Chitauri

guy.

So the context is, after the events of Thor, which we didn't talk about, Loki fell down a big hole, and he landed up in space, and he has brokered a deal with Thanos to be like, hey, if you lend me your army of the Chitauri, To fuck up Earth, I will give you the Cosmic Cube because inside the Cosmic Cube is an Infinity Stone.

Right.

And Thanos wants an Infinity Stone.

Yeah, the guy from

Good Will Hunting.

Yeah, the Chitauri are coming through.

They got space whales that can fly in normal gravity and in space for some reason.

You know, I think one of the lingering aspects, especially with episodes three and four, is seeing sort of like Ultron further kind of impose himself in the proceedings, especially with Vision, Eda, Friday, and the rest of them trying to figure out who the Butcherbird killer is and... you know really kind of getting understanding of tommy and just everything that's happening especially dealing with paladin which we'll get i'll get into in a minute um so i i am definitely digging sort of the evolution of vision of of ultron where it's like he's helping the crew but there's that trepidation of you can't quite trust them because there's something going on um before i get into paladin i have to put this out here um well no let's get into paladin Now, one of my favorite things about the Marvel Cinematic Universe is always the notion of there always being sort of back end stuff happening, you know, while everything we're seeing on the front end is happening.

I may have mentioned this in the last recap, but anyways, the whole thing with like, for instance, in Spider-Man Homecoming with the Tinkerer, him using Chitauri tech and repurposing it for weapons, right? Those kind of things.

There's a black market as much in the MCU.

And we saw it as much in Falcon Winter Soldier with Madripoor and their things happening there.

So he goes to Xandar, and Thanos has been trying to do it m- like analog style, where he takes an army.

He takes the Chitauri and the army that he's created, and he's going planet to planet, and he's wiping out half the population the old-fashioned way.

He does that, and that's how he gets his daughter, Gamora.

He takes her from one of these planets.

Now, what's interesting is the comic book writer, Stan Lee, you know, I love the Marvel movies, right? The Avengers and all these things.

And literally in the movie, The Avengers, Loki partners with some god and he takes command of a space force of aliens called the Chitauri.

And he invades Earth, you know, in the movie Avengers with the Chitauri.

Now, interestingly enough, I'm looking through some of this research from Credo Mutwa about the African gods that came down and what they called them.

And literally...

They called them Chitauri.

And I was like, what is this? Because Stan Lee had the insight, just like he does with many of those other characters, Thor and others, where they're based on real tales.

Now, they might be mythological tales, but they can actually be real tales of great people or titans that once existed.

And I obviously didn't do that the first time I watched these films.

And you know the guy... who's like the leader of the Chitauri he's in Guardians of the Galaxy I had no fucking idea and I quite like the leader of

the what

the Chitauri the guy with the hood who's like the head of the aliens that come out of the sky in this film

he's in the post credits oh the one who's

talking to Loki the

So yeah, Thor gets that same treatment in this film.

I do think that the

Uh, he squares off against Danny and learns Danny's reasonings because he's a- already lived through all of this as well.

Uh, and probably more because, I mean, he, he was on Earth with the, the incident with New York, with the invasion of the Chitauri by Loki.

Uh, he has seen Sokovia happen.

He has seen the Civil War stuff happen.

Again, it's a small thing, but I like it.

Um- That's one of the things that, again, much like, much like with Spider-Man: Homecoming, I've always been a fan of the sort of black market world that we have in the MCU, where it's like in, you know, Homecoming, we saw the Tinkerer taking some of the Chitauri tech and all that stuff and making weapons.

And, you know, Vulture end up becoming a weapons dealer out of that and stuff.

And those are, those are-- those small moments are things that make sense that you can kind of put in play in the Marvel Cinematic Universe because it's something that kind of echoes across the board in different, you know, shows and movies and such.

...

the Chitauri thing at the end.

That all-

Yeah, the Chitauri.

Yeah

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It's still the same i- 4K disc, if you will.

Um, there's stu- there's so much more clarity now, and again, that comes from, you know, obviously knowledge about room acoustics and stuff like that, but it also comes from the system itself improving over time, but it was always there.

And then...

the very the very state apparatus which funds and maintains the ultimates is is the very thing that would have allowed for the the subjugation of the world by the the scrolls by the chitari um or the the nazi scrolls in this in this case um they yeah the the the ultimates in this are like even that, that heroic moment where Tony Stark is like, yeah, you know, like I'm, I'm going to go back into the fight.

Then the soldiers look at you at better him than us.

And then they push that kid down.