You know, if you’re going to set up a superhero team under the auspices of and with access to the resources of the American government, it makes sense that you’d have some problems, like a constituency that wants to add a supervillain to your team and rehabilitate his record as a war hero:
Apparently, defense contractors make pretty good bureaucratic infighters. If The Avengers is actually like this — and Joss Whedon has done various funny and smart things riffing on bureaucracy and politics, from the Mayor in Season 3 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer to the darker visions of the Initiative and the Watchers’ Council — I will be one happy little ex-government trade reporter.
