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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
Drax should have gotten more but he already screwed up by jumping out to attack Thanos at Knowhere
It would have given him an extra character beat of screwing things up again
It’s more a surprise that Peter screws up because even though he IS a screw up he generally fails in the right direction
While Drax also drew Ronan on them in the first gotg movie so. It’d be a not great pattern for him
Edited by Bocaj on May 22nd 2020 at 10:47:14 AM
Forever liveblogging the AvengersYeah, Peter screwing up is a surprise. Then again, he was clearly very worried about Gamora, and he'd just lost Yondu not too long ago. The guy's life is a history of losing the people he loves in the worst ways.
Heh. Drax drew in Ronan. Rocket took the Batteries, and now Quill loses his shit against Ronan. It would have been nice to see Gamora and Mantis screw up too. Groot as well. Then things would at least be fair.
One Strip! One Strip!Peter's freak out on Titan is a nice call back to Tony's freak out in Civil War, the worst possible news at the worst possible moment that leads to a pure emotional outburst that while the wrong thing to do...you can understand why it happens.
I can't really hate on Peter for that moment because if it was really that critical the man who knows what needs to happen so they all win in the end (Strange) would have taken some measure to STOP Peter before this all started. Warned Peter before the fight started what he saw "In my vision, when Thanos comes he'll have the Soul Stone, I'm sorry but that does not bode well for your friend...prepare for the worst."
Imagine Strange's POV here, he's hearing the plan being made he knows they are going to get a brief moment of hope that its actually going to work, and then it will all go to hell and there isn't a damn thing he can do to stop it.
I guess Groot screwed up the prison break, although they salvaged that
And Gamora going to Knowhere where she knew Thanos might be when she’s the only one who knows where the soul stone is was a huge screw up
Forever liveblogging the Avengers
That I kinda agree with, she tried a failsafe "Kill me if it looks like he'll capture me". I understand why she didn't tell anybody she knew that big secret and she figured nobody else aside from Nebula knew. She didn't know that Nebula had a Judas recording system in her head that Thanos could read like a book and thusly figured out she lied about the Soul Stone.
Here's a What If? scenario I'd love to see: what if Nebula not only stayed with the Guardians at the end of their 2nd movie but successfully killed Thanos before the events of Infinity War with their help? That'd pretty much prevent at least two movies' events from even happening, and cause another one to be largely overhauled.
Edited by AyyItsMidnight on May 22nd 2020 at 9:27:18 AM
Self-serious autistic trans gal who loves rock/metal and animation with all her heart. (she/her)So is Runaways Season 3 any worth watching?
I somehow completely lost the motivation to watch it after hearing that the PRIDE parents get off scot free after everything they've done.
Edited by Forenperser on May 22nd 2020 at 10:05:31 AM
Certified: 48.0% West Asian, 6.5% South Asian, 15.8% North/West European, 15.7% English, 7.4% Balkan, 6.6% ScandinavianMan, I want MODOK in the MCU. We've moving in a less grounded, comic booky direction for the last few years, and MODOK would be the perfect way to show that.
He'd be pretty neat for a Fantastic Four movie, though tbh the Four don't exactly need bolstering in the villain department. He's still a high pick for me as a secondary villain in Captain Marvel 2, though.
Not only do they get off scot free, they more or less transition to good guys. It's a problem that I think was borne from the show being reluctant to end. The Pride were always Villain Deuteragonists in the first and second seasons, having as much if not more development than the titular Runaways. And they made up the majority of the cast, having two Pride members for every one Runaway.
I think the showrunners were reluctant to jettison that many of their stars all at once, so they found ways to keep the plot centered on the Pride members after their initial arc was complete, with the Pride were themselves fighting the villains too.
That only a minority of important characters actually survive the final act of the Runaways' introductory story is one of those "makes sense in hindsight" things. Makes me think that maybe a TV series wasn't actually a great platform for the Runaways after all.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.I'm watching a video of callbacks in the Endgame Battle, and I realized something that it and most videos don't point out. There's a couple of times in the battle where Cap reacts to an auditory clue or visual clue with more pinpoint accuracy than anyone else. It could be lazy writing, or it could be the fact that he has enhanced senses coming into play. Plus his history as an artist. The pinpoint accuracy is of course suggested by when he threw the hammer past Spider-Man.
In Civil War, is the issue of "the Avengers blow quite a lot of stuff up when fighting villains and on occasion indirectly kill civilians by doing so" ever really addressed? There's no mention of the pro-Accords side training to be more efficient and blow less stuff up, at least not that I remember.
So, let's hang an anchor from the sun... also my TumblrThe Fifty State Initiative had a training camp
Don’t know if established heroes were asked to do some refresher no collateral damage courses
I do know that in She Hulk’s tie in to Civil War a big deal was made out of her taking down I wanna say absorbing man without much collateral damage and Tony thinking of making her one of the faces of registration
Forever liveblogging the AvengersOh well in the movie the pro-accords avengers cause less collateral damage after because civil war breaks them as a team and they don’t really do much after
Forever liveblogging the AvengersI get the indication the Accords really didn't work in practice. Spider-Man was seemingly working with the Accords by keeping Tony up-to-date about his heroics, and the Avengers (what was left of them) did seem to still be on active duty. But T'Challa didn't seem to answer for his actions in South Korea (Diplomatic immunity? It definitely wasn't sanctioned by the UN), Scott and Clint seemed to get off relatively light for violating international law (although I think they turned themselves in for lighter sentencing), and once the Black Order started their search for the Infinity Stones, Ross seemed more concerned with arresting the fugitive Avengers than trying to figure out a way to stop the invading alien forces.
Edited by chasemaddigan on May 25th 2020 at 2:04:17 PM

It'd be hilarious if their reverse-engineered Pym Particles backfired like when Cross tried to replicate them, so they all ended up as tiny globs once they arrived in 2023.