The Avengers

The Avengers also known as Marvel's The Avengers and Avengers Assemble is a 2012 superhero film based on the Marvel Comics superhero team of the same name. It is the sixth installment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the sixth installment to Phase One. It is co-written and directed by Joss Whedon and stars Chris Evans as Steve Rogers/Captain America, Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark/Iron Man, Chris Hemsworth as Thor, Mark Ruffalo as Bruce Banner/The Incredible Hulk, Tom Hiddleston as Loki, Jeremy Renner as Clint Barton/Hawkeye, Scarlett Johansson as Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow, and Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury. It was released May 4, 2012 in the USA and was released on April 25, 2012 and April 26, 2012 in the UK. The film drew inspiration from the Avengers and Ultimates comic series.

A sequel called The Avengers: Age of Ultron was confirmed in late July of 2013. It is set for release on May 1, 2015.

Plot
The movie opens with Loki negotiating with Thanos, who gives him a staff and the Chitauri army to help him take over the Earth in exchange for the Tesseract. Loki then goes to the S.H.I.E.L.D. base to steal the Tesseract, brainwashing Hawkeye and Dr. Selvig in the process. Nick Fury then activates the Avengers Initiative, and gets Black Widow to recruit The Hulk and Phil Coulson to recruit Iron Man respectively.

They then gather on the Helicarrier, where Tony Stark, Steve Rogers and Bruce Banner are introduced to each other. Banner starts tracking gamma radiation from the Tessearct, while S.H.I.E.L.D tries to find Loki. Loki is found and Captain America and Iron Man are sent to find and capture him. After capturing him, they board the Quinjet. A storm starts and Thor comes down to take Loki. Iron Man goes to get Loki back and Captain America follows.

Thor confronts Loki and tells him about what his has done and what has since happened on Asgard. Thor then is grabbed and thrown through trees by Iron Man. The two battle and Captain America soon comes to stop everyone.

Thor goes with S.H.I.E.L.D. and tells them what they are dealing with. They soon all come to the room where Bruce is studying the Cosmic Cube and Loki's guards come with Hawkeye there who blows an engine up. Black Widow and Bruce fall and Bruce turns into the Hulk form. Black Widow runs and is hit by the Hulk. Captain America and Iron Man try to keep the other engine running and Thor confronts Loki who is tricked by making Thor phase through him into his cell. Loki drops the cell and Thor falls in the cell. He breaks free at the very last moment and Hulk falls down from the Helicarrier. Black Widow finds Hawkeye and knocks him out. Phil Coulson confronts Loki and is stabbed from behind. He blasts the gun which he had and which was the first time he new what it did.

Nick Fury uses Coulson's death for motivation for the team. He pulls out the Captain America trading cards with blood on them and said that he never got the signed. Captain America, Black Widow, and Hawkeye took the Quinjet. Iron Man came and found Loki on Stark Tower. He got out of the suit and confronted him. He was thrown out the window and he got the Mark VII suit similar to the Mark V, could go on him by itself. Thor soon came and they all fought some of the Chitauri. Bruce came on a little motorbike and transformed into the Hulk destroying one of the Leviathans.

They all come together. Captain America says to Hawkeye that he will go up on the roof to attack from above and also worn the team, Iron Man was sent to fly and fight from the sky, Thor was sent to help civilians, Captain America and Black Widow fought on the ground and Hulk was sent to smash. Thor and Hulk also ran into each other fighting some of the Chitauri. They came in a room all done and Hulk punched Thor. Romanoff makes her way to Selvig's device, where Selvig, freed of Loki's control, reveals that Loki's staff can be used to close the portal. Fury's superiors attempt to end the invasion by launching a nuclear missile at Manhattan. Iron Man intercepts it and takes it through the portal toward the Chitauri fleet before running out of power and plummeting back to Earth. The Hulk catches him as he falls. Thor escorts Loki and the Tesseract to Asgard, home of the Norse gods. Fury notes that the Avengers will go their separate ways until such time as a new world-threatening menace emerges.

The Other tells his shadowy master that attacking Earth "would be to court death". His master, Thanos turns and smiles.

In a second post-credits scene, the Avengers — gathered at a shawarma restaurant — eat in silence.

Heroes

 * Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark/Iron Man
 * Chris Evans as Steve Rogers/Captain America
 * Chris Hemsworth as Thor
 * Mark Ruffalo as Bruce Banner/The Hulk
 * Lou Ferrigno as the Hulk  (voice)
 * Jeremy Renner as Clint Barton/Hawkeye
 * Scarlett Johansson as Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow
 * Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury
 * Clark Gregg as Phil Coulson
 * Cobie Smulders as Maria Hill
 * Paul Bettany as J.A.R.V.I.S.  (voice)

Villains

 * Tom Hiddleston as Loki
 * Alexis Denisof as The Other
 * Damion Poitier as Thanos

Other Characters

 * Stellan Skarsgård as Erik Selvig
 * Gwyneth Paltrow as Pepper Potts
 * Maximiliano Hernández as Jasper Sitwell
 * Jenny Agutter, Powers Boothe, Arthur Darbinyan and Donald Li as the World Security Council
 * Stan Lee as a sceptical man

Locations

 * Earth
 * United States of America
 * California
 * Mojave Desert
 * New York
 * New York City
 * Manhattan
 * Stark Tower
 * Project P.E.G.A.S.U.S Facility
 * Germany
 * Baden-Württemberg
 * Stuttgart
 * India
 * West Bengal
 * Kolkata
 * Thanos' Domain

Events

 * Battle in the Valkyrie (flashback)
 * War for Earth
 * Destruction of Project P.E.G.A.S.U.S.
 * Attack on the Helicarrier
 * Battle of New York

Items

 * Tesseract
 * Chitauri Scepter
 * Iron Man Armor: Mark VI
 * Iron Man Armor: Mark VII
 * Arc Reactor
 * Badassium
 * Captain America's Shield
 * Mjølnir
 * Hawkeye's Quiver and Bow
 * Destroyer Armor Prototype Gun
 * Galaga

Vehicles

 * S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier
 * Quinjet
 * Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II
 * Acura TL
 * Acura NSX Spider
 * Chitauri Chariot
 * Leviathan
 * Humvee
 * Chitauri Command Center

Organizations

 * S.H.I.E.L.D.
 * Project P.E.G.A.S.U.S.
 * Avengers
 * New York City Police Department
 * United States Armed Forces
 * Chitauri

Item 47
The Blu-ray realese of The Avengers came with a Marvel One-Shot that told the story of Benjamin Pollack and his girlfriend Claire Wise, who found a Chitauri weapon that they used to steal.