Why won't the Avengers help the "irrelevant" people?

Oct 22, 2017 22:16:52 GMT DC-Fan said:

On the TV show Person of Interest, each episode began with a narrative by Finch about the machine he built that detected threats to ordinary people whom "the government considered irrelevant. They wouldn't act so I decided I would".

In BvS, we saw Superman saving a little girl from a fire and the Flash stopping a grocery store robbery. In the JL trailers, we saw Wonder Woman come to the rescue when armed robbers take hostages.

But we've never seen the Avengers save ordinary people from a fire or stop a grocery store robbery or take down some hostage-takers. In fact, in SMH Tony Stark even points out to Peter Parker that helping the irrelevant people is below the Avengers' pay grade.

So the Avengers won't help anyone who can't afford to pay? If you're not in the highest tax bracket, the Avengers won't help you?

They are no different than say a spec ops team in the military, "below their paygrade" isn't a statement on what class of people thye are going to help but a euphemism to describe the threat level they tend to deal with.

Avengers take on high risk threats because they can handle those risks and remain relatively safe, using Avengers to stop street crime is like using C4 to help remodel a house, it's extreme overkill.

Also by not intervening in regular crimes it allows local and state police & governments to look competent, Daredevil showed how the idea of individuals better trained but outside the law taking things into their own hands and out of the polices can lead to elevated tension between the heroes and the police but also the police and the public, Avengers steer clear which means they do not undermine local law enforcement.

They also are relatively busy Ultron states that they had been taking out Hydra bases since Shield fell, prior to that Banner was working at Stark, Stark was suffering PTSD and dealing with IM3, Cap, Widow & Hawkeye were working for Shield and Thor was bringing peace to the 9 realms, since then Hulk & Thor have been off world, Stark has been retired and trying to use his resources to make up for Ultron, Cap, Widow, Falcon Vision & Wanda have been active as Avengers, War Machine is pulling double duty as an airforce officer and an Avenger and Hawkeye retired.

Also the thing about these types of characters is they can be divisive just look at the DCEU, Superman's desire to help brings him both adoration and fear, and peoples blind approach to whichever side they land on leads to major problems, would some appreciate these superheroes doing their jobs for them and save them the risk? sure they would but would some feel put out and undermined by it? absolutely they would, a lot of cops, firefighters, paramedics do the job because they want to help people, not because they like wearing a uniform and standing around with their hands in their pockets.