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It is true that he did let himself go, and we don't know how much training the Flag Smashers had - although it didn't seem like much.
I still struggle to believe that even with such a long period of inactivity a highly trained operative, with superhuman strength and speed performed so poorly against a more skillfull but much smaller, lighter and physically weaker opponent.
It is also true that Sam and Bucky were outnumbered, but given Bucky's previous performances against Steve, it's not a stretch to suggest he could have beaten all of them, having Sam there was just overkill.
Just like good writing, ****ty writing is a thing.
There are personal opinions: if you enjoyed the depiction of Red Guardian and disliked the Hand, well that's up to you. But some writing choices are much easier to argue as being stronger than others.
Writers and directors make decisions about how the events onscreen play out. Sometimes those decisions make sense and are clever ( like Cap being massively outmatched by Thanos, but being able to go toe to toe with him by wielding Mjolnir).
However, Red Guardian is explicitly played for laughs which is an odd choice, given that it totally contradicts everything we see about him in the opening of the film.
In contrast, The Hand are taken completely seriously as deadly adversaries - it is Matt's super senses and skills, plus a lot of help from Elektra, and even an assist from the Punisher that allow him to overcome them.
I would argue that this because the DD show was better written than Black Widow.
Don't remember.
How that reads is that Red Guardian is equivalent to a generic goon. You were the one who said that generic goons are generic goons - which I have demonstrated is incorrect.
I would agree that Ninjas are probably not the most powerful generic goons in the MCU - in fact I dont believe I said that at all.
What I did say was that given their performance
against DD and Elektra, compared to many of the other generic goons ( e.g. the Tracksuit mafia vs Hawkeye) they pose a much more serious threat to the main characters.
You misunderstand.
Generic goons serve a particular purpose in the story within which they exist: usually to provide a degree of threat/challenge to the heroes. However, they generally pose a lot less threat than the main villains.
My point, is that if you remove them from their particular stories so that they no longer have to serve a story purpose, there is a huge difference between them. This is because the generic goons - which is a misnomer really, because generic suggests they're all the same, which is untrue- how about "anonymous henchmen." instead.
You literally said, above:
However, I suggest that a Cadre of ninja or squad of Chitauri are not equivalent to the Tracksuit mafia. How long do you think the Tracksuits would last in a fight against the Hand or Chitauri ?
Then you would lose your money.
You can make all of those assumptions and it still makes the pheromone lock much easier to circumvent.
Eyesight is the primary sense for human beings, it's how we navigate our world.
Try hitting, stabbing or shooting someone with your eyes closed. Then try the same thing with a blocked nose. Which do you think would be easier? I've never tried shooting with my eyes closed, but it wasn't easy even with them open. Ive never tried to stab anyone, so I can't speak to that, but I've fought people without being able to see them properly, it wasn't easy.
As good as the Black Widows are, not being able to see a target would make it much more difficult to kill them, than merely not being able to smell them.
If that works for you, fair enough. Although she perfectly reconfigures her nose immediately afterwards, don't know if her sense of smell ever returned.
