10 Movie Scenes That Should Have Happened Off-Screen
8. Fury Loses An Eye - Captain Marvel
Just as most fans expected, Captain Marvel finally revealed the cause of Nick Fury's (Samuel L. Jackson) damaged eye, and in typical MCU fashion it wasn't what anyone expected.
Ultimately, it turns out that Fury's eye was scratched by the alien flerken Goose, who takes the form of a cat in the movie.
Given that Fury previously implied he lost the eye as a result of serious deceit - saying "Last time I trusted someone, I lost an eye," in Captain America: The Winter Soldier - most fans were expecting him to suffer the ocular injury due to Skrull shapeshifting shenanigans.
Alas, fans got supremely trolled, and a potentially jaw-dropping origin story for Fury was turned into a one-note joke where Fury didn't even seem particularly bothered by his life-changing injury. Lame.
As with Iron Man 3's Mandarin debacle, this was further proof that subverting expectations is itself not enough, and that if this is the best they could come up with, they were better off just keeping the event in fans' imaginations instead.