Marvel movies tend to have stranger behind-the-scenes content than most. They shoot all their films in Atlanta — for now, anyway — but mostly in a massive studio, with actors scampering about green screen sets, which will be turned by CGI masters into alien planets or massive battlegrounds or what-have-you. So when Mark Ruffalo, aka Bruce Banner, aka Hulk, posted a couple stills, presumably from the set of Avengers: Endgame, he leaned into the weirdness.
What’s happening here? 🤔 Wrong answers only. #AvengersEndgame pic.twitter.com/UnFeeCV9cv
— Mark Ruffalo (@MarkRuffalo) July 14, 2019
The two images showed Tom Holland, aka Peter Parker, aka Spidey, standing with Don Cheadle, aka Jim Rhodes, aka War Machine, and Ruffalo himself. They’re decked out in their doohickey-emblazoned CGI clothes — yes, even Spider-Man’s spider-suit is CGI — with their arms extended into the air, their hands joined in some kind of celebration or ritual.
“What’s happening here? Wrong answers only,” Ruffalo wrote. (The tweet was a callback to a recent meme, in which people posted stills from famous movies, then encouraged people to name the wrong film. Hilarity ensued.)
The star of Kenneth Lonergan’s 2000 drama You Can Count On Me got a lot of responses. Several assumed it was a digital version of a classic children’s game.
serious question are you guys playing london bridge
— sierra (@newyearsdaytstv) July 14, 2019
Looks like a really bizarre version of "London Bridge is falling down"
— Heather Eileen (@flowerofeileen) July 14, 2019
They be playing london bridge is fallin down https://t.co/SRaDVSJ1UB
— Ally (@allyshazil) July 14, 2019
Others had even less serious answers.
https://twitter.com/shantexodayan/status/1150410961074950150
https://twitter.com/SantaInc/status/1150414179574005760
https://twitter.com/nitagale/status/1150467654886612992
they're obviously lifting simba for the lion king https://t.co/QFeNN692v3
— miek 🍊 (@lokicaps) July 14, 2019
Summoning Captain Planet https://t.co/72KbFjKDiX
— Liam (@ThisFireBurns__) July 14, 2019
https://twitter.com/__mxgic__/status/1150419483233783808
The aliens in area 51 are having a party https://t.co/Wl943ff0BN
— nette (@bxlackroses) July 14, 2019
https://twitter.com/trishavacadoo/status/1150422980146544640
https://twitter.com/ainnursarahh_/status/1150423362834800640
summoning jake gyllenhaal
— carol danvers' controversially young gf (@agathascarol) July 14, 2019
''The power of Three will set you free'' https://t.co/gk4yLJb1L3 pic.twitter.com/AXjOAP5WRi
— YourEmoPhayze 🌌 ✏ (@YourEmoPhase_) July 14, 2019
Hocus Pocus auditions 🧙🏾♂️🧙🏼♂️🧙🏻♂️ pic.twitter.com/x5DgRsrgiD
— Nicole Nichelle (@alamanecer) July 14, 2019
And some used it as an opportunity to call out Marvel, and Hollywood.
https://twitter.com/depressivesth/status/1150409441344405506