Questions tagged [the-avengers-2012]
For questions about the 2012 film The Avengers, also known as Marvels Avengers Assemble. This film is part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and questions about it should also be tagged [marvel-cinematic-universe] and [marvel].
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What is the time difference between Thor and The Avengers?
I am asking myself if there is a time difference between the events in Thor and The Avengers? Is Loki presumed dead a long time?
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What did Loki mean when he called Natasha (Black Widow) "Dreykov's daughter"?
Natalia "Natasha" Alianovna Romanova born circa 1928 and was raised from her youth by a Russian soldier Ivan Petrovich Bezukhov after she was orphaned when enemy soldiers attacked Stalingrad....
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In this drawing of the Avengers, who's the guy on the right?
In Spider-Man: Homecoming, the very first scene shows a kid's drawing of the Avengers' battle with aliens in New York City:
Who's the guy on the right hand side with the sword?
At first I thought it ...
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Why does Loki look "sick" when he first arrives on Earth?
In the Avengers movie, why is Loki sweating and weak when he first arrives on Earth, in the SHIELD base?
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Was Bruce Banner really working on the super soldier serum?
I found the dialogue in The Avengers very confusing when Agent Coulson explains to Captain America how Doctor Banner was working on the serum of Dr. Erskine.
STEVE: So, this Doctor Banner was trying ...
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Why doesn't Fury deny his plan to stall?
In Marvel's The Avengers (2012), Loki is attempting to leave S.H.I.E.L.D.'s P.E.G.A.S.U.S. base, but Nick Fury is trying to stall him. Clint Barton (under Loki's control) informs Loki of this during ...
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How could agent Clint Barton (Hawkeye) function while on the SHIELD Helicarrier deck at 30,000 feet?
In Marvel's The Avengers (2012), When Captain America and Banner first board SHIELD's Helicarrier, agent Romanoff (Black Widow) warns them to get inside because it would become 'hard to breath' while ...
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Why are Loki's eyes blue in The Avengers?
I don't understand really any of this! In Thor, Loki's eyes were green. Clearly green. But in The Avengers, they were blue. You can clearly tell. But then in Thor: The Dark World, his eyes are green ...
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Spider-Man not in Avengers [duplicate]
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Is the Hulk in the Avengers the same as in the other movies?
Why wasn't Spider-Man featured in the movie 'Avengers',even though he's an ace superhero of the Marvel Universe? Any ...
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How do the Chitauri "ships" propel themselves?
In the 2012 The Avengers film, the Chitauri army arrives through the portal along with these big robot alien whale Chitauri dudes. Here's one chasing Iron Man:
These guys basically swim through the ...
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Where was the S.H.I.E.L.D. base?
At the beginning of the film Marvel's The Avengers (2012), Loki arrives at a S.H.I.E.L.D base where the Tesseract was housed. Due to instability with regards to Tesseract dimensional travel, the base ...
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How is Vibranium able to deflect the concentrated power of an Infinity Stone?
In Marvel's The Avengers (2012), when Loki is about to kill the old man who stood up to him, Captain America jumps in front and deflects the beam shot from the spear (at about 41:15). We later learn ...
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Was Hulk and Loki's fight in Avengers (2012) based on a comics battle?
In Marvel's The Avengers (2012), Hulk fights Loki towards the end of the movie (provoked by Loki's statement "I am a god, you dull creature"), smacking him into the ground several times and ...
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Did Loki know that Antonia Dreykov was alive?
In the very first Avengers movie, Loki taunts Natasha by telling her that he knows all the horrors that she committed in the name of Hydra. That being said, he had the Tesseract and even without it he ...
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Is Loki responsible for the division between Avengers when they were all on Helicarrier?
The Avengers become divided, both over how to approach Loki and the revelation that S.H.I.E.L.D. plans to harness the Tesseract to develop weapons as a deterrent against hostile extraterrestrials.
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Who played with the Black Widow's mind?
In Avengers (2012), there is the following dialogue:
NATASHA: Clint, you're gonna be alright.
CLINT BARTON: You know that? Is that what you know? I got...I gotta go
in though. I gotta flush him out.
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What happened in Budapest?
During The Avengers, Black Widow mentions to Hawkeye about Budapest:
Black Widow: It's like Budapest all over again.
Hawkeye: You and I remember Budapest very differently.
What happened in Budapest? ...
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What are these events from Widow's past?
In the film The Avengers, Black Widow and Loki have a discussion. During it, Loki refers to some of the red on Black Widow's ledger (i.e. things she regrets or owes people for). The items he ...
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Did Loki "win" in the Avengers (2012)?
I remember a few years back, after the first Avengers film came out, there was a very popular fan theory (which many people were certain was actually true) that Loki "lost" on purpose, and ...
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Is the Hulk in the Avengers the same as in the other movies?
I hadn't seen the two Hulk movies (Hulk (2003) and The Incredible Hulk (2008)) before seeing The Avengers. In a comment on In the Avengers movie, why is Hulk's behaviour inconsistent? I commented ...
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Why did Bruce Banner grab the scepter?
In The Avengers, I've watched and rewatched this scene many times but I still can't find a good reason as to why Banner would reach out and grab Loki's scepter. Was it some sort of plot point that we'...
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Why did all of the Chitauri soldiers suddenly die?
At the end of the Avengers movie, Tony shoves a nuke up the Chitauri's space hole. It goes boom and all of the Chitauri soldiers immediately drop dead.
My thought was that they're robots but in an ...
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What did The Other mean when it told Thanos "[the Tesseract] is located on a human world" - "a" human world, not "the" human world?
In a previous question, I asked about why many extra-terrestrials in the MCU seemed familiar with humans, even though Earth hadn't yet had a space faring civilization, and wondered about the origin of ...
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How did Loki deduce that Thor was there on Earth?
In The Avengers, after Loki got captured:
Captain America: What's the matter? Scared of a little lightning?
Loki: I am not overly fond of what follows.
And then, Thor came and took Loki with him.
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Is Fury still a Colonel?
Nick Fury holds the military rank of colonel in the original canon of the Marvel universe. In the new Marvel Movie Universe, is Fury still Colonel Fury? I only remember him being referred to as "...
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Did "The Other Guy" save Banner from the power of the Scepter?
I think this question Why did Bruce Banner grab the scepter? misses the point of the scene. Both the question and all of the answers.
That scene in The Avengers (2012) where they're all arguing in ...
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Why did the Iron Man suit and ARC Reactor stop working in Avengers?
At the climax of the Avengers, Tony Stark flies a nuclear missile through the wormhole created by the Tesseract. Shortly after he crosses the threshold of the wormhole and releases the missile, his ...
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How did Loki regain the Scepter on the helicarrier?
How does Loki regain the Scepter on the helicarrier? It was in the lab and then he had it to kill Agent Coulson just as he was freed?
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Did the Avengers talk about the arc reactor in Tony's chest in the first movie? [closed]
The Avengers aren't that concerned about the arc reactor in Tony's chest even though they should be, did Tony tell them?
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Why wasn't Captain America eating in the end of The Avengers?
In the Shawarma scene, everyone is seen eating except Captain America. Why isn't he eating?
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In The Avengers (2012), why does Thanos need Loki?
In The Avengers, the main plot is that Loki is trying to conquer Earth on behalf of Thanos so that the latter can get hold of the Tesseract and put his "restore the balance" plan in motion.
But in ...
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In the Avengers movie what exactly was Loki's plan for the Chitauri?
Question is in the title, but I'll expand on it some.
Presumably from what we heard throughout the movie Loki's plan is to take over the planet. Great sounds good. however...
In the movie we see ...
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What should happen when Captain America's shield and Thor's hammer strike each other?
In the movie The Avengers, when Captain America's shield and Thor's hammer strike each other, they are instantly separated.
Actually, based on the comics & other sources, why did this happen, and ...
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Are these two secret projects the same?
In Captain Marvel, we see that before she lost her memories, Carol Danvers was,
In The Avengers (2012), Loki invades a secret facility and steals the Tesseract from Fury and group. While he leaves ...
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If Nick Fury and Coulson already knew about aliens (Kree and Skrull) why did they wait until Thor's appearance to start making weapons?
In Captain Marvel a number of people witness aliens on Earth and experience the power and danger they can cause including some key SHIELD characters (Coulson, and Fury to name 2).
However, SHIELD ...
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How did Nick Fury lose his eye and get his eye patch?
In The Avengers (2012), Nick fury wears an eye patch. I did my homework, and Wikipedia gave me one explanation:
Fury's injured left eye, though initially minimally affected by a grenade blast ...
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Who was Nick Fury talking about on the ship?
In The Avengers film when they're all arguing on the airship (after they find out about Phase 2), who was Nick Fury talking about when he said a year ago someone came to Earth and leveled an area in a ...
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Why did Thanos plan the Chitauri invasion when he only needed Tesseract?
In the Avengers movie, Loki got the Tesseract from S.H.I.E.L.D., which he then used to open the portal. Since Thanos' primary objective was to obtain the Tesseract, which Loki already had and could ...
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How does Thor know that the invasion in Avengers will be in New York?
In Avengers we see many of the Avengers find/work out where Loki's portal machine is being set up:
But we don't see Thor find out from anyone else, is it ever revealed how he knows to head for New ...
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Why does Nick Fury say that Loki's staff is powered by the Tesseract?
In The Avengers, when the whole team is discussing Loki on the helicarrier, this quote comes up:
Steve Rogers: Let's start with that stick of his. It may be magical, but it works an awful lot like a ...
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Why did the Chitauri army need a portal to arrive at Earth?
In the first half of The Avengers movie, Loki was busy building a portal device using the Tesseract so that the Chitauri army could come to Earth. But, why was that needed, when we saw in the Avengers:...
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How did the Tesseract come to Earth from Asgard?
Wikis say that the Tesseract came to Earth accidentally. How exactly, did it come to Earth?
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In Avengers, how was everyone able to look at the Tesseract with naked eyes?
In Captain America: The First Avenger movie, the Tesseract was highly luminous. Only Red Skull was able to look at it with naked eyes. Others needed to use googles.
In The Avengers movie, what made ...
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Why did Odin leave the Tesseract on Earth? [duplicate]
While I was searching for information about the Tesseract for this question, I read something I forgot about the Captain America: The First Avenger movie in the Cosmic Cube wikipedia article:
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Is Aldrich Killian stronger than Thor?
In Avengers, Thor vs Iron Man fight scene:
Both had a good fight, but still Thor wasn't able to break Iron Man's suit. Even throwing his Mjlonir hammer at it had no effect. But on the other hand, ...
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Why didn't Thor take the sceptre back to Asgard?
In The Avengers (2012), after the war is all over, Black Widow gets a hold of Loki's sceptre. Thor takes Loki and the Tesseract back with him to Asgard.
But why didn't Thor also take the sceptre back ...
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Why are there kids at the SHIELD Dark Energy Research Facility?
In the The Avengers (2012), we see that there’s an event going on that results in the facility being evacuated. During the Evacuation process we see what look like kids in pajamas being led out of the ...
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Who were the 80 people that Loki killed?
In The Avengers (2012), during the first meeting aboard the helicarrier, Thor warns Bruce Banner to mind his manners when speaking of Loki, because he's Thor's brother, to which Black Widow replies:
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Why does Loki stagger when he's leaving the Tessaract research facility with Barton? [duplicate]
He staggers, and the security guard helps him stay on his feet. What makes Loki stagger?
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Why was Loki affected by the bullets in this scene? [duplicate]
As mentioned in the answer here, within the scope of MCU and as well as in the comic books, Asgardians are quite resistant to bullets.
However, I was recently re-watching The Avengers (2012) movie ...
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