FILM · 2012 · USA
The Avengers
- Directed by
- Joss Whedon
- Runtime
- 143 min
- Studio
- Marvel Studios
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When an unexpected enemy emerges and threatens global safety and security, Nick Fury, director of the international peacekeeping agency known as S.H.I.E.L.D., finds himself in need of a team to pull the world back from the brink of disaster. Spanning the globe, a daring recruitment effort begins!
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184 Interesting Facts About The Avengers
- #001
Robert Downey Jr. hid food all over the laboratory set, and apparently no one could find where he had put it, so they let him keep doing it. In the film, the food he offers is real, and the scene of him eating was not scripted — he simply opened it.
- #002
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Captain America is the only one not eating in the post-credits scene. The reason is that Chris Evans cut his hair and grew a beard after filming on the movie ended. He was later called back to shoot this extra scene, and because he could not shave his beard at the time due to filming Snowpiercer (2013), he was given a prosthetic chin. He holds his hand over his face because the prosthetic makes him look as if he has been attacked by an angry swarm of bees. The prosthetic also prevents him from eating and speaking.
- #003
There was very little time when everyone was in the city at the same time, but one night while they were there, Chris Evans sent them all a text message reading "Assemble" (the film's slogan) to encourage them to spend a night in the city. Clark Gregg said it was his favorite text message he had ever received.
- #004
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A scene was reportedly shot in which Captain America saves an old man trying to protect his grandchildren during the final battle. He tells him "Get them to cover," but as he walks away the old man asks him, "Cap, is that really you?" He turns back, notices the man's World War II veteran lapel pin and salutes him. As Captain America hurries away, the children ask their grandfather, "Do you know him?" and he replies, "we all know him."
- #007
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(At around 2 hours) When the missile is launched over Manhattan, the pilot will call the explosion in two minutes and thirty seconds. The time from that moment to the explosion is two minutes and thirty seconds of screen time.
- #008
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Robert Downey Jr. asked Marvel's production manager for permission to take the "A" from Stark Tower with him, but he refused. However, on his next birthday the manager gave it to him as a gift.
- #009
Joss Whedon explained that Ant-Man and Wasp, founding members of the Avengers, were cut from the script because the film already had too many characters. The writers also did not want Ant-Man to appear in the Marvel Cinematic Universe until the film was released.
- #011
Clint Barton (Hawkeye) is an archer who can use both hands (even though Jeremy Renner is left-handed). In Thor (2011) he is seen shooting with his right hand, while in this film he shoots with both his left and right hands.
- #012
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While filming the scene (around the 2-hour mark) in which Loki shouts at the Hulk, a rope was tied to Tom Hiddleston's leg, and since the Hulk was only CGI, pulling the rope made it look as though the Hulk had caught him. Tom knew he would be pulled during the speech but did not know when, so he was not expecting it. Writer and director Joss Whedon later called this "ragdoll sequence" his favorite personal achievement in the film.
- #013
Jeremy Renner was trained by Olympic archers to prepare for the role of Agent Clint Barton (Hawkeye). Director Joss Whedon later said he never tired of watching Hawkeye shoot an arrow while looking the other way.
- #015
Samuel L. Jackson's Nick Fury comes from the Ultimate Marvel Universe, created in 2000 to reimagine and update Marvel heroes for the twenty-first century. Fury's likeness was in fact based on Jackson, who had given Marvel permission. Later, because of that likeness and his star power, Jackson was cast as Fury in all the Marvel Cinematic Universe films, starting with Iron Man (2008).
- #017
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(At about 39 minutes) The German police car that is thrown forward after Loki's blasts was a complete accident, since it initially failed to flip over.
- #018
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Sound editor Christopher Boyes said he went through a complex process to create the Hulk's voice. The final product turned out to be "a combination of Mark Ruffalo, a little bit of Lou Ferrigno and a little bit of me and two New Zealanders."
- #019
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According to writer and director Joss Whedon, the film's original cut ran over three hours. About thirty minutes of the deleted footage appears on the Blu-ray, and much of it revolves around Steve Rogers (Captain America) trying to adjust to the modern world. Chris Evans later announced that these deleted scenes would be used for Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014).
- #021
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(At about the 2-hour mark) The shocked expression on Loki's face after he is slammed by The Incredible Hulk was created by animation director Marc Chu violently shaking Tom Hiddleston repeatedly.
- #023
It was the first Marvel film to gross over 1 billion dollars worldwide.
- #025
Tom Hiddleston revealed that Chris Hemsworth really punched him in one scene. Recalling his experience on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (2015), Hiddleston said: "You're going to lose in a fight with Chris Hemsworth, let's face it. In the film, when you're fighting, it's all about angles. So you're trying to capture the angles of different parts of the choreography to tell the story, but you only have to do it once. In Avengers there's a scene where Thor has to punch Loki in the face and I'm wearing horns that weigh about 30 pounds. I just couldn't sell the punch and I said to Chris, 'I think you should hit me in the face.'" He added, "That was a terrible idea. I went down like a stone." "And I suppose when you fight on stage, you have to do it for over 100 performances every night. I don't know if I could manage that if Chris Hemsworth punched me in the face every day. It wouldn't be sustainable."
- #026
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Because of Agent Coulson's death scene, Marvel had to make three attempts with the MPAA to get the film a PG-13 rating instead of an R. Initially Loki's scepter was shown bursting out of his chest. Instead, a horrifying sound effect was added after Loki appears behind him, followed by a quick cut to Thor's reaction.
- #028
Chris Hemsworth had to increase and expand his food intake to maintain the physique he had built for Thor (2011), which consisted of chicken breast, fish, steak and eggs every day. (Hemsworth said he had to consume his "body weight in grams of protein.").
- #029
Initially Joss Whedon did not plan for the film to include supporting characters from the heroes' individual films, thinking that "you need to separate the characters from their support systems in order to create the isolation you need for a team." In the end, however, he decided to cast Stellan Skarsgård (Dr. Selvig), Paul Bettany (Jarvis) and Gwyneth Paltrow (Pepper Potts). Paltrow was brought in at Robert Downey Jr.'s insistence, because he needed her to show that Tony's character had moved beyond what we saw in the first two Iron Man films. Whedon and Downey Jr. then discussed how Tony and Pepper's relationship would work and collaborated closely on Paltrow's scenes (Whedon compared it to The Thin Man (1934)).
- #030
Gwyneth Paltrow is visibly barefoot in all the scenes at Stark Tower, while Robert Downey Jr. wears three- or four-inch platform shoes, so he appears taller than her.
- #031
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When Loki is held captive aboard the Helicarrier, the computer screen monitoring him shows an infrared image of the cell. Because Loki is a Frost Giant by nature, his temperature registers as blue (cold).
- #033
Mark Ruffalo says taking over the role of Bruce Banner from his friend Edward Norton is an honor: "Ed has bequeathed this part to me, I look at it as my generation's Hamlet." Ruffalo apparently still felt somewhat insecure and spent the first week of shooting reminding director Joss Whedon that it was not too late to recast him, but Whedon felt Ruffalo perfectly embodied someone tense and dangerous rather than an "adorable nerdy scientist."
- #035
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To add realism to the battle, the crew hired twenty-five members of the Ohio-based 391st Military Police Battalion for the attack on New York City. Director Joss Whedon also drew inspiration from war films, particularly their way of cutting between separate characters. He said he would probably have cut a few shots of characters simply doing their jobs, but kept them at the producers' request because they were important for character building and for showing how these heroes truly became the Avengers.
- #036
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(At about the 53rd minute) According to Joss Whedon's commentary, Bruce Banner's line about Loki, "You can smell crazy on him," was a setup for when the Hulk confronts Loki at Stark Tower. Loki was originally going to create multiple versions of himself, and the only way the Hulk could tell where Loki was would be to smell them. Only the real Loki would have a scent.
- #037
(At about 1 hour 29 minutes) Among Coulson's collection of Captain America cards is a copy of Captain America's first comic-book appearance, in which he punches Adolf Hitler. Writer/director Joss Whedon also included Agent Coulson's mild man-crush on Captain America after deciding that his first script was "a desert of dry wit" and needed a different kind of humor. He also added Coulson's enthusiasm for his collection cards (including the line "Near mint, slight foxing around the edges") because Whedon himself is an avid collector of old books and other items.
- #039
According to writer and director Joss Whedon, the film is heavily influenced by the early 1960s Avengers comics he was a fan of growing up: "In those comics these people shouldn't even be in the same room, let alone on the same team, and that is the definition of family."
- #041
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Tony Stark casually refers to three other main characters — Loki, Thor and Hawkeye — by film characters or film titles. He calls Loki "Reindeer Games," Thor "Point Break" and Hawkeye "Legolas."
- #042
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Stan Lee cameo: (at about 2 hours 10 minutes) The creator of Marvel comics such as X-Men, Spider-Man, the Incredible Hulk, the Fantastic Four, Iron Man, Thor and others plays an old man interviewed at the end of the New York battle montage, who says: "Superheroes in New York? Give me a break!" and then returns to his chess game with a senior citizen. He also appeared in a deleted scene: after Lee's character witnesses a waitress flirting with Steve Rogers, he says: "Ask for her number, you moron!"
- #044
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(At about 1 hour 28 minutes) Agent Phil Coulson, who had gained considerable popularity among fans through his appearances in nearly all previous Marvel Studios films, is killed midway through the film, giving the Avengers someone to avenge. In his commentary, Whedon says killing Coulson in the film was not his decision and that the call came from Marvel Studios' Kevin Feige. Whedon brought Coulson back in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (2013).
- #046
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Hawkeye was originally meant to be part of the Avengers team, and writer/director Joss Whedon wrote an elaborate backstory for him, but due to time constraints none of it could even be referenced. This led to the brainwashing subplot Whedon invented to give Jeremy Renner something interesting to play (though Renner is said not to have been a fan of that storyline). During the planning stages, Hawkeye was envisioned as a circus performer trained by supervillains who turn him against the team, effectively a modernized version of his 616 origin story. At another point, he was set to make his first appearance in Iron Man 2 (2010) as a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent working closely with Natasha Romanov, aka Black Widow, and Nick Fury.
- #047
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(At about 1 hour 12 minutes) Seconds before Hawkeye attacks S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Helicarrier, Bruce Banner locates the Tesseract on the computer. This explains why the Hulk comes to New York City during the Chitauri invasion after falling from the Helicarrier to the ground during Hawkeye's attack.
- #049
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At around the 2-hour mark, after Iron Man flies out of a Leviathan, he can be seen falling to the ground in front of the Shawarma Palace, which later appeared in the post-credits scene.
- #050
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According to Joss Whedon, including Thanos in the post-credits scene was his decision: "To me, he's the most powerful and fascinating villain in Marvel. He's the great-grandfather of villains, and he's in love with Death, and I think that's very sweet. Someone had to be holding the reins and be behind Loki's work, and I said, 'It had to be this.' Thanos."
- #052
It became the highest-grossing comic book film of all time, surpassing the record of $1,001,921,825 set by The Dark Knight (2008).
- #054
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At around 1 hour 14 minutes, when Black Widow and Bruce Banner are thrown onto the Helicarrier's lower deck, Banner's transformation into Hulk is triggered. As he transforms, he falls from a platform to the floor. On the floor, small arrows pointing at Banner are painted with the words "WARNING: CONTENTS UNDER PRESSURE."
- #055
Disney changed the film's title to "Marvel Avengers Assemble" in the United Kingdom to avoid confusion with the iconic British spy series The Avengers (1961) and The Avengers (1998).
- #056
Natalie Portman was set to appear as Jane Foster but had to leave the project when she became pregnant.
- #058
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At roughly the 37-minute mark, Jasper Sitwell is revealed to be H.Y.D.R.A. The agent from Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) appears in this film. He is the agent who, through the facial recognition technology they employ, first locates Loki in Germany.
- #060
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According to Mark Ruffalo, Edward Norton did not much like Bruce Banner struggling again with his Hulk problems; at the end of The Incredible Hulk (2008), Banner seemed to have truly accepted it, and so the Avengers film did not develop Banner's character much.
- #061
Joss Whedon had previously been considered to direct X-Men (2000) in the 1990s. A big fan of X-Men, he even wrote a script for the film that contained only two lines. He wrote the "Gifted" story for "Astonishing X-Men," which formed the basis of X-Men: The Last Stand (2006).
- #063
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Tony Stark's Acura roadster is neither the 2012 NSX Concept show car nor a real prototype of the 2015 next-generation hybrid Acura NSX. It was designed specifically for the film by Honda North America chief designer Marek Dave. The "donor car" was a 1991 NSX from Arizona with 252,000 miles on the odometer. The interior of the film car was made almost entirely from stock parts and still has the original cassette player in the console.
- #065
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At roughly 24 minutes in, Stark Tower stands where the MetLife Building should be. The digital model of the tower that Pepper looks at shows that the bottom third of the tower retains the shape of the MetLife Building, while the remaining floors were redesigned.
- #066
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According to Joss Whedon, the arrangement of the monitors on the Helicarrier bridge was laid out to resemble the wings of the S.H.I.E.L.D. logo. The eagle head can actually be seen at the end of the film, at the base of the round conference table while repairs are being made.
- #067
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In the film, Captain America is one of the founding members of the Avengers. In the comics, Captain America was thawed out in Avengers #4, when the team accidentally discovered him while searching for the Sub-Mariner, Namor. Namor would not appear in the Marvel Cinematic Universe until Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022).
- #068
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At roughly 1 hour 9 minutes, as Fury and the Avengers argue with one another aboard the Helicarrier, the characters happen to say lines that foreshadow the plots of later films: Steve asks Tony what he is without the armor, a subject analyzed in depth in Iron Man 3 (2013); Fury aggressively punishes Thor over other species going to their own planet to "blow stuff up," which comes into play in Thor: The Dark World (2013) when Asgard is invaded by the Dark Elves. The most modest line (which, ironically, translates into the biggest plot point in the entire cinematic universe) is Bruce asking Natasha whether Captain America is on threat watch and Natasha answering, "we all are." In Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014), Steve (and therefore Natasha) becomes a fugitive from S.H.I.E.L.D. after Nick Fury's "murder." Natasha is also monitoring potential threats for S.H.I.E.L.D., which plays a large role in this film as well. Finally, Steve tells Tony to put on his suit so they can "go a few rounds"; in Captain America: Civil War (2016), Captain America and Iron Man have several hand-to-hand fights.
- #071
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According to the visual effects supervisor, Joss Whedon did not like Iron Man's "tinkerbell pose" while flying. He therefore insisted that the suit be equipped with a jetpack in this film. This would allow his hands (gauntlets) to be free, which in turn produced the great "cowboy" poses seen in the film.
- #072
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In the post-credits scene, Pepper Potts shows Tony Stark a hologram displaying plans to rebuild the top of Stark Tower. In the hologram, a Quinjet is clearly visible in the middle of the structure, one of the possible hints in the film that Stark Tower will be used as the Avengers' future headquarters (as in the comic book series).
- #073
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At roughly 1 hour 6 minutes, Captain America finds rifles and helmets bearing the H.Y.D.R.A. logo in the Helicarrier's secure storage area. Although some mistakenly think this is a "phase two" weapon, it is not. It is captured original equipment.
- #075
The Pentagon said it "couldn't reconcile the unreality of S.H.I.E.L.D. and our place in it" (in detail, it was left unclear whether S.H.I.E.L.D. was a national or international organization, and the Pentagon disliked the implication that the U.S. military would answer to anyone outside the U.S. government) and therefore refused to take part in the film. The U.S. Army, however, stepped in.
- #076
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Mark Ruffalo claims that, to date (2012), he is the only actor to play both the Hulk and Bruce Banner in the same film. Technically, Eric Bana and Edward Norton did motion-capture work for their own Hulks, but Ruffalo was the first actor to perform the Hulk live on set through performance capture.
- #077
Jon Favreau was at one point involved as director and remained on as executive producer.
- #079
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During the final battle, the destruction of Stark Tower wipes out the company logo, leaving only the illuminated letter "A" at the end of the film. This becomes the Avengers logo.
- #080
Scarlett Johansson turned down the role of Melina in Total Recall (2012) because of her commitment to this film.
- #081
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Robert Downey Jr. felt the scene in which Iron Man comes to needed faster dialogue and asked Joss Whedon to add some. One of the people who cut it (the Shawarma reference) was influenced by an interview with Nicholas Brendon (Xander on Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997)). Nicholas says: "Would anyone like to go get some Shawarma?"
- #082
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Mark Ruffalo describes Bruce Banner as "a man struggling with both sides of himself, the dark and the light; everything he does in his life is filtered through issues of control." He furthermore describes Banner's alter-ego the Hulk as "a loose cannon. He's the teammate you're not sure any of them want, like throwing a grenade into the middle of the group and hoping it turns out well!" For writer/director Joss Whedon, it was important that the audience understand the Hulk is not a hero in his own right and that there are different ways of dealing with his anger: after his first forced transformation, Banner's Hulk is out of control, vicious and ruthless, directing his rage at someone he does not yet care about; Banner chooses to become the Hulk a second time and is far more manageable and cooperative than before.
- #083
Samuel L. Jackson compared the role of Nick Fury to Ordell in Jackie Brown (1997): "A good guy to hang out with, you just don't want to cross him. I tried to make him honest to the story and to how he appears in real life as well."
- #084
Thanks to the film's record-breaking box-office success, Samuel L. Jackson, Robert Downey Jr. and Scarlett Johansson became three of the ten highest-grossing actors and actresses of all time, ranking second, fifth and tenth respectively.
- #085
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(At the 26th minute) Tony says Coulson's first name is Agent. This means the character was originally going to be called only Agent.
- #086
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The Chitauri first appeared in the first story of "The Ultimates," an alternate universe retelling the origins of Marvel's superheroes. In the comics, their leader claims they have been known by many names, including the Skrulls. It was initially assumed that "The Chitauri" were used instead of "The Skrulls" because Twentieth Century Fox held the rights to the Fantastic Four and their supporting characters. However, in an interview, Marvel Studios President of Production Kevin Feige stated that the film rights to the Skrulls belonged to neither Marvel Studios nor Twentieth Century Fox. They were not used because Joss Whedon did not want to use shape-shifters in the first film. The Skrulls would eventually be introduced in Captain Marvel (2019).
- #087
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The body of the CGI Hulk was modeled on Long Island bodybuilder and exotic dancer Steve Romm, while the Hulk's face was modeled on Mark Ruffalo.
- #088
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According to Vulture, each hero's screen time in the film is as follows: -Steve Rogers/Captain America: 37:42. -Tony Stark/Iron Man: 37:01. -Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow: 33:35. -Bruce Banner/Hulk: 28:03. -Thor: 25:52. -Clint Barton/Hawkeye: 12:44.
- #092
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The body count is one hundred fifty-one, including the Chitauri.
- #093
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This is the first film to introduce the revised S.H.I.E.L.D. logo in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Compared with the more stylized eagle design of the earlier logo (as seen in the opening scene of the dark energy research facility), the updated logo features a simplified eagle design (as seen on the flight deck and the bridge of the Helicarrier). This design would become the default S.H.I.E.L.D. logo, as seen in Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) and Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (2013).
- #094
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All of the weapons powered by the Tesseract are engraved with the H.Y.D.R.A. emblem.
- #096
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The title screen does not appear until twelve minutes into the film.
- #097
Seamus McGarvey shot the film in a 1.85:1 aspect ratio instead of 2.35:1 to handle the varying heights: "We needed the height on the screen to be able to frame all the characters, like Hulk, Captain America and the much smaller Black Widow. We had to give them all priority and width within the frame. Also, the final battle scene was going to be this showy scene in Manhattan, so the height and vertical scale of the buildings was going to be really important."
- #098
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To give the Chitauri a completely extraterrestrial look, they have four thumbs, two on each hand (at about 30 minutes in). This can be seen when Loki speaks with the Other.
- #099
Because of United Kingdom copyright issues over the name, Marvel had to release the film in the United Kingdom under the title "Avengers Assemble", since an unrelated film titled The Avengers (1998), starring Sir Sean Connery and Ralph Fiennes and released by Warner Brothers, already existed. That film was based on The Avengers (1961), which starred Patrick Macnee. Because Warner Brothers UK owned the copyrighted name and objected to Marvel's use of it, Marvel had to change the title to "Avengers Assemble" for its theatrical and home video release in the United Kingdom. For the Republic of Ireland, film prints and marketing were handled by Disney UK. Due to cost effectiveness, they decided to continue with the name change for that region as well.
- #100
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Only the paint on Captain America's shield is scratched in the film. In the comics, the shield is made from an alloy of adamantium and vibranium along with a third mysterious catalyst, and it can only be damaged by beings of near-ultimate power such as the Molecule Man, Rune King Thor or Thanos with the Infinity Gauntlet. Otherwise, the shield is impenetrable.
- #101
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At about the 37th minute, Loki is described as a King in the world he came from. Shortly afterward, when The Avengers ask where Loki is in Germany, they are told he is at "22 Königstrasse", that is, 22 King Street.
- #102
One of the code names for The Avengers' theatrical release was "Team Building."
- #103
This was the first Marvel film distributed by Walt Disney Pictures.
- #104
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(At about 1 hour 11 minutes) Banner mentions that he tried to kill himself by putting a bullet in his mouth, but the Hulk "spit it out." In a deleted scene from The Incredible Hulk (2008), in which Banner goes to kill himself, the Hulk began to appear to stop him, so he clearly never had the chance to shoot himself. However, the opening scene of the video game The Incredible Hulk (2008) clearly shows the Hulk spitting out the bullet.
- #105
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(At about 1 hour 30 minutes) Harry Dean Stanton, who appears as the janitor who finds Banner after he falls from the Helicarrier, asks "are you an alien?" Stanton is known for his role as Brett in Alien (1979). Stanton's involvement was entirely a coincidence: one of the crew members was making a documentary with him, so they were able to ask him to join. Director Joss Whedon later named Stanton's character "Hulk's Spirit Guide."
- #107
The film's shooting schedule was ninety-three days, but filming was completed one day early.
- #109
Alan Silvestri, continuing his composer role from Captain America: The First Avenger (2011), became the first composer to score more than one film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
- #110
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The film originally opened and closed with Agent Hill (Cobie Smulders) reporting back to the World Security Council about the Avengers and Fury's decisions, but this was dropped because it did not fit the film's tone. The council members themselves were initially filmed as more realistic, better people who were only doing what they thought was best to keep the world safe, but director Joss Whedon felt they looked like "weather reporters" (these shots are among the deleted scenes on the Blu-Ray version). These scenes were reshot to be much more sinister.
- #111
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(At about 1 hour 29 minutes) When Nick Fury tells the Avengers about Agent Coulson's death, Tony's arc reactor is not glowing. Cinematically this is nonsense, but fan theories suggest that, because it glows before and after this scene, his heart died along with his friend.
- #112
This film's cast and crew include an unusually high number of Oscar nominees: Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Samuel L. Jackson, Jeremy Renner, Mark Ruffalo, Joss Whedon and Seamus McGarvey, and probably many more. This tops Iron Man (2008) and Iron Man 2 (2010), each of which had four acting nominees.
- #113
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It is revealed in this film that S.H.I.E.L.D.'s "Phase 2" uses the Tesseract to create weapons similar to those of HYDRA in Captain America: The First Avenger (2011). This points to HYDRA's larger connection to S.H.I.E.L.D. in the MCU's actual Phase 2.
- #114
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(At about 37 minutes) The classical music playing in the Stuttgart Museum while they steal the eye scan to gain access to the Iridium is Franz Schubert's String Quartet No. 13 in A minor, D. 804, Op. 29 ("Rosamunde").
- #115
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Lieutenant Colonel James Rhodes was thought to have a cameo in the post-credits scene in which he puts on the War Machine armor, but he realized he had arrived too late for the fight and sat down with The Avengers, but the scene was cut to where it shows The Avengers eating.
- #116
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While Captain America talks with Agent Coulson on the quinjet, Steve is watching the university battle from The Incredible Hulk (2008).
- #117
In MCU: The Reign of Marvel Studios, Joanna Robinson wrote that Mark Ruffalo's casting as Bruce Banner happened only a few hours before the official announcement at 2010 Comic-Con: "Marvel Studios and Ruffalo's representatives negotiated the actor's contract until the last possible moment. The night before the Comic-Con panel, Ruffalo got a phone call from his manager: 'Look out your window at five in the morning. If there's a car there, you've got the role; if not, go back to bed.' The next morning a limousine was waiting. Ruffalo ran into it by chance and headed to the airport to catch a plane to San Diego."
- #118
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Powers Boothe, who played a member of the World Security Council, also appeared in Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. series (2013), playing the same character, whose name was revealed to be Gideon Malick.
- #119
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Dr. Bruce Banner does not transform into the Hulk until one hour and fourteen minutes into the film.
- #123
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At roughly the 19-minute mark, after Black Widow first agrees with Dr. Bruce Banner to help S.H.I.E.L.D. and then cancels the "capture team," several team members are holding weapons that emit a blue glow from their barrels. Because they look nearly identical to HYDRA's, the weapons Steve Rogers later uncovers point to Fury's "Phase Two" project to weaponize the Tesseract's energy.
- #124
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Thor does not appear until nearly forty-five minutes into the film.
- #125
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In the scene where Dr. Banner says "That's my secret, Cap: I'm always angry," there is a scene in which Mark Ruffalo sees what is happening, goes berserk, shouts "Dudes! You're on your own!" to his friends and runs away.
- #126
The Science and Entertainment Exchange provided scientific consulting for the film.
- #128
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The hot dog cart crushed during the fight at the end of the film is the same hot dog cart Chris Evans used in The Losers (2010).
- #129
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The building Thor briefly lands on during the exciting battle scene is the Chrysler Building. The building is also associated with Spider-Man, who has been depicted perching on one of its eagle statues several times.
- #131
The Avengers is the sixth and final installment of Phase One of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
- #132
When Samuel L. Jackson first took on the role of Nick Fury, he signed a nine-picture deal. "How long do you have to stay alive to make nine movies? It's not the fastest process in the world. I didn't know they were going to make nine movies in like two and a half years. That's crazy!"
- #133
The Avengers was the twelfth film to pass $1 billion worldwide and the tenth to pass $400 million in the United States. Along with Avatar (2009) and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011), it set the record for the fastest film to pass $1 billion worldwide (nineteen days) and $400 million in the United States (fourteen days).
- #134
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In Iron Man 2 (2010), Director Fury tells Stark that they need Iron Man but not him; they wanted to use Stark as a consultant. In this film, when Coulson arrives, Stark gives him information about "consultation hours."
- #137
Four of the cast members share the same birthdays but were born in different years. June 13: Stellan Skarsgård was born in 1951 and Chris Evans in 1981. November 22: Mark Ruffalo was born in 1967 and Scarlett Johansson in 1984.
- #138
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At roughly 1 hour 45 minutes, Enver Gjokaj plays the young police officer Captain America gives orders to at the start of the Battle of New York. He also played Agent Sousa in Agent Carter (2015).
- #140
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The single-engine jet fighters are computer-generated Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning IIs. The F-35s appear briefly in several scenes, including a sequence in which one aircraft transitions from forward flight to a vectored-thrust hover mode to fire its twenty-five-millimeter cannon. The F-35 was still in development at the time and did not even have basic combat capability until late 2015.
- #141
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The handgun used by Nick Fury and other S.H.I.E.L.D. agents at the start of the film is the Sig-Sauer P229 DAK, a double-action-only pistol in .40 caliber, which was the standard sidearm of the FBI (until the bureau switched to Glock 17/19s in 2016) and the Coast Guard.
- #142
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On the first day of shooting, Robert Downey Jr. said of Chris Hemsworth: "We've got to break his knee. We've got to take him out. This guy is too handsome. Too tall, too attractive, fuck this guy!"
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The Mad Titan Thanos smiles when he sees the phrase "To court death." during the credits. There are many Greek words meaning death, one of which is Thanatos. Thanos's original plan for the Infinity Stones in the comics was to impress the goddess Death by wiping out half the galaxy's population, and that remained the film adaptation's plan until the script for Avengers: Infinity War (2018) was written.
- #145
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Despite criticism that it was too simple and cartoonish, Captain America's costume in this film became the only version of his outfit to appear in more than two Marvel Cinematic Universe films. It has since appeared in Thor: The Dark World (2013), Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017) and Avengers: Endgame (2019). Apart from his original World War II outfit, Captain America has been depicted in new costumes in all his other films.
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Steve wears Converse shoes. Founded in 1908, the company began making shoes for soldiers during World War II, making it one of the few things he still recognizes in the 21st century.
- #147
The film was originally rated R.
- #148
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Although S.H.I.E.L.D. possesses futuristic technology such as the Helicarrier and futuristic shuttles, some older aircraft can still be seen on the carrier. Alongside numerous Alpha-Jets, a German-French joint production retired by the German air force in 1993, it shows several AV-8B Harrier II+, the night-attack variant of the Sea Harrier known for its bulging nose and still in service with the US Marine Corps. Finally, the ship carries the newest and most capable aircraft: the F-35 Lightning II, which would enter service with many air forces around the world.
- #149
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When Agent Coulson calls Tony Stark, Stark tries to avoid him by saying, "you've reached the Life Model Decoy of Tony Stark." This is a nod to the robots of the same name from the comics, which would later play a major role in Season 4 of "Marvel's Agents of SHIELD," in which Agent Coulson also appears.
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This is the second time Bruce Banner, also known as the Hulk, and Thor appeared together in a film; they had previously appeared together in the NBC television film The Incredible Hulk Returns (1988), in which Bill Bixby played Dr. David Bruce Banner.
- #152
Scarlett Johansson and Chris Evans appeared in The Perfect Score (2004) and The Nanny Diaries (2007). Robert Downey Jr. and Mark Ruffalo appeared in Zodiac (2007).
- #154
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In this film, Hawkeye and Black Widow are left-handed. Both carry their handguns on their left hips.
- #155
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One draft of the film was told from Tony's point of view.
- #156
It was the highest-grossing film of 2012.
- #158
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All of the arrows Hawkeye fires are CGI.
- #159
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The scene in Germany in which Captain America confronts Loki and calls him "a man standing above everybody else" had to be reshot so that a few of the kneeling onlookers stood up as the Captain passed them; otherwise the Captain himself would ironically have been a man standing above everyone else.
- #160
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The bridge used during the main fight is the same bridge used in I Am Legend (2007), in which Will Smith's character is hung upside down.
- #163
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In a deleted scene, Bruce Banner talks with the security guard (Harry Dean Stanton) who later gives Bruce his motorcycle. This is the motorcycle Bruce arrives on at the end of the battle.
- #164
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In the DVD commentary, Joss Whedon mentioned that the jet the Incredible Hulk falls onto on the Helicarrier is the jet used in True Lies (1994).
- #165
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In the film's commentary, writer/director Joss Whedon admitted that he was not a fan of resorting to the "Keystone Army" trope, by which the Chitauri could be defeated by destroying their mothership (in the style of Independence Day (1996)), but that it was necessary to prevent the battle from continuing forever.
- #166
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The Hulk's containment cell was one of the most difficult sets to work with. It weighed 18 tons, which made it very difficult to tilt for the scene in which Thor is locked inside and bounces off the walls. Also, when someone stood in the middle of it, the terrible echo produced a sound like a recording made inside a nightmare.
- #167
It is the last Marvel Studios feature to shoot any amount of footage, however small, on 35 mm film.
- #168
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At around the 21st minute, in Captain America's opening scene, he is punching a heavy bag in a gym. He punched the bag so hard that its chain broke and it fell to the floor. This parallels a similar scene in The Gift (2001), also directed by Joss Whedon, in which Buffy hits a heavy bag so hard that its chain breaks and the bag falls to the floor.
- #171
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Captain America tells Tony that "[he's] not the guy to make the sacrifice play," yet in this film Tony does exactly that, steering the nuclear bomb through the portal to destroy the Chitauri and nearly dying in the process. In Avengers: Endgame (2019), Tony sacrifices himself to stop Thanos.
- #172
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The bridge where Iron Man, Thor, Captain America, Hawkeye, Black Widow and the Hulk battle the Chitauri army is the same bridge Agent J jumps onto a bus full of tourists while chasing an alien in Men in Black (1997).
- #173
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At roughly the 48th minute, when Thor attacks Iron Man in the forest, J.A.R.V.I.S. informs Tony Stark that his armor is at over four hundred percent energy. When the camera focuses inside Iron Man's helmet, the actual percentage "475" is visible on the left side of the screen, near Tony Stark's cheek.
- #175
Robert Downey Jr. said that he and Mark Ruffalo, as the "science bros" Tony Stark and Bruce Banner, had to memorize dialogue with "long passages about absolute gobbledygook." However, all the scientific theories their characters mention are real.
- #176
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Some viewers may have trouble with Hawkeye disabling computers by planting a virus via an arrow, but writer/director Joss Whedon jokingly defends the choice in the commentary, saying: "It's a virus arrow! That could totally happen! Don't make fun of me."
- #179
Producer Kevin Feige compared the film to Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011): "It set a standard for that level of ZOMG-awesomeness and scale. We're working to try to outdo that."
- #180
Jeremy Renner admitted he had concerns about playing Hawkeye, saying, "My whole decade's booked. I'm going to be 50 years old in fucking tights," but concluded: "You're an idiot to say no to these things. I knew I was going to miss a lot, but I knew there was an end to it."
- #183
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Bruce Banner has been wearing a purple shirt since he landed on the Helicarrier. In the comics, the Hulk mainly wears purple pants.
- #184
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The name "Avengers" was not chosen at random. In 1995, after an adventure with Carol Danvers / Captain Marvel, Fury began writing a proposal for a team of superheroes to protect the world from hostile alien forces. He looked at a photo of Danvers standing beside a Pegasus plane and saw the call sign "Avenger" on the fuselage outside the cockpit. He then changed the initiative's original name from "Protectors" to "Avengers."
- #185
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Thanos appears only very briefly, but when you look at him you see that his chin is quite unique. Compared with the Skrulls, it is very likely that Thanos could be an ancestor of the Skrull race. In the comics, he comes from Titan, a moon of Saturn, where his fellow Titans were gods throughout the universe and created races everywhere.
- #186
Robert Downey Jr. was reportedly paid 50 million dollars for this film. That is 20 times the original upfront salary he received for Iron Man (2008).
- #188
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Near the end of the scene where Black Widow interrogates Loki, she calls him "mewling quim," which is unexpected in a Disney film because "quim" is an archaic vulgar term for the female genitalia. Writer/director Joss Whedon felt he could get away with it because he envisioned the Asgardians as characters who use Elizabethan English and still hold some sexist attitudes, so that Loki would eventually reveal his ugly side during Widow's act of self-pity.
- #189
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In The Avengers, Samuel L. Jackson and Jeremy Renner reprised their roles as Nick Fury and Hawkeye respectively. Both had played similar roles in the same film nine years earlier. In S.W.A.T. (2003), Jackson played Sergeant Dan "Hondo" Harrelson, a team leader tasked with assembling a team of individuals to defend against the bad guys. Renner played S.W.A.T. officer Brian Gamble, an expert marksman who once used his skills against his former friend and, as in The Avengers, left S.W.A.T. when the main villain's actions affected him too deeply. S.W.A.T. (2003) also starred Colin Farrell, who played Bullseye, one of the main villains of Daredevil (2003).
- #195
Tom Hiddleston said that working with Robert Downey Jr. was "like playing tennis with Roger Federer."
- #196
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The waitress rescued by Captain America and later interviewed about The Avengers is named "Beth" (her name can be seen on her name tag during the interview).
- #197
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Robert Clohessy, who plays an NYPD sergeant in the fight scene, also portrayed an NYPD officer: Sergeant Sid Gormley on Blue Bloods (2010).
- #198
While working on the film's first draft, Joss Whedon wanted Zooey Deschanel to play The Wasp.
- #199
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When the Avengers finally confront Loki at Stark Tower, Loki looks up to see all of them standing over him, looking very, very angry. Loki makes a joke and says, "If it's all the same to you, I'll take that drink now." Most of the Avengers do not find Loki's joking attempt amusing, with the exception of Tony (who had offered Loki a drink in the first place), who shows the faintest hint of a smile.
- #202
George Clooney planned to play Nick Fury in an independent film in the early 2000s, but after reading Garth Ennis's comic book "Fury," he left the project, objecting to the violent content, particularly the scene in which Fury strangles a man with his own intestines.
- #203
Following Iron Man 3 (2013), this film is the second highest-grossing film of all time in the Philippines, with box office earnings of 601 million PHP (over 13.3 million US dollars).
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When the portal built by Erik Selvig first activates, the central piece begins to spin; it is an almost spherical piece, and from one side another cone-shaped piece emerges, its shape closely resembling the Bifröst. A logical design, considering it came from Loki.
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It was thought that both Shang-Chi and the Mandarin would be introduced in the post-credits scene, but this ultimately did not happen because the Beijing development team did not want a Chinese villain in the series. The Mandarin finally appeared in Iron Man 3 (2013), but the character ultimately turned out to be a fake rather than Chinese. Beijing eventually softened, and both Shang-Chi and the Mandarin appeared as they should in Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021).
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(Around the 2-hour mark) While Tony Stark is fighting the first Chitauri Leviathan, he asks J.A.R.V.I.S. if he knows the story of Jonah. According to the Bible, Jonah was the prophet God sent to Nineveh. Jonah fled from God's call, and when a great storm arose over the ship he was on, he jumped overboard to save the passengers from God's wrath. A whale swallowed him and delivered him to Nineveh three days later.
- #209
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The trailer for The Avengers showed the tagline "some assembly required." This is also the title of an episode of the 1997 second season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997), produced by Joss Whedon.
- #210
The film was released in theaters on May 4, 2012, one year and four months after the 50th anniversary of the original "Avengers" comic book.
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Throughout the film, Tony Stark is seen wearing a Black Sabbath t-shirt. Black Sabbath performed the song "Iron Man," which can be heard at the end of Iron Man (2008).
- #214
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The facility where Dr. Selvig works on the Tesseract is Plum Brook Station, a NASA facility near Sandusky, Ohio. Its existence was hidden from the public for many years. It has the world's largest vacuum chamber and also the largest vibration-acoustic chamber. This facility tested the Tesla Roadster to make sure it would travel safely into space aboard the Falcon Heavy launch vehicle. The tunnels Loki used to escape were originally used for growing mushrooms.
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The facility where Dr. Selvig works on the Tesseract actually consists of three rooms. There is a door between the room containing the Tesseract and the room containing Dr. Selvig's computers. There is another door immediately behind this area. The Tesseract room is the vacuum chamber at the Space Power Facility (SPF) at Plum Brook Station. The next room is the meeting room, and the third room is the vibration-acoustic chamber. Railway tracks run between the three, so that items being tested can be moved among them.
- #216
This was the second time Robert Downey Jr. and Scarlett Johansson shared the screen as Iron Man and Black Widow, after Iron Man 2 (2010).
- #218
Robert Downey Jr. said of working with Mark Ruffalo: "I would be happy to do a scene with [him] for the rest of my life."
- #219
It is the only Avengers film produced by Paramount Pictures, since Walt Disney Pictures took over distribution of the other Avengers films in 2015.
- #221
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At around 48 minutes in, after the Avengers capture Loki and lock him in a glass room, Loki speaks with Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) and uses the words "unlimited power." This was the last line Samuel L. Jackson's character Mace Windu heard from Emperor Palpatine, who then killed him with Force lightning in Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005).
- #222
The film remained among the top 10 highest-grossing films worldwide for more than a decade, until Inside Out 2 (2024) pushed it off the list.
- #223
Robert Downey Jr. and Mark Ruffalo both played real-life journalist heroes in separate films: Ruffalo as Boston Globe investigative reporter Mike Rezendes in Spotlight (2015), and Downey as Joe Wershba, part of Edward R. Murrow's CBS news team who helped end Senator Joseph McCarthy's anti-communist campaign, in Good Night, and Good Luck (2005).
- #224
His role in the MCU made Nick Fury Samuel L. Jackson's longest-running recurring role. The other is Mace Windu in the Star Wars prequels, another franchise Disney acquired in 2012. Many other Star Wars actors have also appeared in the MCU: Benicio Del Toro, Andy Serkis, Natalie Portman, Hannah John-Kamen, Paul Bettany, Spencer Wilding, Danny Sapani, Peter Serafinowicz, Richard Armitage, Mads Mikkelsen, Ben Mendelsohn, Forest Whitaker, Donald Glover and Lupita Nyong'o.
- #226
Malin Akerman, Alice Eve and Rachel Nichols were reported to be playing Sharon Carter or Carol Danvers/Ms. Marvel in the film. Akerman told E! Online that her involvement with Marvel Studios was only a rumor. There were also rumors that Yvonne Strahovski would be Ms. Marvel.
- #227
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(At around 1 hour 30 minutes) In the scene where "Hawkeye becomes himself again," the pitcher and cups beside Natasha Romanoff, also known as Black Widow, and Hawkeye are Erik Magnussen's Danish STELTON design.
- #228
In May 1995, Wizard Magazine published casting picks for an Avengers film: * Howie Long as Captain America * Fabio as Thor * Timothy Dalton as Iron Man * Annette Bening as Tigra * Paulina Porizkova as Scarlet Witch * Emilio Estevez as Hawkeye * Peter Weller as Vision * John Hillerman as Edwin Jarvis. In February 2003, they published a revised version chosen by comic book writer Geoff Johns: * George Clooney as Iron Man * Heath Ledger as Captain America * Barry Pepper as Vision * Morris Chestnut as Falcon * Joaquin Phoenix as Ant-Man * Lisa Moretti as She-Hulk.
- #231
In Spain it was titled "Marvel Los Vengadores" to avoid confusion with the iconic spy series The Avengers (1961) and The Avengers (1998).
- #232
Tony Stark wears a Black Sabbath T-shirt. Black Sabbath recorded the song Iron Man, released in 1970, which appeared in the original MCU entry Iron Man.
- #234
Tom Hiddleston, Natalie Portman and Chris Evans were all born in 1981 but are only four months apart. Hiddleston was born on February 9, and both Portman and Evans were born in June, only four days apart.
- #236
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When Agent Coulson arrives at Stark Tower near the beginning, Pepper calls him "Phil." Tony acts surprised, saying "his first name is Agent." Later, however, when Iron Man confronts Loki, Tony refers to Agent Coulson as "Phil."
- #237
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Thanos and the Other gave Loki the Scepter along with the Mind Stone hidden inside a casing — either the casing masked the Stone's energy signature and Thanos did not know, or for some reason he had not used the Stone.
- #238
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At the start of the film, as Loki uses his scepter to take control of Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner), a row of Sun Oracle Rac systems is deployed behind him. Oracle is a giant database provider whose database is used worldwide. It is quite likely that S.H.I.E.L.D. uses Sun Oracle for its permanent and storage devices.
- #241
Decades before Alan Silvestri recorded this film, his theme from Back to the Future (1985) was used on Marvel's float during the 1987 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
- #244
Writer-director Joss Whedon, Jeremy Renner and Scarlett Johansson are left-handed.
- #245
The Avengers was the first comic book film to receive an "A+" CinemaScore.
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With this film, the Marvel Cinematic Universe surpassed $3 billion in global box office revenue.
- #247
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The film shares its title with The Avengers (1998). However, the 1998 Avengers was based on the classic 1961 spy series, and its protagonists, John Steed (Ralph Fiennes) and Emma Peel (Uma Thurman), are British secret agents. In this film, The Avengers is a team of superheroes assembled by S. H. I. E. L. D. Director Nick Fury. Nick Fury, Natasha Romanoff, also known as Black Widow, Clint Barton, Phil Coulson and Maria Hill are S. H. I. E. L. D. agents.
- #248
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After Barton blows up the first helicarrier engine, Stark goes to retrieve and test his armor, and his suit shows no battle damage from his earlier fight with Thor.
- #249
Four actors appeared in the Jack Ryan series: * Stellan Skarsgård - The Hunt for Red October (1990) * Samuel L. Jackson - Patriot Games (1992) * Clark Gregg - Clear and Present Danger (1994) * Pat Kiernan - Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014).
- #251
Gwyneth Paltrow and Mark Ruffalo appeared together in View from the Top (2003) and Thanks for Sharing (2012).
- #252
It was the first film to gross over $100 million domestically in both its first and second weekends.
- #254
It is the ninth of twelve films to be co-released by Paramount and Disney; the others are Popeye (1980), Dragonslayer (1981), Alive (1993), Face/Off (1997), Snake Eyes (1998), A Civil Action (1998), Runaway Bride (1999), Bringing Out the Dead (1999), Iron Man 3 (2013), Terminator: Dark Fate (2019) and Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023).
- #255
Felicia Day denied reports that she had been cast as Abigail Brand.
- #257
Layla Cushman's debut.
- #258
Debbie Scaletta's debut.
- #259
Kenneth Tigar (the old German) and Ashley Johnson (the waitress) were both on Growing Pains. Tigar played the high school principal, and Johnson played the younger sister Chrissy.
- #260
It was Robert Downey Jr.'s fifth consecutive film to gross over $100 million domestically, after Sherlock Holmes (2009), Iron Man 2 (2010), Due Date (2010) and Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011).
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The Avengers grossed $393 million worldwide in its opening weekend, the third-biggest global opening in history at the time, behind Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011) ($483 million) and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009) ($394 million).
- #263
Marvel Comics released its first Avengers Omnibus in 2012, timed to coincide with the film's release.
- #264
Shaquille O'Neal, a lifelong comic book fan, contacted Marvel Studios about appearing in the film. He explained, "I wanted to be in 'The Avengers' and they were like, 'Shaq, we love you and we would love to have you in the cast, but if your face shows up on screen people are going to be like, 'Hey, that's Shaq!'' They told me honestly and I was like: Okay… I guess my face is too big."
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