I was thinking the exact same thing! I have gone on youtube and watched various spoiler reviews and none talked about that fact. You saw a Dairy Queen get taken over by that blob, so you know they are on earth. Maybe Shield covered it up and it's level 9.

Is every security threat and phenomenon the priority of the Avengers?

It's a Dairy Queen, not the Taj Mahal.

@Halberstram said:

Is every security threat and phenomenon the priority of the Avengers?

It's a Dairy Queen, not the Taj Mahal.

If this were, like, a bombing, then no, I wouldn't expect the Avengers to muster a response. But when it's a giant glowing blue blob of unknown substance and origin, it sure seems like that should have caught the attention of some superheroics organization. At the very least there should have been some kind of government response that someone in one of the many movies or television shows were familiar with, but somehow it has yet to be mentioned by anyone anywhere else in the MCU in the year and half since the event took place. Yeah, that's a little hard to believe.

Why bring up the destruction of a Missouri Dairy Queen while discussing the Sokovia Accords, for example?

it happened, then quickly went away. can't see much reason for it to come up.

I feel like giant destruction blob of unknown origin that went away for unknown reasons would be viewed as a pretty tangible threat to Earth, the likes of which should have at least gotten a mention on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

The question is not whether they knew of it, but whether they discuss it, months or years after the fact.

I was thinking about this some more, perhaps when Ego died, the life force of that blob died as well and the blob just dissipated and there was nothing left to examine when Shield or whomever arrived.

Yeah, maybe.

I do agree that a reference would have been cool, I just don't think it's necessary.

We all would have said, "wait... what happened in Missouri?"

The first Guardians of the Galaxy came out a couple months prior to the Winter Soldier, so in this timeline, the second one occurs a couple months after the first one, so therefore SHIELD would have been in chaos after the Winter Soldier, struggling to reorganize and maybe not able to respond to threats like they used to, I suspect the Avengers were still trying to get up and running depending on when the events occurred with SHIELD being in chaos at the time.

You're missing one thing: this sort of stuff happens all the time in the comics.

@MrRadical said:

You're missing one thing: this sort of stuff happens all the time in the comics.

So true. Impossible to maintain thorough continuity in the comics since there is always shizz going down everywhere.

What happened in Missouri would be of interest to SHIELD but not to the Avengers in a way that is worth mentioning in the MCU as the damage was limited. Plus with the amount of weird crap that happens on a week to week basis in the Marvel universe something like that wouldn't make the front page.

With all the stuff going on in the world, it seems unlikely a DQ getting smashed up would be enough to cause panic in the other movies.

Plus, if it's the kind of thing almost no one would even think about without a message board, it's probably not a "glaring plot hole".

In fairness, when the Dairy Queen in my town simply closed down, I went into hysterics and pooped my pants.