Hero stuff ☮&❤

Mostly a blog for my superhero side and TV + People

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The juxtapoisition between “I loved finally having Black Kryptonians but having them as villains who are essentially dictators who are incarcerated in a prison for eternity was JUST-” Hoping we get a heroic Black Kryptonian at some point, good to have some rep period of that in YJ. 

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Gratiela Brancusi as the Scarlet Witch is something I didn’t know I needed until now. She also is Romani and very comic accurate in skin tone and hair❤️❤️❤️

Credits

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“We’ll say hello again.”

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WANDAVISION (2021) AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON (2015)

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I love how Ms. Marvel’s focusing on a brown girl and her culture scared off the “Mid”-type dudebros that make watching these MCU’s projects unbearable or spend all their time screaming “MCU BAD!!” for clicks (but still tuning in….?) I didn’t get to experience WandaVision during the hype and only watched it a month ago and loved it. Moon Knight was great but I wasn’t super involved with fandom, Ms. Marvel is super fun and the fandom seems mostly good.

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me this week:

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Multiverse of Madness

Review below~ 

Tons of spoilers be warned. 

It's official, my ability to give a damn about the MCU lives after it died off sometime in 2017-ish? Amazing what SAM RAIMI brought to the table, thought people were full of BS and gassed him up but it just goes to show his Spider-Man trilogy and skills were not a fluke at all! This is the freshest and most earnest attempt at a MCU movie I've seen in my life. Easily my favorite without a shadow of a doubt! Multiverse of Madness is lovely to look at, the colors, the aesthetics, the lighting, the VFX effects, I adore the costumes and accuracy of America Chavez and the Scarlet Witch's costumers. The usage of VFX effects really made things feel magical, intense and psychedelic. The imagery of colors with Wanda's Red, America's Blue and Strange's magic. I enjoy what they did with their cast of characters and how they were utilized. I just literally watched WandaVision for the first time ever over the course of this week so I'm fresh off the boat on that one, that being said Wanda appearinig as a straight up villain and antagonist this movie was insane.

Agatha's line that still stuck with me was her telling Wanda that it was her destiny to destroy the world or something to that effect, seeing her straight up utilizing the Dark Hold to recapture her lost children and go down an even darker road was insane. The tone of this movie got really horrid at times, not scary just very jump scary, people getting impaled, people getting crushed, cut, there was such a large amount of blood and just general nightmare fuel compared to the usual MCU movie. I thought Disney had a tight lease on them for this kind of stuff but apparently not so, Raimi just went in guns-a-blazing and the style really did harken back to his Spider-Man triologies in terms of some scenery being a bit wrenching. Watching Wanda go from a sitcom housewife who is grieving to a abrupt killing machine was pretty insanely enjoyable, not even did they drag things out. They let you know in the first twenty minutes she's the villain of this story, it felt very fresh? No joking or corny nonsense breaking the tone just absolute madness from beginning to end.

The Illuminati being what they were without being direct fanservice and string of cameos for people to gush over is how I liked their roles here, I love seeing Mr. Fantastic and what I presume to be this world's version of Monica Rambeau? The little shoutout to Captain America's old catchphrase. The fight was essentially Wanda massacring this universe's avenger force owning her title as the supreme strongest of the Avengers. They were definitely here for exposition and played a role too in explaining how things went down with their own Strange. Professor X's sequence was an incredible way of showing who this character is without a lot of time to do it. The cinemagraphy of red smoke "overtaking" the area as he tries to save his own universe's Wanda.

I really liked America? I thought she was just going to be a designated kid character or something and just kind of there but they gave her a good amount of agency? Her figuring out her powers in the third Act and queeling the Scarlet Witch's rampage felt like a very organic way to end this? For a moment I thought they would force the idea this half-pint can suddenly hold a candle to Wanda with a few punches, she's clearly strong enough to break the glass in the cage but that was a red herring. They didn't go that rough at all! She defeats Wanda by "giving her what she wants" by controlling her power and showing her the path to her children. The way they freaked out reminded me of Kingpin in Into the Spider-Verse. She was reunited with her children in the wrong way which felt like a nice moral victory from her earlier line to Wanda about if her kids saw her for who she was. I like her aesthetic, I loved the star-shaped portals, I felt like her contributions were valid and she didn't completely play the role as a Multiverse Taxi and damsel.

I feel like this my first introduction to Strange as a titular character and I'm definitely a fan, he's great as a character. Definitely shot up my list of favs a bit, my only hang-up was at times it felt like he didn't use his powers? You have Wanda tossing magic left and right and he at times seemed a bit inactive in comparison? That being said the fight against his Dark Hold-wielding counterpart was insane, again incredible usage of CGI/VFX effects. The musical note fight was super enjoyable and mesmerizing to look at, I appreciate the sound correlating in proper with that. It's those moments that make movies feel like art to me. I'm glad things ended on a note of him not being tied up with his lady, seemingly casually moving on and calling it a day. The ending with the Darkhold taking root a bit was a bummer (honestly Strange's using the Darkhold felt a bit forced), am not savvy enough to know of the final character he ran off with either. I have a larger respect for Benedict Cumberbatch after this showing, I'll have to go back and catch up on some other MCU content involving him.

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America Chavez’s star aesthetic and portals, that’s my religion⭐️

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Vision, your thirsty is showing

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Wanda and Vision’s dynamic is so cute and noticeable in WandaVision (watching for the first run ep4) it really fucking sucks this is just Wanda’s powers creating a fantasy.

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I also fucking LOVE how closed off Moon Knight was from the rest of the MCU. Cameos and fanservice are nice but give me a good base story and adventure before anything.

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Dudebros on Twitter really calling Moon Knight “mid” because it had a character-focused narrative and storyline and wasn’t an endless string of fights/villain-of-the-day generic action is why I’m glad I stopped paying mind to fandom recommendations. It also shows me how MCU movies have a game-winning and simplistic formula for writing their movies that ensures their success in spite of any creative or innovative writing. Complaining he only used the Moon Knight suit a few times and why every episode wasn’t saturated with Moon Knight/Mr. Knight action? Saying that Layla got to look cooler/more screen time action?

I’m a fan of more “action-y” characters who are solely/mostly based around their hero identities like Spider-Man and Captain America but stuff like Moon Knight that focuses on the humanity of the character and that inner confront and turmoil is so damn good. At the same time people would totally only make room for more of the same types of stories and heroes. The vulnerability and emotion within Moon Knight’s main character had its own taste and style.

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I love how Moon Knight was more of a grounded origin story and character study on Marc/Steven/Jake as characters and their roles in each other’s lives versus being primarily focused on daily heroics stuff or even the overarching issue of Ammit/Khonsu, it was super a lovely breakaway and more grounded approach from the usual MCU-world shaking affairs that take place. At the same time they didn’t waste time on CW-esque episodic monster-of-the-day nonsense or episodic exploits. First Disney+ Marvel show I’ve followed and I’m impressed.

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Marc Spector’s story of abuse mirrors my own mother’s so heavily along with the extremely crazy topic of trauma/mental health and Isaac Oscars puts on such a soulful and rich performance it hits so close to home and makes it almost difficult to watch. Steven Grant being a creation to support Marc while the narrative lead one to believe the opposite is quite an interesting take on things.

The surrealism of Moon Knight simply is astonishing but as an adult male who grew up neurotic. Have such a nuanced amount of inner turmoil and that abuse coming from a woman in an emotional and mental sense is something we don’t see often. So many times I kept doubting what was genuine about the setting, Marc, Steven, their perceptions, visions and all because it all felt very multifaceted and dynamic. Truth, lies, fake, real, dreams, reality?

It’s such a nice breakaway from the usual brand of superhero marvel show, no crazy villain or monster of the day formula, it’s fantastical and amazing but it’s so self-focused and grounded because it’s more about Marc/Steven’s humanity than anything.

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Stings knowing Moon Knight might be only one season with six episodes since it’s one of the only Disney+ / Marvel projects shows I’ve cared about but I respect Oscars Isaac’s not wanting to be a “cog in the machine” after his experiences being Poe in Star Wars.

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you’re a sunflower

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Moon Knight | Spider-Man: No Way Home + Hugs