Marvel Universe inconsistencies

Originally posted by dgunthert

So I finally got around to watching Captain America the other night. I really do like the way they've integrated the universe and weaved threads from the different movies together (the super soldier serum enhanced by Stark technology, Banner trying to recreate it using Gamma Rays, etc). But there are two apparently gaping holes that I can't get over.

1. In Captain America, Red Skull has extremely advanced weaponry that can presumably only work with power supplies provided by the tesseract. At the end of the movie, the tesseract falls out of the plane. Howard Stark finds it using a submersible. Since he looks just like he did during the earlier scenes, one would presume that he finds it not long after Cap's plane goes down. So, if Stark and the U.S. had the tesseract for 70+ years, why are there no working weapons using it's power when The Avengers starts up? They had some new designs, sure, but apparently no production weapons. Near the end of the movie, they're reduced to firing a nuke at Loki to try and stop him. What possible sense does that make? Korea, Vietnam, Gulf War I and II, Afghanistan. The U.S. decided through all those conflicts not to even produce the weapon designs that Red Skull had come up with? Howard Stark, your top defense contractor, found the damn thing and you haven't done anything with it? You took it away from him and hid it in a hole?

2. That leads to the second. Howard Stark found the tesseract. How is it that Tony doesn't know about it or any of the designs? You're going to keep your STILL top defense contractor in the dark? Hell, with the tesseract, Tony would have been on the Mk XXVIII suit by the time The Avengers events happened.

If they had just left the tesseract buried in the arctic with Rogers, all this goes away. Stupid, nerdy, rant, yeah, but I'm bored this morning.

Originally posted by Leegoocrap

Have you read Marvel comics?

Don't even get me started on the death (err...sleep/coma) of Superman, where Doomsday breaks out of an underground bunker, sees a wrestling match on a TV and decides to go enact SummerSlam 1992 on the Justice League. (although I guess that was DC trying to save their sinking ship at the time)

Originally posted by dgunthert

So I finally got around to watching Captain America the other night. I really do like the way they've integrated the universe and weaved threads from the different movies together (the super soldier serum enhanced by Stark technology, Banner trying to recreate it using Gamma Rays, etc). But there are two apparently gaping holes that I can't get over.

1. In Captain America, Red Skull has extremely advanced weaponry that can presumably only work with power supplies provided by the tesseract. At the end of the movie, the tesseract falls out of the plane. Howard Stark finds it using a submersible. Since he looks just like he did during the earlier scenes, one would presume that he finds it not long after Cap's plane goes down. So, if Stark and the U.S. had the tesseract for 70+ years, why are there no working weapons using it's power when The Avengers starts up? They had some new designs, sure, but apparently no production weapons. Near the end of the movie, they're reduced to firing a nuke at Loki to try and stop him. What possible sense does that make? Korea, Vietnam, Gulf War I and II, Afghanistan. The U.S. decided through all those conflicts not to even produce the weapon designs that Red Skull had come up with? Howard Stark, your top defense contractor, found the damn thing and you haven't done anything with it? You took it away from him and hid it in a hole?

2. That leads to the second. Howard Stark found the tesseract. How is it that Tony doesn't know about it or any of the designs? You're going to keep your STILL top defense contractor in the dark? Hell, with the tesseract, Tony would have been on the Mk XXVIII suit by the time The Avengers events happened.

If they had just left the tesseract buried in the arctic with Rogers, all this goes away. Stupid, nerdy, rant, yeah, but I'm bored this morning.