Worst/most out of place jokes in the MCU

[pr0xyt0xin]

The MCU is the greatest of all time comic book films. This is not a hate thread, just a critique thread. But it's one of the more common complaints with the MCU that they make movies too humorous and not mature enough. Which jokes/humorous moments/one-liners do you feel were completely out of place or just plain dumb?

My top (bottom?) three:

Age of Ultron
Ultron: Everyone creates the thing they dread. Men of peace create engines of war, invaders create avengers. People create... smaller people? Uhh... children!
[Chuckles]
Ultron: Lost the word there. Children, designed to supplant them. To help them... end.

(This is the first time we see Ultron in a real body, he should still be in scary/creepy/dangerous mode, but instead we get a very immature joke from him. No thanks.)


Iron Man 3
**Pepper falls to her apparent death**
Jarvis: Mark 42 inbound.
[Stark sees the MK42 armor flying toward the battlefield]
Tony Stark: I'll be damned. The prodigal son returns.
[Stark summons Mark 42 to come to him, but it hits a pole and breaks into pieces]
Tony Stark: Whatever.

(Marvel already has a problem with fake deaths, never actually killing people off. Nick Fury, Coulson, Bucky, the list goes on... But to make a joke like this, directly after thinking he lost the woman he loves is so out of character for Stark and takes me fully out of the film. He acted way more distraught when Rhodes had been shot out of the sky in CW.)


Thor: The Dark World
Loki: Now they’re following us.
[the smaller ships start firing at them]
Loki: Now they’re firing at us!
Thor: Yeah, thank you for the commentary, Loki! It’s not at all distracting!
[the ship then hits a massive stone monument of King Bor, breaking the head off]
Loki: Well done, you just decapitated your grandfather.

(This scene annoys me so hard. It's a difficult task to make Hiddleston's Loki completely unlikable. But they manage it in this scene. I even feel like the concept was sound, so long as they had executed it differently.)

 

[CaptainWagner]

The scene from TDW never bothered me, but I'd agree on the other two. I'd also add Scott ruining Hank and Hope's reconciliation in Ant-man.

 

[BoredGuy]

Yeah I don't get the issue with that TDW scene

the more egregious example from that movie would be Thor's "It's not mine" cellphone joke after Loki "died"

I agree some of Ultron's lines were poorly timed, but I think your compressing that moment from IM3, they gave Tony at least a moment to be pissed and enraged before the suit thing. His "whatever" was also kind of angry and like "f**k it, I'll fight him anyway" not "LOL whatevs, clumsy mk 42 is totes adorbs"

 

[StormC]

Half of the dialogue in AOU.

I'd also add Scott ruining Hank and Hope's reconciliation in Ant-man.

That was the point though. Both Hope and Hank were put off by Scott's comment.

 

[Wack Panther]

Ultron: "I can't physically throw up..."

Whedon's humor is probably my #1 problem with AoU. It was bad enough that Ultron came across as to barely hold his own with individual team members, but when you also tack on the one-liners, he's not even remotely scary. He was also too contemporary and relaxed with his dialogue. As Wanda and Peter abandon him he's like "Guys! Wait!" He just seemed like a highschool jerk instead of a genocidal rage robot.

 

[Xrated48]

Most of the jokes in AOU particular from ultron

 

[Mike Murdock]

I liked the Iron Man 3 joke. The trick is having it fit the tone of the movie.

 

[CaptainWagner]

That was the point though. Both Hope and Hank were put off by Scott's comment.

But there was no reason for it. They clearly knew they were ruining the moment, so why did they feel the need to do it on purpose? It's like intentionally adding flame to the "Marvel can't be serious" fire.

 

[StormC]

But there was no reason for it. They clearly knew they were ruining the moment, so why did they feel the need to do it on purpose? It's like intentionally adding flame to the "Marvel can't be serious" fire.

It's cringe comedy. Either you cringe or you laugh. Or both.

 

[Drizzle]

A lot of the jokes thrown around during the end battle of AOU seem inappropriate now after Civil War. There were so many casualties and yet here's Stark making a "hide the zucchini" joke and there's Clint and Nat driving around talking about remodeling his house. I didn't mind it at the time, but in hindsight it was probably too much. Age of Ultron should have been a darker film than it was. I still enjoy it and in my opinion it's one of the stronger entries in the MCU, but a lot of it seems like open mic night at the comedy club with everyone trying to out-quip each other.

 

[Loki882]

I had no real problem with the AOU jokes myself. A lot of the IM3 and TDW ones were much worse for me.

 

[Mike Murdock]

A lot of the jokes thrown around during the end battle of AOU seem inappropriate now after Civil War. There were so many casualties and yet here's Stark making a "hide the zucchini" joke and there's Clint and Nat driving around talking about remodeling his house. I didn't mind it at the time, but in hindsight it was probably too much. Age of Ultron should have been a darker film than it was. I still enjoy it and in my opinion it's one of the stronger entries in the MCU, but a lot of it seems like open mic night at the comedy club with everyone trying to out-quip each other.

I thought the remodeling one was important to show Clint's character. It was a metaphor for him being done with the Avengers. He had literally just promised to stop remodeling.

 

[pr0xyt0xin]

I had no real problem with the AOU jokes myself. A lot of the IM3 and TDW ones were much worse for me.

I in no way think these are the bottom three films of the MCU, but their proximity to each other, and (apparent) studio influence would say a lot to why they may be the most offensive when it comes to these crap jokes.

Winter Soldier and Civil War (and even Guardians of the Galaxy), their box office success and critical praise SHOULD go a long way to correcting this in future MCU films. Particularly Infinity War considering it's basically the same cast and crew. It's not about making "serious" films without jokes, it's about balancing the jokes better and dropping the jokes that just aren't worth it.

 

[Zarex]

I like Age of Ultron a lot, probably more than most. But I found that the "It's terribly well balanced." "Well, if there's too much weight, you lose power on the swing." exchange between Thor and Vision after Vision slammed Mjolnir into Ultron to be a bit much. It wasn't particularly funny and showed how weak this version of Ultron was versus his comicbook counterpart. The Vibranium version of Ultron should have been able to shake off a blow from Mjolnir.

 

[pr0xyt0xin]

It wasn't particularly funny and showed how weak this version of Ultron was versus his comicbook counterpart. The Vibranium version of Ultron should have been able to shake off a blow from Mjolnir.

Now that I think about it that's most definitely true. Look at Cap's shield vs Thor's Hammer in Avengers 1. Hmm.... never gave it much thought before.

 

[The Guard]

The "Hell of a day" line that Hawkeye says to Quicksilver's corpse at the end of AOU.

 

[StormC]

A lot of the jokes thrown around during the end battle of AOU seem inappropriate now after Civil War. There were so many casualties and yet here's Stark making a "hide the zucchini" joke and there's Clint and Nat driving around talking about remodeling his house.

Imagine if someone made a movie about 9/11 rescue workers who were constantly spewing jokes at each other while they were trying to save lives. Then at the end of the movie we get a somber scene of family mourning the lost of their loved ones.

That's how jarring the tonal shift between AOU and CW was. In some ways, CW made AOU both a better and a worse movie.

 

[BarryAllen]

Most of the jokes in AOU were cringey.

Ant-man's orange slices quip in Civil War after the airport fight scene brought no laughter in the theater I was in.

 

[Flint Marko]

The orange slices joke was particularly misplaced.

 

[StormC]

It got some laughs on my second viewing, but not my first, oddly enough. I think it was a bigger problem that the joke is kind of obscure (I had to have it explained to me to really get it).

 

[Zarex]

Requesting orange slices was a bit odd. If Scott was loopy, which makes sense after what he had been through, it could have been better conveyed.

Peter's "clock-out" scene was much more effective.

 

[Mr. Forest]

There are way too many to choose from The Avengers, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Iron Man 3, and Thor: The Dark World. If I had to choose one, I guess the line of Thor jokingly saying Loki was adopted. That was just awful and made no sense in terms of Thor's characterization. That being said, his characterization in the entire second act of The Avengers doesn't make any sense after his development in Thor.

 

[StormC]

I agree that Thor saying Loki was adopted was out of place, but it got a good laugh out of me so I gave it a pass.

 

[John Locke]

I agree with all the Ultron ones and the Iron Man 3 one mentioned but the moment that immediately sprung to mind was Thor on the tube. Just horrible.

 

[Silvermoth]

I always hate the line in the Winter Soldier where Natasha opens up about how she was shot and almost died and Steve replies with a dumb comment about what she must look like in a bikini. Worst part of an almost faultless film