Random MCU thoughts
I don’t see how Thor 2, Captain America 2, and Iron Man 3 happen without a rift happening with the team, doesn’t have to be like Civil War but big enough for them each to quit.
Cosmic cube links together the MCU and is the driving force. This SHOULD mean that we get Loki/Skrulls and possible the Red Skull in the Avengers, however I think if Red Skull is in it they are either keeping it a HUGE secret or he’ll be the after credits. I can also see HYDRA being reformed in some way.
Black Widow should turn out to be a traitor like in the comics as an interesting story line. Build the relationship between her and Hawkeye and leave it up to him whether or not he’ll betray the avengers. Widow should also be a part of HYDRA to keep it simple. An easy explanation would be that HYDRA recruits the best and lost its NAZI affiliation after the war, and with Skull’s departure took a more Communist route under Zemo. Zemo could be a rich former East German Communist who revives HYDRA 20 year after the fall of the USSR hoping to bring it back, with the help of Black Widow.
In CA: TFA it is insinuated that Bucky has been tortured or experimented on in some way by HYDRA, which obviously leads to Winter Soldier. This doesn’t mean that it should be Russian Communists finding and reviving him, let HYDRA do that and keep them as the main villains, able to team up with others through the MCU. Winter Soldier should be revealed only in Captain America 2 and should not be shown without his mask until the very end. Winter Soldier and Black Widow should be romantically involved making it difficult for him to kill her at the end.
Sam Jackson is 63, so Fury is about the same age. As a 30ish year old officer he could meet a 50ish year old Stark prior to Vietnam and work with him on weaponry. They then revive the SSR and turn it into SHIELD, using the transformation of the OSS into the CIA as a blueprint. Stark creates Fury’s flying car and blueprints for a Hellicarrier using the same technology.
Howard Stark looked to be late 20s/early 30s so he would have been father in his mid 50s when Tony is born. Which makes sense when the actor who played Howard in Iron Man 2 is just turning 50, and was addressing tony around 1974 in the video.
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