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[[File:Avengers_Circle_7902.jpg|frame|[[Nine Inch Nails|You and me...We're in this together now...]]]]

 

{{quote|''"You think you're the only superhero in the world? Mr. Stark, you've become part of a bigger universe. You just don't know it yet."''|'''[[Samuel L. Jackson|Nick]] [[Nick Fury|Fury]]''', in [[The Stinger]] to ''[[Iron Man (film)|Iron Man]]''}}

* ''[[Thor: The Dark World]]'' (2013)

* ''[[Captain America: The Winter Soldier]]'' (2014)

* ''[[The Avengers: Age of Ultron]]'' (2015)

 

* ''The Consultant'' - premiered on the ''[[Thor (film)|Thor]]'' Blu-ray

* ''A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Thor's Hammer'' - premiered on the DVD of ''[[Captain America: The First Avenger]]''

 

'''And there are also some comic book tie-ins for the movies:'''

 

It should also be noted that [[Samuel L. Jackson]] (who plays [[Nick Fury]]) has signed an ''unprecedented'' 9-movie deal with Marvel Studios, and has so far appeared in the two Iron Man movies, Thor, Captain America and The Avengers... so that leaves us with another 2 films in this continuity to look forward to, ''beside'' those listed here; interviews mentioned an Ant-Man movie (possibly with [[Edgar Wright]] directing), a SHIELD movie, a [[Doctor Strange]] movie, and a [[Guardians of the Galaxy]] movie, just to name a few.

 

* [[Action Survivor]]: Agent Coulson seems like an average government agent with no outstanding abilities shown so far beyond basic [[Badass Normal|Badass Normalcy]], yet he's managed to survive attacks from both [[Iron Man (film)|Iron Monger]] and [[Thor (film)|The Destroyer]] practically unscathed. Also, [[I Know Karate|he knows kung fu]].

** {{spoiler|His luck apparently ran out in ''[[The Avengers (film)|The Avengers]]'', although there's enough ambiguity that some fans insist [[He's Just Hiding]].}}

* [[Adaptation Distillation]]: Takes elements from both the 616 and [[Ultimate Marvel|Ultimate universes]]. For example, [[The Avengers (Comic Book)|The Avengers]] are being [[The Ultimates|formed by SHIELD]], [[Ultimate Universe|who are headed by a Nick Fury portrayed by]] [[Samuel L. Jackson]] [[Marvel Universe|whilst one of his Lieutenants is Maria Hill]] and the team's first major crisis {{spoiler|involves Loki, [[Nice Job Fixing It, Villain|who was the initial reason the team formed in the]] [[Marvel Universe]], and the Chitauri, an [[Alien Invasion]] from [[Ultimate Marvel]]}}.

* [[All of the Other Reindeer]]: The movie franchise as a whole plays with this:

** ''[[Iron Man (film)|Iron Man 2]]'': Downey, Paltrow, Don Cheadle, [[Scarlett Johansson]], [[Sam Rockwell]], Mickey Rourke and [[Samuel L. Jackson]].

** ''[[Thor (film)|Thor]]'': Chris Hemsworth, [[Natalie Portman]], [[Tom Hiddleston]], Stellan Skarsgård, Colm Feore, [[Ray Stevenson]], Idris Elba, [[Kat Dennings]], Rene Russo and [[Anthony Hopkins]].

** ''[[The Avengers (film)|The Avengers]]'': Downey, Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Hemsworth, Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Hiddleston, Clark Gregg, Cobie Smulders, Skarsgård and Jackson.

* [[All There in the Manual]]: The scene with {{spoiler|Tony Stark}} at the end of ''The Incredible Hulk'' gains new context thanks to an extra on the ''Thor'' DVD (See the entry for [[Batman Gambit]]).

* [[Bad Present]]: As always, Captain America (the king of this trope) uses shades of this.

{{quote|'''Captain America:''' When I went under, the world was at war. When I woke, they said we won. They didn't say what we lost.}}

* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: So far, four movies have this...

** ''[[The Incredible Hulk (film)|The Incredible Hulk]]'': {{spoiler|Bruce defeats the Abomination and saves both Betty and General Ross. But in the process, he becomes a fugitive living somewhere in British Columbia, away from his loved one. And Dr. Sterns is on his way to become Leader soon.}}

** ''[[The Avengers (film)|The Avengers]]'' has a more mild version of this: {{spoiler|The day is saved and the world is celebrating the victory, but the fact remains that many people died during the fight in Manhattan, and the team is at least temporarily disbanding, partially so that they and SHIELD won't have to deal with all of the political and legal questions surrounding the incident. All of this is small potatoes, though, to the big thing that makes this bittersweet, although they don't know it yet: '''[[Thanos]] [[Awakening the Sleeping Giant|has become interested]] [[Oh Crap|in Earth.]]'''}}

* [[The Cameo]]: Often, and it helps to establish a connected universe (such as {{spoiler|Tony Stark}} appearing in ''Incredible Hulk'' and {{spoiler|Nick Fury}}'s brief scenes in ''Thor'' and ''Captain America''.

** [[Creator Cameo]]: Plus, as is standard procedure for Marvel productions, [[Stan Lee]] always makes a cameo. J. Michael Straczynski also appears in ''Thor'' as he served as a script consultant.

** Lou Ferrigno makes another Hulk-related cameo, and in the same film, Bill Bixby makes a pseudo-cameo when Bruce is watching "The Courtship of Eddie's Father."