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{{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]]''}}

 

 

'''Current films included as part of the setting''':

* ''[[Iron Man (film)|Iron Man 3]]'' (2013)

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

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

* ''[[Ant-Man (film)|Ant-Man]] (2015)

 

''Phase 3:''

* ''[[Doctor Strange (film)|Doctor Strange]]'' (2016) Featuring [[Benedict Cumberbatch]] in the title role

* ''[[Guardians of the Galaxy 2]]'' (2017)

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

** Averted with Iron Man who is a cool ladies' man and Thor as long as he stays in Asgard where he's a celebrated hero (when he first went to Earth, he was seen as insane and probably homeless).

** As for Captain America, he struggled to gain respect even after becoming the pinnacle of human perfection. While things changed for him, he now has to struggle as a [[Fish Out of Temporal Water]].

* [[All-Star Cast]]: And how! Here are the main cast members of each film and see how many you instantly recognize:

* [[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.}}

* [[Big Bad]]: Most of the films and all the TV and Netflix show seasons have their own, but [[Thanos]] is being slowly built up as this for the movies as a whole.

* [[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."

* [[Comic Book Movies Don't Use Codenames]]: Most characters don't have them. Iron Monger, Abomination, Black Widow, War Machine, Whiplash, Hawkeye, Red Skull... all of their codenames have been referenced only a few times or not at all.

* [[Continuity Overlap]]: See below.

** SHIELD is much more morally grey in comparison, but it's not clear whether it's a US agency given Fury reports to the [[Omniscient Council of Vagueness|World Security Council]].

* [[Extremely Short Timespan]]: So far, most of the movies take place almost at the same time even though they were all made years apart. ''[[Iron Man (film)|Iron Man]] 2'' contains references to ''[[The Incredible Hulk (film)|The Incredible Hulk]]'' and ''[[Thor (film)|Thor]]'' that indicate all three films happened at roughly the same time, and the original ''[[Iron Man (film)|Iron Man]]'' was only six months earlier. (''[[Captain America: The First Avenger]]'', on the other hand, took place mainly 70 years ago during WWII; and we aren't told when the modern-day bits are in relation to the other films - although SHIELD's world map in ''[[Iron Man (film)|Iron Man]] 2'' includes a marking at what would be about the right spot for where Cap was found, meaning the final scenes of that film also probably happen at about the same time). To balance it out, The Avengers takes place at least a year later.

* [[Genre Roulette]]: Though collectively under the "superhero" genre, each hero's movies skew towards their own genre. [[Iron Man (film)|Iron Man]] is [[Science Fiction]], [[The Incredible Hulk (film)|The Incredible Hulk]] is a [[Attack of the Killer Whatever|Monster Movie]], [[Thor (film)|Thor]] is [[Fantasy]], and [[Captain America: The First Avenger]] is more of a [[Military and Warfare Films|War Movie]]. ''The Avengers'', throwing everybody together, falls under [[Science Fantasy]].

* [[Gilligan Cut]]: From the Marvel One-Shot ''The Consultant''.

* cut to {{spoiler|[a clip of] the [[The Stinger]]}} of [[The Incredible Hulk (film)|The Incredible Hulk]]* {{spoiler|Tony Stark - [[Exact Words|not Iron Man]] - was the consultant; hired as such at the end of [[Iron Man (film)|Iron Man 2]].}} }}

* [[Government Agency of Fiction]]: SHIELD in all the movies, and before their time, there was the [[Captain America: The First Avenger|Strategic Scientific Reserve]], which is implied to be the OSS to SHIELD's CIA.

* [[World of Badass]]: Hell yeah.

* [[World of Ham]]: From a billionaire superhero who built his suit [[Memetic Mutation|in a cave with a box of scraps]] to some major [[Ham-to-Ham Combat]] between [[Norse Mythology|Norse gods]], there's plenty of ham to offer.

* [[You Look Familiar]]: All the characters played by [[Stan Lee]] ([[Epileptic Trees|assuming they're not the same guy]])

 

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