The Avengers (Earth-11584)

The Avengers (released internationally as Marvel's The Avengers) is a 2012 film set in the Earth-11584 continuity of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. It is the first film in the Avengers franchise, bringing together leading characters from across the previous MCU films, and is the final film in Phase 1 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (the seventh film overall). It was also the final Marvel film to be distributed by Paramount Pictures, based on their original distribution deal from 2006. All further Marvel Films would be distributed by Walt Disney, pursuant to their purchase of Marvel Entertainment in 2010. The film was a critical and financial success, making over a billion dollars at the worldwide box office.

Plot Summary
Beginning at SHIELD's Dark Energy Research Facility, Nick Fury responds to a distress call from Dr. Erik Selvig, concerning the Tesseract project. After consulting with Agent's Phil Coulson and Maria Hill, as well as Agent Clint Barton/Hawkeye, a masked agent takes action and flips a switch to activate the Tesseract, allowing Loki of Asgard to come from the depths of space. Loki and the masked man, later revealed to be Taskmaster, defeat the few guards in the room, with Loki using some kind of mind control spell on Dr. Selvig and a few other SHIELD agents. They make their escape with the Tesseract, causing Nick Fury to call together launch the Avenger's Protocol.

The Avengers are assembled from across the globe, with Agent Coulson retrieving Tony Stark, Nick Fury and Coulson retrieving Captain America, and Bruce Banner being summoned by Black Widow to track the Tesseract. Meanwhile, Loki reveals that he contacted Taskmaster using a device of alien origin, though he himself doesn't possess the device now. Being contacted from beyond, The Other questions Loki's seeming lack of progress, insinuating that there is a higher power at work. Taskmaster makes it clear they need more men to attempt this, not just the Chitauri, and that he needs a distraction to break a team out of prison. After Cap and Iron Man capture Loki in Stuggart Germany, they learn Loki's attack on a party was just such a distraction for a further prison break at a top secure SHIELD prison, which sees Emil Blonsky/Abomination, Donald Gill Jr./Blizzard and Marco Scarlotti/Whiplash, freed from prison. Leila Davis/The Beetle, is offered the same chance, but elects not to take it. En route to taking Loki to the Helicarrier to determine where the cube is, they are confronted by Loki's adopted brother Thor, who informs them of a coming threat known as the Chitauri.

At the Helicarrier, Capt. Rogers discovers that SHIELD wasn't using the Tesseract to try and develop a clean energy source, as they claimed, but rather trying to reverse engineer the HYDRA weaponry from World War II. Through surreptitious interrogation by Black Widow, they learn that Loki's plan is to set the Hulk loose on the Helicarrier. This plan is ennacted, as Taskmaster's team of escaped convicts attacks the Helicarrier and causes Banner to lose control. After freeing Loki, they also kill Agent Phil Coulson in the process and head towards New York to carry out the plan of opening the Tesseract.

The Avengers eventually overcome their distrust of one another and form a team to defeat Taskmaster's team, resulting in Whiplash and Abomination's death in the process and stop Loki from completing his conquest of Earth with the Chitauri army, summoned from deep space by the Tesseract. In conclusion, Bruce Banner is allowed to live at Stark Tower (renamed Avengers Tower) free from government interference. Rogers agrees to go on active duty as a SHIELD operative, joining Barton and Romanoff in doing so. Stark remains a "civilian consultant" officially, while Thor travels with Loki and the Tesseract back to Asgard.

Post Credits Scene
The first post credits-scene shows Leila Davis, aka The Beetle, being transferred into custody of someone else due to good behavior of not joining in the prison break. Davis is greeted at the prison gates by General Thunderbolt Ross, who says that maybe it's time that he gets a team together to engage in his own kind of warfare.

In the second post-credits scene, we see the domain Loki had visited in his vision before, with The Other trying to explain the failure to obtain the Tesseract. He says that humans are chaotic by nature, and that to challenge the Avengers would be an exercise in futility. For his insolence, The Other is disentegrated by a blast from a scepter. Thanos emerges from the shadows, saying that if Loki failed, maybe someone else could succeed, as he turns to reveal the slightly altered body of the Red Skull, lying in a stasis field.

The third post-credits scene is a brief stinger, showing the Avengers eating at a Scwarma restaraunt right after the Battle of New York. Only noteworthy here, though, is that we see a copy of the Daily Bugle in the newsstands...

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