no, you guys don’t understand how much i adore steve and billy’s fight at the byer’s house
because it says so much about steve’s character
mostly that he’s a terrible fighter, but that’s becausehe’s a protectorbilly literally knocks him on his ass the first time they tousle, and the only time steve gets in a clear punch is when it’s to get billy away from lucas
after that, billy’s attention shifts from lucas to steve again, he wants his shot at taking down the almighty “king steve”, and steve quite literally gets the shit beaten out of him
steve barely puts up a fight when billy first knocks him down, because he isn’t a fighter
he gets in a good swing at billy when he’s threatening lucas, but after that it’s kind of like his brain just short circuits and goes now what? because it’s just been set at getting billy the fuck away from lucas, and once billy starts swinging at steve’s pride he topples over like a tower of pebbles, because that’s not something he’s particularly concerned about protecting
steve only has a fighting instinct when it’s connected to his protecting instinct
and we saw this already in season one, at the last fight he fought at the byer’s house, against the demogorgon
steve is freaking out (”this is crazy this is crazy this is crazy this is crazy this is CRAZY”
i love my disaster son), and just flees, ass over teakettle, but once he realizes that that means abandoning jonathan and nancy with the demogorgon, he comes in swingin’, and beats the shit out of that motherfuckersteve harrington can’t fight to save his pride, or to set an example, or to just be the aggressor
the only time steve is a capable fighter is when it’s meant to protect those he cares about
(and now that i’m preparing the seasons anyway, let’s talk about steve and his bat, always on the front line, always keeping the ones he loves at his back, whether it be jonathan and nancy or his kids)
and i just love steve harrington and his bigass heart and the fact that he just cares so much, okay??
Tag: post perfection
wanda maximoff: watched her parents die from a bomb created by stark industries
tony stark: watched his parents get brutally murdered by a man standing 10 feet away from him
wanda maximoff: is pardoned for wanting revenge against tony stark for what he did
tony stark: is a villain for wanting revenge against bucky for what he did
t’challa: watched his father die by a framed bucky barnes
tony stark: watched his mother die by bucky barnes
t’challa: gets to spend the entire film genuinely trying to kill bucky for revenge
tony stark: is a villain for BLATANTLY holding back in a fight due to his reaction to watching the most disturbing and fucked up thing in his life
bucky barnes: mentally manipulated into doing tasks against his will
tony stark: mentally manipulated into doing self-destructive tasks
bucky barnes: is [rightfully] pardoned for years of being a deadly assassin
tony stark: is a villain for creating something to protect earth that eventually backfired
natasha romanova and wanda maximoff: both willingly worked for the bad guys
tony stark: was unaware that his partner and friend had been selling his weapons to the bad guys
natasha romanova and wanda maximoff: get pardoned for the blood on their hands when they join shield/the avengers
tony stark: is a villain for the weapons that obadiah sold to the bad guys despite immediately getting upset about it and confronting him about it
steve rogers: throws an entire trailer at peter without knowing if he has super strength
tony stark: says that they need to hold wanda accountable for her mistakes
steve rogers: gets praised for saying she’s “just a kid” in defending her horrendous mistakes despite her age and the destruction she caused before
tony stark: is a villain for bringing peter to “web them up” and making peter leave the battle the moment he gets hurt
wanda maximoff: never has to own up to working for hydra, manipulating every member of the avengers, or triggering the hulk into destroying a civilian city under her control, joining alongside ultron until she does one good thing, essentially being the cause of all the death and destruction in aou, and eventually not being able to control her powers in lagos that she previously had total control over, which resulted in deaths upon deaths, and also gets to watch the hulk take all the burn and blame for the city she made him destroy
tony stark: literally is held accountable for every single action made by himself along with maximoff and every other avenger, tries his hardest to work alongside ross and 117 countries that all demand superhero registration through the accords as voted for in the UN, despite knowing how much a lot of his team would reject such idea
wanda maximoff: is just a 26 year old kid!
tony stark: is a villain for trying to find a middle ground between selfish team members who refused to be held accountable for being dangerous people and the 117 countries around the world that want them to be held accountable since they’re all powerful & dangerous people (a lot of which have bad histories, see: wanda) who shouldnt be allowed to just freely use their powers when they clearly pose to be a potential threat to the public
everyone else: gets to do shit
tony stark: is a villain for doing similar shit while also being the only one who fucking cares
Would someone please explain to me why Wanda blames Tony for the death of her parents? He did not attack them himself, the bomb was manufactured by his company! It’s like if a guy is stabbed with an inox knife, instead of blaming the one who actually stabbed him, the company founders are arrested!!!!!! This makes ZERO FUCKING SENSE!
Could someone please explain?
Because she really believed that he was behind the bombings when she saw the company logo and wanted revenge. There’s literally no other reason.
OH MY GOD EXACTLY
This makes me so livid, I can’t even explain….
“what do we say to the god of death?”
“not today”
i find it fascinating that we’ve twice seen Shiro stare down a blade to the face and not even blink. and it reminds me of a discussion i had with @equineporcupine about Shiro, and an important aspect of his character: Shiro does not fear death.
i don’t mean “Shiro wants to die” because i don’t think he does – someone who actively wanted to die wouldn’t survive a year in the gladiator pits. i mean that Shiro isn’t afraid to die.
death is inevitable for all of us – there’s no way to avoid it – but most people don’t like to think about it too much because it makes us uncomfortable. we’d rather joke about it or avoid it. but Shiro… he spent a year in an alien prison with no realistic hope of rescue or release. thinking about his own mortality was inescapable.
there must have been multiple times in the arena or the labs when he thought “this is it. this is how i die”. there must have been multiple times when he sat alone in his prison cell and thought about the inevitability of his own demise, and wondered which particular alien evil would finally kill him. there must have been multiple times when he faced monsters and thought “there’s no way i’ll survive this”
but he did.
Shiro was forced to acknowledge, time and time again, that he might die at any moment – maybe this moment, maybe the next – maybe today, or tomorrow. he faced his own death so many times he stopped being afraid of it.
and now he doesn’t fear death anymore.
and it makes him incredibly powerful.
he’s powerful because he has accepted, on a bone-deep level, that at some point he’ll die (because we all will) and that he probably can’t control when or how that will be (because most of us can’t). but his reaction to that is to try and live the best life he can in the time he’s given. which is why he was still fighting back against his captors after a year in the Galra prisons, and why he fought so hard to survive in the arena, and why he never gave up.
and it’s why he can stare down a blade to the face and not blink. because if this is the blade that kills him – if this is how he dies – then that’s okay. he’ll die fighting, and protecting his friends, and he’ll die with his soul intact, and that’s all he can ask for.
Shiro just… he looks death in the eye, and winks, and says: “not today”
elphabaforpresidentofgallifrey:
Fans: We need more mentally ill characters!!
Tony Stark: *is mentally ill*
Fans: What the fuck
Fans: No, not like that. We meant in pretty, non-threatening, non-symptom-showing ways.
the most realistic part of these movies is tony stark being clearly mentally ill and everyone ignoring and blaming him
Ain’t that the fucking truth.
I’m always happy to see mental illness represented on screen, because it makes me feel human. Until I see fans going batshit crazy, because they thought mental illness is a girl with a sad playlist and some cuts on her arms. Mental illness can be that. But it can also be anything from violence to anger to sadness and mostly, almost always, extreme levels of frustration. It’s not pretty, it’s not meme-worthy, but it’s real. As long as that isn’t recognised, there is no hope of ever reducing the stigma around mental illness. And no chance for those who suffer to be honest about it.
AA managed to do what MCU didn’t in many ways and things:
1. Made the fandom like the entire team and see the value of every Avenger
2. Made us like both Steve and Tony, without having to unnecessarily choose between them or their ‘sides’
3. Proved that Clint was most often the Avenger who had simple but great solutions and saw through things that others didn’t.
4. Made Natasha Romanoff invaluable as herself and not just the Avenger who picked up after her moody male colleagues.
5. Gave Hulk a personality
6. Made Thor speak in Asgardian style English a.k.a quaint English.
7. Gave us an Avengers Tower where the team lived together. Had others acknowledge that it wasn’t just their base but was their home.
8. Acknowledges people’s pasts.
9. Highlighted the message of ‘United We Stand’ more than ‘Divided We Fall’
10. Gave all the Avengers their own quirks, insecurities, strengths, and made them contribute to the team’s success individually.
11. Resolved in-fighting gracefully and without almost-killing betrayals
12. Reminded us why hope is the true hero quality.
13. Upheld the Avengers belied of giving people a chance, not killing their enemies, and protecting freedom and justice in the right sense.
14. Made the fandom a bit more united than divided into teams.
15. Gave us back the idea of Team Being Family.
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