Defending the Indefensible 

"Still hating" I don't want to hate Captain Marvel. I just want to forget it exists.

See, the funny thing about this to me is that despite being a guy, I've been told to smile before on multiple occasions, because I'm a stoney-faced guy who doesn't emote much unless I'm having fun. By this logic, I was repeatedly sexually harassed by my peers and teachers in school.

Ayyy thanks for the cameo o/

"She didn't rip his hand off, just twisted it" has the same energy as "I didn't punch you, Johnny! I HIT you!"

"Hey how are you?" Is that a personal attack or something

I watched Captain Marvel with my girlfriend. After the movie, she asked me "Are we sure she's a hero and not a villain?"

Remember: Touching map = assault. A lawyer on the internet told me

"The man doesn't know why he's been attacked, and the women who's been flirted with doesn't know what sexual harassment is. All that matters in this world of bullshit are the results." -Carol Diavolo, 2019.

all that deleted scene did was make her more unlikable then she already is.

“Wolverine is a villain.” It’s funny that he’d even insinuate this considering that in the comics, Logan is the one who carries on Charles’ dream of peaceful coexistence between humans and mutants. Not Cyclops. Not Beast. Wolverine. The man who was treated as little more than an animal and a weapon by humanity is the one to carry on Charles Xavier’s dream of coexistence with these people. That’s what a hero does.

That bike scene is just a metaphor for divorce, lol.

random dude "smile" Captain Marvel "hippety hoppety give me your property"

*Dude attempts to flirt* *Gets a shitty Terminator reference, had his jacket and motorcycle robbed from him*

You laugh, but there are people who do believe the idea of courtship (a man approaching a woman) is acutely patriarchal and therefore inherently evil. Which makes me wonder if men approaching men for dating is considered double patriarchy or something.

As a waiter, I get told by my manager my biggest flaw is not smiling enough, and he tends to remind me to fairly often. So I’m technically being sexually harassed every shift going by brownie logic

My only argument for the weird guy in the video is: They removed it from the final cut because they knew how it made her look like a villain.

The Don was too good for the MCU

To this day, I'm glad I saw Captain Marvel. On Mauler's channel.

I want to see a little "The Don" prequel. His wife, the love of his life passed away. He's been heartbroken and lonely for the last two years. Finally, his friends convince him to make a change. He buys a motorcycle and jacket and promises to try and talk with the first woman he sees. As He's driving away from the dealership he sees a woman who appears to be lost. Swallowing his fear, he parks and decides to approach her.

As someone who’s been sexually assaulted and also has friends who have been, brownie acting like asking for a smile is sexual harassment is so dumb and annoying. Awesome video from you as usual. 💕

What CM did was the equivalent of Thor holding Mjolnir over some girl's hand and saying "Give me your stuff, or I drop it". Why is this acceptable, by anyone, ever?

All the Don wanted was a smile, but he got SO much more than he asked for. #JusticefortheDon

If I ever meet Rags in real life, I think I'll be disappointed that he's not a sunglass wearing, anthropomorphic Akita.

Not to mention that Walkman WAS EVERYTHING to Quill! Literally EVERYTHING TO HIM. It was all he had of home, all he had of his mother. EVERYTHING! Quill was a lot easier on those guards than I woulda been that’s for sure.

"She just twisted it...^w^" From wikipedia's article on Lie: "Minimization is the opposite of exaggeration. It is a type of deception[17] involving denial coupled with rationalization in situations where complete denial is implausible."

'She didn't rip his hand of dude, she just twisted it' genuinely sounds like someone making an excuse for an abuser. Like: 'No he didn't punch me, it was just a light slap'. Shame on Browntable, shame.

It's always darkest before The Don.

One day I will ask you for a ride rags'. The Don approves this video

I remember posting a scene from the D.C. universe where a guy attempts to grope Harley Quinn at a restuarant. She throws him and breaks his arm. Now THAT'S clear cut sexual harassment and the dude was dealt with beautifully making it justified and great to watch. Here it's done to vaguely as The Don is only casually flirting with Carol before SHE gets physical with him. It's a bit of an overreaction which is why a lot of people disagree with it.

after the sexual harassment line i needed to see efaps full reaction. Hold on Rags i will be back in 8 hours

The Planet broke before the Don did.

The way this guy acts I wouldn't be surprised if he ended up as one of THOSE male feminists.

I agree, it’s indefensible that that monster touched her map! It was justice that she then(clearly in fear for her life) took his hand, and preceded to crush it, threatening to permanently disfigure him if he did not give her his personal property! It’s the kind of justice the terminator would be proud of!... if the terminator wasn’t a machine that neither had feelings or emotions and was driven by the singleminded goal of achieving its objective at any and all costs. *Legal Eagle is an idiot*

“Brie Larson isnt ugly” Well...usually i like my romantic partners to have more than one facial expression

Ok, imagine this scenario: A man walks up to a woman and introduces himself, they shake hands and as she moves to withdraw he twists her hand and threatens to break her wrist if she doesn't do what he tells her to do. If that scenario sounds terrible and indefensible but this scene doesn't then you definitely need to take a long hard look at where your sense of morality flew off the rails because something is seriously wrong.

Yeah, The Don MAY have been a bit rude by pushing the paper down, but it was broad daylight, she clearly heard him approaching thanks to his motorcycle and boots, and he moved very slowly. There were people all around them, it was broad daylight, and he never made any gestures that would convey the idea that he intended her any harm. There is no reality where Carol’s response is justified. People who act like it’s justified are either simply saying that to earn brownie points with their progressive friends, or they literally want the world to have a giant wall down the center, where men and women live on either side, so that men are never allowed to so much as interact with women, aside from maybe the occasional sperm donations.

It's amazing how people like Browntable make such confident statements without realizing anything _close_ to the full implications of them. Take this, for instance: "As a guy, if I had superpowers and a dude came up to me and would be like 'Hey, you want a ride?' If could shoot laser beams out of my hands, that guy would be toast." Congratulations, Browntable! You are now an advocate for the gay panic defense, which has been used to legally argue down cases of first degree murder on the basis that the murderer was provoked into a fit of murderous temporary insanity by the discovery that the victim was homosexual.

Oh god the little dancing Ragusus boi at the beginning. I love it.

I expect someone uses Rags' argument of "She was never in any danger" on Wolverine, and try to make that argument "hypocritical" or something. Well, if we remove the whole "Wolverine is actually getting attacked" schtick, Cpn. Marvel is shown, intentionally or just through shitty acting, that she is very calm and shows little to no emotion. Wolverine is exact opposite, in movies and comics is shown, that he has a really short fuse, gets angry all the time, and very often acts before he thinks. Few times it is shown as his strength (in tough fights for example) , and very often as his flaw. He screws up fights due to attacking without plan, gets into arguments (especially with Cyclops) with his team etc. And, the bar scene is an establishing shot, to show us who Wolverine is, unlike Cpn. Marvel, who has been on the screen for a while already. Also, who would let himself be stabbed for fucks sake?

Rags: I've gone on and on. Which is my thing I guess. Me: Long man good.

When I saw the deleted scene the first time I did think the Don't was a tad bit of a douche but harmless otherwise. I was thinking it was going to show some witty dialog from Marvel, but no it showed a harsh use of force from a being of immense power. When I saw Legal Eagle's defense of this I had to point out that it was like a person in full riot gear with a drawn gun vs some guy. I don't know how or why they are defend Marvel, she was completely within the wrong especially as the hero. Never once tried to deescalate the situation and instead resorted to the use of overt force. Near the end of the movie she literally destroyed entire ships full of people who were lied to just like her, no mercy just overwhelming force.

Isn't bigotry power plus predjudice? If so, doesn't that mean it's impossible for a man to be sexist towards a woman with godlike super powers?

"Why am I having to explain this to adults?"

"You shouldn't have killed my mom and squished my Walkman!" greatest line in cinema in my humble opinion

This episode of Rags's is brought to you by: Sexual Harassment

I see Carol Danvers didn't have an Uncle Ben. With great power comes great responsibility.

Or, if they really wanted to have a scene with her powerfully defending herself from sexual harassment, they could've featured something approaching sexual harassment in the scene. Dude tries to grope her. Dude offers the bike on condition that she does him "a favor". Something. Anything that actually looks like what they seem to think it is. The way she chooses to threaten removing his hand makes me think they _might've_ at one time intended him to have used that hand on her in some way, so she's going all 12th century Arabia on him. Crazy, but at least moral in a medieval sense.

"I'd ride The Don like a wild stallion". Agreed.

But Rag's, why are you talking about Captain Marvel?! Spiderman is coming out!

My favorite dog on the internet, time to relax and give him headpats.

The flirting wasn’t even overt. A guy with a motorcycle can ask someone if they want a ride. Sure his tone was flirtatious, but there was nothing to suggest that she couldn’t just say “no thanks” or “I only ride with women” and dude on bike would ride away. If the filmmakers wanted to show he was a douche then there are many worse things to have him say, or he could get aggressive when she says no. If the message is “girl power” then it falls flat at best. And video dude is a homophobe. If his scenario was filmed, and a guy asked another guy out and the guy shot him, the lgbtq community would be outraged. Hell, almost everyone would be.

All you have to do to judge the morality of this situation is switch the sexes around. 1) Male Captain Marvel and The Donna: that dude is monster 2) Male Captain Marvel and The Don: they have a term for this. It's called gay bashing. 3) Captain Marvel and The Donna: pretty monstrous. Though possible catfight implications? Probably a man's fault somehow. 4) Captain Marvel and The Don: perfectly acceptable apparently. Edit: Rags also made this argument with Thor as example.

Every moment that Capt. Marvel is in a scene in Endgame brought me to the edge of my seat. Basing on her personality, she’s just like a ticking nuke that could blow up anytime if one of her teammates manages so much as to lightly make fun of her. She shouldn’t have been in that movie

33:34 "only twisted it" and squeezed it so hard you can start to hear all the bones(27 of them) in his hand begin to crack and break.

The only good thing we got from Captain Marvel was the Don

Thanks to you Browntable, and Legal Eagle, and Iamthatroby. You make The Don even stronger

Captain Marvel was probably a foreshadowing to the state of phase 4.

“If I can shoot laser beams out of my eyes, that guy would be toast” Me:😧 My reaction would be to tell the man to leave me alone. If this guy had the ability to kill people, he would kill a person for “sexually harassing him”

The Benevolent. The Savior. The Healer. The Virtuous. *The Martyr.* ＴＨＥ　ＤＯＮ

I'm just saying, if you make Captain Marvel 2 a story about her being this almost Sinestro-like figure that has essentially been keeping the peace through fear and that's why she's not been mentioned up until this point, you solve a lot of the problems introduced and provide an interesting character journey for Carol as she comes to terms with the implications of her own power. That or introduce Rogue and have her steal her powers and just have it be a stealth Rogue movie. I'd be down for either.

Orphans will love this, Rags. You did good.

If only the swordsman asked Indy to smile, then Indy could kill him and be an inspiring hero

I hope this guy never buys a gun. He doesn't have the maturity to hold one.

I wish we had more people like Capt. Marvel. I mean, Tony Stark's all very well, but he NEVER mugged a guy. We definitely need more such superheroes. Also, i'm not going to kill/ mug somebody for flirting with me. I'm going to run away like the hounds of hell are on my heels, but I won't kill/ mug them. She's really not a hero. She's a villain who ends up on a justifiable side.

So he would kill a gay guy if he hit on this kid? So progressive ...

I really enjoyed Wonder Woman even tho describing Luddendorf (somebody who was trying to establish peaceful way to end WW1 after fronts stagnated again in late 1917) as a war dog and psychopath searching for blood was just disgusting. But the same Wonder Woman? She does mistakes, she is not perfect but she is LIKEABLE. Why? She is positive, she fight for her friends and for herself, she believes in people, she doesn't understand the world around her but she try to act in the most morally correct way. Captain Marvel kills and hurts others and later acts like a savior.

Watching that part with Yondu and Rocket still gives me chills.

Here I’ll fix the scene for you: The Don- “You need a ride darlin’ ?” Carol- looks all snarky at him, “Thanks, but I actually need to GET to where I’m going. Uh Byeeeee.” The Don- continues on into the bar all grumpy and defeated

46:57 Little side note here, That bar scene, in particular the pose that Hugh Jackman made is the exact moment that I was sold with him as Wolverine! Sure he had the hair, the claws, smoked a stogie and said "Bub" but it was this point, with that pose that I had seen many times in the comics that he WAS Wolverine. Now i'm gonna go watch that film again (after I finish watching Rags obliterate this guys arguments)

Leave it to rags to make an hour long commentary on a 6 minute video. And even make it worth the time.

Wait, did that dude just say that he might inflict serious or lethal violence if another man hit on him?

The same people who say that he deserves it are also the types who hate the punisher or death wish

"If I could shoot laser beams out of my hand that guy would be toast" So you would kill a guy for slightly annoying you if you had the chance? Holey crap that guys nuts.

I honestly don't even know how to flirt. Never really learned how, nor really had much of an interest.

Come forth, my children, for He has returned. That’ll do, doggo. That’ll do... Also I FUCKING LOVE that dance animation at the beginning of the video.

Most girls I met, HATE being approached. Exept when the guy has money.

The "It's fiction so it doesn't matter" argument always pisses me off. *We Live In A Society* where movies, games, books and other things are made with the intention of having an effect on you and reality around you. Take something recent like Death Stranding. That game is specifically made with the intention of a fictional story carrying something that can be applied to the real world. Even children aspiring to be superheroes can gain something positive from it. Not only is this disrespectful to creators but also defeats their purpose of defending fictional characters.

I fucking love the Rocket and Yondu scene Makes me tear up every time

Rags is the only RU-vidr that could take a 6 minute video and respond to it with a hour long response video and make it feel like it wasn't stretched.

Doesn't Ms.Marvel assault Stan Lee by touching his Mallrats script and sexually harass him with unsolicited smiling afterwards?

48:41 “gee I hope nobody knows who the hell wolverine is so this snippet will back up my point and not backfire.”

Rags - you will be forever verified in my heart.

With Brown's logic, Edward Norton was in the right for curbstomping the dude about to steal his car.

And if a guy came up to me and asked if I wanted a ride I would say 'Nah I'm good bro.'

The worst part is that they tried to make it a homage to terminator 2, but they turned it into a cringy, psychopathic scene instead.

Why we talking about Capt Marvel. EFAP 52 has just come out.

**female character exists, doesn’t matter what she does** “She’s inspiring to little girls!”

"Who wants cheese dip?!"

Your fair use notice makes me so happy. Thank you and thank you, whoever draw it

What confuses me the most is the fact that they pick Captain Marvel to prop up as the face of the MCU and the perfect example of a strong, independent female character. Why her? She is literally the worst choice to pick for that. You can pick literally any other female character in the MCU and any of them would be a better choice. Black Widow, Scarlet Witch, Gamora, Nebula, The Wasp, hell even Mantis! All of those characters are really good female characters that are actually like-able and well written, and would be a way better choice to pick for the best example of a strong female character in the MCU, but instead they decide to pick Captain Marvel, a psychopathic bully who solves everything with violence and aggression. And it doesn’t help that she’s played by Brie Larson, whose acting ability is equivalent to stale bread, and has also said many iffy things in regards to identity politics and sexism. I wouldn’t exactly call her character a good role model or hero, unlike the other women I listed earlier.

*sees Rags uploaded a new video* Me: SEXUAL HARASSMENT!

No one: Brown Table: Sexual harassment MauLer: Wooooooooooo!

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

His comedy is like a bad sjw version of filthy frank .-.

D'aw, dancing doggo opening, and such stylish disclaimers! That's good Rat. I'm sorry for sexually harassing you.

Legal Eagle also had an equally idiotic video defending captain marvel's actions in this scene.

Oh shit you actually play Mordhau. I always thought that the Rags that I'd occasionally see every now and again was a fake.

"So this is a limiter that only works if the person believes it's limiting them." Like...if a buff guy in War Hammer 40k paints himself green, puts on glasses, and tells an orc "Brudda, you habs no powers" and the orc believes him, 'cause glasses = Smart Squib, therefore the orc becomes powerless because his psychic powers have made him not psychic.

(I posted this before but it needs to be made clear how much of an angel Don is) I'm not going to lie guys I was in a dark place a few years ago. I lost my job, i lost my apartment, my car...damn near everything. I found it hard to wake up in the morning in the homeless shelter and even bother eating. Then one day I found myself looking down at the Mississippi River from a tall bridge. I didn't know anyone, no one would miss me were the two thoughts ringing in my head ...Then I heard his voice. "Hey..." I turned to see a rather handsome guy getting off of his motorcycle with a smile. "I don't know what you are going through but if there's one thing I've learned from helping voluntarily to veterans who suffer from PTSD ...You should smile more." At first I disregarded the man and tried to ignore him. He didn't know my problems. My suffering, what would smiling solve? He then offered to me to do just that for an entire day and meet him there again tomorrow...I had nothing else to lose so I agreed. Just putting off the inevitable until tomorrow i thought. So I wondered around the city smiling at everyone who I came across and then i saw it... a help wanted sign to work at a Rhino milk factory. I was worried of course having been recently laid off but in the end I got the job. And the thing they said to me was that "it was my smile that won them over." I broke down into tears as soon as I put on my uniform. Tears of joy. And so I went back to the bridge the day after, now wearing my Rhino Milk Industries uniform. A smile on my face but the man didn't show up at first. I was a bit saddened and was about to say a silent thank you until I heard a man approaching. It was the same guy...but he didn't have a motorcycle and he was wearing a cast on his hand. I thought maybe he suffered from an accident and lost the motorcycle but he just said that he would just keep smiling no matter what happened. I asked him his name and with that smile he said. "Don" Don, if you are out there reading this right now years later. I'm now head supervisor at the factory and living the Wakandan dream. Thank you!

Rags, Did this cretin insult The Don, how dare this manlet besmerk the one blessed by the cosmic chicken.