10 Recent Movie Subplots Everybody Hated

10. Everett Ross & Val - Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

While some fans argued that the presence of Riri Williams (Dominique Thorne) felt shoehorned in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, she was positively essential compared to Everett Ross (Martin Freeman) and Valentina Allegra de Fontaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus).

Though they're thankfully not in the movie much, every moment they show up they simply grind the already wildly overlong superhero sequel to a halt. And for good measure it's later revealed that they were actually formerly married, because why the hell not?

But the banter between the duo fell mostly flat, and at worst deigned to be genuinely cringe-worthy - especially when Val joked about "jumping on [Ross'] peloton."

All in all there's nothing here that contributes something vital to the overarching story, and the duo felt included simply to remind audiences that they exist ahead of the upcoming Thunderbolts film.

This whole plot whiffed of cutting floor material that would've been better off included in a Disney+ series rather than, you know, one of the MCU's biggest sequels to date.