Flashpoint and Avengers quotes

[bluflamingo]

In my on-going watching of random shows I can get cheaply on Amazon, I'm onto Flashpoint, which is about a SWAT/negotiation team in I think Canada (mainly because I've also been watching Rookie Blue, which is definitely set in Canada, and this show is like a rolling roster of Rookie Blue actors).

What I like best about it? There's an episode where it turns out a police officer, not one of the team, is beating his wife, and they end up arresting him. He's brought in by one of their officers who's just told the victim that his wife was abused by her first husband, and there's a degree of all of them being angry about what he did. But no-one hits him, pushes him around, pulls his cuffs too tight, "accidentally" smacks his head on a low door, all of which I've seen good guys do on other shows. I love that the guys who exist to shoot people if necessary don't use any kind of violence or force, because they're the good guys. I like a show with good guys who are good, no 'it's okay because it's for the greater good' or whatever.

And on a totally different note, I want a Black Widow hoodie and can't find one, so I'm going to create my own once I actually get around to buying a black hoodie to do it with. I want to put widow bites on the wrists, and an Avengers symbol on the front, and I'm not sure what goes on the back, but I want to include a good Black Widow quote. I'm also thinking about doing a Hawkeye version, once I figure out what that would include.

So: what are your quintessential Black Widow or Hawkeye quotes?

Comments

[dirty_diana]

The scene on the helicarrier is where most of fandom's fav BlackHawk quotes come from? That and the Loki interrogation (love is for children) and the Budapest exchange (don't get fandom's obsession with Budapest tbh).

Flashpoint is fabulously Canadian, and one of the markers is its awesomely sunny outlook on good and evil. I love it.

[bluflamingo]

Oh, love is for children would be a great Black Widow quote, thank you!

And I don't get the obsession with Budapest either - for one thing, no-one ever plays with the whole 'you and I remember Budapest very differently' thing when they write about it. That's what makes it a good line, no? Surely if it has some great significance for the two of them, they ought to remember it similarly?

[thady]

I like a show with good guys who are good, no 'it's okay because it's for the greater good' or whatever.

Yes, this! I love FLashpoint so much for this! And for the fact that they actually act like professionals!

[bluflamingo]

Also the professionals thing, yes! The boss guy explicitly tells the guy being targeted, no you can't go out there and draw fire - and he doesn't! He stays undercover where it's safe! It's a little sad that this is something worth commenting on, but it makes me happy :)

[slybrarian]

Flashpoint spends a couple seasons trying to pretend that it's not really Canadian, because CBS didn't think Americans would watch a show set in Canada, but eventually they just give up and embrace their northern ways. They even stop pretending that they're a generic Canadian city instead of Toronto after a while.

[skieswideopen]

Even to the end, though, they keep some American terminology in there. (State hospital? Really?) I may have found it disproportionately annoying. :D

But at least they kept the streets real! And the other local regions.

[bluflamingo]

Hee! Yeah, I just got a glimpse of a Toronto EMS jacket in the last episode of season 1, but that's it for 'hey, this is Toronto!' so far.

Is that really a thing, Americans not watching a show set in Canada? Weird.

[havocthecat]

I have no idea if it's a real thing. Most of the Americans I know, even outside of fandom, will watch a show set in Canada if it's a good show. Maybe in some more of the isolationist areas of the country? I don't know as much about those states as I do my northern blue state ideals.

[skieswideopen]

Those are some of my favourite things about Flashpoint: very little glorification of violence, there isn't one set of rules for them and one set for everyone else, and actions have consequences. Team One is what I'd like all cops to be, attitude-wise. Now if only they were!

[bluflamingo]

Very little glorification of violence

Yeah, that. For a show about a SWAT team with snipers, they shoot remarkably few people, try very hard not to, and seem genuinely - upset is the wrong word, sad maybe? - when they have to? They're just nice, I think

[havocthecat]

I want a Black Widow hoodie and can't find one

The only Black Widow shirt I can find is a comic-verse shirt that looks like she should be getting ready for a gynecological exam. Good luck making your hoodie!

By the way, that red hourglass logo on her gloves in this picture is the Black Widow's insignia. I'm not saying you ABSOLUTELY MUST use it in place of or with the Avengers logo, obviously (your hoodie, your call!), but just letting you know it exists should you want to use it in any fashion.

[bluflamingo]

Oh, awesome, I didn't know she had an insignia - though logic says she probably does now you mentioned it, since most superheroes do. I'm totally using that now I know it exists, thank you!