10 MCU Complaints That Make No Damn Sense
2. The Diminishing Returns Argument
The Argument
The MCU's half-life is showing: every release gets worse than the last. The money they make just glosses over the fact.
The Rebuttal
Iron Man might well still be one of the best MCU movies, but there were some pretty mean stutters in the first years of the universe. The Incredible Hulk was poor, Captain America: The First Avenger didn't yet have the swagger of later films, Iron Man 2 was awful... It's not like they were all swings for the fence that paid off.
Guardians Of The Galaxy, Ant-Man and Civil War were all excellent, and insisting that the quality of each one is diminishing is a flat lie. It's just empty bluster from people who want the franchise to fail.