#marvel rants

[dannyleclerc]

the people shitting on the new cap movie dont fully realize what captain america really stands for. steve was given the serum because he was "a good man" and thats exactly why steve picked sam as the next captain america, because sam is a good man, not a perfect soldier. he always sees the good in people just like how steve did. so i dont want people who have watched the new cap movie to say that sam doesnt deserve to be captain america.

[isagrimorie]

One thing I am not fond of with movie comic book fans / anime fans is this thing where there’s the need to do a ‘versus’ for each character.

The number of ‘John Walker’ versus posts or ‘Can John Walker/Bob/Sentry/the Void defeat (insert character)’.

Or the number of ‘Can Sentry defeat Scarlet Witch/Thor etc.,’

Also this fascination over John Walker when Yelena is Right there.

Like I have no beef with the characters themselves but boy is the fandom for Walker getting on my nerves. It’s like the fandom for Howard from Wandavision, except they’re vindicated.

Except canonically what Walker was, was is very much ‘not as terrible as you could have been’.

Admittedly, this irritation is powered my never ending bitterness that the director decided to kill off Antonia after everything Natasha did to save her. Thus cutting more of Ava’s storyline.

(Don’t get me wrong, though: I really, really, really liked Thunderbolts*. I think its one of the better structured stories in recent marvel stories but there’s small things about it, why I don’t think I will ever love it and not tip to great for me. But it really is such a good story except for all the things that *waves* my issues with the movie.)

[geoz-n]

Begging everyone who watched the deadpool and wolverine movie to go read Spider-man / Deadpool because that actually does that dynamic justice pLEASE

[thisuserisanon]

i am here to publicly state that the long -> short hair bucky means EVERYTHING to me and i am here to prove why it should mean as much to you. (OR devesh ranting at 12:00am about bucky barnes..)

in my humble and honest opinion, that transition was a completely disconnect from his previous life. it not only means so much to me, but so much to him as a character and a person too. being able to make such a change and really just progress and move on as a human being is such a powerful and impactful statement that i don't see very often.

some of you may be saying "oh dev, its just a haircut like it isnt that deep" and to that i say that youre wrong! as everyone and their dog knows, bucky was forced into such an awful situation, one that i literally cannot even fathom due to the extremities that he faced. he was brainwashed, tortured, forced to kill and so much more and throughout that he was obviously unable to take care of himself.

getting out of that situation the way he did and then being told he just needed to move on and adjust to human life? honestly shocking. you can see how his character develops from when hes introduced to where he is today and i can say that i think the development of his character is really cool.

to dive into why i think the haircut means a lot to him would take me months to truly explain so at face value here it is. i do believe it changed him. whether that be from being able to take care of himself to having a disconnect from the past, i think it really did help. of course he suffers from nightmares and the permanent memories of his past, being able to control something and try and move on from those horrible times would mean absolutely everything to me and im sure that means a lot to him.

if we look at the first option, it would feel absolutely amazing to be able to take care and manage the way you look after years and years of having no control at all. the fact that he now has the ability to control the majority of his life and especially control how he looks is such a freeing thing that not many people truly understand.

if we look at the second option, it is honestly even better. finally being in control of something would lift such a heavy burden off his chest despite everything else that is weighing him down. while talking from personal experience is usually frowned upon while making statements i think it honestly is fitting. going through something so gruesome can and most likely will change you as a person. i know for a fact that if i were to be put through that, the first thing i would do is make a drastic change. whether that be cutting my hair off or whatever, that change that i'd make would be the most freeing thing in the world at that moment.

honestly i could rant about this for years if i wanted to but i'll shut up... anyways i think tumblrs turning into the spot for me to rant about my special interests!

[jeronicashippersclub]

okay but is it just me or does everyone think that it was a real a-hole move to advertise maria hill like she was gonna be an important character in secret invasion and possibly more later then kill her off in ep 1 - like wtf?

[mysweetgelphie]

u can have a favourite spider-man w/o hating on the others, like bro chill

[psycho-mocha]

I don't think anything has ever pissed me off more than John calling Bucky Bucky

[jazzythursday]

I wrote most of this a while ago when I was still very very sad about the Loki show being The Great Disappointment That It Was, and while time has sort of mellowed how intense my feelings of betrayal are, the sentiments still stand very true for both the Loki Series, Infinity War/ Endgame (etc), and the general direction I’m seeing in Marvel going forward for many of their projects.

Still kind of baffles/enrages/saddens me that we’re at the point where the highest grossing franchise in the world, which prides themselves on being one giant connected universe, isn’t expected to provide character or story continuity, hire competent writers who are experienced and passionate about the characters they’re writing, or really just give a single fuck about maintaining the quality of depth and story telling that was present in the earlier phases.

And when you’re not okay with that, when you’ve watched this slow decent in care and quality eroding your at favorite characters until their unrecognizable, when you’re vocal about the fact that the writer/director of the thing you’re  passionate about seems to actively dislike the source material/character or isn’t qualified to be in charge of it, when you say ‘hey, there’s some really shady messaging in this that implies a really harmful thing, and you guys maybe should have thought about the connotations of it before going through with it’… you’re told to just shut up and stop complaining, that it’s fine for entire character backgrounds to be retconned and to hire writers who don’t invest time and research into their work. That it’s fine that character’s abilities and strengths and entire fucking personalities are scraped and that touching, poignant stories are replaced with soap opera levels of insincere drama and romance. You’re told that these perceived issues and imagined slights (he he) are completely insane and you should just stop drawing attention to the things you’re just expected to ignore for some reason being so negative about.

Marvel’s ability to create meaningful, rich, character driven stories that appeal to multiple groups of people is what made them so unique and popular in the first place. Inconsistency was at least partially explained, or wasn’t detrimental to the plot, production value was priority, and films had a weighty feel that enforced the stakes and could amerce the audience in the story. They cared at one point; maybe they weren’t genius films or the hight of cinema but they were gripping and emotional and decent. But it’s not fans of those films that are Marvel’s target audience anymore, it’s the people who weren’t.

You know, at the end of the day I think if the movies were better, if the writing and production consistency and continuity were better, if they took themselves seriously enough to follow basic logic in storytelling instead of veering off the proverbial cliff and expecting us to pay to watch our favorite characters sink, if they developed concepts and showed us fully realized characters, EVERYONE WHO DOESN’T CARE WOULD/ SHOULD STILL BE ABLE TO ENJOY THEM!!

Because that’s what we want when we criticize what’s happening with the future of Marvel. That’s what we mean. We mean “Please create things that both audiences may find something to enjoy in. Please try to do right by us and the characters who’s lives are dictated by your decisions. Please care, as much as we do. Please create authentically, engagingly, passionately. Please, try to be better, try to make more than just the money you want from our wallets.” And I can only hope those satisfied with less might find the good in things that would come from all of that as well.