MCU: 20 Things You Somehow Missed In The Avengers
4. Not Much Of A Team
Nick Fury first came up with the idea for the Avengers Initiative in 1995 after his adventure with Captain Marvel. However, the team wasn't properly put together until 2012 when Loki invaded and attacked Earth. This was a lot of time for Fury to recruit, but he did basically nothing.
The original team of six consisted of Captain America, Iron Man, Thor, the Hulk, Hawkeye, and Black Widow. However, the latter two were S.H.I.E.L.D. agents and were never intended to be full members of the team, and Fury knew he couldn’t count on Thor as he could have been worlds away. This leaves us with three.
If Fury is to be believed, then he never wanted the Hulk to be an Avenger, he only wanted Bruce Banner to find the Tesseract. In fact, The Consultant confirmed that it was the Abomination that was touted to be a member of the team rather than the Hulk, something that Coulson and Sitwell cleverly shut down.
This leaves us with two, one of which was Tony Stark, the man who was disqualified from being an Avenger due to a laundry list of character defects, and Captain America, who had only recently been discovered and thawed out from the ice. This really was a mish-mash of a team, and with 17 years to put something together, Nick Fury surely should have had more. He was lucky he had a team at all.