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I don’t know how wh*don managed it but against all odds the avengers (2012) was bruce banner’s best characterization in the mcu

he was living off the grid in calcutta providing free medical services to the poverty stricken areas of the city. he was an anti military king who knew that fury wanted to put “the monster” in a cage, and still went to help anyways bc he was also one of the brightest scientific minds on the face of the planet. he was whip smart and sarcastic and was insanely dangerous, not bc he couldn’t control the hulk but bc he could. his secret wasn’t just his anger, but having mastered it. babe I miss u

captain america: the winter soldier is great because the russo brothers were like “we want to make a comic book version of the manchurian candidate” and the us military was like “no you’re gonna make recruitment propanganda for the us military industrial complex” and sebastian stan was like “disney has tricked me, broadway trained sebastian stan, into being here, so i’m going to portray a closeted homosexual” and chris evans was like “i’m in a wet t-shirt contest!”

Been a really long time since I've watched Daredevil but I do remember coming away from it feeling like it presented a pretty compelling internally-consistent moral justification for the vigilante thing. You're not planet-crackingly powerful, it's just that you can hear, in detail, every awful thing your neighbors are doing to each other, every night that they're doing it. You can't not know and you can't pretend not to know and when the kid tells you the next day that he just fell down the stairs you can't fall back on the provided ambiguity to absolve yourself of your responsibility to act. Semi-relatedly, you're really really good at martial arts. Start the clock

Pretty good meta

The first couple of captain america movies were good. I know. I know. I hate the mcu too but the first couple of captain america movies were good I'm Sorry. I have to speak my truth

The mcu wasn't ALWAYS completely soulless. Like it was never high art or anything it's always been kinda silly action movies but the first couple of em were good. I'm not gonna let the first avenger + winter soldier get memory hole'd Never forget what we once had. Me & like three other people are left standing in the stucky trenches in 2023. I am cringe but I am right. Remember what we believed in