User blog comment:ADour/First The Amazing Spider-Man 2 trailer debuts!/@comment-1895174-20131205135931/@comment-1895174-20131205205453

The Avengers worked because all but two of its major characters had been given a lot of screen time in other movies (Hawkeye and Hill being the only exceptions), and that allowed them to make the characters a bit more basic. No one really has any complex motivations, and everyone's given at least a scene for the audience to get used to them. If you want more than that, these guys have their own movies for you to get to know them better. And it only had one major story - stop Loki, and every other moment is in service of that. All we know about Avengers 2 so far is that it's going to add a few new characters and not have Loki. That's it. Maybe it will suck; it's hard to tell at this point. Look at the trailer for TASM 2, on the other hand, it has Peter juggling his superhero life with his personal life, introducing several new characters, and fighting three different villains. If Electro's supposed to be the main villain in it, why is he not prominently shown off? Why do Rhino and OsCorp shenanigans get just as much time in the trailer? Maybe it's because when you overstuff your movie with characters and too many villains, some major elements are going to get the shaft.