10 Insane Things In Massive Movies (That Everyone Just Ignores)

In the 1940s Red Skull orders Arnim Zola to study the Tesseract, believed initially to be Asgardian technology but later revealed to be housing an infinity stone. The film seems to indicate that within a few months of acquiring this artifact he is able to build advanced energy weaponry well beyond the technology era of the time. After Hydra's defeat, both Zola and the end up in America's hands.

Yet despite recovering Arnim Zola, the Tesseract and more than likely recovering Hydra weaponry, the worlds technology barely changes between Captain America and the first Ironman film. In fact in the decades that follow all Zola manages to create is the winter soldier, hardly that impressive compared to legions of lethally armed soldiers. This then gets even weirder in that between 2008 and 2012 the world can suddenly create flying Helicarriers, and between 2012 they can suddenly create repulsor propelled Helicarriers.

You might try to explain that technology begins to develop faster due to the influence of people like Tony Stark and Bruce Banner, but this just begs the question as to why these two men were forever kept in the dark. Tony Stark is clearly smart enough to build advanced technology without Alien technology to study, but even when faced with overwhelming danger they never clue him into the inner circle.

What we are left with is a world technology level that peaks in the 1940s, then drops and barely climbs for 60 years, then suddenly spikes past the peak in a few years, but only for a few people on the planet.