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Drifting left.
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Onside there Lebowski.
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Are there any other options with the Tesseract?
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No, no, no. There's no other options.
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There's no do -overs.
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We're not going anywhere else.
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We have one particle left each.
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That's it, alright?
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Wait, what kind of weapon are we talking about here?
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The Thanos killing kind.
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Nice.
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Don't you think that we should all have a weapon like that?
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No. You simply lack the strength to wield them.
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Your bodies would crumple as your minds collapsed into madness is it weird
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that i want to do it even more now how hold on bro help
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lordy can you even see in these yes yes i can't
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look i can't i can't i can't see in those okay
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What's that what's
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that brother we gathered everything related to the tesseract this does
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not mean I'm sorry Nick what were you lying he's gonna
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come back except you know last time he was gone for like two years Well, it's only been two days, so...
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HA!
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Got him!
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Got him!
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Ha!
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Has anyone here fought the Grand Master's Champion?
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Doug has?
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Doug!
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Oh, no. Doug's dead.
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That's right.
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Everyone who fights the Grand Master's Champion perishes.
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What about you?
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You're made of rocks.
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Perishable rock?
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There you go.
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Is your gun up?
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Yep.
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What do I do?
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I know who you are, Peter Quill, and I am not some starry -eyed wife here to succumb to your, your, pelvic sorcery!
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What's happening?
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Uh -oh.
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what are you laughing please can you just okay oh what was
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that story you told me about zardew hassel frau who huh
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he owned a magic boat i don't think you believe
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that david hasselhoff right not a magic boat a talking car
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why did he talk again to help him fight crime and to be supportive i Would you like some sugar?
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Yeah, thanks.
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You know what?
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I'm okay.
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How do you make them do that?
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How?
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Hold on, bro.
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How?
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An American black operative.
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What?
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A mercenary nicknamed Killmonger.
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That's who you are.
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That's not my name, princess.
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Shut up!
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Are you yawning?
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In the middle of this while I'm breaking it down?
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Huh?
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Did you hear what I said?
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Stop listening after you said that we need a plan.
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We're still friends, right?
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It depends on how hard you hit me.
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What the hell?
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That was the nicest thing anyone's ever done for me.
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What just happened?
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Please tell me nobody kissed me.
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Ow, it's hard to be sure.
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Breaking the laws of nature, I know.
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Well, don't stop now.
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Hail Hydra. For real.
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Thank you.
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And I said no, I won't. That was easy.
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That's not what it is.
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What are you doing?
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I'm imagining being with you physically.
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I'm about to beat this bitch up.
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I don't like you like that.
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I don't even like the type of thing you are.
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Hey, there's no need to get personal.
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Man, you are one pathetic loser.
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Hey, Scotty.
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Hey, did I save your life?
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Scotty Scotty You quill are my friend.
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Thank you this dumb tree.
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He is my friend In this green horse.
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Oh, you must stop You remember that beloved commercial
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I had him follow us.
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I thought we could use some help.
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Ratchet, how's it going?
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It's rocking.
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Take it easy.
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You're only a genius on Earth, pal.
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How vague.
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What are you talking about?
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Where are we going?
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I know for a fact they were there.
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Who's they?
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What are we doing?
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I know how.
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I know.
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I'm confused.
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I'm confused right now, G we got two ships
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and a large assortment of morons did that kid just call us me
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and group will go with the pirate angel
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and the morons will go to nowhere to try to stop
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that cool cool so cool why is he saying
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that why is he saying that to me why are we still here
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just to suffer the girl tried to walk my mind take
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special care i doubt a human can keep her at bay fortunately I am mighty I'm
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so I'm gonna sit here
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so you move away the world hasn't changed a bit did
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you know about this you want to think about removing yourself
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from this environment doctor I was in Calcutta I was pretty
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well removed Odin's treasure fake miss the stuff in here is fake Give me an extra magazine They're not universal,
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Tony I know what I'm doing I make this stuff Give me another one I don't have one
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that fits that gun You've got like five of them Here's what I'm gonna do I'm on the spot, ready?
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How selfish of me
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Let's do all the things
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that you wanna do I can't take this anymore You can't I can't take this What are you, look at me You've changed,
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dude You've changed You went to a bed This is a phase That's your pet What?
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Siobhan No, we don't say that.
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Only mommy says that word.
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She coined it.
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It belongs to her.
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Why are you up?
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Because I got some important shit going on here.
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What do you think?
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No, I got something on my mind.
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And that's just how it felt.
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Really?
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She's explaining it to you.
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Yeah, I'm just saying really.
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I'm uncertain about parting ways.
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God, you're like an old woman.
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Because I'm wise?
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because you ain't going to bollocks, son.
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What?
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Dr. Pym?
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You don't need to raise your hand, Scott.
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Sorry, I just have one question.
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Who are you?
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Who is she?
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What the hell's going on?
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And can I go back to jail now?
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What is this?
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Parlor trick?
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Hey, Auntie.
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All right, just get over here, please.
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Mr. Lord, can you get your folks to circle up?
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Mr. Lord.
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Star Lord is fine.
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There's worse ways to go, or else am I going to get a view like this.
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That thing does not obey the laws of physics at all.
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Look, kid, there's a lot going on here that you don't understand.
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Stark said you'd say that.
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All right, hey.
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All right, good job, guys.
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Let's just not come in tomorrow.
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Oh, let's just take a day.
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Have you ever tried shawarma?
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There's a shawarma joint about two blocks from here.
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I don't know what it is, but I want to try it.
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We're going through the big one.
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The devil's anus.
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The devil's anus?
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The what?
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Wait, wait, wait, who's anus?
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Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh!
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For the record, I didn't know it was called that when I picked it.
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Yeah, you know, you really should have stolen the whole book because the warnings...
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The warnings come after the spells.
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Man!
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It's funny.
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Thumbelina, do you copy?
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I've got eyes on the prize.
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It is go time.
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Thank you, Luis.
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Hey, we're the good guys?
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Yeah.
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We're the good guys, right?
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Yeah, we're the good guys.
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Feels kind of weird, you know?
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You stupid traitor.
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nobody talks to my friends like
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that that's he gave me this for my birthday by the way i love
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that suit thanks man i wish i had a suit i
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would even i would even like like a suit with like minimal powers you know
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or maybe even just a suit with no powers what else did we go and see um i saw
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hey easy easy i'm being very careful no you're being very
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hokey i'm being careful these are pym particles all right i bid you farewell
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and good luck morons bye bye have a great time i've
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done the whole mind control thing not a fan i don't want to hear that Because first of all, how do you know remind me again how you made your fortune start?
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I'm sure if you still made weapons Stark would be neck deep wait wait hold on.
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How is this now about me?
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I'm sorry isn't everything I thought humans were more evolved than this excuse me Excuse me Thank you backspace delete.
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I mean you didn't think I'd really come and see you did you this place is disgusting
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What do you say too fast nothing
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you guys look like two seals fighting over a grape
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I had just quit you don't have to do
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that I heard the whole thing you should get lost I was here first, get a roof captain, captain,
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steve sorry, america, rogers look, if you do this and it doesn't work you're not coming back thanks for the pep talk, pissant
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oh this is so embarrassing
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awesome if only cap could see you now hilarious not
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that it's a competition but she loves me 3 000 oh gosh you know you were somewhere in the low
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six to nine hundred bridge i don't know
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why do you have
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so much luggage i don't want coop playing with my things My days of breaking into places and stealing shit are done.
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What do you want me to do?
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I want you to break into a place and steal some shit.
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Like, would you...
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What?
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What?
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What's wrong?
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The king is dead.
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Come with me, unless you want to join him.
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All righty then.
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Okay, Mr. Clean's on his own page.
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See, not winging it isn't really what they do.
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Uh, what exactly is it that they do?
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Kick names, take ass.
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Yeah, that's fine.
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Fury, you son of a bitch.
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Oh, you kiss your mother with that mouth no, I'm good.
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I'm good arrow guy.
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Let's go.
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Let's go
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Drinks do I know you I feel like I've known you look I know you too.
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It's weird.
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I'm asking for safe passage through the I don't know.
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It's not to walk the streets wearing an infinity storm.
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A watch.
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You might have a gift for the mystic odds, but you still have much to learn.
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Is that Axe body spray?
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Yeah, I had a can on the desk for emergencies.
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We're family.
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Okay, okay, okay.
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We leave no one behind.
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Except maybe you.
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Oh my God.
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Total chaos in here.
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Multiple shots.
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It's fire!
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Huh?
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And there's a tank!
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Keep running up there, Saw.
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We'll take care of the people down here.
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I can't believe I'm taking orders from a hamster.
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Guys, everything's bad over here.
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Please!
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We've got enough for one round trip each.
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That's it.
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No do -overs.
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Plus, two test runs.
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One test run.
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God have mercy upon us.
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Vision, if that's true, then maybe going isn't the best idea.
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Why not?
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Tough day.
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Sad day.
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That little witch is messing with your mind.
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You're stronger than her.
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You're smarter than her.
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You're Bruce Banner.
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Right, right, right.
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Don't mention puny Banner.
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Did we come to your planet and blow stuff up?
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You're not my champion.
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You're not my champion.
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People is really that naive.
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Want to use a big wooden fork?
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No. Yeah, not really useful unless you're fighting off three vampires that were huddled together.
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Who's timing?
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Oh yeah, that's awesome.
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Give me a suit, okay?
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Oh, I'm sorry, they're only coded to me.
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What does that mean?
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I got you covered.
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There's a little pee coming out of me right now.
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Blah, blah, blah.
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We're all very fascinated, whitey, but we'd like to get paid.
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Hey, where's your hall pass?
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Hey, I'm talking to you.
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Run.
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Emergency generators are on standby.
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Good.
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If we blow the grid, I don't want to lose a tiny here in the 1950s.
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Excuse me?
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What the hell are you talking about?
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He's kidding.
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I can't say things like that.
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Just lose a bad joke.
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Hope daddy isn't as big of a dick as you, orphan boy.
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They ask you how you are, you just have to say that you're fine when you're not really fine.
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You just can't get into it because they would never understand.
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I think our first move should be calling the Avengers.
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I said, wait a minute, wait, wait a minute.
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I spent half my life trying to keep this technology out of the hands of the Stark.
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I'm sure as hell not going to hand deliver it to one now.
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Your Highness, the new king is a U .S.
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I don't want peace.
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I want problems always.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This speaking lesson is built on the video “Avengers Moments That You Forgot Were This Amazing”. This video has 306 sentences and 2050 words to shadow. The speech runs for 15:34. The speaker talks at a steady 132 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 83% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start. 72 of its 306 sentences are questions, so it is good practice for question intonation and short answers.

Key vocabulary in this video

15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:

WordPronunciationMeaning
steal verb/stiːl/To take illegally, or without the owner's permission, something owned by someone else without intending to return it.
confused adjective/kənˈfjuːzd/unable to think clearly or understand
particle noun/ˈpɑɹtək(ə)l/A very small piece of matter, a fragment; especially, the smallest possible part of something.
universal adjective/ˌjunəˈvɜɹs(ə)l/Of or pertaining to the universe.
trick noun/ˈtɹɪk/Something designed to fool, dupe, outsmart, mislead or swindle.
angel noun/ˈeɪ̯n.d͡ʒəl/An incorporeal and holy or semidivine messenger from a deity or other divine entity, traditionally depicted as a youthful, winged figure in flowing robes.
suffer verb/ˈsʌfɚ/To undergo hardship.
desk noun/dɛsk/A table, frame, or case, in past centuries usually with a sloping top but now usually with a flat top, for the use of writers and readers. It often has a…
odd adjective/ɑd/Differing from what is usual, ordinary or expected.
nowhere adverb/ˈnoʊ.(h)wɛɹ/In no place.
physics noun/ˈfɪz.ɪks/The branch of science concerned with the study of the properties and interactions of space, time, matter and energy.
belong verb/bɪˈlɒŋ/To have its proper place.
remind verb/ɹəˈmaɪnd/To cause one to experience a memory (of someone or something); to bring to the notice or consideration (of a person).
spell noun/spɛl/Words or a formula supposed to have magical powers.
daddy noun/ˈdædi/Also used as a term of address: a father; one's father.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

WordPronunciationMeaning
come back verbTo return to a place.
fight off verbTo succeed in defeating a challenge, or an attack.
get over verbTo overcome.
go back to verbTo stem from; to originate in.
go through verbTo travel from one end of something to the other.
move away verbTo go away from a place, especially when permanently changing one's residence.
run up verbTo run (towards someone or something); to hasten to a destination.
shut up/ʃʌt ʌp/Stop talking (usually in the form of making annoying, irrelevant, or false comments, during a period of peace and quiet, or when one is not allowed to talk)…

Sentences worth repeating

Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:

  • Don't you think that we should all have a weapon like that?
  • How do you make them do that?
  • In the middle of this while I'm breaking it down?
  • Hey, we're the good guys?
  • Hey, where's your hall pass?

Grammar in this video

The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:

StructureIn the video
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters nowit's only been · hasn't changed · You've changed
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does itwas called · were huddled

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 102 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, don't, you're. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

  • The “th” sounds: gather /ˈɡæðɚ/, pathetic /pəˈθɛtɪk/
  • The “sh” and “zh” sounds: treasure /ˈtɹɛʒəɹ/, selfish /ˈsɛlf.ɪʃ/, gosh /ɡɑːʃ/, shawarma /ʃəˈwɑɹmə/, perish /ˈpɛɹɪʃ/
  • Long words — get the stress right: universal /ˌjunəˈvɜɹs(ə)l/, hilarious /hɪˈlɛə.ɹi.əs/, fortunately /ˈfɔɹ.t͡ʃə.nɪt.li/, generator /ˈdʒɛnəɹeɪtə(ɹ)/, operative /ˈɑpəɹətɪv/

How to practise with this video

  1. Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
  2. Shadow it sentence by sentence at normal speed, repeating each one until your rhythm matches the speaker.
  3. Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like steal, confused, particle.

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