Marvel's Avengers Trailer Breakdown - 12 Things Everyone Totally Missed
4. San Fransisco Is Completely Deserted
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So, unfortunately the Terrigen explosion doesn't seem to have imbued everyone with powers. In fact it looks as though the Golden City is really quite desolate, complete with an overcast hue that makes it look like America's very own exclusion zone.
In the comics, we've seen the Avengers come up against the government time and again, but never over something quite on this scale. The destruction of a major US city is more than enough cause for the Avengers to never band together again, and it certainly outranks the disasters that befell the team in the Civil War comic and later its cinematic adaptation.
One can only wonder if the Avengers will be able to rebuild San Fran, but for now - five years after the events of A-Day - it's effectively an American wasteland.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
