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There was a moment in Spider-Man: Homecoming
This moment, where I went, "Wait, what?"
If Spider-Man: Homecoming is set in 2017, then that means The Avengers, which came out in 2012
was actually set in 2009.
Or maybe Avengers was set in 2012 and Spider-Man is set in 2020.
Or maybe these movies aren't set in the years that they come out.
Turns out there is an explanation for this. I'm not gonna go into it, though.
I'm not some pedantic nerd who makes videos about Marvel continuity errors.
Look, that's clearly not true. I'm all of those things, so you know what? We're gonna roll with it!
That's what this is gonna be -- going through some universe-breaking plot holes from the MCU.
All of these probably have explanations, but if they're on this list, that means I didn't look them up.
There you go.
This first one is big and it has plagued me since it first happened.
Agent Coulson, who was stabbed to death in The Avengers -- you remember that, it was a beautiful little moment in a film --
anyway, you flash forward to Agents of S.H.I.E.LD. on ABC and Coulson has returned.
Now, initially, I'm thinking, "Right, okay, well, it could be an LMD."
Maybe some medics got to him before his heart stopped beating, because it had a giant hole in it.
But, hey -- it turns out that he was dead, and what they done to resolve this is unscrew the top of his head
poke around a bit, and then, bam! -- he's back. He's out there!
So that means that in the MCU, there exists a definitive cure for death.
Sure, it's complicated and probably costly, but inevitably, when someone important eventually dies --
Quicksilver does not count; and it's not another fake-out --
the question should surely arise, "Hey, why doesn't somebody do that thing from Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.?"
"You know, that show ABC wanted to cancel until Disney stepped in and slapped the non-cancel button."
By the way, every TV network has a cancel and non-cancel button.
It's just -- I mean, it's easier. It's less paperwork.
On the topic of Marvel TV, though, it's become more and more apparent, that as the Netflix serieses progress
that everybody outside of Hell's Kitchen doesn't give a shit about what happens there.
I mean, what would it take for even the worst Avenger to step in and intervene?
The worst Avenger, of course, being Quicksilver's corpse.
Wasn't anybody concerned, at all, when someone was drilling into the core of New York City
resulting in unusual and potentially city-destroying seismic activity?
The whole of New York was literally going to fall down!
Also, stop referring to the time the aliens attacked New York City as just "The Incident".
It's okay that these two universes, that exist in the same universe, legitimately acknowledge one another.
Recasting in the Marvel Universe is unavoidable.
Or it's very avoidable! I don't know. I'm not privy to these decisions.
Anyways -- sometimes it's barely noticeable, like when the men in tights from the Thor films was swapped out.
But other times, it's very noticeable -- like Rhodey and Bruce Banner.
I mean, this isn't really a continuity error. They're still technically the same character
but they do have different faces, so... I'm countin' it, I guess. It counts.
I didn't edit it out. It's a point I'm making, apparently.
Right, so if you've seen the Inhumans, which, judging from the lukewarm response received
you probably haven't. I mean, the only positive review it received said something about
"Thoughtful metaphors in a superhero series."
I'll tell you this much, though: I have seen it. That is 100 percent not the case.
But that's neither here nor there.
The reason, though, I bring up the Inhumans --
let's not pretend we live in a reality where the Inhumans isn't the worst thing in the MCU --
but what that will basically mean is there's a society of people living on the moon
that will go completely ignored for the duration of this franchise.
Which could wrap in, say, in a few years, but more likely, this whole thing's gonna extend for decades.
Maybe this doesn't result in a broken universe, but I still think it's gonna be strange
that every time we see the moon in a Marvel film people are gonna think --
well, y'know, people that saw the Inhumans --
"There are actual people living there and nobody gives a shit."
I got a few others that I wanna go through but I might save those for another video.
Nah, y'know what -- fuck it. I'll do it now.
S.H.I.E.L.D. was labelled "S.H.I.E.L.D." in the '40s, and yet flashforward to Iron Man
and apparantly, they haven't figured out a name for it yet.
"I'm Agent Phil Coulson, with the Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Divison."
Pepper: "That's quite a mouthful."
Coulson: "I know. We're working on it."
Also, in The Incredible Hulk, Captain America's shield was frozen in a different place
to where it was found in his movie.
Well, unless it's an entirely different shield, in which case -- I mean, what are the chances?
Also, Tony Stark perfected limb-regrowing technology.
You know who'd love that?
Coulson; Rhodey's legs.
The Winter Soldier.
I mean, if you're unwilling to regrow the arm of a man who strangled your mother to death
then what kind of man are you?
Hold a mirror up to yourself, mate. The real villain is you
...and your weird little goatee. Why you still rockin' that?
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Perhaps on something you feel breaks the MCU, or even a refute to one of my bulletproof points in this video
that are, no doubt, impossible to counter-argue.