Psst, internet… Keep it up. Maybe then @scottallie will listen to all my awesome Buffy/Marvel crossover ideas!
Thor looks so sad.
BUFFY MEETS THE AVENGERS: “You named your hammer Meow Meow?”Please no, Internet. Please stop this.
YES YES YES
"As for Captain America, while I don’t think that knowledge of Steve’s backstory is necessary to understand The Avengers, an appreciation of his character definitely helps. Seeing Steve Rogers before his supersoldier transformation helps us understand the reason why he “is” Captain America rather than just a star-spangled man, and the fact that he’s fresh from the ’40s has the twofold influence of making him the ultimate fish-out-of-water character (perhaps even moreso than Thor, who has no real need to fit in with human society) and adding a horrendously depressing aspect to every one of his scenes because everyone he ever knew or loved is dead. The fact that Steve Rogers is even remotely functional in day-to-day life is tantamount to a miracle. Steve Rogers has the same goofily earnest attitude as Clark Kent/Superman, something that’s rather hard to pull off in a movie aimed at the cynical bastards of 2012. It makes me worry that people who haven’t seen the Captain America prequel might misunderstand the charm of the Steve Rogers we see in Avengers. I saw several reviews that commented that Cap seemed clunky or cheesy compared to the rest of the Avengers, and each time I got this ridiculous protective urge to be like, No! Watch his own movie! It’s heartbreaking and inspiring and there’s a musical number where he punches Hitler in front of a chorus line of girls in spangly stars-and-stripes minidresses! Man, I’m Scottish and a pacifist and barely have any patriotic spirit for my own country (unless you include gallows humour about rain and alcoholism), but if you don’t like Captain America then I don’t even know what to do with you. He’s even better now than he was fifty years go because as a person he’s really the exact opposite of the kind of jingoistic sentiment the 1940s propoganda “Captain America” was originally intended to be."
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-Hellotailor’s Article on Captain America
I really liked this person’s analysis of Cap. There’s more in the article, and she talks about how the clothes he’s given reveal a lot about his character. He is so not boring. He’s this extremely strong person who has gone through SO MUCH. He has lost EVERYTHING dear to him and has been tossed into a world that he has no idea how to navigate, and what does he do? He fights on, and he does what’s best for others above all else. Also yes on the jingoism thing.
I think it says everything that his weapon is a shield. He’s a protector, not a warrior, above all else.
(via accioharo)
Great. Just great. I also really, really love [AVENGERS SPOILER SORTA NOT REALLY SURE WHY NOT JUST SEE IT YOU SHOULD HAVE SEEN IT ALREADY] how tired Chris Evans plays Cap in those first few scenes. In every scene prior to stopping Loki in Germany, Cap just seems so weary and depressed. He’s punching the crap out of punching bags because he has nothing else to do. He doesn’t seem at all affected by Coulson’s admiration of him; he just wearily wonders if he’s too old-fashioned for the job. It’s not until Nick Fury says “Cap, you’re up” that Cap snaps back into action. When he confronts Loki in Germany, he’s back doing what he knows how to do: protect people. He’s witty, he’s passionate, he’s alive again. And then for the rest of the movie, he’s passionate again. He’s confused and angry, but he’s really alive again. And in that end battle? Saving people in a bank? He gets it. He gets his role and he probably sees that his life isn’t over (if they stop that invasion).
HOW AM I STILL HAVING NEW REVELATIONS ABOUT THIS MOVIE?
(via ryeisenberg)
I’m not reblogging Avengers GIFs because, generally, I’m not that interested in GIFs and also spoilers. But I figure anyone who hasn’t seen Avengers yet can probably assume that at some point, Bruce takes off his glasses.
But also reblogging because ugh the hotness.
(Source: thewintersoldier, via ryeisenberg)
This Ruffalo crush is not going anywhere.
(Source: kingruffalo, via midtowncomics)
Inspired by that awesome Hulk/Iron Man Tumblr post (that seriously, if you have seen Avengers, read!), I just had a revelation about two other characters that I nerdily have to talk about.
SPOILERS IF YOU HAVE NOT SEEN AVENGERS DO NOT READ OR EVEN SKIM THIS
The characters in question are Captain America and Hawkeye, by way of Hulk and Black Widow. Hawkeye spends the first chunk of the movie brainwashed by Loki and upon meeting all of the soon-to-be Avengers, he’s a henchman trying to destroy the Helicarrier. Upon getting ‘recalibrated’ by Black Widow, Hawkeye learns of the coming strike against Loki and his invading army. Black Widow believes in the cause, so Hawkeye does. Plus he wouldn’t mind bugging Loki some.
Then Captain America enters the room to recruit Black Widow and asks her if she knows how to fly the jet they’ll need to get to Manhattan and stop Loki and the alien army. She says no, but Hawkeye says “yes.” At this point, Captain America doesn’t know Hawkeye at all. He looks to Black Widow for her opinion, her measure of character, and she gives him a nod. Cap then says to Hawkeye, again a character that he only knows as “arrow guy who caused a Helicarrier engine to explode,” he says to him “you got a suit?”
Captain America does not care about your past. He doesn’t care about your misdeeds or mistakes. He only cares about the purity of your motive and the real measure of your character. This sentiment is also reinforced when, just after waking up, Hawkeye asks Black Widow how many men he killed. She replies with, “don’t do that to yourself.” I love that the Avengers don’t let actions Hawkeye was not in control of deter their trust in him. Cap gets the word from Black Widow that Hawkeye is good, and Captain America takes her at her word, and trusts Hawkeye enough to put himpretty much in charge of the battle.He trusts Hawkeye to watch over the entire team, be their “eye in the sky,” just because he knows Hawkeye wants to be trusted and therefore believes he deserves to be. No questions asked.
This is mirrored earlier on when Captain America first meets Bruce Banner. Cap says to Bruce that he heard he’s a genius, and Bruce replies “Is that all you’ve heard?”, implying the big raging green monster, and Cap replies “that’s all I care about.”
If you believe in yourself, Captain America believes in you.
If you don’t believe in yourself, Captain America sees the greatness in you and believes in that.
For as awesome as all the fight scenes between our heroes are in Avengers, it’s these truly phenomenal, inspiring character moments that have my brain gushing love. I love this movie.
This is so beyond the greatest comic book film of all time. It has no equal.
Cute Avengers by Gurihiru
This grouping of characters may now be my fave superhero team. Okay, maybe not fave, but top 5 (you’re still #1, Capullo-era X-Force).
(via deantrippe)
I talked to my 10 year old nephew on the phone yesterday after he had seen “The Avengers”
and he said, without my prompting (because I am prone to prompting comic book talk), “Black Widow was cool, I like how she fights” and then went on to talk about how generally awesome she was.
Just saying, kids are not born with the notion that “girls can only do X” and “boys do Y.” My nephew doesn’t know how rare it is that a superheroine has made her way to the big screen, let alone how rare it is that the superheroine is quite possibly the best and most aggressive fighter in a team full of men. He doesn’t understand that Hollywood doesn’t think women can lead action movies (the ratio of female to male led action films is embarrassing). He doesn’t get that it’s incredibly rare that Black Widow is not someone’s girlfriend or that “Avengers” doesn’t spend any time worrying itself about her love life.
He just gets that Black Widow is cool and likes how she fights. More of this, please, Hollywood.
NEW EPISODE OF MATT & BRETT LOVE COMICS IS LIVE
We taped this 7 hours ago while standing inside and outside of the Kips Bay theater. Mega spoilers from Avengers but oh man, if you want to know what it was like to be there, THIS. THIS. Listen after you watch the movie. Or if you don’t care about spoilers.
So. Much. Fun.
with Curtis Retherford, Bridget Fitzgerald, Amy Whitehouse, Katey Healy-Wurzburg, Lauren Hunter, Ben Ragheb, Rob Stern (with Jeremy Bent and Taylor Moore around the edges)
