The Avengers

Title

The Avengers

Aliases

Avengers Assemble (English title), The Avengers: Los Vengadores (Latin American title), Los Vengadores (Spanish title), Os Vingadores (Brazilian title)

Universe

Earth-199999

Film Details

Directors

Joss Whedon

Producers

Avi Arad
Louis D'Esposito
Jon Favreau
Kevin Feige
Alicia Gelernt

Writers

Comic Book:
Stan Lee
Jack Kirby
Story and Screenplay:
Zak Penn
Joss Whedon

Editors

Jeffrey Ford
Lisa Lassek

Distributors

Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures

Running Time

142 minutes

Rating

PG-13

Budget

$220,000,000 (estimated)

Release Date

April 25, 2012
May 4, 2012 (U.S.)

Associated Websites

Official Website

Marvel.com

On Marvel Movies

The Avengers (film)

On the Internet Movie Database

imdb.com

Previous Film

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Appearances

Featured Characters:

• The Avengers (First Appearance; disbands)
  • Captain America (Steve Rogers) (Joins Team) (Leaves Team) (Appears in flashback and main story)
  • Iron Man (Tony Stark) (Joins Team) (Leaves Team)
  • Hulk (Bruce Banner) (Joins Team) (Leaves Team)
  • Thor (Thor Odinson) (Joins Team) (Leaves Team)
  • Black Widow (Natasha Romanoff) (Joins Team) (Leaves Team)
  • Hawkeye (Clint Barton) (Joins Team) (Leaves Team)
• S.H.I.E.L.D.
  • Nick Fury
  • Agent Coulson (Death)
  • Agent Hill (First appearance)
  • Erik Selvig
  • Agent Sitwell (Cameo)

Villains:

• Loki
• Chitauri
  • The Other
  • Leviathans
• Thanos (First appearance) (Cameo)

Locations:

• Earth-199999
  • Asgard (Mentioned)
  • Chitauri base
  • Earth
    • Arctic Circle (Only in flashback)
    • Atlantic Ocean
    • India
      • Calcutta
    • Germany
      • Stuttgart
    • United States of America
      • New York City
        • Stark Tower (First appearance)

Other Characters:

• Project P.E.G.A.S.U.S.
• Hydra (Only in flashback)
• Red Skull (Johann Schmidt) (Only in flashback) (Cameo)
• Pepper Potts
• Odin (Mentioned)
• Jane Foster (Appears on a Computer Screen, TV or Hologram Only)
• Destroyer (Appears on a Computer Screen, TV or Hologram Only)
• World Security Council (Appears on a Computer Screen, TV or Hologram Only)

Items:

• Tesseract
• Loki's Sceptre (First appearance)
• Iron Man Armor MK VI
• J.A.R.V.I.S.
• Captain America's Shield
• Mjolnir
• Destroyer gun
• Iron Man Armor MK VII (First appearance)

Vehicles:

• S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier (First appearance)
• S.H.I.E.L.D. Quinjet (First appearance)
• Acura cars
  • Acura TL
  • Acura NSX Spider
• Chitauri air chariot
• Chitauri mother ship
• Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II

Plot

Loki encounters the Other, an envoy for an alien race known as the Chitauri. In exchange for retrieving the Tesseract, an energy source of limitless power, the Other promises Loki a Chitauri army with which he can subjugate the Earth. Nick Fury, director of the espionage agency S.H.I.E.L.D., and his lieutenant Maria Hill arrive at a remote research facility during an evacuation, where physicist Dr. Erik Selvig is leading a research team experimenting on the Tesseract. Agent Phil Coulson explains that the object has begun radiating an unusual form of energy. The Tesseract suddenly activates and opens a portal, allowing Loki to reach Earth. Loki takes the Tesseract and uses his scepter to enslave Selvig and several agents, including Clint Barton, to aid him in his getaway.

In response to the attack, Fury reactivates the "Avengers Initiative". Agent Natasha Romanoff is sent to India to recruit Dr. Bruce Banner; Coulson visits Tony Stark to have him review Selvig's research; and Fury approaches Steve Rogers with an assignment to retrieve the Tesseract. While Barton steals iridium needed to stabilize the Tesseract's power, Loki causes a distraction in Stuttgart, Germany, leading to a confrontation with Rogers, Stark, and Romanoff that ends with Loki's surrender. While Loki is being escorted to S.H.I.E.L.D., Thor, his adoptive brother, arrives and frees him hoping to convince him to abandon his plan and return to Asgard. After a confrontation with Stark and Rogers, Thor agrees to take Loki to S.H.I.E.L.D.'s flying aircraft carrier, the Helicarrier. There Loki is imprisoned while Banner and Stark attempt to locate the Tesseract.

The Avengers become divided, both over how to approach Loki and the revelation that S.H.I.E.L.D. plans to harness the Tesseract to develop weapons as a deterrent against hostile extra-terrestrials. As the group argues, Barton and Loki's other possessed agents attack the Helicarrier, disabling its engines in flight and causing Banner to transform into the Hulk. Stark and Rogers try to restart the damaged engines, and Thor attempts to stop the Hulk's rampage. Romanoff fights Barton, and knocks him unconscious, breaking Loki's mind control. Loki escapes after killing Coulson and ejecting Thor from the airship, while the Hulk leaves on his own. Fury uses Coulson's death to motivate the Avengers into working as a team. Stark and Rogers realize that simply defeating them will not be enough for Loki; he needs to overpower them publicly to validate himself as ruler of Earth. Loki uses the Tesseract, in conjunction with a device Selvig built, to open a portal above Stark Tower to the Chitauri fleet in space, launching his invasion.

The Avengers rally in defense of New York City, but quickly realize they will be overwhelmed as wave after wave of Chitauri descend upon Earth. With help from Barton, Rogers, Stark, and Thor evacuate civilians, while Banner transforms back into the Hulk and goes after Loki, eventually beating him into submission. Romanoff makes her way to the portal, where Selvig, freed of Loki's control, reveals that Loki's scepter can be used to close the portal. Meanwhile, Fury's superiors attempt to end the invasion by launching a nuclear missile at Manhattan. Stark intercepts the missile and takes it through the portal toward the Chitauri fleet. The missile detonates, destroying the invaders' mother ship, thereby disabling their forces on Earth. Stark's suit runs out of power and he falls back through the portal, but the Hulk saves him from crashing to the ground. Romanoff deactivates the portal to prevent further invasion. In the aftermath, Thor returns Loki and the Tesseract to Asgard. Fury notes that the Avengers will return when they are needed.

In the first of two post-credits scenes, the Other confers with his master (Thanos) about the attack on Earth; in the second post-credits scene, the Avengers eat in silence at a shawarma restaurant.

Cast

• Chris Evans as Steven Rogers (Captain America)
• Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark (Iron Man)
• Chris Hemsworth as Thor
• Mark Ruffalo as Robert Bruce Banner (Hulk)
• Scarlett Johansson as Natasha Romanoff (Black Widow)
• Jeremy Renner as Clint Barton (Hawkeye)
• Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury
• Tom Hiddleston as Loki
• Clark Gregg as Phil Coulson
• Cobie Smulders as Maria Hill
• Stellan Skarsgård as Prof. Erik Selvig
• Paul Bettany as Jarvis
• Lou Ferrigno as the voice of the Hulk
• Gwyneth Paltrow as Pepper Potts
• Jenny Agutter and Powers Boothe as World Security Councillors
  

Notes

• The world premiere was held at the El Capitan Theatre on April 11, 2012.
  

Trivia

• This movie was renamed Avengers Assemble in the UK to avoid confusion with the unrelated 1961 TV show called The Avengers, which in turn had its own movie adaptation.
• Tony Stark mentions Life-Model Decoys when Agent Coulson comes to recruit him, saying, "You have reached the Life-Model Decoy of Tony Stark."
• A post credits scene was filmed on the 12th of April^[1] (after The Avengers world premiere). It features the six Avengers eating at the shawarma restaurant mentioned by Stark. Chris Evans had to wear a prosthetic face mask to hide his beard growth and further conceals the mask behind his hand as he eats. Due to the late filming of this scene it was not ready for the international release on the 25th, and therefore does not appear on The Avengers presentations in many countries.

See Also

• Characters from The Avengers (film)
• Other things related to The Avengers (film)
• Film Gallery: The Avengers (film)
• Images from the film

Links and References

• The Avengers at the Internet Movie Database
• See: The Avengers (film) on The Wiki
  

Videos

Trailer 2	Extended Super Bowl Commercial
Super Bowl Promo	TV Spot: Hopeless
Clip: Black Widow Interrogation	Clip: Head Count
Featurette: Assemble	Featurette: Tension
Clip: Captain America vs. Thor