History YMMV / MarvelOneShots

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: One common complaint about ''All Hail The King'' from those who ''liked'' its [[TheReveal big reveal]] is that [[spoiler: the true Mandarin and his vengeance for Trevor's mockery of him possibly won't receive any followup, especially with no further ''Iron Man'' films in development and little room for another movie with focus on the Ten Rings given Iron Man's death in ''Film/AvengersEndgame'']]. However, Kevin Feige stated otherwise in a May 2019 AMA; there are indeed plans to introduce the character properly in a later film.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: One common complaint about ''All Hail The King'' from those who ''liked'' TheReveal is that [[spoiler:the true Mandarin and his vengeance for Trevor's mockery of him possibly won't receive any followup, especially with no further ''Iron Man'' films in development and little room for another movie with focus on the Ten Rings given Iron Man's death in ''Film/AvengersEndgame''.]]

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: One common complaint about ''All Hail The King'' from those who ''liked'' TheReveal is that [[spoiler:the true Mandarin and his vengeance for Trevor's mockery of him possibly won't receive any followup, especially with no further ''Iron Man'' films in development.]]

* VisualEffectsOfAwesome: The Chitauri Gun effects in ''Item 47'' are on par with ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}''. The budget for that short was less than half a million dollars, which is less than an episode of ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants''.

-->'''Creator/ShaneBlack''': Marvel saw so many negative things [with ''Film/IronMan3''] they made a whole other movie just to apologize called Hail to the King. [[http://uproxx.com/movies/shane-black-the-nice-guys-iron-man-3/ In which they said, “No, no, the Mandarin is still alive. That wasn’t him. There’s a real Mandarin.” The only reason they made that was an apology to fans who were so angry.]]
* BrokenBase: Some fans were displeased by the reveal that ''All Hail the King'' would star [[Film/IronMan3 Trevor Slattery]]. [[spoiler: However, the short reveals that Trev's earned the ire of the ''real'' Mandarin, who evidently very much exists, which has been a ''very'' pleasant surprise indeed for some detractors.]]

* VisualEffectsOfAwesome: The Chitauri Gun effects in ''Item 47'' are on par with ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}''. The budget for that short was less than half a million dollars, which is less than an episode of ''Spongebob.''

* VisualEffectsOfAwesome: The Chitauri Gun effects in ''Item 47'' are on par with ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}''. The budget for that short was less than half a million dollars.

* GrowingTheBeard: The first short comprises of nothing more than a clip from ''Film/TheIncredibleHulk'' bookended by clips of S.H.I.E.L.D. agents conversing at a table. It's clear the budget wasn't high on this one[[note]]Marvel originally budgeted for two shorts: 'The Consultant' and 'A Funny Thing Happened on the way to Thor's Hammer'. 'A Funny Thing' was written first, and the action sequence blew the budget for both shorts. 'The Consultant' was written to be much simpler in execution as a result[[/note]]. The following shorts rely more heavily on original footage, display special effects, and boast more interesting plotlines. Now Marvel uses them to test outside characters and seeing if they're received well enough to make the jump to their own show or film.
* HarsherInHindsight:
** ''Item 47'''s goofy, funny ThoseTwoGuys vibe becomes neither so goofy nor so funny after later revelations in the Marvel Cinematic Universe about ThoseTwoGuys:
*** ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'''s revelation that [[spoiler:Sitwell was a HYDRA agent all along. The implications become that Sitwell hired the two for something much more nefarious than it first seemed]]. In addition, Sitwell's legendary patsy act referenced in ''The Consultant''. [[spoiler: So good it fooled Coulson, S.H.I.E.L.D. and ''the entire audience'' into believing he was a loyal fellow agent rather than a HYDRA mole.]]
*** ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'''s reveal that after Agent Blake [[spoiler: got his spine crushed by Deathlok, he started using scavenged SHIELD technology to form an ultranationalist militia dedicated to hunting down and killing Inhumans]].
*** Also, the closing credits for ''Item 47'' show a montage of S.H.I.E.L.D. [[spoiler:with Benny and Claire's help]] building [[spoiler:a reverse-engineered Chitauri gun]]. Then ''The Winter Soldier'' reveals the truth about S.H.I.E.L.D. and then ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'' opens with [[spoiler:HYDRA using energy guns based on Chitauri tech.]]

* MemeticBadass: Coulson as proven by ''A Funny Thing Happened..''

* PanderingToTheBase: ''All Hail The King'' gets this criticism from some, specifically, those who thought TheReveal about the Mandarin in ''Iron Man 3'' didn't ruin everything. Said viewers were OK with that reveal, and felt that adding this extra detail which probably won't get any further development (see below) was just catering to an unnecessarily-incensed fanbase. WordOfGod actually denies this, saying that the idea for the short and [[spoiler: knowledge about their being a real Mandarin who commanded the terrorist group from the first movie]] were already in place during production of ''Iron Man 3'', they weren't invented as a response to fan backlash.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: One common complaint about ''All Hail The King'' from those who ''liked'' TheReveal is that [[spoiler:the true Mandarin and his vengeance for Trevor's mockery of him possibly won't receive any followup.]]

** ''Item 47'' with ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'''s revelation that [[spoiler:Sitwell was a HYDRA agent all along. The implications become that Sitwell hired the two for something much more nefarious than it first seemed]]. In addition, Sitwell's legendary patsy act referenced in ''The Consultant''. [[spoiler: So good it fooled Coulson, S.H.I.E.L.D. and ''the entire audience'' into believing he was a loyal fellow agent rather than a HYDRA mole.]]
** Also, the closing credits for ''Item 47'' show a montage of S.H.I.E.L.D. [[spoiler:with Benny and Claire's help]] building [[spoiler:a reverse-engineered Chitauri gun]]. Then ''The Winter Soldier'' reveals the truth about S.H.I.E.L.D. and then ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'' opens with [[spoiler:HYDRA using energy guns based on Chitauri tech.]]

* VisualEffectsOfAwesome: The Chitauri Gun effects in ''Item 47'' are on par with ''Film/TheAvengers''. The budget for that short was less than half a million dollars.

* PanderingToTheBase: ''All Hail The King'' gets this criticism from some, specifically, those who thought TheReveal about the Mandarin in ''Iron Man 3'' didn't ruin everything. Said viewers were OK with that reveal, and felt that adding this extra detail which probably won't get any further development (see below) was just catering to an unnecessarily-incensed fanbase.

* HarsherInHindsight: ''Item 47'' with ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'''s revelation that [[spoiler:Sitwell was a HYDRA agent all along. The implications become that Sitwell hired the two for something much more nefarious than it first seemed]]. In addition, Sitwell's legendary patsy act referenced in ''The Consultant''. [[spoiler: So good it fooled Coulson, S.H.I.E.L.D. and ''the entire audience'' into believing he was a loyal fellow agent rather than a HYDRA mole.]]

* PanderingToTheBase: ''All Hail The King'' gets this criticism from some. Said viewers were OK with that reveal, and felt that adding this extra detail which probably won't get any further development (see below) was just catering to an unnecessarily-incensed fanbase.

* GrowingTheBeard: The first short comprises of nothing more than a clip from ''Film/TheIncredibleHulk'' bookended by clips of S.H.I.E.L.D. agents conversing at a table. It's clear the budget wasn't high on this one[[note]]Marvel originally budgeted for two shorts: 'The Consultant' and 'A Funny Thing Happened on the way to Thor's Hammer'. 'A Funny Thing' was written first, and the action sequence blew the budget for both shorts. 'The Consultant' was written to be much simpler in execution as a result[[/note]]. The following shorts rely more heavily on original footage, display special effects, and boast more interesting plotlines. Now Marvel uses them to test out side characters and seeing if they're received well enough to make the jump to their own show or film.

* HarsherInHindsight: ''Item 47'' with ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'''s revelation that [[spoiler:Sitwell was a HYDRA agent all along. The implications become that Sitwell hired the two for something much more nefarious than it first seemed]].
** In addition, Sitwell's legendary patsy act referenced in ''The Consultant''. [[spoiler: So good it fooled Coulson, S.H.I.E.L.D. and ''the entire audience'' into believing he was a loyal fellow agent rather than a HYDRA mole.]]

* PanderingToTheBase: ''All Hail The King'' gets this criticism from some; specifically, those who thought TheReveal about the Mandarin in ''Iron Man 3'' didn't [[RuinedForever ruin everything.]] Said viewers were OK with that reveal, and felt that adding this extra detail which probably won't get any further development (see below) was just catering to an unnecessarily-incensed fanbase.

** ''All Hail the King'' reveals that [[spoiler: there is an ''actual'' Mandarin who runs the Ten Rings organization that kidnapped Tony in [[Film/IronMan the first Iron Man movie]], and he is ''very'' displeased with what Trevor Slattery did to his image]].
* BrokenBase: Some fans were displeased by the reveal that ''All Hail the King'' would star [[Film/IronMan3 Trevor Slattery]]. [[spoiler: However, the short reveals that Trev's earned the ire of the ''real'' Mandarin (who apparently very much exists), which has been a very pleasant surprise indeed for some detractors.]]

* BreakoutCharacter: Two, Agent Coulson and Peggy Carter. Their growing popularity was tested out with these shorts, and each successfully springboarded them into receiving their own TV show.

* GrowingTheBeard: The first short comprises of nothing more than a clip from ''Film/TheIncredibleHulk'' bookended by clips of S.H.I.E.L.D. agents conversing at a table. It's clear the budget wasn't high on this one. The following shorts rely more heavily on original footage, display special effects, and boast more interesting plotlines. Now Marvel uses them to test out side characters and seeing if they're received well enough to make the jump to their own show or film.

* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: A common lament about ''Item 47'' is that Agent Coulson isn't in it.

* GrowingTheBeard: The first short comprises of nothing more than a clip from ''Film/TheIncredibleHulk'' bookended by clips of SHIELD agents conversing at a table. The following shorts rely more heavily on original footage, have a special effects budget, and boast more interesting plotlines. Now Marvel's uses them to test out side characters and seeing if they're received well enough to make the jump to their own show or film.

* GrowingTheBeard: The first short comprises of nothing more than a clip from ''Film/TheIncredibleHulk'' bookended by clips of SHIELD agents conversing at a table. The following shorts rely more heavily on original footage, and boast more interesting plotlines.
** And now Marvel's thinking about using them to test new characters and seeing if they're received well enough to make the jump to the movies.

* BrokenBase: Some fans were displeased by the reveal that ''All Hail the King'' would star [[Film/IronMan3 Trevor Slattery]]. [[spoiler: Though the fact the short reveals that Trev's earned the ire of the ''real'' Mandarin (who apparently very much exists) has been a very pleasant surprise indeed for some detractors.]]
** [[spoiler: The retcon itself is this for some people, as many liked the Mandarin twist and thought Marvel should just let this one lie with no plans for an ''Iron Man 4''. They also thought that it reflects poorly on Marvel as ''All Hail the King'' came off as a middle finger to Shane Black and felt like a thin-skinned move to appease the detractors.]]

** [[spoiler: The retcon itself is this for some people, as many liked the Mandarin twist and thought Marvel should just let this one lie with no plans for an ''Iron Man 4''. They also thought that it recently poorly on Marvel as ''All Hail the King'' came off as a middle finger to Shane Black and felt like a thin-skinned move to appease the detractors.]]

** [[spoiler: The retcon itself is this for some people, as many liked the Mandarin twist, thought Marvel wouldn't just let this one lie with no plans for an ''Iron Man 4'', and thought ''All Hail the King'' was a middle finger to Shane Black.]]