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* Jessica Jones answers the question: how do mooks think they can take on superheroes? The answer: combat drugs. In real life, defence departments have science agencies working to develop exercise programs, diets, supplements, relaxation exercises, new ways of teaching and assimilating information. This is especially true of special forces who will have scientists on staff to get any edge. In the MCU it is easy to extrapolate this to super soldier serums and the red/white/blue pills. Add whatever real world or fictional criminal enhancements you like (steroids, speed, who knows?) and you get mooks who think they are dangerous enough to take on our heroes. (This also explains Stark's fear that JSOC will be a threat to Cap and Bucky in Winter Soldier.)

* Secretary Ross' line in ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'' to the members of the Avengers about two lost nuclear warheads (referring to the absent Hulk and Thor) might actually double as a reference to a nuclear warhead recently being stolen in the concurrent third season of ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' (in this case, for use in [[BigBad Hive]]'s master plan) -- unless, of course, the two plot points are [[RightHandVersusLeftHand just a total coincidence]].
** Actually, that could be an allusion to the fact that the government isn't the best option for keeping an eye on superhumans, because the US government ''has'' lost nuclear weapons before. The scary part is that we're not even entirely sure how many have gone missing, it can be be anywhere from 6 to a dozen (mostly during the Cold War). (Oh, and before you think that's bad, the USSR was ''way'' worse, and since the fall of the USSR only made their terrible record-keeping even more sketchy, it's even more uncertain how many nuclear weapons they've lost. The smart money's on around 33, but some of the more liberal answers claim it to be as high as 100)

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* The post-Avengers U.S government is also a bit of a notably split between Perlmutter and post Perlmutter. In Perlmutter's time Obama, a Democrat, was replaced by Mathew Ellis (presumably a Republican per American Political tendencies). More notably, a confirmed Republican, Christian Ward, was a senator in Massachusetts, a ''very'' Democratic state that rarely elects Republicans that high. Perlmutter is a known mega-dollar Trump supporter and Republican, and one could see this as a sign that the MCU shifted conservatively politically in the aftermath of the Avengers film. This government, while not shown as flawless at this point (see the V.P in Iron Man 3), was shown to be fairly moral. After Perlmutter was removed from the films and Feige had no interference from him (while Feige's politics aren't as clear as Perlmutter's, he is presumably farther to the left than 'all black guys look alike, female led films have no chance, what's the difference between minority and oppression based X-Men and self-oppressing, slave keeping Inhumans' Ike, regardless of if he is Republican or Democrat), we have films like ''Civil War'', ''Infinity War'', and ''Ant-Man and the Wasp'', which clearly show the Government as power-grabbing, stupid, thieving, and not behaving properly. Regardless on one's thoughts on the exact nature of each political party, one can read the shift as being tied into the fissure of Perlmutter and Feige.