The headstone   to good storytelling is posing intriguing questions that your interview only involve answer , and then recoup those answers until the opportune moment for revelation .

When it comes to picture qualification , this instant can be later in the same conniption   ( e.g. the loge ’s contents inSe7en ) , much later in the plastic film itself ( for instance the substance of " Rosebud " inCitizen Kane ) , or , well , never ( e.g. Pulp Fiction – what ’s in the briefcase , Quentin ! ? ) .

Major movie franchises with multiple film have the impart welfare of posing interrogation not to be answer until a later entry . The Fast and the Furious , for example , kill off Letty in the fourth flick , showed consultation she was still alive in the fifth , and then lastly reveal how in the 6th .

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TheMarvel Cinematic Universe(now sixteen films recondite ) has posed many question to its audiences over the days , but has n’t been as outgoing with the answer .

While this certainly creates intrigue among fan as they wait patiently for these reply , it can also be pretty darn frustrating feature to wait six years and number just to come up out what the heck happened to   certain characters .

We already report some of theMCU ’s unanswered questions , but enough more have do along since then .

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Here are the15   More MCU Questions That Were leave Completely Unanswered .

Where the hell is Red Skull?

Most of the MCU ’s villain so far have adjoin some pretty unequivocal close . Aldrich Killian is blow up by Pepper inIron piece 3 , Malekith is oppress by his ship inThor : The Dark World , and Ultron is vaporized by Vision inAvengers : Age of Ultron .

Even villain that are simply defeated at the last of their respective films are at the very least note later on . The Abomination , for example , wastaken into custodyafterThe unbelievable Hulk , and Vulture was demonstrate in prison house during the post - credits scene inSpider - Man : Homecoming .

The whereabouts of Red Skull , however , rest   a mystery . The former Johann Shmidt   was last interpret at the end ofThe First Avengerholding the Tesseract and on the face of it being enthral to another section of the universe .

In a dusty landscape Finn stares out into the distance in Star Wars: The Force Awakens

The balance beam that occur out of the Tesseract looks awfully alike to the one that open up the portal inThe Avengers , which suggest   Red Skull may not be   dead . So where is he ?

Why did Iron Man come out of retirement?

Iron Man 3is a snatch of a interracial bag . Tony Stark is funny and witty as usual , but also a bit dumb . ( Why would you blab out your speech to the medium when you ’re being direct by a terrorist formation ? )

The Mandarin is truly chilling for the first half the film and then becomes a joke for the 2d . The ending , however , is meet . Tony destroys his cause , take away the arc reactor from his chest , and declares he is Iron Man with or without his armor .

ThenAge of Ultronbegins and he ’s correctly back in the wooing like nothing convert . Huh ? Why would Tony destroy his suits just to jump back into one of them ? Could n’t the Iron Legion have struggle alongside the Avengers with Tony facilitate behind the scenes ?

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Would n’t it have been more compelling for a retired Tony to be impel by Ultron to assume his suit of clothes once more ?   Instead , Tony is back in a suit with no account as to why .

Will Black Widow and Hulk continue their relationship going forward?

The relationship between Black Widow and the Hulk kind of came out of nowhere inAge of Ultron . Heck , even Hawkeye had no idea it was chance and he ’s on the deuced team .

Widow go from making out with Steve Rogers inCaptain America : The Winter Soldierto date Bruce Banner inAvengers 2 , and that ’s fine– more power to her . The question here is what will happen next .

The end ofAge of Ultronsees a sad Hulk turning his back on Widow after she forcibly changed him from Bruce into the big guy rope   in rescript to , you know ,   save the world .

Red Skull

Hulk was absent fromCaptain America : Civil Warand will return inThor : Ragnarokbut presumably wo n’t be back on Earth untilAvengers : Infinity War . Will he forgive her for trying to save the freaking world so they can pick up where they left off ? clip will tell .

How did Tony find out Peter is Spider-Man?

Both Marvel Studios and Sony deserve vast credit for strike a flock to bestow Spider - Man into the MCU . That being said , Spidey ’s comprehension inCivil Warposes all sorts of question regarding the   omniscience of Tony Stark .

In the film , Peter tells Tony   he ’s had his king for about six months .   Even if Peter built his suit and begin fighting crime immediately after have his abilities , it would for certain take some clip for him to become popular enough to get on Tony ’s radar . This mean Tony had less than six months to track down Spider - Man and discover his personal identity .

How the infernal region did he do that ? Does Tony have television camera stashed throughout Queens ? Did he send a drone to follow Spidey on the off hazard he would need Peter in a battle with Captain America ? Is Tony a Watcher ? Who know ? We definitely do n’t .

Iron Man, Thor and Captain America approach Ultron in Avengers: Age of Ultron

Why hasn’t Tony found the Defenders?

render Tony ’s omniscience , it ’s curious that he has n’t foundthe Defenders . Especially regard the fact that all four reside in New York City ( the same metropolis where Spidey lives ) and three of the four have done precisely nothing to protect their secret indistinguishability .

Jessica Jones , Luke Cage , and Danny Rand should have been on Iron Man ’s microwave radar for quite a while now . And considering how easily Tony tracked down Peter , envision out Daredevil ’s secret identicalness should ’ve been a walk of life in the park .

The fact that Tony go to New York to blueprint Spidey to hisCivil Warteam , but ignored the four superheroes just one borough over is dead perplexing .

Black Widow claming Hulk in Avengers Age of Ultron

The Defenders could have assisted with Captain America ’s capture and any other events that necessitate superheroes . Why Tony has n’t recruited them yet is a question we need answered .

Where is Nick Fury?

At one meter an MCU loyalist , Nick Fury appeared in every Phase 1 film but one , and appeared double more in stage 2 . Since then , however , he ’s been an absolute no - show with no explanations why .

He did n’t seem inAnt - Man , Civil War , Doctor Strange , orHomecoming . certain , nobody   expected him to come out inGuardians of the Galaxy Vol . 2 , but his absence in the other four films , andCivil Warin special , is put off .

Where is he ? He pop off off the gridiron after S.H.I.E.L.D. fell at the end ofCaptain America : The Winter Soldier , but now popped up inAge of Ultronwith a helicarrier at his disposal so why has n’t he return since ?

Spider-Man Homecoming Tony Stark and do-it-yourself suit

Is he dead ? Was he captured ? Or is he cool in Aruba with a C and a smile ? There ’s no telling for sure , and since he is n’t slated to appear inInfinity Waraudiences are n’t likely to get an answer any clock time shortly .

Where was the Ancient One during Earth’s other cataclysmic events?

The trouble   that Marvel Studios face when lend super - powered being to the MCU is explaining why those being did perfectly nothing during Earth ’s preceding crises .

So far , the studio apartment has done fairly well in their account for absent poor boy . Hank Pym put out follow the disappearance of his married woman , Peter Parker only experience his power about six months before his instauration , and Thor and Hulk were probable off - cosmos duringCivil War .

Then there ’s the Ancient One , whose absence in cataclysmal event before her entry inDoctor Strangeis simply baffling . Marvel attempts to brush this off by having Wong declare , " we sorcerers safeguard [ solid ground ] against more mystic threat , " but this account does n’t go for much weight .

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The Ancient One does n’t need to facilitate when Tony ’s house is blow up , but should definitely have lended a hand   during the engagement in New York and Sokovia .   So where was she ?

When does Doctor Strange take place?

Doctor Strangeis a fun flick with exceptional optic effects and is overall a bully addition to the MCU . That being said ,   when does it take seat ?

Up until last year , the MCU films seemed set in the twelvemonth of their release   ( unless the film explicitly states otherwise).Iron Mantook post in 2008 andThe Avengersin 2012 , whileCaptain America : The First Avengerwas set during World War II .

This meansDoctor Strangeat least begins   in 2016 , which is all well and good until you factor in in the events of the film . Are we supposed to believe Strange was in his accident , had the subsequent forcible therapy , found Kamar - Taj , and mastered the mystic artistic production in under a year ?

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This   seems extremely unlikely , so once again , we are leave with the question : when does the film take place ?

Why didn’t Tony use the Hulkbuster armor in Civil War?

Tony ’s armors are like the gadgets on Batman ’s public-service corporation swath : he ’s got one for every situation imaginable . Is an oil tank ship structure about to tip over ? beam in Igor to hold it up . Do you need to empty Sokovia ? The Iron Legion will do the trick . Is Hulk running amuck ? Bust him up with the Hulkbuster .

This armor is particularly interesting since it is heavily fortified to stand up to , well , the Hulk , so why did n’t Tony use it to apprehend Captain America inCivil War .

If the suit can take a whipping from the Hulk , then it would have made comfortable work of Cap and Co. Heck , Tony could ’ve removed himself from the fight entirely and just had Veronica trap Steve and Bucky the way she did Hulk inAge of Ultron .

The Ancient One in Doctor Strange

It ’s extremely unlikely the two could ’ve dug underground to scarper the way the big hombre did .

What’s with the time jump in Spider-Man Homecoming?

Ever since its origin the MCU timeline has been rather straightforward . Simply put , the films take position in the year of their waiver   ( with the aforementioned exclusion ofThe First Avenger ) . That was beforeSpider - serviceman : Homecomingcame   and drop a time leap out of nowhere .

The jump pass off after the curtain raising scene when Adrian Toomes and his bunch are cleanse up after the battle of New York , which presumptively read place   in 2012 ( the yearThe Avengerswas released ) . The rest of the film then take place " eight years later on , " which sets it in 2020 . hold off … what ?

The timeline was doing so well . particularly since Vision mentioned inCivil Warthat Tony had declare he was Iron Man eight eld before . The two movie were put out eight old age aside so the math works out perfectly . ThenHomecomingthrew us all for a loop-the-loop . What gives ?

Benedict Cumberbatch in Doctor Strange

Iron Man’s Hulkbuster Armor in Avengers: Age Of Ultron

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