#avengers rant

So I’m seeing a lot of shitposting about “My *insert character name here* did not deserve that ending”.

I understand, as we as fans all do, that the fan experience goes so much beyond the movies. That we spend hours upon hours on here as well as multitudes of other forums sharing our theories, thoughts and creative ideas for our beloved characters.

But I urge everyone to remember that these movies aren’t purely designed as a big-fat fan service. Yes they are made for us. Yes we are so much of the reason that they are successful and have risen to the platform they sit on today.

But my god they do not exist entirely to pay off every single fan and for each of our small, anecdotal ideas about the characters to be realised.

If, for instance, each character had lived, there had been no skin in the game, there would be a hell of a lot more vitriol and backlash than there is now, from fans and critics alike.

Believable story-telling is not pie in the sky, we all got our fantastic, satisfying ending, because life is not like that. Yes it’s a story with fantastical elements, but it is also human and grounded partially in reality, which is what makes us relate to them so much in the first place. And unfortunately in reality, we do not always get “the ending we deserve”.

So I can completely understand being disappointed that maybe your fave didn’t get the ending you had hoped for, but Jesus fuck that’s not a reason to “cancel MCU” and get so angry at people who have put the last 10 years of their lives, heart and soul, into creating a world we love.

The way i see it, this is a good, supposed to be safe mission  preparation first mission for him, but people saying he was bad for doing this to peter.

What do you think?

I mean, storyline-wise, it's pretty forced. The MCU high-ups were like, "Spider-Man makes money; let's get him in there!" So. What can you do.

From within, I liked how we were already well past his origin story, and I loved the dynamic between two Nerdy Boys, I thought the thing about Aunt May being young was weird but fine, since I love getting away from tropes and the 'sweet grandma' trope has been beaten to death. I loved Spider-Man as he was written and acted because he was the quintessential silly nerd weirdo who got crazy excited over stuff and nerded out about weaponry and superheroes and everything.

I liked how Tony was explicitly stated to order Peter to stay back and just web them up. I like how both of them were still playing around a little bit; the "Underoos!" thing made it clear Tony wanted Steve to knock it off but never expected a real fight. Even after having Spider-Man take Steve's shield, he still didn't instigate a battle; he just wanted to use Spider-Man as a tool for de-escalation. I was pleasantly surprised, at the time, by Steve being the one to push for a battle, and for his side to end up going WAY too far over and over again, because it proved his imperfections, which I love to see in my superheroes. (I of course abhorred the backtracking in later movies.)

Overall, I thought Tony noticing Peter made sense, since Tony's been leading the Avengers in all but name since the start, no matter what anyone says about Steve, and it makes sense for Tony to be on the lookout for others like himself and the team. It also makes sense that Tony sat on this after learning who Peter was until he found he needed someone to help him get his friends back before the United States government killed them. I wasn't fond of the sudden trip to Germany, but I understood the need for speed and, with the information given about Tony's original plan, I realize he was backed against a wall and making a tough choice.

I loved how, when everything got bad as hell, Tony stopped everything and ran to Peter to order him to stand down and stay out of the fight; I loved how scared he'd been when he'd gotten to Peter's side, because the kid had been in real danger thanks to Steve's team and could have gotten hurt far worse. It is telling to me that Steve was the one to injure Peter, even after learning how young Peter was (there's no way Peter's voice was the voice of an adult, ffs), yet Steve did not ensure Peter was okay. Tony did. Tony was the one to check if the kid was all right and then ensure he stayed out of the increasingly escalating battle.

If the rest of the MCU movies hadn't come out and I hadn't been forced by a bunch of brats on the Internet to endure some of the dumbest bullshit the MCU fandom writes about how sweet angel Steve Rogers did no wrong and evil devil Tony Stark wrought the world asunder, I would actually say that I loved Civil War, for all its faults. Because Steve wanted to be a hero, Tony kept trying to hold everything together, and neither of them did a perfect job but Tony did well and Steve did horribly, and it was about time we got some character depth on Captain America and got to see Tony's merits as a leader, too.

Fandom: Good; he did something unforgivable.

Stephen Strange: /never complains about how he should be treated after the events of No Way Home/

Fandom: Good; he did something unforgivable.

Wanda Maximoff: People only see one of us as the villain! That seems unfair!

She makes no efforts to change her ways or her attitude. She never tries to change herself. It's always the world that needs to change for her.

As much as I dislike Captain Marvel for the same Fake Woke bs Wanda's applauded for, the one thing the MCU got right was for Carol to, once she got those powers of hers, turn her immortal life into serving others, never settling down or even pretending she might be able to have a life of her own.

Hope was angry and hurting over the loss of her mother and the way her father treated her, but she still stuck to her morals and fought for what was right, even going so far as to break up with her love interest because he did something she could not excuse.

Pepper was often uncomfortable with the hero life but she still came out and risked her life to protect the planet, even though she had a child to care for. Her husband died for that very cause, and not once did she harm others in her grief.