Yeah, I can work with SHIELD keeping a low profile right now. If we're figuring IM3 is a few months after Avengers (which sure looked like it was taking place in the summer, and this is Christmas, and Tony's had enough time to spin himself into a circle, but not enough for someone to kick him in the head), then I'm good with figuring the WSC is, a) not willing to get involved in something where it looks like the U.S. is the specific target, and b) still mightily pissed that Thor made off with tesseract and Loki. The Avengers basically ends on Fury telling them to suck it; SHIELD can't be their favorite right now.
My personal fanwank up until now has been that it would be nice to think SHIELD would get involved in the Mandarin problem, because we stick him and AIM in the Big world-should-worry Bad category, thanks to the rest of the Marvel canon. And even if you disregard that, from how the writers set AIM (and puppet Mandarin) up in the movie universe, Killian seems to have gone this extreme in reaction to Thor and the invasion, so we draw the connection. But the way they set it up also argues against SHIELD pretty strongly, because from everything anyone in the movie universe knows until Tony figures it out in Tennessee, this is a straight-up bomb-loving, U.S.-hating terrorist. Nothing alien or particularly weird about it until you know what's going on. So really? Doesn't make sense for an international force to step in, and SHIELD's only logical point of interest is Tony/Iron Man.
And yeah, I can see Fury telling someone to pay attention after Tony shoots his mouth off at the hospital, because there's no way he's not keeping track of Tony. But there's not room in the movie for us to see -- even if it might fit in the compressed timeline after the house drops into the ocean -- any "oh for fuck's sake" action SHIELD might take when Tony goes missing.
But there's not room in the movie for us to see -- even if it might fit in the compressed timeline after the house drops into the ocean -- any "oh for fuck's sake" action SHIELD might take when Tony goes missing.
Hee. Alternate post-credits scene: Fury bashing his head against a wall because it feels so good when he stops.
Presumable CA2 will at least give some hints as to SHIELD's status and who they work for.
My personal fanwank up until now has been that it would be nice to think SHIELD would get involved in the Mandarin problem, because we stick him and AIM in the Big world-should-worry Bad category, thanks to the rest of the Marvel canon. And even if you disregard that, from how the writers set AIM (and puppet Mandarin) up in the movie universe, Killian seems to have gone this extreme in reaction to Thor and the invasion, so we draw the connection. But the way they set it up also argues against SHIELD pretty strongly, because from everything anyone in the movie universe knows until Tony figures it out in Tennessee, this is a straight-up bomb-loving, U.S.-hating terrorist. Nothing alien or particularly weird about it until you know what's going on. So really? Doesn't make sense for an international force to step in, and SHIELD's only logical point of interest is Tony/Iron Man.
And yeah, I can see Fury telling someone to pay attention after Tony shoots his mouth off at the hospital, because there's no way he's not keeping track of Tony. But there's not room in the movie for us to see -- even if it might fit in the compressed timeline after the house drops into the ocean -- any "oh for fuck's sake" action SHIELD might take when Tony goes missing.
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Hee. Alternate post-credits scene: Fury bashing his head against a wall because it feels so good when he stops.
Presumable CA2 will at least give some hints as to SHIELD's status and who they work for.
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