Spoilers Avengers: Infinity War grade and discussion thread

Vulcan is (potentially) not the original homeworld. (TOS Return to Tomorrow.)

The Romulans were the only species on Vulcan before Surak had his epiphany. Even Surak was a Romulan until he wasn't (Jesus was a Jew). Unless the Romulans took a new name as a Species during their exile, looking for a new home, how likely is it that the home world of the Romulans was called Vulcan?

 

If he wanted to explode Cap's head, I imagine he could have.

 

Thanos is not (just) ridiculously strong.

The Power Stone ups his stats when needed.

He didn't need the Power Stone to fight Steve.

 

I am still growing through these posts (up to about page 12), so some thoughts... in addition how i loved the movie , but considering we have the seuqels coming... almost not so shocking, at least to me.

I think the slogan should be "Make the Universe Half Again (Helping All)

MU HA (HA)

Hasn't he been the Hulk for like 2 years straight? He is "burnt out" I would think. Something special will have to trigger him.

I agree... but they mentioned something weird happening in New York....but i haven't finished that episode...so HOPEFULLY a connection...

 

Spoiler: Ending Stuff

One of the things that I liked about all the characters turning to ash, despite knowing they'll be back, was the emotional impact of it. Nearly all of them were ones that really devastating due to how it impacted the survivors because the development over the last decade. Rocket has lost Groot and the other Guardians after his whole arc being trying to push the others away because he's afraid of losing them. Cap lost Bucky after finally getting his best friend back after 70 years, having to see him die, show back up brainwashed and destroying the Avengers and becoming a criminal to save him. Then there's Spider-Man, a 15 year old kid who willing climbed into a spaceship because he thought he could help his hero and mentor Iron Man. Iron Man at this point is still suffering from PTSD he got during the Battle of New York, causing him to do everything in his power to protect the Earth, his fellow heroes and taken it upon himself to help this smart young kid who might remind him a bit of himself. Peter didn't have the wealth, but he clearly has a knack for science and engineering and he wants to help people. He even says in Spider-Man Homecoming that if anything happened to him. Then he watches him turn to dust in his arms (the way he falls into his arms even resembles the "hug" scene from Homecoming) as he begs not to die. He even apologizes to Tony for dying, like he failed him. Peter dies thinking he failed his hero. And Tony is left alone, knowing that he failed to save Earth, the Avengers, Peter and the universe.

The movie itself was dark in a way that the DCEU films wish they could be. It works because after all these years these characters have grown and formed emotional connections that mattered to the audience. When dark things happened, it actually meant something. It wasn't dark for the sake of being dark.

 

Well that's just grammatical semantics. Sometimes adjectives are spelt indistinguishably from their root noun. That's just how it is.

 

The Cap meets Groot scene was funny..but thinking about it..Groot was probably actually telling Steve his name that time.

 

I think he said "Nice beard dude."

 

Which reminds me: I'm thrilled he kept the beard for the whole film, as oppose to shaving it off a third into the story after coming out of exile (if the film followed the trope, he would have shaved it off at Avengers HQ). As someone with a beard, I'm so very tired of that trope.

 

The "shaving as rebirth" trope only bothers me in as far as no one actually looks good immediately after shaving their beard off for the first time in months or years. There's blotchy redness and puffiness and uneven skin tone and for the next few hours you're convinced you've made a terrible mistake and you simply forgot how awful your face always was under the beard.

 

I don't agree. The DCEU films, especially those by Snyder, were dark in a way that I don't feel that "Infinity Wars" ever really was . . . especially on a psychological level.

 

I'm boycotting any movie where Cap has a beard, cause CANON!!!!!!

 

Wife loved it. I fell asleep.

 

I loved it (no, I'm not married to Billj) and it's right up there with Winter Soldier in my favourite Marvel movies.

I have it an 'A' - might even have given it full marks of it wasn't for the somewhat underwhelming post credit scene.

 

Disney- Congratulations

Disney- Why thank you.

 

...And Tony takes one look at the lightsaber, then tosses it nonchalantly over his shoulder.

...And then he incorporates the saber's tech into his armor anyway, using the scans he took when he looked at it. He also patents the tech.

Jerk.

Mark

 

The mad, mad, almost sane theory of how Adam West's Batman is in the same universe as Infinity War.

 

What Obfuscation. In the actual comics it WAS/IS Titan, the moon of Saturn. There's zero reason to believe it isn't Titan, the moon of Saturn in the MCU. Again, the MCU isn't our 'Universe' - so whatever Titan looks like here, it's obviously different in the MCU.

Seriously, we're talking a Universe with living gods, and things like radiation giving people super powers, so you're going to complain - "Hey, in our universe Titan is lifeless, so it can't be Titan in the MCU..." sheesh.

 

Also, the movie ends with this...



... which is even stronger evidence they're in the same universe.