This particular fan fiction story that I read (which is a work in progress) had a very interesting and valid plot to continue on the Marvel universes story. Basically, Loki has apparently died but Black Widow is convinced that he is still alive and has only pretended to be dead. She wants to go to Asgard and warn the people there, but doesn’t have the connections or influences that she used to have when SHIELD was still around. To make up for this, she visits “The Council”, which I mistook for the council in the Avengers and Captain America: Winter Soldier. What she really meant is the watcher’s council from the Buffy universe. In this story, they were pressured to be affiliated with SHIELD but refused in the end, mostly because they don’t have the same interests as shield. They send her to Asgard, and starts to warn everybody that Loki could possibly still be alive, and the story pretty much ends there. The tone overall is very serious, and is a very interesting story. Black Widow, seeing as how she talked with Loki to reveal his plan in the first Avengers, knows what he is capable of and that he will do anything to continue with his vengeance on Earth and Asgard. The council being thrown in is, of course, something that only a fan could write in because of legal issues and continuity errors of the two universes being mixed together, but it works well in this. Because of SHIELD being compromised and really just being Hydra, all their sub-organizations and affiliates would have suffered the same fate. The watcher’s council not being included in that was therefore a safe place to go, knowing that they are free of Hydra influence. They are hardly needed, other than a way for Black Widow to go to Asgard. For people that know of Buffy and the council, it makes sense and they know what is going on (somewhat). This is a predominantly Marvel story, so the average audience will be Marvel fans and not know what is going on in the beginning of the story.