Then I hate it. Society should not want him as an Avenger with that attitude, and he should not want to be an Avenger with that attitude.
Because he should have a more heroic attitude? Not critiquing as I can see the case for that. Just checking I understand you right.
And don't worry - I've been well-warned by this thread and I wont be seduced into watching it by a few good clips. I like the actor though, I'm sticking to that.
Netflix Defenders had this problem as well, with all of the characters having abilities related to punching people. The first Avengers movie actually did a good job spectating the cast, but it sounds like this movie doesn't have a hand that deft.
It does it better than Defenders, which I saw. My biggest issues with that were focused on Danny Rand and Luke Cage (separately). You see I was the person who liked Iron Fist S1 and thought the actor did a good job with the character. Yes, you always wondered who that person was well now you know. Frankly the contrast between him and Daredevil should have been even greater. They did a big set-piece corridor fight in both series. Daredevil's was him getting battered and battering back. Danny's was more about him never getting hit and wheeling around. Honestly I feel like he should have beaten Daredevil when they fought but the iron rule in fandoms is that when two popular characters meet neither should be clearly better than the other, else the fans get mad. But following on from that, Danny vs. Luke should be Luke never being able to land a blow on Danny. They made Luke weirdly super strong, wrenching up iron security barriers and such. More than any other he blended into other people's turf. Should be Jessica with the strength, Luke invulnerable, Danny untouchable and Daredevil a kind of too-stubborn-to-die brawler who is vital because he actually understands the streets and the criminals they face. But that's just me.
FWIW, I feel Thunderbolts handles it better than Defenders. It's just that several of them are all pretty much cut from the same cloth.
Original Captain America was probably the worst for powercreep in the original MCU movies. His fall out of the umpteenth floor window was pushing it for me even though they try to justify it by him falling on the shield which I understand absorbs energy. But him going toe to toe with Iron Man was too much.
It really should be Thor + Hulk at the top (and Thor should win, imo, due to smarts), Iron Man below that. Who can in turn beat Cap. Who can in turn beat Hawkeye and Widow. Then as movies go on, we can add in Strange, Wanda, Vision, Spiderman etc. in their appropriate places.
Funnily enough the Marvel movie with the most diverse range of powers is Eternals.
Funnily enough I can barely remember what any of their powers were, save for a guy could fly and shoot lasers and there was a youngish woman who was upset because she'd never grow up and do adult things which was weird because she looked like a teenager to me; and she could do illusions. Also Angelina Jolie had the power of... weapons? I don't know - the whole movie is a vague blur by this point.
Actually, now you've got me thinking I would say Guardians of the Galaxy is the worst for undefined and undifferentiated powers. I remember in the sequel Gamora picking up the gun from a space ship that was cubic metres of metal and hoisting it on her shoulders. So she's super strong now? None of it made sense.
They have a difficult time depicting levels of superstrength onscreen. Comic Cap can knock out anyone that's unenhanced with a punch, from regular mooks to masterlevel heavyweight fighters, and Movie Cap is closer to Spiderman in terms of power delivery. Spiderman can hit a person like industrial machines can; he has to pull his punches or he'll kill the majority of folks he gets into conflict with. Thor and Superman and others at that level shouldn't even swat regular people without hurting them badly.
In the thunderbolts movie, the second Walker struck Yelena and she didn't immediately stop fighting, I was annoyed. I get that wouldn't make for a very fun fight scene, but it drains all tension from it. Sentry hit everyone, but he shouldn't even have slapped at Widow or Ghost, they're just talented people. At least the supersoldiers are shown to have posthuman durability, so he could smack them without spraying them all over their surroundings.
I do think it's pretty clear that Yelena (does she even have a Superhero name? White Widow? Who is she supposed to be?) is getting her arse handed to her. She's a kind of best of the best normal so I'm okay with her going a little distance with Walker, so long as the power difference is clear. Florence Pugh sells it with some alarmed reactions to his advance and when she's using her tasers on him and he's powering through the shocks anyway, you get a bit of the Outclassed vibe I think you're talking about. Not as much as you want though, that's fair. I lacked any context for who he was supposed to be so I didn't have a feel for how powerful he's supposed to be. I figured he was Steve Rogers-lite.
