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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
Watching Infinity War for the millionth time (Peter Quill sucks!), and it occurs to me that the thing with Shuri talking down to Bruce, while kinda funny, also seems mean because he deserves it far less than Tony does.
Not only that, but there actually is a good reason they didn't do that thing he suggested:
They were under pressure (not only to create it in time to save Widow, but also due to Cap arriving with Wanda and Pietro and a fight breaking out). He didn't have to suddenly be silent and like uh...I don't know.
So yeah, wrong guy to do that joke on. Still funny.
One Strip! One Strip!Shuri was able to figure out a better way under the same circumstances as Stark and Banner, without already having the idea behind Ultron.
Quill costing them the win on Titan is kind of overly hard on him. They all kinda dropped the ball in some way. Except for Strange, and to a lesser extent, Peter.
I wish we saw Mantis actually knowing how to fight hand to hand.
Not exactly.
Shuri's enough of a genius that she was able to figure things out after looking at him, but she had the finished product in front of her.
Though I guess it's unfair to say she wasn't on the clock (since she was), but up until the battle of Wakanda began, it was much bigger.
One Strip! One Strip!Always thought the scene with Shuri was an unnecessary bit of Character Shilling: we already know Shuri is a really smart cookie, there's no need to make poor Bruce look like an idiot just to prove it again.
A friend of mine argued that the scene was needed to establish Shuri's TV Genius credentials to people who haven't watched Black Panther (which is most of China, granted), but I say that anyone who hasn't figured that out when the rest of the cast clearly puts their trust in her to take out the stone from Vision, is really dumb and has only themselves to blame.
Edited by HailMuffins on Jan 1st 2019 at 6:02:25 AM
I dislike it when writers do that in-general, be it in comics, films, TV, or whatever. Like there's an issue of, I think that it was Mighty Avengers, where Hank Pym is talking to Reed Richards and they're bickering. And Reed basically says that HE discovered the Pym Particle thing before Hank did.
And I hate it when they do that. That's Hank's thing, don't have another character swoop in and take it from him just for a cheap argument scene.
And I don't like seeing supposedly smart characters made to look dumb just to prop up another smart character. Let them exist on their own without that nonsense.
And when writers call Shuri "the smartest person on the plant" or something, there's no need to go that far. I mean they didn't shill Tony, or Howard Stark, or Banner, or Pym, or Helen Cho, etc like that.
Sure everyone ranks on Quill for losing his temper, but nobody faults Thor for not going "for the head".
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Speaking of Peter, I'm still disappointed there wasn't a joke like Tony saying 'Peter!', and then both Parker and Quill say "What?" in unison.
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Just for the record, I've made it clear I do understand this. Quill was overcome with rage, and had he been calmed down before hand, he'd have realized what a bad idea the thing he was about to do was.
I just don't care. He did it, and that's too much to ignore.
Remember, I've fully admitted that I'm not really being fair to him. Nor do I have any desire to.
Edited by HandsomeRob on Jan 1st 2019 at 3:28:57 AM
One Strip! One Strip!Really?
Why Banner? Tony would be a much better choice. What did Bruce do to deserve something like that?
One Strip! One Strip!Nobody was asking for Thor and Cap to compare beards (nobody knew Cap even had a beard until the first trailer), just as nobody was asking Shuri to mentally pwn anyone aside from Tony. People were asking for Rocket to steal Bucky's arm, but that was just because we've seen before how Rocket thinks that's funny and, well, it was funny.

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