The MCU began just over ten years ago.
For a lot of us, that means we grew up seeing the likes of Iron Man, Captain America, Thor
and the Hulk become the heroes we know them as today.
So today we’re going out of our way and ruining all those wonderful positive memories
you have about these characters with our list of the top 10 Avengers theories that will
ruin your childhood!
For the most part, a lot of these are just strange or weird, but some might make you
se some things you wish you could un-see.
No promises though.
And, of course, with as with any MCU theory video, there may be some major spoilers.
You’ve been warned.
10 Pepper is Dead Pepper Potts disappeared for a while in the
MCU.
After Iron Man 3, where it almost appeared that she was killed off but then showed up
and murdered the crap out of villain Aldrich Killian, who had tortured her with the Extremis
experiment, she kind of went MIA.
Four years and eight films later, Tony kept explaining her absence as “she’s busy”.
Eventually she re-emerged.
Now one could speculate this is just because Gwyneth Paltrow is too busy goop-ing.
At the beginning of Captain America Civil War, the teleprompter that Tony is supposed
to read says “Now I would like to introduce the head of the foundation, Pepper Potts”
except Pepper ain’t there, and Tony looks like he’s on the verge of tears.
It’s just assumed they’re having some trouble in paradise.
But one theory suggests otherwise; that Pepper died because of the Extremis experiment, and
Tony had to hide her death from the world.
He managed to save her mind and back it up, having to rebuild her a body and bring her
back to life.
Its also why he was so willing to return to being Iron Man after Iron Man 3 and having
sworn off the suits; he needed a distraction from how upsetting his reality with Pepper
was.
Really, a more plausible theory than Pepper being dead is that Jane Foster is dead, having
been MIA since Thor The Dark World.
Oh what a waste of Natalie Portman.
9 The Punisher The Netflix MCU series have yet to interact
with the feature films, although there has been quite the trickle down into the shows
based on the larger events that occurred in the movies.
For example, in Jessica Jones’ first season, there’s a whole sub plot about a character
who wants her dead because the super powered individuals who saved New York in Avengers
were responsible for killing her loved ones.
Needless to say, fans are excited to see if the Netflix characters will ever cross paths
with the Avengers.
But one theory suggests that the Punisher already has.
In Captain America the Winter solider, after Fury is attacked while on the go, with a truck
totalling his vehicle.
Director Joe Russo made a comment that the individual driving the truck was a high skilled
person with a very specific skill set.
And people jumped to conclusions based on that comment, assuming that it may have been
Frank Castle behind the wheel.
The descriptions match up, but no one from Marvel has ever confirmed whether or not it
was The Punisher.
8 Battle for New York This theory suggests that the Battle for New
York was actually lost, all because it wasn’t the real threat.
It was merely a distraction.
In a very Secret Invasion sort of fashion, this theory suggests that the Chitauri actually
managed to invade Earth secretly while they plummeted New York with their forces as a
way to divert everyone’s attention while they replaced a bunch of important humans
with their own agents.
Despite that, you know, Thanos was behind it, and it clearly has its own purpose, people
still dig this theory, and for a long time it was a really popular one.
That being said, others have speculated that the purpose of the battle was only to test
out what Earth’s forces were capable of doing.
7 MCU vs Fox This theory explores why there are no X-Men
in the MCU currently, and no Avengers in the Fox movies.
Besides, you know, rights and stuff.
Suspend your disbelief friends!
It suggests that the fictional difference is all thanks to one event that occurred in
the MCU and didn’t in the Fox X-Men universe; the rise of HYDRA.
In the MCU, the rise of HYDRA overtook Hitler and the Nazis before the Holocaust began,
therefore Erik Lehnsherr aka Magneto was never imprisoned or experimented on, so Erik never
actually discovered his powers.
He didn’t meet Charles Xavier, and the X-Men were never formed.
Mutants, rather than having a place to go, a movement or someone fronting a revolution,
stay in hiding in the MCU, although the still exist (as we see in Agents of SHIELD).
On the flip side on that, in the Fox X-Men universe, because HYDRA never rose to power,
SHIELD was never created, Captain America never got his powers, Howard Stark never got
access to alien technology and the Ark Reactor was never created, and so on and so forth.
6 Hawkeye is a Skrull One of the biggest theories floating around
right now is that the Secret Invasion story line from the comics will make it’s way
into the MCU next as one of the big upcoming phase 4 plot lines.
The Captain Marvel film will be introducing the Kree Skrull war, which has led to the
speculation that perhaps the Skrulls have already started secretly replacing characters
in the MCU with their own agents.
There’s a theory that suggests Captain Marvel’s absence in the MCU between the 90s when her
film takes place to now is because she’s off using the Quantum Realm to travel through
time and space to eliminate Skrull agents.
And one of those agents on Earth just happens to be Hawkeye.
The reasoning behind why Hawkeye specifically as far as this theory is concerning is shifty
at best, but essentially its because he’s close to Fury, and manages to keep up with
the likes of literal gods on the Avengers team.
He also wasn’t in Infinity War, and some think this may be the reason why.
That would have some pretty awful implications though.
Fury and Black Widow would feel utterly betrayed, Clint has got a whole family who he’s been
lying to, and the Skrulls would have some pretty solid information on the Avengers.
But if would be pretty funny if all of a sudden it was like SURPRISE Clint's actually got
powers, suck on all of those hawkeye jokes now!
5 Coulson is the Vision This now outdated theory is that the Chief
Creative Officer of Marvel Joe Quesada describes as “I dunno man, it doesn’t feel right”.
So let’s back track a little here.
Agent Coulson died in the first Avengers movie thanks to Loki.
But then he came back in the series Agents of SHIELD.
And at the time, this was before Age of Ultron had come out.
People knew vision was likely going to be in the movie, so people began speculating
that Phil Coulson would somehow become the Vision; he was well liked, well trusted, and
a bit of a blank slate.
Iron Man 3 had just come out and took some creative liberty with the Mandarin, so fans
wondered what else the MCU would switch up, and many felt that this was a pretty likely
thing to happen.
Annnnnd of course, it didn’t.
But it’s still pretty odd and ridiculous, and its hard to not look at Coulson now without
imagining him as Vis.
Eek.
4 Nick Fury is a Clairvoyant Nick Fury is always the man with a plan.
And a back up plan for that plan.
And a back up plan for the back up plan.
Dude’s got a gift, really.
But this has raised some questions as to whether this expert strategist has a bit of help from
some super powers rather than just an exceptional intellect.
But consider this; the amount of money that tends to go into his projects, like the secret
helicarriers or the underground bunkers or even the program that can bring back people
from the dead are all insane back up plans that he would need to have some solid grounds
for in order to approach the government and get those sweet sweet dollars to create them.
This has spawned an idea that Fury is actually clairvoyant.
Even look at how he managed to escape during Captain America The Winter solider after he
was attacked in his vehicle.
Sure he’s an incredibly brilliant man, but he’s also superbly lucky.
A LOT.
3 Stan Lee This theory about Stan Lee has been kicking
around for a while.
Stan Lee has made a cameo in pretty much every single Marvel adaptation to date.
He’s been in every single MCU movie, too.
While fans always love a good Stan Lee cameo, others have speculated that he actually has
an in-universe role.
In Guardians of the Galaxy vol 2, there’s a moment where Stan Lee is chatting with the
Watchers.
This has spawned a speculation that Stan is actually Uatu the Watcher.
If you’re unfamiliar with this cosmic being, he’s a character created by Lee and Jack
Kirby who first appeared in the fantastic four issue 13 back in 1963.He’s a member
of the Watchers, who are an alien species who have stationed themselves across the universe
to monitor the activities of other species.
Uatu is the Watcher assigned to Earth and it’s solar system.
Watchers are the oldest and most advanced beings in the cosmos, and typically are passive
characters, choosing to watch rather than to take action.
Uatu and the Watchers also have the ability to look into alternate realities, which would
explain how Stan Lee has appeared in multiple other adaptations of Marvel properties, from
Fox’s films to 1989’s The Trail of the Incredible Hulk.
Funny enough, Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige admitted that Stan’s cameos in the
Guardians movies are actually a nod to this.
Neat!
2 Peggy Carter is Tony’s Mother Before Steve Rogers made his patriotic way
into the picture, it seems that Howard Stark and Peggy Carter had a bit of a thing going
on.
Rogers even makes some remarks about it at times.
In the Agent Carter series, Howard clearly trusts her unconditionally, and the two continue
to work along side each other in their later years, as seen in Ant-Man.
So this led some to thinking that perhaps Howard and Peggy had a thing together, and
that she’s actually Tony’s mother.
Others who buy into this theory think that it’s a little less scandalous, suggesting
that Maria Stark was unable to have children, so instead Peggy became a surrogate for the
Stark’s, and that’s why Tony is more fitting of her complexion than Maria’s.
On the flip side of that, considering the Starks were somewhat public figures, it would
be difficult to hide that Maria wasn’t pregnant and a child just appeared.
1 Hydra Was Behind Avengers Initiative Captain America The Winter Solider revealed
that SHIELD had been compromised by HYRDA for years.
HYDRA had been keeping track of individuals with the potential for powers.
This theory suggests that rather than try to take them out one by one, they orchestrated
the Avengers Initiative, manipulating Nick Fury in order to assemble the Avengers, with
HYDRA helping Loki with arranging the Chitauri invasion, with the plan that a ‘rouge SHIELD
agent’ would launch a the missile towards them during the fight.
In terms of evidence, supporters of this theory look to the Marvel One Shot “The Consultant”
in which Jasper Sitwell, who was revealed in Winter Solider to be a HYDRA agent, pushes
for the Avengers to assemble.
If it wasn’t in HYDRA’s benefit, why else would his character be in support of having
a team of superheroes amassed?
There we have it friends!
Which of these theories makes you want to curl up and die?
And which of these theories makes you feel like your childhood memories surrounding the
MCU are just small little turds floating through the muggy sewer that is life?
Let us know in those comments below!
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