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sauron-in-the-tardis:

the-gunlady:

The Avengers + expository cinematography 

#THIS MOVIE DID THIS SO WELL OKAY IT MAKES ME REALLY EXCITED #AND GIFS DO NOT DO IT JUSTICE AT ALL #literally look #clint swooping down from the sky like a fuckin bird #nat straight-up like a spider in a web surrounded by trapped flies #thor riding in on some fucking lightning what did u expect? #bruce is literally in a green cage #tony is presented as iron man first – zooming off toward the city that’s about to be destroyed #cap is alone in a gym from his own time period which he promptly wrecks #i mean GUYS

no but disturbing realistic superheroes

owlishnaiad:

ookaookaooka:

Vision has no hair anywhere on his body–no armpit hair, no eyebrows, no eyelashes. No fingernails. His skin tastes like metal. Sometimes, he forgets to breathe for minutes or hours at a time.

Captain Marvel smells like burning. When you touch her, your hand comes away cold because she’s absorbed your body heat. If she gets cut, she bleeds light. She can tell you what the inside of an explosion feels like.

Bruce Banner vomits after de-hulking. His skin is always red and peeling. He looks sick, like he has a fever, and he ingests more medication than actual food. There are blisters on his lips.

Tony Stark has a huge, sunken scar on his sternum where the arc reactor was removed and his chest aches each time he takes a breath. He has callouses in odd places–so does the whole team, really–and there is a permanent bald spot on the back of his head where it has been cut open every time he gets thrown around in his suit.

Spider-Man sometimes forgets which way is up–if you put him in a room with identical walls, floor, and ceiling, he couldn’t tell you which is which. His hands and feet are prickly to the touch, even through his costume. He is very nearsighted.

The Scarlet Witch has no sense of boundaries; if you can’t tell she’s spying on your thoughts, why should she stop? She doesn’t do it out of any malicious intent, just out of curiosity and convenience. She never loses arguments.

Thor speaks about events that happened thousands of years ago as if they were last week. Cats arch their backs and stare at him. Something about him–his eyes, or his skin, or the way he moves–seems slightly off, like he doesn’t belong on Earth at all.

stuff like that.

Bucky struggles with aphasia and has speech pathology issues from the head injury that caused his amnesia (because let’s be honest, retrograde amnesia -without- traumatic brain injury is just a cop-out.) It’s not like he ever really had to talk while he was the winter soldier, anyway, so nobody really noticed or cared.

Erik Lensherr is consistently iron-deficient and has to take supplements because some of it gets caught in the crossfire when he uses his powers, so he bruises really easily. He’s almost constantly disoriented balance-wise, and sometimes he wakes up with many, many small coins stuck to him.

Charles HATES hospitals. He can’t deal with the sheer amount of people pleading with god for the pain to go away. Sometimes, without realizing, he answers questions people haven’t asked yet. Sometimes, he flinches a bit for no apparent reason, when people think just a little too loudly.

I’m 95, not dead.

shardsofblu:

This is mostly just for my reference, and also because I’ve seen some reblog tags from this post which are curious on exactly how old the Avengers are. For clarity’s sake, the ages mentioned here are calculated as of the events of Captain America: The Winter Soldier (May 2014) and are strictly MCU canon.

Sources: 
SHIELD personnel files [x] [x] [x] [x]
A Marvel Cinematic Universe Timeline

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1) Nick Fury b. December 21, 1951 (62)

2) Maria Hill b. April 3, 1980 (34)

3) Phil Coulson b. April 2, 1965 (49)

4) Clint Barton b. January 7, 1971 (43)

5) Natasha Romanoff b. November 22, 1984 (29)

6) Tony Stark b. May 29, 1970 (44)

7) Bruce Banner b. December 18, 1969 (44)

8) Steve Rogers b. July 4, 1918 (95, adjusted to 29) [1]

9) Sam Wilson N/A 

10) Bucky Barnes b. ?? 10, 1922 / 1917 (92 / 97, adjusted to ??) [2]

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[1] Steve crashed the plane and was frozen on May 6, 1945 (26). He regains consciousness on April 24, 2011 which amounted to 66 years. Therefore, his adjusted birth date is July 4, 1984 (1918+66). The Battle of New York is on May 4, 2011, just 10 days after he woke up.

[2] The SHIELD file states Bucky’s birth year as 1922, while the Smithsonian exhibit transcript states it as 1917. The exact birthday month is obstructed / not provided, so I’m defaulting it to January. Also, I haven’t the faintest idea how to adjust his age since he fell on May 5, 1945 (23 / 28), because he would be going in and out of cryo whenever they need the Winter Soldier for the last few decades. 

More good timeline meta. I do find it interesting that they are making Steve and Natasha (and maybe Bucky) age contemporaries.

do you think that when steve first got unthawed people were generally like, well okay captain america’s alive now, or were they like. naw. no way. what even. THIS IS JUST LIKE THAT TIME WITH THE ANIMAL PLANET DOCUMENTARY ABOUT MERMAIDS. when/how was the announcement to the public even made, anyway? were there camera crews on the scene when they extracted his body? did people know about it before he woke up? was there public debate about whether waking him up was a good idea? HELP.

morgan-leigh:

Well, I don’t think they would have had any reason to know until the events in The Avengers, since I seriously doubt SHIELD was like, let’s have a press conference about this. (Tony’s was bad enough.) And given Coulson’s presentation of ~the suit he clearly hadn’t been like. Captain America-ing or anything before that point. So obviously nobody knew anything about any of this business except about Iron Man, and some weird disturbances (i.e. in Thor, etc) until what happens in The Avengers, at which point GIANT ALIENS FROM THE SKY DESTROYING EVERYTHING WHAT THE FUCK JESUS CHRIST and also, like, Captain America and a Norse God? And the Hulk, whose backstory I know nothing about, maybe he was already common knowledge. Anyway, given GIANT ALIENS FROM THE SKY the rest of it does not seem wildly implausible. I do think it’s amusing that the reaction to all of this is something that the movies basically completely skipped over, though that’s obviously not surprising as it’s not exactly action movie material.

Still: I am sure there would be lots of crazy conspiracy theorists out there who are sure he’s not the real Steve Rogers, and also that Thor is not Thor, and probably also that the GIANT ALIENS FROM THE SKY did not even really happen, because if there are 9/11 conspiracy theorists, then there would be for this, too. People are nuts: the eternal constant.

And yes, given, say, Natasha’s press conference at the end of CATWS, I would say that there was (and would continue to be, at the point we’ve gotten to in the MCU thus far) probably a VERY HEALTHY public debate about the role of the Avengers and whether they should be around and whether they should have a) woken up Steve at all and b) if so, just let him go off and have a normal life, with like, veteran benefits or whatever. Amusingly superheroes are the sort of thing that liberal-minded people would almost certainly be virulently opposed to, I think, but, you know. IT’S ALL GOOD. Probably Steve et al endeared themselves to the left-wing public by taking down crazy enormous drones.

(In future, if they do a Civil War-type plot — which I personally thing is highly likely — these sorts of concerns would obviously become more prominent. Which I think would be very interesting. But we’re not quite there yet.)

Just to add one detail: Bruce says in Avengers ‘I kind of broke Harlem.’ So they do acknowledge the one Hulk movie as his origin story. They don’t (to your point) make it clear what the media fallout was.