10 Terrible Mistakes That Almost Ruined The Marvel Film Universe For Everyone

4. Finding The Tesseract Before Finding Captain America

This one will forever bug people, because there is simply no explanation for it. In Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Steve Rogers participated in a final battle with the Red Skull on board the latter's plane which resulted in the villain being absorbed in to the Tesseract before it burned through the interior of the vehicle and fell thousands of feet toward the ground. Rogers then subsequently guided the jet to a crash-landing away from civilisation that he generally expected would kill him, in a grand sacrifice. Not long after, Howard Stark found the very small Tesseract, which was at the bottom of the ocean, and studied it for many years before his death, and yet it would be seventy years before Captain America, who was in a massive plane, was discovered by a S.H.I.E.L.D. team led by Nick Fury. It just doesn't sit right - even if he was presumed dead - and makes no sense that S.H.I.E.L.D. wouldn't have found him long ago. It's hard to swallow. Granted, the Tesseract is important, but Rogers was a war hero who had a lot of money and research invested in him and you would have thought as much as possible would have been done to find his body.