WOW. I really was not expecting it to be this good. I don't mean the setup, though that has its own farcical nightmarishness. What was unexpected was Loki's character development.

( here be spoilers )

So, I've been thinking more about the time travel in Endgame. So I made myself a little diagram. ( cut for images )

So I've finally seen "Avengers: Endgame". I was astonished to realise that this movie was Three Hours Long. No wonder they packed so much into it. So many feels. Even though I had already been spoiled for the major events, they still got me right there.

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So what is "Amnesiac Worldbuilding" and why do I want to rant about it?

We've all seen it before -- usually in TV/movie SF, though it isn't limited to ( Read more... )

We've got a bunch of heroes here, the Avengers, but they don't all see heroism in the same way.
Steve Rogers:

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Yeah. I've been pretty silent for a while. Why? I think I got out of the habit of keeping up with Dreamwidth, and then I felt so overwhelmed that I then avoided it out of guilt for not keeping up. So, my apologies everyone, I have no idea what you have been doing. Let me know if there's anything you want me to know...

We've been busy (before ( Read more... )

On re-watching Iron Man, and pondering Thor-1, it seems to me that SHIELD's knee-jerk reaction is to cover things up even when they don't need covering up. Consider the two cover stories they made in Iron Man: that Tony Stark's bodyguard is Iron Man, and that Stane died in a light plane crash.

( You don't need to be warned for spoilers for MCU surely? )

Because I am writing fanfic for the first time since 2012! And of course it is MCU and it is AU, set during Avengers-1. Maybe I won't finish it, but at least I started, yes?

"You mortals die like flies," Loki spat. "What is one more or one less?"

"You use that word like it doesn't apply to you," Tony returned. "But you can die like the ( Read more... )

I get the impression that in the Marvelverse, the Super Soldier Serum that created Captain America is like a Holy Grail that researchers keep looking for and failing to find. Hydra with the Red Skull and their Winter Soldier, Bruce Banner with the Hulk, Killian with Extremis... on it goes.

I'm beginning to suspect that one of the reasons that ( Read more... )

Well, I just watched Avengers: Infinity War. (Yes, yes, many years late I know ( Read more... )