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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
First clip from Spider-Man: Homecoming is out.
Looks pretty awesome.
The Avengers have basically been a government approved if not operated team at times.
Its been fairly consistent that they have government clearances and some measure of governmental oversight. I think that Avengers even got paid a salary. Its not like Scarlet Witch has a side job.
But usually unless they have Gyrich directly hanging around, the Avengers are given a lot of leeway out of respect and trust.
Forever liveblogging the AvengersTheir ID cards even act as badges in a lot of runs. There's a lot of scenes out there of various Avengers flashing their ID at a crime scene to gain access.
edited 7th May '17 7:46:09 PM by TobiasDrake
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.The Avengers also work very closely with SHIELD a lot of the time.
And Cap's Champion rank that lets him put together whatever team he wants is government granted.
Forever liveblogging the AvengersWriters are fine with the Avengers having, like, recognized authority and stuff. They just get skeeved out when all the other trappings of law enforcement start coming out, like a recognized chain of command, making actual arrests rather than delivering criminals to the police, or those rare few Marvel supers who actually have secret IDs being expected to not.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.I agree that having some reg hero should be for the best, it weird how in MCU the avenger are state funded and in civil war they are pretty much and anti terrorist organization.
I dont know I just feel they waste a lot of potencial with that.
"My Name is Bolt, Bolt Crank and I dont care if you believe or not"I felt like that was both an Easter egg for the fans who saw Incredible Hulk as well as a way of quietly reintroducing a character they had plans for in the future. Plans change, though, so maybe he'll be back, maybe not.
It all depends on whether or not that Thunderbolts adaptation/Spiritual Adaptation we keep batting around becomes a thing. Kinda kidding, kinda not.
Stark ends the movie making a subtle power play on Ross, so I'm not expecting the latter to come out on top of him at any point. That whole, "Call me, I'll put you on hold, I like to watch the light flash," Brick Joke? Yeah, that was a direct act of overt insubordination for which Stark could rightly be court-martialled even without Ross finding out about the Soviet bunker.
But he won't be, because Ross needs Stark more than Stark needs Ross. Without Ross, the U.N. would just find someone else to be their liaison to the Avengers, but none of this happens without Stark.
If Tony Stark stands up and walks away from the table at any point, the U.N. Avengers are done. He knows that. Now Ross does too.
edited 8th May '17 7:37:49 AM by TobiasDrake
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.Plus, if Team Tony abandons the Accords, what the hell is the UN supposed to do? Which was the rub from the get go in my eyes. If the Avengers had agreed on some sort of amended version of the Accords which was more in the middle (instead of Tony's "we negotiate that later" idea) and had presented that the UN, the UN would have been forced to either accept it or to relinquish any control over the Avengers.

There are people like that in Marvel too. Wolverine and Punisher weren't looked on too fondly at first but they were allowed to operate by the more clean cut heroes because they did help occasionally.