Snark Industries

Evidence of Effort Productions, LLC

Snark Industries is the Marvel podcast and companion website built around one simple, deeply unreasonable goal: Experience the entire Marvel universe in the order the stories actually take place... and catalog it. Simple, right? Join us as we explore the Marvel Cinematic Universe in temporal order; from the ancient past to the far future, across timelines, universes, and realities. And we mean ALL of it: the blockbuster films, the Disney+ series, the classic cartoons of the 1960s, and yes, even the Japanese Spider-Man who pilots a giant robot. Every corner of Marvel's sprawling history is on the table. Every entry comes with a full written breakdown on [snarkindustriespod.com](http://snarkindustriespod.com) and two podcast episodes: 'The Watch Party' and 'The Deep Dive'. The Watch Party is where we sit down and enjoy a piece of Marvel media with you; we laugh, we give insights, and we poke fun at what needs poking. The Deep Dive is where we break down the plot, how and if it fits into the MCU, what universe it takes place in, comic tie-ins, Easter eggs, and of course, our thoughts. Whether you're here for the big tent-pole films or taking the full journey with us from the beginning of time, Snark Industries is designed to be enjoyed your way. Subscribe so you never miss an entry, and come hang out with us on Discord. We look forward to taking this journey with you!

  1. Episode 1

    1943-03-22 CE | Watch Party | Captain America: The First Avenger (MOVIE)

    The 1940s. A downed plane is found frozen in the ice with a familiar shield inside, and the story jumps back to wartime to explain how it got there. Steve Rogers, small and sickly, keeps trying to enlist and keeps getting turned away, while his friend Bucky ships out to the 107th and Howard Stark shows off his latest tech at a grand exposition. Dr. Erskine overhears Steve explain that he does not want to kill anyone, he just does not like bullies, and selects him for the Strategic Scientific Reserve. Steve takes the serum, is transformed, and immediately loses Erskine to an undercover Hydra assassin who takes his own life before he can be questioned. Sidelined as a bond-selling mascot, Steve heads to the front, learns the 107th has been captured, and with a push from Agent Carter mounts a solo rescue that frees Bucky and the others and puts him face to face with the Red Skull and Arnim Zola. As Cap and the Howling Commandos dismantle Hydra base by base, Bucky falls from a train to his apparent death, and Zola gives up the plan. In a final confrontation aboard a bomber loaded to level American cities, the Red Skull grabs the Tesseract and vanishes, the cube falls into the sea, and Steve chooses to put the plane down in the ice to save everyone, sharing a last moment with Carter as he goes under. He wakes in the present, sees a changed New York, meets Nick Fury, and is handed the mission that leads to the Avengers. Dive in further at https://www.snarkindustriespod.com/post/1943-6-22-ce-captain-america-the-first-avenger Join the conversation at https://discord.gg/mJBCuxffF5

    1943-03-22 CE | Watch Party | Captain America: The First Avenger (MOVIE)
  2. Episode 4

    1943-6-22 CE | Watch Party | What If... ?: Captain Carter Were the First Avenger (S1E1)

    World War II, an alternate track. Everything begins the way Steve Rogers' story did, right up to the procedure, but here Peggy Carter stays down on the lab floor. When Kruger launches his attack early, killing Erskine and wrecking the machinery, Peggy guns him down but Steve is shot in the chaos and cannot take the serum. Rather than lose the project entirely, Peggy steps into the chamber herself and emerges as Captain Carter. The SSR still has little interest in putting her to use, but she pushes into the war effort anyway, recovering the Tesseract from Arnim Zola before the Red Skull can exploit it. With the cube in hand, Howard Stark builds the Hydra Stomper armor for a serum-less Steve, and together with the Howling Commandos they free the 107th and tear through Hydra. The train mission turns out to be a trap that presumably kills Steve, and the Skull uses the Tesseract not for weapons but to open a portal, summoning a giant tentacled Eldritch monster that promptly (and hilariously) crushes him. Carter and the Commandos find Steve alive, and in the final push Captain Carter shoves the creature back through the portal, sacrificing herself to close it. The portal reopens decades later in the SHIELD research basement, where a one-eyed Fury and Hawkeye watch Peggy tumble out, and she learns seventy years have passed and the war is long over. Dive in further at https://www.snarkindustriespod.com/post/1943-6-22-ce-what-if-season-1-episode-1-captain-carter-were-the-first-avenger Join the conversation at https://discord.gg/mJBCuxffF5

    1943-6-22 CE | Watch Party | What If... ?: Captain Carter Were the First Avenger (S1E1)
  3. Episode 5

    1943-6-22 CE | Deep Dive | What If... ?: Captain Carter Were the First Avenger (S1E1)

    Snark Industries digs into the What If...? series opener, the story that pivots the First Avenger arc on a single choice: Peggy stays on the lab floor. Because of this; Kruger strikes early, Steve is shot before he can enter the chamber, and Peggy takes the serum instead. The full plot gets walked through, from the Hydra Stomper armor Howard Stark builds once the Tesseract is recovered early, to the train trap that presumably kills Steve, to the Red Skull summoning an Eldritch horror that eats him the moment it arrives, to Carter's own ultimate sacrifice and her arrival seventy years later in the SHIELD basement alongside the first appearance of Hawkeye in the watch order. The hosts weigh how much of the story is deliberate Captain America parallel versus genuine deviation, and spend real time on the feminism threading through it, the relentless "dame" dialogue, and a super soldier who clears thirty-foot walls in a way that stretches the "peak of human capacity" premise. Personal thoughts land warm on both sides, with shared praise for the animation, the fight choreography, and Hayley Atwell's Captain Carter, tempered by agreement that the Eldritch god was a swerve into the fantastic the story did not need. The breakdown also debuts the podcast's brand new official rating segment, born live on the mic. Dive in further at https://www.snarkindustriespod.com/post/1943-6-22-ce-what-if-season-1-episode-1-captain-carter-were-the-first-avenger Join the conversation at https://discord.gg/mJBCuxffF5

    1943-6-22 CE | Deep Dive | What If... ?: Captain Carter Were the First Avenger (S1E1)

About

Snark Industries is the Marvel podcast and companion website built around one simple, deeply unreasonable goal: Experience the entire Marvel universe in the order the stories actually take place... and catalog it. Simple, right? Join us as we explore the Marvel Cinematic Universe in temporal order; from the ancient past to the far future, across timelines, universes, and realities. And we mean ALL of it: the blockbuster films, the Disney+ series, the classic cartoons of the 1960s, and yes, even the Japanese Spider-Man who pilots a giant robot. Every corner of Marvel's sprawling history is on the table. Every entry comes with a full written breakdown on [snarkindustriespod.com](http://snarkindustriespod.com) and two podcast episodes: 'The Watch Party' and 'The Deep Dive'. The Watch Party is where we sit down and enjoy a piece of Marvel media with you; we laugh, we give insights, and we poke fun at what needs poking. The Deep Dive is where we break down the plot, how and if it fits into the MCU, what universe it takes place in, comic tie-ins, Easter eggs, and of course, our thoughts. Whether you're here for the big tent-pole films or taking the full journey with us from the beginning of time, Snark Industries is designed to be enjoyed your way. Subscribe so you never miss an entry, and come hang out with us on Discord. We look forward to taking this journey with you!