Sorry to get off topic but did anyone else feel that Steve Rogers' arc throughout this entire series was fucked by Endgame? His whole story was about coming to terms with a world he didn't recognize, and moving on, and then they have him go back in time to live with Peggy Carter, thus rendering his entire arc pointless? Very stupid. Black Widow as well, the most development she had in the entire series was:
>That one moment she kissed Steve in the mall as a diversion in Winter Soldier
>Bringing up how the Commies fucked up her womb in Age of Ultron
>Dying for one of the stones in Endgame
>The movie that no one watched that had terrible effects
And probably worst of all, the indecisive ship-bouncing between the male characters in just about any movie she's in.
>Iron Man 2, she baits Tony Stark as a SHIELD spy
>Avengers, it's implied she and Hawkeye were a thing for a bit
>Winter Soldier, it's even more blatant that she may have a thing for Steve
>Age of Ultron, her x Banner/Hulk baiting (even Tony makes a passing comment about them "playing hide the zucchini")
Then in Infinity War/Endgame I guess it's her and Steve? Then she dies.
Why did they fumble her so bad?
Y'know, for a character written by people who claim to be "feminists", they sure treat her like she's a common whore bouncing from cock to cock.
One aspect that I think worked with Black Widow shipping was putting her with Banner. In the early movies we see she is a consummate spy, seductress and manipulator. Even put with Loki she one-ups him. And if it doesn't work, like she gets caught by Steve downloading the information on the ship, she shrugs it off. "Natasha is comfortable with everything," as Fury remarks afterwards. The only time we see her really feel things are out of her control in the early movies is that scene with Banner in the shack where he really spooks her. You can't manipulate or play mind games with Hulk. He's just primal anger. He's the one person she's actually defenceless against. So in a way, shipping them as Age of Ultron did worked because you need to feel some kind of equality with your partner to be on a level.
because the Snap also killed off animal and plant life
Where did you get that from? In the snap scene we see people disappear, but the trees and foliage around are not dying, nor do I recall any bunnies and dear drifting away to dust. I think Thanos's idea was one of stopping resource consumption going out of control and ecosystems are resources to conscious beings as much as minerals. More so, in fact. So I don't think it would even be part of his motivation.
Of course any student of demographics knows the plan is futile even in that sense. A few generations pass and population would have rebounded even harder - like someone who has been on a crash diet and then over-compensates. If Thanos had wanted to really reduce population he would have focused on promoting feminism, women's education and employment. That's the main proven method of reducing birth rate.
Falcon and Bucky's entire current issue is entirely because Falcon got the Shield instead of Bucky. People would have been perfectly fine with Bucky being the new Cap.
Do you mean people as in the audience? Yes, probably. Or people in-universe? I think Captain America is a rather public facing role for someone with a list of political assassinations on his resumé. Not to mention the decades of mind-control are going to give people in government conniptions.
I think it would have been genius to go with the predestination route and have Steve always have been with Peggy Carter in the original timeline and think of the fact that there was already in an old Steve in the MCU timeline watching the events that he has been through as Captain America in the modern world play out in real time as he is living with Peggy.
That would lead to some rather morbid humour, with Old Cap having to sneak out when Young Cap came around (Old Cap is shown to live to Current Day) and poor dementia-addled Peggy saying things like "you look so young" take on a new level. "Uh, sure, Peg. That's cause I was frozen for fifty years" Meanwhile poor confused Peggy is thinking 'no, I mean you were seventy-four when you just ran out the back door'.
I'm guessing because they didn't think of introducing Reed Richards to handle the time travel stuff.
They should have used Hank Pym as he was still alive and time travel, quantum realm, etc. are far more in his range than Stark's. I'm kind of sensitive to the difference between Science and Engineering, being an engineer myself. And Stark is an engineer, not a physicist or research scientist. Obviously he's very smart but it's more a question of disciplines. Should be Pym or Richards or someone like that.
Would this count things like Stormbreaker, Iron Man's nanotech, or Scarlet Witch's Hex?
I'm sorry, I don't really know - I'm apparently not as well-up on comics as I thought since I got two replies to my comment one saying I was wrong and one saying I was right.
But I will say I hate Iron Man's nanotech. The suit in the first movie can have scientific suspension of disbelief. The biggest impossibilities with it are cooling and power generation/storage. And hidden scientific hand-waves are the easiest hand-waves to ignore. When you see his lab's arms fitting the suit around him, you can shrug and go, okay. His briefcase emergency suit at least has the nod of being much lighter and less capable than the regular one. But the push a button and this thing just grows around you like the venom symbiote is on the Dr. Strange level of "technology is magic" that only people who have no feel for tech at all can do. Tangent but that nanotech is one of the (many) things that turned me off later movies.
I feel like it could have worked if it sparked a movement of people believing more heroes needed to kill like Walker, sort of like "What's So Funny About Truth, Justice and the American Way?" Less horror at his actions and more cheering encouraging of a bad role model. That way, it shows how Walker abused the mantle of Captain America to inspire hatred and fear.
That's an interesting take and could have been a much deeper exploration. Sam and Bucky's concerns become more founded not because they think Walker was wrong so much as they see the very real movement growing that thinks this is a better Captain America. If you want to sell Walker's arc better, don't have the public react with horror, have them applaud. THAT is what would make the audience uneasy with it and the other heroes have less arbitrary reasons.
