Fandom Meme, 25

[osprey_archer]

25. Do you have any hard and fast headcanons that you will die defending?

Thanos's plot to kill half of all life in the galaxy in Infinity War was stupid and the Avengers' decision in Endgame to undo it but only kinda was even stupider and all of Marvel's attempts to deal with the aftermath in Spiderman: Far from Home and The Falcon and the Winter Soldier just drive home how very absurd those plot points are, and I refuse to allow any of it to enter into my personal MCU headcanon.

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[kore]

SO SAY WE ALL

[osprey_archer]

Genuinely baffled at the level of groupthink in the MCU that led to them deciding this was a good idea.

[kore]

It was like Badness x Shitty and then exponentially multiplied! "First....we kill off HALF THE UNIVERSE. Thanos wins! The Avengers are losers! It's daring and gritty and dark! THEN....well Tony has to be motivated by his moppet, not by any of the people he's known for the past ten years, so we can't kill the moppet. So we keep everything the SAME, but bring everyone BACK. All at once. And oh yeah, Tony and Steve and Bruce all have this development that makes them really different, but it's gonna have to happen offscreen so we have time for Tony and Howard to catch up. But then -- this is the really great part -- we're gonna KILL half the OG Avengers and take the rest off the table!" (this was before we knew about all the shows) We called it the feel-bad superhero epic of the summer.

I mean it really reads like The Worst Comics Event Ever (except maybe Hydra Cap) that wound up being about how great one Avenger was, when the whole point was this weird little group of superhero misfits came together &c &c. Yes it's nice RDJ cleaned up and became a dad again but that is not why I see superhero movies! and HOW could they not mention Natasha ONCE during that memorial --

....lol I will hate this movie til I fucking die. I'm going to sue Feige for pain and suffering.

[osprey_archer]

I remember after IW there were a lot of reviews complaining that it was a cheap trick to tug the viewers' heartstrings by dusting beloved characters on screen when the next movie would just bring them all back and undo the whole plotline. I guess the head honchos thought the way to answer this criticism was NOT to undo the whole plotline, but just halfway undo it... which misses the point of the criticism, which is "this storyline was designed to wring cheap emotion out of the viewers and it was a bad idea in the first place."