Scott Madin

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

yeah, we're really getting somewhere here now, this explains both the ed norton problem AND the broader Hulk problem which resulted in there never being a standalone hulk movie. the ip business is just a cover story.

Because Hulk's horniness and violence are too closely interconnected to be disentangled in the way all the others promise sex and then deliver explosions