History Awesome / TheAvengers2012

* When the fighting started, one policeman reports to his superior that the National Guard was at least an hour out. By the time Fury is appraising himself of the situation, there are ''already'' military forces starting to join the fight.

* It's hard to believe, but there was a time when this page did not acknowledge the ''incredible'' sequence of the S.H.I.E.L.D. helicarrier appearing for the first time in live-action. Seeing Cap flying over the ocean in a quinjet might've made some fans pause. Seeing the jet land on an aircraft carrier, some fans might've thought, "Okay, they're giving it a nod. No way they'd actually pull that off." And then the alarms start. Black Widow suggests they go inside, because it's "going to get hard to breath". Cap questions if they're on a submarine. He and Banner walk to the edge of the flight deck, and see a ''roiling'' ocean, as four large somethings rise from the depths to join with the carrier. Cue ''everyone'' with even a ''hint'' of comic book knowledge going, "Holy crap, hell no, they didn't, ''they fucking didn't!'' HOLY SHIT THEY DID THEY REALLY DID!"

* It's hard to believe, but there was a time when this page did not acknowledge the ''incredible'' sequence of the S.H.I.E.L.D. helicarrier appearing for the first time in live-action. Seeing Cap flying over the ocean in a quinjet might've made some fans pause. Seeing the jet land on an aircraft carrier, some fans might've thought, "Okay, they're giving it a nod. No way they'd actually pull that off." And then the alarms start. Black Widow suggests they go inside, because it's "going to get hard to breath". Cap questions if they're on a submarine. He and Banner walk to the edge of the flight deck, and see a ''roiling'' ocean, as four large somethings rise from the depths to join with the carrier. Cue ''everyone'' with even a ''hint'' of comic book knowledge going, "Holy crap, hell no, they didn't, ''they fucking didn't!'' HOLY SHIT!"

'''Fury:''' No. It's won by soldiers.\\

** It starts with Nat flying around on one of the Chitauri gliders. Then Iron Man flies up beside her, blasting the crap out of every glider in the squadron. Then he flies down to the street and goes [[BackToBackBadasses back-to-back]] with Cap, culminating in him bouncing his repulsor off Cap's shield and send some Chitauri to an early grave, a la ''VideoGame/MarvelUltimateAlliance''. Tony then blasts back into the sky, skimming up the side of a building -- while Hawkeye is on the roof, shooting at the aliens clawing their way up to him. Hawkeye dodges a couple laser shots, then launches a long-range arrow into head of a Chitauri piloting a glider. The glider, along with two Chitauri still riding it, crash into the side of a Leviathan... where Thor and the Hulk doing their own version of BackToBackBadasses. They perform an off hand CombinationAttack that goes perfectly without either character so much as glancing at each other to pull it off. Hulk rips out a chunk of the Leviathan's armor and [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice drives it into the thing's head]]. Thor decides to follow this up not one second later, using Mjnolir to drive the spike, and a thunderbolt for flavor, ''into its brain''. This drops it out of the sky and into the side of a building. It ends with a CMOA [[JustForPun punchline]] as Hulk sucker-punches Thor, just 'cuz.

[[folder: Pre-Title]]

* Loki then shows off his fighting skills by [[CurbStompBattle curb-stomping]] Captain America, the SuperSoldier. Another MOA for Loki in that is he is the first being to cleanly and single-handedly defeat Cap in a one-on-one battle in the Cinematic Universe.

** On a meta level, this scene is perfect foreshadowing for Natasha's later conversation with Loki... except she (and by extension, Creator/ScarlettJohansson) are such good actors, everything she says is believable. They become two separate, amazing character sequences instead of foreshadowing and payoff.

** And Harry Dean Stanton asking someone if they were an alien. Meta-CMOA.

** This is also a CMOA in a meta-sense for the writers in the lead-up to this sequence. In theaters across the globe, when this moment happened, the audience exploded into near-deafening applause because of how many people were looking forward to the moment Loki gets his due and how well they pulled it off. ''Creator/JossWhedon'', through his long and illustrious career writing, producing, and directing several successful films and TV series, mentioned on the commentary that he considers this moment his best. [[PoesLaw It was probably a joke]], but there are several who would agree without irony.

* Iron Man ''intercepts the nuclear missile and flies it right through the portal into the Chitauri Mothership''. Even better when you consider he spent his first two movies giving the middle finger to the arms industry and the government. Talk about a nuclear deterrent.

* Iron Man ''intercepts the nuclear missile and flies it right into the Chitauri Mothership''. Even better when you consider he spent his first two movies giving the middle finger to the arms industry and the government. Talk about a nuclear deterrent.