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* The elderly German man {{spoiler|who refuses to bow for Loki.}} It gets even worse when you realize that it is likely that the man is old enough to have been alive in Nazi Germany. He's seen this happen before and he will not let it happen again.
{{quote| '''Loki:''' "There are no men like me."<br />
'''Old man:''' "There are ''[[A Nazi
* Banner tells Fury he can't be killed, because he's already tried putting a bullet in his mouth - 'the other guy spat it out'. The man's been driven to actual suicide, and has had even that release denied him.
** The other's reactions is what really sells this as well. Every single last person is struck silent, and even Nick Fury turns to look at him in horrified disbelief.
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** {{spoiler|The trading cards. Just... the trading cards. Even if that was a ruse by Fury.}}
*** {{spoiler|Especially Captain America's expression when seeing them. You can see that he's thinking that he let a man who believed in him down in the worst way possible.}}
*** {{spoiler|Also Tony's reaction. It's clear he's holding back tears as he [[How Dare You Die
*** Tony looking at the blood on the wall where {{spoiler|Coulson was leaning after he was stabbed}} and then this angry, desperate line to Steve:
{{quote| We are ''not'' soldiers!}}
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** Oh, and the reason Pepper doesn't answer her phone? She's watching the TV report on the fight in Manhattan, unable to hear the phone, horrified and knowing Tony is somewhere in there.
*** Give you one worse. Can you imagine what she must have been going through when she saw her one missed call?
** Gets even worse when you remember [[Captain America:
* The wall of remembrance shown in the aftermath videos, reminding us that even though the Avengers won the day, a ''huge'' number of ordinary people still died in the battle, despite all that the heroes could do.
* Steve's first appearance, where he's working the heavy bag at an old, empty gym. He starts having flashbacks about the war, the Howling Commandos, and his last words to Peggy Carter, and his blows grow more vicious and more rapid, until he literally knocks the bag off the chain.... And then we see that Steve has had multiple heavy bags prepared. This has been going on for some time, and Steve has come to expect it.
** ''Everything'' about Steve, frankly, is a tearjerker, if one stopped to really think about it.
* Tony's snarky dig about Captain America ("That's the guy my dad never shut up about? Maybe they should have kept him on ice.") becomes a tear jerker if you recall what he says about his father in ''[[Iron Man (
* Although we haven't even ''seen'' this scene yet as it was cut from the film (but [[
* Captain America's vicious verbal putdown of Tony, telling him that he knows nothing about sacrifice and teamwork and thinking of others. Did it need to be said? Yes. Was it true? Yes. Did it make the look on Tony's face and his halfhearted attempt at a comeback any less heartbreaking? No freaking way.
** Equally heartbreaking was Tony's crack about Steve being "a lab experiment at best". Now remember how Steve had started out as an 80 lb weakling that few looked at twice, and how even after the serum he was cast aside and used as a propaganda mascot. Then remember everything he had sacrificed to save New York, only to wake up to a world where the only son of his old friend tells him that "everything special about you came out of a bottle."
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