12 Mistakes Marvel Needs To Avoid For Phase Three

6. Lazy Romantic Subplots

The Mistake: Pretty much every movie studio in the world is of the belief that a blockbuster movie can't succeed without a little romance, and Marvel Studios is no different. Though the Tony-Pepper relationship works pretty well and isn't lingered on too much, you need only observe how laughably forced the Thor-Jane love-in is in the Thor movies to see how disastrously wrong it can go. The Bruce-Natasha romance seemed to work relatively well in Age Of Ultron, but Marvel are mistaken if they feel like audiences really crave these match-ups. Why It Could Ruin Phase Three: With a number of potential romances to come (namely Star-Lord and Gamora, and Peter Parker and...someone), the forced love angle could make audiences feel a little sick by the time Infinity War rolls around. To their credit, Age Of Ultron proved that Marvel seems somewhat aware of this, and decided to have Jane and Pepper sit it out, so hopefully that's the formula they'll follow moving forward. Even in the standalone movies it's pretty tiresome, though: Thor: Ragnarok could be especially problematic if it continues to force the terrible relationship with Jane down the audience's throats.