Regardless of its ups and downs, one issue has plagued the Marvel Cinematic Universe for years. A question that crops up every time a superhero team or a standalone hero faces a threat mere blocks away from where another heroic ensemble or crime fighter is known to operate: why aren’t heroes crossing paths more often, and why aren’t they helping them out when they do?
It’s this little setback that presents itself in Spider-Man: Brand New Day, when the wall-crawler (Tom Holland) is not only having to deal with growing problems of his own, but also rein in a trigger-happy gunman in the form of Frank Castle (Jon Bernthal). Couldn’t the Avengers, new or old, step in and help with this telepathic terrorist that is turning mild-mannered New Yorkers into involuntary arsonists?
