that scene in cap 2 when nick fury took that sharp turn and lost the fake cops after him and the gunshots subsided and his gps thing was like ‘getting you to a secure location’ and you really thought, you Really Thought!!!! he was Safe But then it got TOO quiet and fucking ominous music started playing in the background and the previously unfocused camera focused on this dude, decked in ALL Black, in the middle of the fucking street, holding a fucking Bazooka, and He BLOWS up furys suv, sees it coming straight for him, and takes ONE(1) nonchalant step to the Side???: UNPARALLELED 

#CA:TWS does a really good job of establishing characters’ competence BEFORE they tangle with the WS #Fury evades a coordinated death squad before the WS almost casually blows his car to shit #Steve takes out an entire elevator of STRIKE guys bare-handed before he fights the Soldier and barely holds his own #this also makes Pierce a FUCKLOAD scarier for being someone willing to slap the Soldier around #that movie did a really good job establishing characters’ skill/power levels by showing rather than telling #and they converted those insights directly into suspense in a way the MCU has never done again     (via galwednesday)

wake up sheeple !! the notion that katara is the overbearing, responsible member of the group was a lie peddled by Big Toph to distract from the fact that the actual overbearing, responsible member of the group (sokka) also happens to be her favorite.

Sokka once ate a thing he found on the wall of a cave

he has a natural curiosity!!!!!!

Sokka is the one with the color-coded schedule stretching miles long and is the group wet blanket.

Katara is wanted in multiple cities under different aliases.

pls...just one chance...

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Okay, Aang is so rad. He can see a person wants to hurt him very badly and Aang could probably beat this kid up in like one move, but he doesn’t do that; he dodges the attack doesn’t even make a move to hurt the kid. He probably is concerned he’ll hurt him being the Avatar. I love Aang so much.

yes, and. aang is clearly aware that he has an audience. he knows that as the new kid “from the colonies” (aka “colony trash”), he is an outsider in this school and must be seen being polite and respectful to the kid at the top of the pecking order. it is also simply in his nature to treat everyone politely and respectfully. so when hide (that’s his name btw) throws the first punch, aang dodges out of the way. but he doesn’t just dodge. he literally dodges him by slipping under his legs. aang is not only ensuring that hide doesn’t get hurt and that he doesn’t get hurt, but also demonstrating to the crowd of enthralled onlookers that he is actually a far better fighter than this other kid. and he continues to evade and discombobulate him with perfect poise and grace, without ever throwing a single punch or even making an effort to block his attacks. eventually, hide loses the fight because he gets so tired and confused from aang’s maneuvering that he overexerts himself in an effort to actually land a hit on aang, and so when aang dodges him, he ends up collapsing.

aang is a mischievous and playful kid, but even more than that, he is very socially aware. he knows that by refusing to fight hide on his terms, and in fact rising above, he is humiliating hide, establishing his implicit superiority, “colony trash” utterly trouncing the beloved popular kid who always gets his way. it is a microcosm of how aang eventually defeats ozai: by not succumbing to his ideals of violence and domination, and by instead using the philosophies of his people to guide him, aang is not only winning a fight between two enemies, but in fact demonstrating his ideological superiority in a battle of clashing cultural values. aang proves to ozai why air nomads do, in fact, deserve a place in this world, and he could not have done so if he had simply killed ozai. by refusing to sacrifice the values of his people, and instead rising above ozai’s petty imperialist dogmas, aang proves why he is uniquely fit to be the avatar. and by refusing to stoop to hide’s level, aang rises above and proves why he so thoroughly and immediately establishes himself as the most popular kid at this random fire nation school. aang doesn’t defeat his enemies, but rather humiliates them by demonstrating why it was folly for them to ever assume that they even had the slightest chance of defeating him in the first place.

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