10 Biggest MCU Controversies Ever
7. Basically Everything About Avengers: Age Of Ultron
No single MCU movie has been more of a lightning rod for controversy than Avengers: Age of Ultron, which was extensively criticised post-release for numerous aspects of its story and press tour.
Where to begin?
There's the weird rape joke from Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) when he talks about enacting "prima nocta," many feeling that the movie was implying Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson) was a "monster" for being sterile, and Chris Evans and Jeremy Renner being criticised for calling Black Widow a "slut" on the movie's publicity tour.
In the less-concerning stakes, there's the fact that many despised Quicksilver (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) and Scarlet Witch (Elizabeth Olsen) having their mutant origins from the comics revoked, a general distaste for the unnecessary romance between Black Widow and The Hulk (Mark Ruffalo), and a pervasive feeling that the film typified the "Marvel problem" of undercutting seriousness with excessive quipping and comedy.
It was a film that just about everyone had some sort of problem with, even though it's certainly not a bad movie overall.
Yet in the weeks following Age of Ultron's release, it was hard to hear much positivity at all above the chorus of complaints - many of them admittedly totally justified.