The Quicksilver scenes in the X-Men movies were so much fun because they made so little sense
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Replying to @arthur_affect @jamari_oneal and
Anyone can work this out - if Quicksilver yanks you out of the way of a bullet while moving many times faster than the bullet (which we can see traveling slow as molasses) then him grabbing you is going to damage you way way worse than the bullet would've
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Replying to @arthur_affect @jamari_oneal and
Like why is him flinging people out of the house just ahead of the blast wave of the explosion less harmful to their health than the explosion itself doing that
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Replying to @arthur_affect @jamari_oneal and
Anyway it's not even about making real world physics sense In hindsight I enjoy those scenes so much because they're such a huge middle finger to the entire rest of the movie even mattering Logically what is the need for any other X-Men, what purpose do they serve
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Replying to @arthur_affect @jamari_oneal and
It's not only impossible to believe Quicksilver would ever need anyone's help it's impossible to believe he'd TOLERATE them getting involved Standing there waiting for Wolverine's claws to very slowly extend while his face is going "NNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOO" over the course of an hour
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Replying to @arthur_affect @jamari_oneal and
Every fight scene is like the damn Quad Glacier in Aqua Teen Hunger Force for him
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Replying to @arthur_affect @jamari_oneal and
Anyway even in the movie themselves as they're written, it's objectively the case that Quicksilver is the most powerful X-Man who does most of the work and no one really thanks him for it Like in X-Men:Apocalypse he saves everyone from an explosion in literally three seconds
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Replying to @arthur_affect @jamari_oneal and
This isn't something that's even in the ballpark of possibility for ANY of the other mutants to do no matter how powerful And like from his POV he spent ALL DAY searching that frozen mansion and dragging people out of it And does anyone shake his hand or donate to his Patreon
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Replying to @arthur_affect @jamari_oneal and
This was very annoying about the setup of Dark Phoenix, a movie Quicksilver was only in for like three minutes (he's seriously had more screentime already on WandaVision)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @jamari_oneal and
Quicksilver is bragging to a girl at a party after the space mission "I did most of the work, you know. I mean, Jean helped a little, at the end" And see the thing is It's played as him being an arrogant ass but it's completely objectively true He DID do most of the work
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Cripes it's like everyone, including the writers, sees Quicksilver doing shit in a fraction of a second and think because they were unable to perceive him doing it it must not have cost any effort Ungrateful bastards
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Replying to @arthur_affect @jamari_oneal and
They even give Mystique this angry feminist speech telling Professor X "You should call this team the X-Women, because somehow it's always the women who have to save everyone else!"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @jamari_oneal and
Even though Quicksilver, again, did 90% of the actual work fixing the ship and trying to get the astronauts to safety, played off as an "It happened instantly in a blur" sight gag
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