10 Most Out Of Place Scenes In Sci-Fi Movie History

Avengers: Endgame brought the Infinity Saga to a definitive close in 2019, bringing the entire roster of MCU heroes back to our screens to defeat Thanos (Josh Brolin). While the Earth's mightiest heroes triumphed, the film also put paid to many characters we had spent the previous decade growing to love, including the original female Avenger: Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson).

Thankfully, unlike a decade ago, there are plenty more well-developed female heroes to fill her shoes, and nowhere is this more apparent than in the film's final battle against Thanos. Unfortunately, the best and brightest at Disney and Marvel got together and decided the only way to showcase this was to have all of the major female characters to assemble in a row in the midst of battle, trading lines to a swell of inspirational music.

What is intended to be a badass, female-affirming scene comes off as the cheesiest, hammiest, most manufactured moment the MCU films have ever brought us – and that is saying a lot, considering some of them rely almost solely on cheese, gloss and soap opera drama to pad their runtime. It doesn't even make sense for these characters to be fighting together, many of whom don't know each other, and whose powers aren't really suited for the kind of charge-into-battle approach (looking at you, Mantis).

They thought fans wouldn't see this moment for what it is: pure lip service.