Vault

The Vault is a hidden facility on Barrow, Alaska, where the former soldier Emil Blonsky is held on cryostatis.

History
""...I'll reassign you to Barrow, Alaska and you'll spend the rest of your years doing night shift guarding Blonsky's cryo-cell.""

- Phil Coulson to Grant Ward

After his defeat by the Hulk in Harlem, Blonsky was brought to the Vault and held on a cryo-cell, under the supervision of the United States Armed Forces. A few years later, Agent Phil Coulson threatened his team-mate Grant Ward to post him to guard Blonsky in his cryo-cell on the night shift if his sexual relationship with Melinda May had adverse effects on their team.

Trivia

 * In the comics, the Vault was a maximum security facility for super-humans located on the, Colorado, that was closed after many years of riots and abuses of power.

Behind the Scenes

 * Originally a post-credits scene in The Incredible Hulk, according Director Louis Leterrier, was meant to be film showing Emil Blonsky, human once more, imprisoned and chained in his containment box, but it was ultimately scrapped.
 * The name of the facility was revealed in the novelization of the movie.