That was kinda my first thought, that trying to get from "Marvel Comics" to "passes the Bechdel Test" is a *huge* leap. Not an impossible one, and he probably should've made more of an effort, but.

Some of the blame probably also goes to the Hollywood money that funded the thing, because "It's a comics movie! If it's not blatantly patriarchal, we might scare off our core demographic!" Only without the self-awareness required to frame the statement in that language.