Iron Man 3
Avengers : Endgameincluded a coolIron Man 3cameo during Tony Stark ’s funeral , but the moment also play up a major issue with the MCU . Many fans were wondering who the seemingly random adolescent at Tony Stark ’s wedding was , and it turn out it was the actorTy Simpkins , repeat his role as Harley fromIron Man 3 .
InIron Man 3,Tony Stark was brook from PTSDafter the conflict of New York inThe Avengers , and haunt with finding a manner to keep the humankind safe from another encroachment . He work up loads of new suits , integrated his case into his dead body , and constantly experienced bad dream or flashbacks to what happened .
When Happy Hogan gets put in the infirmary andThe Mandarin ( or , really , Aldrich Killian)destroys his Malibu mansion , an unconscious Tony is zoomed off to the last programmed localisation in this wooing ’s armor , Rose Hill , Tennessee , where he had intended to enquire more of the Project Extremis events . There he met Harley , a quippy kid who help repair his armour and tag down " The Mandarin ’s " base of operations in Miami .
While it ’s coolheaded to see Harley show up at Tony Stark ’s funeral a decade later , the moment also punctuates one of the biggest problems with the MCU ’s shared universe storytelling , and especially how it ’s all make up off inAvengers : Endgame . It ’s long been tell that theshared universe modeling hurts individual filmssince they ’re all at long last determine up something bigger down the route , and this is especially true for the MCU and its far-famed mid and post - credits scene . The movies are all well receive and do well financially , but the excitation is always forward focused , with each film delivering a reason to be excited for the next , sacrificing complete flick for sequels and handsome shared macrocosm teases .
It ’s concentrated to debate with the model , as theMCU ’s successhas express , but it does block the likely quality of a individual movie for the potential quality of an entire universe . Then , whenAvengers : Endgamecomes around , billed as the three - hr culmination of the decade of movies that came before , there ’s , unfortunately , plainly not enough time to deliver on all these promise at once .
Avengers : Endgamegave both Steve Rogers andTony Stark get fantabulous conclusionsto their character arc and are sent - off in a sizable fashion , but when it comes to providing impact on the ease of the MCU ’s hardening - up , most of the excited punchlines do n’t have more breathing elbow room than a moment that could be misconstrued as athrowaway Easter egg . Harley ’s appearance at the funeral , for lesson , implies Tony had kept up their human relationship , and may even incriminate Harley could become Iron Lad in a next Young Avengers , but for most audience it was nothing more than a blinking - and - you’ll - pretermit - it moment .
There ’s simplytoo much in the first 22 picture show of the MCUfor theAvengers : Endgameto wear the burden of giving every unmarried minute a satisfying pay - off , but that means some seed that were planted in earlier movies do n’t see more take than a wink and a nod , at last making the MCU is less than the summation of its parts , delaying its bribe to the end of the road where , in reality , it ca n’t pile up to the apparatus , like the Harley cameo . This is also illustrated inAvengers : Endgame’sfinal battle , wheredozens of characters are all brought to the enceinte screen together , but the movie is really only capable to focus on a handful , with most of the turn back snapped fiber getting little more than a cameo , with Spider - Man and Doctor Strange being the only two characters to get anything resembling a proper an emotion beat .
Given the movie ’s unfitness to give a comforting finis to every individual established MCU train of thought alfresco of Easter eggs like Harley , it makes sense thatKevin Feige has indicated the MCU might evolvethe expression now that Phase 3 is done . Whether that means the larger spark are smaller , the crossovers more abundant , or the whole whim of multiple form make a saga go off , it seems the MCU will deepen in ways that hopefully address this problem .
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