choose violence: 12 + 16 + 24 (sorry in advance if I pick ones you've already answered)
12. the unpopular character that you actually like and why more people should like them
I answered Howard for this the last time, who else is actually unpopular that I like...I'm going to say Betty Ross. I don't think she's necessarily unpopular, I think that for the greater MCU she's just less known because she only appeared in The Incredible Hulk, which is now fifteen years old, not available on Disney+, and had its main character recast in The Avengers, so it's really easy to overlook. TIH also has some weird pacing, but given what she actually does in TIH, Betty is just...incredibly strong, character-wise, and manages to give off such a vivid sense of personality despite not necessarily having a lot to do in the film. And at the risk of defining her in respect to Bruce Banner, I think she occupies a really unique position in regard to him, because at the end of the day Betty Ross loves Bruce Banner full stop, end of story, no questions asked; everyone else sees Bruce in terms of "here's the Hulk," with not much space left for Bruce himself, and Betty is the only person who's more interested in Bruce than the Hulk. And all of that comes through in TIH; this is a woman who blows up her whole life for the man she loves and then has to live with the wreckage.
16. you can't understand why so many people like this thing (characterization, trope, headcanon, etc)
oh, most things, though usually I can turn my brain sideways enough to figure out why people like them even if they do absolutely nothing for me and are usually contra canon (or at least my read on canon). what's one of them. oh, wait, here's one that I absolutely do not get: people who really want Thor to not be king or to be in a position of leadership/responsibility. (I haven't seen TLAT yet, so I don't know what that movie does with it.) inasmuch as they had a through-line, the first three Thor movies are all dealing with kingship in the medieval Germanic sense, good kingship, bad kingship, culminating in Thor taking up that responsibility in Ragnarok (and then having it stripped away from him in IW); kind of similar to this read on Theoden. And for me, as someone who grew up reading Germanic (Norse, English, Old English, etc.) literature and mythology and who is a classically-trained medieval historian as well as being a high fantasy reader all my life, it's really obvious to me that that is what those movies were doing. And while Endgame itself later completely flinches away from it, even before that, I see so many Thor fans who were really angry that Thor actually took up the throne, and I do not understand, to this day, where that is coming from. like, is it general American "we hate monarchies"? is it people who are not familiar with those tropes? is it people who just decided they hated Asgard? like, I literally do not understand!
24. topic that brings up the most rancid discourse
gave a list for this in my last response so here's part 2
the MCU: is it good or bad (it's neutral, y'all; it's done some things really well and some things really poorly, and yes, it changed the face of the entertainment industry; I don't think it's as easy to answer as a yes or no question)
any of the deaths in Infinity War and Endgame. like, pick one, it always goes terribly.
does Asgard have primogeniture? I don't actually know how much discourse there is about this but it's the one that drives me personally insane.
Tony Stark and Peter Parker. any variation of this just goes places.
how absolutely weird Hayley Atwell and Peggy Carter fans are about Sharon Carter and Emily van Camp. I don't know how much this one comes up anymore but I've Seen Things.
