10 Problems With The Marvel Cinematic Universe Nobody Seems To Acknowledge

3. There's A New Schism Between Comic Book Fans And Non-Comic Book Fans

By the end of its run, Spider-Man had grossed over $800 million in revenue - you'd be a fool to attribute that all to comic book fans. The truth is that Spider-Man also managed to appeal to people unfamiliar with the comic book genre - the movie brought two sides together. When adapting a character to the big screen, you often had directors taking the best elements from multiple stories and combining them into singular films. Not only that, but whenever a film decided to ignore the source material, it was felt by everyone (remember The Spirit?).

When Disney took over, the comics were made meaningless. Save for the beginning, Thor was nothing like its comic counterpart: they made up half the characters and completely ignored his time serving as a doctor called Donald Blake. There was no mention of the Holocaust in Captain America, despite that being a major plot point in the comics (95% of the writers/artists were Jewish). And The Avengers got the original team wrong: the roster was supposed to consist of Thor, Iron Man, Hulk, Wasp, and - believe it or not - Ant-Man.

Marvel have somehow found a formula capable of bringing in casual audience member, which in turn has reduced comic book fans to a snobby, annoying minority that need to simmer down and be grateful that they're getting a film. When Iron Man's archenemy, the Mandarin, was revealed to be a mere persona played by a drunk Brit in Iron Man 3, words such as "butthurt" and "get over it" were thrown at fans. Honestly, what happened to these people? If this same thing had been done before Disney established the universe, non-fans would be calling it idiotic and branding it a direct ripoff of the Ra's al Ghul decoy twist from Batman Begins.

But the Mandarin really speaks volumes about another major problem present in the Cinematic Universe...