Potentially, if Stark has too many close female friends, it makes it harder to portray him as a skeevy womanizer.

…There was also no real Captain America.

How much more personal can Peggy Carter's motivation get?

I'm with you. I'm pretty obsessed with Peggy Carter's hat right now.

His dad specifically yells at him that he's not a god.

I thought it was really in character for him. People can recognize their faults and even want to change without actually changing.

It sort of matches up with AoS, where the military guys are portrayed as bumbling idiots and that's why SHIELD needs to exist.

I think he got through to the other agent pretty quickly, and that sick soldier in about 10 seconds.

It's not so much that he has the power, as that it's vaguely defined and used as a lazy plot device.

That's funny that no reviewers picked up on that, because all I could think during that scene was that Peggy sure spends a lot of time talking to people in airplanes.

Isn't the most frustrating part of most superhero narratives their sense of justice, though? Peggy's not going to kill the villains (although she had no problem killing all those nameless dudes in Russia), just like Batman is never going to kill the Joker.

Leslie Knope is one of my favorite characters, period.

Why do you know that? Are YOU Todd VanderWerff?

I don't think so. Chloe Bennet is ok, kind of bland, but I don't know if Meryl Streep could have made a convincing character out of the crap they were writing at the beginning of that show.

I'm still not convince Jarvis' wife is real.

Fair.

The Avengers is about a GROUP of superheroes, with no specific leader (although Captain America may become it), who have all had their own movies devoted to their character development, plus Black Widow and Hawkeye, who we don't know much about in the Avengers.

The Avengers, Guardians, and The Incredibles are about groups of superheroes, not one, and naturally, all those characters have some amount of character development.

Yeah, I have zero problem with Jarvis. Even in the story, there's a great reason for why Stark puts him with Peggy: Jarvis is Stark's closest confidante. He's his butler, he knows all his secrets, and it's not like he has another one of those on hand to loan out who just happens to be female. And somehow I can't…

Home of another beloved Peggy.