The Avengers (2012)

The Avengers Initiative was shut down.

This isn't about the Avengers.

Is this about the Avengers? Which I know nothing about.

The Avengers Initiative was scrapped, I thought. And I didn't even qualify.

These were in Phil Coulson's jacket. I guess he never did get you to sign them. We're dead in the air up here. Our communications, the location of the Cube, Banner, Thor... I got nothing for you. I lost my one good eye. Maybe I had that coming. Yes, we were going to build an arsenal with the Tesseract. I never put all my chips on that number, though because I was playing something even riskier. There was an idea, Stark knows this, call the Avengers Initiative. The idea was to bring together a group of remarkable people to see if they could become something more. To see if they could work together when we needed them to, to fight the battles that we never could. Phil Coulson died still believing in that idea. In heroes. Well, it's an old-fashioned notion.

The Avengers. That's what we call ourselves. We're sort of like a team. "Earth's mightiest heroes"-type thing.

Despite the devastation of what has been confirmed as an extraterrestrial attack, the extraordinary heroics of the group known as the Avengers has been to many a cause not only form comfort, but for celebration.

Tough questions are being asked about the Avengers themselves. Their sudden appearance and equally sudden disappearance...

I don't think you understand what you've started, letting the Avengers loose on this world. They're dangerous.