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Poster for The Avengers

Marvel Cinematic Universe Phase 1 The Age of Heroes

The Avengers

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25 April 2012 2h 23m 8.1 on TMDB

Essential 2 post-credits scenes Science FictionActionAdventure

Synopsis

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!

Where this sits

The Battle of New York — the event the whole Infinity Saga refers back to.

In this story

Connected to

  • Set up by a post-credits scene in

    Iron Man

    Fury turns up to talk about the Avengers Initiative.

  • Set up by a post-credits scene in

    Thor

    Loki starts pulling Selvig's strings via the Tesseract.

  • Set up by

    Captain America: The First Avenger

    Steve wakes up seventy years later.

  • Sets up

    Iron Man 3

    Tony's panic attacks are all about the wormhole.

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