So I was really bored today, and watched a bunch of cinemasins. After watching some videos on phase 2 MCU films, I noticed something that was continuously brought up, and that is actually a good point. Every standalone Marvel film since The Avengers (excluding GotG) has featured a scenario where another Avenger DEFINITELY should've helped. I'll break it down.
Iron Man 3 - Killian orchestrates several large terrorist attacks around the world, and KIDNAPS THE F***ING PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. You're gonna tell me no one, not even SHIELD or Captain AMERICA is going to call Tony and ask if he needs any help?
Thor: The Dark World - Towards the films climax, Malikith and the Aether are basically on the brink of destroying the entire world.
Captain America: The Winter Soldier - Nick Fury is 'killed', and ALL of SHIELD is compromised. Not to mention that the helicarriers are going to be used to kill millions worldwide. I know this film had Black Widow in it, but come on, none of the big boys are interested in helping the organization that presides over them?
Now I know that these are solo films, and are supposed to just feature the title character, but ever since Avengers, the conflicts of the movies have become a little too extreme for it to be believable that The Avengers wouldn't show up to help. Phase 1 did a great job at keeping the solo film conflicts pretty tame.
Iron Man- Stane wants to kill Stark and unlock the Iron Man tech so that he can take over the company and continue the sale of weapons. This is basically just a Tony problem.
Captain America: The First Avenger - The threat is extreme, but it takes place in WW2, so the Avengers didn't even exist.
Thor- The conflict is basically Loki wanting to take over Asgard and get rid of Thor. This doesn't really have anything to do with Earth.
So that's my point. Don't get me wrong, I love the MCU. I just wish that they would tone down the conflicts of the solo movies if I'm supposed to believe that the Avengers are out there just sitting on their asses while these things happen. Hopefully phase 3 and The DCCU will do a better job at this.
Since people are crying: I know this is being nitpicky. I'm not mad at Marvel for doing this, and I'm not really even complaining. I just thought it was funny, and that it seems kind of lazy.
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