So, to quickly recap the lead-in to this movie: During World War II, the Nazis' top-secret science division was known as HYDRA, run by a man named Johann Schmidt(aka the Red Skull). HYDRA found a cube of unimaginable energy and power known as the Tesseract, which came from Thor's homeworld of Asgard. A behemoth-sized bomber that was piloted by Rogers crashed into the Atlantic Ocean, taking the Tesseract down with it. Brilliant wealthy, eccentric and arrogant inventor Howard Stark finds the Tesseract and organizes a search for Rogers, who, due to genetic changes from a failed government project to create super-soldiers, doesn't actually die when the plane hits an iceberg. Instead he's frozen in suspended animation for almost seventy years, suddenly finding himself in modern-day Times Square. Meanwhile, the Tesseract has reappeared and is under S.H.I.E.L.D. custody, and Thor's friend Dr. Erik Selvig, who has been unwittingly hypnotized by Loki) takes on the task of studying the cube.
Somewhere in space, someone known only as The Other is speaking to the occupant of a large throne. The Other explains that Loki(Tom Hiddleston) was given an army of Chitauri in exchange for retrieving the Tesseract. Thus, Loki controls the world of Midgard(or Earth, as we call it) and the one being spoken to will control the universe.
At a combined S.H.I.E.L.D./NASA base in New Mexico, while the personnel on base are evacuating under orders from Agent Phil Coulson(Clark Gregg), the Tesseract is unstable; opening a portal that allows Loki to enter our world. He quickly hypnotizes Agent Clint Barton(Jeremy Renner), turning the Hawkeye into a zombie like Selvig. Director Nick Fury(Samuel L. Jackson) instructs his second-in-command Maria Hill(Cobie Smoulders) to retrieve the Phase 2 Prototypes and get them out safely. She asks if that's really a priority at the moment, considering everyone within an unknown distance may die. "Until such time as the world ends, we shall act as though it intends to spin on," he answers. Being the head of S.H.I.E.L.D., he'd know. Loki, Selvig and Barton escape with the Tesseract, Hill giving chase, while Coulson and Fury jump aboard a helicopter just before the compound implodes. Hill is trapped in a rockslide on the compound's edge but is otherwise unharmed, while Loki blasts the helicopter out of the sky and the commandeered truck slips away. In response to this Level 7 threat, Fury has no choice but to activate the emergency-situation-only Avengers Initiative.
So, Coulson starts that plan by calling Agent Natasha Romanoff(Scarlett Johansson), who at the moment is interrogating shady Russians military personnel. On hearing Barton had been compromised, she signs up for the mission quickly. She's sent to enlist Dr. Bruce Banner(Mark Ruffalo, but we'll get to that). Okay, so when you have a bunch of movies interconnected so tightly like these, sometimes cast changes are inevitable and you pretend the character hasn't changed a bit. But Edward Norton was a much better Banner than Mark Ruffalo. Anyway, she goes to South America(One of Banner's favorite hiding places) and traps him in a decently-well-off shack outside Calcutta. She explains that S.H.I.E.L.D. has been tracking him for some time, even running interference to keep the Army away. "Doctor, we've on the verge of facing a global catastrophe." "Oh. Those I actively try to avoid." Fury wants Banner to find the Tesseract, tracing it by the minute traces of gamma radiation it leaves. And everyone knows that Dr. Banner is the world's foremost expert in gamma radiation(which, incidentally turns him into the Hulk at times. After the accident, Selvig and his fellow colleagues never heard from him again.)
Fury is in a meeting with his bosses, the World Security Council. Actually, he's defending his stance that a response team is needed. They're skeptical at best. "You're going to leave the survival of the human race to a handful of freaks." "They can be isolated, unbalanced even - But I believe with the right push, they can be exactly what we need." "You believe," one member says. "War is not won by sentiment, Director," another proclaims. "No. It's won by soldiers." Fury agrees respectfully.
At this point, we have a brilliant sequence of Steve Rogers(Chris Evans) trying to adapt to ordinary life. It was cut out because of time constraints, but in my opinion should have been left in. As seen here, Rogers watches newsreel footage from the war often, and considers trying to see if his love interest Peggy Carter is still alive. Howard Stark is dead, but his son Tony(Robert Downey Jr.) is an adviser to S.H.I.E.L.D., so, maybe... He wanders around by himself, stopping by a sidewalk cafe where he meets a pretty waitress named Beth. After she walks away, an old man(Stan Lee) at the next table says he should've asked for her number. Steve shakes his head; he's just not ready yet. It's hard, so hard, to die and then wake up seventy years later. Everyone you knew is either dead or extremely elderly... To try to cope with this frustration, Rogers finds an old-school boxing gym and annihilates a mountain of punching bags.
This is where Fury finds him, fighting the flashbacks and trying to come to grips with this horrible new reality. "You here with a mission, sir?" "I am." "Tryin' to get me back into the world?" "Trying to save it." In another part of New York City, the newest high-tech building of Stark Industries is almost finished, and Tony and his in-all-senses-of-the-word partner Pepper Potts(Gwyeth Paltrow) are having one of their endless arguments when Coulson interrupts. "Mr. Stark, we need to talk." "You have reached the Life Model Decoy of Tony Stark. Please leave a message." "This is urgent." "Then leave it urgently." Coulson then walks into the room. "Security breach!" "Phil! How are you doing?" Pepper welcomes him in. "'Phil'? His first name is 'Agent'." Tony mutters. Coulson hands Tony a package to review and then leaves, Pepper tactfully moves on to the next piece of business. "You have homework. A lot of homework." Basically all of the events of the Phase One movies that he wasn't directly involved in. Tony begins tackling the pile of material.
The next day, Coulson and Steve are flying in a Quinjet to an aircraft carrier. Steve is reading over Banner's file, and a starstruck Coulson attempts to explain what an honor it is to fly with his childhood hero. "I hope I'm the right man for the job," Steve says. "Oh, you are. Absolutely." Coulson then goes on to say that the suit has been slightly modified. "Aren't the Stars and Stripes a little....old-fashioned?" "Everything that's happened, everything that's going to come to light...people might just need a little old-fashioned." They, and everyone else, arrive at the aircraft carrier. The engines begin doing something strange, prompting Steve to ask if this was a submarine. Banner: "Really? They want me in a submerged pressurized metal container?" Just then the "ship"(in reality a Helicarrier, an aircraft carrier/ship/helicopter/airplane) begins to lift off the water. Banner continues groaning. "Oh, no. This is much worse." The frayed nerves of everyone involved are beginning to show.
In Stuttgart, Germany, Loki creates a distraction for Hawkeye by causing a disturbance at a high-class societal event. (Hawkeye's mission is to obtain iridium for Selvig.) Cap suits up and heads to Germany. Loki is delivering a propogandic monologue about subjugation when an elderly Jewish man stands up and refuses to comply. "I said, 'Kneel before me.'" "Not to men like you. There are always men like you." At this point Captain America rescues the guy and walks towards the Asgardian. "You know, the last time I was in Germany, and saw somebody standing above everybody else like this, we ended up disagreeing." Black Widow and Iron Man come in as backup, and after a brief skirmish Loki allows himself to be captured. On the return trip to the Helicarrier, a huge storm comes up. Loki shivers. "Whatsamatter, scared of a little lightning?" Rogers asks the prisoner. "I'm not overly fond of what follows." Thor(Chris Hemsworth) lands and enters the plane, grabs Loki and flies off. Iron Man chases them, not understanding what's going on. Besides, his prisoner had just been kidnapped. "Stark, we need a plan of attack!" "I have a plan. Attack." "Cap, I'd sit this one out if I were you," Widow warns. "These guys are basically gods." "There's only one God, ma'am, and I'm pretty sure He doesn't dress like that." Loki and Thor have some....issues to work out. "The Earth is under my protection, Loki!" "And you're doing a marvelous job with that. The humans slaughter each other in droves while you idly fret. I mean to rule them!" "And so think yourself above them?" "Why, yes." Loki's surprised by the question. Isn't the answer obvious? "Then you miss the truth of ruling, brother. The throne would suit you ill," Thor's almost in tears now in anger and pity. "Listen well, brother -" Thor disappears, tackled by a flying Iron Man. "I'm listening," Loki replies. Thor and Iron Man begin brawling through the Black Forest while Loki observes, amused. "HEY!" Cap shouts. They both stop, surprised. "Look, I don't know what you're doing here-" "I'm here to stop Loki's schemes!" "Then prove it. Put the hammer down." "Uh, yeah, no....Bad call! He's really loves his hammer!" Stark doesn't agree with this at all, getting sideswiped by Mjolnir, Thor is only too happy to comply. But apparently vibranium is even stronger than Asgardian metal. Everyone warily gets to their feet
Loki is trapped inside a glass cage meant for the Hulk, agitating Fury by pointing out an element of his motives that perhaps strikes a little too close to home. Fury manages a flippant reply before stalking away. Watching the exchange is everyone else, Thor tells them that there's an army of Chitauri coming to help him take the Earth, and Banner mentions that must be why he needed Selvig; to build a portal so that they can enter. "Have care how you speak. Loki is beyond reason; but he is of Asgard. And he is my brother." "He killed eighty people in two days," Romanoff drops in. "...And he's adopted." Banner wonders what the iridium is for. Stark then waltzes in and delivers a lecture about the stabilizing properties this element allows; the portal shouldn't collapse in on itself, and can therefore stay open as long as Loki wants. Barton could get his hands on the rest of the portal-building materials fairly easily, only thing left is a power source. "When did you become an expert on thermonuclear astrophysics?" Hill asks sarcastically. "Last night. The packet. Selvig's notes. The extraction theory papers? Am I the only one who did the reading?" Banner and Stark begin a rapid-fire unintelligible scientific plotting session, Cap and Fury tell them they ought to start their counterattack by studying Loki's sceptre. "It may be magical, but it works an awful lot like a HYDRA weapon." "What I want to know is how it turned two of our smartest men into his personal flying monkeys." Thor looks mystified. "I understood that reference!" Steve says, thrilled.
The new friends bond over science, and with some help from Cap, discover that the power source in question is Stark Tower, and then get diverted in what Fury's not telling them. "He's a spy. He's THE spy. Even his secrets have secrets." Steve, curious now, prowls around the ship. Tony continues pestering Banner about the Hulk. Thor and Coulson chat on the bridge, Thor trying to explain Loki's need for power and vengeance. Fury, speaking in riddles and half-truths as ever, asks them why, if he's a prisoner, it seems that Loki's the only one on the ship that wants to be there.
Inside his cage, Loki greets Romanoff, who's snuck up on him looking for intel regarding Barton. The trickster talks her into revealing her debt to Hawkeye, who didn't kill her on a mission to do so. She joined S.H.I.E.L.D. to get away from her KGB past, now putting her "very specific skill set" to better uses. Loki then mocks her desires in another monologue. "You lie and kill, in the service of liars and killers. You pretend to be separate, to have your own code, something that makes up for the horrors, but they are part of you, and they will never go away." (Perhaps he's also speaking to himself here....) As this speech is eloquently delivered, Stark and Banner's hack of the system is discovered, and Rogers finds weapons with HYDRA markings. (They were confiscated by the Allies at the war's end.) In the midst of Loki's mad emotional torturing, Romanoff discovers his plan: To release the Hulk and split the team up, thereby allowing the portal to be opened and the Chitauri unleashed.
"What are you doing, Mr. Stark." Fury sweeps into the lab. "Uh...I've kind of been wondering the same thing about you. What is Phase 2, anyway?" Cap plunks one of the ray guns on a table. "Phase 2 is S.H.I.E.L.D. uses the cube to make weapons." Fury tries to explain. "We gathered everything related to the Tesseract. This does not mean -" Tony spins his computer monitor around, blueprints clearly visible. "I'm sorry, Nick. What were you lying?" Romanoff stalks in. "Loki's been manipulating you, Banner." "And you've been doing what, exactly? I'd like to know why S.H.I.E.L.D. is using the Tesseract to build weapons of mass destruction." Fury points at Thor, who's as surprised as anyone. "Last year we had an encounter with visitors whose grudge match leveled a small town. We learned that not only are we not alone, but we hopelessly, hilariously, outgunned." "My people want nothing but peace with your planet." "But you're not the only people out there, are you?" A sea of argumentation, everyone yelling over the top of everyone else, gets underway. "We're not a team, we're a chemical mixture that creates chaos." Banner says.
Barton is leading an invasion during this argument, drawing closer and closer as the tempers rise ever higher. "Without the suit, what are you?" Rogers asks Stark. "Genius billionaire playboy philanthropist. You're a lab rat, Rogers; everything special about you came from a bottle." "You're not the guy to make the sacrifice play, to lay down on the wire and let the other guy crawl over you." "I think I'd just cut the wire."
At this point, the Helicarrier is breached; one engine goes down, and Stark and Rogers are sent to repair it. Banner transmogrifies into the Hulk, which chases Black Widow. On hearing the Hulk's roar, Loki smiles. Cap is sent to flip a switch that will let Stark get inside the turbine. "What's it look like in there?" "It appears to run on some form of electricity." "Well...you're not wrong." Tony then talks Steve through his end of the repair, and they (eventually) get the engine running again. The Widow/Hulk chase breaks apart more of the ship's insides until Thor crashes into the rage monster, saving Romanoff. Thor attempts to reason with Banner, but he and the Hulk end up destroying most of a hangar, sometime later the Hulk crashlands in a warehouse. Barton shuts down another engine, dropping the craft like a rock. Thor tries to tackle an escaping Loki, but winds up sailing through the hologram and landing in the cage, trapped. His brother stands outside the cage, unimpressed. "Are you ever not going to fall for that?" (Lucy and the football...) Coulson appears in the doorway, armed with a prototype gun so out-there and advanced that even he doesn't know what it does. Loki stabs Coulson's heart with the sceptre as Thor watches his friend expire. He then opens the bomb bay door, dropping Thor twenty thousand feet below. Before he dies, Coulson shoots Loki with the big unknown gun. Loki's blasted through a wall from the impact. "So that's what it does." Black Widow and Hawkeye have a fight scene in a hallway, she knocks him out. Stark narrowly avoids being shredded by the flawed engine's turbines, taking out a mercenary shooting at Steve. So that first engine is fixed now. Loki escapes on a plane.
Fury runs to Coulson's side. "I'm clocking out, boss." "Not an option." "It's okay. If this was ever going to work, they needed...someone...to...." Fury stares at his most loyal agent for a minute, then tells Hill, Steve and Tony the news in person. He explains that yes, they were trying to build an arsenal out of the Tesseract, but he had an even riskier idea in mind: "There was an idea, Stark knows about this, but there was something called the Avengers Initiative, that would take a group of remarkable individuals and see if they could become something more, to see if they could work together when we needed them to, to fight the battles that we never could. Phil Coulson died believing that idea, in heroes." Tony can't handle all this heavy stuff, walking away to think it over and understand it. "Well, it's an old-fashioned notion." Fury says to himself, loud enough for Steve and Hill to hear.
Barton snaps out of it, fully himself again, though reeling from the trauma of "having your brain taken out...and something else being stuffed in." Natasha's watching him, waiting for to wake up. She says they have to stop Loki. "Who's 'we'?" Hawkeye asks. "I dunno. Whoever's left."
"Was he married?" Steve asks Tony. "No. There was a cellist....I think." "I'm sorry." Steve pauses. "He seemed like a good man." "He was an idiot." "For believing?" "For taking on Loki alone." "Sometimes there isn't a way out, Tony." They discuss Loki's strategy, wondering why he wanted to divide their forces and then conquer them. "He wants to be seen doing it, he wants an audience..." "Like in Stuttgart." "Right. That was just previews, this is Opening Night. Loki, he's a full-tilt diva, he wants flowers, he wants parades, he wants a..monument built to the skies with his name plastered-" Tony realizes that Loki WILL probably use Stark Tower as a power source like they were saying earlier. And, also, that he could be talking about himself here, too. Neither is a very good thought. Cap jumps on a Quinjet for New York with Hawkeye and Widow piloting. Iron Man and Thor each fly solo. It's time for the Avengers to assemble.
Hill points out to Fury that Coulson's prized near-mint Captain America trading cards, now blood-stained, were in his locker when he died, not his jacket. "I know. They needed the push."
Tony lands at Stark Tower and politely orders Selvig to shut the machine down. Delusional, he refuses, and so Tony tries blasting the machine. That doesn't work, either; but does knock Selvig out. So Tony sets his sights on Loki, they both walk inside. "Please tell me you're going to appeal to my humanity." "Uh, no. Actually I'm planning to threaten you." Loki chuckles. "You should have left your armor on for that." "Yeah...it's seen a bit of mileage. And you've got the Glowstick of Destiny." Tony pours himself a drink, offers Loki one. Loki declines and chuckles again over the stall attempt. "No, I'm threatening you." "The Chitauri are coming. What have I to fear?" "The Avengers. That's what we call ourselves. Sort of a team. 'Earth's Mightiest Heroes'-type thing." "Yes, I've met them." "Takes us a while to get any traction, that's for sure. But...let's do a headcount here. Your brother, the demigod; a super soldier; a living legend who kind of lives up to the legend; a man with breathtaking anger management issues; and a couple of master assassins. And you; you've managed to piss off every single one of them." "That was the plan." "Not a great plan." Tony's slipped some sort of metal bracelets on his wrists while talking. He remains completely calm during this whole exchange, it's part of what makes it so awesome. "I have an army," Loki says. "We have a Hulk." "Oh? I thought the beast had wandered off." "You're missing the point. There is no version of this where you come out on top. Maybe your army comes and maybe they're too much for us, but it's all on you. Cause if we can't protect the Earth we'll damn sure avenge it." Loki tries then to hypnotize Tony by tapping his chest with the sceptre, but there's just a clinking noise. He pauses, puzzled, then tries again. Another clink. "This usually works." (The sceptre is being stopped by Tony's artificial heart.) He throws Tony out the window instead, and we find out what the metal bracelets are for: They're locking devices for his newest suit, the Mark 7. This suit attaches itself to Stark, stopping his fall and carrying him back up to the top of the building. "Oh yeah, there's one other guy you pissed off: His name was Phil." Just then, the portal opens.
The alien army rushes in, blasting everything in sight. Taxis are blasted to bits, cars are flying, fires break out, streets are uprooted. Citizens scramble for cover, including Beth the pretty waitress Cap met. Thor lands and engages his brother in combat; the two have an elaborate battle at the top of the building. On the ground, police cars are screaming into the area, so are military police vehicles. The jet somehow crashlands without seeming to harm civilians; apparently Clint Barton is the best pilot this side of Anakin Skywalker. Another wave of Chitauri enter; these riding jet-ski-like machines and techno-whale creatures. It's bad. "Stark...you seeing this?" "Seeing....still working on believing." Loki slips away from Thor's clutches, hitching a ride on one of the jet-skis. Cap runs to save a bunch of trapped civilians, while Black Widow holds off an attack as Hawkeye evacuates a city bus. "It's just like Budapest all over again," she says as they fire away. "You and I remember Budapest very differently." Cap directs policemen to move citizens away from the main battle area, Iron Man is keeping the whale-creatures distracted up top, more bits of buildings are crashing down, lots of slicing and stabbing and shooting and imminent danger everywhere. Thor flies down to where the rest of the team is after trying unsuccessfully to power down the Tesseract. Right then Banner shows up, driving an old moped. "So...this all seems...horrible." he greets them. "I've seen worse," Romanoff says matter-of-factly. "I'm sorry." "No...we could use a little worse." she nods. Cap tells Stark that Banner's here, he replies that the party's moving their way. Sure enough, immediately afterward comes a whale. "I...I don't see how that's a party," Natasha looks puzzled. "Doctor, this might be a really good time to get angry," Cap instructs. Banner Hulks out and punches the whale in the jaw; stopping it cold. From there, it's an easy shot for Iron Man to launch a missile into the thing, and it explodes in a fiery death. Selvig has regained consciousness by now. Loki tells The Other to send the rest.
So....along come at least three more whale-creatures and an innumerable amount more of the Chitauri, Cap barks out a gameplan and everyone gets to work. Hulk smashes all the paper men he sees. Thor slows the flood entering the sky. Iron Man sails around as bait, Hawkeye's perched on a building picking them off one at a time(does the dude never runs out of arrows?), and Cap and Widow are manning the streets. More shooting and punching and daring feats of bravery/stupidity/necessity(your choice). Romanoff hijacks a jet-ski(they're much larger than they seem). Hulk slows down a whale enough that Thor can give it a good whack with Mjolnir, and together they drive the whale into an old cathedral.
On the Helicarrier, Fury is being called into a videoconference meeting with the World Security Council. "The Council has made a decision." "I recognize that the Council has made a decision. But given that it's a stupid-ass decision, I've elected to ignore it," Fury defies them. "Until my team has proved that they cannot defend that island(Manhattan), I will not authorize a nuclear strike against a civilian population!" "If we don't send it out, we lose everything." a Councilmember counters. "If I send that bird out, we already have." Fury hangs up.
Natasha's jet-ski is now being chased by the one Loki is driving. "Nat, what're you doing?" Hawkeye wonders. "Uh....little help?!" "I'm on it." He launches an arrow straight towards Loki's ear....which he catches effortlessly. The arrow then blows up, sending Loki back to Stark Tower along with Romanoff. The Hulk then beats Loki senseless, and Selvig reveals the existence of a self-destruct button, a safety for the machine. It's the sceptre. Tony's taking on a whale. "JARVIS, you ever hear the story of Jonah?" "I wouldn't consider him a role model," the elaborate computer system answers. Nevertheless, Tony rams his way through the entire creature, killing it and however many Chitauri were using it as a taxi. Hulk's facing at least fifteen jet-skis, Hawkeye almost as many.
The Council overrides Fury's decision, claiming he is no longer in authority and thus the pilots' bombing run is a go. Fury brings one fighter jet down on the runway with a bazooka, but another right behind it gets loose. Time for an urgent message, left urgently. "Stark, there's a missile heading straight for the city." "How long?" "You've got three minutes." Thirty seconds later, according to the radio, the package is sent. Not knowing any of this, Thor and Cap work together on the ground, while Selvig and Natasha try to shut the portal down. She tells the others of the this development, Cap gives it a green light. Stark immediately negates that message, telling them about the nuke, now incoming less than a minute away. He plans to take the bomb up the portal. "Shall I call Miss Potts?" JARVIS asks. "May as well." On her plane, Pepper's too engrossed in the tragedy to notice her phone is ringing. As Iron Man disappears into space, the S.H.I.E.L.D. staff cheers, while Fury and Hill know the truth; it's a suicide mission. The missile hits a vague ship-looking object, destroying it, shutting down all functions of the Chitauri and their whales. Tony begins his slow, terrifying descent, the superheated energy coming steadily closer. Knowing he probably won't make it back. The rest of the team stares at the sky, anxious. On Cap's order, Natasha closes the portal, sealing off the wave of annihilation. Stark slips through at the last second, never slowing down for an instant. Thor winds up to come to the rescue, but Hulk leaps out and scoops up the man, deflecting and absorbing the otherwise-fatal forces of gravity. Thor and Cap run to the prone man on the cratered pavement. They look at each other. Is he -? The Hulk bellows in a grieving manner. This bellow wakes Tony up. "What just happened? Please tell me nobody tried to kiss me." Steve's gaze is far-off, in Europe, likely, and seventy years away, but he answers slowly. "We won. It's over." Maybe World War II finally ended. Stark looks relieved. Everyone is exhausted beyond belief. "Have you guys ever had shawarma? I don't know what it is, but I want to try it." "We're not finished yet," Thor tells him.
Loki awakens to find two master assassins(one with a drawn bow), a super soldier, a green rage monster, his brother the warrior and a wrathful Tony Stark all staring down at him. None of them look too happy. "If it's all the same to you, I think I'll have that drink now."
Folks begin picking up the debris, writing letters in thanks, lighting candles at a Mass, getting Stark shaves or Captain America tattoos, graffiti-ing their appreciation for the Avengers. Some don't know what to believe, "...it just seems like there's a lot they're not telling us." Some think it was a hoax. "Superheroes? In New York? Give me a break." Stan Lee comments to a TV newscrew. Politicians and talk-show analysts give their opinions and thoughts. "These so-called heroes have to be held responsible for the destruction of the city. This was their fight. Where are they now?... "What, that this is all somehow their fault?" Beth the waitress asks, incredulous, during an interview. "Captain America saved my life. Wherever he is, and wherever any of them are, I would just....I would want to say thank you."
The Council wants answers. Fury coolly replies that the Avengers have earned a leave of absence from the index of gifted individuals, so he isn't tracking their current whereabouts. And the Tesseract? It's out of this world. "That's not your call." "I didn't make it. Just didn't argue with the god that did." Thor and Loki, bound for punishment, return to Asgard with the Tesseract. "I don't think you understand what you started, letting the Avengers loose on this world," a Councilmember frowns from on high. "They're dangerous." "They surely are," Fury agrees. "and the whole world knows it. Every. World. Knows it." "Was that the point of all this? A statement?" "A promise." Fury exits the conversation, and Hill wants to know how things work now. "They've gone their separate ways, so...some pretty extremely far. If we get into a situation like this again, what happens then?" "They'll come back." "You really sure about that?" "I am." "Why?" Fury stares out the window. "Because we need them to." Hill evidently doesn't agree, but wisely doesn't say anything.
Inside Stark Tower, now with just the large "A" remaining outside, remodeling is taking place, and Tony and Pepper are working on blueprints and designs for the next building.
PS - In space, The Other is speaking before the being on the throne. "Humanssss....they were not the cowering wretches we were promised. They are unruly, and therefore can not be ruled. To challenge them is to court death." The being on the throne grins. He is Thanos. (That's going to be terribly important in the future, as he's one of the galaxy's most awful and despicable tyrants. See Guardians for more information there, but we'll have to wait and see what happens here.)
PPS - They really did go to the restaurant after confronting Loki. The employees are closing up for the night, and the team is wearily chewing their food. (Shawarma is apparently kind of like Arabic barbecue, something like a Greek gyro.)
So, yeah, this is different than most of the other superhero movies. Bigger in scope, in aliens, in battle scenes while still allowing character development and memorable one-liners. It took most of two days to write this review because of that. The main point, I guess, is that you don't have to like each other in order to work together(though that definitely helps). What matters, ultimately, is that the job gets done. So if you've only seen it because everyone is talking about it(like you would The Breakfast Club, Jurassic Park, Days of Thunder or Napoleon Dynamite), you'll probably enjoy it. And if you love all things Marvel(for example, great storytelling, compelling characters, interwoven storylines, snark....) then it's a must-see.
* - Phase One of the MCU consists of Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk, Iron Man 2, Thor, Captain America: The First Avenger and The Avengers, and also the One-Shot short films The Consultant and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Thor's Hammer.
Phase Two is made up of Iron Man 3, Thor: The Dark World, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Guardians of the Galaxy; the first two seasons of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.; the One-Shots Item 47, Agent Carter, and All Hail The King; and the as-yet-unreleased Avengers: Age of Ultron and Ant-Man.
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