I saw someone talking about this earlier, but I love the concept of The Winter Soldier being a ghost story. The IDEA of the Winter Soldier. Something you see out the corner of your eye. A ghost that leaves a trail of bodies. Something you never saw coming and never saw leave.
In CA:TWS the Death Squad mentioned by Bucky (idk how to spell the whole thing) is considered more dangerous. But in the 60 or so years that he was the Winter Soldier, he was the one people feared. Yes, the Death Squad was successful, but that was the work of 5. He created a reputation by being a one man killer. Not only that, but an efficient and deadly machine with one mission. To comply.
I kind of wish we got to see more of the Winter Soldier in action (but don't get me wrong, seeing Buck as the Winter Soldier makes me sad). Having more elaboration and action would be interesting though.
I used to be very big on symbrock during my late teenage years. But nowadays I just can't bring myself to enjoy it anymore. Because the very aspect of the characters that I found so enjoyable and fascinating to me, keeps getting downplayed and erased in favor of this weird drug metaphor narrative intended to impress straight ppl. From what Ik, it's because of the first Spiderman cartoon that wrote them like that since there wasn't too many Venom appearances to work with at the time, but overtime this mis-take started to repeat itself in different adaptations and become cemented as the mainstream perception of what the characters were about.
And that sucks for me because the reason why I fucked with these characters in the first place was because of the queer rep. It was so euphoric for me to stumble upon pictures of Venom #150 depicting a dark queermasc pairing that didn't feel corporate or like it was trying to hard to pander. And to see that within Venom of all characters, a character who is so big within the mainstream was amazing. That's why I find it so disheartening the amount of times and the amount of ppl that disregard symbrock as a legit story element. Including some writers somehow? Like, I'm made to feel like I'm delusional and crazy for caring about these characters in the first place.
I haven't read any recent comics, let alone touched anything recent involving them in fear of mockery and disappointment, but I kinda want to talk to symbrock shippers still. Spidey x MJ ppl at least get to have their critiques and grievances with the mishandling of their ship taken seriously. Meanwhile symbrock shippers get gaslit for even daring to acknowledge their ship as a canonical story element sometimes. :/
mini ironheart/ iron man rant bc the fandom’s lack of media literacy makes me want to bang my head against a wall sometimes 🥰
kinda spoilers for ironheart? but if you’re reading this i assume you’re caught up lol
first of all: it’s ok for fans to joke about tony’s superpower being his money… but when riri, a character who has never known tony personally & just knows the public’s “billionaire playboy philanthropist” perception of him, questions if he’d be who he was without billions of dollars he inherited from his dad, then it’s a problem?
she immediately follows up that question with “no shade, that’s just the way the world works”… so where are we getting the idea that she’s disrespecting him??
all i see is a teenage girl with limited resources looking at what a very wealthy man was able to accomplish using his almost unlimited resources & wishing she had the means to do anything close to what he created
also she’s 100% got a point and anyone who’s mad just isn’t paying attention lol
“tony built an arc reactor and suit with a box of scraps in a cave!” ok yes i know that, we all do! it’s the most quoted thing in all of marvel! & while that is very impressive (no one said it wasn’t), tony wouldn’t have even been in that cave if it weren’t for his status
his entire arc as iron man starts with that kidnapping, and if he wasn’t the son of weapons-manufacturer howard stark, he wouldn’t have had the weapons empire or the billions of dollars in inherited money, he would not have been kidnapped by terrorists and therefore he would not have come up with the iron suit in the first place
sure he’d still be a genius without his money and would be capable of building the suits, but without money, resources, & all the time in the world to mess around in his mansion, he wouldn’t be able to build as many suits as he does in the mcu
anyway tony would’ve loved riri and everyone hating bc she dared question if the billionaire would still be who he was without his money needs to watch the movies again
not to be controversial on main, but it's quite interesting how the marvel shows lead by white leads have all had at least 9 episodes for their show, yet the shows lead by people of color have only been given 5/6 episodes...
like wandavision 9 episodes, daredevil 9 episodes, agatha all along 9 episodes, loki 12 episodes.
then there's falcon and the winter solder 6 episodes, ms. marvel 6 episodes, moonknight 6 episodes, and now ironheart with 6 episodes.
it's just interesting how the shows with poc as leads can't seem to get those extra episodes...maybe i'm overthinking but it just doesn't sit right with me because you CAN do 9 eps but they chose not to do it with particular shows???
Ok but I am legit in love with this movie. To me, these guys are the found family Avengers everyone wrote fics about in 2012
Congressman Bucky is smth I wasn't expecting but I am not complaining about. He's so goofy 💕 (don't get me started on the dishwasher scene... I cried laughing)
I love the realistic take on how Yelena's mental state would be after everything she's gone through *nats death, red room, etc* especially how they portray it in those freaky ass rooms the void sends people to. it's refreshing and makes my heart melt when she finds the right crowd to help her out 🫶 ('we own you now.' ICONIC)
Again with the realistic takes, I love how Thunderbolts made John likeable. Like he's still a complete asshat but you can kinda sympathize with him in his situation. You gotta love him bro
I really have no opinions of Ava so far, I haven't watched the ant man movie she's in (pretty sure it's ant man) but her thing of phasing through walls is cool and reminds me of vision randomly breaking into Wanda's room via wall
ALEXEIII HE'S SUCH A DAD IN THE MOVIE EMBARRASSING YELENA AND HYPING UP THE TEAM I LOVE HIM SO MUCH!! OK listen he may have a kill count of like 100 or something and can break someone's skull without trying but he's a teddy bear trust.
Silly little reminder that when Hulk did this (rant ahead)
He was throwing around a creature who is considered to be 500+ lbs because he and Thor both have super high muscle and bone density, so Hulk is literally tossing around a guy (that's super fucking heavy) like he's a stuffed animal. (Cont. below)
And that wasn't even his entire strength, because he didn't even break a FUCKING SWEAT!! so why the hell did he lose all the other battles in the MCU? Because the writers won't show how strong he is!! HE LITERALLY DID THIS TO SURTUR
HE FUCKING KNOCKED SURTUR AROUND LIKE A PUNCHING BAG
THE BEING RESPONSIBLE FOR EXECUTING RAGNAROK AND THE ONE WHO LITERALLY DESTROYED THE ENTIRETY OF ASGARD AND WAS THE ONLY SUPPOSED THING THAT COULD HAVE BEAT HELA (Hulk could have) WAS KNOCKED AROUND LIKE A GODDAMN PUNCHING BAG!!
And also, may I just point out that Hulk wouldn't have been scared of Thanos? That was so OOC for him it genuinely hurt me. Hulk loves fighting people as strong if not stronger than him. That's why he fights Thor so much. That's why the idea of him fighting Void and Sentry are coming up so much. He would have wanted to fight Thanos. And if I am mathematically correct, BASE Sentry could wipe the floor with Thanos. Maybe not wipe the floor, but win. And if Hulk and BASE SENTRY brawled, they would literally fight until they turned back into Bruce and Bob (this has happened in Canon). The only reason Hulk "won" was because Bruce was so pissed he beat the shit out of Bob, because Bob didn't wanna fight because it's Bob.
And another little thing? I'm not disrespecting Tony Stark at all, but if Tony could handle the Infinity Gauntlet then Smart Hulk should have been able to as well. It makes no sense to me why literal Hulk couldn't, but Tony could. Even if Tony had the upgraded one, Hulk is literally so much stronger than Tony. Tony's feat was ridiculously impressive, but MCU writers absolutely shit on Hulk.
Agatha a Rio this Agatha and Rio that SHUT UP. (I love them to but...)
The people that are mad because an episode was about Billy Maximoff Explaining his character are actually insane. Like I felt it's necessary to explain. Plus, there's plenty of more episodes coming. It was not a bad episode. It was genuinely a nice backstory moment. 
Like why are we ignoring the fact that we got in-depth detail of why Billy Maximoff is on the road as well as learning about his character. Nobody knew about the amnesia. Nobody truly knew the cinematic version of Billy Maximoff changes and it's an important moment. The episode wasn't a filler. The episode was an explanation. There's gonna be plenty of other moments for Agatha and rio. 
under the cut, you will find a hate-fueled, yet very logical rant about marvel’s nuke of steve rogers, including discussions of his doomsday teaser. enter if you dare.
not sure who this gif is originally by, but i found it on pinterest from @/lesbelordi!
i am a steve rogers lover, admirer, defender, (insert any other positive word here), but that doesn’t mean i will defend every aspect of his character.
marvel completely ruined steve as soon as they decided that peggy was more important to him than bucky. this is completely contradictory to anything we were taught about steve’s character pre-endgame.
i won’t go too in-depth on this specific point, because this has been talked about for years. chances are, you probably understand this as well as i do if you’re on marvel tumblr.
but what bothers me the most is how they’re BRINGING HIM BACK?
listen. i love steve rogers. usually, i would say hell yeah to more of him. but he already got an ending.
now, it wasn’t very satisfying, but it WAS an ending that tied up his story. so unless they’re bringing him back to undo the wrong they did and give us stucky (which, let’s be fr, they won’t and they never will, this is disney we’re talking about, they LOVE queerbaiting), i don’t wanna fucking see it.
not to mention that steve has a baby in his doomsday teaser trailer!! so unless we’re getting canon stucky mpreg, I DONT CARE TO SEE IT!
maybe i’m cynical, but this is just marvel doing another money grab at our nostalgia and love for these characters, even if it makes no logical sense to bring them back. they did it with wanda, they’ll do it with steve, and they’ll do it with as many characters as it takes to increase their profits.
it doesn’t matter that thunderbolts* got good reviews, especially in comparison to other recent releases from marvel. it didn’t do good enough in box office, so it was a fail, and they have to pivot, in their eyes. they don’t care about quality. they care about money.
i’m not saying anything you probably don’t already know, but i’m still so fucking upset. how are the people officially designated to write steve rogers failing him so badly?
to be clear, i don’t actually blame the writers, it’s the execs at marvel and disney that are money hungry and uncaring about the art they create (see: disney and openai deal, fuck you disney). i support writers, especially those forced to write this dogshit.
im just so, so sad about what marvel’s become since endgame. to be fair, so much beauty has come out of this studio in the past few years, (gotg3, thunderbolts*, s:nwh, dp&w, to name my favorites), but clearly, they’re starting to lose it a bit. the quality on average just isn’t what it used to be.
i think everything fell apart at once; the russo brothers leaving (about which i have a whole other piece i wrote), the main plot being so heavily impacted by the events of endgame, losing a lot of the most beloved characters of the franchise, basically starting from scratch plot-wise, these all contribute to what’s going on now, i think. i just really hope that doomsday won’t be as bad for steve as it looks so far.
anyway, i cancelled my disney+ subscription because fuck disney, so i’ve been watching a lot of the older marvel movies lately (the ones i have on dvd), and this just came to my mind.
hope you enjoyed!
TLDR: my opinions on steve coming back in doomsday, and the state of marvel in general. i’m actually not that happy he’s coming back. i want to write my stucky fics in peace. i’ve come to terms with his endgame ending, we didnt need this.
