Post by scabab on Sept 4, 2018 22:19:49 GMT
The Avengers were scattered at the time after the attack on the Helicarrier. They also didn't know about the portal until it was launched and they didn't know about the Mothership being on the other side of the portal until Iron Man went through it.
Wasn't that Nick Fury's reason for forming the Avengers? To get the job done and save lives?
They did, they saved millions of people. The whole planet really.
Superman doesn't have a nuclear missile. But Superman could've gone into space and destroyed the Chitauri mother ship and ended the invasion before the Chitauri got to Earth.
Superman wouldn't have known about the Mothership ahead of time. It wasn't that the Chitauri "got to Earth" and then started invading.
Loki used the Tessarect to open a Portal between New York and wherever the Chitauri happened to be and then they started to pour through it.
Superman could have probably stopped the ship earlier than The Avengers because he's faster and more powerful plus he can breathe in space but he couldn't have stopped it beforehand no.
Are you saying that the Avengers don't have the equivalent firepower or weaponry of 1 nuclear missile? If so, then why do they call themselves "Earth's Mightiest Heroes" when they're mighty at all?
Well that's what they're known as in the comics so it was a line brought over for the movie. Thor might have that kind of power but he was preoccupied with Loki.
Captain America just has a shield. Hawkeye has a bow and arrow. Black Widow has a set of handguns.
They're the mightiest heroes on the planet. A Nuke isn't a hero, it's a weapon.