I think the hand waving away of Extremis is the bigger issue. Tony fixes Extremis, fixes Pepper, fixes his own heart...and then. You’d think after Rhodey broke his spine in Civil War there would be at least a throw-away line about incorporating Extremis in his treatment plan along with the mechanical leg braces. I do…

Ha! The TLJCU. :D

Strange Quark

To be honest - Ragnarok was the first Thor movie I actually enjoyed.

Except RPO is set in Ohio.

Thor I think is underrated. They nailed the look of Asguard. They didn’t half ass it. They went all the way to 11. Full on bonkers. Chris Hemworth was like casting Christopher Reeves as Superman. Just spot on. And he’s been a linchpin of the MCU ever since.

Did someone say “up Quark”?

And the ‘world-building’ is just so incredibly tame by modern-MCU standards. SHIELD was part of Iron Man 1, so they weren’t shoe-horned in. Adding Natasha worked, even if she was just there to fill out a jumpsuit.

But playing his alcoholism for laughs in “Iron Man 2" just felt in bad taste.

that AC/DC-heavy sequence of Iron Man jumping out of a plane into battle a convention center was pretty good (why does Iron Man need a plane?)

It’s weird how the stand alone Iron Man sequels don’t seem to fit into the larger MCU.

To this day, Thor 2 is the only one I haven’t rewatched. I don’t remember it being bad, I just don’t remember it much at all.

Yeah, I always took that as a nod to Captain America, too. But more that they were trying to recreate the serum that made Cap.

Also, if it’s hard to sympathize with Ruffalo because of Scarlett Johansson, then the same could be said about Norton considering Liv Tyler!

At one point there is a TV onscreen showing a scene from Courtship of Eddie’s Father on it.

What sets the MCU apart is they’ve never had to do that (give or take an Edward Norton.).

But he was a big-risk hire. Back then if you wanted to hire him onto your film, you had to take out extra insurance because of his history.

I realized he’d done such a good job at playing his role as “guy I fucking hate” in that movie that I’d formed a subconscious bias against him.

That looks fun. I’ll have to keep an eye out for it at my used game store.