That was a good rant. I understand that movies need to change things to fit (I knew Iron Man's origin was originally in Vietnam but since that leaves a bad taste in people's mouths, we went with Afghanistan instead just for convenience) and I'm cool with that most of the time. I just wanted to know so I could tell my friend about whether those 'hovering heads' trying to order Nick Fury to nuke the place were part of canon or not, since we see that device in so many other films like the Resident Evil series and whatnot.<br/><br/>And yes, I was a bit confused about why SHIELD used the word 'homeland' when it was not restricted to the U.S. Unless by homeland, they meant Earth itself because some of the threats were from non-terrestrial locales...