Bruce has set up a makeshift lab in Wakanda, while the world takes stock of their dead and Wakanda mourns for their king. Bruce isn’t doing anything important, but he needs to do something, so he studies Wakanda’s vibranium supply and attempts to keep Shuri busy.
Otherwise, the grief might just be too much for the both of them to bear.
Bruce also tries very hard not to think about Tony and what form of matter Tony may or may not be at this very moment. He’s only moderately successful.
It’s on the third day of the second week after half of the world has turned to ash that Thor brings Bruce a little green snake. Bruce is baffled, but he tried to be polite about it. Bruce is heartsick, though, so that makes everything a little harder.
Then Thor asks for Bruce to see if the snake is Loki, and it takes every bit of willpower Bruce Banner poses to not burst into tears. Thor is so strong and so keen to smile, he makes it so easy for everyone to forget that he has lost nearly everything.
Bruce pokes at the snake without any further complaints. When nothing happens, the grief on Thor’s face is unimaginable.
Bruce begins spending time with both Thor and Shuri, in a desperate attempt to combat his own grief by combatting theirs.
All the while, every second or third day, Thor brings Bruce a small green animal and asks Bruce to see if it his lost brother. Bruce checks every time, with care and precision, but the result is always negative. It’s awful for both of them, but Thor can’t seem to stop and Bruce doesn’t know how to make him.
This pattern holds for a few weeks, until Thor brings Bruce a beaten and battered lizard. It’d been burned somehow and it looked like one of its limbs had been badly broken. When Thor presents it to him, Bruce honestly isn’t sure if Thor had just brought the little thing to Bruce to see if it could be saved.
“Could you check?” Thor asks, the question quiet and hurt after so many weeks of negative results from Bruce’s prodding and poking.
“Of course,” Bruce says softly, adding his portion of the call and response.
He gingerly picks up the lizard, as the poor also looks like he’d been through the wringer, and gives him a quick once over. Bruce’d been right about the broken leg and the burns were pretty –
The lizard fucking turns into Loki. A damaged, burnt Loki who scuttles backward on a broken leg while spitting blood.
Thor bursts into tears. Bruce bursts out laughing. Everyone has their own way of processing grief and shock and grief turned into shock, apparently.
It’s later, when they’ve gotten Loki a little patched up, convinced Okoye not to kill Loki (”He tried to destroy the world!” she says – “He’s gotten better,” Bruce says), and Thor’s eyes were mostly dry, that Loki finally says through clenched, bloodied teeth:
“They’re in a pocket dimension.”
“Who?” Bruce whispers, stunned.
“Everyone. I told him he’d never be a god. He was just a warlord playing at being something powerful. He should’ve fucking listened.”
Woke: No one understands Thor’s antique, spicy asgardian memes
This of course brings up the question of what exactly asgardian memes would be, any ideas lads?
Imma just go ahead and say the tragedy of Loki of asgard is a huge meme at this point
heimdall watches you fap
[pointing at any group of 3 anythings] the warriors three
along the same lines pointing at any green animal “loki??”
if you’re straight you can’t cross the bifrost
if an uncomfortable conversation occurs you suddenly have to go home and [yourname]sleep for a hundred years
loki’s terrible overcomplicated plans
heimdall commits treason every single day and nobody has ever even thought of trying to stop him
odin’s vault is full of things that should not be kept together/anything lost (e. g. “where’s my other sock??” “odins vault probably”)
gET HELP MY BROTHER HE’S DYING (loki flies through the air)
probably the asgardian version of yeet tbh
“Carl this bag’s too heavy wtf is in th-” “YOU’RE JUST NOT WORTHY”
“Day 2737384 without sex: I’m ready to ride a horse. But like, the way Loki did.”
Breaking something any time someone says the word “another”. Like, any context at all
“there’s got to be another w-” *glass shatters off screen* “JEREMY I SWEAR TO FUCK-”
The 5edgy4u types would absolutely joke about Loki yeeting himself off the bifrost so like
*minor inconvenience* “TO THE BIFROST!”
*test goes bad* “TO THE BIFROST!”
*has to do the dishes* “TO THE- (well you get the point)
Giving each other Absolutely Ridiculous titles. (Read: “Bronn, god of that weird itch in your ear that doesn’t go away until you stick something in it”)
*violent thunder* “lmao Mood”
#Odin’sBeardChallenge where everyone tries to grow a majestic ass beard so that eventually they can scream “MY BEARD!” instead of “Odin’s beard” and if it’s Valid someone will say it back
Tessa Thompson behind the scenes of ‘Thor: Ragnarok’
I didn’t notice this while watching the film but: they gave her heels? WTF? Who thinks that any warrior of any race or gender in their right mind would want to do that?
You weren’t meant to notice those in the film. Those are not “her armor has heels”
Those are stage lifts designed to make the actor look taller/the correct height for the character. You’ll see them a lot in behind the scenes clips – and not just on women either (in fact, RDJ wears them all the time to make him the right height relative to Chris Evans, ‘cause RDJ is short. Tom Cruise also wears lifts in a lot of his movies, because the guy is TINY). Tessa Thompson is only 5′4. She needs that extra height to look convincing as Valkyrie.
Remember when they had to build a ramp so Natalie Portman wouldn’t look weird kissing Chris Hemsworth XD;; I laughed, and yet, I’m only about 7cm taller than her so it was kinda an ugly laugh
Check out those extreme platform boots on Haldir (Craig Parker) from Lord of the Rings 🙂
Look if we’re gonna point out anyone’s high heels lets not forget the best one
one of my patients came in for an emergency visit, because she snapped the wire on her retainer watching the movie when MBJ took his shirt off she clenched her teeth so fucking hard she snapped it. that is the fucking funniest shit ever to me this tiny 17 year old girl thirsting so goddamn hard she busted steel
I think the reason people hate Tony Stark so much is because they simply cannot understand what a true redemption arc is. Tony is the embodiment of realizing one’s mistakes and repenting for them for the rest of one’s life. From the moment Tony got hit with the shrapnel in his chest and realized his own ignorance and naivete, he’s dedicated his existence to destroying everything Stark Industries previously represented, more so after Yinsen died to give him a chance at escaping.
Yes, Tony made mistakes. That’s the point. Ignorance is not excusable, even if Stane was the one to do the bad deeds, and he is just as guilty (arguably a bit less than Stane). But he has more than paid for that ignorance. The arc reactor, his plenty near death experiences, his PTSD, anxiety, the near loss of both Pepper and Rhodey — all of that is his punishment (and his own mind which places ten times more guilt on his shoulders than should).
If people can’t move past his mistakes and see him for the hero he is, then that means that they aren’t able to give people second chances and don’t believe people change.
Tony wasn’t a pillar of morality and American patriotism since he came out of the womb like Steve, he had to grow and change and learn from his mistakes to get to the version of himself that he is today. And that is the reason people love him — because, putting his wealth and genius aside, Tony Stark is all of us. He is human, he errs, he grows and betters himself. Tony Stark is the hero all of us can be the minute we stop living in ignorance and work towards changing our ways.
It’s quite fitting, since the MCU as a whole is all about second chances. I can’t find one hero who wasn’t given a second chance in his life.
Tony Stark’s second chance was discussed in detail already, so I won’t repeat it here.
Steve Rogers, a sickly, stick-thin man about as fit to become a soldier as I am to break the laws of thermodynamics, was denied just about every time he tried to enlist to the army. Yet he was given a second chance to enlist by Dr. Erskine solely because of his noble mind and became Captain America, the greatest soldier of all, and the first Avenger.
Bruce Banner exiled himself from the world because of the fear it harbored towards Hulk, and the utter destruction he caused whenever the Hulk was unleashed. But SHIELD found him and gave him a second chance, allowing Bruce to find a new family in the Avengers – and allowing the Hulk to finally become a hero, not a monster.
Thor was an arrogant, warmongering prince, and he was stripped of his power and exiled to Midgard for almost starting a war anew. But he learned from his experiences there, so Odin gave him a second chance and restored his powers, allowing Thor to become the mightiest Avenger of all.
Natasha Romanoff was a remorseless Russian spy trained from adolescence to be a human weapon. But Clint Barton saw the good in her and gave her a second chance to use her abilities for good, and she proved herself by becoming an agent of SHIELD, and then an Avenger – a hero.
Clint Barton was forcibly brainwashed by Loki and made to help his enemy. Anyone else would have considered him a lost cause and killed him on the spot if they had the chance during the Helicarrier attack. But Natasha didn’t think he was beyond saving, and rescued him from Loki’s clutches. Steve also trusted him enough to take him to the field right after a traumatic incident that would be enough reason to bench an agent permanently – and Clint delivered.
Sam Wilson was retired for years after his wingman was shot down before his eyes. His tenure as the Falcon would have been forgotten – even by himself – had Steve not found a kind spirit in the man and came to him in his time of need, giving him a second chance to be a hero. But Steve did, and Sam returned to duty as an Avenger.
Bucky Barnes was brainwashed and used as a HYDRA assassin for almost a century. Any other soldier would have gladly taken the chance to kill him, but Steve believed that his friend was still inside the Soldier. He held onto that little bit of Bucky and gave him a second chance to clean his tarnished name, and Bucky Barnes broke free from his conditioning to become a hero once again.
Wanda Maximoff, along with her brother, enlisted willingly for HYDRA’s experiments and operated as a HYDRA agent for a while, and then went on to become Ultron’s little sidekick. The Avengers had no reason to trust her after she’d shown them some very traumatic hallucinations and set the Hulk loose on Johannesburg. Yet Clint saw the good in her, and gave her a second chance by convincing her to join the Avengers. She agreed, and she became a hero to change the world for the better.
Vision was born from a second chance. After the Ultron incident, nobody trusted Tony when he said he would build another artificial life-form. But Tony gave himself a second chance to set things right (as did Thor, when he intervened to bring Vision to life), and a new Avenger powerful in body amd worthy in spirit was created.
Scott Lang is unique in that he had two second chances. Scott in the first film was a literal ex-convict just out of jail, and his ex-wife and her new husband didn’t want him to see his daughter Cassie again. Yet Hank Pym saw a possibility of good within the man and gave him a second chance; to quote him verbatim, “to earn that look in your daughter’s eyes, to become the hero that she already thinks you are”. So Scott rose to the challenge, and made it. Even after he was imprisoned again after the Civil War, his family never gave up on him. They gave him a second chance to be the good dad Cassie deserved, as well as the hero the world needed. And this time also, Scott succeeded.
Peter Parker endangered a ferry full of civilians because of his reckless desire to prove himself, prompting Tony to confiscate his suit. Yet Peter, while taking his lesson to heart, didn’t give up on heroism and brought down the Vulture, so Tony gave him a second chance at being the friendly neighborhood hero New York needed by returning the suit. So Spider-Man was reborn, as a more responsible hero who could fight alongside his mentor for the safety of the universe.
The Guardians of the Galaxy weren’t even a team in the beginning, just a group of ragtag criminals imprisoned in the same facility – a ‘legendary outlaw’[sic], Thanos’ adoptive daughter, a violent bully, a raccoon with anger issues, and a tree. Their first action as a group was to literally stage a prison break. But they turned over a new leaf and saved Xandar from Ronan, so the Nova Corps gave them a second chance by erasing all their criminal records. So the Guardians became heroes, and soon they would end up saving the universe once more.
Doctor Strange was an arrogant surgeon, but lost control of his hands after a car accident (coincidentally, much like Thor). He travelled to Kamar-Taj just to fix his hands, but got much more than he bargained for – the Ancient One, despite Strange’s aloofness and arrogance, saw fit to train him as a wizard and gave him a second chance. Her trust was well-placed, as Strange soon rose to become the Master of the Mystic Arts, and defender of our dimension.
Loki spent the larger part of his appearances as a villain, and even operated as Thanos’ direct lackey in the invasion of New York. His brother Thor, however, never truly gave up on him and tried his best to give him a second chance. After a long line of events, Loki finally came around and teamed up with Thor to fight against Hela and save Asgard, also coming to terms with his brother. It was sad that his stint as a hero was so short-lived, but it was still worth it.
The MCU as a series is built on second chances. To hate only one while accepting the others is nothing but hypocrisy.
You, dear sir/madam are the only bitch I fucks with on this hellsite
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