I'm not talking about our heroes or villains talking amongst themselves, plotting, planning.
No, I'm talking about when opposing sides talk to each other in the midst of battle. How many times has Spider-Man or Deadpool cracked wise while they're exchanging blows with the villains? The idea that anything could be heard over the din of battle. But the variant of that which is even more ridiculous is the opposing sides stopping the fight to pontificate to the other. Whether our heroes attempt to appeal to the villain's better side or the antagonists threaten to kill our defenders or worse yet, start monologuing. Lay out their entire evil plan to bide the heroes more time to execute their last-ditch effort to save the city/world/universe.
And the most absurd to even those are the normal speaking voices despite standing hundreds of yards apart. Have you tried to have a normal conversation with someone standing a football field away from you?
As much as I love the 3rd act of Endgame, it's also the WORST at battlefield conversations. The battle between the Triad vs Thanos and somehow they vary between a few feet away to suddenly being at least a quarter mile away from one another. That scene when it's just Cap and Thanos, Thanos somehow knocked Cap hundreds of yards away and then in a voice barely above a whisper tells Cap he's going to reduce the universe to atoms before summoning his army to assemble behind him. And there's Cap waaaaayyyyy off in the distance, all by his lonesome. 🤦♂️ I know he's got super hearing but holy fuck, come on, I don't think he heard you without shouting.
I will say that as much as I didn't really care for Shazam, they skewered that trope perfectly when Dr. Sivana starts to monologue and Shazam yells back at him, "What?! What'd you say?! I can't hear you, you're like a mile away!" And they cut to the wide shot and you see Dr. Sivana wayyyyy off in the distance.
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