Disney Changes The Name Of The Avengers, Let’s All Blame Honor Blackman

Hands up if you were excited seeing The Avengers when it gets released in April. Well we'll just go ahead and chop those hands off because it seems that you won't be seeing The Avengers anytime soon. Nope. Disney has decided that the great British public, those responsible for making Katie Price a business woman, are too stupid to realise that a film being released in 2012 has absolutely no similarities to a 1960s TV show.

What's that about?

What's that about, indeed hecklersprayers? Disney, who bought Marvel Entertainment in 2009 for $4 billion, thinks that you're too stupid to differentiate between different characters four decades apart. Too stupid to realise that Captain America never appeared with John Steed. Too bumbling to see that Scarlett Johansson was clearly too young to be in it.

A spokesperson from Marvel announced that

"We have changed the title of "Marvel The Avengers" to 'Marvel Avengers Assemble'. This has been done merely to differentiate the movie from the popular 1960s British television show, The Avengers."

What a ridiculous crock of nonsense. Why does anything need to be changed? We'll bet all our hair that no one who would be going to see The Avengers would have got it confused. Because the majority of the cinema going public haven't the foggiest who Aretha Franklin is, let alone the difference between Emma Peel and Black Widow (turns out, not that much, but that's by the by).

The public are gradually getting stupider, and knowing about TV shows from the 60s shows a hint more intelligence than what they have.

In fact, Disney changing the name of the film to suit is just reminding people that The Avengers actually existed in the first place. The whole ordeal just makes you want to shake your head and say "Mrs. Peel, we're needed…" before downing three shots of whiskey together and loudly vomiting in the street holding onto her catsuit.

Interesting fact before we go, it's not just the UK who gets fisted over film names. When Grease was released in Argentina, it was oddly called Vaseline.

And The Full Monty was called Six Naked Pigs which we can't argue with really.