Now I have to say the new Captain America movie is great. I went in hyped and I got exactly what I wanted.
But there's one thing that has been bugging me since I left the theater and gave it a bit of thought.
That's what has been bugging me and to be honest I'd like someone to prove me wrong just so that the problem can go away for me.
Also, it leads to an ex post facto plot hole for the Avengers and Thor 1. Though to be honest it isn't that much of a problem as the first.
But there's one thing that has been bugging me since I left the theater and gave it a bit of thought.
Now H.Y.D.R.A.'s goal was to bring order to the world using the three new 2nd generation helicarriers to put down anything they consider a threat to their new order. Now I get that. But there's a problem with this: it wouldn't have worked even if it had all gone according to plan.
The three helicarriers are just that, three helicarriers. Now what do we know about these helicarriers? Well, we know they are an upgraded version of the one seen in the Avengers, they are mostly automated and can kill human targets at a rate of 1000 per minute. Wait, 1000 per minute? In the North East coast alone there where over 300 000 targets acquired. That's over an hour and a half to kill all their targets in that area alone in optimal conditions, more then enough time for S.H.I.E.L.D. to realize what was happening and start uprising. And that's on top of the fact the US military would have the carriers as kill on sight targets. And then there's the fact that the total targets around the world is around 20 million (and that may be lower then the actual number given who gave it). There's no way the plan would have worked in any circumstances.
At the end of the day it would have been a disaster, but it's unlikely the casualties or collateral damage would have surpassed that of New York. And this was the fruit of 70 years of planning and behind the scenes manipulation?
The three helicarriers are just that, three helicarriers. Now what do we know about these helicarriers? Well, we know they are an upgraded version of the one seen in the Avengers, they are mostly automated and can kill human targets at a rate of 1000 per minute. Wait, 1000 per minute? In the North East coast alone there where over 300 000 targets acquired. That's over an hour and a half to kill all their targets in that area alone in optimal conditions, more then enough time for S.H.I.E.L.D. to realize what was happening and start uprising. And that's on top of the fact the US military would have the carriers as kill on sight targets. And then there's the fact that the total targets around the world is around 20 million (and that may be lower then the actual number given who gave it). There's no way the plan would have worked in any circumstances.
At the end of the day it would have been a disaster, but it's unlikely the casualties or collateral damage would have surpassed that of New York. And this was the fruit of 70 years of planning and behind the scenes manipulation?
That's what has been bugging me and to be honest I'd like someone to prove me wrong just so that the problem can go away for me.
Also, it leads to an ex post facto plot hole for the Avengers and Thor 1. Though to be honest it isn't that much of a problem as the first.
Selvig was hired by Fury to help them extract energy from the tesseract to help them power their machines. The problem is, they had the man who already did that working for them during the cold war at a time they also had the cube. So why didn't its earth reshaping powers get put to use a few decades earlier when they had it? It would have changed world history.
This was an implied problem after the first Cap movie, but it was one that you could justify away with the argument of "the equipment and plans where destroyed" and "he didn't help them or he died before he could", but here it's made not only explicit that neither was the case, but it's a part of the plot.
This was an implied problem after the first Cap movie, but it was one that you could justify away with the argument of "the equipment and plans where destroyed" and "he didn't help them or he died before he could", but here it's made not only explicit that neither was the case, but it's a part of the plot.