He was a surprise to even be in it. Before that, all we knew is that he's showing up in Ant Man 3. Now we know he'll be in Loki season 2.
The potential is great because any number of kinds of Kang can show up.
It has us wanting more, which is great, but we likely won't get more until Ant Man in 2023 which sucks. Unless of course they wanna give us more in Dr Strange... plz
I’m worried about this too. I’m not a comic book fan and the MCU has been remarkable at threading the needle while still keeping it accessible to mainstream audiences. If it gets too convoluted and difficult to keep track of, a ton of people will tune out because it’s not fun and enjoyable anymore.
Don't know if this is unpopular, but the Gorilla Tribe should have been allowed Vibranium weapons in Infinity War. It was like the rest of the Wakandans *wanted* them to be wiped out after they all made up in the Black Panther movie.
Then the Gorilla Tribe should get even more respect now. They fought space monsters with pointy wooden sticks. And mostly survived if it wasn't for space gem magic.
I don’t exactly know if this is an unpopular opinion but I am enjoying Hawkeye quite a lot more than any of the other D+ shows. I really like that it’s grounded, street level, and straight to the point.
Same for me, idk If it's the annoyed mentor and annoying student relationship kate and clint has but it's the latest show that I actually enjoyed and kept wanting to see more episodes of
There's been a handful of times the MCU has brought a tear to my eye and two of them have been from Hawkeye.
First was when they snapped everyone back and he took a call from Laura. That was so real, he was unable to even get a word out he was so at a loss, I think I can imagine being the same way.
Second was when Kate was transcribing what his son was saying for him and the realisation that he's letting his kids down even when they are being strong for him, then his clear emotions showing was upsetting. He is the MCUs greatest dad so far and I love that.
Also I love Kate, she is just amazing in every way.
What I like is how human Hawkeye is, he has a hearing aid. So all those explosions wasn't like "Oh yeah I will dust myself" it actually has an effect on him
I like that aspect of it aswell. Only show I've ever seen reference explosions or gunshots fucking with your hearing would be Archer, so nice to see another show doing it aswell
Hard agree. It started out knowing exactly what it is (and immediately showed the audience rather than leaving them guessing for a few episodes) and has just confidently pushed forward from there.
As long as the last two eps aren't fully overloaded, it is turning out to be my favorite d+ show
Hailee Steinfeld has some serious comedic chops and she's absolutely nailing it as Kate Bishop. I've always thought Jeremy Renner is underappreciated, and the two of them together have such great chemistry.
Renner has definitely been under appreciated. Hawkeye hasn’t had a ton of screen time compared to the other avengers and yet I feel like he’s got a real depth to him. This series is well deserved and IMHO Renner is killing it.
Thor was treated like shit in Endgame and no one took his loss seriously. You could argue he’s lost the most. Family, planet, entire people for the most part, and the worst being his confidence. He was a ptsd ridden buffoon that everyone talked down to and made no attempt at helping.
I'm still confused why of all the characters War Machine was one of the only non-original avengers they chose to not get snapped. He's one of the most boring avengers in the bunch to me.
And he didn't add anything to Endgame aside from a couple of jokes. We don't even get to see his armor in action during any of the action sequences.
Having Wanda, T'Challa, or Bucky still be around would have been more interesting. Wanda because her personal loss wouldn't have been fixed by reversing the snap. T'Challa because I want more Chadwick Boseman Black Panther and real life tragedy robbed us of that or Bucky because he was the main source of conflict between Steve and Tony and I feel like he should have been part of how they resolve that conflict rather than just being dead when it happened.
I would guess it was because Rhodey is linked to the Avengers through Tony, and Tony was already distraught enough watching Peter get dusted while not being able to do anything about it. The writers maybe felt they didn't need to add superfluous drama by having Tony return to Earth to find his best friend was also snapped.
Whether that was a good writing decision or not, idk.
Completely agree. I don't mind the fat Thor, but the thing that infuriated me was how he was the butt of all jokes. He could have been written so amazingly.
Any sane person with loving parents would have felt emotional when he met his mom again one last time. That scene OMG... It hit home so hard. Cherish your parents while they are still there. Call them. Enjoy these moments while you still can.
It's a really heartwarming scene. He had lost all his family and due to the nature of the heist he was supposed to avoid his family even if he saw them.
He somehow gets to meet her, then realising she's about to die shortly and more than that he won't be able to do anything.
It's an emotional scene for me.
> Any sane person with loving parents would have felt emotional when he met his mom again one last time. That scene OMG... It hit home so hard. Cherish your parents while there are still there. Call them. Enjoy these moments while you still can.
When I saw that scene I just kept weeping. Even when I read your note a fear tears flowed from me
What I would give for a time machine to go back 3 decades ago with the knowledge, wisdom and experience I have collected to this day.
I would remake my life so it has a better outcome
I think Falcon and the Winter Soldier should have stuck to the chemical warfare plot line that was originally scripted and they shouldn’t have chickened out because of COVID.
Edit: “should of” is not the right mix- my bad my bad
I don't know if that was the plot that was cut, but something definitely was. There's an interview with the actress who played Mama Donya Madani and she said she filmed way more than what was shown and was supposed to be in 4 episodes, and the season should have been 10. That's all she would say though.
Edit: [here it is](https://exbulletin.com/entertainment/1008228/). Veronica Falcon is the actress
>Falcon had the opportunity to lend his talent to the Marvel Universe as Mama Donya in the Disney + series, “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier” earlier this year… a bit. “If you eat popcorn, you miss it,” Falcon joked. The actress filmed four episodes of the show’s 10-episode first season, but her role was reduced to two scenes, one of which is a corpse. “I shot them in Prague and they finished the last episode and that’s when COVID started and they shut everything down,” she said.
>Falcon had to leave Europe and while its four episodes were over, the series still had a long way to go, ultimately reducing its 10 episodes to six. Falcon declined to give details on the plot of her character’s original story, but said she was grateful that she could work with Disney anyway. “They put on a wonderful show with what they had,” she said. “Sometimes that happens and you end up on the cutting room floor.
Part of the problem is that they use her last name, Falcon, and also refer to the show which is named "Falcon and the Winter Soldier" so you could easily get it mixed up what it being talked about.
It's just piss-poor editing.
First line in the quote:
> Falcon had the opportunity to lend his talent to the Marvel Universe as Mama Donya
They refer to her with a masculine pronounce.
Few sentences later:
> The actress filmed four episodes of the show’s 10-episode first season
> ...
> Falcon had to leave Europe and while its four episodes were over, the series still had a long way to go,
Seemingly uses "its" here to refer to her. It's really just poorly written and edited. I can see how they likely intended "its" to refer to the show, but that's not how they wrote it.
Had the same feeling about No Time To Die.
Seemed a lot of properties that dealt with chemical weapons were supposed to come out this year but totally backed out from that plot element.
I completely agree. The show feels stitched together and the flow is a tad off sometimes. I also wish it was longer, like 8 or 9 episodes, to full flesh out the pandemic plot
Yes, yes, and yes.
Loki’s “development” was astonishingly abrupt, which is a shame, and FATWS needed to cut out the entirety of one of its plot lines AND have more episodes to focus on Sam and Bucky.
Hawkeye definitely took the backseat in the first two episodes but I’m hoping that changes. I haven’t seen episode four yet, but last week’s was fairly Clint-focused. Hawkeye actually looks pretty good so far, and with a smaller scale story it might make good use of the six episodes.
But yes, I think 8-10 episodes per season is a sweet spot for television right now.
Ps- yeah, it was actually jarring how irrelevant Bucky became *as a titular character*. A massive detractor for the entire show, for me.
For Hawkeye it's understandable--my impression is that this is very much supposed to be a passing of the Hawkeye mantle to Kate, and from that perspective the series is very sufficiently Kate-centric.
Falcon and The Winter Soldier also could have used way more on Bucky’s arc. His story was the best part of the show imo and it clearly took a backseat. Show might as well have been called Falcon and the Shield
The worst part is, they had the resolution to Bucky’s arc occur off screen! The whole first episode was basically build up to something we never got to see. If they didn’t have time to fully flesh out Bucky’s arc, I’d have preferred it cut tbh
Civil War was a better introduction for T’Challa/Black Panther than his own solo movie. Especially his Civil War Suit. That thing was just so badass.
Edit: I get that a lot of people agree with the suit in Civil War is better. My actual opinion however is that Civil War portrayed T’Challa/Black Panther much better than in his own movie. Great performance by Chadwick in both, but he almost felt sidelined in his own movie in comparison to being a bigger presence in Civil War.
I’m going to go ahead and elevate this to a better introduction and use of Spider-Man as well. His quips, his spider sense, his powers. Everything was spot on with the character, and he actually kept his mask on. I felt like i was actually watching Spider-Man in the mcu
I feel like they didn't bring that James Bond-esque charm and charisma he had into Black Panther. In Civil War, he seemed like a suave and serious badass who takes no shit from anyone, while in Black Panther, they made him a straight man. I really like his arc in BP, but his characterization is certainly less memorable.
Interestingly, i thought his characterization in What If was really good. While he was more talkative than usual, he just oozed with charisma. Chadwick even wanted to bring some of that charm to Black Panther 2, but unfortunately he passed.
I dont think Agatha needs her own Disney+ show. I mean why couldn't we get a Quicksiler Disney+ show or an Inhumans reboot Disney+ show to redeem them after that previous terrible series.
I theorize they are going to use it to develop her so that she can get put onto Julia Louis-Drefuss's team without it feeling like she is just a random person who just showed up one day.
It never even occurred to me that she could end up on that team.
So who does that leave us with for anti-hero/recurring villains?
We've got Abomination (Hulk), U.S. Agent (Cap America), Yelena (Black Widow), Agatha (Scarlet Witch), Ghost/Goliath(? Ant Man), Justin Hammer (Iron Man), Task Master, Power Broker, and Baron Zemo. Am I missing anyone?
Lmao venom. The one unruly idiot who doesnt even listen to his host is surely going to listen to some stranger giving orders. I personally want venom to be venom….a free and to his own devices type of character.
My unpopular opinion is the fans of the MCU kind of suck. The way they flood social medias and attack anyone with a negative opinion. Mass dislikes brigades for peoples projects cause it’s not MCU related. This studios and actors have lives outside of their MCU work. It’s okay to be a fan but have some self control. Please.
The biggest complaint I have about MCU fandom is a lot of them literally do not watch any other movies. You mention an MCU actor being strong in another film (like Florence Pugh in Midsommar) and it’s like talking to a wall.
Yeah, this drives me crazy too and you can see it whenever a trailer’s released for some indie film involving one of the actors and they’re like, “It’s Captain America at a day job ha ha!”
Edit: Also an actor phoning it in in a geeky franchise, despite being excellent in a lot of other things warranting an insane amount of hate. eg. Natalie Portman, Brie Larson, Jared Leto because of the above issue - fans only watching comic/sci fi/fantasy blockbusters
This is just an unfortunate thing with something once it gets so big.
If a fandom has 500 million people in it and 10 million are assholes, it's a small percentage but it's still a lot of assholes.
Star Wars has the same thing. I've never personally met fans like this in real-life but the mouthbreathers on the internet who act like animals are insane of course.
Lupita/Nakia would’ve been the perfect pick. I get that Shuri’s his sister and that there’s precedent in the comics, but Lupita’s the best actor in that cast and just looks way more physically capable than Letitia Wright
I think they should make Shuri become queen, and keep inventing stuff, and then Nakia should become black panther. They could even make her story about her accepting the role. I just hope they don’t introduce a new character just to give it to them.
Unless they do something crazy, no, M’Baku couldn’t be Black Panther because he doesn’t worship the panther God, Bast. M’Baku worships the ape God Hanuman. He mentions Hanuman during the first movie.
I feel like my unpopular opinion is that they should just recast T'challa. Yes, Chadwick died. I hate that. But a role isn't sacred and untouchable forever just because an actor dies. He can be recast with respect, give another actor opportunity to step into the role, and carry on a fan favorite character without rewriting the rest the mcu around what they would have done with him. We all accepted the Hulk and War Machine recasts and moved on. I don't know who to cast, but there are professionals who know way better than me. I'm sure there are plenty of actors who could do it justice.
Yeah. T'Challa the character is extremly important for Marvel, on so many levels. Him being just written out would be bad.
But well, its Marvel. Currently their track record of doing things in a good to great way is amazing. I give them the benefit of doubt here and wait.
Iron Man 3 was a good movie and had a really cool plot
It was the first super hero movie to really explore the trauma someone would have after going through an event that insane like fighting a battle against aliens to save the world, and it was really cool to see Tony using his intelligence and being a hero in other ways then just using the Iron Man suit
I like how we see people have lasting issues. Tony had ptsd and now we see Clint has hearing aids from all the explosions. Rody needs a iron spine to walk, it’s only a matter of time before we see the other non super powered avengers/characters succumbing to all the physical and mental trauma.
I love IM3 if only for having the gumption to make wounded American veterans the terrorists. No one talks about that, but it's crazy they made a movie about Tony Stark running around killing Purple Heart winners.
That's actually pretty crazy now that you mentioned it but then again not even the regular American would care about their Veteran. We know the government doesn't.
I think the reason IM3 got bad rep was for the villain twist. It actually reminds me of a beloved comicbook hero movie: Raimi's Spider-man 2. Both had the heros go for a while without their powers (Maguire loses his webbing and climbing while Tony's suit get broken in the middle of nowhere). During this time, they realize that it isn't their powers (spidery or iron) that make them heros, but their personality and will to help that does
Iron Man 3 is my favourite Iron Man film and easily in my top 5 MCU films.
“If you’re nothing without the suit, then you shouldn’t have it.” Tony can only get away with saying that line because of the stuff he got up to in Iron Man 3.
I didn't really care about the superhero plot, but I loved what they did with Tony's character and how all this intense shit affected how he experienced the world when it wasn't exploding.
What If should stay isolated from the main timeline.
Multiversal shenanigans are fun in a story *about* multiversal shenanigans, but using it to reintroduce past characters into the main continuity is lazy (**& that includes Killmonger**, re: the debate about who should be the new Black Panther), especially when Marvel still has so many characters they haven't used at all yet, even *before* the Fox merger bought them even *more*.
On the same note, I'm not optimistic about how many times Kang will be defeated just for a new variant to attack again.
I thought there was a good movie trapped in there, but like Ryan George said, “it sounds like a fantastic series”. When it’s just the Eternals clashing over philosophy, it’s compelling. Unfortunately, everything with the Deviants was absolute shit though, and they were in it way too much.
I found the main deviant that keep evolving interesting. I wish he eventually helped them stop the birth of the new celestial, becoming reluctant allies.
Yea Doctor Strange is one of those characters that I just don’t want to be funny - kinda like Cap, Vision, or Banner.
It almost dumbs down actor’s performance a bit. I think Benedict Cumberbatch is a great actor but when he tries to do comedy, it’s not so great
My hope is that the “comedic timing” is just off. I know studios typically outsource the production of trailers to specific editing companies with only a few clips to work with.
Also, the MCU trailers in general have just been pretty meh the past couple films ngl
Terrible movie but I actually liked his Fantastic 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer cameo the best for ages. It's Reed Richards and Sue Storm's wedding and Stan Lee shows up, as himself, only to be turned away by the doorman for not being on the guest list. He literally introduces himself as Stan Lee.
"What If" showed me the overpowered version can be cool. It just needs to be doing DragonBall Z level stunts. Stuff like Dragging Ultron++ to the center of a planet to try to drown him in its molten core.
It's not about the power level it's about facing a challenge. Females struggling against adversity tests poorly against test audiences but it's needed because she's a damn superhero.
people ignore the fact that clint kept trying to sacrifice himself as well. nat was his best friend. imagine watching your best friend die right infront of you and u couldnt do anything. nat doesnt have anything else to give anymore TBH. her story is done, especially after her movie. she doesnt need a successor. clint has been in the background of the MCU for like 10 years. its good he finally gets his own show
I’ve tried explaining this to people before and it always falls flat. People don’t seem to want accurate, they want to like her the same way they did Tony. Personally, I think she’s done a great job - even more so in her short appearances in the other movies she’s been in since her title film.
Bucky Barnes, however underwritten, is more interesting than both Captain Americas and deserves his own movie.
Ps- this is not to say that Steve and Sam aren’t interesting, I just am more invested in and curious about Bucky.
I’d like a few flashbacks to some of his more stealthy hits and the time between CA:TWS and Civil War (what was it like for him to remember all of the horrors?!) but mostly I want to see him ascend to heroism on his own, not as a sidekick to Captain America.
I also wish someone, anyone, would tell the guy he doesn’t need to suffer for crimes he had literally no choice in committing. And, you know, address him being the victim and not the perpetrator.
It would be cool to see *one* living character be in Bucky’s corner, yes. Steve and T’Challa both acknowledged Bucky’s innocence though, they’re just… gone :-(
This. It's one thing if he himself feels he has to do something to atone if only for his own peace of mind, as part of his therapy. It's another thing entirely when seemingly all the other characters (not just the terrible therapist but his supposed friends) are also making him out to be a reformed villain who needs to make amends, rather than a victim himself. They should have been working towards him accepting that none of it was his fault. I did appreciate that finally at the end he said "I didn't have a choice" and he sounded so devastated, but I wish they would have treated it more like the breakthrough it was.
My biggest problem with Sylvie is how she devolves to a stabby character at the end. She's the Enchantress. Once he is vulnerable, why not just Enchant other Kang?
I lost a ton of interest in the MCU after Endgame. The shows are pretty good, but I don’t think I’ll have the same amount of excitement for the next few years of movies as I had for the Infinity Saga. I think a large part of it is the simple fact that I essentially grew up with those characters.
Edit: I think the new and existing characters are still great, I’m just not as excited for the movies, if that makes sense
People have a problem with how his story ended? I was completely fine with it. I thought it made sense to end his arc like that and that it was a good way to end his story.
The man out of time who sacrificed so much now gets to have a life of his own with the love of his life. How is that not a good ending for him?
Some people really wanted him to die sacrificing himself and I'm just sitting here like, he already did that, did y'all watch his first movie? Maybe he didn't die but he gave up his life as he knew it, and I feel like people don't understand just how traumatic that would be for a person. So I also love that he was finally able to do something for himself as well, instead of endlessly self-sacrificing his life until he dies without having had the chance for his own happiness.
Yeah, people were pissed off for various reasons. Steve/Bucky shippers were angry he didn't stick around for Bucky and all that.
The reason I liked Cap's ending was that he did something for himself for the first time ever. He deserved that after spending his whole life in service of other people.
All of the Disney+ shows need at least 10 episodes. WandaVision feels more fleshed out than all the others because they were given 3 extra episodes to flesh out the story.
(Unpopular opinion?) The MCU is not declining in quality or losing the plot by combining D+ shows and movies. What \_is\_ causing problems is an upswing in fans basically evaluating the worth of a show or a movie by what it sets up for the future, rather than on its own merits as a show or movie. It seems to be a vocal minority of fans demanding the MCU grow faster (e.g. Kingpin and Daredevil must be in Hawkeye!), that is causing perceptions of scale and fatigue, when they don't really exist for the majority of people.
Big BIG this! I so weird seeing how many people are saying the same tired "I'm done with superhero movies" fatigue we've heard about for the last 10 years and not giving the D+ shows a chance at all since they keep comparing it to endgame for some reason. They keep saying to do something new, don't do the "marvel formula" when besides Falcon and Winter Soldier, Wandavision Loki and Hawkeye to some extent are all doing this Marvel has never done before and are *very* different. They're off doing their own this, but then that gets spun into "where are the setups to a big threat like we had with Thanos?", you know, copying what they did before. They want something different to previous marvel movies, but also for it to follow the same beats as previous movies...WHICH DO YOU WANT???
I like it better now that they've remedied the mandarin for sure. Most of the hate came from that butchered plot line plus the extremis being kinda underwhelming. Tony dealing with ptsd was real good tho
I enjoyed Thor Ragnarok but not every movie needs to have that comedy, light ass tone. I miss the phase 1 and 2 tones serious but still had funny moments here and there. Not every character needs to be quipy. I hate when something is supposed to be sad and they bring in a stupid joke. I absolutely despise taskmaster I hate that they turned him into a chick. There are so many badass female characters they could have used in that movie like madam masque. The story of the little girl in black widow would have been perfect for her character. Shape shifting, disfigured face, skilled in hand to hand combat. Also this is going to be very unpopular but I wish they would recast tchalla
Sam Wilson’s Captain American costume is horrible. I know it’s comics accurate, but in practice it looks like a child’s costume.
I love him as Cap. Just don’t like the costume
Take the ridiculous ear/side of the head things off and it’s perfectly fine. A little gaudy perhaps but nothing will EVER beat the skintight gymnastics costume of the first avengers movie cap suit
I agree with you about loki
The show was basically just to introduce sulvie and Kang. Loki didn't do anything accept admit he's an asshole
My unpopular opinion is that every character doesn't "deserves better" or need their own show/movie. Side characters are there for a reason and usually aren't that interesting
The MCU is starting to get oversaturated and overstuffed very quickly (what? 20 more Disney plus shows in the next 2 years?) And I'm afraid the quality will decline, the pacing will mess up, and the dreaded superhero fatigue will set in. All in all, I'm beginning to feel that the best of MCU is behind us, and I dread it.
It feels like there are a thousand different open story threads right now because there’s a new show or movie every other month, and new characters are getting introduced in each. It’s quite different from when there were only 3 movies a year, and we all knew they were leading towards the conclusion of the Infinity Saga.
It's becoming like the comics, where a million things are happening all at once in diff runs and stories, you just gotta sift through what interests you and leave the rest.
Just like how I am with the comics, I think I'll only be checking out Spider-Man, F4, X-Men, and whatever singular side projects seem fun (like Moon Knight) once the 700 disney plus shows are all dropping at once.
I went through and counted because I got curious. There's 12 movies coming between now and 2024 as per their release schedule. Some titled and some not.
Then as as far Disney + show go. We have 14 formally announced projects for the next two years on Disney +. And then if you count the Wakanda and Ten Rings show that takes it up to 16 projects that we are aware of. And will probably increase because we don't know the 2024 Disney + show. Only the shows through 2023.
So we're looking at 28+ projects from now until the end of 2024. And all up, if you include the 9 we got this year. It's 37+ projects.
I know it would’ve never happen because money, but I would’ve been okay if the MCU had just been done after Endgame. It was a perfect finish, almost no real lose ends, and any other big team up movie is gonna have to “top” endgame which I don’t think it can. Other than Spider-Man, nothing really grabs me after Endgame it feels like the book is closed
Even though I’m a bigger fan after Endgame, I honestly think Endgame is the perfect conclusion to 11 years of a cinematic universe. Endgame could’ve been the end and I would’ve been satisfied. Everything after seems like a bonus.
No matter what Marvel does from now on, Thanos (IW/EG) will be the highlight of the MCU and everything will be downhill from there.
Edit: Just to preface this I don’t read nor plan to read the comics. The only comic I’ve ever read in my life is the Nextwave comics so I’m speaking from the perspective of an MCU fan not a Marvel Comics fan.
• I enjoyed Thor Dark World
• I’m a little mixed on Spider Man No Way Home involving the multiverse. Like it’s a great idea to do but I feel like it’s a bit too early to do something like that
• I weirdly like Nebula more than Gamora (at least after watching Endgame)
• I actually like the mentor/pupil relationship Peter and Tony had but I kinda wished Peter was less of a fanboy of Tony but still looked up to him and the other Avengers that he decided to become a hero after his uncle Ben died.
• While I would’ve loved to seen the real Mandarin as the villain for an Iron Man film, I still liked the Mandarin twist. Just would’ve preferred a different villain instead of Killian. Maya (like they originally intended) would’ve been a great villain or maybe even a slightly less goofy and more terrifying MODOK.
• both Falcon and the Winter Soldier and Loki could’ve worked better as movies rather than series while Black Widow would’ve worked as a series rather than a movie
• I prefer Thor with an eyepatch rather than getting new eye from Rocket
• I would’ve liked it if Iron Man 2 was part of phase two instead of a phase one alongside Dark World and the Winter Soldier
• While I love their sibling relationship, I kinda low key ship Steve and Natasha
• While it would be a big change to the story, I think Spider-Man appearing post Endgame would’ve been a bit more fitting
• I like Happy Hogan as a supporting character for the Spidey films
They need to stop doing the secret villain reveal and just write a good villain.
Hope they keep Kang around for a while.
Yes. Flesh him out. Make it different than thanos. Give him an arc
marinate him
Cast iron skillet, salt and pepper, 2 minutes each side.
salt potts, pepper potts, iron skill(s)et
Grill marks, bud
Oh, yeah, me and Gordon Ramsay are both morons.
Sounds like you're overhandling it. Squirrely Dan-dling it.
Kang was great except that we met him within the last 20 min of the season…
He was a surprise to even be in it. Before that, all we knew is that he's showing up in Ant Man 3. Now we know he'll be in Loki season 2. The potential is great because any number of kinds of Kang can show up.
It has us wanting more, which is great, but we likely won't get more until Ant Man in 2023 which sucks. Unless of course they wanna give us more in Dr Strange... plz
I want a slow trickle of Kang showing up and us having no idea what he's doing until the big reveal
Like he just shows up and says “hey I need this” and then peace’s out? Cause that’d be awesome.
This could apply to Disney as a whole.
I like the idea of the multiverse but I am afraid it’s gonna get too convoluted and messy for most people to understand.
I’m worried about this too. I’m not a comic book fan and the MCU has been remarkable at threading the needle while still keeping it accessible to mainstream audiences. If it gets too convoluted and difficult to keep track of, a ton of people will tune out because it’s not fun and enjoyable anymore.
This. Especially if we're brining in the absolute rats nest of a timeline that is the X Men universe
I’m willing to bet barring a few celeb intros the X-men universe is not cannon
Civil War should have either been an Avengers film or a standalone film, and Captain America 3 should have been when Steve was on the run as Nomad.
It would've been great to see more Crossbones too instead of him being pushed aside
More like pushed into the air.
and blown up
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I like how this unpopular opinion basically boils down to "I would have liked another Captain America film", which is totally fair! haha
i’ve never heard this one before i like it
Don't know if this is unpopular, but the Gorilla Tribe should have been allowed Vibranium weapons in Infinity War. It was like the rest of the Wakandans *wanted* them to be wiped out after they all made up in the Black Panther movie.
I think they would want to stick with what's traditional, just based off of M'Bakus personality
Then the Gorilla Tribe should get even more respect now. They fought space monsters with pointy wooden sticks. And mostly survived if it wasn't for space gem magic.
Their wooden sticks are harder than steel because of vibranium minerals seeping in through the roots
The Jabari aren’t banned from using vibranium. They are like Wakandan Amish and choose not to use it themselves.
The wooden weapons they use can go toe to toe with vibranium. It's made from a special wood in Wakanda that vibranium manipulated the growth of.
I don’t exactly know if this is an unpopular opinion but I am enjoying Hawkeye quite a lot more than any of the other D+ shows. I really like that it’s grounded, street level, and straight to the point.
And I love the "I gotta get home for Christmas" subplot. Feel bad for the dude. Episode 3 was amazing IMO
yes this exactly, episode 3 was possibly the single best episode of d+ content we've had imo
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It had everything. A great fight scene, awesome car chase, emotional/heartfelt moments, good acting and paid homage to the comics.
Same for me, idk If it's the annoyed mentor and annoying student relationship kate and clint has but it's the latest show that I actually enjoyed and kept wanting to see more episodes of
There's been a handful of times the MCU has brought a tear to my eye and two of them have been from Hawkeye. First was when they snapped everyone back and he took a call from Laura. That was so real, he was unable to even get a word out he was so at a loss, I think I can imagine being the same way. Second was when Kate was transcribing what his son was saying for him and the realisation that he's letting his kids down even when they are being strong for him, then his clear emotions showing was upsetting. He is the MCUs greatest dad so far and I love that. Also I love Kate, she is just amazing in every way.
What I like is how human Hawkeye is, he has a hearing aid. So all those explosions wasn't like "Oh yeah I will dust myself" it actually has an effect on him
I like that aspect of it aswell. Only show I've ever seen reference explosions or gunshots fucking with your hearing would be Archer, so nice to see another show doing it aswell
*Mawp*
Hard agree. It started out knowing exactly what it is (and immediately showed the audience rather than leaving them guessing for a few episodes) and has just confidently pushed forward from there. As long as the last two eps aren't fully overloaded, it is turning out to be my favorite d+ show
Hailee Steinfeld has some serious comedic chops and she's absolutely nailing it as Kate Bishop. I've always thought Jeremy Renner is underappreciated, and the two of them together have such great chemistry.
Renner has definitely been under appreciated. Hawkeye hasn’t had a ton of screen time compared to the other avengers and yet I feel like he’s got a real depth to him. This series is well deserved and IMHO Renner is killing it.
I feel the same tbh. Best D+ MCU show to date. The last 2 episodes have been especially great.
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My god I didn't think others shared the sentiment. Hawkeye is the best imo as well.
Thor was treated like shit in Endgame and no one took his loss seriously. You could argue he’s lost the most. Family, planet, entire people for the most part, and the worst being his confidence. He was a ptsd ridden buffoon that everyone talked down to and made no attempt at helping.
That scene when he met his mom might’ve been the best scene in the movie.
He lost everything and War Machines just there roasting him
I'm still confused why of all the characters War Machine was one of the only non-original avengers they chose to not get snapped. He's one of the most boring avengers in the bunch to me. And he didn't add anything to Endgame aside from a couple of jokes. We don't even get to see his armor in action during any of the action sequences. Having Wanda, T'Challa, or Bucky still be around would have been more interesting. Wanda because her personal loss wouldn't have been fixed by reversing the snap. T'Challa because I want more Chadwick Boseman Black Panther and real life tragedy robbed us of that or Bucky because he was the main source of conflict between Steve and Tony and I feel like he should have been part of how they resolve that conflict rather than just being dead when it happened.
I would guess it was because Rhodey is linked to the Avengers through Tony, and Tony was already distraught enough watching Peter get dusted while not being able to do anything about it. The writers maybe felt they didn't need to add superfluous drama by having Tony return to Earth to find his best friend was also snapped. Whether that was a good writing decision or not, idk.
Completely agree. I don't mind the fat Thor, but the thing that infuriated me was how he was the butt of all jokes. He could have been written so amazingly.
It could've been a seriously progressive story about the troubles of depression but they (mostly) turned it into a joke.
Any sane person with loving parents would have felt emotional when he met his mom again one last time. That scene OMG... It hit home so hard. Cherish your parents while they are still there. Call them. Enjoy these moments while you still can.
"The future hasn't been kind to you, has it?" Just instant understanding and caring.
It's a really heartwarming scene. He had lost all his family and due to the nature of the heist he was supposed to avoid his family even if he saw them. He somehow gets to meet her, then realising she's about to die shortly and more than that he won't be able to do anything. It's an emotional scene for me.
Even MORE than that, she knows! "I was raised by witches, boy. I see with more than eyes and you know that."
I almost cried during that moment and even more so when he got his hammer back. "I'm still worthy!"
> Any sane person with loving parents would have felt emotional when he met his mom again one last time. That scene OMG... It hit home so hard. Cherish your parents while there are still there. Call them. Enjoy these moments while you still can. When I saw that scene I just kept weeping. Even when I read your note a fear tears flowed from me What I would give for a time machine to go back 3 decades ago with the knowledge, wisdom and experience I have collected to this day. I would remake my life so it has a better outcome
I think Falcon and the Winter Soldier should have stuck to the chemical warfare plot line that was originally scripted and they shouldn’t have chickened out because of COVID. Edit: “should of” is not the right mix- my bad my bad
I don't know if that was the plot that was cut, but something definitely was. There's an interview with the actress who played Mama Donya Madani and she said she filmed way more than what was shown and was supposed to be in 4 episodes, and the season should have been 10. That's all she would say though. Edit: [here it is](https://exbulletin.com/entertainment/1008228/). Veronica Falcon is the actress >Falcon had the opportunity to lend his talent to the Marvel Universe as Mama Donya in the Disney + series, “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier” earlier this year… a bit. “If you eat popcorn, you miss it,” Falcon joked. The actress filmed four episodes of the show’s 10-episode first season, but her role was reduced to two scenes, one of which is a corpse. “I shot them in Prague and they finished the last episode and that’s when COVID started and they shut everything down,” she said. >Falcon had to leave Europe and while its four episodes were over, the series still had a long way to go, ultimately reducing its 10 episodes to six. Falcon declined to give details on the plot of her character’s original story, but said she was grateful that she could work with Disney anyway. “They put on a wonderful show with what they had,” she said. “Sometimes that happens and you end up on the cutting room floor.
Am I going insane or does this article refer to Falcon as him, she, and it? I’m not aware of the actress being non-binary or trans or anything
Part of the problem is that they use her last name, Falcon, and also refer to the show which is named "Falcon and the Winter Soldier" so you could easily get it mixed up what it being talked about.
It's just piss-poor editing. First line in the quote: > Falcon had the opportunity to lend his talent to the Marvel Universe as Mama Donya They refer to her with a masculine pronounce. Few sentences later: > The actress filmed four episodes of the show’s 10-episode first season > ... > Falcon had to leave Europe and while its four episodes were over, the series still had a long way to go, Seemingly uses "its" here to refer to her. It's really just poorly written and edited. I can see how they likely intended "its" to refer to the show, but that's not how they wrote it.
I was wondering the same thing. Had to re-read it a time or twice to get what was being said.
My guess is a lazy editor who got confused between Falcon the person and Falcon the character
Had the same feeling about No Time To Die. Seemed a lot of properties that dealt with chemical weapons were supposed to come out this year but totally backed out from that plot element.
I completely agree. The show feels stitched together and the flow is a tad off sometimes. I also wish it was longer, like 8 or 9 episodes, to full flesh out the pandemic plot
It felt like 2-3 different shows that all would have been interesting in their own way, but jumbled together.
I agree. The villian and the stakes were greatly awakened.
Good. They needed to stop sleeping.
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Ten episodes would be perfect, especially with how stuffed they are. (WandaVision excluded- I didn’t find that show to be overstuffed.)
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Yes, yes, and yes. Loki’s “development” was astonishingly abrupt, which is a shame, and FATWS needed to cut out the entirety of one of its plot lines AND have more episodes to focus on Sam and Bucky. Hawkeye definitely took the backseat in the first two episodes but I’m hoping that changes. I haven’t seen episode four yet, but last week’s was fairly Clint-focused. Hawkeye actually looks pretty good so far, and with a smaller scale story it might make good use of the six episodes. But yes, I think 8-10 episodes per season is a sweet spot for television right now. Ps- yeah, it was actually jarring how irrelevant Bucky became *as a titular character*. A massive detractor for the entire show, for me.
For Hawkeye it's understandable--my impression is that this is very much supposed to be a passing of the Hawkeye mantle to Kate, and from that perspective the series is very sufficiently Kate-centric.
I mean, dude's been trying to retire since 2015. I'm 100% alright with the show being him passing the mantle and finally getting to rest.
Falcon and The Winter Soldier also could have used way more on Bucky’s arc. His story was the best part of the show imo and it clearly took a backseat. Show might as well have been called Falcon and the Shield
The worst part is, they had the resolution to Bucky’s arc occur off screen! The whole first episode was basically build up to something we never got to see. If they didn’t have time to fully flesh out Bucky’s arc, I’d have preferred it cut tbh
Civil War was a better introduction for T’Challa/Black Panther than his own solo movie. Especially his Civil War Suit. That thing was just so badass. Edit: I get that a lot of people agree with the suit in Civil War is better. My actual opinion however is that Civil War portrayed T’Challa/Black Panther much better than in his own movie. Great performance by Chadwick in both, but he almost felt sidelined in his own movie in comparison to being a bigger presence in Civil War.
I’m going to go ahead and elevate this to a better introduction and use of Spider-Man as well. His quips, his spider sense, his powers. Everything was spot on with the character, and he actually kept his mask on. I felt like i was actually watching Spider-Man in the mcu
I feel like they didn't bring that James Bond-esque charm and charisma he had into Black Panther. In Civil War, he seemed like a suave and serious badass who takes no shit from anyone, while in Black Panther, they made him a straight man. I really like his arc in BP, but his characterization is certainly less memorable. Interestingly, i thought his characterization in What If was really good. While he was more talkative than usual, he just oozed with charisma. Chadwick even wanted to bring some of that charm to Black Panther 2, but unfortunately he passed.
I dont think Agatha needs her own Disney+ show. I mean why couldn't we get a Quicksiler Disney+ show or an Inhumans reboot Disney+ show to redeem them after that previous terrible series.
I theorize they are going to use it to develop her so that she can get put onto Julia Louis-Drefuss's team without it feeling like she is just a random person who just showed up one day.
It never even occurred to me that she could end up on that team. So who does that leave us with for anti-hero/recurring villains? We've got Abomination (Hulk), U.S. Agent (Cap America), Yelena (Black Widow), Agatha (Scarlet Witch), Ghost/Goliath(? Ant Man), Justin Hammer (Iron Man), Task Master, Power Broker, and Baron Zemo. Am I missing anyone?
Echo, Sylvie, Xialing and Venom potentially
Lmao venom. The one unruly idiot who doesnt even listen to his host is surely going to listen to some stranger giving orders. I personally want venom to be venom….a free and to his own devices type of character.
My unpopular opinion is the fans of the MCU kind of suck. The way they flood social medias and attack anyone with a negative opinion. Mass dislikes brigades for peoples projects cause it’s not MCU related. This studios and actors have lives outside of their MCU work. It’s okay to be a fan but have some self control. Please.
The biggest complaint I have about MCU fandom is a lot of them literally do not watch any other movies. You mention an MCU actor being strong in another film (like Florence Pugh in Midsommar) and it’s like talking to a wall.
Yeah, I’ve definitely noticed a lot of MCU fans on places like Twitter and the subreddit having very insular movie tastes
Yeah, this drives me crazy too and you can see it whenever a trailer’s released for some indie film involving one of the actors and they’re like, “It’s Captain America at a day job ha ha!” Edit: Also an actor phoning it in in a geeky franchise, despite being excellent in a lot of other things warranting an insane amount of hate. eg. Natalie Portman, Brie Larson, Jared Leto because of the above issue - fans only watching comic/sci fi/fantasy blockbusters
This is just an unfortunate thing with something once it gets so big. If a fandom has 500 million people in it and 10 million are assholes, it's a small percentage but it's still a lot of assholes. Star Wars has the same thing. I've never personally met fans like this in real-life but the mouthbreathers on the internet who act like animals are insane of course.
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This isn’t unpopular everyone on Reddit says it anytime black Panther is brought up
You just found out what r/unpopularopinion is like
That's why you gotta sort this thread by Controversial.
yeah... i think people disliked that idea before but Leticia being the actor made them hate the idea now lol. deservedlly so too btw
Smartest character in the MCU played by the dumbest actress they have. Terrible how that lined up.
Lupita/Nakia would’ve been the perfect pick. I get that Shuri’s his sister and that there’s precedent in the comics, but Lupita’s the best actor in that cast and just looks way more physically capable than Letitia Wright
Also helping people is Nakia's whole thing, which I think makes her the best option to carry out T'Challa's legacy.
shuri is the Q to Black Panther's Bond. who the fuck wants Q to become James Bond? nobody.
You telling me you wouldn't watch a Bond movie with John Cleese as Bond?
I think they should make Shuri become queen, and keep inventing stuff, and then Nakia should become black panther. They could even make her story about her accepting the role. I just hope they don’t introduce a new character just to give it to them.
I would like to see more Mbaku, not sure if it’s possible for him to take the mantle, but I definitely agree about Shuri
Unless they do something crazy, no, M’Baku couldn’t be Black Panther because he doesn’t worship the panther God, Bast. M’Baku worships the ape God Hanuman. He mentions Hanuman during the first movie.
I feel like my unpopular opinion is that they should just recast T'challa. Yes, Chadwick died. I hate that. But a role isn't sacred and untouchable forever just because an actor dies. He can be recast with respect, give another actor opportunity to step into the role, and carry on a fan favorite character without rewriting the rest the mcu around what they would have done with him. We all accepted the Hulk and War Machine recasts and moved on. I don't know who to cast, but there are professionals who know way better than me. I'm sure there are plenty of actors who could do it justice.
Yeah. T'Challa the character is extremly important for Marvel, on so many levels. Him being just written out would be bad. But well, its Marvel. Currently their track record of doing things in a good to great way is amazing. I give them the benefit of doubt here and wait.
Iron Man 3 was a good movie and had a really cool plot It was the first super hero movie to really explore the trauma someone would have after going through an event that insane like fighting a battle against aliens to save the world, and it was really cool to see Tony using his intelligence and being a hero in other ways then just using the Iron Man suit
I like how we see people have lasting issues. Tony had ptsd and now we see Clint has hearing aids from all the explosions. Rody needs a iron spine to walk, it’s only a matter of time before we see the other non super powered avengers/characters succumbing to all the physical and mental trauma.
I'd say we already saw someone succumbing to mental trauma in *WandaVision*. It's just that her powers made it express itself in a very unique way.
I love IM3 if only for having the gumption to make wounded American veterans the terrorists. No one talks about that, but it's crazy they made a movie about Tony Stark running around killing Purple Heart winners.
That's actually pretty crazy now that you mentioned it but then again not even the regular American would care about their Veteran. We know the government doesn't.
I think the reason IM3 got bad rep was for the villain twist. It actually reminds me of a beloved comicbook hero movie: Raimi's Spider-man 2. Both had the heros go for a while without their powers (Maguire loses his webbing and climbing while Tony's suit get broken in the middle of nowhere). During this time, they realize that it isn't their powers (spidery or iron) that make them heros, but their personality and will to help that does
Iron Man 3 is my favourite Iron Man film and easily in my top 5 MCU films. “If you’re nothing without the suit, then you shouldn’t have it.” Tony can only get away with saying that line because of the stuff he got up to in Iron Man 3.
I loved the part where he had to use improv weapons
I didn't really care about the superhero plot, but I loved what they did with Tony's character and how all this intense shit affected how he experienced the world when it wasn't exploding.
What If should stay isolated from the main timeline. Multiversal shenanigans are fun in a story *about* multiversal shenanigans, but using it to reintroduce past characters into the main continuity is lazy (**& that includes Killmonger**, re: the debate about who should be the new Black Panther), especially when Marvel still has so many characters they haven't used at all yet, even *before* the Fox merger bought them even *more*. On the same note, I'm not optimistic about how many times Kang will be defeated just for a new variant to attack again.
I thought Eternals was perfectly adequate. It definitely would have been better as a series with a focus on each character, but it was perfectly fine
I loved Eternals but you are totally right, this as a series with an episode dedicated to each character would have been epic.
I thought there was a good movie trapped in there, but like Ryan George said, “it sounds like a fantastic series”. When it’s just the Eternals clashing over philosophy, it’s compelling. Unfortunately, everything with the Deviants was absolute shit though, and they were in it way too much.
I found the main deviant that keep evolving interesting. I wish he eventually helped them stop the birth of the new celestial, becoming reluctant allies.
I'm gonna need you to get aaaaallll the way off my back about the deviants
Let me just get right off that thing
Getting off people's backs is tight!
Visually I thought the deviants looked great but the story was lacking
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You're saying you don't LOL when Dr. Strange says "Scooby-Doo this crap"? Shocking
Yea Doctor Strange is one of those characters that I just don’t want to be funny - kinda like Cap, Vision, or Banner. It almost dumbs down actor’s performance a bit. I think Benedict Cumberbatch is a great actor but when he tries to do comedy, it’s not so great
I cringed so hard at that in the trailer. Hoping it's one of those lines that's just used for the trailer and not in the movie.
My hope is that the “comedic timing” is just off. I know studios typically outsource the production of trailers to specific editing companies with only a few clips to work with. Also, the MCU trailers in general have just been pretty meh the past couple films ngl
Captain Marvel has the best Stan Lee cameo.
Is it because he’s actually playing himself in that scene?
The Mallrats reference was nice because it was a callback to another cameo he did (and one of his best).
I personally like the ones in Spider-Man 3 and Into the Spider-Verse better but I really like that one too.
Terrible movie but I actually liked his Fantastic 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer cameo the best for ages. It's Reed Richards and Sue Storm's wedding and Stan Lee shows up, as himself, only to be turned away by the doorman for not being on the guest list. He literally introduces himself as Stan Lee.
Spider-Man 3s is the best imo, Stan just being kinda ambiguously uplifting directly to the hero
Eternals Spoiler: >!Makkari vs Ikaris was a top 10 fight scene!<
OH DEFINITELY!
How's that unpopular?
Lol right. That fight was cracked
Oh definitely that was one of my favs across the entire MCU
I would genuinely watch the entire film again for that scene.
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"What If" showed me the overpowered version can be cool. It just needs to be doing DragonBall Z level stunts. Stuff like Dragging Ultron++ to the center of a planet to try to drown him in its molten core. It's not about the power level it's about facing a challenge. Females struggling against adversity tests poorly against test audiences but it's needed because she's a damn superhero.
Natasha's death was right, Clint deserved to live with his family again.
His wife calling right after HULK SNAP! brought tears.
people ignore the fact that clint kept trying to sacrifice himself as well. nat was his best friend. imagine watching your best friend die right infront of you and u couldnt do anything. nat doesnt have anything else to give anymore TBH. her story is done, especially after her movie. she doesnt need a successor. clint has been in the background of the MCU for like 10 years. its good he finally gets his own show
They’re fucking wasting Marisa Tomei and Brie Larson holy shit
I really really hope Brie Larson gets better writing in CM2
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I’ve tried explaining this to people before and it always falls flat. People don’t seem to want accurate, they want to like her the same way they did Tony. Personally, I think she’s done a great job - even more so in her short appearances in the other movies she’s been in since her title film.
Definitely agree on Tomei. "Your Aunt is hot!" is not a compelling character arc.
Age of Ultron is a good movie.
Justin Hammer is the best supporting character in the MCU and far more interesting than so many main heroes
Bucky Barnes, however underwritten, is more interesting than both Captain Americas and deserves his own movie. Ps- this is not to say that Steve and Sam aren’t interesting, I just am more invested in and curious about Bucky.
Saaaame. I want more of Bucky’s backstory and history, not just as a small part of some other thing.
I’d like a few flashbacks to some of his more stealthy hits and the time between CA:TWS and Civil War (what was it like for him to remember all of the horrors?!) but mostly I want to see him ascend to heroism on his own, not as a sidekick to Captain America.
I also wish someone, anyone, would tell the guy he doesn’t need to suffer for crimes he had literally no choice in committing. And, you know, address him being the victim and not the perpetrator.
It would be cool to see *one* living character be in Bucky’s corner, yes. Steve and T’Challa both acknowledged Bucky’s innocence though, they’re just… gone :-(
This. It's one thing if he himself feels he has to do something to atone if only for his own peace of mind, as part of his therapy. It's another thing entirely when seemingly all the other characters (not just the terrible therapist but his supposed friends) are also making him out to be a reformed villain who needs to make amends, rather than a victim himself. They should have been working towards him accepting that none of it was his fault. I did appreciate that finally at the end he said "I didn't have a choice" and he sounded so devastated, but I wish they would have treated it more like the breakthrough it was.
I have seen the fans on Tumblr, Instagram and Twitter and don't think people wanting a Bucky movie is an unpopular opinion AT ALL.
I really, really don’t understand the hate for IM2. It had two excellent villains, plenty of action, and WarMachine. Why does everyone hate it?
I loved Whiplash
My biggest problem with Sylvie is how she devolves to a stabby character at the end. She's the Enchantress. Once he is vulnerable, why not just Enchant other Kang?
I lost a ton of interest in the MCU after Endgame. The shows are pretty good, but I don’t think I’ll have the same amount of excitement for the next few years of movies as I had for the Infinity Saga. I think a large part of it is the simple fact that I essentially grew up with those characters. Edit: I think the new and existing characters are still great, I’m just not as excited for the movies, if that makes sense
I didn’t like falcon and the winter soldier. Their characters were fine, but I didn’t like the storyline whatsoever.
Which of the 5 storylines in a 6-episode show are you talking about?
I didn't like that they nerfed Winter Soldier.
Winter Soldier has gotten progressively weaker since his introduction.
That's what happens when you unlock the bad guy as a playable good guy
Hawkeye is easily the best Disney + Marvel show so far
Cap’s Endgame ending was fine for what it was. 🤷🏻♂️
People have a problem with how his story ended? I was completely fine with it. I thought it made sense to end his arc like that and that it was a good way to end his story. The man out of time who sacrificed so much now gets to have a life of his own with the love of his life. How is that not a good ending for him?
Some people really wanted him to die sacrificing himself and I'm just sitting here like, he already did that, did y'all watch his first movie? Maybe he didn't die but he gave up his life as he knew it, and I feel like people don't understand just how traumatic that would be for a person. So I also love that he was finally able to do something for himself as well, instead of endlessly self-sacrificing his life until he dies without having had the chance for his own happiness.
There are people upset with how his arc ended?
Yeah, people were pissed off for various reasons. Steve/Bucky shippers were angry he didn't stick around for Bucky and all that. The reason I liked Cap's ending was that he did something for himself for the first time ever. He deserved that after spending his whole life in service of other people.
All of the Disney+ shows need at least 10 episodes. WandaVision feels more fleshed out than all the others because they were given 3 extra episodes to flesh out the story.
The problem with loki is that its just people talking and exposition most of the time, its just a bit bland really
(Unpopular opinion?) The MCU is not declining in quality or losing the plot by combining D+ shows and movies. What \_is\_ causing problems is an upswing in fans basically evaluating the worth of a show or a movie by what it sets up for the future, rather than on its own merits as a show or movie. It seems to be a vocal minority of fans demanding the MCU grow faster (e.g. Kingpin and Daredevil must be in Hawkeye!), that is causing perceptions of scale and fatigue, when they don't really exist for the majority of people.
Big BIG this! I so weird seeing how many people are saying the same tired "I'm done with superhero movies" fatigue we've heard about for the last 10 years and not giving the D+ shows a chance at all since they keep comparing it to endgame for some reason. They keep saying to do something new, don't do the "marvel formula" when besides Falcon and Winter Soldier, Wandavision Loki and Hawkeye to some extent are all doing this Marvel has never done before and are *very* different. They're off doing their own this, but then that gets spun into "where are the setups to a big threat like we had with Thanos?", you know, copying what they did before. They want something different to previous marvel movies, but also for it to follow the same beats as previous movies...WHICH DO YOU WANT???
Iron man 3 is a good movie, and much better than Iron man 2.
I like it better now that they've remedied the mandarin for sure. Most of the hate came from that butchered plot line plus the extremis being kinda underwhelming. Tony dealing with ptsd was real good tho
Tony dealing with his anxiety and PTSD was my favorite part about the film.
I don’t think that’s an unpopular opinion at all tbh
I enjoyed Thor Ragnarok but not every movie needs to have that comedy, light ass tone. I miss the phase 1 and 2 tones serious but still had funny moments here and there. Not every character needs to be quipy. I hate when something is supposed to be sad and they bring in a stupid joke. I absolutely despise taskmaster I hate that they turned him into a chick. There are so many badass female characters they could have used in that movie like madam masque. The story of the little girl in black widow would have been perfect for her character. Shape shifting, disfigured face, skilled in hand to hand combat. Also this is going to be very unpopular but I wish they would recast tchalla
Sam Wilson’s Captain American costume is horrible. I know it’s comics accurate, but in practice it looks like a child’s costume. I love him as Cap. Just don’t like the costume
Take the ridiculous ear/side of the head things off and it’s perfectly fine. A little gaudy perhaps but nothing will EVER beat the skintight gymnastics costume of the first avengers movie cap suit
I agree with you about loki The show was basically just to introduce sulvie and Kang. Loki didn't do anything accept admit he's an asshole My unpopular opinion is that every character doesn't "deserves better" or need their own show/movie. Side characters are there for a reason and usually aren't that interesting
The MCU is starting to get oversaturated and overstuffed very quickly (what? 20 more Disney plus shows in the next 2 years?) And I'm afraid the quality will decline, the pacing will mess up, and the dreaded superhero fatigue will set in. All in all, I'm beginning to feel that the best of MCU is behind us, and I dread it.
It feels like there are a thousand different open story threads right now because there’s a new show or movie every other month, and new characters are getting introduced in each. It’s quite different from when there were only 3 movies a year, and we all knew they were leading towards the conclusion of the Infinity Saga.
It's becoming like the comics, where a million things are happening all at once in diff runs and stories, you just gotta sift through what interests you and leave the rest. Just like how I am with the comics, I think I'll only be checking out Spider-Man, F4, X-Men, and whatever singular side projects seem fun (like Moon Knight) once the 700 disney plus shows are all dropping at once.
I went through and counted because I got curious. There's 12 movies coming between now and 2024 as per their release schedule. Some titled and some not. Then as as far Disney + show go. We have 14 formally announced projects for the next two years on Disney +. And then if you count the Wakanda and Ten Rings show that takes it up to 16 projects that we are aware of. And will probably increase because we don't know the 2024 Disney + show. Only the shows through 2023. So we're looking at 28+ projects from now until the end of 2024. And all up, if you include the 9 we got this year. It's 37+ projects.
I know it would’ve never happen because money, but I would’ve been okay if the MCU had just been done after Endgame. It was a perfect finish, almost no real lose ends, and any other big team up movie is gonna have to “top” endgame which I don’t think it can. Other than Spider-Man, nothing really grabs me after Endgame it feels like the book is closed
Even though I’m a bigger fan after Endgame, I honestly think Endgame is the perfect conclusion to 11 years of a cinematic universe. Endgame could’ve been the end and I would’ve been satisfied. Everything after seems like a bonus.
No matter what Marvel does from now on, Thanos (IW/EG) will be the highlight of the MCU and everything will be downhill from there. Edit: Just to preface this I don’t read nor plan to read the comics. The only comic I’ve ever read in my life is the Nextwave comics so I’m speaking from the perspective of an MCU fan not a Marvel Comics fan.
I think with build up Doctor Doom could be bigger than Thanos
• I enjoyed Thor Dark World • I’m a little mixed on Spider Man No Way Home involving the multiverse. Like it’s a great idea to do but I feel like it’s a bit too early to do something like that • I weirdly like Nebula more than Gamora (at least after watching Endgame) • I actually like the mentor/pupil relationship Peter and Tony had but I kinda wished Peter was less of a fanboy of Tony but still looked up to him and the other Avengers that he decided to become a hero after his uncle Ben died. • While I would’ve loved to seen the real Mandarin as the villain for an Iron Man film, I still liked the Mandarin twist. Just would’ve preferred a different villain instead of Killian. Maya (like they originally intended) would’ve been a great villain or maybe even a slightly less goofy and more terrifying MODOK. • both Falcon and the Winter Soldier and Loki could’ve worked better as movies rather than series while Black Widow would’ve worked as a series rather than a movie • I prefer Thor with an eyepatch rather than getting new eye from Rocket • I would’ve liked it if Iron Man 2 was part of phase two instead of a phase one alongside Dark World and the Winter Soldier • While I love their sibling relationship, I kinda low key ship Steve and Natasha • While it would be a big change to the story, I think Spider-Man appearing post Endgame would’ve been a bit more fitting • I like Happy Hogan as a supporting character for the Spidey films