"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."— Colonel Nicholas J. "Nick" Fury
The Avengers (known as
Avengers Assemble in the UK and Ireland) is a 2012
Live-Action Adaptation of
The Avengers comic book directed by
Joss Whedon and produced by Marvel Studios and is the sixth film in the
Marvel Cinematic Universe. Its cast includes:
The story revolves around the heroes of the first five
Marvel Cinematic Universe films (
Iron Man,
The Incredible Hulk,
Iron Man 2,
Thor, and
Captain America: The First Avenger) banding together to form the eponymous super team as they tie up several unresolved plot threads from those movies.
Warning: Unmarked spoilers for the previous films below.Following the end of
Captain America: The First Avenger,
S.H.I.E.L.D. has recovered
the Tesseract, an Asgardian relic they hope can serve as a source of infinite energy. However, their experiments with the device attract the attentions of Loki, the
Big Bad of
Thor, who promises the Tesseract to a
third party in exchange for an army to
conquer the Earth.
To stop Loki, S.H.I.E.L.D. director Nick Fury
assembles super soldier
living legend Steve Rogers (Captain America), billionaire
power armor aficionado Tony Stark (Iron Man), Loki's
physical god brother Thor,
occasional enormous green rage monster Bruce Banner (The Hulk), and
master assassins Natasha Romanoff (Black Widow) and Clint Barton (Hawkeye). Now the six heroes must set aside their
conflicting personalities and motivations and
work together if they hope to
save the world.
An eight-issue prequel comic,
The Avengers Prelude: Fury's Big Week has also been 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.
Has a 2015 sequel
Avengers: Age of Ultron and 2018 / 2019 sequel duology
Avengers: Infinity War. If you're looking for the 1998 film based on the British TV series
The Avengers, that's over at
The Avengers (1998). Don't worry, we won't tell.
The Avengers assembles all of its tropes into the following subpages:
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