What If
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Steve in Reasonableland (aka The First Avenger) by Kizmet
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
06 Jun 2018
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Someone has unleashed a horde of good (er-possibly OVER) communication fairies on the MCU. Pepper’s convinced that someone’s dosing Tony’s shot glass with a revolutionary new truth serum (because Sodium Pentothal would only make him babble more than he already does). And Steve doesn’t know what happened but even before the serum people were suddenly talking to him (not that he likes what they’re saying but it’s better than being summarily dismissed).
However the Powers that Be are NOT going to stand for this. If they have to drop an asteroid on Nick Fury’s dog to keep the plot on track THEY WILL DO IT (They’re not sure how the asteroid will help, but gosh-darn, they’re willing)! Whatever it takes, no matter what. Communication will NOT be allowed to get in the way of explosions and action scenes!!!
To keep things vaguely orderly I’m restructuring as a series with each movie being its own story and each chapter is a scene, possibly (if necessary) followed by a TPTB induced course correction.
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- Part 1 of What If
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With a Little Help from my Friends (aka IM2) by Kizmet
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Iron Man (Movies)
04 Jun 2018
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Someone has unleashed a horde of good (occasionally OVER) communication fairies on the MCU. Pepper’s convinced that someone’s dosing Tony’s shot glass with a revolutionary new truth serum (because Sodium Pentothal would only make him babble more than he already does). And Steve doesn’t know what happened but even before the serum people were suddenly talking to him (not that he likes what they’re saying but it’s good not to be summarily dismissed).
However the Powers that Be are NOT going to stand for this. If they have to drop an asteroid on Nick Fury’s dog to keep the plot on track THEY WILL DO IT (They’re not sure how the asteroid will help, but gosh-darn, they’re willing)! Whatever it takes, no matter what. Communication will NOT be allowed to get in the way of explosions and action scenes!!!
To keep things vaguely orderly I’m restructuring as a series with each movie being its own story and each chapter is a scene, possibly (if necessary) followed by a TPTB induced course correction.
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- Part 2 of What If
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Raising a Child of a Different Culture (aka Thor) by Kizmet
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Thor (Movies)
24 Jun 2018
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Someone has unleashed a horde of good (occasionally OVER) communication fairies on the MCU. Pepper’s convinced that someone’s dosing Tony’s shot glass with a revolutionary new truth serum (because Sodium Pentothal would only make him babble more than he already does). And Steve doesn’t know what happened but even before the serum people were suddenly talking to him (not that he likes what they’re saying but it’s good not to be summarily dismissed).
However the Powers that Be are NOT going to stand for this. If they have to drop an asteroid on Nick Fury’s dog to keep the plot on track THEY WILL DO IT (They’re not sure how the asteroid will help, but gosh-darn, they’re willing)! Whatever it takes, no matter what. Communication will NOT be allowed to get in the way of explosions and action scenes!!!
To keep things vaguely orderly I’m restructuring as a series with each movie being its own story and each chapter is a scene, possibly (if necessary) followed by a TPTB induced course correction.
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- Part 3 of What If
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Talking Like Toddlers (aka Avengers) by Kizmet
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
27 Jun 2018
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Someone has unleashed a horde of good (occasionally OVER) communication fairies on the MCU. Pepper’s convinced that someone’s dosing Tony’s shot glass with a revolutionary new truth serum (because Sodium Pentothal would only make him babble more than he already does). And Steve doesn’t know what happened but even before the serum people were suddenly talking to him (not that he likes what they’re saying but it’s good not to be summarily dismissed).
However the Powers that Be are NOT going to stand for this. If they have to drop an asteroid on Nick Fury’s dog to keep the plot on track THEY WILL DO IT (They’re not sure how the asteroid will help, but gosh-darn, they’re willing)! Whatever it takes, no matter what. Communication will NOT be allowed to get in the way of explosions and action scenes!!!
To keep things vaguely orderly I’m restructuring as a series with each movie being its own story and each chapter is a scene, possibly (if necessary) followed by a TPTB induced course correction.
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- Part 4 of What If
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Compartmentalization is Key (aka Thor:TDW) by Kizmet
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Thor (Movies)
10 Jul 2018
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Good communication is starting to have an effect on the MCU.
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- Part 5 of What If
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Your Mental Health Matters (aka IM3) by Kizmet
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Iron Man (Movies)
25 Jul 2018
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Improved Communication starts having a cumulative effect.
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- Part 6 of What If
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We’re Taking Over (aka CAWS) by Kizmet
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
07 Aug 2018
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What if Fury called in a technical expert to deal with a technical problem... Steve's still involved.
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- Part 7 of What If
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Scapegoats Not Needed (aka AoU) by Kizmet
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
29 Aug 2018
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Age of Ultron without the blame-game.
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- Part 8 of What If
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For a Friend (aka Civil War) by Kizmet
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
08 Oct 2018
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The Accords aren't the issue, everyone knows that (they aren't even called the Sokovia Accords here, it's the United Nations Convention on the Rights and Responsibilities of the Enhanced).
The problem is balancing what's good for James Buchanan Barnes against what's good for the world. And after failing to save his best friend from falling in '44 Steve Rogers is anything but balanced on the subject.
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- Part 9 of What If
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Let's Consider the Fallout (aka BP) by Kizmet
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
18 Oct 2018
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Most of the worst communication in BP seems to have happened in flashbacks.
Why didn't anyone question T'Chaka's decision to abandon his nephew in the wilds of Oakland?
Why didn't anyone other than M'Baku (in villainous mode) ever question putting a 16-year-old... Actually Shuri's not presented as new to her position, how old WAS she when she was put in charge of Wakanda's technological development?
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- Part 10 of What If
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Founding the Junior Avengers (aka SM:H) by Kizmet
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)
15 Dec 2018
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Dr. Helen Cho was never a vigilante, she never kept huge secrets from the people closest to her to protect them or because she feared that they wouldn’t support her. Helen Cho was the mother of a teenage genius who frequently believed that he knew better than the adults around him.
When Tony Stark’s search for backup during the Avengers’ Civil War turned up a teenager from Queens, Helen considered how she would have felt had it been her son. To Helen, telling May Parker wasn’t a threat, it was a moral obligation.
Or “Spider-Man: Homecoming” starts with Aunt May in the know.
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- Part 11 of What If
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Road Trip from Hela (aka Ragnarok) by Kizmet
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Thor (Movies)
05 Nov 2018
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Ragnarok without belated and gratuitous attempts to demonstrate that Loki would be incompetent as Asgard’s ruler. Plus accumulated changes due to less family dysfunction in the earlier movies.
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- Part 12 of What If
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In An Adjoining Universe by Kizmet
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Thor (Movies), Iron Man (Movies)
11 Apr 2019
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Same idea as the rest of "What If" but without continuity between chapters to preemptively disrupt some incidents of bad communication.
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- Part 13 of What If