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#kirideku #kirishima #midoriya izuku #kirishima x deku #bnha #mha #sketch

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YO TAIKA I HAVE MAD LOVE FOR YOU

BUT IF THERE’S GONNA BE A LOVE TRIANGLE WITH TESSA, CHRIS, AND NATALIE, IT BEST BE TESSA AND CHRIS BOTH TRYING TO GET WITH NATALIE

Marvel Studios SDCC Announcements

BLACK WIDOW - May 1, 2020

Scarlett Johansson, David Harbour, Florence Pugh, O-T Fagbenle, and Rachel Weisz. Directed by Cate Shortland.

THE FALCON & THE WINTER SOLDIER - Fall 2020

An original series with Anthony Mackie, Sebastian Stan and Daniel Brühl.

ETERNALS - November 6, 2020

Angelina Jolie, Richard Madden, Kumail Nanjiani, Lauren Ridloff, Brian Tyree Henry, Salma Hayek, Lia McHugh and Don Lee. Directed by Chloé Zhao.

SHANG-CHI AND THE LEGEND OF THE TEN RINGS - February 12, 2021

Simu Liu, Awkwafina, and Tony Leung, directed by Destin Daniel Cretton.

WANDAVISION - Spring 2021

An original series with Elizabeth Olsen, Paul Bettany and Teyonah Parris.

LOKI - Spring 2021

An original series with Tom Hiddleston.

DOCTOR STRANGE IN THE MULTIVERSE OF MADNESS - May 7, 2021

Benedict Cumberbatch and Elizabeth Olsen. Scott Derrickson returns as director. This will be the MCU’s first scary movie!

WHAT IF…? - Summer 2021

The first animated series in the MCU, with Jeffrey Wright as the voice of The Watcher and many actors from across the MCU reprising their roles as voice talent.

HAWKEYE - Fall 2021

An original series that will also introduce Kate Bishop.

THOR: LOVE & THUNDER - November 5, 2021

Chris Hemsworth, Tessa Thompson and Natalie Portman. Taika Waititi returns as director.

#THOR #TESSA THOMPSON #TAIKA WAITITI #GIVE US THE QUEER REPRESENTATION WE'VE BEEN ASKING FOR PLS

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THIS PIC ♥️

#oh wow dacre is short

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i never knew legolas had a swole uncle

HENRY CAVILL as Geralt of Rivia in Netflix’s The Witcher

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JIM IS EITHER SURPRISED OR SCARED THAT SHE’S ABOUT TO EXPOSE THEM

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tag urself i’m functional cryptid

#i don't remember my exact #but either way i'm a cryptid and that sounds about right

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me: *happens to stand between multiple light sources and casts two shadows because that’s how shadows work*

my brain, still to this day, every single time:

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#spiderman into the spiderverse

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How bittersweet is it to get such a career-changing part but also to have it end so soon?

We constructed it this way from the beginning. I knew coming in that this was going to be the outcome. And I don’t think I would have been given the season that Billy had if I wasn’t dying — I think because I was on my way out, I was given an amazing opportunity to do a wide array of things. I’m very grateful.

What was it like to embody this complex character in what he’s going through physically?

For “Flayed Billy,” I did a lot of research on bipolar disorder and split personalities, and how one personality controls the other personalities. This season, Billy is like a rubber band that keeps getting tauter, and I tried to convey that in my physicality. But if you look at my eyes, that’s non-Flayed Billy trying to come through. The whole season I felt like my eyes were bleeding because I was trying to push out this emotion to play as a counter to my physicality. I wanted to treat it more like a real-world experience. I think that’s why the show is so successful — it’s tethered to a science-fiction element, but it’s anchored very strongly in humanity.

As an actor, how do you convey an emotion that runs counter to your physicality?

I don’t want to get too meta, but I think people put on a mask when they leave the house. There’s a “Public Brian” and a “Private Brian.” We all put on masks, even if just to mask our insecurities. When you’re listening to someone and trying to mask feelings like lack of confidence, or if you’re being antagonized or bullied, trying to be strong — in my eyes, it’s still Dacre. He’s so taut. I needed to think of him as a rubber band pulled from the top and bottom.

How difficult was it to film the climax?

We filmed that over three days, and both Millie and I lost our voices every day because right up until the camera would roll, we would run through the mall and land on our mark and scream at each other until we both cried and cried. She has such an emotional maturity. I like to give 150 percent every time I’m on set, and she’s the same way. We just scream at each other and cry and talk about things. It was warm and collaborative, and I was lucky that I had an actor who could provide all that emotion. When she’s talking about my mother, it’s painful, and we had to keep having our eyes wiped down, for continuity, because of crying.

How much detail did you and the Duffer brothers discuss regarding Billy’s past in order to make that final moment with El so powerful?

Two to three months before the Duffers started writing, they rang me and they asked me what I wanted in this season. And I said I wanted to hear about Billy’s biological mother. Of course, I didn’t know it was going to come to fruition in the way that it did, but that’s just their collaborative nature. I had written this whole crazy back story based on this story about a woman who was a 35-year-old virgin who had been artificially inseminated. I wanted to explore the biblical connotation of being born to a virgin and how that son would grow up, how it enhanced his God Complex. It’s ridiculous, looking back on it, but what I’m getting at is I will bring 10 crazy ideas to the set, and what’s great about the Duffers is that they will always take one. They may go, “Dude, you’re [expletive] crazy, and the other nine are ridiculous.” But I always bring that.

#stranger things season 3

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soft rogue and wanda

#mcu #wanda maximoff #rogue #scarlet rogue #fanart #sketch

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Strange’s Plan was a Bit Darker Than We Thought

In Avengers: Infinity War, Dr. Strange looks through the future to see every possible combination of options, and announces that they will only win in one of them.

Now, keep in mind, Dr. Strange is always thinking about the bigger picture.

He knows that even if they succeed in keeping the stones away from Thanos right now - even if Strange were to lock the Time stone in another dimension that Thanos could never get to, and if Wanda Maximoff were to destroy the Mind stone, leaving Thanos with only four - that Thanos will simply build up his army and continue killing half of all life, one planet at a time, just like he has been doing up until this point.

The stones were always a shortcut for Thanos.

In keeping the stones form him, they’ve only slowed down his progress. They’ve done nothing to truly stop him.

Strange is not looking to delay Thanos. He’s looking to make sure that he’s stopped. Permanently.

Strange only sees one way that they can truly win against Thanos, and that is by wiping him out of existence.

That is his plan from the start.

Strange hands over the time stone to Thanos, assuring everyone that this is the way it must be in order for them to really “win” against him for good.

Now, for those who aren’t chess players:

“In chess and chess-like games, the endgame (or end game or ending) is the stage of the game when few pieces are left on the board.

The line between middlegame and endgame is often not clear, and may occur gradually or with the quick exchange of a few pairs of pieces.“

“Many people have composed endgame studies, endgame positions which are solved by finding a win for White when there is no obvious way to win, or a draw when it seems White must lose.”

“The endgame, however, tends to have different characteristics from the middlegame, and the players have correspondingly different strategic concerns. In particular, pawns become more important as endgames often revolve around attempting to promote a pawn by advancing it to the eighth rank.

Usually in the endgame, the stronger side (the one with more material using the standard piece point count system) should try to exchange pieces (knights, bishops, rooks, and queens), while avoiding the exchange of pawns. This generally makes it easier to convert a material advantage into a won game. The defending side should strive for the opposite”

So Strange calling this the “Endgame” - that was the first hint that he would be sacrificing some key pieces, and promoting pawns to gain the advantage.

Pawns like Scott.

Who becomes instrumental to their quantum time traveling.

Pawns like Wanda.

Who doesn’t draw a lot of attention on first glance, but can spring into the fray unexpectedly and can entirely turn the tide of the fight.

Pawns like Nebula.

Who set off a chain reaction that leads to the downfall of the enemy’s key pieces.

Pawns like Carol.

Who has been out of the picture for years but gets called back to the fight when Fury gets snapped.

Dozens of little characters who start to play big parts, because the main pieces can’t play them on their own.

And even for the end battle, it isn’t just the heroes making a final stand - it is dozens and dozens of little pawns (the armies of Wakanda and Asgard, the Ravagers and the Sorcerers and just about every background fighter the MCU has to offer) who show up as support in the final hour.

Who all Assemble at the King’s command.

But the promotion of pawns is only one aspect of the “Endgame” strategy.

This was also the first hint that Strange would be sacrificing some key pieces in order to assure the win.

Strange knew going into this that the victory would have some costs, specifically in the form of Natasha and Vision and Tony.

Natasha and Vision wouldn’t be an issue for him - they each give their lives willingly for the good of others in every future he sees, Vision to try and stop Thanos, and Natasha to retrieve the soul stone.

Tony, on the other hand, poses a problem.

Strange specifically says that if he tells Tony how they win, that it won’t happen.

Let that sink in.

If Strange tells Tony that he must die in order to save the universe, he knows for a fact that Tony won’t do it.

Out of those millions of alternate realities that Strange looked into, there was not a single ONE of them where Tony would willingly sacrifice himself at that battle, no matter what was on the line.

So Strange doesn’t tell him.

In fact, he goes so far out his way to not tell him, that he instead does just the opposite - he instills a sense of immortality in him.

He makes Tony think that - in this one situation that he has picked - they are guaranteed the win no matter what happens leading up to it.

And Tony takes that bait - hook, line, and sinker.

Why?

Tony’s ego has always been his downfall.

This holds true from the first Iron Man movie where he assumes his money and fame make him untouchable…

To Iron Man 3 where he assumes his reputation as Iron Man and a few sassy comments will be more than enough to shut his enemies down…

To Age of Ultron where he assumes that he’s going to be somehow immune to the staff’s influence despite the fact that almost all others have failed…

To Civil War where he refuses to acknowledge any new information if it means that he might have been wrong…

All the way through to Infinity War where he assumes he can take on Thanos solo and win.

Tony essentially sees himself as being untouchable, because up until this point he has been incredibly lucky, and has not had to face consequences for any situation where his ego led him astray.

He survived the Ten Rings. Pepper wasn’t hurt in Iron Man 3. Nobody that he cared about got hurt by Ultron. He had free reign under the Accords following Civil War. Everyone he cared about survived the snap, and the one person’s death he feels somewhat guilty about can be blamed on Steve and subsequently brushed off.

Tony has faced NO repercussions for anything he’s done, and therefore this is what he assumes being a hero is - doing whatever you want, kicking some Bad Guy ™ ass on occasion, and going home to relax while the world sings your praises. The end.

Thanos comes as a cold, hard reality check.

This is the first time that Tony realizes that he might not be quite as untouchable as he thought. The first time that it clicks for him that they are dealing with something that very well has the power to kill him.

The first time that he feels like he came out of a “hero” battle as the loser.

And he can’t stand that.

In fact, he rejects that losing status so hard that he winds up throwing a fit following his rescue.

He attacks Steve for “not being there for him” despite the fact that it was Tony refusing to use the phone Steve gave him that led to him fighting alone.

He yells about how they should have all been on board with the long-dead failed Ultron project of his, despite the fact that Vision - who was more powerful than Ultron - was still no match for Thanos.

How this was all their fault.

He grossly twists all the facts around to try and pin everything that happened on the others, regardless of how glaringly illogical it is, because he can’t physically comprehend that a situation exists where he could have made a decision that led to them losing - therefore someone else MUST have sabotaged him.

Going into Endgame, Tony still has his massive ego problems, but he’s (finally) gained a healthy fear of death and consequences.

He doesn’t want to risk disturbing his current happiness on the chance that they might be able to bring everyone back.

Thankfully, Pepper talks him into it, but he still retains the “as soon as it gets dangerous, I’m out” mentality.

This complicates Dr. Strange’s plan.

Tony has been told that there is one single ending out of millions of possibilities where they will win over Thanos.

Now keep in mind, for Tony, “we win” means that they all go home as heroes and the enemies all die.

He’s never been through a war. He doesn’t understand that there is no “clean sweep” in real life.

He doesn’t comprehend that there is always collateral, and death, and tradeoffs.

He doesn’t ever take the sacrifice play into account.

When Thanos gets the glove, Tony starts to doubt, because it seems like they might have picked the wrong ending if he’s going to have to rush Thanos by himself after Thanos wiped the floor with him PLUS Cap and Thor.

He looks at Strange, who holds up one finger. A reminder that they are in the one ending where they “win.” And that gives Tony the confidence to go for what would otherwise be a suicide run, assured that he will make it out in one piece.

Tony only grabs the stones because he is utterly assured in this moment that he can survive this - because Strange told him that this is the one ending where they WIN.

Tony would not have touched that glove if he knew that he was going to die. He would have let Thanos wipe out half the universe again, because Tony knows that at least he and everyone he cares about would make it through the snap.

He would still have Pepper. He would still have Morgan. He would still have Rhody and Happy and his cute little farm.

Tony only snaps his fingers because Strange has tricked him into thinking that he survives it and saves the day.

That he gets to be the big hero.

And Strange lets him run to his death believing that.

In the end, Strange sacrificed Tony to save the universe without an ounce of regret…..just like he said he would.

#the FORESHADOWING #mcu #avengers endame spoilers

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haven’t watched teh trailer bc i don’t want spoilers, but i am dreading and anticipating how billy is going to react to being possessed, and how the writers are going to frame it with the expectation that the audience will see billy as just the villain

will had the whole spooky tortured child thing going on and was able to inform the gang about what was happening to the best of his ability

but billy has

1. no support system (nancy’s mom doesn’t count)

2. a need to lash out to feel powerful

3. antagonistic relationships with everyone who knows about the mind flayer

4. POOR IMPULSE CONTROL

i can see this going down like tobey macguire’s venom and him realizing he’s becoming a monster and riding it like a power trip with little/no remorse

but i’m really hoping it’s going to go down like ed hardy’s venom (and not riot) and he’ll only eat bad guys

people calling billy the villain of s3 … did y’all even watch the trailer? are y’all blind?

it’s the mind flayer.

by y’all’s logic will was the villain of s2.

like.