unleased the Hulk on hundreds of innocent people - made worse by the fact that she likely didn’t know about the Hulkbuster armor.
But it’s okay, because Steve trusts her and she totally helped them out in a crunch! (To save her own life and the country she supposedly loves. But not to save South Africa or Seoul, because fuck ‘em, right?)
Steve also, in hiding the truth of the Stark’s deaths to protect Bucky, protected the Hydra agents that ordered the hit in the first place.
And lastly, he returns to live out his life in the past (disregarding all the warnings of not doing shit like that). Steve returns to the past and, despite being the touted enemy of Hydra, presumably ignores the decades of atrocities (against the world, against two supposedly close friends, against SHIELD) that they would go on to commit. He lived and slept peacefully despite knowing full well that Bucky was being tortured. He turned a blind eye to the death of a man he once called a friend, the corruption of his company and near murder of his son. He allowed his girlfriend/wife’s life work to be corrupted by Hydra and didn’t say a word.
STEVE’S FRIENDS (AND THE PEOPLE HE WORKED WITH)
This is the last point. It’s not as damning, but it’s... an itch.
There’s Bucky Barnes - unwilling Hydra agent. He has minimal to no real culpability for his crimes considering all of the brainwashing. It’s more that having your girlfriend and your best friend both have ties to Hydra is pretty awkward.
The STRIKE team. Steve spent somewhere between 1-2 years on a team comprised solely of Hydra agents with the occasional Natasha as his team. While not buddy-buddy (which he wasn’t with anyone at this time), he was friendly with them. They were his colleagues for almost around/longer than the Howling Commandoes were. There is a strong chance that they had some influence on him. You don’t spend that much time with people and pick up nothing from them.
Natasha. For better or for worse, Natasha is a former Russian Red Room (partnered with Hydra) agent that defected to become a SHIELD (partnered/influenced by Hydra) agent that is well known for being duplicitous as a habit and job. One who then compromised the entire US government and its relationships with other countries by dumping all of SHIELD’s secrets (and the secrets they had on other countries, no doubt) online. And of all the people that Steve could have trusted/gone to, he chose her. Whether this was good or bad is irrelevant. My point is that it looks bad.
Sam. (I love Sam and Anthony Mackie, he was the best part of that movie outside of the fight scenes, honestly.) Steve had known Sam for all of three days before going to him for help with defeating Hydra. He just so happened to have the file on the Falcon wings in his home for reasons. And casually agrees with committing treason alongside these two (in stealing the wings and everything else that happened in that movie). Sam could have been a Hydra plant (just as Sharon was a SHIELD plant) sent to watch him. He didn’t know who to trust but called on Sam of all people, assuming he had no ulterior motives.
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As an aside and final note, Steve’s ability to shift and eventually wield Mjölnir is touted as an undeniably “proof” of Steve’s goodness, which... it’s blatantly not in a way that’s baffling.
Setting aside Thor’s genocidal past (since the spell was placed after that), both Odin and Hela are capable of wielding the Hammer. Hela is...well, still entirely genocidal. Odin’s arc in his movies are mostly about his lies to his sons coming to light, his own genocidal past, and him considering humans to be like lowly animals and Jotun to be monsters.
Being “worthy” is a nebulous concept. Is it being a good person? Is it being worthy of holding the throne of Asgard (a notably warrior/blood-thirsty race of aliens)? Is it being similar to Odin (a list of traits that Odin specifically wanted in his son, for good or ill)? We don’t know!
Remember, despite Vision being the first of the team outside of Thor to fully lift  Mjölnir, his opinions on what the “right” thing to do have little to no weight in the next movie.
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“Good becomes better and bad becomes worse,” is the saying for the Super Soldier serum. Abraham Erskine offered the serum to Steve because he wanted a “good man” who could become a better man. After all, look at what happened with The Red Skull.
But... that’s a sample size of one.
So, how does Erskine know that that’s the case?
Or that it’s mutually exclusive. 
What if good becomes better and bad becomes worse? What if both the good traits and the bad ones are amplified? What if Steve’s good traits were amplified enough for him to not go all in on the evil side but his bad traits (stubbornness, need to prove himself/be important/have control, his lying to suit his needs, etc) are also increased, leading to string of bad decisions that are worsened by the fact that almost no one actually takes him to task until really late in the game as a result of decades of propaganda?
What if Steve is only considered a Good Man because the writers/story say he is?
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gamer-of-action44d · 1 year
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padfootastic · 1 year
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Not an unpopular opinion at all I think but some people are very passionate about exactly the opposite thing so here goes
1. Tony Stark was the best part of MCU similar to Batman being the best part of DC
2. Killing Tony was the biggest mistake because MCU Phase 4(?) does not even hold a candle because Tony, Captain and all the amazing character are gone. The only one I can mildly tolerate watching now is Antman (and that is because Paul Rudd is so hot)
3. The last Thor movie which was released was the worst MCU movie ever made (though this might not be unpopular at all)
And I'm sorry for sending this because this is not something you post about but I have seen *some* iron man posts on your dash and I thought why not
omg an mcu ask!!!! please don’t apologise, i love this sm. and ur right, i’ve def posted some IM content bc i’m obsessed w both tony stark and rdj and tho i don’t talk about it, he owns a nice, large piece of my heart.
1. Strongly agree
can’t speak for DC but gosh, yes. tony stark is hands down the heart & soul of MCU. i literally just look at ts comps on youtube all the time bc i can’t stand the movies when they’re so anti tony :( but i also just. really like him ykno? and deeply thirst after him as well. he’s not just impeccable eye candle, but also a great muscle man AND the best brawn possible. literally the perfect package. also, u just know he fucks so hard.
2. Agree
yeah, i feel u. i’m not very invested in MCU as a whole so i don’t feel too passionate about it but amy movie without iron man automatically becomes meh to me. also just, this might be the real unpopular opinion here but i feel like they really butchered mcu spider-man?? like i adore tom holland, he’s v good in the role, but the plot is so stupid? it makes me cringe v v bad to the point i couldn’t even watch the third SM movie tbh.
3. Neutral
ooooh i’ve been v cut off from civilisation for a while so i haven’t watched it (and i’m terrible w any visual media that’s not in theatres hehe) but i’ve heard very mixed reviews about it so zero opinion from my side, friend.
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