idle thought #514

also if they were actually planning on doing anything with the concept which they’re absolutely not and also didn’t have the rights to the characters but also don’t have the guts to actually follow through seeing as they still refuse to take any of the responsibility for the debacle of pushing Hydra merch during one of the biggest spreads of fascism, i.e. neonazism, in America like “Oh Hydra isn’t affiliated with Nazis or fascism they were just started by Hitler to look into the magic and tech that could win him the war” they should’ve dug deep into that angle. It would’ve lost them an audience and painted a target on their backs, sure, but no worse than the original Cap writers who were getting threats for having him punch Hitler. It wasn’t a “that’s the patriotic thing to do” thing back then, it was a brave action, standing up for the little guy, etc.
Anyway, rant aside. They should’ve shown that Steve’s been seeing the rise of fascism in America and around the world and it makes him question whether they should be putting the names of people on a list based on their skills or genetics (mutants) and forced under government scrutiny or put to work or herded up. They should absolutely have him team up with Magneto for that one, as a temporary alliance. Like, I think there would be some fascinating dynamics here and it’s a hard-hitting story, because we’re trying to pretend this problem isn’t a problem that exists, but that’s not how fascism goes away. And Captain America and Magneto of all people know this.
And I have no idea how Tony “kiss my shiny metal butt Senators” got to pro-Hero Registration Act, but then, they really like to play fast and loose with his characterization and ignore any and all established character arc for him by the next movie, so. I dunno. Maybe he refuses, they’re like “well, we will confiscate everything, including JARVIS, the bots, etc” and he’s basically like “they’re family, you can’t do that” and they’re like “but this paper says we can” and he caves and basically goes catatonic until one of the rogues gives him an idea of how to skirt around it.
(To be fair, most of what I know about the Hero Registration Act which I’m 90% is not the name in Marvel is from City of Heroes. So. I might be off on some details here.)
And if they wanted the cliché and eye-rolling Hydra infiltrating SHIELD, just use it here. SHIELD already has a prison of its own! Like, it works from thematics and storytelling perspectives, here! They could have multiple movies that get, like, superhero-thriller action there.
...Don’t get me started on Infinity War. Massively unpopular opinion: that’s also hot garbage, Thanos, have you even heard of Malthus or the expanded human geography concepts? Carrying capacity is not stagnant. Even assuming your plan works, which it doesn’t, it’s a one-time deal and you were prepared to die to get it done, so...like, the universe doesn’t stay frozen in time, unless it does in which case you might as well have vanished the entirety of the universe from existence because it’s basically just living death, more people are going to get born, what happens then, huh? I don’t know if you’re too thick to realize that the only thing you’re really gonna accomplish is a whole bunch of cruelty or if like certain politicians cruelty is the point. Like, your plan made more sense when you were trying to use a bunch of death to impress the Lady Death.