10 MCU Scenes Everyone Wishes They Could Unsee
7. Bruce Falls On Top Of Natasha - Avengers: Age Of Ultron
Avengers: Age of Ultron is an ambitious mess of a movie, and one that undermines its own sense of tension and stakes at almost every turn.
The blame was largely squared at writer-director Joss Whedon, who overloaded the film with quippy dialogue - which we'll get to later - and lousy comic relief that often fell flat.
Whedon's films have also been re-examined recently in light of the various allegations levelled against him, with the underlayer of sexism prevalent throughout his work being called out.
One of the more infamous examples of this occurs during Ultron's (James Spader) initial attack against The Avengers in Age of Ultron, where Bruce Banner (Mark Ruffalo) is blown across the bar and lands on top of Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson).
That's not all, though: Banner lands face-first between her breasts, in what's intended to be a beat of cute comic relief but feels more like the sort of dated, casually sexist humour that should've been thrown out years ago.
Whedon even repeated the gag a few years later in Justice League, where The Flash (Ezra Miller) momentarily lands on top of Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot), yet in that case an uncomfortable Gadot insisted upon a body double being used.
The point, though, is that the MCU really should be above "Haha he fell in her boobs!" humour, and occurring in the middle of an apparently serious action scene as it does, it immediately rips us out of the moment.