No matter how much of a Marvel fan you are, you have to concede that Avengers: Age Of Ultron had its pros and cons, but where it really fumbled was the dismount. After Iron Man set the bar high for post-credits scenes by introducing Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury, Avengers threw two chewy bonus features: one introducing Thanos as the Chitauri's master and another with a great, expectations-defying gag about the team enjoying a New York dish. What did Age Of Ultron offer? Apart from some less-impressive renditions of what you'd just seen, we got a scene of Thanos putting on a glove and resolving to do his own legwork, a decision that everybody greeted with a hearty "What took you so long?" It was a curious choice for a movie with so much going on before the credits. And it certainly didn't have to be that way. Aside from setting up Ant-Man, as was rumoured to be the plan early on, the end scene could've built up Thanos as a bigger threat, set up key plot points for Marvel movies we know about, or brought out something really surprising. Here are ten such possibilities that would have led to a much better movie.
T Campbell has written quite a few online comics series and selected work for Marvel, Archie and Tokyopop. His longest-running works are Fans, Penny and Aggie-- and his current project with co-writer Phil Kahn, Guilded Age.
