The Marvel Cinematic Universe's 11 most ridiculous moments 

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We can accept that superhero films require some suspension of belief, but occasionally we feel like the MCU is asking us to suspend thought altogether.

Either way, we\'re not sure we\'re going to be very afraid when ultimate intergalactic supervillain Thanos finally makes his mark on the MCU. He\'s going to have to get his act together when the logic is this flexible...

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has Chris Hemsworth\'s thunder god trapped in Asgard and unable to be reunited with his beloved Jane Foster (Natalie Portman). But the next time we see him (in

) he\'s back with only a hand-wavey half-explanation about "dark energy".

Speaking of Jane, Marvel – which doesn\'t have the best track record with female characters anyway – is portrayed as a scientist who magically transforms into a goon who drools all over Thor\'s muscles whenever he shows up.

? She is portrayed as literally being unable to function when her man is gone, spending months (and we quote) "moping around in [her] pyjamas, eating ice cream" and refusing to shower.

Was there at any point at which the alien Chitauri invaders in

were portrayed as robots, or some kind of hive mind or something?

 as soon as their mothership is blown up? Tony Stark was last seen in his lab muttering something about "narrative expediency". Whatever could he mean...?

So, the overarching plot of the MCU at the moment is that Thanos is collecting the Infinity Stones so that he\'s properly blinged out for

If that\'s true, why did he just lend out one of them to Loki (the Mind Stone, in his mind-controlling staff) before

as though it was nothing, and make no attempt to get it back? You had one of the six stones, Thanos. Now you\'ve got a red face. Well, a purple face.

So, the process used to turn Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) into a Super Soldier has been lost, and that\'s very sad, sure.

But that doesn\'t explain why the military dresses him up in a silly costume and sends him on a USO Tour to entertain the troops – something that could be done by an actor, a model, or even a dancing horse instead of a massively talented, physically magnificent and all-round useful infantryman. WTF, guys? Good thing the sequence itself was a great bit of retro-\'40s musical action.

So, Lee Pace\'s Ronan is on the verge of destroying the planet Xandar at the climax of 

Instead he allows himself to be distracted from his mission of revenge by Peter Quill (Chris Pratt) doing a dance. How did a monomaniacal space warlord get so far with such a short attention span?

7. What to do when Iron Man creates an evil, unstoppable AI?

So, Tony went behind everyone\'s back and created Ultron, who is now on the verge of killing all humans. His solution? To mess around with AI even more to create Vision and somehow solve the problem he caused in exactly the same way.

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" scream all the Avengers in unison. Except they don\'t. Because they\'re all stoned or watching

I\'m the fastest man alive. I shall save you from being shot, Hawkeye and little boy.

But how? Should I grab you and run out of the way? Nah, I\'ll just push you a bit and stand here, letting myself be riddled with bullets. It\'s way more dramatic and stupid.

You would think that a place called the "Joint Counter Terrorist Centre" might have a reasonable level of security. You would be wrong.

Even looking past the fact that they don\'t have backup generators to keep security running properly in the event of a power cut,

\'s villain Zemo (Daniel Bruhl) is able to steal the identity of a psychiatrist and waltz in for a one-on-one chat with their top prisoner, Winter Soldier.

A psychiatrist who looks nothing like him, incidentally. We\'re glad global security is in safe hands.

"Fine. I\'ll do it myself," says Thanos (voice courtesy of Josh Brolin) in

Yeah, we get that it means he\'s going after the Infinity Stones (including the one he gave away). But do it himself as opposed to what? Mate, you had nothing to do with anything that happened in this movie. Don\'t go sounding disappointed that your completely absent minions failed you.

Consider this to be four or five points jammed into one.

concludes with Tony Stark blowing up all his suits (which he only called out for the final battle for no reason) as a symbol of his retirement from the superhero lifestyle. Which would have been okay if he hadn\'t come back straight away for

to address that, and then only did barely, and in the same breath as "Gwyneth Paltrow\'s contract is up so no more Pepper Potts, soz".)

Next up, Tony jumps into surgery and has his arc reactor removed. You know, the one that was preventing the shrapnel stuck in chest from killing him. The one that had to be kept in even when it was poisoning him (see

By why let all those firmly established plot points and the future of the MCU get in the way of a rushed "emotional" ending?

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