actually, i say, coming back to this one more time bc i was thinking about it while i was planting some zinnia seeds: clint's only one person that brought that up with tony. that asked him if it wasn't so much cap the world needed as it was tony that needed steve.
(seriously, do y'all all know and just...pretend you don't see it or-)
first:
carol has her own turn at it, but she's by far the most gentle with the way she goes about it, you know? she knows tony to his core, knows he's blaming himself for steve's death (and hey, spoiler, for anyone that wants to fight me: steve's death rests solely on crossbones' and red skull's shoulders, not tony's). she keeps trying to tell him it's not his fault.
does she make progress with that?
lol fuck no, because steve and bucky and the invaders from wwii get zapped into the present and tony makes big, sad puppy eyes at steve and literally sinks deeper into the open maw of depression every time that steve gives him even a hint of praise.
i mean the run literally intros tony like this:
(seriously, does everybody fucking know???)
second:
probably voted least likely on this list - logan. the new avengers get it in their heads that cap's being held captive, the death was a fakeout, and sneak aboard the helicarrier thanks to stephen strange, and tony - because tony is paranoid as all fuck as a general rule, but especially at this point - finds logan in the room where they've got steve's body. hank pym's flying wingman. or...or skrull!hank, he was skrull!hank at this point.
to be fair, logan's not wrong. but that was steve's request, sent in a letter tony didn't let anyone else read but bucky barnes.
best friend, probable love of his life; tomato tomahto, i guess.
anyway, my point with all this nonsense is: literally everyone could tell just how badly tony was handling steve's death. he hit the denial phase of grief and found himself a rent controlled apartment there, and had no intention of leaving (had no intention of living through it all, if you want me to be perfectly candid). and by the time things were resolved, tony had no memory of it at all after the brain wipe.
what i'm saying is, he never actually grieved. and it's no secret his memories keep trickling back in, that he's getting those back - that's been confirmed several times in canon, and the truth of it is, tony's never moved past it. can't. he just.
keeps reliving it.
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What I really think media with ensemble casts, especially those in a traveling group of some kind, are missing are big, blow-out arguments between the group. Especially when there's a conflict of interests, I am such a sucker for when two or more characters disagree so strongly that they realize very little is actually holding them together as a group, and wonder if it's time to go their separate ways.
I feel like a lot of video games, specifically, just kind of assume once the traveling band is "complete", it's forced to stay together until the player expressly permits it, but I don't really find that very compelling and a lot of times it feels more like they're relying on some kind of immediately strong bond that hasn't really been earned. Which is a shame, because in my opinion one of the best ways to strengthen that bond is to have the characters disagree and argue. Maybe they realize they're only being superficially held together and so they temporarily split up, only to then realize how much they've come to care for the others in the group. Then they reunite, make-up, formulate a plan to go forward, and boom, the group bond is that much stronger. Or maybe they don't even split up, and maybe they never learn to like each other, but they decide whatever cause their working toward is more important. Something else, bigger than them, is holding them together.
It just feels like a lot of potential is going to waste to just skip straight to the intense found family bond, without earning it.
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I'm honestly not sure why Kishimoto Masashi hasn't done any other stories that isn't Naruto (well, there's Samurai 8, but that ended up cancelled, and Boruto is...well. It's Boruto But Let's Disassemble Boruto's Dad's Canon Until Not Even The Atoms Are Left).
Compared to the high fantasy ninja-cum-borderline-modern-day-cyberpunk aesthetic, Mario was such a breath of fresh air. Maybe not as lived in as Naruto (because it's a forty-four page one-shot, and you can't really afford to waste time on making New York feel "lived in" in that many pages), but it's so grounded in reality that the environment and the foundations of the story are already set in place. It doesn't have to worry about playing with the Magic System or keeping its chronology from getting tangled up in retcons and deus ex machina. It's short, it's simple, and gets right to the point while leaving many of its other elements inferred and in the background.
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Hmmm... So what you’re saying is we should all go watch rottmnt?
I mean, obviously I can't force anybody, but...
Yes. Yes you should. :)
Jokes, aside, it is a great show, in my opinion, and I hold it in high regard. It's goofy and it's hilarious—absolutely one of those shows I watch when I need a pick-me-up—but it's also so sweet. I have felt every single emotion, lemme tell you. It is soooo family-shaped. A platonic paradise. It brought me great joy. (And pain, occasionally, because it's all fun and games, but when they decide to hit the feels, it hits hard.)
Not to mention it's gorgeous?? It's a pretty unique style of animation nowadays, because it's stylized and deceptively simple but there's so expense spared when it comes to that choreography. Just. Stunning.
And as I said, super family-shaped. This may just be me, but it was so refreshing to see a whole show that focuses on a loving but still chaotic-dysfunctional family without any romantic subplots or needless drama. It all comes off as so genuine, and I love that. And April!! Is also part of the family!!! She literally is considered a fellow Hamato, and Splinter sees her like a daughter and she's the big sister of all of the boys, and it's so precious. (She's my favorite April, ngl.)
No previous TMNT knowledge is necessary for the show. And, if you do have previous knowledge, I will say that it's quite different, but as someone who had watched chunks of the 2003 series and the whole 2012 series (not that I remember it all that well, lol), I would still say that RotTMNT is super valid. In fact, I personally prefer it. The characters are fresh, and in that, they are super character-shaped. And they also feel more like teenagers?? This is the universe where Splinter is more like a dad, and doesn't really push them into training and what-not (although he does give them some training, of course), and it shows in their characterizations for sure.
Anyway I could definitely ramble on about it, but yeah. Great show. And!! It's a great time to get into it! With the movie having just come out, finally, the spotlight is back on it, and it is a great time to give the show creators support after Nickelodeon did their usually squashing routine on them a while back.
So yeah. Turtle-time. :)
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