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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Argyle King" data-source="post: 8679438" data-attributes="member: 58416">Iron Man and Captain America were the two which came to mind. In the case of Cap, the movie manages to be both a prequel and a sequel -while also being a good movie on its own.Winter Soldier did a good job of addressing what it's like to be a soldier coming home to a country he no longer recognizes; addressing corruption in the govt; and being simultaneously a Cap movie and a Black Widow movie.I would agree that some movies weren't great, but even the not-so-good ones (usually) paid attention to small details to help the overall story fit together. That includes finding ways to take characters which have a wide variety of power levels in the comics and present them in a cinematic universe in a way where they're all at least somewhat in the same ballpark of usefulness for a mission.Edit: In contrast, Captain Marvel was introduced as just being immediately the best at everything -and also having gotten her powers in a way which was ridiculously easy, but that apparently nobody had ever considered trying before (or considered trying again afterwards).So then other characters need to ramp up to meet that. Eventually, everyone becomes so juiced that they need to be written as being kinda morons to ever fail in a way which pushes the plot forward. Dr. Strange MoM is especially egregious at this during several points of the movie.</blockquote>