MCU Television and Animation Series on Disney + - WandaVision, FATWS, Loki, etc

Finally got around to the Loki series, and it was actually pretty good.
I'm a very casual MCU fan, with some pretty unpopular opinions, but I enjoy the MCU for what it is.

Kinda excited to see where it goes and I didn't expect to walk out with Mobius being my favorite character from it. Wish we got a bit longer on the whole gathering of Loki's to get a look into their lives, but I don't think we will. Best chance is maybe they'll be in that Dr Strange movie, but I won't hold my breath.
 
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KaibaCorp ToeSucker said:
Finally got around to the Loki series, and it was actually pretty good.
I'm a very casual MCU fan, with some pretty unpopular opinions, but I enjoy the MCU for what it is.

Kinda excited to see where it goes and I didn't expect to walk out with Mobius being my favorite character from it. Wish we got a bit longer on the whole gathering of Loki's to get a look into their lives, but I don't think we will. Best chance is maybe they'll be in that Dr Strange movie, but I won't hold my breath.
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I think Mobius should at least. I mean Owan Wilson was already a known name before Loki. I think he wouldn't be too odd out of the movie
 
Really, Screen Rant?

In Endgame, Iron Man received a touching tribute following his death. During his MCU journey, Downey Jr.'s Stark went from genius, billionaire, playboy to a person who sacrificed everything for the good of others. And Iron Man's funeral recognizes that. In a touching scene from Endgame, Stark's miniature arc reactor, which reads, "Proof That Tony Stark Has A Heart," is set adrift on a lake. His loved ones, friends, and colleagues, including Tom Holland's Spider-Man, Jon Favreau's Happy Hogan, and Gwyneth Paltrow's Pepper Potts, look on as it floats away. It's a touching moment of reflection on the character who kicked off the first decade of the MCU.

What If...? undermines Stark's tribute. In the episode, Killmonger enacts his plan to make Stark build and fund his killer drones, but the early tests for the weapons are going awry. The drones need a new power source, and Stark contemplates the problem. "Hey, if we could miniaturize and arc reactor," he says before dismissing the notion. "No, that's a dumb idea," he adds. Instead, the pair settle on Vibranium as a new energy source, and in doing so, the MCU brushes off a decade of Iron Man's character development.

Marvel's joke is perhaps more flippant than it realizes. As Obadiah Stane (Jeff Bridges) says in Iron Man, Tony Stark built the reactor in a cave with a "box of scraps." The ordeal in the cave turned Stark from a selfish, heartless weapons dealer into a hero who eventually paid the ultimate sacrifice for the ones he loved. By dismissing the arc reactor as a "dumb idea," Marvel ignores the importance the studio itself put on the item. The arc reactor represents not only Stark's heart but also the heart of the MCU. And What If...? just dismissed it as stupid.

While the joke may have slightly missed the mark, it also emphasizes the point of the episode. In What If...? episode 6, Killmonger prevents Stark from being kidnapped. Therefore, Killmonger prevents Stark from developing his MCU heart. The Stark in the episode is pompous, arrogant, and an egomaniac. While the character usually has some of those traits, this Stark takes it to the next level. By brushing off the arc reactor (and essentially the tribute in Avengers: Endgame), Marvel shows how this Stark doesn't have a heart. Unfortunately, it may also be saying that the episode doesn't have one either.
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Semi-related side note to this past episode. Why the fuck do social justards get so pissed off when somebody tells them to smile? Does this even happen in real life?

I can't speak for anybody else, but I've never told a woman to smile. Why the fuck would I care if you're miserable or not? Especially if you're the kind of cunt who would get mad about that.
 
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UnKillShredDur said:
Semi-related side note to this past episode. Why the fuck do social justards get so pissed off when somebody tells them to smile? Does this even happen in real life?

I can't speak for anybody else, but I've never told a woman to smile. Why the fuck would I care if you're miserable or not? Especially if you're the kind of cunt who would get mad about that.
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The only people who tell others to smile are women. Much like every other feminist talking point, the greatest/only offenders are women.
 
I actually kind of liked this last episode surprising even me, considering how much I dislike Carl Manvers most of the time- especially whenever Stinky Cheese Nasty Toes is playing her.
Darcy is still the absolute fucking worst though. The only way she would ever be proper comedic relief (which is what I think they're going for with her character these days) would be if she died painfully and repeatedly.
 
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Darcy is still the absolute fucking worst though. The only way she would ever be proper comedic relief (which is what I think they're going for with her character these days) would be if she died painfully and repeatedly.
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You could probably make a decent dark comedy out of that concept.
 
This weeks episode felt so lazy.

From last week's cliffhanger I was wondering how Ultron would get all the stones, turns out Thanos just shows up with all of them in hand minus Mind and then dies in 5 seconds. That was so dumb. Entire episode felt like a wasted idea. Why not spend a couple of minutes showing a cool montage of Ultron waging war against space and slowly conjuring up his plan as he collects the stones. Maybe have him talk a little about how he came to the conclusion that all life needs to be destroyed, not just earth's or something.

Ultron almost feels like a different character, he was way more philosophical and talky in Age of Ultron, in this he's very Skynet serious all the way and talks very little. They have some rando voicing him instead of James Spader, so all the charm is gone too.

The "Black Widow and Hawkeye are just ppl with guns" thing is as worse as it gets in this episode. For some reason they are their universe's last hope against Ultron, keep in mind the dude is single handedly killing celestials, blowing up solar systems and kicking the Watcher's ass.
 
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From last week's cliffhanger I was wondering how Ultron would get all the stones, turns out Thanos just shows up with all of them in hand minus Mind and then dies in 5 seconds. That was so dumb
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doesnt even make sense continuity wise with the movies. or with what we see later on
 
Ultron got all the stones and didn’t snap all life away? Also, the stones work in the space between realities? Also, how does any of this square with Loki? Were the watchers just watching when the last multiverse war happened? Is this a prequel? Will it end with Kang killing everyone? Will there be a scene where zombie!Scarlet Witch mistakes Ultron for Vision before he kills her?

There’s no logic here
 
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Ultron got all the stones and didn’t snap all life away? Also, the stones work in the space between realities? Also, how does any of this square with Loki? Were the watchers just watching when the last multiverse war happened? Is this a prequel? Will it end with Kang killing everyone? Will there be a scene where zombie!Scarlet Witch mistakes Ultron for Vision before he kills her?

There’s no logic here
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Snapping takes 50% of all life away even in the comics, I'm not sure it's ever been shown to be able to completely eradicate life on a multiversal level.
 
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Snapping takes 50% of all life away even in the comics, I'm not sure it's ever been shown to be able to completely eradicate life on a multiversal level.
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That was Thanos's preference. Presumably, someone possessing the Infinity Gauntlet could do anything, including eradicating all life.
 
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That was Thanos's preference. Presumably, someone possessing the Infinity Gauntlet could do anything, including eradicating all life.
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That's assuming Ultron even cared about using them beyond having the power to create his armies and transcend dimensions. He mostly seemed to make use of the power stone to directly destroy, maybe he thought the idea of a quick solution to be beneath him.
 
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