sometimes i remember that hawkeye is canonically deaf in the comics and the mcu erased his disability. that they ignored his abusive childhood and gave him a family – erasing his attachment issues. in the comics hes this self-destructive goofy disabled depressed guy who drinks coffee by the pot just to stay awake and is always covered head to toe in band-aids. sometimes i remember that the mcu erased everything about clint barton but the bow and arrow. and it ruins my whole day.
clint barton is that dude who couldn’t figure out how to untangle the wires on his playstation so he Cut some of the wires and then phoned tony stark to come fix it
so this took me forever to figure out how to articulate but my biggest problem with Nat’s characterization (or lack thereof) was the way she was flirting with Bruce.
Like Steve said, he’s seen Natasha flirt up close and personal. She uses her sexuality as a weapon or a distraction, whatever fits the mission. That’s what she was trained to do by the Red Room. She was trained to be all flirty and coy to get what she wants. That was her training.
Which is exactly why it felt so wrong in the movie. Natasha wouldn’t flirt with Bruce if she liked him because any kind of flirting would feel like subjugation and deception after using it as a weapon in her arsenal for so many years. That’s how she was trained to kill. The way she was flirting with Bruce felt like she was buttering up a target or a mark. It was awkward and forced and just so wrong because if she really cared about him, she wouldn’t beat around the bush, she would say so straight out because that is the exact opposite of how she was trained to interact with people.
Natasha Romanoff was trained to use sex and her looks as weapons and you really expect us to believe that she’d be comfortable using those same techniques to interact with someone she genuinely cares about? No fucking way.
See I have this theory about BruceTasha. And I may get accused of being a crazed Clintasha girl, but here goes.
Natasha was behaving like Bruce was a mark because he was.
Let’s look at the evidence. For some bizarre reason, Natasha has been selected as the one to calm the Hulk. As I’ve said in a previous post, this makes no sense – Tony would have been a more natural choice. But what if she, or even Fury, decided she had to be the one because she is so good at manipulating people? She can manipulate the Hulk into calming down, by presenting this calming façade and getting him to let Bruce come back into control. And she manipulates Bruce too, so that he trusts her, will listen to her, and stay with the Avengers for when they need him. She flirts with him to make him feel wanted, so that when she needs to, she can bring out the Hulk or put him back again. And we see this in action at the end of the film, when Bruce comes to get her out of the cell Ultron has her in (the reasons why she didn’t just escape are enough to fill another entire post), when she tells him ‘I adore you’, the most awkward line in a ‘relationship’ built on awkward lines, and then promptly pushes him into the chasm to get the Hulk. Because, as she says, “I need the other guy.”
She knew that moment would come, sooner or later, and she needed Bruce to trust her enough to get close to her, and Hulk not to kill her when she did. And how does Natasha get people to do what she wants? She flirts with them. She seduces them.
And that scene at the very end, when she’s staring at the black wall after he’s left. I refuse to believe she’s pining after him like a lovesick puppy. I think she’s feeling guilty because she so thoroughly manipulated someone on her own team, using the tactics she was first taught in the Red Room. And she hates that she used the training she so deplores on a team mate, even if she had to, even if it did save the world. And she hates that she’s lost a potential platonic friend because of it. Because I think platonic friends – who don’t see her as this sexy body, but as a person they love for who she is inside – would be incredibly important to Natasha. She can have any man she wants with the batting of her eyelids, but what she wants is friendship, like any normal person has. And you can see this in effect in The Winter Soldier, in the scene on board the ship with the hostages when her unannounced side mission puts her and Steve in danger, and his is visibly angry with her. And you can see her kicking herself, beating herself up, because here’s this man who trusts her, works with her, and doesn’t see her body as something to covet, and she’s disappointed him. She’s worried she might have lost that valuable friendship.
So yes, I’m going to chose to believe that the reason why the scenes between Bruce and Natasha feel forced is because they are. She is forcing herself to do this to someone she’d rather have as a platonic friend because she needs to be able to control both halves of Bruce’s nature, so that when the time comes to it, she can both take the Hulk out and put him back in his box. She needs to be able to summon the Hulk when he’s needed, and lull him back into submission before he can hurt anyone.
And she does that the only way she knows how; manipulation through flirting and seduction.
So yes, the reason she’s behaving with Bruce as she would a mark is because that is exactly what she was doing.
Someone needs to make a monster fucker and furry scale where the Monster Fucker side is the plant from Little Shop of Horrors and the Furry side is the tigers from zootopia
so heres my take on this
Thank you
where’s the skeletons
i added a whole nother axis for this
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where do the angry birds land?
if you get off on angry birds then you land in hell
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