Watching Oppenheimer made me realize two things about the MCU: one funny and one tragic.

Firstly is that, after brushing up on my physics I realized Ant-Man is a walking WMD lol. If he shrinks by a small percentage shedding mass equivalent to one front adult-size tooth that will yield an explosive energy equivalent to one Hiroshima because that mass has to be coverted into something. Don't give me the "his mass remains the same" nonsense because it clearly doesn't when he's running around on top of guns and standing on people's shoulders without burrowing into their flesh from the needle-like pressure. He also punched that Leviathan in Endgame which if the mass was the same would have bounced him back several kilometers like a giant parade balloon, while the Leviathan felts nothing but a gentle tap.

Secondly is that (oh man this will make me sad again) Murphy's portrayal made me wish that T'Challa was still in the MCU as this portrayal of a charismatic, loner to the point of seeming somewhat arrogant (but really just good at leadership and making plans and strategies to get things done), science genius who studied from the best professors in the world is EXACTLY the T'Challa from the comics. Moreso with how, in the aftermath of his actions to prevent the "bad guys" with their "bad ideologies" from taking over the world and everything he holds dear, he still wrestles with the moral and ethical implications of what his scientific mind and his ability to mobilize people has wrought onto the world that didn't have that power or technology yet to even stand a chance. >! I also really liked how Oppenheimer had to balance keeping everyone working in the desert smoothly and making sure they all stayed where they were and kept everything a secret ... that could work with the Wakanda-isolationism. Oppie was even slyly stabbed in the back by a man he trusted who ended up being a mole for the USSR adding a geopolitical element to the personal stakes again.. fitting for Black Panther !<

He (in the comics) invented a new branch of physics around the unique properties of vibranium and quantum states, he was the first to witness an Incursion starting to happen by peering into its threshold and raising the alarm to the Illuminati, sent a mission to explore a distant planet then got displaced forward in time and still made his way back to present time, beat back the Skrull Secret Invasion along with a planet-consuming horde of symbiotes. I feel kind of robbed of what could have been leaving us with a nice but still hollow memory of a cool fighting ninja cat man who makes good uniting speeches but terrible political decisions.

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