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[melannen]

Oh! Did I mention I finally watched Age of Ultron?

I hadn't been in a hurry to see it because fandom had given me the inpression it was extremely missable.

Somehow fandom failed to inform me that the plot of Age of Ultron is:

One of the Avengers loses his best friend and partner, the person who's know him better than any other for longer than any other through bad and good. He goes down while fighting a supervillain, the Avenger blames himself, then discovers his best friend might be alive but amnesiac in enemy hands. So he decides screw everything, screw the world and his friends and good sense, he's getting his best friend back. So he says "This is the end of the line," while his other friend is telling him to stop, and saves him, but discovers that he's not quite the same person he was before, and he may now carry the seeds of destruction deep in his mind.

(And then Civil War is the story of two Avengers both failing to deal well with having lost-but-not-quite-lost their best friends.)

I mean. Kids. Tony literally said "This is the end of the line." Why was fandom not all over this, loudly, on Tumblr.

Comments

[muccamukk]

yay, now there's like three people other than me who really liked that movie.

[dhampyresa]

Well, when you put it like that...

I enjoyed the movie, but I hadn't quite made the parallel myself.

[twistedchick]

Are you sure you're not confusing Age of Ultron with The Winter Soldier? Because you just described the plot of The Winter Soldier.