12 Biggest Unanswered Marvel Movie Mysteries

You really have to admire Arnim Zola. He was a master of death - reincarnating himself as a computer before they were really a thing - and he managed to predict the future of superheroes (and villains) for SHIELD by profiling them based on their history. That's like actual magic.

Even more magical is the fact that Zola's algorithm identifies Stephen Strange as a target in The Winter Soldier, a good few years before Strange even has his accident and sets himself on a path of reluctant enlightenment. So Zola not just read Strange's past to predict his future, he also somehow predicted a completely random event (Strange's accident) and how precisely it would transform Strange (all while failing to identify the ACTUAL threat of the other Sorcerors seemingly).

It makes sense that SHIELD and Nick Fury would be monitoring Atlantis and Namor, because he's a legitimate super-threat, but at the time of Zola's algorithm identifying Strange he's no more than a self-obsessed, arrogant douche-bag surgeon. He wouldn't represent any sort of threat on that trajectory because Doctor Strange established that he had almost no genetic ability to self-identify or to show any altruism. How could anyone living in that sort of bubble pose any threat to anyone other than the people trying to make personal relationships with him?

This would have been easily fixed if Scott Derrickson had accepted that his film was set earlier in the MCU timeline, but he's always been wholly committed to it being set in 2016 onwards. Which also makes no sense, but whatever.