Shield is the military for the beginning part of the mcu

Black Panther 2 they’re trying to steal from Wakanda and it was just so stupid, like at this point these superheroes have saved earth 8+ times and you’re doing little missions to steal from them?

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When was the last time you touched the grass?

Been a while, it's snowy as hell in Canada.

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Turn off the TV

Delete Reddit

Go interact with some real people in the world

get a life

Michigan, same. There ain't much getting me through February.

They are only set up to handle normal threats. That's why the military wanted Iron Man suits, and probably why they want a government run team like the Thunderbolts if that's what's going on.

This is an odd rant.

What's the alternative?

The military gets called in when the Hulk is trashing a city.

They have a weapon that can kill him.

They use it. He dies.

...you hear crickets for the next two hours.

Suspend your disbelief and enjoy the movie. We know spacecraft don't make sounds outside of earth's atmosphere and people can't breathe underwater. We accept it because it's fantasy. Otherwise, we'd just be watching documentaries.

This take is tiring, boring, and straight up lazy. You could do better and you choose not to.

It's a movie. It's entertainment. It's not real.

>In the 30-ish MCU movies/shows, the military has made 0 difference in any fight scene, ever (excluding Captain America: The First Avenger, where it's literally set in WW2).

Ummm...Col. James Rhodes (War Machine)...he does a decent amount. Played by Don Cheadle. Ring any bells?

>Shooting Thor does nothing.

Refresh my memory as to when they shot Thor?

>we all know how much the USA loves to jerk itself off with throwing the military in any action movie

Apparently you love to jerk yourself off with your posts...

Actually, the US military doesn't appear that much in most of the MCU movies.

>It's straight up lazy writing.

This sub would be so much better if automod were setup to autoremove posts containing the words "lazy writing". It's lazy criticism.

The problem is that once you make ordinary people competent in dealing with super people, you quickly reach "deconstruction of the genre" levels.

Not all supers are bulletproof. Nowhere near enough actually take that into account and it gets handwaved away for the plot.

Realistically, most good and badguys in marvel could actually be defeated by a wellarmed military unit or two. But of course if that gets teased, they suddenly pull out personal force fields or LMDs or whatever.

In the MCU specifically, how does the US Military not yet have a full unit of Pseudo-Iron Men by this phase? Whiplash and Hammer showed that people CAN reverse engineer Starks tech, with varying success. The military sure as shit collected every piece of armor scrap they could find from the big battle against "Mr. Extremis". No way they didnt piece at least one generally functiong suit together from that. Next, the Ultron units EACH had at least one arc reactor. No chance ALL of those got crushed beyond use.

All the drones Mysterio used? Very unlikely they didnt use arc reactors, very unlikely all of them get fully destroyed.

And so on.

Sure, Tony was a genius far ahead of his time. Sure, its Super Science. But thats the thing. It IS plausible Science in the MCU, not inexplicable magic. Science people mad at Tony managed to "fake" city destroying monsters that actively could destroy cities, seemingly with relative ease. Dont try to tell me the military could not get scientists intelligent enough to whip up pseudo AI to help run the refurbished Stark suits.

So, aside from "it would be horribly boring to have armies of Iron Men round up and defeat all super human threats" there really is no reason why the US military wouldnt already have functioning ArmorSoldiers on par with at least Iron Man 1 Tony.