[ladyculebras]

the boys series finale spoilers

ryan rejects homelander and homelander goes unhinged

ryan rejects butcher and butcher goes unhinged

ryan is the reason????

as finales go...ryan gets adopted by mother's milk, so I am winning

[ptatas77]

This is why it was so weird to sideline Ryan in the final season

He is such a determining factor to both Butcher and Homelander and their arcs

[ptatas77]

I feel very emotional about Kimiko's ending, I was FULLY prepared for her to die taking Homelander down but i wasn't prepared for her ending to be so bittersweet

She really got away, She's finally free from all the violence but at what cost ? She's alone

Her ending is so beautiful

[ptatas77]

A part of me really wanted Ryan and Butcher to have a new start and move on but i KNOW what Ryan did was 100% right

Butcher is (imo) nowhere near as bad as Homelander BUT he was very bad to Ryan, Ryan always chose him and he always pushed Ryan away more and more, Going as far as telling him to end himself with Homelander (to say Becca would be disappointed is an understatement)

Ryan choosing himself felt so much like healing after the hell both Butcher and Homelander put him through and I'm so glad he has mm now

[ptatas77]

Butcher's death in the show is incredibly emotional but not very well written, At least not as good as Homelander or A-train

In the comics, The writing committed hard to Butcher being a villain, Ryan doesn't exist and Terror doesn't sinply die a peaceful death from old age, The build up for his villain arc was very well done

In the show, Butcher has the perfect setup for a villain arc with the S4 finale but they never commit to it, He was extremely chill in S5 and only switched at the very end which brings me to the 2 main issues

1 Ryan was completely sidelined in S5, He simply doesn't show up enough to be determining factor in Butcher's morality as the only interaction we see between them this season is Butcher asking him to die

2 Terror dies a peaceful death not killed by supes

These 2 things aren't even connected to supes, Them being what triggers Butcher into genocide mode again doesn't work

The villain arc worked in the comics, It could've worked in the show if they COMMITTED to it but they kept going back and forth

[ptatas77]

I fear butcher almost stopping at the end but telling hughie he was never gonna stop got to me DEEPLY

He saved him from all the guilt that he spent his life feeling

[ptatas77]

I have so many mixed feelings about the boys finale and s5 as a whole to the point i don't think i can even put it into words but I'm gonna try, this might turn into a rant

The season was extremely overhyped and underwhelming BUT the finale slightly delivered, If the season was 5/10 the finale would be a solid 7.5

For me personally i always knew Homelander would end like this, It was so obvious but HOW we got to this is the underwhelming part, They spent years teasing Homelander going absolutely insane and it never happened, Scorched earth was only a slightly scorched room, I did like that Kimiko, Ryan and Butcher all got their revenge on him and his death was ultimately very satisfying

Butcher was probably the worst executed death in the finale, Throughout seasons 1-3 it was always "will he won't he" because they never committed to his villain arc, S4 gave the PERFECT setup for it and they fully backed out during all of S5 only to switch again in the last 20 minutes, Imo the comics did it better because they fully committed to his villain arc and weren't afraid to make him unlikeable, Not the worst death in the show but could have been handled better

Gen v treatment was the weirdest to me, Ik they thought s3 was gonna happen but they spent 2 whole seasons setting up Marie to have a role against Homelander and that didn't happen regardless of s3, So 2 whole seasons didn't have a conclusion or a payoff

Ryan not being a main character this season was SO BAD but he absolutely ate in the finale, All the time he CHOSE butcher and butcher pushed him away finally catching up felt like a healing moment for Ryan, When he told Homelander off was so satisfying (that's not Homelander's son that BECCA'S SON) I'm happy he now has mm after butcher and homelander both put him through hell

Idk what to even say about Soldier boy, He was one of the best things in S3 and one of the worst in S5, Took a lot of screentime only to have absolutely no conclusion

With all that being said, I'm very happy about the conclusions to the rest of characters, The cast all did an AMAZING job with what they were given and I'm gonna miss this show with all it's ups and downs

[velvet4510]

I Finally Figured Out the Fox X-Men Continuity

OK, here's my attempt at making sense of it all - like it or not, I'm convinced this is what's going on. I'll try to make it as clear as possible; hear me out.

In my mind, the Fox X-Men film series depicts 2 different universes:

UNIVERSE 1: All the films with X-Men in the titles, as well as The Wolverine

UNIVERSE 2: The Deadpool films (which will be from now on abbreviated as DP) and Logan.

This explains why Wade is the same age in DP1 (set in 2016) as he is in X-Men Origins: Wolverine (set in the 1970s or 1980s). Logan's X-Men: Days of Future Past time-traveling to 1973 couldn't possibly have changed Wade's Origins birth date, which must've been in the 40s or 50s. This also explains why Colossus has an American accent in the X-Men films and a Russian accent in the DP films. Therefore, the DP films are a separate universe where Wade was born a few decades later and Colossus was raised in Russia.

This also explains why there are many young mutant children at the school in the final scene of DOFP (set in the year 2023), whereas no new mutant children have been born in 25 years in Logan (set in the year 2029). They are separate universes.

Within these 2 universes are multiple timelines, caused by the fact that each universe has a different methods of time-travel:

In UNIVERSE 1, Kitty Pryde's time-traveling of Bishop's and Logan's consciousnesses into their younger bodies in DOFP rewrites timelines.

In UNIVERSE 2, Cable's device in the DP films causes timeline-branching.

Therefore:

UNIVERSE 1 first has its timeline rewritten at the beginning of DOFP, when Kitty sends Bishop back. It is then more fully rewritten, starting in 1973, by the ending of DOFP. The last we see of the OG timeline is when the Sentinels are about to wipe out the last X-Men, then that reality is erased. The last we see of the new timeline, and that universe in general, is Logan waking up to the new, happier future - and that's the end of OG Logan's story.

UNIVERSE 2 is not rewritten, but branched several times.

It gets its 1st branch from Cable when he first time-travels; he comes from a point in time several decades after the events of Logan and after Laura is pruned by the TVA.

It then gets a 2nd branch when Cable saves Wade.

It then gets a 3rd branch when Wade saves Vanessa. During the events of DP&W, Wade is living permanently in this 3rd branch, where Vanessa never died. This is not the same branch as the events of Logan. However, all the branches are within the same universe - which is why the events of Logan cause the TVA's plans to affect Wade's reality. And this is why Laura is able to stay in Wade's reality at the end of DP&W without causing a paradox - she comes from the original timeline of this universe, then relocates to its 3rd branch.

Side-note 1: In the infinite multiverse, many universes are extremely similar with one key event that causes it to unfold differently than another. In the case of UNIVERSE 2, it clearly has similarities to UNIVERSE 1 - in Logan, Charles references the Statue of Liberty incident that happens in X-Men 1, indicating that the events of the OG trilogy in UNIVERSE 1 also happened in a similar way in UNIVERSE 2. But the difference between the two universes unfolds in how mutants are wiped out:

In UNIVERSE 1, Trask develops the Sentinels and then the timeline-overwrite causes mutants to finally be accepted.

In UNIVERSE 2, Transigen develops the mutant-suppressing poison which is mixed into widely-consumed food, impacting mutations and stopping mutants from being born after 2004. (This is why Russell is 14 years old in the year 2018 in DP2; he was one of the last mutants to be born in 2004 before the poison started suppressing the X-gene in pregnancies in this universe. This is also the cause of the Westchester Incident in Logan; Charles is not affected by a regular human disease, but rather by the mutant food poisoning that only exists in this universe that has made his mutation unstable, and is further inflamed by the emotional after-effects of Erik’s sudden death from said poisoning).

Side-note 2: Cable's device also enables universe-hopping, as seen when Wade briefly visits the MCU and talks with Happy, then goes home, in DP&W. Clearly this is an ability that was engineered within the 6 years that pass between DP2 and DP&W so that Wade could reach the MCU, and in general do some reality-traveling without continuing to affect his own reality; he certainly wouldn’t have wanted to risk any meddling that would’ve jeopardized Vanessa’s salvation in the branch he created.

Side-note 3: You could also view Wade killing Weapon XI at the end of DP2 as another bit of universe-hopping, and possibly creating a branch in UNIVERSE 1. Or, you could view it as an unserious meta-joke that doesn’t actually have timeline implications, just like the X-Men somehow appearing young - including McAvoy!Charles - in the year 2018 in DP2, which is flat-out impossible in both universes and clearly only a joke.

[velvet4510]

Hank McCoy really is a saint for not going full Beast mode and trashing the entire mansion in that moment in X3 when he just mentions he has “news” and Charles immediately asks “is it Erik??????” considering that the man spent over a decade of his life trying to nurse Charles through a depression over the very guy he is now name-dropping with heart eyes out of the clear blue sky 30 years later. Truly god-tier self-control.

[scottie-the-wolfdog]

Charles Xavier: nooo raven you can't kill people that's bad anyways ima go make out with my boyfriend, Magento who's killed 50 million people also where's my friend, wolverine. Oh he's busy stabing people that's fine

[moonleey]

You can never make me hate movies Charles Xavier. No matter what you say I’ll defend him. Love him with all my heart, flaws or not.

…

Comic Charles on the other hand…

[fuck-kirk]

You know what? Fuck it. *undooms your old man yaoi*

[xxfrom-the-earth-to-the-morguexx]

i love it when magneto shows up on screen with his cloak and his 'cant-let-my-ex-boyfriend-know-i-still-love-him' helmet

[velvet4510]

The fact that in the Sentinel timeline, Charles and Erik went from “then you know to stay out of my head” to “you sneaking around in here, Charles, whatever are you looking for?” to “can’t you read my minnnnnnnd?” to Charles being comfortably inside Erik’s mind for the entire duration of Rogue’s rescue mission is actually so important to me.

[idkhowtobenormal]

Eye don’t use this lightly, in fact, at all, but this has forced my hand

He is SO BABYGIRL so fucking bbg eye can’t

[nerdana]

This is canon, actually

Charles when he can hear them voices again 😔

[icarusredwings]

"Hank I miss erik"

"Hank I cant find my liquor"

"Hank! Someone 6 miles away is screaming!"

"Hank-!"

His 401k is like 40 million actually. Like yay cool, I get to live in a mansion and have all my shit paid for. Yes. But- I also have to take care of this sad depressed lunatic who is super annoying and clingy.

Is it worth it? No.

Why am I still here? I dont know.

Probably because unfortunately hes my only friend and its kinda fucked up to just leave a disabled man by himself..

[cconfusionh]

hey so uh. is it casual now

all the screenshots out here are taken by lovely @tastyvalerian btw💖

[cconfusionh]