Scott Madin

Correction, Iron Man 2 is the pivotal crisis moment in the saga of Iron Man's horniness, in which his equipment fails and he needs an injection of horniness from nick fury and black widow to get his juices flowing againhttps://twitter.com/zunguzungu/status/1413493118633005059 …

sex *existed* in iron man 1--tony had a one-night stand--but it was only in iron man 2 that the mcu a. realized frustrated horniness was the libidinal energy driving the franchise, and b. (for that reason) introduced the black widow character

after that, every movie is built around an unconsummated love plot and the characters become increasingly sexless adonii

I think there's a similar arc with Thor, it's been a while but I'm pretty sure Thor 1, while not a horny movie per se, at least presents a world in which horniness is thinkable; but by Ragnarok it's all sublimated into Hemsworth's impossibly hyperarticulated abs

There’s a similar energy in the Cap movies, from the “Bucky is a horn dog but Steve needs to lose his virginity before the war ends” thing to chaste slow dances as the button for Endgame. Weirdly by WS, CW and especially Endgame even BW is sexless.

Discussion question: was ed norton excised from the MCU because of too much horniness

Hulk (2008) did canonically establish that Banner can't fuck without turning into the Hulk

That’s amazing