Warning: SPOILERS for Avengers: Endgame ahead.
Marvel Studios' culmination of the MCU, bringing it full circle back to when the franchise kicked off in 2008's Iron Man. It's clear that Marvel and the whole of the MCU has always been building to Avengers: Endgame since there have been few changes in the studio's plan over the years.
When looking at the MCU in the larger context of the changing landscape of superhero movies, Marvel has fallen behind in a few regards, particularly gender representation. Warner Bros' DCEU beat the MCU to releasing its Marvel Comics team A-Force.
Although no such female heroes of the MCU, but fans deserve a full-length female-led team-up movie, not a single pandering sequence in a larger movie that predominantly focuses on male characters.
For years, Marvel Studios has been telling fans to be patient, that the representation they wanted so badly to see in the MCU would arrive eventually. It took Marvel Studios 10 years to release its first black-led MCU movie in 2018's co-headliner, with Ant-Man and the Wasp). While Marvel is finally starting to include more representation, especially with Black Widow, The Eternals and Shang-Chi on the way, it's taken an incredibly long time. And attempting to pacify those fans with an A-Force moment that feels more patronizing than empowering isn't going to endear the MCU to those who have been calling for more gender representation for years.
Certainly, it can be argued that rather than diversity in the MCU.
In that context, the A-Force moment in Avengers: Endgame comes across less like a genuine effort to let the female characters shine and more as a means to assuage critics. After 11 years, MCU fans deserve a real A-Force - or other female-lead team-up - movie, not a short sequence paying lip service to representation rather than delivering on that representation.
