History Film / TheAvengers2012

[[TheOneWith The one where the a super soldier, spies, a scientist with anger issues, a God, and flying metal playboy meet and fight aliens.]]

[[TheOneWith The one where the super-soldier, the master assassins, the demi-god, the scientist with anger issues and the genius, billionaire, playboy, philanthropist all met for the very first time.]]

->''"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."''

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[[caption-width-right:350:''[[{{Tagline}} Some]] [[AvengersAssemble Assembly]] [[{{Pun}} Required]].'']]

''The Avengers'' (known as ''Avengers Assemble'' in the UK and Ireland) is a 2012 LiveActionAdaptation of ''ComicBook/TheAvengers'' comic book directed by Creator/JossWhedon and produced by Marvel Studios and is the sixth film in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse. Its cast includes:

* Tony Stark / ComicBook/IronMan (Creator/RobertDowneyJr)
* Capt. Steve Rogers / ComicBook/CaptainAmerica (Creator/ChrisEvans)
* Bruce Banner / [[ComicBook/IncredibleHulk The Hulk]] (Creator/MarkRuffalo)
* [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Thor]] (Creator/ChrisHemsworth)
* Natasha Romanoff / ComicBook/BlackWidow (Creator/ScarlettJohansson)
* Clint Barton / ComicBook/{{Hawkeye}} (Creator/JeremyRenner)
* Loki (Creator/TomHiddleston)
* ComicBook/NickFury (Creator/SamuelLJackson)
* ComicBook/MariaHill (Creator/CobieSmulders)
* Phil Coulson (Creator/ClarkGregg)

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Sequels include the 2015 ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'' and 2018 ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar''. If you're looking for the 1998 film based on the British TV series ''Series/TheAvengers'', that's over at ''Film/TheAvengers1998''. Don't worry, we won't tell.

The one where they all came together for the first time.

Has a 2015 sequel ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'' and 2018 / 2019 sequel duology ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar''. If you're looking for the 1998 film based on the British TV series ''Series/TheAvengers'', that's over at ''Film/TheAvengers1998''. Don't worry, we won't tell.

-->-- '''Colonel Nicholas J. "Nick" Fury'''

-->-- '''Nick Fury'''

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.

* Maria Hill (Creator/CobieSmulders)

[[caption-width-right:350:[[{{Tagline}} Some]] [[AvengersAssemble Assembly]] [[{{Pun}} Required]].]]

''The Avengers'' (known as ''Avengers Assemble'' in the UK and Ireland) is a 2012 LiveActionAdaptation of ''ComicBook/TheAvengers'' comic book directed by Creator/JossWhedon and produced by Marvel Studios. Its cast includes:

* SelfDemonstrating/{{Loki}} (Creator/TomHiddleston)

* Loki (Creator/TomHiddleston)

Following the end of ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'', ComicBook/{{SHIELD}} has recovered [[PlotDevice 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 SelfDemonstrating/{{Loki}}, the BigBad of ''Film/{{Thor}}'', who promises the Tesseract to a [[GreaterScopeVillain third party]] in exchange for an army to [[TakeOverTheWorld conquer the Earth]].

* SelfDemonstrating/{{Loki}} (Creator/TomHiddleston)

''The Avengers'' (known as ''Avengers Assemble'' in the United Kingdom) is a 2012 LiveActionAdaptation of ''ComicBook/TheAvengers'' comic book directed by Creator/JossWhedon and produced by Marvel Studios. Its cast includes:

''The Avengers'' (known as ''Avengers Assemble'' in the UK and Ireland) is a 2012 LiveActionAdaptation of ''ComicBook/TheAvengers'' comic book directed by Creator/JossWhedon and produced by Marvel Studios. Its cast includes:

Following the end of ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'', ComicBook/{{SHIELD}} has recovered [[PlotDevice 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 SelfDemonstrating/{{Loki}}, the BigBad of ''Film/{{Thor}}'', who promises the Tesseract to a [[BiggerBad third party]] in exchange for an army to [[TakeOverTheWorld conquer the Earth]].

Following the end of ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'', ComicBook/{{SHIELD}} has recovered [[PlotDevice 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 ComicBook/{{Loki}}, the BigBad of ''Film/{{Thor}}'', who promises the Tesseract to a [[BiggerBad third party]] in exchange for an army to [[TakeOverTheWorld conquer the Earth]].

* ComicBook/{{Loki}} (Creator/TomHiddleston)