Pentagon refused to co-operate with THE AVENGERS production because it was "unrealistic."
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Moviegoers and comic fans know that S.H.I.E.L.D., led by Samuel L. Jackson’s super-spy Nick Fury, is an international peacekeeping/global surveillance/crisis response/quasi-military organization. But its relationship with the United States is murky. And that basically stopped the U.S. military, which is normally eager to cooperate with the film industry on blockbuster movies, from teaming up with the Avengers.
“We couldn’t reconcile the unreality of this international organization and our place in it,” Phil Strub, the Defense Department’s Hollywood liaison, tells Danger Room. “To whom did S.H.I.E.L.D. answer? Did we work for S.H.I.E.L.D.? We hit that roadblock and decided we couldn’t do anything” with the film.
But they helped the TRANSFORMERS movies, you know those totally realistic pictures about talking alien robots who transform into cars and toasters?
And having seen AVENGERS, everybody at S.H.I.E.L.D. and that team were Americans, including their boss. Even the "Russian" Black Widow was the very American Scarlett Johansson who doesn't even bother with a rubbish accent, so I'm assuming she's an American just with a Russian heritage.
OK Thor, an alien. That's one exception. But that's it.
