14. Iron Man
"See?" your friend shouted excitedly at the screen, and possibly you also. "This is what I'm talking about!" The scene he was referencing was the "big" reveal in which the audience confirms their suspicions that Obadiah Stane is the one who arranged for Tony Stark to be kidnapped AND is the one supplying Stark Tech to the Ten Rings terrorist organization. Your friend elucidated. "We sell our technology to the very organizations we're fighting and cause the very problems we're fighting against! War HELPS us. We use the world, navigating it like a chess game to fulfill our goals. War and politics is all bullsh*t to make sure we stay on top." "Yeah, I know," you replied. "No, I don't think you do," your friend said passionately. "Governments do this in real life!" "Yeah, I know," you agreed. "It's using science fiction to represent real life!" "Definitely." He continued by lamenting how "the government's" lust for power is choking us all and that humans are by nature oppressive, concluding that there is no hope for anything anywhere, because there is no Iron Man in real life to save us from it. But luckily Nick Fury's appearance in the post-credits scene always gets him excited about life again and helps him look forward to more movies that will depress him and frustrate us at his limited understanding of them.