6. Where Were The Avengers? - Iron Man 3
It might seem somewhat petty to suggest that the Marvel Cinematic Universe has to justify the absence of every single character it's introduced when it comes to the solo movie ventures, but... well, that's one of the problems with having a Marvel Cinematic Universe in the first place, right? People - whether we can help wondering or not - are going to want to know why all the other superheroes aren't coming to the aid of their friends when they're clearly in trouble. And in the case of
Iron Man 3, Tony Stark is in huge and very well-publicised trouble. Okay, so we know that none of the Avengers come to help out Iron Man during the course of his third solo installment, and that's fine - maybe they were busy. It also makes since that, given Tony's ego, he probably wouldn't have asked any of them for help directly, which explains why he didn't ask for aid when the Mandarin decided to wreck havoc. So it's up to Marvel, I guess, to fill in the gaps with regards to this one - maybe Hawkeye was on a mission somewhere, Bruce Banner had isolated himself, and perhaps
Thor: The Dark World and
Captain America: The Winter Soldier take place at the same time as
Iron Man 3? Just let us know, Marvel.