Things that the MCU really impressed me with

osheamobile:

elfgrove:

nb2000:

osheamobile:

• Making Tony Stark an A-lister
• Realistic reactions to world-shattering events
• PTSD
• Jane Foster participating in the Final Battle in The Dark World, to the point where she was contributing an amount equal to Thor’s punchings
• Darcy
• Coulson
• Maria freakin’ Hill
• UNLEASH THE FALCON
• Making the first Captain America 99% a period piece
• Making the first Thor a fairy tale
• Jane Foster specifically putting science above everything else, up to and including the time she hit the primary protagonist with a car and it was mostly an annoyance to take him to the hospital because she had science to do
• Jane Foster just in general
• Can we please have Sam Wilson in everything
• NATASHA FREAKIN’ ROMANOV
• Clint Barton telling Coulson to hurry up and make the call or else he’s going to change his mind
• Giving Sharon Carter screentime independent of smooches with Steve
• Peggy Carter just in general
• Finally finding the right Bruce Banner and hopefully keeping him this time
• I’m not kidding about Natasha Romanov. Every single plot thread in The Avengers rotated around her, and not in any sort of bad way.
• Tony Stark’s love of showboating and AC/DC
• RHODEY
• NEW AND IMPROVED RHODEY
• Pepper Potts being a badass without having to make herself a fighter
• Pepper Potts being a fighter anyway
• The near-perfect pacing and cinematography of the later MCU movies. They’re not just great superhero movies, but they’re great movies.

As an addendum to the bold: Jane gets the final action against Malekith. Thor places the…whatever it’s called, the plot device that messes with reality but Jane is the one who throws the switch to send Malekith away for good. Jane saved the day with science!

• Technological advancements and engineering visuals porn. BLESS.
• Sam Wilson in general.
• Not only introducing PTSD for heroes, but also showing therapy as an effective and in no way belittling or embarrassing way of working through it.
• Hinting and easter eggs of yet un-debuted Marvel heroes and concepts without making the films inaccessible to non-comics fans.
• Making the multiple stories work together for a combined universe.
• Thor being the one that fell head over hindquarters in love first.
• Ladies as higher ranking or outright leaders of the in-universe corporate/government power structures, Pepper Potts, Peggy Carter, Maria Hill, Sharon Carter, etc.
• Pepper and Rhodey not always indulging Stark’s more destructive, boorish, and selfish tendencies.
• Steve sasses women and then flees, usually out of an airplane.
• Making the non-heroes a part of the solution: military, local police, SHIELD Agents, etc.

• Ultimate Nick Fury