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** Also the Super Bowl trailer, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGt-saFvkNk especially the extended cut.]
** The [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tY9DnBNJFTI&feature=player_embedded second official trailer]. Holy effin' crap.
* [[Draco in Leather Pants]]: Go on, look at Tumblr. Search for Loki. We dare you. The fangirls have gone ''nuts'' about Loki ever since the first ''[[Thor (film)|Thor]]'' film. It was more understandable in ''Thor'', but here it's baffling to see this genocidal psycho attract so many apologists.
* [[Ear Worm]]: ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3ZNtOcY_1A Like the sun, we will live to rise...]''
* [[Ensemble Darkhorse]]: The Hulk (and Mark Ruffalo as Bruce Banner. Remarkable for [[The Other Darrin]].)
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* [[Iron Woobie]]: Bruce Banner.
* [[Like You Would Really Do It]]: Few people really believed that {{spoiler|[[Iron Man]] was going to kick it}}.
* [[Magnificent Bastard]]: Loki [[Zig Zagged Trope|zig-zags]] between this and [[Smug Snake]]. While he's a lot more blatantly egocentric and prone to going off on spiels about how much better he is than everyone else, he still successfully {{spoiler|plays the Avengers like a fiddle by turning them against each other and almost killing everyone on the S.H.I.E.L.D helicarrier during his escape}}.
* [[Memetic Mutation]]:
** "I have an army." "''We have a Hulk.''"
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** "His name is Agent!"
** "His name is/was Phil."
** The Chitauri ''hate'' cars.
* [[Moral Event Horizon]]: While he was still quite sympathetic in the original ''Thor'' movie, here he goes far over the deep end with his attempted genocide against humanity which involves mass-Mind Rape, the death of {{spoiler|the beloved Agent Coulson}}, and allowing the Chitauri to cross over to Earth and attempt to kill everyone. Come the second ''Thor'' movie where he's been taken to Asgard to pay for his crimes, {{spoiler| Odin has flat out disowned him.}}
* [[Music to Invade Poland To]]: ''Technically,'' Loki's invading ''Germany'', and only as a distraction. Still, two seconds after he starts a buttkicking rampage set to the tunes of [[Richard Wagner]], he's pretty accurately compared to Hitler.
* [[Narm]]: The UK's [[Market-Based Title]] "Avengers Assemble".
* [[One-Scene Wonder]]: Harry Dean Stanton as the random security guard. "Son, you've got a condition."
** The old German man who stands up to Loki when he orders a crowd of people to bow to him, who is all but said to be a Holocaust survivor.
* [[Rescued From the Scrappy Heap]]: The Hulk. Two previous attempts to bring the character to the cinema screen proved somewhat lackluster (middling box-office gross, lukewarm reviews), the role [[The Other Darrin|got recast]] once again, and the character had already developed a reputation of being the most boring of the team. However, a combination of Mark Ruffalo's acting and clever screenwriting turned The Hulk into an [[Ensemble Darkhorse|unexpected favorite]] of the movie, making the possibility of a new Hulk film much more likely. Might be one of the fastest turnaround times for this ever. Shortly before release producer Kevin Feige said there were no plans for a Hulk movie. Shortly after release, it was let slip that a Hulk movie may be in development for 2015 and that Mark Ruffalo had signed on for six more films.
* [[Special Effects Failure]]: Minor one, repeatedly after the scenes once they're on the helicarrier, the arc reactor's light is not visible through Tony Stark's shirt when it should be. It comes and goes.
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* [[Too Cool to Live]]: {{spoiler|Agent Coulson.}}
* [[Villain Decay]]: Loki isn't ''quite'' as menacing as he was in ''Thor'', [[Evil Is Cool|but he's still]] [[Faux Affably Evil|a lot of fun to watch.]]
* [[Visual Effects of Awesome (Sugar Wiki)|Visual Effects of Awesome]]: A movie about a superhero team required [http://www.fxguide.com/featured/vfx-roll-call-for-the-avengers/ an equally awesome team of visual effect studios] to get right, with [[ILM]] and [[WETA]] spearheading the effort. Special mention goes to the absolutely ''amazing'' S.H.I.E.L.D helicarrier and the enormous Chitauri Leviathans.
* [[The Woobie]]: Bruce Banner. The poor guy knows that he's always one bad mood away from turning into an unstoppable rage machine, and absolutely hates it.
=== [[The Avengers (TV series)|The TV series with Patrick Macnee]] ===
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