Nintendo has announced a special online demo for Mario Tennis Aces, which goes live on April 26 at 12PM PT / 3PM ET and continues until May 3. Downloading the demo gives you a free seven-day trial to Nintendo Switch Online as well.
"Taking part in the special demo will also allow players to reap some special rewards that even carry over into the full Mario Tennis Aces game," Nintendo said in a press release. "Playing just one match in this week-long tournament unlocks an outfit for Mario that decks him out in classic overalls, while by collecting points in the demo's co-op challenge mode, players are eligible to unlock blue, red, and yellow Yoshi that can also be used right away in the special demo or in the full version of the game."
Mario Tennis Aces' latest update added an expanded Ring Shot mode to the game. In Ring Shot, you play cooperatively with other players and try to rally as long as you can while hitting the tennis ball through randomly appearing rings on the court. There are Singles, Doubles, and Yoshi's Ring Shot variations to the mode. Yoshi's Ring Shot is a limited-time event which ends on June 1. You rack up points hitting the ball through the rings that are the same color as the Yoshi you're playing as, and the event gives you the chance to unlock three new Yoshi colors: pink, orange, and light blue.
The roster in Mario Tennis Aces has grown in recent months, with Pauline, Boom Boom, Kamek, and several others joining. Dry Bones will be added as a playable character next month.
In our Mario Tennis Aces review, Justin Clark wrote, "It speaks volumes that even the multiplayer limitations don't entirely dampen my enthusiasm for Aces. The Tetris Effect is in full swing here; days after the credits rolled, I still crave the satisfying thwack from a Power Shot, mentally replay matches and imagine how I might do things differently given a bit more focus and know-how. Mario Tennis Aces does what this series has done best, and for the most part, improves what it's rarely gotten right prior."
The Revelry is in full swing and the Iron Banner has returned in Destiny 2, and if that wasn't enough, it's also the weekend--which means it's Xur time. The Agent of the Nine is back once again with an offering of Exotics to sell, although unfortunately he's not bringing any of the Exotics from Forsaken with him this time out. He does, however, offer a Fated Engram that guarantees a fresh Exotic, and a new Invitation of the Nine weekly bounty. And if you're still hurting for Exotics, you can head into the Verdant Forest and snag the Arbalest with our handy guide.
Head to Titan to find Xur this week. He's in the area marked as The Rig, hanging out in a low building to the northeast of the spawn point. Ride your sparrow north with the edge of the platform and the water on your left until you see a low building; the vendor is inside.
Xur brings Sweet Business with him this week, an Exotic auto rifle that sprays an ridiculous amount of ammo. The gun increases its fire rate and range the longer you hold down the trigger and automatically reloads from ammo you pick up off the ground, allowing you to do a ton of shooting without stopping. On the armor side, Xur brings Hunters the Lucky Pants leg armor, which reloads your stowed hand cannon for every precision hit you land, and makes hand cannons faster and more accurate when you swap to them. For Titans, there's Doom Fang Pauldron, which gives you Super energy when you make melee kills, extends your Super on Shield Throw hits, and recharges Shield Throw when you get melee kills with your Super active. Finally, for Warlocks, there's the Aeon Soul gauntlets, which recharges your allies' class abilities, especially if they're also wearing Aeon Cult Exotics.
Here are all the Exotics Xur offers this week and what they'll cost you:
Sweet Business (Exotic auto rifle) -- 29 Legendary Shards
You can also purchase a Fated Engram from Xur, if his inventory doesn't interest you. Fated Engrams can now dish out Exotics from the Forsaken expansion, as well as the Year One group. Grabbing one of the engrams gives you a random Exotic that you don't already have, provided you can afford it. Fated Engrams will run you 97 Legendary Shards, and you can only get one per account each week. Xur also offers the Five of Swords challenge card for free, which allows you to add difficulty modifiers that increase your score in Nightfall runs.
Finally, Xur brings another Invitation of the Nine weekly bounty. It gives you a Powerful gear drop when you complete it, as well as a bit of story about the Nine and the Drifter, and a new Lore entry. As usual, you'll have to clear out a mess of enemies of various types, and complete a Strike. Stick to the planet mentioned in the bounty to kill the enemies you need, as they don't always count if you kill them in other places.
Avengers: Endgame has finally arrived, completing a story arc that has spanned a decade and more than 20 films. It's been clear for a while that this blockbuster would bring in an impressive take, but after the first night of screenings we're getting an idea of just how much.
Deadline reports that the film's Thursday night screenings brought in $60 million, toppling the record set by Star Wars: The Force Awakens at $57 million. For the purposes of tabulating, Thursday evenings are counted as part of Friday's box office take, which industry estimates say could reach around $130-140 million. If so that would beat the total Friday record, also set by Force Awakens at $119 million.
Meanwhile, the movie is breaking records in the other markets as well. THR reports that its overseas two-day gross since opening on Wednesday is $305 million, which includes a large chunk from China. That brings the grand worldwide total up to $365 million before the weekend has even started.
And there may be more broken records to come. Industry watchers think the full domestic weekend box office take could top $300 million. Even getting close to that point would be enough to beat the opening weekend record set by Avengers: Infinity War, which brought in just over $257 million.
We've known for quite a while that Avengers stood a good chance at breaking records. Initial estimates put it at a $200-250 opening weekend, which would have just missed the Infinity War record. But even those estimates were couched in reminders that the Infinity War's own estimates pegged it at an opening of $180-225 million, and it blew past those easily.
It also remains to be seen if Endgame will match or exceed Infinity War in total global sales at just over $2 billion. Even if it does, it will still need to go a lot further to take down the current reigning champion of total global sales: Avatar, with $2.78 billion.
If you're getting ready to take part in that weekend box office gross, make sure you check out our spoiler-free review and plan ahead with our advice on when it's safe to pee. Or if you've already seen it and you're still processing all that happened, we have you covered with everything from who's alive and dead to Doctor Strange's plan.
Now that the world is seeing Avengers: Endgame, the final installment of the Marvel Cinematic Universe's Infinity Saga, there are many questions to be answered. And that's before you consider what happens from here in the MCU. We know some of the movies still to come, but how will Marvel Studios top what it has already done? Warning: The following contains spoilers for Avengers: Endgame.
While most of the questions you have will likely be answered with time, there's some we can solve right now, whether it's if there was a post-credits scene or what the ending of the film means. However, there's yet another question--a minor one, but still--that is ready to be answered.
Toward the end of the film, during Tony Stark's (Robert Downey Jr.) funeral, many of those he's has known throughout the first decade of the MCU are seen, from his fellow Avengers to the Guardians of the Galaxy, to even friends like Aunt May (Marisa Tomei) and Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson). There was one face in the crowd you might not have recognized, though: that of a teenage boy. At a glance, you may have dismissed him as being Peter Parker (Tom Holland), but the answer is actually a really nice Easter Egg.
The boy is Harley Keener (Ty Simpkins). You should remember him as Tony Stark's kid sidekick in Iron Man 3. In the 2013 film, Tony winds up in Tennessee after an attack by the Mandarin (Ben Kingsley), where he befriends Harley. The kid then helps him track down the Mandarin and plays a big role in helping Tony cope with the PTSD he's suffering from due to the fallout of the first Avengers film.
Harley was not seen or mentioned in the MCU after Iron Man 3, but including him in Tony's funeral is a very nice touch--and one that shows the impact Stark had on the young man. In fact, now that he's growing up, perhaps Harley could be a candidate to become the next Iron Man. That probably won't happen, but what a fun twist it would be. Regardless, the mystery is solved.
The latest PlayStation mega sale is upon us--the annual Golden Week sale launched this morning on PSN (North America only), offering hundreds of game and DLC discounts up to 65% off (and 75% off for PS Plus members), including titles for PS4, PS3, PS Vita, and PSP.
The Golden Week sale is a nod to the week of national holidays celebrated this time of year in Japan and features Japanese-made (or Japanese-inspired) games, including popular series like Resident Evil, Persona, Dark Souls, and Dragon Quest. The sale will run until Tuesday, May 7 at 8 AM PT / 11 AM ET.
It's a good week to put your PS Plus membership to use: In addition to greater discounts on Golden Week deals, there's also a huge sale on hundreds of PS4 games and DLC going on right now that's exclusive to PS Plus members. Be sure to check it out before it ends Tuesday, April 30.
Sony recently started to explain its plans for the next generation of PlayStation, suggesting it could be closer than we had previously thought. But it still isn't too close, as the company has now ruled out seeing it anytime in the next year.
Sony Interactive Entertainment followed up with an earnings announcement, and Wall Street Journal reporter Takashi Mochizuki tweeted about the company's comments (via Engadget). The company announced that the next PlayStation will not be coming in the next fiscal year, which rules out any new console on shelves by April 2020. The company also recommitted a heavy investment into developing the next PlayStation.
Last year we had heard that the next-generation PlayStation was still three years away, which would put it in 2021. Cerny taking the wraps off with first details suggested that Sony could have moved that timeline up, possibly for a 2020 launch. This revelation doesn't rule out 2020 altogether, but it does mean the company would need to aim for a summer or fall launch instead of spring.
PS4 architect Mark Cerny began detailing plans for the next PlayStation--presumably to be named the PlayStation 5--in a recent interview. The upgrade sounds like a significant improvement that still relies on a lot of PS4 architecture, even down to allowing for backwards compatibility. Other features include a solid-state drive, and the potential to support 8K resolution. You can read up on all of the technical specs we know so far.
Cerny also specifically ruled out the PS5 being an all-digital device. Microsoft has taken the first step into offering an all-digital console with the Xbox One S All-Digital Edition, but it remains to be seen if its next generation will be all-digital as well. This could tie into Microsoft's plans to launch a streaming platform, code-named Project xCloud, which could reduce the need for physical media. Meanwhile, both of them will face a new competitor with the coming launch of Google Stadia, an all-streaming gaming platform.
Microsoft has released its Q3 earnings, and it suggests the current console generation is slowing down and ready for another refresh. Xbox console sales fell by 33% year-over-year, which the company attributes to a simple decrease in sales volume. In other words, people are simply buying fewer Xbox consoles.
However, the news wasn't too grim for Microsoft. Overall game revenue actually increased by 5% year-over-year, thanks to strong third-party software sales and subscriptions. Xbox Live's monthly active users hit 63 million, up 7% from last year. Altogether the games division raised $2.36 billion in revenue for the quarter, an YOY increase of $112 million.
The Xbox One is more than six years old now, so the decrease in console sales suggests Microsoft is hitting a saturation point. That's when console manufacturers tend to eye a new generation, and Microsoft may start to explain its vision for the next Xbox at E3. In the meantime, it introduced the Xbox One S All-Digital Edition, a new SKU of the console that lacks any disc drive and only plays downloaded games.
Meanwhile, Microsoft's competition has gotten first to the gate in starting to explain its plans for the coming generation. PS4 architect Mark Cerny began to outline some details on the next generation of PlayStation, including backwards compatibility, a solid-state drive, and other tech specs. It won't be disc-less, which may set it apart from the next Xbox, but that remains to be seen. Microsoft is planning a streaming service that likely will integrate with its future console plans.
Game of Thrones is famous for killing off, well, pretty much everyone. There are a few characters who remain or simply go missing, of course, but a decent proportion of its ensemble cast end up six feet under.
Season 8 is still ongoing, of course, so we're asking you to name all the main characters who've died up until the end of Season 7. That means extras and unimportant side-characters with credits like "man in hat" are excluded. To help you out we've provided the name of the killer and the cause of death--be careful though, some of the spellings are pretty tricky! Give the quiz below a go and let us know your scores in the comments.
Following the first details about the PlayStation 5 announced last week by lead system architect Mark Cerny, Sony has now officially confirmed a next-generation console. In the company's latest earnings report, Sony said its gaming division experienced an "increase in development expenses for the next generation console."
That's all Sony had to say on the subject of the PS5, however.
According to Kotaku's Jason Schreier, Sony's decision to seemingly randomly announce the PS5 was not completely random. Schreier says that one reason is because Sony just started to deliver PS5 devkits to third-party studios, and they wanted to get ahead of leaks.
Also in the earnings report, Sony announced that it shipped 17.8 million PS4 consoles during the fiscal year ended March 31. That's down from 19 million during the year prior. In all, the PS4 has now sold 96.8 million consoles worldwide since its release in 2013.
PS4 sales have been falling annually for years now, which makes sense given the console is so old. For the current fiscal year, Sony expects PS4 sales to drop yet again, falling to 16 million.
It was also confirmed in the earnings report that Sony has 36.4 million paying PlayStation Plus subscribers. Sony's digital offerings are doing very well. PlayStation Network revenue, including full-game downloads, DLC, PS Now, and PlayStation Plus, amounted to over $12.8 billion for the year, which is a new yearly record.
Sony's video game division overall, called Game and Network Services, saw revenue of $20.9 billion. PS4 sales dropped, as mentioned, but this decline was partially offset by more PS4 game sales and PlayStation Plus subscriptions. Some of the numbers and analysis here was compiled by Niko Partners senior analyst Daniel Ahmad.
Avengers: Endgame gets its title from a key line uttered by Doctor Strange toward the end of its predecessor, Avengers: Infinity War. After losing the fight with Thanos on the planet Titan, Strange tells Tony Stark, "We're in the endgame now." It's a reference to the fact that Strange has a plan for beating Thanos, and even though it seems like the Avengers are losing, there's more to the fight against the Mad Titan than just this battle. (Check out our Endgame review to see if the finale measures up to the setup.)
Infinity War ended with Thanos's victory and his snap, in which he used the Infinity Stones to eliminate half of all life in the universe. Among those who ceased to exist was Doctor Strange, who never got a chance to explain what his big plan was. Now that Avengers: Endgame is here, we can see what he was thinking--and why he changed his mind about allowing Thanos to get the Time Stone.
First, it's important to remember exactly what Strange said in Infinity War. Originally, his plan was to keep the Time Stone away from Thanos by any means necessary, but he was unwilling to let Tony destroy it or otherwise take it away from him--Strange was insistent that he keep the stone. After he was kidnapped by Thanos's lieutenant, Ebony Maw, and rescued by Tony and Spidey, Strange reiterated that the most important thing in the fight was the stone. He pointedly told Tony that no matter what happened, he would protect the stone, even at the cost of the lives of Tony, Peter Parker, or both.
When they reach Titan, Doctor Strange spends part of the discussion of how to take down Thanos using the Time Stone. He watches some 14 million possible timelines, and as he tells Tony, and only saw one in which the Avengers won the battle. The fight ensues with the team coming close to getting the Infinity Gauntlet away from Thanos, which could have allowed them to stop him, but they're unsuccessful. In the final moments of the fight, Thanos stabs Tony in the gut, then prepares to finish him off.
This is the moment where Strange changes things. He makes a bargain with Thanos: Spare Tony's life in exchange for the Time Stone. It's a big shift from Strange's earlier declaration that the stone was more important than anyone on the team. Strange's comment about being in the endgame comes soon after, once Thanos has departed from Wakanda. That reveals that Strange changing his mind and saving Tony services some greater agenda, more important than keeping the Time Stone away from Thanos.
We all know what happens next: Thanos wins. But Endgame reveals why Strange made the decision that he did, because Tony's survival in Infinity War is essential to everything that happens. When Scott Lang returns from the Quantum Realm, he reveals that Hank Pym's shrinking technology can make time travel possible--but it's Tony Stark who figures out how the team can travel to specific places and times, without getting lost along the way. Strange knew that the Avengers couldn't beat Thanos in a straight fight, but that they'd be able to eventually undo the snap--if Tony was still alive to help them figure out how.
Strange and Tony have another big moment during the climax of the film. As Tony is battling Thanos, trying to get the Gauntlet away from him so he can't use the Infinity Stones again, he catches Strange's eye. The pair have already had a conversation about the future; as Strange puts it, telling Tony about what was going to happen would cause it not to happen, because the knowledge would cause Tony (and potentially everyone else) to change how they would act.
In the final moments of the fight, Strange, meeting Tony's eyes, raises one finger. It calls back their earlier discussion--this is the one successful version of events, telling Tony they're on the right path. But Strange is also signaling what Tony has already realized: that it's up to Tony to defeat Thanos, and to use the Infinity Stones to do it. And Tony knows from seeing both Thanos and Hulk use the Gauntlet that it'll likely kill him.
The reality is that Strange has known this was how things had to go the whole time. He stopped Thanos from killing Tony in Infinity War because he knew that Tony had a huge role to play in the rest of the fight. Tony would be essential to helping secure time travel; he'd be necessary to get hold of the Space Stone and build the gauntlet that would allow the Avengers to use the Infinity Stones; and he'd be the one to finally defeat Thanos.
And when Strange said he couldn't tell Tony the outcome or it would change, it was because he knew that Tony still had one more role to play: He'd have to sacrifice himself to beat Thanos.
The bummer is that Strange knew all this, but in 14 million timelines, couldn't see another way forward--maybe one where Tony got to live a long and happy life with his family. But with the Marvel Cinematic Universe's big arc beginning with Iron Man and closing with Avengers: Endgame, it's pretty fitting that the key to everything would be Tony Stark, doing the very thing Steve Rogers said Tony was incapable of during their first mission together in The Avengers: sacrificing himself for the greater good.
Avengers: Endgame made good on its name and delivered a ton of endings--and most of them were actually great, if tragic, satisfying conclusions to a decade of work. One of them, however, was not.
And it very nearly ruined the entire movie.
Consider this your spoiler warning.
Steve Rogers finished out his tenure as a main line MCU hero by not only wielding Mjolnir and surviving a truly brutal beating by Thanos, he also (apparently) volunteered to be the person to deliver the Infinity Stones back to their respective points in the timeline. You know, to avoid all the branched timelines that the Ancient One warned Bruce Banner about with the help of their handy cosmic infographic. Steve does this completely alone for some reason, which also doesn't make a lot of sense, but we'll let that slide for right now.
The real problem is that Steve doesn't actually succeed at his mission. He gives the Stones back, sure, and returns the Mjolnir he's been using to Asgard, apparently, but then he decides to take a detour and go live a full life with Peggy Carter somewhere in the past. This results in him showing back up in the present not by taking the quantum portal, but by walking (or maybe he took an Uber? Who knows) to a bench about 50 feet to the left of the portal, returning as an old man who has lived an entire life in the blink of the audience's eye.
We even get a little flashback of Steve finally sharing his dance with Peggy back in the '40s (or maybe the '50s, after the war) in what is obviously intended to be a very romantic, fulfilling coda to his story.
Or, maybe it would be, if it worked at all either in terms of Steve's thematic arc throughout his MCU tenure or by the rules that Endgame itself established.
Getting Technical With Time Travel
Let's take a look at Endgame's time travel logic first. As explicitly stated, by Endgame's own rules, you cannot change the present, you can only create new timelines--i.e. If the Infinity Stones weren't placed back in the exact places in the exact moments they were taken from, the MCU would be dealing with a bunch of branching timelines where various characters and entire movies either couldn't exist or would be completely doomed. A few of those branched timelines definitely still exist--an alternate 2014 where Thanos brought his forces to Earth years earlier than he originally did, an alternate 2011 where Loki escaped with the Tesseract after the end of Avengers 1, and so on--but the ones that were taken care of, were handled by Steve. That was his mission.
But in the process of closing off all the potential branches, Steve apparently made a new one. Or, rather, he should have made a new one, but somehow didn't. Steve changed his own past, and the past of Peggy Carter, by being present for those 70 years he originally spent frozen and marrying her--which, for whatever reason, allowed him to still exist as an old man in the main timeline he left--our present.
If Steve had actually created a branched timeline, he wouldn't have been an old man in our present. His reformed existence in the past should have changed events to the point that the movie's present day would be different not only for Steve but for everyone. We'd be seeing a different timeline all together.
In the interest of mitigating the confusion here (and make no mistake--this is confusing as hell) let's break it down. There are two potential possibilities.
Possibility 1 is that Steve did create an alternate timeline that we just never got to see where he and Peggy were married, possibly went off and were superheroes together, stopped HYDRA from infiltrating SHIELD, rescued Bucky, prevented Howard Stark's assassination, and negated the need for the Avengers entirely. In the process, he erased the entire life that he knew Peggy had without him, including her husband and the kids she had while he was in the ice. Poof, gone.
Then, happy and old, Steve miraculously jumped back to our timeline unassisted, which ought to be impossible, and for no real reason, just in time to pass the shield on to Sam. Seriously, why would he bother coming back at all if he was so confident that the present day world didn't need him anymore? Why leave the timeline he made, especially if it really were so much better? What incentive does he have to go through the trouble?
What About Option 2?
Possibility 2 is that Steve did not create a branched timeline by going back, just lived his life as quietly as possible through the post-war years. That would make him complicit in the knowledge of all the horrific things happening to the people he loves during those years. This would also mean, in order for the timeline not to be fundamentally broken, that our version of Steve would have always been married to Peggy, even if he didn't know it until this exact moment. This not only contradicts the entirety of the Agent Carter TV show and various parts of the MCU up to now (like Steve's meeting with dying Peggy after he dethaws), it also means that Steve would be Sharon Carter's uncle--and, uh, that's pretty gross, even if he didn't know it at the time.
Even discounting the potential for unwitting incest, there are some other major problems here. Remember when Steve said when he sees a situation headed south, he can't turn his back? Remember how Steve's entire origin story revolves around his inability to sit back and let a conflict run its course without him? How he doesn't like bullies no matter where they're from? How he literally submitted himself to a potentially lethal science experiment rather than not fight in a war? How he jumped into German occupied territory without an army backing him up just on the off chance that there was something he could do to help his friend? How he can "do this all day?" Started a war to clear the name of his ex-assassin bestie? Still acted as a hero even while he was an international fugitive?
In what world does Steve Rogers, even a beaten down and jaded Steve Rogers, just sit on his hands and let the future deal with its own problems?
The answer should be none of them.
This doesn't even begin to broach yet another uncomfortable topic. The people who returned from the Snap were very literally dropped into a future when no time had passed for them at all--the miniature version of Steve's experience waking up from the ice back in 2011. But apparently he's totally fine with just bailing on a world experiencing a level of trauma that he is uniquely qualified to help them through.
"He's earned the right to be selfish!" You say? Sure. If anyone deserves a vacation, it's Steve--but that doesn't mean he's going to take one. We've spent the last 8 years learning the ins and outs of this character in the movies, and the last 7 decades learning about him in the comics. Letting things just happen is fundamentally not something he'd do. It's just not. He could retire, pass the shield over to Sam, and take a major step back, but there's no way Steve is ever just going to give up the fight altogether--and this has literally happened in the comics. Steve's even been an old man, but he still doesn't stop participating in superheroic world. It's simply not in his nature to quit--that would be like Tony suddenly deciding not to be an engineer just for the hell of it.
But say the goofy, esoteric time travel logic doesn't matter to you either way--there's still an issue. It has less to do with the mechanics and more to do with Steve's place within the MCU's meta-narrative.
Let's Ignore The Time Travel All Together
For a second, let's just pretend that we don't have almost 100 years of comics to look at and focus exclusively on the 60-some hours of film we've been given. Thematically, Steve is a guy who has lost a lot in these movies. Arguably, that's his most defining quality--he went into the ice 70 years ago, and he thinks a different guy came out--his words, not mine. The motif of being unable to go home again is repeated poignantly again and again and again--and through all of that, through everything, Steve has learned how to keep going. And that's a good thing--or at least, it was a good thing. By moving on, Steve was actually doing exactly what Peggy Carter had hoped for him ("the world has changed, and none of us can go back. All we can do is our best, and sometimes, the best that we can do, is to start over.")
Sure, there are a few beats in Endgame specifically where it looks like he's finally hit his breaking point ("some people move on, but not us"), but that only means he's been beaten down, not taken out. Hell, he even manages to summon up the force of will in the 11th hour to be worthy of wielding Mjolnir, making him only the third character and only mortal in the MCU to do so. That's nothing to scoff at.
Steve may be defined by loss, but the power of his character comes from turning that loss into strength. Sure, he's a super soldier, he's fast and strong and can take a major beating, but his actual superpower is his indomitable will. If there's one thing you can count on in the world, it's that Captain America is not going to give up, even when things are at their absolute worst.
Except for when he does, apparently. Giving Steve a temporal get-out-of-jail-free card may seem like a good idea on the surface, but at the end of the day all it does is recant his entire journey. What's the point of emphasizing the perpetual motion machine that is Steve Rogers--the constant assurance that no matter how dark things get, no matter how much you lose, you can still move forward--if the ultimate reward is getting to do the exact thing he was told he couldn't do; that he spent his life and five movies moving beyond?
Which is to say nothing about the completely squandered pay off for every moment of his solo trilogy. Remember how important his "I'm with you till the end of the line" refrain was with Bucky Barnes? Hopefully you do--there's officially licensed merch with that line printed on it. Fans got it tattooed on their bodies. It comes up a lot, and for good reason. It wasn't exactly subtle as far as big symbolic gestures are concerned and it was a major part of not one, not two, but three individual movies. Funny how now it's more like "I'm with you until the exact moment I decide I don't want to stick around anymore." Funnier still how that line, maybe the most memorable Captain America line of the entire MCU next to "I can do this all day"--another thing that was, apparently, not true--doesn't get a single shout out or call back in a movie that is about 90% shout outs and call backs to memorable MCU moments.
It's cheap, not romantic, and a needlessly dull edge to an otherwise powerful arc. The lesson that ought to be about processing grief and turning toward the future became a carelessly handwaved wink-nod at returning to the past, at which point Steve's journey is no longer about the process of recovery, it's a message about working really hard until you're miraculously presented with a magic bullet to make all your hard work and effort no longer matter.
Which, frankly, sucks.
And, really, none of this is even touching on the fact that Steve and Peggy's soul mate level connection was fostered over the course of, what, like a week back in 1945? Maybe he should have gotten over it. She definitely did. There was a whole TV show about it.
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