The first time I encountered said phrase, I thought it was a pure FayJay invention, and was kinda charmed - it wasn't until I started seeing it talked about everywhere the next week that I remembered that Thailand had an earlier release date than the US.

The first thing is supposed to be offensive - Loki Liesmith is doing battle in his own way.

Although if it were modernized, I think Loki calling Black Widow a whiny cunt would just make her laugh at him. (Not at that moment, because she was busy playing him like a cheap fiddle, and laughing would ruin her plan, but later.) Do I think Loki would use a gendered slur to try to rattle someone? Sure. I think the point is that he grossly underestimated BW in doing so.

And on the "tip" thing -- I got nothing. If someone is so ignant that they don't see the callback to, what -- 10 minutes of screentime prior? -- then maybe they need to see a simpler movie.

Then there is at least one person who thinks [spoiler].

At least one person is too unobservant to live. He was paying off a bet! I'm not the most observant person around, and even I thought it was obvious!

no shit. Granted, I was in a noisy theater, so I didn't hear about 10-20% of the theater due to laugh lines - and I most certainly didn't hear the "cunt" line. But I do know why Fury got the $$.

Saw that, bounced a bit in my chair.

Did it make your tattoo twitch?

There was a line between Black Widow and Hawkeye that I noticed and I haven't seen anybody comment on, and I'm not as up to date on Marvel continuity to know if it's a reference to current comics lore.

After Hawkeye is brought back from Loki's control, BW asks him how he feels. He says something to the effect of "You know what it's like to be emptied out and filled up with something else." Indicating a kind of Dollhousing in her backstory.

Is that in the comics? The Ultimates? Somewhere? Did anybody else notice that line?

Did anybody else notice that line?

I did. But I'm not a comics person, so I kind of assumed it referred to the way she'd come over to SHIELD. Some general redemptive backstory.

ION, I had lamb shawarma for lunch.

Also, there's a good chance that The Avengers is going to be the biggest grossing movie of all time.

It's already reached a billion and it's not even Memorial Day yet. At the very least it will be the third highest grossing movie of all time behind Avatar and Titanic, though it'll probably get past Titanic.

Well, IMAX and 3D will get it past Titanic, I think.

Did anybody else notice that line?

Well, Wikipedia notes that during her training in the Red Room, she was implanted with false memories to ensure her loyalty (this was a recent retcon). And at one point she was brainwashed by the KGB and battled the Avengers (but this was from back in the sixties). So it's in comics canon, but who knows what it was referring to in the movie.

Hec, I wouldn't put the information about Hawkeye going under Loki's control (and coming out) in whitefont for another week or so at least.