Marvel's The Avengers |OT| (Dir. Joss Whedon) [Spoilers unmarked]

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When Coulsen showed up with the gun, it was at full mast.

When Coulsen got stabbed, it went limp.

When Coulsen power zapped Loki, it moved.

When Coulsen died, it cried sticky tears.
 
Divvy said:
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I always cry at this scene :(
 
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There's a really cool story behind this picture.


http://www.g33kwatch.com/movies/story-of-a-five-year-old-avenger-meeting-the-avengers/


August 31st, 2011 – My wife Jill, 5 year old son Edison and I return to New York City from vacation.

September 1st, 2011 – My wife goes to work, while I have the day off. My son and I go to see Captain America: The First Avenger. It was my third time seeing the film, while it was the second for Edison.

September 2nd, 2011 – I go to work and get to leave early since a three day weekend is coming. I go home, and kick back while my wife and son were spending a fun mother/son day in the city. I, being the nerd that I am, go online to see what was up in the world of comic book movies and discovered that The Avengers was filming in Central Park. I immediately called my wife.

So my wife, carrying four bags of school supplies, and my son make their way to Central Park East. I should mention that at this point my son, having seen Captain America the day before, was carrying around his Captain America shield with him as any good, superhero-loving youngster would. My wife was annoyed that she had to carry it for him throughout the day, wondering why on earth he brought it with him.

Luckily, it’s a good thing he brought it.

They walk around a bit, seeing various trailers and film equipment. Then my son sees a car and recognizing the insignia on the side says to his mom, “That’s Nick Fury’s car!” Indeed, it’s a S.H.I.E.L.D. vehicle, so my wife told him to stand next to it while she took a picture. Immediately, grips and guys in suits run over “Excuse me! You can’t take a picture of this car without—” and upon seeing my son with his shield, kind of shrug and acquiesce, “Oh, okay. Go ahead.”

They walk around some more. My wife notices that grips are telling gawkers that they’re shooting a commercial. She gives the grip a look that says, “Really? That’s the story you’re telling?” The grips shrug, giving her a knowing smile, “Yes, it’s The Avengers.” Suddenly, about fifty feet away, two very tall, colossal men walk out, having a conversation and minding their own business. That’s when all hell breaks loose: Fifty feet away are Chris Hemsworth and Tom Hiddleston in full Thor and Loki costumes respectively.

Cameras come out, flashes go off, and the grips go in to panic mode trying to shoo everyone away. My wife (who is about 5 foot even) puts my son on her shoulders to get a better look. The grip who talked to my wife is telling everyone “Go! Go!” pushing the crowd in one direction. Then, he turns and gives my wife a look and motions over his shoulder in the other direction, saying “Go!” Taking the cue, Jill goes past him and heads towards the Norse Gods. By this point, Chris Hemsworth was walking away, so my son shouted out “Thor!” Thor turned around, smiled, waved and left. But there was Loki, the God of Mischief. He saw my son, and smiled.

“Hi, Loki!” my wife said (100% sure she didn’t know Tim Hiddleston’s name). “Can my son get a picture with you?” she asked.

“Can I put him on my shoulders?” Loki asks.

“Um … okay?” is Jill’s response and hands Tom Hiddleston our son. He hoists him up on to his shoulders (I should mention that this guy is like 8 feet tall), and my wife takes out her Blackberry, only to find that it’s on its last battery leg. Nonetheless she manages to get a couple of shots. Hiddleston puts Edison down, shakes his hand and says goodbye.

All in all, a good day. But wait … there’s more.

My wife and son begin to head towards Bethesda Fountain and come upon barricades, camera crews, and a whole lot more security. This is where the action’s at. Once again, my wife puts our son on her shoulders. Remember to keep in mind: Jill is 5 feet tall, carrying four bags of school supplies. They look around and see this massive set-up. Cameras on cranes, tons of lights, lots of crew. By this point, the cat is out of the bag – everyone is aware that “Group Hug” is actually code name for The Avengers. So my wife and son watch them prep a shot, looking around when suddenly my wife exclaims—

“Look! There’s Tony Stark and Bruce Banner! They’re talking to that stunt guy.” Sure enough, there’s Robert Downey Jr., Mark Ruffalo and a stunt man in a brown jacket, all chatting. When the stunt man turns to the side, my son responds with excitement and shock – “Mom! That’s Chris Evans!”

“Buddy, I don’t think that’s him.” is her response. In her defense, she wasn’t wearing her glasses and my son’s vision is freakishly great. My wife squints and sure enough, it’s him, Captain America himself.

The production crew film a couple of things – Stark and Banner getting in to a car, Steve Rogers on a motorcycle. The security guard in front of Jill and Edison smiles, walks around a bit, and comes back again. My wife asks, “Do you think we might be able to get a picture of my son with Chris Evans?”

The security guard responds with, “Oh, your son likes Captain America?”

My wife says jokingly, “Do you NOT see the shield he’s carrying?”

To which the security guard responds, “Well, look at what you’re wearing.”

My wife looks down, realizing for the first time that day that the shirt she chose to wear says “I Only Date Superheroes” with pictures of Spider-Man, Thor and Captain America. As she said to me later on, “I have never felt more like a nerd in my life.”

The security guard has a laugh and then looks back at the filming. They’re in-between shots when the guard moves the barricade and says, “Walk with me and we’ll see what we can do.” My wife takes my son off her shoulders, and they proceed on to the glorious side of the barricade we all wish to be on – The Set!

They walk over, Jill’s heart is pounding. Who is that walking right by her? Why that’s Jeremy Renner and Scarlett Johnassen who play Hawkeye and Black Widow! Initial impression? They’re short! Oh look, there goes Mark Ruffallo! There’s a lot of crew walking around, looking at this strange woman with four jam-packed bags from Staples and the little boy with the Captain America shield. The Security Guard stops my wife and son, merely 10 feet away from Robert Downey Jr. and Chris Evans.

The guard says “Wait here for a second” and takes a few steps forward, waiting to see if he can interrupt the talent. There is a woman standing next to my wife and son. She looks at Edison, shield in hand, staring in awe at his heroes, when the woman shouts “Chris!” Chris Evans stops, mid-sentence, and turns to the woman. Robert Downey Jr. looks over, frowns, but seeing a little boy with a Captain America shield, Downey Jr gets it and shrugs.

This woman that called to Evans has got his attention. She points to my son and exclaims, “Look at this! Look at how adorable he is!”

This woman? Chris Evans mother.

Chris Evans starts walking towards my son and says, “Now I bet you’re thinking, ‘That doesn’t look like Captain America’”

“Oh no, he knew it was you from waaaaay over there.” My wife assures him.

Edison, face-to-face with the man he saw on the big screen merely 24 hours earlier does what any self-respecting five year would do in front of his hero of the hour – he holds his shield up in front of his face, overcome with a case of The Shy.

“Edison,” my wife says, “put the shield down and shake his hand like a gentleman.”

Evans crouches down next to Edison, who extends his hand and shakes the hand of The First Avenger. “Can I see your shield?” Evans asks and Edison hands his battered toy shield over. “Wow, you’re getting a lot of use out of this. You fighting a lot of bad guys with this?” he asks. Chris Evans and Edison proceed to have a conversation about the finer points of shields and fighting the enemy.

My wife asks, “Would you mind if I got a picture of you?”

“Not at all!” Evans says.

My wife pulls out her Blackberry, aims it and … it goes black. Dead. It’s possible that she begins to pee herself a little bit, I just can’t be sure. She frantically pushes buttons and manages to get it to come back to life. Meanwhile, Chris Evans’ mom is having a little fun, busting my wife’s chops on not being able to work a Blackberry. Jill gets the phone up and running and snaps a picture. “To be safe, can I get one more?”

“Sure.” Evans says and my wife manages to get one more picture.

Just then a quiet-spoken gentleman comes over “Chris, sorry, I need you for one more shot.” The gentleman looks at my son and says “Sorry, little buddy, I need Captain America for a minute.” This is the only time during the entire story that I am jealous of my son and beside myself that I wasn’t there. One of my writing idols, Joss Whedon has just spoken to my child … heavy, heavy sigh. My wife apologizes for taking up their time, with Whedon and Evans smiling and assuring her that it is fine. Then my wife takes a picture with Chris Evans’ mom who was instrumental in making this meeting happen.

And with that, my wife and son walk off, watch the crew film a couple of shots and thus ends their trip to the set of The Avengers.

September 6th, 2011 – I return to work, with my son who didn’t start school until the next day. A co-worker, whose son is also at work, says she saw my Facebook status, saw the pics and thought it was cool. Our kids sit together for the day, drawing, playing. Later I walk by and my co-worker says, “You know your son is on the Internet?” Fearing that I’m in some sort of Clive Owen interwebs scandal flick, I ask her to clarify. Lo and behold, there is a professional picture of my son with Chris Evans on socialite life dot com or something or other.

This continues for the next few days, new pictures of him springing up on various sites. I even broke down and went to a Chris Evans fan page to see if there were pics.

There were.

Side Note – I now have access to screen caps from The Nanny Diaries if anyone needs those.

Fast forward to New York Comic Con 2011

I surprise Edison and tell him we’re going to go to The Avengers panel at NYCC 2011. I tell him Chris Evans and Tom Hiddleston are going to be there signing and we’ll try and get his pictures autographed. We arrive and make our way to where The Avengers panel line is only to find out that Evans and Hiddleston are signing at that moment! So we hurry over there and find out you needed a ticket handed out earlier in the day to get on line.

I make my way to the side of the stage and call someone over. I show him the 8x10s we got made up with hopes of having them signed. I don’t even finish my sentence when the guy goes, “That’s the kid! Yeah, I remember when he came to the set!” He gets security to OK us to get in line.

So we’re in line, waiting …. waiting … waiting … realizing that the window of opportunity to get these pics signed AND make our way to the line for The Avengers panel is slowly closing. That’s okay though, because while we’re in line there are these five women dressed up in various Thor character costumes. One of them turns around, sees the 8×10 in my hand, looks at my son, then at the picture and goes, “Oh my god! It’s the kid!”

They all freak out and begin to tell me how my son is all over tumblr and they want to take a picture with him. I said, “If he wants to.” Edison agrees and they take pictures with him, and then more people start gathering around and taking pictures. The one girl says to me, “You don’t understand, his picture is all over the internet!” She goes on to explain tumblr and how the pictures got liked and linked all over the interwebs.

We’re five feet away from making it to the stage when someone’s publicist decides they want the talent off the stage and they are whisked away. Alas, we didn’t get the pics signed but ended up walking around, taking in the sensory overload that is NYCC 2011 and having a great time.

All in all, the entire experience was a good adventure for a cool, five year old geek - if I do say so myself.
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Tobor said:
Boom. 350.
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I now have a sudden urge to spam this thread to get ahead of you.

And yeah, if it wasn't clear enough between all the posters in here and general audience, Coulson's death was not as hum drum of a thing as Bob and some others make it out to be. It had an effect.
 
I was so hyped for Iron Man 3 where Tony gets trapped in space but he made it before the portal closed

That last call for Pepper was sad but inevitably anticlimactic because he made it back
 
Tobor said:
It's grasping at straws, like Quint said. I just thought it was funny how deep people will go with looking for Easter eggs.
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It's usually the hardcore fan that will go digging for these things, I personally would think it funny. :3

Anyways, more Avengers haul... I have more sets coming in the mail & will have another Hulk minifig to go with the one from today.

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Good Job Bob said:
Oh, Coulson bugged Stark for a few minutes in both IM movies? Sounds like they really knew eachother well then.
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Yes, there is absolutely no interaction between any of these characters outside the screentime they get.

Also, it IS always different when something happens to people you know, even if it's through work and nothing else.
 
Auron_Kale said:
It's usually the hardcore fan that will go digging for these things, I personally would think it funny. :3

Anyways, more Avengers haul... I have more sets coming in the mail & will have another Hulk minifig to go with the one from today.

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I put this together last weekend, it's a fun build and the minifigures are hilarious.
 
Solo said:
Tell me about "it", Rub...
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It kind of grows and shrinks pretty dramatically depending on my mood. Like a little peach colored Hulk in my pants, ya know?

The trick to controlling it: I'm always horny...
 
richiek said:
I was disappointed that they didn't discuss how the Tesseract got to Earth in the film.
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I always thought that it was something of a peace offering from when Odin dropped by Earth to chase the Jotuns back to Jotunheim. Remember, both the Thor and Cap movies feature the same village in different points in time. In Thor it's established that the people of that village had worshipped Asgardians as deities, and in Cap we're shown centuries later that they have the Tesseract. It seemed reasonable to conclude that Odin dropped by after beating the Jotuns and said to the villagers something like, "Yeah, here's a cube thingy from our vault so you guys can protect yourselves, I gotta raise 2 boys now" and the villagers are like "WE ARE NOT WORTHY" and they just lock it up
behind a mural of Yggdrasil to make it obvious to the mythologically educated
instead of studying it.
 
Love this sentence in that story:

“Hi, Loki!” my wife said (100% sure she didn’t know Tim Hiddleston’s name). “Can my son get a picture with you?” she asked.
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He gets his name right in every sentence but this one.
 
Just noticed on Amazon Captain America, Thor and IM2 are all in the top 10 for BD sales. Has Marvel or Disney commented on how this movie has effected sales on their other MCU movies?
 
MechDX said:
Just noticed on Amazon Captain America, Thor and IM2 are all in the top 10 for BD sales. Has Marvel or Disney commented on how this movie has effected sales on their other MCU movies?
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Probably not, but they probably know that the Avengers halo effect is making in rain...
 
WanderingWind said:
So, what portion of the color pie is Capt America? I'm thinking white!
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Banner is pure Blue, but Hulk is Green/Red, he has a bestial side let out by his emotions.
Captain America is probably White, governed by a strict moral code and belief in authority. Thor is just pure Red, everything he does it because he wants to. Iron Man is ...Blue and Red I want to say. Loki is obviously Blue/Black.
 
We may be reaching nerd critical mass. Quickly, somebody write some fan fic where the Avengers meet up with the original Star Trek crew! I want to see the internet fold in on itself.
 
WanderingWind said:
We may be reaching nerd critical mass. Quickly, somebody write some fan fic where the Avengers meet up with the original Star Trek crew! I want to see the internet fold in on itself.
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You think that's bad, my girlfriend reads fanfiction and she tells me she encountered an Avengers/Glee crossover.
 
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