One of many greater downsides of working inside a big cinematic universe when making a movie is the historical past that has come earlier than and the principles and lore which were established inside it. Generally, sure scenes that set up issues that must be greater down the road are forgotten, inflicting some points when trying again on the cinematic universe as an entire.

The problems attributable to some key particulars in Part One of many Marvel Cinematic Universe have turn into notorious, largely as a result of many scenes merely do not make a lot sense anymore. Whether or not or not it’s some small world-building element that ought to have had extra affect later or a reality established that’s later contradicted, the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Part One is just not protected from its share of scenes that do not make sense anymore. These Part One MCU scenes at the moment are outdated at greatest and outright nonsensical at worst, and it reveals.

10 Tony’s Clear Power Plans

‘The Avengers’ (2012)

On the very starting of The Avengers, in Iron Man’s (Robert Downey Jr.) introduction, it is established that Tony Stark is about to turn into the face of fresh vitality within the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Whereas it does not have something to do with the Marvel superheroes immediately, this can be a large technological in-world improvement that might certainly have an effect on the better populous and expertise shifting ahead.

Nonetheless, after this movie, it is by no means introduced up once more. Did the plans die or get swept below the rug? Absolutely one thing like clear vitality being launched to the world would change the trajectory of how vitality is consumed for the remainder of time. Who is aware of? Perhaps he bought paid off by Large Oil. It isn’t precisely an MCU plot gap, however it positive is a serious inconsistency.

9 Courting Loss of life

‘The Avengers’ (2012)

The post-credits scene of The Avengers made an enormous leap in introducing the massive dangerous of Part One into the Marvel Cinematic Universe: Thanos (Josh Brolin). Sadly, for individuals who look again on the earlier post-credit scenes from Marvel Studios’ first section of movies, the massive tease on the finish of this team-up movie does not make a lot sense anymore.

When approaching the Mad Titan, his servant makes the declare: “To problem them… is to court docket loss of life,” to which Thanos smiles. For followers of Marvel Comics again when The Avengers got here out, this was large, hinting that Thanos’ motivation to snap away half of the universe was in hopes of impressing the love of his life, Woman Loss of life. Nonetheless, now Thanos has come and gone and his true motive was lastly revealed, this “courting loss of life” line does not make as a lot sense anymore. What did his servant imply, then? And why would Thanos smile at such a remark?

8 Purple Cranium Vaporized By the Tesseract

‘Captain America: The First Avenger’ (2011)

Within the climactic last battle of Captain America: The First Avenger, Captain America’s (Chris Evans) foe, Purple Cranium (Hugo Weaving), holds the Tesseract and is totally vaporized. His obvious loss of life is smart as a result of, as established in Guardians of the Galaxy, no random being can simply maintain an Infinity Stone. However if Purple Cranium was killed by the Tesseract… why can everybody else maintain it afterward?

In virtually each different look of the boxed-in Infinity Stone after Captain America: The First Avenger, regular people are in a position to wield the Tesseract. A significant instance is when Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) merely picks it up along with his naked fingers in Avengers. This occurs once more in Avengers: Endgame when Tony Stark is ready to seize it with simply an Iron Man glove in his hand.

7 Tony Creates An Ingredient

‘Iron Man 2’ (2010)

Tony Stark’s greatest battle in Iron Man 2 is that he is being poisoned by the arc reactor that can also be preserving him alive. How does he handle to resolve this situation within the movie’s second act? Effectively, one way or the other, Tony creates a brand new factor by his dad’s outdated recordsdata, which he then makes use of to change his reactor earlier than apparently forgetting all about it.

This did not make sense from the get-go — how does one create a component? On the finish of the day, these are superhero motion pictures, and everybody is meant to have a suspension of disbelief. Nonetheless, some inner consistency is required to make that suspension of disbelief simpler to swallow; when discussing the various issues that do not make sense within the Marvel Cinematic Universe, this new factor all the time comes up due to how random and deus ex machina-like it’s.

6 Howard Stark Finds the Tesseract

‘Captain America: The First Avenger’ (2011)

After Captain America goes down into the ice on the finish of Captain America: The First Avenger, it is proven that whereas on the lookout for him, Howard Stark (Dominic Cooper) comes throughout the Tesseract. This was already just a little complicated when the movie initially got here out, because it was vaporized together with the Purple Cranium earlier within the movie.

Eight years later, it is revealed in Avengers: Endgame that the Tesseract one way or the other transported the Purple Cranium (Ross Marquand) to Vormir to turn into the Stonekeeper, which is the place issues get a bit extra complicated. If he was delivered to dwell in a purgatory on Vormir, how did the Tesseract make its approach again to Earth? It is no film-breaker, however it nonetheless opens up lots of questions which can be by no means answered.

5 Different Nations Making Their Personal Iron Males

‘Iron Man 2’ (2010)

It is made very clear in Iron Man 2 that ever for the reason that emergence of Iron Man, different international locations have been trying to replicate the identical expertise and create variations of the Iron Man armor. This can be a large situation, clearly, that would’ve probably upended the world’s political panorama. Within the Marvel Comics universe, this premise led to the notorious “Armor Wars” storyline.

Nonetheless, ever for the reason that Iron Man sequel, this improvement has by no means been addressed. Whereas it’s to be assumed that it will likely be adopted up on in Armor Wars, the undertaking has completely gotten no replace from Marvel Studios and has no launch date. So, till that undertaking comes out, these scenes look fairly complicated when trying again, particularly given what number of years it has been in-universe since these developments have been launched.

4 Tony Destroys the Chitauri Mothership

‘The Avengers’ (2012)

One of many greatest moments of Tony Stark’s character arc within the Marvel Cinematic Universe was when he flew the nuclear missile despatched by the World Safety Council into the Chitauri Mothership in The Avengers. This second redefined Stark’s character and served as the massive deus ex machina for taking out all of the Chitauri in New York Metropolis. Nonetheless, the scene makes much less sense after Avengers: Endgame, the place the Chitauri have been far harder to take down within the last battle towards Thanos’ military.

When Captain Marvel (Brie Larson) makes her huge look within the last battle, she destroys Thanos’ warship. Nonetheless, the Chitauri do not begin falling like they did when Tony destroyed their ship in 2012. Was Thanos’ ship not controlling them like their mothership was in 2012? And if they don’t seem to be close to the Mothership, how far can they stray from it earlier than their “connection” lessens? Do the principles even work from timeline to timeline? It opens up approach too many unfastened ends.

3 Loki Remotely Controlling Erik Selvig

‘Thor’ (2011)

The post-credits scene for Thor left audiences with a very good couple of questions when The Avengers got here round. It is proven that Loki (Tom Hiddleston) is controlling or manipulating Erik Selvig (Stellan Skarsgård) by some type of distant magic. Nonetheless, when Loki makes his look in The Avengers, his thoughts management receives an entire new rule set.

Loki can solely handle to manage individuals by the Scepter, later revealed to include the Thoughts Stone. So this begs the query: how was he controlling Selvig on the finish of Thor? Was he merely spying on and vaguely influencing Selvig? In any case, if he might certainly remotely manipulate individuals by magic, a lot of Loki’s points in The Avengers might be solved, like how he could not affect Tony in Act Three because of the Scepter not with the ability to contact his coronary heart.

2 Loki Arrives with the Thoughts Stone

‘The Avengers’ (2012)

When Loki first seems in The Avengers, he is holding a mysterious Scepter which might later be revealed to carry the Thoughts Stone. Who else might have given stated weapon to him however the MCU’s model of Thanos? Though it made sense on the time, as soon as Thanos’ huge plan for half of the universe was ultimately revealed, Loki arriving on Earth with the Thoughts Stone did not make a lot sense anymore.

If Thanos’ aim from the start was to collect them from the beginning, why on Earth would he willingly hand an Infinity Stone over to Loki if he wasn’t 100% positive that the God of Mischief would not betray him or fail? To put an object of such common significance into the fingers of Loki, of all individuals, is a reasonably silly transfer on the Mad Titan’s half; he is an unstable and unhinged god recognized for trickery and deceit, for crying out loud! With how clever and calculating Thanos is, trusting Loki with the Thoughts Stone does not make a ton of sense.

1 Tony Recruits Thunderbolt Ross

‘The Unimaginable Hulk’ (2008)

The top credit scene featured in The Unimaginable Hulk made the second huge step in the direction of the Avengers Initiative that Nick Fury talked about to Tony Stark on the finish of Iron Man. When Tony Stark approaches Thaddeus “Thunderbolt” Ross (William Harm) after the credit roll in The Unimaginable Hulk, he tells the Basic, “We’re placing a crew collectively.”

Nonetheless, two huge issues come up shortly after. For one, Ross by no means will get concerned within the Avengers’ actions and does not reappear within the saga for nearly ten years. If he had been concerned with the Avengers in any capability, Bruce Banner (Mark Ruffalo) would not have been part of the crew. To not point out, it is also firmly established later that Tony by no means had any actual involvement within the initiative earlier than The Avengers, so why was he operating round recruiting individuals?

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