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As before. * Someone with blue blood? Finally! How natural! * The Kree homeworld, eh? Thought they were blue-skinned, too. * Well, that’s an interesting approach to warrior philosophy. * Oh, that kind of Supreme Intelligence. * Ah, shapeshifting infiltrators. * We do have to wonder about what is going on with the Skrulls, given
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You know the drill. * Ah, flashback. And presumably the non-flashback part is taking place pre-Thanos, or we would probably have noticed. * A quantum tunnel. Oh, god, that’s a pun, isn’t it? Aargh. * Aww. The father-daughter heist is adorable. * And doing the right thing continues to suck. * The quantum
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In which TF is thoroughly W’d. * This piece of history is really sucking for the Asgardians. Culled twice? (Or three times, by the end.) * EBONY MAW, YOU POMPOUS ASS! * Oh, Loki. Don’t ever change. * Well, that’s a new experience for the Hulk, and I don’t think
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Okay. A quick preamble. This is going to be a really hard one for the Imperial audience to understand. Not because it’s not an awesome movie, or anything, but simply because they have absolutely no cultural context for the background – and there’s only so much gnostic overlays can
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In which there is an apocalypse. * Man, that’s a lot of chains. * Well, you’re an unlikely flaming chap. But I guess if there are ice giants, there should be fire giants. * Thor, you’ve been hanging out with Tony Snark too much. * Oh, you shouldn’t have said
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Does whatever a spider can… * Guess we’re going to have to assume some sort of introductory foo, here. Otherwise no-one’ll know who Spider-Man is, in medias res and all. Apart from what we saw in Civil War. * Well, lady, you just lost all our sympathy. You don’t
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Yay, it’s these guys again! * Quill’s parents, we presume. Along with a very large violation of ecological safety practices. * Well, that’s a weird way of assembling planets into a megastructure. Wonder what the point is, apart from saying “we can make gravity our bitch?” Although that kind
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A quick pre-note: while suspension of disbelief is needed to believe in magic, of course, it’s not an unfamiliar context to the audience. The eldrae have a fine old hermetic tradition of their own, even if it’s regarded these days mostly as philosophy and “how we scienced before
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Here we go again, into – this time – a land of some controversy: * Your codewords are pleasantly random, but the ISS would have picked a language that wasn’t theirs to use. Of course, Russian Hydra was probably trying to frame the rest of Russia. * We do love paranoia jokes. * The
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In which the insect themes begin. * Someone is very untrusting of the Starks. * You’re an ass working for SHIELD. Does the audience smell HYDRA? I think they do. * (Someone’s going to need to explain prisons, seeing as the locals only use ’em for remand. Good cultural overlay time.
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On we go: * Well, this seems dramatic. * Hydra appear to have leveled up. * As always, it’s the junior minion who has a realistic appreciation of the situation. * The “Iron Legion”? Nice. That’s how our legions do it, too. * Well, aren’t you a quick one. * VANGUARD CHARGE! * Ah,
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Oh, this should be fun — * As we’ve said before, mortality sucks. And being the grandfather who loses his daughter and grandson in the same moment sucks unimaginably. * Those who remember the very first trope-a-day will know why one might have to explain the whole alien abduction thing to this