10 Harsh Truths About The MCU Fans Won't Admit

By film 30-something in the MCU franchise, fans know the game at this point; a sequence of standalone hero films followed by a quick team-up of the latest roll call.

Rinse. Wash. Repeat.

From a franchise-building perspective it makes sense and gives audiences the free space to invest in the heroes individually, present visions and stories talented filmmakers want to tell, and create a change of pace each time. The only problem is, once you've shown the heroes get together to fight off alien invasions or rampaging robot armies together, the fact they don't unite for other miscellaneous operations becomes a little jarring.

As much as we all loved Spider-Man: Far From Home, that scene in which Peter Parker and Nick Fury discuss bringing in other Avengers to help fight (what they believed to be) literal elemental monster giants, and that no one else was available was as hand-wavy as it gets. While Sam Jackson could have looked directly into camera and said "money, that's why!", it does beg an in-universe question in regards to uniting the heroes.

When does a character's solo venture warrant a team-up? As much as we love seeing the heroes take on villains individually, the writers and directors of the MCU films have a challenge of creating investment-worthy dangers that don't call for every hero on the Avengers roster to rock up and solve, whilst still being entertaining.

If the films can't justify it, fans are certain to pull it apart.