Why The US Government Quit Helping Marvel With The Avengers Mid-Way Through Production

2012’s The Avengers lost the support of the Pentagon due to one big element of the Marvel Cinematic Universe‘s first big crossover movie. Superhero movies frequently include the presence of American soldiers and the Department of Defense in the backdrop of their stories, which typically makes a lot of narrative sense. In scenarios like alien invasions and attacks by superpowered evildoers, it would be expected for the military to step in. The MCU has its own such government bodies in the form the defense organizations S.H.I.E.L.D. and S.W.O.R.D., though S.H.I.E.L.D. is the more prominent of the two.