The Avengers (2012 film)

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Marvel's The Avengers (titled Marvel Avengers Assemble in the UK and Ireland) is a 2012 American superhero film about a team of superheroes who come together to form the Avengers to help stop Thor's brother Loki from enslaving the human race. It is based on the Marvel Comics superhero team of the same name.

Written and directed by Joss Whedon. Story by Zak Penn and Joss Whedon.
Avengers Assemble! (taglines)


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Tony Stark/Iron Man[edit]

  • It's good to meet you, Dr. Banner. Your work on anti-electron collisions is unparalleled. And I'm a huge fan of the way you lose control and turn into an enormous green rage monster.
  • [To Banner] You really have got a lid on this, haven't you? What's your secret, smooth jazz, bongos, huge bag of weed?
  • That man is playing Galaga! Thought we wouldn't notice, but we did.
  • [To Thor] No hard feelings, Point Break, you got a mean swing.
  • An intelligence agency that fears intelligence? Historically, not awesome.

Bruce Banner/The Hulk[edit]

  • That's my secret, Cap. I'm always angry. [turns into The Hulk and punches a Chitauri Leviathan]
  • (yells) Stop lying to me! {Black Widow pulls out her gun in fear of the Hulk emerging. Banner immediately calms down) I'm sorry, that was mean. I just wanted to see what you would do.
  • [refers to his cage that Loki is currently residing in] In case you needed to kill me, but you can't! I know! I tried!... I got low. I didn't see an end, so I put a bullet in my mouth... and the Other Guy spit it out! So I moved on. I focused on helping other people. I was good, until you dragged me back into this freak show and put everyone here at risk!
  • We're not a team. We're a mixture of chemicals that creates chaos. We're a time bomb!

Loki[edit]

  • [To Natasha] I won't touch Barton. Not until I make him kill you. Slowly, intimately, in every way he knows you fear. And then he'll wake just long enough to see his good work, and when he screams, I'll split his skull! This is my bargain, you mewling quim!
  • [After the Avengers defeat the Chitauri and corner him] If it's all the same to you... I think I'll have that drink now.
  • [After Thor charges his duplicate and gets trapped in Loki's cage] Are you ever not going to fall for that?
  • [Preparing to release Thor in the cage down to earth] The humans believe us to be immortal. Shall we test that?

The Other[edit]

  • [Opening lines] The Tesseract has awakened. It is on a little world, a human world. They would wield its power, but our ally knows its workings as they never will. He is ready to lead. And our force, our Chitauri, will follow. The world will be his. The universe yours. And the humans - what can they do but burn?
  • You will have your war, Asgardian. If you fail, if the Tesseract is kept from us, there will be no realm, no barren moon, no crevice where he cannot find you. You think you know pain? He will make you long for something as sweet as pain.
  • [Last lines of the movie] Humans. They are not the cowering wretches we were promised. They stand. They are unruly, and therefore cannot be ruled. To challenge them is to court death.

Dialogue[edit]

Pepper Potts: Is this about the Avengers? Which I know nothing about.
Tony Stark: The Avengers initiative was scrapped, I thought. And I didn't even qualify.
Potts: I didn't know that either.
Stark: Apparently I'm volatile, self-obsessed, and don't play well with others.
Potts: That I did know.
Loki: I am Loki, of Asgard. And I am burdened with glorious purpose.
Selvig: Loki, brother of Thor.
Nick Fury: We have no quarrel with your people.
Loki: An ant has no quarrel with a boot.
Nick Fury: You planning to step on us?
Loki: I come with glad tidings. Of a world made free.
Nick Fury: Free from what?
Loki: Freedom. Freedom is life's great lie. Once you accept that, in your heart... [taps Selvig with the spear] you will know peace.
Nick Fury: Yeah, you say peace. I kinda think you mean the other thing.
Loki: [To crowd] Kneel before me. I said... kneel! Is not this simpler? Is this not your natural state? It's the unspoken truth of humanity that you crave subjugation. The bright lure of freedom diminishes your life's joy in a mad scramble for power. For identity. You were made to be ruled. In the end, you will always kneel.
Old German: [Stands] Not to men like you.
Loki: There are no men like me.
Old German: There are always men like you.
Loki: Look to your elder, people. Let him be an example. (Loki prepares to kill the man with his staff, but Steve Rogers saves the old man)
Steve Rogers/Captain America: You know, the last time I was in Germany, and I saw a man standing above everybody else, we ended up disagreeing.
Loki: The soldier. [laughs] A man out of time.
Rogers: I'm not the one who's out of time.
Rogers: Stark, we need a plan of attack!
Stark: I have a plan: Attack!
Romanov: I'd sit this one out, Cap.
Rogers: I don't see how I can.
Romanov: These men come from legend. They're basically gods.
Rogers: There is only one God, ma'am. And I'm pretty sure He doesn't dress like that.
Thor: [Throws Loki on the ground] Where is the Tesseract?!
Loki: [laughs] Oh, I missed you, too!
Thor: Do I look to be in a gaming mood?
Loki: [groans] Oh, you should thank me. With the Bifrost gone, how much dark energy did the Allfather have to muster to conjure you here? Your precious Earth.
Thor: [drops Mjolnir then grabs Loki] I thought you dead.
Loki: Did you mourn?
Thor: We all did. Our Father-
Loki: Your father. [shoves Thor] He did tell you my true parentage, did he not?
Thor: We were raised together! We played together, we fought together! Do you remember none of that?!
Loki: I remember a shadow. Living in the shade of your greatness. I remember you tossing me into an abyss. I who was, and should be, king!
Thor: So, you take the world I love as recompense for your imagined slights? No. The Earth is under my protection, Loki!
Loki: [laughs] And you're doing a marvelous job with that. The humans slaughter each other in droves while you idly fret. I mean to rule them! And why should I not?
Thor: You think yourself above them?
Loki: Well, yes.
Thor: Then you miss the truth of ruling, Brother. A throne would suit you ill.
Loki: [growls] I've seen worlds you've never known about! I have grown, Odinson, in my exile! I have seen the true power of the Tesseract, and when I wield it-
Thor: Who showed you this power? Who controls the would-be king?!
Loki: I am a king!
Thor: Not here! You give up the Tesseract; you give up this poisonous dream! You come home.
Loki: [smirks] I don't have it. [Thor raises the hammer] You need the cube to bring me home, but I've sent it off, I know not where.
Thor: Listen well, Brother. I-
[Iron Man knocks Thor off the cliffside]
Loki: I'm listening...?
Thor: Do not touch me again.
Stark: Then don't take my stuff.
Thor: You have no idea what you're dealing with.
Stark: [Looks at the surrounding trees] Uh, Shakespeare in the Park? [About Thor's cape] Doth Mother know you weareth her drapes?
Thor: This doesn't concern you, metal man. Loki will face Asgardian justice.
Stark: He gives up the cube, he's all yours. Until then ... [Closes his helmet] stay out of the way. [Under his breath] Tourist.
Nick Fury: [Loki is sealed in the cell, Nick Fury shows the function to dump it from the helicarrier] In case you try to escape. If you so much as scratch that glass... [chute opens beneath the cell] Thirty thousand feet, straight down in a steel trap. You get how that works? [Gestures to Loki] Ant. [Gestures to console] Boot.
Loki: It is an impressive cage. Not built, I think, for me.
Nick Fury: Built for something a lot stronger than you.
Loki: Oh, I've heard. The mindless beast, makes play he's still a man. How desperate are you? That you call on such lost creatures to defend you?
Nick Fury: How desperate am I? You threaten my world with war, you steal a force you can't hope to control, you talk about peace, and you kill 'cause it's fun. You have made me very desperate. You might not be glad that you did.
Loki: Ooh. It burns you to have come so close. To have the Tesseract, to have power. Unlimited power. And for what? A warm light for all mankind to share? And then to be reminded what real power is.
Nick Fury: Well, let me know if 'real power' wants a magazine or something.
Rogers: Loki's going to drag this out. So, Thor, what's his play?
Thor: Loki has an army, called the Chitauri. They are not of Asgard or any other world known. They will win him the Earth, in return, I suspect, for the Tessaract.
Rogers: An army... from outer space.
Banner: So, he's building another portal. That's what he needs Dr. Eric Selvig for.
Thor: Selvig?
Banner: He's an astrophysicist.
Thor: He's a friend.
Romanov: Loki has him under some kind of spell. Along with one of ours.
Rogers: I want to know why Loki let us take him. He's not leading an army from here.
Banner: I don't think we should be focused on Loki. The guy's mind is a bag of cats. You can smell crazy on him.
Thor: Have care how you speak. Loki may be beyond reason, but he is of Asgard. And he is my brother.
Romanov: He killed eighty people in two days.
Thor: ...He is adopted?
Rogers: We have orders. We should follow them.
Stark: Following's not really my style.
Rogers: And you're all about style, aren't you?
Stark: Of the people in this room, which one is A) wearing a spangly outfit; and B) not of use?
Natasha: You wanna think about removing yourself from this environment, Doctor?
Banner: I was in Calcutta, I was pretty well removed.
Natasha: Loki is manipulating you.
Banner: And you've been wondering what exactly?
Natasha: You didn't come here because I bat my eyelashes at you.
Banner: Yes and I'm not leaving because suddenly you get a little twitchy. I like to know, why S.H.I.E.L.D is using the Tesseract to build a weapon of mass destruction?
Nick Fury: [Points at Thor] Because of him.
Thor: Me?
Nick Fury: Last year Earth had a visitor from another planet who had a grudge match that levelled a small town. We learned that not only are we not alone, but we are hopelessly, hilariously, out-gunned.
Thor: My people want nothing but peace with your planet.
Nick Fury: But you're not the only people out there, are you? And you're not the only threat. The world's filling up with people who can't be matched, they can't be controlled.
Rogers: Like you controlled the cube?
Thor: Your work with the Tesseract is what drew Loki to it, and his allies. It is the signal to all the realms that the Earth is ready for a higher form of war.
Rogers: A higher form?
Nick Fury: You forced our hand. We had to come up with something-
Stark: A nuclear deterrent. 'Cause that always calms everything right down.
Nick Fury: Remind me again how you made your fortune, Stark?
Rogers: I'm sure if he still made weapons, Stark would be neck deep-
Stark: Wait, wait, hold on. How is this now about me?
Rogers: I'm sorry, isn't everything?
Thor: I thought humans were more evolved than this.
Nick Fury: Excuse me, did we come to your planet and blow stuff up?
[Everyone starts talking at the same time]
Thor: You speak of control, yet you court chaos.
Banner: It's his M.O, isn't it? I mean, what are we, a team? No, no, no. We're a chemical mixture that makes chaos. We're... we're a time bomb.
Nick Fury: You, need to step away.
Rogers: Big man in a suit of armor. Take that off, what are you?
Stark: Genius, billionaire, playboy, philanthropist.
Rogers: I know guys with none of that worth ten of you. I've seen the footage; you fight for nobody but yourself. You're not the kind to make the sacrifice play, to lay down on a wire and let the other guy crawl over you.
Stark: I think I would just cut the wire.
Rogers: Always a way out. You know, you may not be a threat, but you better stop pretending to be a hero.
Stark: A hero? Like you? You're a laboratory experiment, Rogers. Everything that's special about you came out of a bottle.
Rogers: Put on the suit. Let's go a few rounds.
Thor: [Laughs] You people are so petty... and tiny.
Banner: Yeah, this is a team-
Nick Fury: Agent Romanoff, would you escort Dr. Banner back to his-
Banner: Where? You're renting my room.
Nick Fury: The cell was just-
Banner: In case you needed to kill me, but you can't! I know, I tried! [The others stare at him, surprised] I got low. I didn't see an end, so I put a bullet in my mouth, and the Other Guy spit it out! So I moved on. I focused on helping other people. I was good, until you dragged me back into this freak show and put everyone here at risk. You wanna know my secret, Agent Romanoff? You wanna know how I stay calm?
Romanov: Are you really that naive? S.H.I.E.L.D. monitors potential threats.
Banner: [Surprised] Captain America is on threat watch?
Romanov: We all are.
Stark: [To Rogers] You're on that list? Are you above or below "angry bees?"
Rogers: I swear, Stark, one more wisecrack out of you...
Stark: Verbal threat! Threatening! I feel threatened!
Phil Coulson: [Dying, holding a very large gun] You're going to lose.
Loki: Am I?
Coulson: It's in your nature.
Loki: Your heroes are scattered, your floating fortress falls from the sky. [scoffs] Where is my disadvantage?
Coulson: You lack conviction.
Loki: I don't think I-
[Coulson fires the weapon, blasting Loki through a wall]
Coulson: So that's what it does.
Loki: Please, tell me you're going to appeal to my humanity.
Stark: Uh, actually I'm planning to threaten you.
Loki: You should have left your armour on for that.
Stark: Yeah. It's seen a bit of mileage and you got the "glow-stick of destiny." Would you like a drink?
Loki: Stalling me won't change anything.
Stark: No, no, no, threatening! No drink? You sure? I'm having one.
Loki: The Chitauri are coming. Nothing will change that. What have I to fear?
Stark: The Avengers. It's what we call ourselves, sort of like a team. "Earth's Mightiest Heroes" type thing.
Loki: Yes, I've met them.
Stark: Yeah. Takes us a while to get any traction, I'll give you that one. But, let's do a head count here: Your brother, the demigod; a super soldier, a living legend who kind of lives up to the legend; a man with... breath-taking anger management issues; a couple of master assassins, and you, big fella, you've managed to piss off every single one of them.
Loki: That was the plan.
Stark: Not a great plan. When they come, and they will, they'll come for you.
Loki: I have an army.
Stark: We have a Hulk.
Loki: I thought the beast had wandered off.
Stark: You're missing the point. There's no throne. There is no version of this where you come out on top. Maybe your army comes, and maybe it's too much for us, but it's all on you. Because, if we can't protect the Earth, you can be damn well sure we'll avenge it.
Loki: But how will your friends have time for me? When they're so busy fighting you! [Loki tries to use his mind control powers from his scepter on Tony Stark, but hits the arc reactor] This usually works. [Tries again, and fails]
Stark: Well, performance issues... [shrugs] Not uncommon, one out of five...
[Captain America is outlining his plan for the Avengers to fight the Chitauri]
Captain America: All right, listen up. Until we can close that portal, our priority's containment. Barton, I want you on that roof, eyes on everything. Call out patterns and strays. Stark, you got the perimeter. Anything gets more than three blocks out, you turn it back or you turn it to ash.
Hawkeye: [To Iron Man] Want to give me a lift?
Iron Man: Right. Better clench up, Legolas. [Iron Man takes Hawkeye up to the roof]
Captain America: Thor, you gotta try and bottleneck that portal. Slow 'em down. You got the lightning; Light the bastards up. [Thor swings his hammer and flies off]
Captain America: [To Black Widow] You and me, we stay here on the ground, keep the fighting here. And Hulk? [Pause, then points upward] Smash. [The Hulk grins and leaps away]
Romanov: [Fighting off the Chitauri] This is like Budapest all over again!
Hawkeye: You and I remember Budapest very differently!
Loki: [To Hulk] Enough! You are, all of you, beneath me! I am a god, you dull creature. And I will not be bullied by—
[Hulk grabs Loki by the leg and slams him around like a rag doll, then leaves him face-up on the floor in a crater]
Loki: [Wheezes]
Hulk: Puny god. [Walks off]
Stark: [Regaining consciousness] What just happened? Please tell me nobody kissed me?
Rogers: We won.
Stark: All right. Yay. All right. 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.
Thor: This is not over yet...[Looks to the Stark Tower, where Loki is.]
Stark: ...Then shawarma after.

Taglines[edit]

  • Avengers Assemble!
  • Some assembly required.
  • Every team needs a Captain.
  • Throw down the hammer.
  • Hulk, SMASH!

Cast[edit]

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