- Gabrielle Regan-Waters challenged her wife to name the many characters in "Avengers: Infinity War."
- But her wife has only seen two movies in the Marvel Cinematic Universe — "Captain America" and "Thor: The Dark World."
- It went as well as could be expected.
- "Groot" became "Troot" and Star Lord became "Republican Chris."
- Her responses went viral. Even "Guardians of the Galaxy" director James Gunn acknowledged it.
If you ask a Marvel superfan to name all of the characters in "Avengers: Infinity War," it's not a challenge.
But when Gabrielle Regan-Waters asked her wife — who has only seen two movies in the Marvel Cinematic Universe — to list off all of the characters in the superhero movie, it went just about as you would expect.
The results are hilarious.
Asked my wife, who's only seen two films in the MCU (Captain America 1 and Thor 2), to name #InfinityWar characters. It went about as well as we expected. pic.twitter.com/ICK8n8geFC
— Gabrielle Regan-Waters (@gabregan) May 7, 2018
Here are the full images so you can read it for yourself.
Let's go through some of these real quick.
Ant-Man is simply Paul Rudd. Chris Pratt is now "Republican Chris."
Falcon is mistaken for X-Men character Cyclops, while Doctor Strange's sidekick Wong is "just a regular guy who gets caught in the crossfire." Cobie Smulders is recognized as her "How I Met Your Mother" character, Robin, and Paul Bettany's Vision is "Purple Alien."
People couldn't handle some of the responses.
Groot is now "Troot."
— AJ Saw IW x2 [Spoiler-Man] (@ajitapalo) May 8, 2018
Poor Rocket. As least he was recognized as a raccoon this time instead of a rabbit.
I can’t breath pic.twitter.com/X7AOl9rNsM
— l̶o̶v̶e̶ (@MORPHlN) May 8, 2018
Fans were getting "Yu-Gi-Oh!" vibes from the mention of Loki as the Dark Magician.
Dark Magician is my favorite Avenger, tbh. pic.twitter.com/izRI4trknY
— DC Connections (@dc_connections) May 8, 2018
Co-host of "Fatman on Batman" podcast Marc Bernardin was here for the latest family addition to the MCU: The War Maiden Family.
Dear @Marvel: I'm here for the War Maiden family. https://t.co/wSlqFk6f8Y
— Marc Bernardin (@marcbernardin) May 9, 2018
More than one person thought Benicio del Toro's Collector looked like "Willy Wonka."
i said he looked like willy wonka too https://t.co/YPkyue6lgJ
— tom_holland_luvr_666 (@ultapril) May 9, 2018
Even "Guardians of the Galaxy" director, James Gunn, thought it was great.
Oh my God I’m dying. 😂 https://t.co/KI95iQE7vr
— James Gunn (@JamesGunn) May 9, 2018
And if you do need a quick refresher on some of the cast, here are the real names of everyone:
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