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=== [[The Avengers (Filmfilm)|The movie based on the comic book]] ===
* [[Anticlimax Boss]]: Years of superhero movies have taught viewers to expect that a [[Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny|final battle]] between The Avengers and Loki would happen towards the end of the movie. It doesn't happen quite that way.
* [[Awesome Music (Sugar Wiki)|Awesome Music]]: The score by [[Alan Silvestri]], particularly the Avengers anthem. Try to listen to it and ''not'' feel ready to repel an [[Alien Invasion]]. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNdZFPitS1Q Go on, try. We'll wait.]
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** The short appearance of Loki's motif from a [[The Ring of the Nibelung|certain famous opera]] deserves special mention for [[Music of Note|being meta]] ''and'' super-awesome.
* [[Catharsis Factor]]: {{spoiler|[[Metronomic Man-Mashing|The Hulk smacking Loki around.]]}} After seeing the latter spend the entire movie being a bastard--{{spoiler|and especially his callous murder of Agent Coulson}}--this was quite satisfying.
* [[Cliché Storm]]: It wasn't lost on several critics and movie goers that ''[[The Avengers (Filmfilm)|The Avengers]]'', for all of its praise, hardly broke new ground in superhero movie storytelling (especially compared to [[The Dark Knight]] and [[Watchmen]]). It's more than a bit predictable, and every convenient plot twist unfolded in the way most people would expect after viewing one too many superhero flicks. Still, because ''[[The Avengers (Filmfilm)|The Avengers]]'' blended the best elements of superhero movies together, this is an exceptional case of [[Tropes Are Not Bad]] for many.
* [[Moment of Awesome (Sugar Wiki)|Crowning Trailer Of Awesome]]:
** Shown as [[The Stinger]] to ''[[Captain America: theThe First Avenger]]''. It's as awesome as one would think, and then some.
** 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 (Filmfilm)|Thor]]'' film.
* [[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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* [[Fan Dumb]]:
** Some fans complained about Black Widow's lack of a Russian accent. {{spoiler|She identifies herself as Russian in the film but talks about having been raised in the United States and then spending a lot of time abroad.}} Additionally, she's an international spy who has mastered multiple languages. So obviously, she can speak with a perfect accent. If she couldn't, she wouldn't be very good at her job. The comic character has never been described as having a Russian accent and in fact, has passed herself off as an American citizen more than once so it is safe to say that the original version speaks English with a US accent.
** Some fans were enraged at Cap's line about Thor ("There's only one God, ma'am, and I'm pretty sure He doesn't dress like that"), claiming that Joss Whedon was having a case of religious [[Writer Onon Board]]. Putting aside the fact that Cap has always been [http://www.adherents.com/lit/comics/CaptainAmerica.html a deeply religious Christian] (and therefore such a line isn't out of character for him), Joss Whedon himself is a staunch humanist who once derisively referred to the Abrahamic God as "the sky bully."
* [[Fan Nickname]]:
** "Thorbuster" for Coulson's unnamed [[BFG]]<ref>The name came from an Iron Man suit Tony designed based on Norse weaponry in case he had to take on the pantheon.</ref>
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** Cap and Thor. Seriously. That searching look Thor gives Cap when Cap goes on fighting after he's hit...it's like a light went on inside his head.
** As in the comics, Cap even gets this with Stark. During their arguments, one can't help but think, [[Belligerent Sexual Tension|"Just KISS already!"]]
*** You know it's bad when a prominent article (tweeted by director [[Brad Bird (Creator)|Brad Bird]]) singled out their exchanges as [http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/7883348/making-sense-marvel-mega-bet-avengers "crypto-erotic tension"].
** Agent Coulson's fanboy tendencies toward Cap is played for laughs, but the way he tells him "I watched you when you slept" can be interpreted in some ways...
* [[Holy Shit Quotient]]: As befitting.
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** Loki calling Black Widow a "[[Getting Crap Past the Radar|mewling]] [[Country Matters|quim]]". It's produced some [http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3chhfz2mp1qewfmxo1_400.jpg interesting] [http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3gdf8yQ2X1qchotbo1_500.jpg reactions], to say the least.
** Tony Stark & Bruce Banner: [http://i.imgur.com/TN7JJ.jpg SCIENCE BROS]
** "I watched you when you were sleeping." (Usually accompanied by references to [[Twilight (Literaturenovel)|Edward and Bella.]])
** The phrase "green rage monster" to describe the Hulk.
** This film has at least as many [[Female Gaze]] shots as ''Thor''. [http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m486lgS0Fq1rw8jw9o1_500.png Jeremy Renner only seems to be encouraging this] in his downtime - and that shot from behind of Cap going at that punching bag must be the most gif'ed thing on Tumblr.
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* [[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.
* [[Take That]]:
** The album of [[Alan Silvestri]]'s score (as opposed to the song album - of which exactly ''one'' track is in the film). How can a soundtrack be a [[Take That]], you ask? Well, soundtrack fans have long complained about digital releases having extra material not on the CD (most recently with Silvestri's ''[[Captain America: The First Avenger (Film)|Captain America the First Avenger]]'', which doesn't have [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVC7Zvo_NyQ this] on the disc and was only available as a download). The digital album of the score of ''The Avengers'' lasts 64:25... but the physical CD runs 76:17, and several of the tracks on the download last longer on the CD (in particular "Tunnel Chase"--[[Back to Thethe Future (Filmfilm)|not the first time]] [[Predator 2|Silvestri's used that title]]--and "Stark Goes Green"), capped with the CD having a whole extra cue ("Interrogation"). Of course, if you're strictly download-only...
* [[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.]]
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* [[The Woobie]]: Bruce Banner.
 
=== [[The Avengers (TV series)|The TV series with Patrick Macnee]] ===
* [[Hilarious in Hindsight]]: Doesn't Steed look rather like [[David Cameron]] in the page picture?
* [[Memetic Outfit]]: The [[Spy Catsuit|Spy Catsuits]].
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