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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
I kind of predict some combination of Thanos winning and the finding Victory Is Boring (and maybe halucinating or recreating slain Avengers Emperor Joker style) and Steve or Tony using the gauntlet to undo everything Thanos did before using its power to destroy the gauntlet (and in the process themselves).
Faults to be allocated:
Tesseract: Odin
Eye of Agamotto: lets say the Ancient One
Aether which was kinda but kinda not on Earth: Bor
Third Eye/Mind Stone: Thanos.
Man, fuck Asgard. I'm glad it blew up.
Forever liveblogging the AvengersI am 100% on board with blaming Odin for sticking the tesseract on Earth and Red Skull for bringing it into play.
Loki theory in spoiler tags.
I think Loki is gonna have a Redemption Equals Death. He’s been shifting toward good, and it would be a good conclusion to his arc after working for Thanos/bringing the Avengers together. Bruce somehow lands in the Sanctum in the trailer. How? Thanos didn’t attack the Asgardians over Earth, which means Bruce got portaled there. Who can wield the tesseract to portal Bruce? Thor? Not his speed. Loki will use the tesseract to blast Bruce to Earth to warn everyone -Loki’s been in the Sanctum, after all. It’ll be played as Loki being evil “grr, haha tell your friends Thanos is coming” but actually be Loki being helpful. He’ll be on Thanos’ side most of the movie, betray him to save Thor’s life, and then die for real.
edited 16th Mar '18 11:40:31 AM by wisewillow
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Why not?
Everyone else suffers for Tony's screw ups. It's only fair the Asgardians get that as well.
That's not how you do Spoiler tags. It's like this:
[spoiler: The thing I want to say]]
Only you have to use two brackets for both. I left out one to show what it looks like. Here's the proper one:
The thing I want to say
edited 16th Mar '18 11:42:28 AM by HandsomeRob
One Strip! One Strip!@ultimatum Yes they deserve to suffer and I hope they burn in Hela!
edited 16th Mar '18 11:46:25 AM by windleopard
Do you really believe that?
I'm pretty sure Bucky would have fought to escape.
Hell, Steve prevented him from killing a few guys, and definitely prevented T'challa from killing Bucky right then and there.
One Strip! One Strip!They'll come out of this fine and/or dead. But if they come out of it fine they'll get a neat floating city about the corn states or Norway.
And neat floating cities are what its all about.
To be more specific and fair, fuck Odin and also his dad and also his daughter even though I don't think she was involved in this specifically.
Forever liveblogging the AvengersWell, Bucky tends to make pretty smart decisions when he doesn't Have Steve leading him by the ear, so yes.
Too bad he didn't do squat about the guy Bucky tossed off a motorcycle or the civilians in that tunnel he collapsed. And I'm not sure how helpful he was giving we see Barnes smashing a cinderblock into a guy's chest.
Eh, I hear they give you gas.
I don’t see Steve as evil or a nazi (he’s not intelligent enough to be either
). But on a serious note I see Steve as a somewhat well-meaning but misguided man who tends to solve his issues with his fists rather than his words and tends to be extremely short sighted when it comes to proving himself or his past is involved. And really, even Chris Evans has pointed this out. And he has far too many in-universe enablers to see how dangerous he’s becoming.
Basically, he’s a lesson in what happens when a legend becomes bigger than the man it’s based on. He's more like the Mark Millar Steve but slightly nicer.
I really do hope Infinity War has Steve finally take a good look at himself and reconsider his actions but I doubt it.
edited 16th Mar '18 12:01:54 PM by windleopard
End of Civil War had Steve admit he fucked up.
Not all the ways he fucked up but he at least acknowledge that he made a huge boner there regarding one specific thing.
Forever liveblogging the AvengersThat apology never struck me as sincere for two reasons:
1) Steve does the one thing you should never do when making apology; trying to gain sympathy from the person he's apologizing to. "I've been alone since I was a kid" is not what he should be saying if he wants to apologize to Tony. Also, you've been alone since you were a kid? What's Bucky, chopped liver? You pretty much steamrolled over everyone in this film for him and now you're basically pretending he doesn't exist.
2) Steve doesn't apologize for all the other crap he pulled and the fact that he's basically been an asshole to Tony since they met. Nor does he consider that maybe, just maybe, he was in the wrong regarding the Accords. That "Tony Stank" bit didn't help either.
The only times Cap's really been in the wrong was being too energetic about getting Bucky back in Civil War but A. he was right even if he went about it in the wrong way and B. the detail he withheld from Tony was that Bucky killed his parents while being mind controlled, and it was Tony who went ballistic even though he logically should know that Bucky had zero control over his actions.
The accords, as per the original comic, are a sensible idea handled just pathetically by Tony constantly bowing and scraping to the government. While yes, Scarlet Witch made a mistake, it should be noted that that government had let its premier secret service be run by frikkin Nazis for the better part of 50 years. They're bitching about collateral damage when they actually tried to nuke New York.
So honestly Steve apologising isn't something we should be picking apart.
edited 16th Mar '18 12:17:18 PM by Sigilbreaker26
"And when the last law was down and the Devil turned round on you, where would you hide, the laws all being flat?"Pretty sure that's not something Rogers wrote, but the delivery man (Who is kind of old and Stan Lee-ish) misreading the label coz of poor eyesight.
That's sort of been very mutual.
edited 16th Mar '18 12:18:53 PM by Ghilz
I didn't read Tony Stank as a deliberate zing by Steve. More Stan Lee the mailman having trouble reading his writing and Rhodey running with it because best friend privileges mean mocking your friends forever. FRIENDSHIP.
Forever liveblogging the Avengers

Don’t let Tony near it. Last time he had just one stone he created a murderbot army.