*grins* :)

Yes exactly! The interest would still be there, and there would be tons of potential for angst, tension, and drama. If its going to be anything like the last movie there will be no shortage of epic and intense fight scenes, with plenty of opportunity for tension, it just won't be UST which I'm ok with ;)

So many fics have delved into team bonding and non traditional pairing interactions, and they have been awesome! But I really want to see this acted out on film too! Oh I totally agree, Natasha and Steve seem like they would be bffs, and that is with or without the whole Winter Soldier/Bucky thing. and I'm interested to see who Clint would bond with now that he isn't all brainwashed :( Does Tony make him extra awesome arrows? What kind of conversation would he have with Thor? These are the things I want to see.

aww thank you :) I'm glad we are like minded on this! So many times I'll read the same books/watch the same shows as my friends and they'll be really into the main character, which is understandable, but I'll be sitting there going... but what about X and X side character?? I want a show about them! and I'll get funny looks >_> ;)
But yeah exactly, they are often more interesting, they don't fall into certain molds and archetypes, and since we often don't know that much about them, its a lot of fun to make up their backgrounds/what motivates them/etc. (They are also prone to dying though :/ Ah the perils of being a secondary/tertiary character!!) case in point *points to your icon which is awesome btw* so no lie, those two were my favorite characters in the book... I honestly could not care less about the love triangle/main characters.... I wanted to know more about the side characters, Alice and Jasper in particular ;) I went through my reading fanfic stage for those books, and really everything I read was about the side characters, because I felt they were way more interesting ;)

I go back and forth who would be Clint's bff, there's arguments for all of them. I think he and Steve would bond over the military stuff. I think Tony and him would prank each other and have fun fun being snarky. He and Bruce would bond over both knowing how it feels to not be in control. And then Thor, obviously with the whole Loki thing would have a lot to talk about. I think that's the beauty of Clint, and how the movies have been a little vague about his character, he could work with just about everybody.

I'm completely with you about the side characters. I get so excited for sometimes really minor characters and my friends think I'm so weird. In the books pretty much every Cullen was my favorite but I especially loved Jasper, Alice, and Carlisle (which I realize is pretty much half the family, lol). Jasper and Alice's relationship was perfect, I loved the hints of how strong their bond is. Pretty much all the fanfiction I read for that fandom was Jasper centered. I refused to read Edward/Bella because it was in the books so I didn't really care. It got to the point that I actually got into Jasper/Bella, not shipping it canon wise, but it was just fun to read all of the fanfiction, and it was fun to see all of the back stories.