10 Things The MCU Wishes It Could've Done Differently
8. Gave Fury A Better Way To Lose His Eye
On the whole, the reception to Captain Marvel was positive, but the film wasn't perfect: almost as soon as it hit cinemas, the internet was flooded with commenters expressing disappointment at how the movie handled the loss of Nick Fury's eye.
Fury's eyepatch has become something of an MCU legend over the years, with tons of crazy fan theories on how he came to need it. In a way, it was almost impossible for the truth to live up to the hype, but those who were expecting a huge battle, dramatic sacrifice, or thrilling one-on-one fight to be the cause were left burned by the revelation that Fury had his eye scratched out by a cat.
This spoke to a larger problem within the MCU: its tendency to value humour over drama. The series has been criticised for its excessive use of comedy in the past, and sometimes, the filmmakers can't seem to read when a moment needs to be played seriously, or for laughs, as proven here - because this joke doesn't even make sense.
In The Winter Soldier, Fury tells Cap that the last time he trusted someone, he lost an eye, but that explanation doesn't seem to match up with Goose at all. Considering the super-serious manner in which Fury says that line to Cap, there's no way he was actually thinking about that time he got his face clawed at by a ginger space feline.
There were so many more badass and satisfying stories that could have been told here, and while the joke was funny enough on first watch, it won't hold up on repeat viewings at all. The amount of fans that expressed displeasure with the Goose-scratch incident is an indication that Marvel Studios should've perhaps handled this differently.