Line #4 Film/TheAvengers2012


1	!'''Spoilers for ''all'' preceding Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse entries will be left unmarked. Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned!'''
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3	[[caption-width-right:350:''[[{{Tagline}} Some Assembly Required]].''[[note]]From left to right: ComicBook/{{Hawkeye}}, [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk The Hulk]], ComicBook/IronMan, ComicBook/NickFury, ComicBook/BlackWidow, ComicBook/CaptainAmerica, and [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Thor]].[[/note]]]]
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5	->''"There was an idea [...] called the Avengers Initiative. The idea was to bring together a group of remarkable people. See if they could become something more. See if they could work together when we needed them to, to fight the battles that we never could."''
6	-->-- '''ComicBook/NickFury'''
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8	''The Avengers'' (known as ''Avengers Assemble'' in the UK and Ireland and ''Marvel's The Avengers'' so as to not cause confusion with a [[Series/TheAvengers1960s similarly titled Sixties Spy Fiction series]] and [[Film/TheAvengers1998 its 1998 film adaptation]]) is a 2012 LiveActionAdaptation of ''ComicBook/TheAvengers'' comic book directed by Creator/JossWhedon (''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', ''Series/{{Firefly}}'') and produced by Marvel Studios. It is the sixth film in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse, and the last installment of its Phase 1.
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10	The story revolves around the heroes of the first five Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse films (''Film/IronMan1'', ''Film/{{The Incredible Hulk\|2008}}'', ''Film/IronMan2'', ''Film/{{Thor}}'', and ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'') banding together to form the eponymous super team as they tie up several unresolved plot threads from those movies.
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12	The endings of ''{{Film/Thor}}'' and ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'' reveal that ComicBook/{{SHIELD}} has recovered [[PlotDevice the Tesseract]], an Asgardian relic they hope can serve as a source of infinite energy, and are developing plans to research it for their own use. However, their experiments with the device attract the attentions of Loki, the BigBad of ''Film/{{Thor}}'', who promises the Tesseract to a [[GreaterScopeVillain third party]] in exchange for an army to [[TakeOverTheWorld conquer the Earth]].
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14	To stop Loki, S.H.I.E.L.D. director Nick Fury [[AvengersAssemble assembles]] super soldier [[FishOutOfTemporalWater living legend]] Steve Rogers (Captain America), billionaire {{powered armor}} aficionado Tony Stark (Iron Man), Loki's PhysicalGod brother Thor, [[HulkingOut occasional enormous green rage monster]] Bruce Banner (The Hulk), and [[AssassinOutclassin master assassins]] Natasha Romanoff (Black Widow) and Clint Barton (Hawkeye). Now the six heroes must set aside their [[DysfunctionJunction conflicting personalities and motivations]] and [[SuperTeam work together]] if they hope to {{save the world}}.
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16	An eight-issue prequel comic, ''The Avengers Prelude: Fury's Big Week'' was released, tying up loose ends from all the previous movies and setting the stage for this one. A second prequel mini-series focusing on Black Widow's activities leading up to the movie was also released.
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18	Sequels include ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'' (2015), ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'' (2018), ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' (2019), ''Avengers: The Kang Dynasty'' (2026) and ''Avengers: Secret Wars'' (2027).
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20	If you're looking for the 1998 film based on the British TV series ''Series/{{The Avengers\|1960s}}'', that's over at ''Film/{{The Avengers\|1998}}''.
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22	!!''The Avengers'' assembles all of its tropes into the following subpages:
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24	[[index]]
25	* TheAvengers/TropesAToD
26	* TheAvengers/TropesEToL
27	* TheAvengers/TropesMToP
28	* TheAvengers/TropesQToZ
29	* TheAvengers/TieIns
30	[[/index]]
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33	->''"All right, hey! Hooray, good job, guys. Let's just not come in tomorrow; let's just take a day... Have you ever tried shawarma? There's a shawarma joint about two blocks from here. I don't know what it is, but I wanna try it."''

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