FaeGlade Plural
Semper Legens
- Location
- Land of Bureaucracy
- Pronouns
- Plural/They
Actually the MCU does that reasonably well.To be fair, this is a problem with superhero teams in general. Like, where the hell was everyone during Iron Man 3, Thor 2, Winter Soldier, etc...?
In Iron Man 3 - well, SHIELD clearly didn't decide to intervene openly, so that leaves out Captain America, Black Widow and Hawkeye. The Hulk is obviously not ideal to deploy here, and Thor was on Asgard. As for SHIELD not intervening, remember that at no point until the end was the Mandarin that severe a threat - sure, you can argue that they should have rescused the president, but at this point the timetable was quick enough that they could simply not get there fast enough.
Thor - the Dark World was mostly set on Asgard. The fight in Oxford during the end took place of a short period of time, so we can once again say that none of the other Avengers had time to get there. Iron Man maybe, but that only applies if he's near a suit, and flying across the Atlantic takes time even for him.
The Winter Soldier was mostly intrigue. Nick Fury certainly isn't going to tell the Avengers about his super-secret plan. Hawkeye was semi-retired at this point, Tony Stark isn't a trusted asset, neither is Bruce Banner and neither would have helped much with the low-level conflict here. They could have beaten the Winter Soldier (or at least made it easier), but every fight was short enough that there was no time to call them in, even if one of them was in New York.
And then we have the fight to stop the Helicarriers, but that takes place over less than an hour. Put Tony on the West Coast, and he can't get there in time.
Thor - the Dark World was mostly set on Asgard. The fight in Oxford during the end took place of a short period of time, so we can once again say that none of the other Avengers had time to get there. Iron Man maybe, but that only applies if he's near a suit, and flying across the Atlantic takes time even for him.
The Winter Soldier was mostly intrigue. Nick Fury certainly isn't going to tell the Avengers about his super-secret plan. Hawkeye was semi-retired at this point, Tony Stark isn't a trusted asset, neither is Bruce Banner and neither would have helped much with the low-level conflict here. They could have beaten the Winter Soldier (or at least made it easier), but every fight was short enough that there was no time to call them in, even if one of them was in New York.
And then we have the fight to stop the Helicarriers, but that takes place over less than an hour. Put Tony on the West Coast, and he can't get there in time.
And Suicide Squad - well, their entire premise has an in-built reason not to have any heroes there. They're a black ops government unit, they get deployed where the government can't trust the heroes, or the heroes would refuse.
But then they had to turn the Suicide Squad into heroes by giving them save the city by stopping a supervillain.
It's at this point where you get the question "why didn't the heroes show up". But you could have used the same reasoning as Marvel used above - there was no time for them to show up.
Except they fucked that one up too, apparently. It would have worked fine if the Suicide Squad gets sent to kill someone (or steal something, or the like) who isn't a threat yet, the government wants them dead (understandable after the destruction other superhumans caused in the last few movies), thus having no heroes, and then they suddenly turn on the city-destroying mojo. And are defeated in a timeframe that doesn't allow any other heroes to show up. Yes, even the Flash because he could right now be in another fight, or just sit on a project and not watch the news 24/7 to notice the big city-engulfing fight, or maybe he has to nurse some wounds right now, or something. Give that a nod in a Flash episode or the like, and everything is fine.
But they didn't do that, apparently. Why is beyond me, this isn't exactly rocket surgery.