MCU: 10 Worst Things The Avengers Have Done

Are we SERIOUSLY going to ignore Hawkeye's murder gap-year?!

Hawkeye Ronin Avengers Endgame
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To say that the Avengers Initiative worked would be a wild understatement. Without Earth's Mightiest Heroes, who knows what would have happened, not only to the planet, but to the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe?

For a start, Loki would have easily taken over Earth with the Chitauri, handing the Tesseract over to Thanos, helping the Mad Titan on his way to destroying half the universe. The team has faced terrible odds and foes over the years, and have always stood firm to protect the world. This, however, does not mean that they are perfect.

Since the team was established with the original six in 2012, there have been a lot more names added to the Avengers roster. During the fight with Ultron, the Maximoff twins, War Machine, Falcon, and Vision were all added to the ranks, followed by Spider-Man in Infinity War, and Captain Marvel, Nebula, Rocket, Okoye, and Ant-Man in Endgame.

Most of these characters have made mistakes and bad decisions during their time with the team - some of which are far worse than others - and that's without even mentioning how the original six haven't always led by example either...

10. Tony Gave His Home Address To A Terrorist

Hawkeye Ronin Avengers Endgame
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Tony Stark has proven time and time again that he is one of the smartest people in the world. Every tiny detail built into every Iron Man suit is a technological marvel; he was able to built an infinity gauntlet of his own, and he even figured out time travel.

Yet in Iron Man 3, Tony did one of the stupidest, and most reckless things he or any Avenger has ever done. The genius, billionaire, playboy, philanthropist had struggled with anxiety and panic attacks since returning from space, and was at the end of his rope with the Mandarin. In an irresponsible show of pride and supposed fearlessness, he decided to announce his home address for the terrorist and the entire world to hear.

Needless to say, it's one thing to forego the usual superhero secret identity, but this was just idiotic.

Not only did this nearly cost Tony his life, it almost killed the innocent Pepper Potts and just about anyone else unlucky enough to be in the vicinity of his home. The stupidest thing about this is that there really was nothing to gain from the move - it was simply a show for Stark to convince the world he was still the same old Iron Man as before.

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