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Im your host Johnny Rogers bringing you the Top 10 Biggest Avengers Controversies
Coming to life at #10 Back from the Dead
Now the Marvel universe is famous for doing this from Nick Fury, Loki, to Bucky, but perhaps
the most controversial would be the resurrection of Phil Coulson.
In the first Avengers movie Phil is stabbed by Loki leaving us in a state of mourning
for the beloved character.
Only to then bring him back onto the TV show Agents of SHIELD.
How dare they toy with our emotions.
The main reason this one is controversial is the fact that the Avengers didnt unite
to defeat Loki until Phil was killed.
Giving them a strong motive to set aside their differences and take down the cunning trickster.
When the company decides to just bring him back in a new series it downplays the importance
of his death that essentially altered the storyline of the Avengers.
#9 Different Quicksilvers This one is just laziness in my eyes and fans
saw it as a big controversy when the casting decision was made to replace the Quicksilver
actor Evan Peters who played the role in X-men Days of Future past to Aaron Taylor-Johnson
in the Avengers Age of Ultron.
I mean the x-men movie came out a full year before the Avengers film and was a real opportunity
for a terrific crossover, but Marvel left us a bit disappointed with the original Quicksilvers
replacement.
No offence Aaron.
We just enjoy seeing familiar faces thats all.
#8 Cultural Appropriation A hot button turn of phrase that is used repeatedly
in todays culture so you think that Marvel would know and understand the ramifications
of replacing the classic Ancient one who is known to fans as an elderly Asian man with
a white woman.
Whitewashing at its finest.
Although she did a terrific job in the Doctor Strange film this controversy comes as a result
of a huge miss from the casting department.
This could have been a real opportunity for the franchise to promote Asian actors.
The actor Tilda Swinton even shaved her head to bare a similarity to the original comic
book version.
Which fans saw as a counter-progressive move even though the director Scott Derrickson
tried to back pedal by saying that the casting choice came as a result of trying to avoid
stereotypes portrayed by the original character that came out of an American viewpoint of
Asian culture.
#7 Different Hulks Ahh we all remember the big Hulk change from
Edward Norton to Mark Ruffalo.
This controversy comes as a result of the MCU not looking like it had the brightest
of futures at the time.
Edward Norton even said that he wanted to add more diversity to his career.
I know its hard to imagine at this point with the Marvel franchise raking in the dough,
but superhero movies werent like they used to be.
It used to be the case that if you did a superhero movie youd be pigeon holed into that category.
Fans were especially upset with Marvel because of their lack of transparency on the matter,
with little to know statement as to why we had the casting change for the hulk, Ed-heads
took to the forums posting angry comments and even starting petitions to have Mr. Norton
return.
However to no avail and luckily for Marvel, Mark Ruffalo pulled through with a tremendous
performance, I mean hes also just a really nice guy, check out this time I photobombed
a picture fans were taking with him.
#6 Wasp Trap Now some of you may not know this, but The
Wasp was actually Hank Pyms wife and in the first movie Marvel just cut her out of the
story.
She played such an important role in the Avengers that fans were upset with this decision and
even more upset when the character didnt show up again in the Avengers Age of Ultron.
In the Ant-Man movie they actually begin the movie in a timeline where his wife is dead
by the time the film starts.
This lack of female presence compared to the overwhelmingly male cast sent fans into a
frenzy.
This is one controversy the franchine listened to bringing the wasp back as Hope who is the
daughter of Janet Van Dyne the original Wasp in the film Ant-man and the Wasp.
This is a double back pedal in our opinion because not only did they bring back the character
of the wasp they center the plot around bringing Janet back from the quantum realm where she
was initially believed to be deceased.
#5 Sexism Yikes!
That video is just one example of the controversial arena of sexism that the Avengers have played
with in regards to the character Natasha Romanoff better known as black widow.
After fans rightfully lost their mind when this interview was released, both Renner and
Evans had to make public apologies which appeared in the Hollywood Reporter when the video went
viral.
These derogatory remarks however arent even the tipping point to the sexism that was shown
to her character.
Another controversial moment being the moment of Natasha crying and crawling away from the
Hulk which fans saw as a useless damsel-in-distress moment and again when Natasha refers to herself
as a monster for not being able to bear children.
#4 Fascist America This controversy comes to us in the form of
the American hero Captain America who takes an interesting path into becoming a Nazi.
This rewrite of Caps history shook fans when the beloved character began assisting the
fascist terror group known as Hydra.
At a point where our culture is seeing the rebirth of Neo-Nazi like propaganda from white
supremacists switching Captain America from a nazi-punching hero to the dark side really
upset fans.
Marvels response was simply for fans to be patient.
Releasing this statement to describe their decision on the character change.
At Marvel, we want to assure all of our fans that we hear your concerns about aligning
Captain America with Hydra and we politely ask you to allow the story to unfold before
coming to any conclusion.
- Hopefully his core values will triumph over the goals of Hydra and eventually show that
if you stand against oppression good will triumph over evil.
#3 Domestic Violence Also known as the famous slap, Hank Pym who
is most notably one of the founding members of the Avengers displays a horrific act of
domestic violence in the comics towards his wife Janet Van Dyne.
In the comics Hank had a series of failures as Ant-Man and even in his career as a researcher,
when he attempts to pull one over on the Avengers his wife tries to stop him resulting in this
slap.
Hanks wife also known as the wasp was simply trying to boost her husbands dwindling confidence
in lue of her own success.
Ant-Man has even sprayed his wife with raid.
What a dick.
#2 The Mandarin Nooo not the Mandarin Buffet.
Im talking about the Mandarin from Iron Man 3 who in the Marvel universe is known as one
of Iron Mans greatest foes.
In the movie they completely turn this character into a mockery that outraged fans and spit
on decades of comic book history.
This controversy takes place when the great Mandarin who looms as an evil mastermind quickly
transforms into a quivering actor pretending to be the Mandarin as a distraction tool for
Aldrich Killian.
This moment was espcially frustrating for fans because it turns a cemented character
in Marvel history into a complete joke
#1 Spoiler-Man The new Spider-man played by Tom Holland should
definitley be renamed Spoiler-Man for his new reputation for giving out key details
including his own death!
Buddy what are you thinking, you have 12 million followers on Instagram.
Did no one get this kid to sign a non-disclosure.
I mean just watch
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