Cap goes full video-game on a Quinjet, Natasha reveals the scar under the ghost story, and Pierce runs the greatest “please don’t throw me in that briar patch” gambit in MCU history. Plus: Rob opens with 2,300 years of caltrop history, the crew plots to psychologically torture Kyle next week, and we discover why Demo Mode means this entire scene is a beautiful lie.
Alexander Pierce is having a terrible Tuesday. He’s just murdered his best government contact, his secret world-domination plan is humming along nicely, and now he has to stand in his own office and have a passive-aggressive standoff with the most morally uncomplicated man alive.
This week, Nick Fury — director of SHIELD, the world’s most powerful intelligence organization — attempts to covertly warn Captain America of a massive conspiracy by turning off the lights, displaying a phone with the words “EARS EVERYWHERE” in approximately 96-point font, and then speaking out loud, twice, using his own name, six feet from the agents who are actively monitoring him. It is, to put it charitably, a choice.
Nick Fury attempts to go off the grid in Washington, DC, which is like trying to disappear at your own birthday party. Meanwhile, someone very dangerous is standing in the middle of the street, and he is in absolutely no hurry.
Captain America takes down fifteen pirates with his bare hands and a shield, and raises exactly zero moral questions about it — so Matthew did it for him. Pete, Matthew, and Rob work through the Lemurian Star assault minute by minute, debating kill probability, 90s action cinema homage, and whether vibranium is, at the end of the day, just a video game mechanic.
Steve Rogers has a list, Natasha has an agenda, Batroc has very strong legs, and Season 9 is officially underway — on your left.
Before a single minute of footage rolls, the Marvel Movie Minute crew gathers to answer one question: why does Captain America: The Winter Soldier still hit so hard? Turns out the world building that film was made in tells most of the story.
This week we’re setting the stage for Season 9 with a full briefing on the comic book roots of Captain America: The Winter Soldier.
This week, Marvel Movie Minute does something bold. Something dramatic. Something that, quite frankly, should probably come with a warning label. We’re handing over hosting duties from the Iron Man 3 dream team—Kyle Olson and Rob Kubasko—to the brave, possibly deluded souls who have volunteered to take on the MCU’s most famously “meh” entry: Thor: The Dark World.
The stunning end credits sequence of Iron Man 3 serves as a triumphant finale to the trilogy, before revealing Bruce Banner as Tony’s unexpected therapist.
