Chapter 1293: Public Opinion
"Boss, based on the current analysis, without that mage who can control time, our odds of dealing with Dormammu won't exceed 1%. We simply have no means of attacking him. We need to become stronger."
Thor returned to Asgard, and Earth seemed to have regained its peace. Ultron continued whispering things into Tony's ear, giving him a terrible headache.
Yet while the Avengers members were still taking it easy, governments around the world were conducting their own discussions and making their own moves behind the scenes.
For a time, news about the destruction caused by the Avengers' operations flooded every major media outlet.
Acting without law-enforcement authority, causing too much commotion, harming civilians, and so on.
Under the media's editing and manipulation, viewers did not care whether more people would have died if the Avengers had not acted. All they saw was the destruction and casualties.
Before long, public sentiment opposing the Avengers gradually began to take shape.
The purple sky that had lasted for half a month in particular had stirred global panic.
It was spun as the Avengers' superheroes having drawn supervillains here. Earth had been peaceful for so long, and aliens would not have come visiting otherwise.
But ever since the Avengers appeared, there had been the alien invasion of New York, then the purple sky that lasted half a month. There had to be something wrong.
However, the Avengers themselves did not seem to take this public backlash too seriously for the moment. They merely felt that next time, they should coordinate with the local government beforehand and make more thorough preparations...
Just as Black Panther had finalized a Vibranium cooperation plan with the Avengers, and the mages had also begun working with them, Black Panther's father, the current king of Wakanda,