10 Blatant Fan Service Movie Moments

The Avengers films are full of blatant fan service. Their entire premise is, "what if we have a bunch of characters crossover?" It's wonderfully silly and designed to appeal to the kid in everyone. Most of the time they copy comic covers is great - like in Civil War when Tony and Steve are fighting - or in the original Avengers when Hulk fights Thor.

And then there's the Snap.

Backstory time: in the comics, Thanos snaps to destroy half the universe. But he didn't need to. He had the Infinity Gauntlet and could have destroyed them with a thought. He snaps to demonstrate just how powerless and meaningless everyone else is compared to him. If he wanted he could have waved his hand or blinked. It's a spur of the moment thing that is precisely so devastating because he does it on a whim.

But Infinity War makes the Snap a plot point.

Despite the film building up the Gauntlet as a weapon that is activated by Thanos closing his hand, it turns out for him to wield all six stones at once, it requires him snapping. (Which can't really happen either since unlike the original comic, his gauntlet here isn't cloth.)

The Snap being the key to unlocking the entire Gauntlet's existence is as silly as Captain America's shield being useless unless it's being thrown. Not only does it not make a lot of sense in the film, but Endgame reinforces the idea that the only way to wield it is to snap.

This takes a cool moment that could've been fan service and builds a plot around it, destroying the original, horrifying moment. It's fan service gone sour and earns its place as the most blatant bit of fan service in film.