Post by damngumby on Apr 7, 2018 12:33:50 GMT
Ross said that during CA:CW, which was year 8 of my timeline, 7 years after The Avengers. That means that someone watching the movies would logically conclude that the objectionable level of free reign Ross is talking about started in year 4, sometime between The Avengers (year 1) and Winter Soldier (year 6). Presumably, the Avengers were not completely dormant between those two movie. The reasonable conclusion is they did something in year 4 that raised the hackles of various governments and initiated the call for oversight.
Remember, Ross was listing off a bunch of Avengers incidents and Rogers stopped him from continuing with, “That’s enough”. It is reasonable for anyone watching the movie to assume that there were additional incidents not mentioned.
This entire argument is predicated on the assumption that we’ve been shown everything the Avengers have been up to since the events of The Avengers movie.
... which is unreasonable. The goal here is not to force a break in the timeline with hasty assumptions. As you can see, the Ross statement can easily be explained without breaking the timeline.