Xia Yu's Thoughts
In fact, Natasha, Iron Man, and Xia Yu already counted as a small Avengers team. With that in mind, besides the established events of Iron Man 2, Xia Yu also wanted to bring the two of them along to take part in the events of Thor, which would follow immediately afterward.
What surprised Xia Yu most was that Nick Fury had actually mentioned Captain Marvel to put the Avengers Initiative into action, showing just how determined he was this time. As Xia Yu saw it, there were basically no problems this time. The biggest issue was that no one wanted the Avengers to become pawns in the hands of politicians, and that was the hardest thing to balance.
In the movies, after the Battle of New York, the whole world owed the Avengers a debt. After Captain America dismantled Hydra and Black Widow released the classified files, the Avengers, now separated from S.H.I.E.L.D., looked extraordinarily powerful, but they also drew criticism from governments around the world. The Sokovia Accords, signed by 117 countries, were the best counter to the Avengers' overstepping.
In fact, that dissatisfaction had been brewing for a long time. No country wanted a bunch of overlords above it, going around every day under the banner of justice wiping out terrorists, Hydra, and the like. It wasn't that the Avengers had done anything wrong, but who didn't have a few dirty secrets? And their habit of showing up whenever they pleased and leaving after a fight did make a lot of governments lose face.
It was only because the Avengers had saved the whole world that everyone felt awkward saying anything. But after Scarlet Witch accidentally killed Wakandan civilians in an explosion, the king of Wakanda, the previous Black Panther, took the lead in proposing the Sokovia Accords. As a result, the governments of more than a hundred countries voiced their support, and the matter was widely publicized in media around the world.
It was also at this point that a fundamental disagreement arose between Captain America and Iron Man. Iron Man supported signing the accords because they needed time to earn the public's trust. From what Iron Man said to persuade Captain America, it was clear that they could join first, win everyone's trust, and then change the accords once they had a voice. In fact, that was a very mature and shrewd approach.
Captain America was a pure warrior, a soldier. He didn't want himself, a gun, to be controlled by those in power. That was the root of the Civil War. The Winter Soldier was only a trigger. A fight to let Tony vent would have been enough; sooner or later, he would have figured it out.
In fact, when Xia Yu had watched the movie, he had been more supportive of Iron Man's approach. They couldn't stand against the whole world. When the media and governments of the entire world latched onto the matter, there was no way to fight back. That was also the tragedy of being a superhero: do ten thousand good deeds, and it took only one bad incident for people to question you, or even curse you.
It was only after Thanos arrived that the Avengers once again threw off all their restraints. Part of the reason was that disaster had struck, and another part was Wakanda's powerful entry into the fight. It had money, land, and technology. Wakanda was a country, after all, and Tony Stark couldn't compare on that point. To put it bluntly, Wakanda and the Avengers together had a bigger fist than the whole world.
So, if the Avengers were to be established ahead of time, and Xia Yu didn't want to be too constrained, he needed the Avengers to possess extraordinarily powerful military strength—not just individual strength, but collective and technological strength as well. Joining forces with Wakanda wasn't realistic at the moment, so Xia Yu had only one path left: lead the Avengers beyond Earth. Only by broadening their horizons and increasing their strength could they stand above everything.
So Xia Yu's preliminary plan was to use the events of Thor to make contact with Asgard first, or at least get an initial glimpse of the world beyond Earth. But the prerequisite was the Battle of New York: the Avengers needed to gain immense prestige on Earth.
Otherwise, even if they had the power to wipe out Earth, they couldn't stand above everything. The Avengers were superheroes, not tyrants or rulers.
Having thought everything through, Xia Yu began preparing to bring about the early formation of the Avengers. But the most important things before him were the events of Iron Man 2 and Thor. Those events were about to begin. Why did he say that? Because Tony Stark had received an invitation from the Monaco racing club to watch a race.