A few of those are good points, but I feel like many of them are answered in film for us already (like you said), or are a case of the author missing or misunderstanding some plot point.
Most of these are standard movie conveniences, but he's totally right about 1, 4, 6 9 and 10.
Some are borderline stupid, like Loki's plan to take over Asgard and putting Cap on the USO tour. There are in movie explanations, but honestly, they're not very good.
Some he's not completely right on but they're still dumb for similar reasons. Thor getting back to Earth cuz Odin says so does take the punch out of Thor destroying the bifrost, and Tony Stark not calling his 41 armors when he's first attacked was foolish, and it's not as though those things couldn't have blasted their way out at any intermediate time anyway, y'know?
The only comments that are really weak are 8 and 10. I believe there was in character foolishness that explains that. Tony was emotionally connected to his arc reactor and he wouldn't have let it go ASAP out of practicality. For SHIELD in CATWS, I think they were totally in character not to notice that, since there's not a big difference between the spoiler and how SHIELD is normally.
Just started reading the list(still on #1) and the use of the word "randomly" makes that argument invalid as it's purely an assumption of the guy making the list. Who the hell ever said it was random? I'll bet it wasn't at all.
Just started reading the list(still on #1) and the use of the word "randomly" makes that argument invalid as it's purely an assumption of the guy making the list. Who the hell ever said it was random? I'll bet it wasn't at all.
A diorama that, along with the film strip, was kept in some kind of SHIELD storage unit for decades, that no one ever threw away, and that Nick Fury only randomly handed over to Tony? Maybe Howard could have hidden it in something a bit easier for Tony to have gotten a hold off. Like, say, a letter.
It was most likely kept in there for decades because Howard in his video said something along the lines of not having the technology in that era to harness that new element. SHIELD/Fury obviously felt it was time to give it to Tony, especially because of the fact that they show up at his house is after when Fury sees that Stark is dying from the poison when they're at the donut shop.
There's also this.
Also ignore the fact that Howard made a filmstrip to insinuate the importance of the diorama to his adult son on the off chance Hydra might kill him and his wife in a car accident before he grew up.
No one ever said anything about Hydra. Maybe it's the possibility that like every human on the face of the planet, he could have died at any time from a number of reasons, like a heart attack for example.
I can't dispute them all, but here are the ones I have trouble with...
1. Howard couldn't just leave it in a letter. There's no telling who would find that and just, you know, read it. Making it a tricky puzzle that only someone with Tony's intelligence could find makes it much more difficult to get into the wrong hands. And like Kendrell said, who said it was "random" that Fury gave it to him? I agree, very little chance it was "random."
2. I see it as Loki's plan was evolving. He didn't have a plan before the coronation. He waited for his opportunity. Thor was angry, wanted to invade Jotunheim, Loki gave him a little, subtle push, knowing Odin wouldn't be pleased. He egged him on, leading to Odin banishing Thor. Odin fell into Odinsleep (which isn't just him "falling asleep" as the writer puts it), which leads to the opportunity for Loki to convince Thor he's permanently banished. Then his plan became simple: while Odin is in the Odinsleep, kill Laufey to gain the faith of the Asgardians and Frigga. With Odin in Odinsleep and Thor out of the picture, the throne is bequeathed to him by default.
3. The simple answer, they thought he was more of a sideshow act and wanted to make money off of him. Not a "smart" decision, but there was a reason.
5. Thor returned to Earth by Dark Energy, used by Odin. Odin can't just use this Dark Energy whenever he wants without consequence. It's not that simple. It has to be manifested and it weakens him. Not to mention I'm sure there are other consequences, from a universal standpoint, to using the Dark Energy. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, I'm no expert.
6. Selvig was just experimenting. HYDRA harnessed the Tesseract's energy into weapons 70 years before The Avengers, so why couldn't Selvig, with advanced technology of our time, figure this out? Secondly, he wasn't completely mind-controlled as much as he was willed to do what Loki wanted. He was still Eric Selvig, just having his will bent by Loki. He still knew what he was doing. Next, Loki wanted to be caught. That's why his "distraction" was so close. He WAS the distraction. He wanted SHIELD to think they had everything tied up in a bow, when in reality, they let him on the Hellicarrier, just like he wanted all along. He wanted the Avengers torn apart, but he also needed to be let out, hence why he had Hawkeye and his team show up. It brought them together, but they were still apart. Banner was nowhere to be found, Thor was on the ground, confidence destroyed, Coulson was dead, Rodgers and Stark were at each other's throats still. It wasn't Loki that brought them together, it was actually Fury. The staff doesn't effect through the arc reactor, that's the answer. That's kind of a stupid question. Why can x-rays be taken through clothes, but not lead? ... Anyway... We don't know how long Banner was travelling. Maybe he drove around NYC for 20 minutes. Or maybe, just maybe, he saw the big ass beam forming the portal they were coming out of and went towards that. And finally, apparently the Chitauri were connected with some kind of neural or mental link. King of an easy way out, but there's your answer. There's also a theory that they were actually reanimated corpses, all linked together.
9. Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't the Aether actually in a different dimension, only found when Jane stepped into an anomaly caused by the Convergence?
*Side note, this happened in 2987 BC, while Tupperware wasn't invented until 1984 AD.
10. You'd be surprised how much you would be able to hide when an organization is started, infested with an "evil" organization at the ground level. When you start something at the ground level, it can be molded and manipulated without anyone realizing. When you're writing work procedures, you can sneak anything in there and mold it to whatever you want, if you do it right.
Who said Hydra put parachutes on board? Plus, if he pointed at the ground and jumped out how would he be certain the auto-pilot wouldn't recover the dive and keep the plane going to it's destination. At that point it'd be too late to try and catch the plane again for retry if he got it wrong.
If the jet somehow always reverted to its previous destination without someone manually controlling it — which would be pretty weird in and of itself —
Again, how could he be CERTAIN it would hold? Millions of lives are at stake here. Are you saying Cap should be a gambling man? And who said he'd even have anything he could use to jam against it? I suppose he could go looking for something but at the same time the clock is ticking and NY is getting closer.
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