Tag: mcu

algalscribs:

algalscribs:

algalscribs:

algalscribs:

is it just me or does everyone in space in the mcu significantly happier than everyone on earth?

mcu earth: we’re fighting each other and trust is a hard thing to come by

mcu space: COLORS! SPACE! LIFE LONG FRIENDSHIPS

mcu earth: no one trusts anyone anymore which is tearing friendships and relationships apart

mcu space: FAMILY TIES ARE MENDED AND WE LOVE LOVE BRO

mcu earth: our lives are being destroyed by our guilt and loss

mcu space: FUCK YEAH TURN UP THE MUSIC

supermoviemaniac:

THE MARVEL CINEMATIC UNIVERSE PHOTOSHOOT!

An admirable portfolio featuring the majority of the MCU, all in one magazine! Bare in mind that not everyone is in their Infinity War attire. The sake of this photoshoot was to display how far the franchise has come (a ‘retrospective’ if you will).

If it was an Infinity War photoshoot, Cap would have a beard and wouldn’t be wearing his Strike Team uniform, Spider-Man wouldn’t be in his Homecoming suit, Thor wouldn’t have his hammer… and his *spoiler*, the Winter Soldier wouldn’t have his Russian star on his arm. Just keep this is mind when you’re looking through the photos.

But where is Loki?!

Why was Loki able to extract Valkyrie’s memory?

ikoliholic:

philosopherking1887:

This is not something we’ve seen him do before. Not that he would have had any occasion to in previous movies, but this is kind of in a different category from other things he does with magic: mostly illusions, shapeshifting, and moving things around.

This is some wild-ass, blatantly self-interested speculation, but… what if the power to draw out other people’s memories is a relatively new ability that he gained from his interaction with the Mind Stone? Scarlet Witch got her powers from experimentation with the Mind Stone, and one of the things we’ve seen her do is get into people’s heads and make them experience things based on their worst fears and most painful memories.

This at least suggests that forcing people to re-experience memories is one of the things that the Mind Stone can do, in addition to co-opting their will to make them serve the aims of the wielder. I think everyone I know has dismissed the idea that Thanos was controlling Loki the way Loki controlled Barton and Selvig; that’s probably not something you can do to a magically powerful being like Loki. BUT Scarlet Witch was able to do the fear-exploiting thing with Thor, and Loki simultaneously experienced and forced the Valkyrie to re-experience her worst memory – that is something you can do to more powerful beings.

So… this provides some circumstantial evidence in favor of the theory I explore in my fic The Abyss Gazes Also about what happened between Thanos and Loki: that Thanos exploited Loki’s own fears, resentments, and insecurities and forced him to re-experience his most traumatic memories involving his family (especially Thor and Odin) to manipulate him into invading Earth on Thanos’s behalf and fighting against his adoptive family.

Tagging people who read my fic and might care: @angrymadsygin, @darklittlestories, @fuckyeahrichardiii, @iamhisgloriouspurpose, @ikoliholic, @illwynd, @lunariagold, @nursejoh53, @raven-brings-light, @writernotwaiting

@philosopherking1887 here for this theory… i thought something along these lines while watching the film:

“Well, THAT’S new. Has he been fuckin round with gemstones? Is this an easy device to do CHARACTER FLASHBACK + VERIFICATION? or is Loki just growing more into his skills in his spare time?”

answer? I personally think it’s probably all three 😀

Yeah… I’ve had some people reblogging saying they think Loki has always been able to do this, and I’m like… based on what? Probably they just want him always to have been as powerful as possible, but I’m big on consistency and constraints.