One was definitely brown in the movie. Thor’s mother comments on it and Thor tries to make up some reason from a previous fight before she says she knows that he’s from the future (which hasn’t been kind to him).
I don’t remember if one was brown post-fake eye insertion in IW or not.
Well, he really should have washed it first…
You’re misremembering.
First the issue is a standard issue of Avengers not Secret Wars. This issue AND Secret Wars was written by Shooter.
Second…Tony absolutely is determined to kill Molecule Man. Cap of course will have none of it and says “You’ll have to go through me.” The other two present are Silver Surfer and a Don Blaked Thor…OF COURSE they don’t let the God who kills tons of beings when he needs to or the pragmatic cosmic being chime in. Actually, I take that back. As Don Blake I think he says something about the Hippocratic Oath (Thor as Blake was always weird).
Its resolved when MM comes to and Tigra has been talking him into going into therapy.
It misses one tiny thing. Cap also returns Thors hammer. Otherwise, circa Thor 2 THor is well and truly fucked.
Okay, I had forgotten about that.
I’m only up to page six of this, but I thought it was pointed out early from another Doper that the stones fell out of Thanos’s gauntlet due to Tony doing what his father told him to do in 1970. Dad puts out his hand as a regular handshake and switches to his index finger sticking out. Tony goes in for handshake, grabs the finger. So dear old dad with dad-joke says, “Shake it. Don’t pull it.” Cute.
I thought since this happened off screen, Tony shaking Thanos’s gauntlet while fighting helped shake the stones loose and into the Stark-tech glove. Also could be why Dr. Strange held up his one finger at Tony? That’s what I got from that flashback with his dad too.
Urrrrgh… I dunno. I could be bonkers. I’m not a big MCU aficionado, so I could be wrong. Either way, still awesome all around. Loved it and can’t wait to watch again!
I assumed the significance of this scene was that Strange had earlier told Stark that there was only one way out of fourteen million possibilities where they would defeat Thanos. And then told him that he couldn’t tell Stark if this was the single correct path because by doing so it would cause their defeat.
So when Strange later held up his finger, he was signalling to Stark that he could now confirm that this was the one.
Because I have nothing better to do…what date does Cap finally land on (Save Bucky? Stop Hitler? Stop Hirohito???) And what does he tell Peggy? (There’s a Cap popcycle out there but don’t worry about it)
AIUI it’s not that there were necessarily more whales five years post-snap, it’s that a pod of whales was spotted in a formerly very unlikely place (New York harbor IIRC?). That is, the existing whales can now inhabit/visit more of their former habitat without running catastrophically afoul of human activity.
So the massive reduction in human population did at least have the side benefit of making more of the world habitable for non-human life, which is not an implausible premise.
Peggy: So, wait… I can have two of you?
Something I’m wondering about (besides why snapping the fingers was necessary, still no explanation for that) is, did Thanos actually mean half of ALL living things, or did he actually mean half of all the beings that have exploited, or are capable of exploiting, their environments to the point of destroying them as happened on his home planet?
After HulkSnap - they made it very obvious that ‘birds’ were back when the team was looking out the window -
of course, they were subsequently killed (again) by Thanos - but it was a very tweet scene.
Well, that’s just stupid, then. The critters causing the issue were the ones exploiting the environment. You destroy half the (potential) food supply, you’re left with the same issue as before, just … smaller. (I mean, it was a stupid solution anyway, but this just makes it even more so.)
Hopefully it wont be Robert Downey Jr…ugh it totally will be RDJ.
Someone mentioned Secret Wars with Hulk holding up a mountain earlier. Well spotted.
Morgyn:
Well, you get more lebensraum, at least.
Re: The Snap…i kinda thought the point was that (In the comics so long ago) was that “With six stones, it will be so easy to destroy half the life in the universe, you could do it with a snap”. Not that “You physically HAVE to snap the fingers to make it happen!!”
My review: I thought IW was nearly perfect. This…wasn’t. Don’t get me wrong. It was awesome. I cant wait to buy it on bluray. But:
I like Cap lifting Mjolner, don’t like him drawing lightning and wielding it. I’m made to understand this happens in the books though.
Pacing problems re comedy. I’m still reeling over Thanos death and the snappening folks and i’m getting a comedy movie??
Thats about it on the cons.
And FFS do you all have bladders the size of walnuts??? If i read one more Q about the best place to take a pee break!! And I don’t mean just here. AV Club was rife with it in comments and reviews.
Yup. Plus, Thanos would have been more productive by going around the universe handing out space condoms and teaching people about renewable energy or something.
Ultimately though, Thanos wasn’t a misunderstood good guy whose plan just needed some tweaking in Excel, he was a bad guy who cared more about people telling him how right his stupid plan was than actually doing something right. He didn’t really want to do The Right Thing, he just wanted to be worshiped and have his ego stroked after after getting butthurt that no one listened to him before.
And that’s just stupid. On Earth, it’s the humans that upset the balance of nature. Until we showed up, there was no excess of any one species, because everyone had predators or other limitations. It’s just the humans who have been consuming species to extinction. And I assume the same thing is true on other planets, where the intelligent, dominant lifeform is messing up the ecosystem. So I can understand why he might want to reduce the number of humans. But not the rest of nature.
I didn’t have a problem with there being comedy or lighter bits, but I do feel like most of the moments that took me out of the movie were comedy related: The Fortnite bit, Ant-Man being old/young/baby, the too-long joke about no one wanting a photo with Ant-Man, etc. They just didn’t land for me (non-comedy related includes Stark’s Audi commercial entrance and the previously-debated Girl Power moment). But, at the end, there was maybe collectively 10-15 minutes of duds in 180 minutes of film so I came away happy.
Well, they DO sell those barrels of soda at the theater. My wife and I intentionally decided not to purchase the usual stuff and just snuck in a snack-sized bag of chips each to nibble on so we could avoid the salty popcorn/thirsty bucket of Coke thing.