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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
You know what would be a really nice genre for Juggernaut, if they ever decided to make a movie about him? A Disaster Movie.
Juggernaut would be portrayed as a force of nature, completely tearing through everything the heroes can throw at him like a hot knife through a hot knife inspection.
Sure, it'd take some effort to work out the kinks, but I think it could work.
Reposting from X-Men General Thread:
Ryan "Deadpool" Reynolds is now on year 5 of his investigation over who leaked the original Deadpool test footage, or as he likes to call it: Phase 5!
(We shouldn't take it seriously, but it'd be hilarious if we ended up getting Deadpool 3 in Phase 5 of the MCU.)
Either Cap never thought of that or he’s spent the last 12 years thinking about it.
If he jumped out of the plane, he'd land in the same freezing water that he crashed the plane into, though. I don't know if that'd be an appreciably better situation for him. He'd need an escape vessel, and the only vehicles onboard were....
...
- Steve: Peggy, you're great, but I really need you to put Howard on the phone.
- Peggy: Howard? Why?
- Steve: Well, I was going to crash the plane into the ocean, but then I thought, "Hey, why not fly a suicide-bomb plane to safety first?" But there's an obvious flaw in that plan, so I need Howard to talk me through how to disarm the suicide-bomb.
- Peggy: Steve, those are Tesseract-powered weapons. I'm not sure if he knows the science. What if you make a mistake?
- Steve: Then I accidentally blow up the plane and we're no worse off than we'd be if I just put her in a nosedive right now.
Edited by TobiasDrake on Jul 29th 2019 at 9:35:45 AM
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.Could he have?
As Tobias points out, he'd have still been over freezing waters. There was no guarantee he'd have survived long enough to be rescued...
...well, ok there is, because he survived literally being buried in ice, but he had no way of knowing that. Pragmatically speaking he had every reason to believe he'd freeze to death before they reached him.
Plus, I'm pretty sure he wanted to be 100% certain the bombs were no longer a threat, hence why he went down with the plane to guarantee they were taken out.
I mean, you gotta be thorough right?
One Strip! One Strip!Did he, though?
There's a lot of unpopulated territory in the Atlantic Ocean. It's not hard to chart a collision course when there's nothing but miles and miles of ocean in every direction.
Edited by TobiasDrake on Jul 29th 2019 at 10:58:25 AM
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.Yeah, I'm also not really fond of it. Best left on the cutting room floor.
Like, I poke fun at Cap 'cause I feel going down with the plane was less "No other possible option" and more "Cap lacks the knowledge and expertise required to do something smarter than this." Like, he may have been able to make a better plan if he had any idea how the Tesseract tech in the bomber bay worked. Or how to read the plane's navigational equipment.
Did he even know how to fly a plane at all? Crashing a plane is easy; actually making it to safe harbor takes a lot of knowledge and experience.
Nosediving the plane was a bad option, but Cap was railroaded into it by skill checks, is what I'm saying. And he doesn't get to reload his save and try to prep his character better for the surprise ending.
But that's the kind of conversation that's best kept outside the work. Within the context of the film, we are supposed to agree with Cap that nosediving the plane is the best option available to him, and to respect and revere him for his heroic sacrifice. That is how the original scene is presented.
In any case, this is a scene that doesn't actually contribute anything of value to the story, which is why leaving it on the cutting room floor is a good idea. The problem isn't that it pokes fun at Cap, but that it doesn't accomplish anything by poking fun at Cap. It's just "Haha what an idiot, that Cap!" and then it moves on.
Edited by TobiasDrake on Jul 29th 2019 at 11:06:30 AM
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.They did blow up the mothership though
Without Iron Man guidance it would have been difficult to get a missile straight through the portal so they blew it up as soon as they could have
Bad scene
Edited by Bocaj on Jul 29th 2019 at 2:29:38 PM
Forever liveblogging the AvengersI don't know. It seems like a classic Rocket thing to do. They had no way of knowing that until Tony flew that missile right into the wormhole, but it's totally in his character to mock them for that.
The Chitauri being the shittiest army in existence does put their victory in a new light though. It's not that six exceptional individuals pulled off the impossible and fought off an entire army: it's just one sub par army trying and failing to invade a completely backwater world.
....Maybe it is a bit mean spirited, but it also says a lot about how much faith Thanos had in Loki...or how little faith he had in Earth repelling him.
One Strip! One Strip!I think it says a lot about Thanos
He’s not going to be able to gather an exceptional army for obvious reasons so berserkers and zealots are all he has going for him
Forever liveblogging the Avengers

This may have been posted already and if so, I apologize. But here's a deleted scene from Endgame.
It shows all the characters present, except for Gamora who leaves, falling to their knees in grief after Tony dies.
Edited by windleopard on Jul 28th 2019 at 4:00:47 AM