In the next episode"¦

And here is the biggest issue with all shared universes "“ while the movies do work on their own (most of the time, anyway), they work better if the viewer has previous knowledge of what has happened before. Even worse, there are hints and details all over the place about what will happen in the next installment.

In the MCU at least, there are plenty of scenes that could have been edited out. Take Thor's visit to the Norn cave. Or consider the Collector cameos. Or the Thanos appearances for that matter. The movies are simply riddled with these sorts of scenes.

I am not the first one to say that Captain America: The First Avenger was the set-up for The Avengers.

The DCEU, with just 3 movies, is not far behind. I guess this is the role of credits scenes, right? But what point did the Justice League cameos have in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice? No point at all. The movie simply stopped, to show us that more will follow in the following years.

And this, basically, can ruin a film, making it too hard to follow and too dense.

What do you think? What other clichés should be mentioned here?