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The evolution from "No that's a cat, I'm gonna call cats Flerkens now, it's so sweet" to "don't pick kt up, what is a Flerken, WHY is a Flerken" happened pretty fast 😂
Not to mention, "What the Hulk!" It's a perfect way for a reactor to censor bad language in a Marvel movie lol
You should not handle either cat that way either they don't like it even a cat would do the same
It was hysterical! I almost cried laughing.
Who wants to break the news to her that all cats can do that? And we all think it's really weird that she hasn't noticed that.
well if my cat is really hungry, i thing he really can do that flerken trick...
i come home, my cat awaits with a demanding expression, i give him food, turn around, sit down and look to my cat..
only to see ana already empty bowl and my cat walking away.....
Is any one else feeling a giddy anticipation knowing that Jax is now one week away from experiencing Endgame? I feel like a kid on Christmas Eve waiting to open his gifts on Christmas Day! 😊
I was just thinking the same thing getting ready to watch this.. this anticipation is a killer
Only we'll have to wait one more week for part 2 😢... I really hope she posts the whole reaction in a single video.
@@memobury I don't mind it broken into two vids, but I do wait for the second part before starting it.
Me tooo
And what a way to celebrate the anniversary of her channel!!🎉
So, to answer some questions.
30:03 The reason Red Skull got teleported away is that when he grabbed it he was trying to use its power, whereas Carol was literally just picking it up to move it. Grabbing it doesn't mean you'll be teleported somewhere else.
39:41 Carol let Yon-Rogg live because he was sending the message to the Kree homeworld that Carol was coming to stop them, otherwise the Kree would just keep attacking Earth since that's where they were stopped, so she switched the focus to be on her and her alone.
44:17 Project Pegasus was a secret S.H.I.E.L.D. mission, so since Howard was one of the founders of S.H.I.E.L.D. of course it would be under their watch.
Well, Red Skull was just trying to pick it up too. I think the reason why the Tesseract transported Red Skull somewhere else is because the device that was drawing power from it was damaged and it started behaving erratically. Speaking of erratic behavior, Selvig, in the first Avengers movie, did say that the tesseract was "behaving", implying some kind of sentience.
@@mechanomics2649 Exactly. The Infinity Stones dont have hard and fast rules; sometimes the reality stone is a liquid! The mind stone can also fire lasers! The stones are either sentient, or just plain unpredictable. People should be cautious with them but Captain Marvel is insanely powerful. And it gave her those powers, so chances are she can handle it!
It's be cause Carol powered by an infinity stone
oh yeah, I'd almost forgotten about what Selvig said in the intro of The Avengers concerning the Tesseract
And Vision in Infinity War also seemed to receive some kind of communication from the Mind Stone
The sentience and chaos of the Infinity Stones is an interesting concept, I wonder if it was the same in the comics?
excellent explanation. I was preparing to help also but you covered it all. lol
So yes, Howard did have the Tesseract and it was given to Shield. But Project Pegasus (aka the Lightspeed Engine project) was a part of shield and led by Mar-Vell. Don't forget, Howard had the Tesseract in the 40's and this movie is set in the 90's so a lot of time has passed since Howard first found it.
Can't wait for Endgame 🔥🔥
Oh, good explanation!
Actually No, Mar-Vell was given the Tesseract to work on the light speed engine but was not apart of Shield officially
Stan Lee reading the mallrats script is such a shoutout, and also places the movie accurately in time. Mallrats came out in 1995 and stan plays himself. Edit: which also means he is himself here.
That is so cool!
Or IS he? We already know from Guardians that he is actually a Watcher, so that would make him a Watcher here and a Watcher in Mallrats.
@@reactswithjax My advice for your MCU experience. Watch End Game, then Spider-Man: Far From Home, Spider-Man: No Way Home, and Black Widow, AND STOP THERE. Black Widow isn't particularly good, but it tells her story between Civil War and Infinity War. Everything after that is garbage and begins the downward spiral of the MCU.
It's just advice, clearly the final choice is yours. I've enjoyed these videos even if I didn't agree with you on some stuff. 🇨🇦🤜🤛🇺🇸
Amusingly, it also means that Kevin Smith exists in the MCU.
Kevin Smith posted a video about it on his UA-cam channel and he was absolutely balling that his movie got a such a shoutout when he was watching this one.
Fun reaction as always, Jax! So Stan Lee was in the Marvel intro because this movie came out right after he passed away. So, that was Marvel Studios' tribute to him, which is quite wonderful when you think about the fact that while Stan Lee didn't create all the Marvel characters, you could easily argue that none of them would exist without Stan Lee turning Marvel into the creative giant that it became. Looking forward to your next reaction!
What a beautiful tribute to him! That may just be my favorite intro to any Marvel film.
@@reactswithjaxhis final cameo is actually in Endgame!
You misspelled "Jack Kirby."
That's a good way to put it. I have been a Marvel fan from their beginning, and I don't mean the movies. Stan was the face of Marvel and I loved his answers in the letters page but even then I knew it was the artists that MADE the characters and that was confirmed a little later when "The Marvel Way" became public knowledge. Personally I love both Stan and Jack. I'm tired of Stan getting all the credit but I don't hate him or all the people who don't know the facts and history. Jack got majorly screwed but anger isn't going to change what happened. Make Mine Marvel.
@@NoHandleGrr And Steve Ditko, and Larry Lieber, and others...
Goose was Mar Vels cat. IMO the take-away from Carol's early falls was she always pushed her limits & never gave up.
One the (many) writers of Captain Marvel comics once commented on the comparisons of Carol to Steve Rogers. They said (and this is as close to a direct quote as I can remember) "when Steve gets knocked down, he gets back up because it's the right thing to do. When Carol Danvers gets knocked down, she gets back up because "F**K you!, that's why!""
And that is, honestly, a pretty good summation of Carol's personality. In the comics, at least the ones I've read, she's kind of stoic. She has a lesser degree of Fly Boy personality. She prefers direct action to indirect. She's happy to sit and drink a beer with friends, or go out and kick bad guy butt. She complains about the difficulties of dating and how hard it is to find a normal guy who can accept her powers but isn't a fetishist of them.
What a great way to start a Friday.
I really liked seeing Skrulls not as the villains, but they also made sure to show that their hands aren’t clean either.
Project Pegasus was investigating the Tesseract and was featured in the first Avengers movie at the lab complex where Selvig was working and Loki arrived before Fury activated the self destruct and it imploded.
Correct. The name also dropped earlier when Tony Stark was creating his tech.
The first time that we heard about Pegasus was in the first Avengers movie. That was the place where they were experimenting on the tesseract add Loki appeared. This movie really sets that up nicely.
I love the acronyms in the MCU. Project PEGASUS: Potential Energy Group / Alternate Sources / United States. EDITH, from Spider-Man: Even Dead, I'm The Hero. Our dear, departed JARVIS: Just A Rather Very Intelligent System. FRIDAY, Stark's replacement for JARVIS: Female Replacement Intelligent Digital Assistant Youth.
Fun facts about the MCU: 1) the jet they took when Goose was on board is the "Quadjet" which is the predecessor to the Quinjet we're used to from the early MCU movies. 2) Samuel L Jackson says that he doesn't like running in movies, so that's why we rarely see him run in the MCU. Jackson said "You try running in an eye patch and floor length duster."
"Last time I trusted someone, I lost an eye"
~ Nick Fury in Captain America: The Winter Soldier
After he told Goose he was trusting him.
Yeah, Goose being the culprit for Fury's eye was a lame cop-out... easily the biggest disappointment of this movie.
I considered it well in keeping with the theme of subverting expectations that the movie features. It only seems lame because we met Fury and his scarred, eye-patched face after he’d fully realized his mysterious badass persona; so, of course we imagined some tough guy, badass fight happened. He WAS attacked by a powerful alien being, albeit one that liked him the rest of the time; and he proceeded to use his injury to his advantage in building his mystique😎
To explain the teserracts location, redskull had it, Howard fished it out of the water after the crash and he/shield/the government was testing it. One of those testers was Lawson who took it to her lab. Goose then ate it in this movie and at some unknown time before the first avengers movie he regurgitated/passed it
Lawson might have taken it after Howard’s death
The Tesseract is part of Project Pegasus for a lot of that time:
We see Tony Stark looking at Project Pegasus files in Iron Man 2.
The facility where SHIELD is studying the Tesseract in Avengers was also part of Project Pegasus.
So, logically, Howard Stark found the Tesseract in the ocean in 1945, and placed it in the care of SHIELD later. It was studied in Project Pegasus over many years, with Lawson/Mar-Vell using it to design a light-speed engine in the 1980s.
Project Pegasus was also referred to in the pilot episode of Agents of SHIELD.
Carol absorbing Tesserect energy from the exploding lightspeed engine follows the standard comic book trope of random people gaining powers in accidents. Peter Parker was just a regular kid bitten by a radioactive spider, Bruce Banner was just a regular scientist who surivived an experimental bomb explosion, being transformed into the Hulk instead of killed by the radiation. DC's Flash character was a normal scientist who gained powers when a lightning bolt struck him after passing through some chemicals in his lab. None of them had any special background that made them any more likely to gain powers.
Since Carol was already altered and powered up by Tesseract energy, that's why she was able to hold it without any problems.
You read comics, you know the answer: these characters all had Plot Armor. What iz yiz, ignint? \-D
Jax -
A Flerken is an alien species that has the ability to hold dimensional pockets within itself. Those tentacles that Goose uses are from a different creature it keeps in one of those pockets.
Also, in the comics Flerkens could use those dimensional pockets to travel as well.
Finally, Flerkens have the equivalent of human intelligence, but of course can't speak a human tongue. This is why Goose knew to stowaway on the Quinjet and go with Carol and Fury.
Minor spoilers:
Don’t worry Jax, they shot some of Stan’s cameos before he passed. So you’ll see him pop up a couple more times. The montage at the opening was because this was the first movie to come out after his passing.
The scene where she's forced to remember all the times she ever got knocked down...always brings me to tears...yeah, she got knocked down a lot...but it's not how many times she got knocked down...it's about how each time, even as a little girl, she got back up...she dug in and took another shot. Every parent should want their daughters and sons to be like that, they have to experience setbacks in order to overcome them and become more then they were when they got knocked down in the first place. You don't grow, if you don't overcome those challenges. Parents can't fight their kids battles, or if they do, they destroy the child's chance to grow.
It also reminds me of the Rocky quote: "It's not about how hard you HIT. It's about how hard you can GET hit and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward." Such an inspirational quote.
I know a lot of people find that scene kind of cheesy, especially the song choice, but I never understood the visceral dislike for it. Sure standing up from a bike wreck as a kid isn't comparable to a war, but it's just showing her character and how no amount of brainwashing changes who she is fundamentally. The adult men who hate on that scene seem to be missing that it's for the little girls who need it. I'm not little or a girl and I didn't mind it.
@@billbill6094 Usually the people who dislike that sequence are the ones who think it's about woman empowerment. That a woman character should be so defiant and confident.
As for how Mar Vel got the Teseract... The Pegasus project was part of a joint NASA/Shield project. Same as how they had it in the first Avengers movie.
So, she technically could ALWAYS fly, she just didn't know it because of the Kree's power damper on her neck.
Carol in the comics is one of my favorite heroes so I really enjoyed this movie.
actually I don't think she could before. Even if she tried, it wouldn't have worked.
The Kree power dampeners limited what she was capable of doing, and she'd never been without it after her transformation.
FWIW, in the comics, Thanos was introduced as an Iron Man villain. The MCU tesseract was originally "the Cosmic Cube," and it was introduced as a Captain America plot point. Initially it was possessed by the Red Skull, and that's also when the Falcon was introduced. A common theme for Cap stories in that era was "What happened to Bucky? Could he still be alive?" Later, Thanos did obtain the Cosmic Cube, a situation that brought many heroes together to fight Thanos, including Captain Marvel and Drax the Destroyer (a being who had been created for the sole purpose of killing Thanos). So it's interesting to see how the MCU re-envisioned these old story threads while still paying homage to them. Some re-imaginings were a hit, some were a miss.
In the comics, the "control disk" you see on people's necks in the MCU came from The Controller, an Iron Man villain associated with Thanos. Captain Marvel, originally male, was a Kree soldier and scientist, initially working undercover (as Lawson) on Earth in the space program. His rival was Yon-Rogg. Mar-vell came to appreciate the Earth and its inhabitants, while Yon-Rogg was more like a Kree fanatic. This was in the Cold War era, so the Kree were maybe a bit like a space version of the USSR., and Mar-Vell was like a conscientious defector who became a defender of Earth, using Kree technology. Later he entered into the service of a very high level mystical being, and gained greater powers, like "cosmic awareness," which enabled him to sense things a bit like a Spidey sense. It was around this time that he became more of an always-in-space hero, and an opponent for Thanos. Evnentually, he died of cancer. And instead of bringing him back, like they always do, they took his old Earth girlfriend, Carol Danvers, and made her into the replacement Captain Marvel. Around this point, the story becomes too convoluted to easily recount.
As for your questions about the timeline of the MCU tesseract, what we've been shown is that 1) Odin had it, but then it got hidden on Earth in Norway, 2) after the events of "First Avenger," the tesseract was recovered by Howard Stark, and presumably taken to SHIELD, 3) in Captain Marvel, apparently SHIELD was trying to adapt the energy of the tesseract to make a light speed drive, 4) after retrieving the tesseract from Goose, Fury put it into a program to develop weapons that could be used against space invaders, as revealed in "The Avengers," 5) we next see it in the end credits of "Thor," 6) in "The Avengers" it is used to open a space portal that brings Loki to Earth, and Loki steals it. After the battle for New York, it goes back to Odin. 7) After "Thor: The Dark World" we hear that Odin is keeping the tesseract, but he gives the Aether to the Collector, not wanting to keep 2 infinity stones. 8) We see it in Odin's treasure room in "Thor: Ragnarok." Hela points to it and says, "That's not bad."
Yeah, Carol's backstory does contain a certain amount of 'ret-conning the ret-con'. "Convoluted" is a good word for it!
Cap Marvel falls in the line of power among the Avengers pretty much at the top PHYSICALLY. Her power isn't magic, its basically directed kinetic energy.
but for overall power Wanda and Dr Strange are potentially the most powerful (by far) as they can change reality itself via magic. They just don't fully understand their power at this point. Wanda's magic is innate and Strange's magic is learned.
Vision would fall into the same power range as Carol, Wanda, and Strange (with the Eye of Agomotto) since he is channeling the power of an Infinity Stone too.
@@Starsaber222 With Carol, maybe but i don't think with Wanda and Strange. In the MCU Vision doesn't seem able (or willing) to effect the world outside his own body to the obscene degrees that they can. I could go into more detail but I don't want to post any spoilers here that Jax might see.
Maria Hill calls him "Nick" in the post-credit scene for Infinity War, after the snap, when the driver disappears from the van and it crashes.
Carol sets out to "end the war" and everything, but years later, in GotG, Ronan is still out there trying to conquer planets, attacking Xandar, etc., so she never really did end the Kree war.
Even without the "lightspeed engine", we see many alien cultures that have no problem travelling between star systems at faster than light speed.
Mar Vel as Lawson, was working with/for SHIELD using the tesseract to develop her light speed engine.
Stan Lee was reading a script from Mallrats, a movie he cameod in in the 90's where he says those words. Stan Lee wasn't playing a character, in his first MCU appearance after his passing he was playing Stan Lee. Still miss him.
Don't blame Thanos for Stan's demise, blame Jim Starlin. Starlin was the writer/artist who created Thanos. He was a rather space-oriented writer-creator, and liked "big" stories. There were many who deserve the love that Stan gets, but they didn't have the publicity or platform. It's sad that so many don't have a clue who Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, or Bill Finger was to the stories they love so much. Being a comic collector since 1960, I've watched the history of all of these characters, many from their very beginning, and I never hoped that they would reach the popularity and love that I observe today. I am here for you and Lamby on your journey, and you allow me to re-live many of the emotions and excitement when I first read, then watched, these stories. Thank you for that, so very much.
It’s really nice - isn’t it? - where comic movies have arrived, with the entire world populated with characters. Instead of 1 guy with special abilities and a bad guy who mirrors them. I love it so much.
I read plenty of comics by Stan and Jack back in the 60s. I never heard of Bill Finger.
@@jimdetry9420 Of course you haven't, but you know Bob Kane. Bill Finger created all of the stories for Batman, but he was basically an employee of Bob Kane, who took all of the credit. Finger created all of the characters and ideas, even the costume. Kane's version of the Batman costume was horrible. Everything genius about Batman, except the name, was Finger. Bob Kane sold the character as a contractor, so the agreement was always "created by Bob Kane", yet he only did the art, and even then hired many sub-contractors for the art while still displaying "By Bob Kane". The Joker was created by Jerry Robinson and Bill Finger, Kane had zero to do with it. Kirby created as much of the story content as Stan Lee, probably more, but Stan wrote the script ... the words in the balloons.
@@chadbennett7873 I have absolutely no interest in golden age Batman comics and they have absolutely nothing to do with the movie under discussion.
@@jimdetry9420 Well, he was just answering to you about the fact that you didn't know who Finger was (I didn't either, but I'm not a DC fan).
In his original post, Chad was talking in general. Knowledge is power.
"I would have thought Fury was a dog person!"
Well, he probably is now.
Jax you can easily cosplay as Captain Marvel, blonde hair, blue eyes you would look exactly like the comic version
I remember the graphic novel "The Death of Captain Marvel" (1982)... the kree captain Mar-Vell used the alias Walter Lawson on earth, at some point he contracted cancer which was kept at bay by devices he wore called "nega-bands" which also caused the cancer to be untreatable.. I think his death was something rare to see happen to comic book characters, especially since it was due to illness in stead of battle.
That's really interesting. Since these superheroes all seem larger than life, it's strange to think one of them would get killed by cancer.
You're both correct. At the time, it was quite different, quite moving. @@reactswithjax
1.Get by red skull,
2. Drop it to the ocean
3.found by howard stark in the ocean
4. Didn't much do much research on it and left it to old shield facility
5. Studied by mar vel and do project pegasus
6.eaten by goose
7. And fury want to use it again for phase two due to thor visit of earth.
Hey Jax, I know you recently posted Endgame on patreon and I was gonna save this for a little later but I think it's fine now...
As you know Spider-Man: Far From Home is the end of phase 3 and with that The Infinity Saga.
Here's the list of Phase 4 (which is the start of the Multiverse Saga) In ORDER:
1. WandaVision (9 episodes)
2. The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (6 episodes)
3. Loki (6 episodes)
4. Black Widow (movie)
5. What If...? (9 episodes)
6. Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (movie)
7. Eternals (movie)
8. Hawkeye (6 episodes)
9. Spider-Man: No Way Home (movie)
10. Moon Knight (6 episodes)
11. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (movie)
12. Ms. Marvel (6 episodes)
13. Thor: Love and Thunder (movie)
14. I Am Groot (5 shorts)
15. She-Hulk: Attorney at Law (9 episodes)
16. Werewolf by Night (TV special)
17. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (movie)
18. The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special (TV special)
This is the whole phase 4 list. Phase 5 is currently ongoing so when the time comes I'll write that list down as well. Have fun and excelsior 😄
You are a gem. By my quick estimate that's 25 weeks of new Jax reactions; not counting every other week for non-MCU related shows or movies. Looking forward to it!
I absolutely LOVE Ben Mendelsohn (Talos) in this movie. Once he's revealed to be a good guy, I just think he steals damn near every scene and became my favorite character in the movie. The "Was that so difficult to figure out? I mean you're my science guy." really caught me off guard the first time I heard it, lol. And then that whole banter on the ship about his shapeshifting... so good, haha.
And I think in terms of power, I've heard that Captain Marvel is supposed to be like Marvel's version of Superman, at least in the comics. But ultimately, whoever is most powerful comes down to one thing: Whoever is writing the story for that particular arc/universe, lol. Sadly we can't say who IS stronger between Carol and Wanda, seeing as Wanda's only power now is filling an ashtray. :(
Are you speaking post "Multiverse of Madness"? 'Cause I didn't see body. Did I miss the body? I need to see a body! 😁
That lighting really works for you.
Captain Marvel in the comics was originally male, named Mar-vell.
Carol Danvers becomes the 2nd female Captain Marvel after starting out as the original Ms. Marvel, later known as Binary and then Warbird.
I was stoked to finally see Carol Danvers in live-action after being in animated form (1990s, 2010s) as an omnipresent character.
Even if this was a backstory in the MCU, the growth of it was substantial and much take in.
Carol disappeared in 1989 and returned to Earth in 1995, Tony Stark mentions 3 different special projects with one of them being 'Pegasus' in a deleted scene of Iron Man (2008), the secret base where Danvers & Fury go to is actually The Joint Dark Energy Mission Facility from the first scene in The Avengers (2012) and the flying vehicle that Danvers & Fury use happens to be a prototype Quinjet.
Of all that was introduced in the movie, i think Goose was the weirdest yet cutest and did sell a lot of merchandise too.
Stan Lee's passing did hit pretty hard as he is one of the fathers of American mythology and got to see his creativity finally reach the cinematic realm.
There a very important reason she went from Ms. Marvell to Binary. Mystique had Rogue steal Ms. Marvel's powers (and memories) the break the Brothhood of evil mutants out jail. (She needed the powers to take on the Avengers) but Rogue held on so long so the steal became perminate (and why in comics Rogue can dovmore than just take powers and memories), it took Prof X to partial fix Carol and with less atachmet to her memories she became Binary
@@geraldgrenier8132 yes.
I know the story.
Danvers was NOT his girlfriend.
@@genghisgalahad8465 my bad.
That was the Ultimate comics.
I was reading that before the original material.
Fun little detail Captain Marvel was originally a Male Kree operative known as Captain Mar-Vell who later took up the title of Captain Marvel as a hero who defended Earth. Carol Danvers was originally known as Ms. Marvel in 1976's *Ms. Marvel #1*. Later in 1982's *Uncanny X-Men Vol 1 **#164* she went by Binary, 1998's *Avengers (Vol. 3) #4* she went by Warbird, and finally in 2012's *Avenging Spider-Man #9* she went by Captain Marvel. In the comics' she was like the sixth person to go under the name "Captain Marvel. But Carol Danvers is by far the most well known Captain Marvel.
For the MCU they kind of streamlined this to simply having her introduced as Captain Marvel while Captain Mar-Vell in the film Mar-Vell was a woman Kree who went under the name Walter Lawson and never became a Superhero in the MCU.
Hi Jax. I'm really happy you liked this movie. I really loved it, I never understood why it received so much hate. My favorite line, it's a cat it's not Hannibal Lecter!! 🤣🤣YES! We're in the Endgame now!! 😲
That's a great line!! Woohoo, we are in the Endgame!!! ❤️🎉
I never understood the hate for this either. It’s not my favorite by a long shot, but it’s a good movie.
When he said “it’s war my hands are filthy from it to” reminds me of something I heard once I can’t remember where I heard it but the quote stuck with me “war makes murderers of us all”
The Infinity Stones dont have hard and fast rules; sometimes the reality stone is a liquid! The mind stone can also fire lasers! The stones are either sentient, or just plain unpredictable. People should be cautious with them but Captain Marvel is insanely powerful. And it gave her those powers, so chances are she can handle it!
The Infinity Stones in the comics seemed (at least initially, in the Infinity War) to be considerably more powerful. More along the lines of how the Celestial was seen using just one of the stones to wipe out a world. In the MCU, they're powerful, but it seems to be at a much lower level. The MCU stones are more tactical, and much less strategic than the originals.
34:09 "That's a frickin' flerkin, man. That's not a . . . cat." 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Jax!!! Great content as always! I've been waiting for you to get to this point because I worked on this movie and Avengers End Game for Legacy FX when I lived in LA. I only moved out there because I was offered the job to work on this movie, which was a lifelong dream of mine. I worked in the mold and silicone department and we made all the prosthetics for all the aliens in this movie including the Skrulls. I personally worked for months with others in my department making the dead Skrull on the autopsy table. If you want to know what Nick Fury saw when he lifted the cloth you'll be disappointed (or maybe relieved) that it looks like a Ken Doll down there! 🤣We also built an uber realistic animatronic cat (Goose) that looked so real when it was finished and sitting on the table that I thought Legacy FX had adopted a shop cat! I'm pretty sure the only scene that animatronic cat appears in is the scene where they're in the spaceship and the cat is pressed against the wall. I was worried that because I worked on this movie a lot of it would be spoiled when I went to see it, but even us working in the shop were surprised when the Skrulls turned out to be the good guys... in the comics the Skrulls were always villains and even when we were making the prosthetics we all assumed we were doing the villains makeup. It was a cool shift and Marvel kept that very much under wraps. It was a super fun experience! I worked on Avengers End Game for the reshoots but I'm not 100% sure what if anything I worked on for that movie made it to the screen. Can't wait for you to get to End Game, which to me is the true end of the MCU. Everything after that is more like an epilogue, or supplimental material as far as I'm concerned. Keep up the great work lady!!!
Are you still working in FX?
@@johnniequinn3215 From time to time but I don't live in LA anymore so jobs are few and far between. When I left LA I started teaching art because I needed a more consistent paycheck.
(I suspect you meant to say "epilogue"...?)
Prologue can work as well, if we consider that the plan seems to be to build back up to another epic movie. Endgame might be impossible to match, if for no other reason than it being a first-of-it’s-kind “event” movie, not to mention being awesome 🤩😍 But, I’m still very much enjoying the stuff they’re making and looking forward to what’s next😃✌️
@@kelstwin3176 However, since the Spiderman film is considered part of Phase 3 and not Phase 4, it's clearly an epilogue and not a prologue.
-11:44 The thing you may have missed is Stan Lee was in that movie "Mallrats" by Kevin Smith.. Stan couldn't memorize his lines, so after rewrites, he did his scene reading cue cards. This was to show Stan TRYING tho memorize his lines. It also means, and Kevin Smith cried about this, cause he is a HUGE comic book nerd and fan, that his movie universe, 'Clerks", "Mallrats", "Jay and Silent Bob", "Chasing Amy", etc are all part of the MCU now....
-It wasn't Stans last appearance, he had filmed ahead for other films, but he had just recently died...
-Mar Velle got the tesseract cause she was in charge of the Pegasus Project. You see it in Avengers. Cause she was in charge , they were in charge of finding new tech using the tesseract, she was just given it.
Well, “ahead for other films” but really it was just 1 more 😂 AND that was actually filmed before Captain Marvel.
The same way Brie Larson filmed EndGame BEFORE Captain Marvel.
I had a friend in elementary school who lost an eye because of a rabbit that he was trying to catch. Never approach a cornered animal.
34:12 So Jax, still wanna call every cat a Flerkin? 😂😂😂
Also Jax, Fun fact, Flerkins have entire Galaxies inside of it. 😂😂😂
HOW DID MARV EL GET THE TESSERACT? She was working on a Top Secret Military Project for NASA and the Air Force, so chances are the Military got it for her without knowing she was an Alien.
Carol could touch the Tesseract without dying/teleporting is because her Powers came from it. She was the stone and the stone is her.
Some people didn't like this Movie, but I think it had more to do with who was playing Carol than the Storyline. I enjoyed it.
The man, the myth, the legend himself, Stan Lee rest in peace.
He had already filmed his cameo for Endgame as well before passing away.
And its Fury, not Nicolas not Joseph, not Nick...just Fury... xD.
Wanda got her powers from the Mind stone aka yellow one which was hidden in Loki's septer aka what's on Vision's head. That's why Vision said Wanda's power is the same signature as the mind stone and only she can destroy it.
I'm more hoping Jax does the Marvels mini series on Disney+ and wanting to see her reactions to WandaVision, Hawkeye and Ms. Marvel.
Capt. Marvel could handle the Tesseract because she is infused with it's energy. Dr. Lawson (Mar Vel who worked for SHI ELD) was using the Tesseract to create a lightspeed engine. The Tesseract contains the Space infinity stone which has the power to transport you to anywhere in the universe. So when she shot the engine core that energy got into her and gave her those powers. Super strength, photon blast, and space flight. Captain Marvel is to the Marvel universe as Superman is to the DC universe. She is a one person Guardian of the Galaxy. The trick to handeling an infinity stone is your on strength and physical integrity. An ordinary mortal would be destroyed if they came into direct contact with an infinity stone for any duration. Jane Foster being a notable exception but she was almost killed. Quill was able to hold the power stone because he was half Celestial and he spread the power out by holding hands with his powerful friends, the Guardians. Even Thanos had to mount the stones in a special gauntlet designed to harness their power.
The lightspeed engine was powered by the Space Stone, so her powers come from that
44:15 Basically Stark and Agent Carter founded SHIELD after the events of Captain America. He gave the Tessaract to Mar-Vell for Project Pegasus (a SHIELD project) and started working as a scientist so she can experiment on it. They didn't know she was Kree
Jax is the literal personification of a ray of sunshine 🌞
She's all kinds of Nifty. 😍
Gives skin cancer?
I've seen all the Marvel movies through Endgame, but I really enjoy revisiting them through someone else's eyes and it's 60% enjoying your reactions and 30% seeing the movies again. Your reactions are priceless and Lamie is a great copilot. Keep up the great work, many thanks!
Totally underrated movie. One of my faves! Great reaction like always Jax!
It's rated exactly how it should be. But no "rating" should define what we like and we shouldn't feel personally attacked if what we like is different.
I don't mind the movie. I don't mind brie Larson. The movie simply had one of the worst pre endgame writings. A rushed story and no character development just to bring her into the McU before it was too late. I wish they developed her earlier.
@@RoxxSerm her character literally had a 180 character development bcz what she thought was her life was a lie
@@theamazingspooderman2697 what I mean is good writing and time combined in character development. This was just bullshit.
A golden example? Loki. I won't say more to not spoil anyone.
11:46 I love how they had Stan Lee reading the script for Kevin Smith’s “Mallrats” that he was in cause the time that this movie is placed in is during the time when Kevin Smith was making “Mallrats”.
I’m always so happy when Jax puts out another marvel movie reaction!
Or any movie I've seen so I can watch her reaction.
Cockpit: "A race car driver's seat is sometimes also called a cockpit. The original meaning was literally "pit where a cockfight happens," and in the 1700s cockpit became the Royal Navy's term for the area where a coxswain, or ship's pilot, was stationed." :D Stan was reading the script for Mallrats, Kevin Smith's second film (after the huge success of his "Clerks" self production), which he was in as a speaking role.
Fun movie, but all anyone wanted was to get to Endgame (and boy have I too been waiting for it since the Infinity War reaction). But folks were sure not happy about how Fury lost his eye...
P.S. Goose in the comics is named Chewie. But once Star Wars: Episode 7 came out, and Chewbacca was fresh in everyones minds again, they changed his name to Goose as an homage to Top Gun.
Captain Marvel is so strong because she got two doses of energy from an Infinity Stone. The airplane with the lightspeed engine was charged up from the Tesseract, the same as Red Skull's weapons in Captain America TFA. When the engine was blown up, she got the energy from it. The second time was when she was trying to escape the restraints on the Kree ship. The Tesseract was right next to her in the lunchbox. Since she already had some of that energy, she was able to draw more directly from the cube. Her light show and being able to travel in space without a ship are abilities from those powers.
"I'm trusting you not to eat me" - 34:30 And in Captain America The Winter Soldier, Fury told Steve "The last time I trusted someone, I lost an eye"
In the comics Captain Marvel's pet Flerken was named Chewie because she liked Star Wars. For the MCU the name was changed to Goose to honor Top Gun's Goose. 22:50
You should watch Sam and Bree in Unicorn Store. They are good friends in real life and the movie is pure joy.
OMG! Your reaction to the Flerken and everything about it is just everything! especially that last post-credit scene! you somehow made me enjoy this movie a lot more than when I initially watched it. I can't believe you turned on Goose! lol!
My favorite lines are "I have nothing to prove" and "Marvel sounds better". Nicely done Marvel.
In case no one mentioned it… Fury once said, “The last time I trusted someone, I lost an eye.” He trusted Goose.
Hello Jac! All good? First: The name in the comics was Captain Mar-Vell, due to copyright, as Captain Marvel was from DC, which everyone now calls SHAZAM. As time passed, Marvel and DC made an agreement, when Mar-Vell died and the powers passed to Carol, definitively becoming Captain MARVEL. In the film, Mar-Vell is a dissident Kree who infiltrated SHIELD and decides to help the Skrulls. She convinces the government that studies on the Thesseract should be left to the military and becomes responsible and guardian of this Infinity Stone. Another curiosity: Danvers can hold the Thesseract (as well as Loki) for 2 reasons: 1 - They are powerful beings and only powerful beings can hold powerful Infinity Jewels and 2 - The jewel is inside this protective cube. Every Infinity Gem has a protective container. Thank you. See you soon (on UA-cam 😂😂).
Another EPIC reaction. Your sence of humour is so on point. So much fun... On to End Game! 😀
"Am I missing something?"
Yep, the bit right before that when she said, to tell the Supreme Intelligence that she was coming to end the war, etc..
I loved this movie. Never understood all the hate it got.
I think it's Brie's take on the character more than the overall movie itself that people have hated on
the hate was manufactured as a marketing tool but the cringe was all natural.
if you were to look objectively at a list of the actions taken by the lead you wouldn't consider her a hero. it's a basic power fantasy that reads at about a 1st grade level where the character arc goes from being pretty unbelievably awesome to being godlike, and there's just no tension to release at the end. it comes out as an anticlimactic. there's no sacrifice, there's no more at stake when the enemy is defeated than it would be pushing over a cardboard cutout.
compare it to the next film for example, my theater erupted in cheers when you know who caught the you know what and then minutes later everyone left weeping because you also know who gave up you know what to do the thing that had to be done. this movie got some chuckles here and there but it wasn't great.
@@AJimiDigginKatnot quite. Brie Larson herself initially drew the ire of fans for things she said leading up to the movie. I followed her for a little while on IG to see for myself. The impression I got wasn't of an ultra Woke extremist, but rather of a good intentioned but nieve person.
Honestly her take on the character was spot on. But because people were expecting "wokeness" they saw what they wanted to see. She was playing a fighter pilot from the 80s and 90s. Very self confident and highly capable. But also someone who had a father that wanted to protect and hold her back. So when the Kree restricted her memories and her powers she fell into the character that we first meet at the beginning of the movie.
@@thebkg I don't disagree with what you have said, I think the response to Brie on social media was part of the perception of her in the role. I think there are aspects of how she played the character that fit and other parts that leave something to be desired. But that becomes preference. It's a good movie overall I think it unfortunately suffered from where it gets placed in the storyline of the phase.
Drama-farming is a lucrative industry. People make ad revenue off of the massive traffic that comes from that type of content: first all of the haters who need their confirmation bias confirmed and second by the influx of defenders who argue with them.
For the drama-farmers, they don’t have to be good at their job, just stoke the flames and rake in the clicks.
Other detail. Howard Stark recoved the tesseracr while he was looking for Steve Rogers in First Avenger, he developed Pegasus project to make investigations with the Cube, Mar-Vell was in charge and she took the Tesseract and she hid it because Yon-rogg and Ronan wanted for win the Kree-Skrull war.
That Darkness/contrast issue you mentioned is one of the aspects of shooting with digital results in. Film has a wider dynamic range and allows for deeper blacks and better contrast than digital.
:-)
Digital has as wide a dynamic range as you want to give it, without the limitations of film. The lower dynamic range is a choice made by the film makers.
30:27 Howard Stark found it in 1945. Remember, this is 50 years later. There were probably a lot of tesseract experiments in that time frame including Pegasus.
Hey Jax.
Mar-Vell (Dr. Lawson) had the Tesseract because she worked on Project Pegasus for S.H.I.E.L.D. (who had the Tesseract because Howard Stark started SHIELD).
You understood all the variables but didn’t quite solve the equation.
"I'm trusting you not to eat me"
Forgot which movie but Fury also said "last time I trusted someone I lost an eye".
It all comes full circle!
I loved Jax's reaction to Goose revealing his Flerken side for the first time lol. Yes Wanda and Carol are pretty much two of the most powerful people so far. I don't know who is stronger (Carol or Wanda) because their powers are so different. If I had to make a guess, I would have to say Wanda might be a little stronger than Carol only because of the type of abilities she has.
Project Pegasus is where the first Avengers movie begins. The place that Loki destroys after teleworking in and mind controlling Hawkeye. MarVel worked for Shield which is why she had the Teseract
I like this movie and the soundtrack is great, brings me back to the 90's
11:43 Fun Fact: Notice that Stan Lee is reading "Mall Rats"...the lines we hear him saying are HIS lines from his cameo in THAT film which was released in theatres October 20, 1995.
For the love of god if you like seeing Coulson you need to finally start watching agents of shield on your own time or react to it 2 episodes at a time on the channel. (Your way past any spoilers it might have, once you’ve watched Thor dark world & winter soldier your good to watch all of AOS) agent Coulson is a beast in that show. I couldn’t recommend that show anymore to anybody who loves the MCU & Coulson as well
Whatever character has the most screen time on the MCU besides AOS, Coulson & his team get 10x that screen time in agents of shield, new Maria hill, lady Sif, director fury content, new asgardians, kree characters. Such an epic show & still stands my #1 fav MCU show, Loki coming in at a strong 2nd. AOS 7 seasons 5 seasons 22 episodes a pop, last 2 seasons 11 or 13 episodes each can’t remember, 40-50 min episodes each. An ungodly amount of MCU content. It ran from 2013/2014-2020
If you go back to the first Avengers movie, at the beginning, where the tesseract was "misbehaving", you'll see a wall plaque for Project Pegasus, with the same logo as in this movie.
I always liked the tie in when Goose is picked up and Fury says he’s trusting him. Ties in with one of the earlier movies when Fury says the last time he trusted someone it cost him an eye.
Remember that Ronan is a zealot. In this movie he leads the Accusers, who are Kree extremists fighting against Skrulls and other enemies. By the time of Guardians of the Galaxy, the Kree have lost a war against the Nova Corps, and so Ronan becomes even more extremist bc his govt signed a peace with Nova Corps even though he wanted to keep fighting. Korath the Kree soldier joins him. He avenges how the Nova Corps killed his ancestors in the long war by attacking Xandar with the Power stone.
The Skrulls weren't in Guardians in a major way. Even though the Kree lost against the Nova Corps, by then the Skrulls have been pushed to just a few areas in the Galaxy
38:03 Wanda's stone was not the red one.. it was the yellow one, the Mind Stone, aka the stone that got ripped out of Vision
Marvel Comics was such and escape for me growing up. I read them all, especially Stans Soapbox, an editorial section in all the comics. Stan Less tribute at the beginning really choked me up in theater.
Carol's powers came from the Tesseract. Seems likely she can handle it without being harmed or transported.
The Tesseract was damaged by Cap's shield. That's why it did the thing to Red Skull. The Tesseract is just a containment vessel for the stone. The stone can't be touched by the cube that contains it can be touched...unless it's damaged. The cube was damaged by Cap's shield right before Red Skull grabbed it.
personally this was a unique origin story and very different from other origin stories cuz here they straight up show the MC from the start and then show her powers from time to time
Flerkens are an alien species that superficially resemble Earth housecats. However, they possess human level intelligence, lay eggs, and have a pocket reality in their bodies that holds bubbles of space and time that exist in other worlds. That's where the Cthulhu-like tentacles come from. In the comics, Carol's flerken sidekick is named Chewie, because Carol is a Star Wars fangirl. They changed it to Goose for the movie to avoid IP issues.
"...to avoid IP issues," Which is a bit weird, since Disney owns both Star Wars and the MCU.
My thought exactly. Dudn't Didney own ebbbything? @@PhilBagels
Noice! A great way to kick off the weekend. This is an awesome movie...great cast, brilliant effects, and a truly bitchin' 90's soundtrack.
It took a lot of undeserved crap (much like the new one) from bitter InCel Fanboys, but the haters can suck it. Cheers and Happy Weekend from Canada. 🥃☮❤
Amazing callback to a Bruce Banner line from The Avengers: "What does Fury want me to do with it? Swallow it?"
“Punch me in the face”
The joy in your eyes warmed my heart. Perfect timing. :-)
To answer your question about power levels;
No one you’ve seen so far in the MCU comes close to Wanda. But right now she’s just a baby witch. She’s learning.
But there’s no one even close to her power lvl. There are even cosmic beings like The Phoenix who attempted to 1v1 her and she wiped the floor with it. She took out Phoenix in one panel in the comics. So even the The Phoenix is like “not doing that again….”
And for the people wondering, it was Dark Phoenix who tried. That’s the highest form of Phoenix
Next, Avengers Endgame. That movie is going to blow your mind.
I don´t even know who you are.
@@PROVOCATEURSK You will.
her reaction to that is up on patreon
Captain Marvel can touch the Tesseract because that’s the source of her powers. Mar-Vell’s engine was powered from the Tesseract. Howard Stark did find it in the ocean, at some point SHIELD gave it to Mar-Vell for her project, but it was likely declared destroyed in the crash.
Ronan was a Kree extremist. He eventually left the Kree government, because he didn’t think the Kree went far enough and ‘dishonored’ his father. He then went on to work for Thanos.
Stan had passed just before release
Stan was still alive while they were filming Captain Marvel & Endgame. This was the first Marvel movie released after he passed away, which is why they did that tribute to him during the Marvel opening logo.
Definitely the character arc of all time - she is already awesome and the people around her will realize exactly just that.
Yes, this is called the steadfast arc. It's in plenty of other stories, too.
Captain Marvel did have a pet Flerken, but his name was Chewie and yes he could swallow the universe. Shield had the Tesseract, but in the 90s they loaned it to the Air Force for Lawson to do her Light Speed Engine experiments.
nah, Wanda and Pietro's powers came from the Mind stone
Carol can hold the Tesseract because her powers come from it, and so it can't hurt her. Red Skull picked it up after it was activated to power the bomber, so its energy was flowing out, and took hold of him. SHIELD had the Tesseract, but Mar-Vell's research as Wendy Lawson probably gave her a partnership with SHIELD to start unlocking its potential in the same way Fury would later, copying Hydra weapons. Also, Talos and the Skrulls had been on Mar-Vell's lab-ship, and probably hiding on Earth, for many years before Yon-Rogg attacked, so he may have simmed the SHIELD director on other occasions to get access and approve Lawson's research. But he just never dealt with Fury much as a lower-ranking operative, and so never learned any secrets to fool him.
Not really, as was described in Guardians, only the most powerful can hold an Infinity Stone and not die. As we saw from Infinity War the Infinity Stone is INSIDE the Tesseract and so you wouldn't be actually HOLDING it, much the same way as holding the orb that carried the Power Stone in Guardians. However the Red Skull tried to use the Stone's power which I presume would be the same as holding it.
As we are learning, she IS one of the most powerful. Fury grabbed it long enough to put it in the case, but he took a big chance, since it was just triggered by Loki.
Congratulation, Jax :) You made it to one of the most interesting reaction-channels! Your comments are very enjoyable and smart. Often you hit the nail right on the head with your speculations - I love it. About the movie: Brie Larson did a perfect job as "Vers" Danvers, because she wasn't overacting as way too many actresses do. She'd found the perfect balance between coolness and emotions - imo. About Phil Coulson: I hope you are able to watch the Agents of SHIELD seasons for yourself - just for the fun of it ;)
her chemistry with Fury was great too
@@theamazingspooderman2697 So true!
The opening with the Marvel logo and the dedication to Stan Lee, is the best part about this movie.
RIP Stan Lee 🥃
one of the best parts.
Mar Vell came to earth to "work" with the tesseract. So... she worked with SHIELD (and NASA/USAF) to build an engine.
Flerkin... Fury in a prior movie "The last time I trusted someone I lost an eye" - Flerkin takes his eye. Also... are you sure cats exist? They aren't all Flerkin waiting for someone to piss them off?
One of the best MCU movies with great acting. Nice reactions too.