A Brief Marvel Avengers Movie-Verse Rant

[megpie71]

I swear, Darcy Lewis' middle names must be "Mary" and "Sue".

That is all.

(This rant brought to you courtesy of a lot of Avengers Movie-verse fanfic, from various different authors, where Darcy Lewis gets to be a sorta-sidekick-in-training for just about everyone on the Avengers team, and apparently has the super-secret superpower of superhero wrangling. I keep meaning to watch the Thor movie just to find out whether her apparent ability to be a useful plot device under all circumstances is canon or not).

(Cross-posted to fanficrants. Apologies for any duplications on reading lists.)

Comments

[megpie71]

So far I've seen her paired up with every single one of the available male Avengers except Thor and Tony Stark. I'm expecting to see the Darcy/Tony pairing any day now.

As far as I can tell, she's generally being inducted into SHIELD as a result of being too close to the action during the events of "Thor", and then stuck in a lab with Jane, even though from everything I've read, she's not a science major and never was. At which point I start thinking "ah, wishful thinking on the part of the author" - because quite frankly, she's more likely, if she is picked up by SHIELD at all, to be shuffled into the back corners of the administrative side, and be given a very boring job shuffling paper until they can be absolutely sure she's trustworthy.

[clanwilliam]

Oh, I've seen Darcy/Tony, but it's more usual that she's his kid. Either that or she's Coulson's kid.

Oh god, the one where she's Tony's child *and* a genius who built her own AI... never, ever click on that one.

There's a couple where she appears because she's been shuffled into the back corners of SHIELD for exactly that reason - also, she's a political science major, so SHIELD might well have an interest in her anyway.