10 Biggest Controversies In The Marvel Cinematic Universe

2. The Overall Lack Of Female Representation

The MCU is currently sixteen films strong, but it won't be until its twenty-first that we finally see Marvel craft a female-led standalone superhero movie, with Captain Marvel set to debut in 2019.

That's eleven years after the first movie in the franchise, Iron Man, opened in 2008.

The Marvel comics are packed with popular female heroes, from the aforementioned Captain Marvel, to She-Hulk, Spectrum and Singularity, so the fact that it's taken this long for a female-led movie is baffling, especially when you consider that the far-less successful DC Extended Universe beat the MCU to the punch with Wonder Woman.

In general, the women of the MCU haven't been given the best treatment. We've already mentioned Black Widow's romance woes, and on top of that, love interests Pepper Potts and Jane Foster have more or less been written out, Peggy Carter died, and Christine Palmer was only there to serve Doctor Strange.

This poor female representation goes beyond the movies too. Fans were less-than pleased when they discovered that finding toys based on characters like Black Widow and Gamora was near-impossible, and, in some cases, the females had even been removed from toy sets that should have featured them, only to be replaced with a male hero.

Thankfully, with Captain Marvel on the horizon, characters like Valkyrie and Michelle being introduced, and Scarlet Witch becoming more and more important with each passing movie, things are looking up, and it appears as though Marvel are making steps to further please their female fans.