I hadn’t heard about him until the AV Club had an article about X-Force. I was expecting them to talk about Cable & company, only to find that the name now applied to a completely different set of people who really had nothing to do with the old group.

I get what Snyder was going for with that finale: the whole movie to that point builds everything, from Superman to Metropolis itself, into an untouchable larger-than-life comic book entity - and then shows the audience “But this is how that would all come crashing down, literally, in reality.” The intention is clear,…

Similarly, the bit in Smallville where Superman “helps” people by urging them to “get inside” when the Kyrptonian soldiers arrive, only to immediately begin throwing them into the buildings he just suggested they use as refuge.

There’s no indication that Thanos getting the gauntlet at the end of AoU actually happens concurrently to AoU.

Can’t explain away the fake in Odin’s vault though.

That’s because Thanos wasn’t even part of the plan. Throwing him into Avengers as the man behind the curtain was Whedon’s idea, just for fun. There was absolutely no idea of how they were going to develop that going forward and clearly didn’t really start to approach an idea until Guardians at the earliest.

eh. it came across as stalkerish and a little too twee. Not to mention that ASM Peter is kind of a dick. “Your dad died asking me to promise to stay out of your life but I want to bang you so...”

I enjoy your almost cut/paste reply every time anything even remotely related to Infinity War Thanos is mentioned. I’m not being sarcastic here, I genuinely enjoy it and it brings a smile to my face.

Keep fighting the good fight, Comic Book Man.

I agree. As much as people claim Marvel plans plot details out many movies in advance I don’t think those plans are nearly exacting as people think. You can definitely see that in the characterization, or lack there of really, of Thanos prior to IW. Obviously they knew they were going to do something with the Infinity…

For all the talk about Marvel’s long-term planning (and quite a lot of that is justified, to be clear), it’s quite obvious that they didn’t settle on what Thanos’ motivation was until they actually started making Infinity War, because all of his prior appearances beginning with The Avengers suggest different…

“Oh, man, I thought that was a water truck.” - Zod

I mean, it’s not even genocide per se; the nuke blows up what appears to be some kind of Chitauri command ship, not a planet. Blowing up a military spacecraft while it’s actively attacking you is not “genocide,” it’s called “warfare,” no matter how many people of a given race you kill in the process.

I do not have the answers, and I do not mean to be pedantic, but wasn’t Peter Fonda Captain America, not Dennis Hopper?

I still wince at the part where Superman skips over a gas truck that Zod throws and the building behind him is reduced to rubble.

Gonna be hard to spin Superman rampaging through fake-New York as justified though. I mean I’ve seen the argument for it but its wrong and more to the point it’s not what Superman would have done. Plenty of superheroes would fight Zod in that city and deaths would happen and it would be justified as “for the greater…

I agree with you. It seemed like a nod to what Thanos’ goal was. I don’t mind the retcon because I think they handled it very well. It also, I think, rang a little closer to home to real world politics where a lot of charismatic people can be very invested in a plan that seems like it would work on some level but…

Why does Doop have a pet tiger? And why is he riding Dennis Hopper’s Captain America bike, or a facsimile thereof?

Why is she so scared of the nerdy doctor she meets in that slum just outside Delhi, or wherever?

Thanos says that his plan is all to “court Death.”

Iron Man ends the movie by committing nuclear genocide against a race of aliens

Typical AV Club Marvel fanboyery! If Captain America is so great, how come he doesn’t snap anyone’s neck and look really sad about it?