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[lynnenne]

Hello, and welcome to your weekly Sunday discussion post! This week's topic relates to the final trailer for Avengers: Endgame.



The trailer shows the Avengers facing off (again) against Thanos. While I would have preferred that Thanos NOT be in the movie, I'm going in hoping that this is the last we'll see of him.

My hope is that Nebula gets to kill him, because she's the one who most deserves revenge. What would you like to see happen to Thanos? Gamora kills him after she comes back from the dead? Thor cuts off his head, like he should have done the first time? Tony experiments on him the way that Thanos experimented on Nebula? Share his fate in comments!

Comments

[scioscribe]

Leaving out what might happen and focusing totally on what I'd like to see--Nebula killing Thanos, definitely. Although I could also really get into some scenario where Gamora was brought back to life in time to slowly walk towards Thanos, who stretches out his hand to her... and then she cuts his head off.

I would really love any scenario where it turns out the dusted aren't actually dead but have instead been shuttled off to a parallel universe, meaning that the whole movie is less about resurrection and more about reunion and bringing the two worlds back together, or setting up some kind of portal so people can move back and forth between the two realities. I feel like this is the kind of thing that would totally happen in comics but is a little too hard to explain at the beginning of each new movie and so won't be happening in the films, but I want it. If we're just talking about rewinding time to get rid of Thanos's actions, I want them to go back further then the Snap, because I want to save Gamora and the refugee Asgardians and anything that brings back everybody else but not them will leave me with a bad, bitter taste in my mouth.

I could be down with a very bittersweet scenario where Thanos basically gets rewound out of the universe entirely, so then everyone wakes up in a world where he never existed, and so then you could have a movie dealing with the Guardians all being separated but having odd urges pointing them towards each other--and eventually recovering their other memories--and the Loki TV show would have some kind of funky AU possibilities because something different could have happened post-Thor 1 (although I kind of still want everything to wind up in Ragnarok mode).

[lynnenne]

I would really love any scenario where it turns out the dusted aren't actually dead but have instead been shuttled off to a parallel universe

I've had this thought, too... a sort of "energy can neither be created nor destroyed" thing, just moved from one place to another. I think seeing parallel universes would be cool.

I kind of still want everything to wind up in Ragnarok mode

Me too! I loved that movie so much, and seeing half of the Asgardians slaughtered was upsetting.

[kore]

Seeing it happen at the VERY START of Infinity War was so upsetting. Branagh's distress call, the lack of music, the....well, everything. I'm still going to write my "Asgardian refugee movie night" fic where Loki puts on amateur theatricals with all the kids/youngsters on the ship, though. (Imagine what theatrical supplies might be on the orgy ship. Imagine.) Thor is kingly (and bangs Heimdall), Val trains everybody (and bangs whomever she wants).

[lynnenne]

I'm still going to write my "Asgardian refugee movie night" fic where Loki puts on amateur theatricals with all the kids/youngsters on the ship

Oh, I SO want to read that! I'm a huge theatre nerd.

[kore]

He would totally cast it as being about preserving their Asgardian heritage! Teaching the younglings about history and culture! Keeping them out of trouble while their parents try to figure out where the fuck they're going and what to do for supplies! Loki in charge of dozens of theatre kids: IMAGINE.

[scioscribe]

I've had this thought, too... a sort of "energy can neither be created nor destroyed" thing, just moved from one place to another. I think seeing parallel universes would be cool.

Ooh, yeah, I like that way of putting it, too. And it would be such a good slap to Thanos, driving home that he doesn't have the absolute control over the universe that he thought he did.

Me too! I loved that movie so much, and seeing half of the Asgardians slaughtered was upsetting.

I'm still not over how much I loved the end of Ragnarok and how thoroughly IW destroyed it within minutes. I'm glad there's still a whole genre of post-Ragnarok fic that just ignores the whole thing.

[kore]

I would really love any scenario where it turns out the dusted aren't actually dead but have instead been shuttled off to a parallel universe, meaning that the whole movie is less about resurrection and more about reunion and bringing the two worlds back together, or setting up some kind of portal so people can move back and forth between the two realities. I feel like this is the kind of thing that would totally happen in comics but is a little too hard to explain at the beginning of each new movie and so won't be happening in the films, but I want it.

Ooh, yes please. And in comics, you could totally have a mini told from the POV of the people in the soul stone/alternate plane/where the fuck-ever, too, that's a big part of what I love about them. Or alternating even. I'm maybe still hopeful that we'll see them in the quantum realm? They can be brought back that way? Doesn't look like it, though, sigh.

If we're just talking about rewinding time to get rid of Thanos's actions, I want them to go back further then the Snap, because I want to save Gamora and the refugee Asgardians and anything that brings back everybody else but not them will leave me with a bad, bitter taste in my mouth.

SERIOUSLY. (Also, Heimdall! How could they kill Idris Elba??) Loki too, not that I'm a huge fan of MCU Loki but basically I want the end of Ragnarok all over again, where Asgard is the people on the ship and they're looking for home. (Carol could help! ....I think there's already been fic of this.)

I could be down with a very bittersweet scenario where Thanos basically gets rewound out of the universe entirely, so then everyone wakes up in a world where he never existed, and so then you could have a movie dealing with the Guardians all being separated but having odd urges pointing them towards each other--and eventually recovering their other memories

Oh, that would make a GREAT fic.

[snickfic]

I could be down with a very bittersweet scenario where Thanos basically gets rewound out of the universe entirely, so then everyone wakes up in a world where he never existed, and so then you could have a movie dealing with the Guardians all being separated but having odd urges pointing them towards each other--and eventually recovering their other memories

This sounds so awesome and I absolutely want to read fic about it, even though it seems like maybe not action-packed enough for the climax of a blockbuster.

[scioscribe]

Yeah, there would have to be something very action-y added onto that to make it a plausible MCU movie, but I fully support any longfic that wants to do it in literally any way.