10 MCU Scenes Everyone Wishes They Could Unsee

10. Cap Kisses Sharon Carter - Captain America: Civil War

Captain America: Civil War may have largely delivered on the promises of a superhero slug-fest between Team Cap and Team Iron Man, but it also gave fans something they really didn't need to see: Cap (Chris Evans) playing tonsil hockey with Sharon Carter (Emily VanCamp).

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Sharon Carter is the niece of Steve Rogers' age-old love interest Peggy Carter (Hayley Atwell), who dies of Alzheimer's disease early in the film and is mourned by Steve and Sharon at her funeral.

Sharon has a relatively small role in the film as a CIA agent who poses as Steve's neighbour, yet ahead of the iconic airport fight the two share a somewhat awkward smooch while Falcon (Anthony Mackie) and Bucky (Sebastian Stan) watch with glee.

Beyond the fact that this romance didn't feel remotely earned narratively, it also felt mildly icky seeing Cap macking on the niece of the woman he loved, and who he buried literally days earlier no less.

The fact that nothing more ever came of the kiss, and Cap ended up with Peggy in the past anyway, really underlines how utterly pointless an inclusion it was.

It felt like a studio-mandated decision, to have the hot actors kiss because they thought that's what mainstream audiences desperately want to see above all else.

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