The Avengers


 * [first lines; Loki has allied with the alien race the Chitauri, in exchange for the Tesseract, they agree to help Loki subjugate Earth]
 * The Other: [voice over] The Tesseract has awakened. It is on a little world, a human world. They wield its power, but ally is working knows it's working, so that they never will learn. He's ready to lead, and our force, our Chitauri will follow. The world will be his and the universe yours. And the humans, what can they do, but burn?
 * [Nick Fury and Maria Hill arrive at a remote research facility during an evacuation]
 * Nick Fury: How bad is it?
 * Agent Phil Coulson: That's the problem, sir. We don't know.
 * [an elevator goes down]
 * Agent Phil Coulson: Dr. Selvig read an energy surge from the Tesseract four hour ago.
 * Nick Fury: NASA didn't authorize Selvig to test the Tesseract.
 * Agent Phil Coulson: He wasn't testing it, he wasn't even in the room. Spontaneous advancement
 * Agent Maria Hill: It just turned itself on?
 * Nick Fury: What are the reading levels now?
 * Agent Phil Coulson: Climbing. When Selvig couldn't shut it down, we ordered the evac.
 * Nick Fury: How long to get everyone out?
 * Agent Phil Coulson: Campus should be clear in the next half hour.
 * Nick Fury: It better.
 * Agent Maria Hill: Sir, evacuation maybe futile.
 * Nick Fury: We should tell them to go back to sleep?
 * Agent Maria Hill: If we can't control the Tesseract's energy, there may not be a minimum safe distance.
 * Nick Fury: I need you to make sure that the phase 2 prototypes are shipped out.
 * Agent Maria Hill: Sir, is that really a priority right now?
 * Nick Fury: Until such time as the world ends, we will act as though it intends to spin on. Clear out the tech below. Every piece of phase 2 on a truck and gone.
 * Agent Maria Hill: Yes, sir.
 * [Fury enters the lab facility where the Tesseract is being held]
 * Nick Fury: Talk to me, doctor.
 * Selvig: Director.
 * Nick Fury: Is there anything we know for certain?
 * Selvig: The Tesseract is misbehaving.
 * Nick Fury: Is that supposed to be funny?
 * Selvig: No, it's not funny at all. The Tesseract is not only active, she's...misbehaving.
 * Nick Fury: How soon until you pull the plug?
 * Selvig: She's an energy source. If we turn off the power, she turns it back on. If she reaches peak level...
 * Nick Fury: We're prepared for this, doctor. Harnessing energy from space.
 * Selvig: We don't have the harness. My calculations are far from complete. And she's throwing off interference, radiation. Nothing harmful, low levels of gamma radiation.
 * Nick Fury: That can be harmful. Where's Agent Barton?
 * Selvig: [he points behind him] The Hawk? Up in his nest, as usual.
 * [we see Barton is up on the railings watching them below, Fury calls Barton on his earpiece]
 * Nick Fury: Agent Barton, report to.
 * [Clint slides down a rope]
 * [Clint is then seen walking and talking with Fury]
 * I gave you this detail so you could keep a close eye on things.
 * Clint Barton: Well I see better from a distance.
 * Nick Fury: Are you seeing anything that might set this thing off? [to Selvig; referring to the reading from the Tesseract]
 * NASA Scientist: Doctor, it's spiking again.
 * Clint Barton: No one's come or gone. It's oven is clean. No contacts, no I.M.'s. If there was any tampering, sir, it wasn't at this end.
 * Nick Fury: At this end?
 * Clint Barton: Yeah, the cube is a doorway to the other end of space, right? The doors open from both sides. [suddenly the Tesseract is activated and opens a portal through space, from which Loki steps through]
 * Nick Fury: [to Loki after he's come through the portal] Sir, please put down the spear! [Loki looks at his spear then suddenly points it at where Fury and Barton are standing and shoots out a blue exploding light towards them] [as Barton tries to kill Loki, Loki grabs Barton's hand]
 * Loki: You have heart. [Loki points the head of his spear at Barton's hear and uses his ability to control Barton's mind] [as Loki is busy using his abilities to control the minds of several S.H.I.E.L.D. personnel, Fury takes the Tesseract and tries to leave the lab] Please don't. I still need that.
 * Nick Fury: This doesn't have to get any messier.
 * Loki: Of course it does. I've come too far for anything else. I am Loki of Asgard, and I am burdened with glorious purpose.
 * Selvig: Loki? Brother of Thor?
 * Nick Fury: We have no quarrel with your people.
 * Loki: An ant has no quarrel with a boot.
 * Nick Fury: You planning to step on us?
 * Loki: I come with glad tidings, of a world made free.
 * Nick Fury: Free from what?
 * Loki: Freedom. Freedom is life's great lie. Once you accept that, in your heart... [he turns to face Selvig who's standing behind him and places his spear against Selvig's heart] You will know peace. [he uses his abilities to control Selvig's mind]
 * Nick Fury: Yeah, you say peace, I kind of think you mean the other piece.
 * Clint Barton: Sir, Director Fury is stalling. This place is about to blow. Drop a hundred feet of raw material, he means to bury us.
 * Nick Fury: Like The Pharaohs of Odin.
 * Selvig: He's right, the portal is collapsing in on itself. You got maybe two minutes before this goes critical. [Loki commands Barton]
 * Loki: Drop him. [Barton shoot at Fury who falls to the ground, Barton grabs the case containing the Tesseract and leaves the lab with Loki, Selvig and the other S.H.I.E.L.D personnel Loki is controlling] [Loki, Barton, Selvig and the other S.H.I.E.L.D personnel are in the parking lot of the facility]
 * Clint Barton: Need these vehicles.
 * Agent Maria Hill: [referring to Loki] Who's that?
 * Clint Barton: He didn't tell me. [Hill looks suspiciously at them as they get into the truck and turns to leave, as she's walking away Fury shouts through the walkie talkie]
 * Nick Fury: Hill, do you copy? Barton is... [suddenly Hill turns to shoot at Barton but Barton is already pointing his gun at her and starts shooting, he moves the drivers seat of the truck and drives off as Hill keeps shooting] He's got the Tesseract! Track it down! [Hill gets into a truck and follows after Barton's truck] [after the research facility has collapsed, Fury and Hill try to chase after Loki but fail to catch him escaping with the briefcase containing the Tesseract; talking through their walkie talkie's]
 * Agent Phil Coulson: Director? Director Fury, do you copy?
 * Nick Fury: The Tesseract is with the hostile force. I have men down. Hill?
 * Agent Maria Hill: A lot of men still under, don't know how many survivors.
 * Nick Fury: Sound the general call, I want every living soul not needing rescue looking for that briefcase.
 * Agent Maria Hill: Roger that.
 * Nick Fury: Coulson, get back to base. This is a level seven. As of right now, we are at war.
 * Agent Phil Coulson: What do we do? [Coulson calls as Natasha's being interrogated by Luchkov and his thugs] Put the woman on the phone, or I will blow up the block before you can make the lobby. [Luchkov places the cell phone against Natasha's ear as she's tied to a chair with her hands tied behind her back] We need you to come in.
 * Natasha Romanoff: Are you kidding? I'm working!
 * Agent Phil Coulson: This takes precedence.
 * Natasha Romanoff: I'm in the middle of an interrogation and this moron is giving me everything.
 * Georgi Luchkov: I don't give everything. [Natasha gives him a look]
 * Natasha Romanoff: Look, you can't pull me out of this right now.
 * Agent Phil Coulson: Natasha, Barton's been compromised.
 * Natasha Romanoff: Let me put you on hold. [as Luchkov comes to take the phone off her she hits him with her leg and starts attacking the other thugs, she frees herself from the chair, knocks everyone out, picks up the phone as Coulson is still waiting on the line] Where's Barton now?
 * Agent Phil Coulson: We don't know.
 * Natasha Romanoff: But he's alive.
 * Agent Phil Coulson: We think so. I'll brief you on everything when you get back. But first, we need you to talk to the big guy.
 * Natasha Romanoff: Coulson, you know that Stark trusts me about as far as he can throw me.
 * Agent Phil Coulson: No, I've got Stark. You get the big guy. [in India, after getting lured in by a little girl to a remote location help her sick father and sees that the little girl running away as soon as she's brought him to an isolated building]
 * Bruce Banner: Should have got paid up front, Banner. [Natasha comes up behind him]
 * Natasha Romanoff: You know, for a man who's supposed to be avoiding stress, you picked a hell of a place to settle.
 * Bruce Banner: Avoiding stress isn't the secret.
 * Natasha Romanoff: Then what is it? Yoga?
 * Bruce Banner: You brought me to the edge of the city, smart. I uh...assume the whole place is surrounded?
 * Natasha Romanoff: Just you and me.
 * Bruce Banner: And your actress buddy, is she a spy too? Do they start that young?
 * Natasha Romanoff: I did.
 * Bruce Banner: Who are you?
 * Natasha Romanoff: Natasha Romanoff.
 * Bruce Banner: Are you here to kill me, Miss Romanoff? Because that's not gonna work out for everyone.
 * Natasha Romanoff: No. No. Of course not. I'm here on behalf of SHIELD.
 * Bruce Banner: SHIELD. How did they find me?
 * Natasha Romanoff: We never lost you, doctor. We've kept our distance, even helped keep some other interested parties off your scent.
 * Bruce Banner: Why?
 * Natasha Romanoff: Nick Fury seems to trust you. But now I need you to come in.
 * Bruce Banner: What if I say no?
 * Natasha Romanoff: I'll persuade you.
 * Bruce Banner: And what if the...other guy says no?
 * Natasha Romanoff: You've been more than a year without an incident. I don't think you wanna break that streak.
 * Bruce Banner: I don't get every time what I want.
 * Natasha Romanoff: Doctor, we're facing a potential global catastrophe.
 * Bruce Banner: Well, those I actively try to avoid.
 * Natasha Romanoff: This is the Tesseract. [she shows him a photo of the Tesseract on her cell phone] It has the potential energy to wipe out the planet.
 * Bruce Banner: What does Fury want me to do? Swallow it?
 * Natasha Romanoff: Well, he wants you to find it. It's been taken. It omits a gamma signature that's too weak for us to trace. There's no one that knows gamma radiation like you do. If there was, that's where I'd be.
 * Bruce Banner: So Fury isn't after the monster?
 * Natasha Romanoff: Not that he's told me.
 * Bruce Banner: And he tells you everything?
 * Natasha Romanoff: Talk to Fury, he needs you on this.
 * Bruce Banner: He needs me in a cage?
 * Natasha Romanoff: No one's gonna put you in a... [suddenly Banner gets angry and snaps]
 * Bruce Banner: Stop lying to me! [Natasha quickly grab her gun and points it at Banner] I'm sorry, that was mean. I just wanted to see what you'd do. Why don't we do this the easy way, where you don't use that, and the other guy doesn't make a mess? Okay? [Natasha, still wary, doesn't lower her gun] Natasha. [she lowers her gun and speaks into her earpiece to the SHIELD agents who are surrounding the building outside]
 * Natasha Romanoff: Stand down. We're good here. [Banner looks at Natasha in amusement]
 * Bruce Banner: Just you and me? [Fury is facing several large monitors as he as a conference with the world security council]
 * World Security Council #1: This is out of line, Director. You're dealing with forces you can't control.
 * Nick Fury: You ever been in a war, Councilman? In a firefight? Did you feel an over abundance of control?
 * World Security Council #1: You saying that this Asgard has declared war on our planet?
 * Nick Fury: Not Asgard. Loki.
 * World Security Council #2: He can't be working alone. What about the other one? His brother.
 * Nick Fury: Our intelligence says, Thor is not a hostile. But he's worlds away, we can't depend on him to help either. It's up to us.
 * World Security Council #1: Which is why you should be focusing on phase 2, it was designed for exactly...
 * Nick Fury: Phase 2 isn't ready, our enemy is. We need a response team.
 * World Security Council #1: The Avengers Initiative was shut down.
 * Nick Fury: This isn't about The Avengers.
 * World Security Council #1: We're running the world's greatest covert security network and you're gonna leave the fate of human race to a handful of freaks.
 * Nick Fury: I'm not leaving anything to anyone. We need a response team. These people may be isolated, unbalanced even, but I believe with the right push they can be exactly what we need.
 * World Security Council #2: You believe?
 * World Security Council #1: War isn't won by sentiment, Director.
 * Nick Fury: No, it's won by soldiers. [Steve is pummeling a punching bag in a gym, as he remembers how he ended up getting frozen in the ocean, he becomes angry and knocks the punching bag off it's chain, as he picks up another, Fury walks in]
 * Nick Fury: Trouble sleeping?
 * Steve Rogers: I slept for seventy years, sir. I think I've had my fill.
 * Nick Fury: Then you should be out, celebrating, seeing the world.
 * Steve Rogers: I went under, the world was at war, I wake up, they say we won. They didn't say what we lost.
 * Nick Fury: We've made some mistakes along the way. Some very recently.
 * Steve Rogers: You here with a mission, sir?
 * Nick Fury: I am.
 * Steve Rogers: Trying to get me back in the world?
 * Nick Fury: Trying to save it. [Fury gives Steve the file on Tesseract to look at]
 * Steve Rogers: Hydra's secret weapon.
 * Nick Fury: Howard Stark fished that out of the ocean when he was looking for you. He thought what we think, the Tesseract could be the key to unlimited sustainable energy. That's something the world sorely needs.
 * Steve Rogers: Who took it from you?
 * Nick Fury: He's called Loki. He's not from around here. There's a lot we'll have to bring you up to speed on if you're in. The world has gotten even stranger than you already know.
 * Steve Rogers: At this point, I doubt anything would surprise me.
 * Nick Fury: Ten bucks says you're wrong. [Steve turns and picks up a punching bag] There's a debriefing package waiting for you back at your apartment. [with the punching bag on his shoulder, Steve starts walking out of the gym] Is there anything you can tell us about the Tesseract that we ought to know now?
 * Steve Rogers: You should have left it in the ocean. [Stark in his Iron Man suit is working on getting his energy line to work]
 * Tony Stark: You're good to go on this end. The rest is up to you.
 * Pepper Potts: You disconnected the transition lines? Are we off the grid?
 * Tony Stark: Stark Towers is about to become a beacon of of self sustaining clean energy.
 * Pepper Potts: Wow, so maybe our reactor takes over and it actually works?
 * Tony Stark: I assume. Light her up. [as Stark is flying in his suit, we see a large skyscraper building with the name STARK lit up in lights]
 * Pepper Potts: How does it look?
 * Tony Stark: Like Christmas, but with more...me.
 * Pepper Potts: Gotta go wider on the public awareness campaign. You need to do some press. I can do some more tomorrow, I'm working on the zoning for the next billboards.
 * Tony Stark: Pepper, you're killing me. Remember? Enjoy the moment. [as Stark arrives at his skyscraper penthouse and is in the process of taking off his Iron Man suit]
 * Jarvis: Sir, Agent Coulson of SHIELD is on the line.
 * Tony Stark: I'm not in. I'm actually out.
 * Jarvis: Sir, I'm afraid he's insisting.
 * Tony Stark: Close the line Jarvis. I got a date.
 * Pepper Potts: Levels are holding steady...I think.
 * Tony Stark: Of course they are, I was directly involved. Which brings me to my next question. How does it feel to be a genius?
 * Pepper Potts: Well, ha, I really wouldn't know now, would I?
 * Tony Stark: What do you mean? All this, came from you.
 * Pepper Potts: No. All this, came from that. [she points to the energy in his chest plate]
 * Tony Stark: Give yourself some credit, please. Stark Tower is your baby. Give yourself... twelve percent of the credit.
 * Pepper Potts: Twelve percent?
 * Tony Stark: An argument can be made for fifteen.
 * Pepper Potts: Twelve percent for my baby?
 * Tony Stark: Well, I did do all the heavy lifting. Literally, I lifted the heavy things. And sorry, but the security snafu? That was on you.
 * Pepper Potts: Oooooh!
 * Tony Stark: My private elevator.
 * Pepper Potts: You mean our elevator?
 * Tony Stark: It was teeming with sweaty workmen. I'm going to pay for that comment about percentages in some subtle way later on, aren't I?
 * Pepper Potts: Not gonna be that subtle.
 * Tony Stark: I'll tell you what. Next building is gonna say 'Potts' on the tower.
 * Pepper Potts: On the lease.
 * Tony Stark: Call your mom, can you bunk over? [as Stark and Pepper are celebrating the lighting up of Stark's Tower]
 * Jarvis: Sir, the telephone. I'm afraid my protocol's are being overwritten. [Coulson's voice can be heard through Stark's phone]
 * Agent Phil Coulson: Stark, we need to talk. [Stark picks up his phone and looks into it at Coulson]
 * Tony Stark: You have reached the life model decoy of Tony Stark, please leave a message.
 * Agent Phil Coulson: This is urgent.
 * Tony Stark: Then leave it urgently. [at that moment the elevator door opens and Coulson appears] Security breach. [to Pepper] That's on you.
 * Agent Phil Coulson: Mr. Stark.
 * Pepper Potts: Phil! Come in.
 * Tony Stark: Phil?
 * Agent Phil Coulson: I can't stay.
 * Tony Stark: Uh...his first name is Agent.
 * Pepper Potts: [to Coulson] Come on in, we're celebrating.
 * Pepper Potts: Come on in, we're celebrating.
 * Tony Stark: Which is why he can't stay.
 * Agent Phil Coulson: We need you to look this over. [he holds out a file towards Stark] Soon as possible.
 * Tony Stark: I don't like being handed things.
 * Pepper Potts: That's alright, cause I love to be handed things. So, let's trade. [she passes her glass of champagne to Coulson and takes the file from him, then takes her champagne glass back from Coulson and passes the file over to Stark] Thank you.
 * Tony Stark: Official consulting hours are between eight and five every other Thursday.
 * Agent Phil Coulson: This isn't a consultation.
 * Pepper Potts: Is this about The Avengers? Which I...I know nothing about.
 * Tony Stark: The Avengers Initiative was scrapped, I thought. And I didn't even qualify.
 * Pepper Potts: I didn't know that either.
 * Tony Stark: Yeah, apparently I'm volatile, self obsessed, don't play well with others.
 * Pepper Potts: That I did know.
 * Agent Phil Coulson: This isn't about personality profiles anymore.
 * Tony Stark: Whatever. Miss Potts, got a minute? You know, I thought we were having a moment.
 * Pepper Potts: I was having twelve percent of a moment. This seems serious, Phil's pretty shaken.
 * Tony Stark: How did you notice? Why is he Phil? [referring to the file Coulson had given to Stark]
 * Pepper Potts: What is all this?
 * Tony Stark: This is uh... [with a flick of his hand he spreads all the profiles of the other Avengers on to the different computer screens] This. [Pepper looks at all their profiles in awe]
 * Pepper Potts: I'm going to take the jet to D.C. tonight.
 * Tony Stark: Tomorrow.
 * Pepper Potts: You have homework. You have a lot of homework.
 * Tony Stark: Well, what if I didn't?
 * Pepper Potts: If you didn't?
 * Tony Stark: Yeah.
 * Pepper Potts: You mean if you finished? [Stark nods his head] Well, um...then [she whispers something in his ear and Coulson looks away in embarrassment]
 * Tony Stark: Square deal. It's the last date. [Pepper kisses him]
 * Pepper Potts: Work hard. [looking at the Banner's file]
 * Steve Rogers: So this Dr. Banner was trying to replicate the serum that was used on me?
 * Agent Phil Coulson: A lot of people were. You were the world's first superhero. Banner thought gammer radiation might hold the key to unlocking Erskine's original formula.
 * Steve Rogers: Didn't really go his way, did it?
 * Agent Phil Coulson: Not so much. When he's got that thing though, guy's like a Stephen Hawking. [Steve looks at Coulson in confusion] He's like a smart person. I gotta say, it's an honor to meet you, officially. I sort of met you, I mean, I watched you while you were sleeping. [Steve looks at Coulson in amusement] I mean, I was...I was present while you were unconscious from the ice. You know, it's really, it's just a...just a huge honor to have you on board.
 * Steve Rogers: Well, I hope I'm the man for the job.
 * Agent Phil Coulson: Oh, you are. Absolutely. Uh...we've made some modifications to the uniform. I had a little design input.
 * Steve Rogers: The uniform? Aren't the stars and stripes a little...old fashioned?
 * Agent Phil Coulson: Everything that's happening, the things that are about to come to light, people might just need a little old fashioned.
 * The Other: The Chitauri grow restless.
 * Loki: Let them grow restless. I will lead them in the glorious battle.
 * The Other: Battle? Against a meagre might of earth?
 * Loki: Glorious, not lengthy. If your force is as formidable as you claim.
 * The Other: You question us? Question him? He who put the scepter in your hand? Who gave you ancient knowledge and new purpose? When you were cast out, defeated!
 * Loki: I was a king! The rightful king of Asgard. Betrayed.
 * The Other: Your ambition is little and full of childish need. We're beyond the earth to greater worlds. The Tesseract will avail.
 * Loki: You don't have the Tesseract yet. [suddenly The Other moves towards Loki] I don't threaten. But until I open the doors, until your force is mine to command, you are but words.
 * The Other: If you fail, if the Tesseract is kept from us, there will be no realm, no barren moon, no crevasse where I can't find you. You think you know pain? He will make you long for that so sweet as pain. [after Coulson brings Steve to the Helicarrier, which is a high-tech, flying aircraft carrier]
 * Natasha Romanoff: There was quite the buzz around here, finding you in the ice. I thought Coulson was gonna swoon. Did he ask you to sign his Captain America trading cards yet?
 * Steve Rogers: Trading cards?
 * Natasha Romanoff: They're vintage, he's very proud.
 * Steve Rogers: Dr. Banner. [Banner shakes hands with Steve]
 * Bruce Banner: Oh, yeah. Hi. They told me you'd be coming.
 * Steve Rogers: Word is you can find the cube.
 * Bruce Banner: Is that the only word on me?
 * Steve Rogers: Only word I care about.
 * Bruce Banner: Must be strange for you, all of this.
 * Steve Rogers: Well, this is actually kind of familiar.
 * Natasha Romanoff: Gentlemen, you may wanna step inside in a minute. It's gonna get a little hard to breath. [suddenly the Helicarrier starts shaking as it prepares to fly]
 * Steve Rogers: Is this is a submarine?
 * Bruce Banner: Really? They wanted me in a submerged pressurized metal container? [they both move closer to the edge of the Helicarrier and watch in awe as it starts to lift into the air] Oh, no. This is much worse.
 * Nick Fury: [to Steve and Banner after they watch in awe as the Helicarrier takes off and off] Gentlemen. [Steve gives Fury 10 bucks, referring to his earlier statement about never being surprised again] Doctor, thank you for coming.
 * Bruce Banner: Thanks for asking nicely. So, uh...how long am I staying?
 * Nick Fury: Once we get our hands on the Tesseract, you're in the clear.
 * Bruce Banner: Where are you with that? [Fury points to Coulson to explain]
 * Agent Phil Coulson: We're sweeping every wirelessly accessible camera on the planet. Cell phones, laptops. If it's connected to a satellite, it's eyes and ears for us.
 * Natasha Romanoff: That's still not gonna find them in time.
 * Bruce Banner: You have to narrow the field. How many spectrometers do you have access to?
 * Nick Fury: How many are there?
 * Bruce Banner: Call every lab you know, tell them to put the spectrometers on the roof and calibrate them for gamma rays. I'll rough out a tracking algorithm based on cluster recognition. At least we could rule out a few places. Do you have somewhere for me to work?
 * Nick Fury: Agent Romanoff, would you show Dr. Banner to his laboratory, please.
 * Natasha Romanoff: You're gonna love it, Doc. We got all the toys. [still under Loki's mind control, Selvig and Barton are working on the Tesseract in some remote laboratory]
 * Selvig: Where did you find all these people?
 * Clint Barton: SHIELD has not shortage of enemies, Doctor. [he holds up a screen showing information in Iridium] Is this the stuff you need?
 * Selvig: Yeah, Iridium. It's found in meteorites, it forms anti-protons. It's very hard to get hold of.
 * Clint Barton: Specially if SHIELD knows you need it.
 * Selvig: Well, I didn't know! The Tesseract is showing me so much. It's...it's more than knowledge, it's truth.
 * Loki: I know. What did it show you, Agent Barton?
 * Clint Barton: My next target.
 * Loki: Tell me what you need. [Barton gets his bow]
 * Clint Barton: I need a distraction. And an eyeball. [as they are waiting to locate Loki using satellite facial recognition]
 * Agent Phil Coulson: I mean, if it's not too much trouble.
 * Steve Rogers: No, no. It's fine.
 * Agent Phil Coulson: It's a vintage set. It took me a couple of years to collect them all. Near mint, slight foxing around the edges, but...
 * Agent Jasper Sitwell: We got a hit. Sixty seven percent match. Weight, cross match, seventy nine percent.
 * Agent Phil Coulson: Location?
 * Agent Jasper Sitwell: Stuttgart, Germany. 28, Konigstrasse. He's not exactly hiding.
 * Nick Fury: Captain, you're up. [after Loki and Barton break into the gala and steal some iridium, Loki then dons his gold armor and helmet and addresses at the frightened crowd]
 * Loki: Kneel before me. [the crowd ignores him and are running around] I said. Kneel! [everyone becomes quite and kneels before him] Is not this simpler? Is this not your natural state? It's the unspoken truth of humanity, that you crave subjugation. The bright lure of freedom diminishes your life's joy in a mad scramble for power, for identity. You were made to be ruled. In the end, you will always kneel. [the crowd appears terrified by his ability to appear and disappear, but one old man refuses to kneel and rises]
 * German Old Man: Not to men like you.
 * Loki: There are no men like me.
 * German Old Man: There are always men like you.
 * Loki: Look to your elder, people. Let him be an example. [Loki is about to execute him with his scepter when Steve intervenes, in full Captain America uniform]
 * Steve Rogers: You know, the last time I was in Germany and saw a man standing above everybody else, we ended up disagreeing.
 * Loki: The soldier. A man out of time.
 * Steve Rogers: I'm not the one who's out of time. [suddenly Natasha appears in one of SHIELDS aircrafts and points a machine gun towards him]
 * Natasha Romanoff: Loki, drop the weapon and stand down. [suddenly Loki attacks Steve and blasts him with his scepter and knocks him down]
 * Loki: Kneel!
 * Steve Rogers: Not today! [Steve flips and knocks him out with his leg] [to herself as she's watching Steve and Loki fight from her aircraft]
 * Natasha Romanoff: The guy's all over the place. [suddenly she hears Stark's voice]
 * Tony Stark: Agent Romanoff, did you miss me? [Tony Stark flies over in his Iron Man suit and blasts Loki right back] Make your move, Reindeer Games. [Loki puts up his hands and surrenders] Good move.
 * Steve Rogers: Mr. Stark.
 * Tony Stark: Captain. [Stark, Steve and Natasha are taking Loki, who's sitting subdued, back to the Helicarrier in the jet]
 * Steve Rogers: I don't like it.
 * Tony Stark: What? Rock of Ages giving up so easily?
 * Steve Rogers: I don't remember it being that easy. This guy packs a wallop.
 * Tony Stark: Still, you were pretty spry, for an older fellow. What's your thing? Pilates?
 * Steve Rogers: What?
 * Tony Stark: It's like calisthenics. You might have missed a couple things, you know, doing time as a Capsicle.
 * Steve Rogers: Fury didn't tell me he was calling you in.
 * Tony Stark: Yeah, there's a lot of things Fury doesn't tell you. [as thunder and lightning starts to shake the jet]
 * Natasha Romanoff: Where's this coming from? [Steve looks over at Loki who looks worried]
 * Steve Rogers: What's the matter? Scared of a little lightning?
 * Loki: I'm not overly fond of what follows. [suddenly Thor lands in the jet, smashes into the jet and steals Loki]
 * Tony Stark: Now there's that guy.
 * Natasha Romanoff: Another Asgardian?
 * Steve Rogers: Think the guy's a friendly?
 * Tony Stark: Doesn't matter. If he frees Loki or kills him, the Tesseract's lost. [Stark turns and gets ready to jump off the jet to chase after Thor]
 * Natasha Romanoff: I'd sit this one out, Cap.
 * Steve Rogers: I don't see how I can.
 * Natasha Romanoff: These guys come from legends, they're basically Gods.
 * Steve Rogers: There's only one God, ma'am. And I'm pretty sure he doesn't dress like that. [Steve jumps out of the jet to follow Stark chase after Thor and Loki] [as Thor lands on the ground with Loki]
 * Thor: Where's the Tesseract?
 * Loki: I missed you too.
 * Thor: Do I look to be in a gaming mood?
 * Loki: Oh, you should thank me. With the Bifrost gone, how much dark energy did the All-Father have to muster to conjure you here? Your precious earth. [Thor drops his hammer and grabs hold of Loki]
 * Thor: I though you dead.
 * Loki: Did you mourn?
 * Thor: We all did. Our father...
 * Loki: Your father. He did tell you my true parentage, did he not?
 * Thor: We were raised together. We played together, we fought together. Do you remember none of that?
 * Loki: I remember a shadow, living in the shade of your greatness. I remember you tossing me into an abyss. I who was and should be king!
 * Thor: So you take the world I love as recompense for your imagined slights? No, the earth is under my protection, Loki. [Loki laughs]
 * Loki: And you're doing a marvelous job with that. The humans slaughter each other in droves, while you ideally threat. I mean to rule them. That's why should I not...
 * Thor: Think yourself above them.
 * Loki: Well, yes.
 * Thor: Then you miss the truth of ruling, brother. A throne would suit you ill.
 * Loki: I've seen worlds you've never known about. I have grown, Odin's son, in my exile. I have seen the true power of the Tesseract. And when I wield it...
 * Thor: Who showed you this power? Who controls the would be king?
 * Loki: I am a king!
 * Thor: Not here! You give up the Tesseract! You give up this poisonous dream! You come home.
 * Loki: I don't have it. [angry at Loki's answer, Thor summons his hammer] You need the cube to bring me home, but I've sent it off. I know not where.
 * Thor: You listen well, brother. [suddenly Stark slams into Thor and takes him off leaving Loki standing alone]
 * Loki: I'm listening! [after Stark has taken Thor they land in the middle of the woods]
 * Thor: Do not touch me again.
 * Tony Stark: Then don't take my stuff.
 * Thor: You have no idea what you're dealing with. [making fun of Thor]
 * Tony Stark: Uh...Shakespeare in the park? Doth mother know you weareth her drapes?
 * Thor: This is beyond you, metal man. Loki will face Asgardian justice.
 * Tony Stark: He gives up the cube and he's all yours. Until then, stay out of the way. Tourist! [suddenly Thor throws his hammer at Stark knocking him down and they start fighting each other] [Stark and Thor are battling it out in the woods when suddenly Steve interrupts them]
 * Steve Rogers: Hey! That's enough! [to Thor] Now, I don't know what you plan on doing here.
 * Thor: I've come here to put and end to Loki's schemes!
 * Steve Rogers: Then prove it. Put that hammer down.
 * Tony Stark: Uh...yep! No! Bad call! He loves his hammer! [suddenly Thor hits Stark aside with his hammer, knocking him out]
 * Thor: You want me to put the hammer down? [Thor tries to strike Steve with his hammer but Steve uses his shield to protect himself and Thor gets knocked down; finally Stark, Steve and Thor pick themselves up of the ground and face each other]
 * Steve Rogers: Are we done here? [after Loki is brought to the Helicarrier, he is contained in a glass cell]
 * Nick Fury: In case it's unclear, you try to escape, you so much as scratch that glass. [Fury presses a button which opens up a huge whole in the middle of Loki's cell] Thirty thousand feet, straight down in a steel trap. You get how that works? [Fury points at Loki] Ant. [then he points at the button which would drop Loki into the steel trap] Boot. [Loki laughs]
 * Loki: It's an impressive cage. Not built, I think, for me.
 * Nick Fury: Built for something a lot stronger than you.
 * Loki: Oh, I've heard. [Loki looks into the camera through which Banner and the others are watching the interrogation on the monitor] The mindless beast, makes play to be the man. [the others watch on the monitor Loki getting interrogated] How desperate are you? You call on these lost creatures to defend you.
 * Nick Fury: How desperate am I? You threaten my world with war. You steal a force you can't hope to control. You talk about peace and you kill cause it's fun. You have made me very desperate. You might not be glad that you did.
 * Loki: Ooh. It burns you to come so close. To have the Tesseract, to have power, unlimited power. And for what? A warm light for all mankind to share, and then to be reminded what real power is.
 * Nick Fury: Yeah, well, you let me know if Real Power wants a magazine or something. [Fury walks off leaving Loki in his glass cell] [after watching Loki getting interrogated by Fury]
 * Bruce Banner: He really grows on you, doesn't he?
 * Steve Rogers: Loki's gonna drag this out. So, Thor, what's his play?
 * Thor: He has an army called the Chitauri, that none of Asgard nor any world know. He means to lead them against your people. They will win him the earth. Return, I suspect, for the Tesseract.
 * Steve Rogers: An army, from outer space.
 * Bruce Banner: So he's building another portal. That's what he needs Erik Selvig for.
 * Thor: Selvig?
 * Bruce Banner: He's an astrophysicist.
 * Thor: He's a friend.
 * Natasha Romanoff: Loki has him under some kind of spell, along with one of ours.
 * Steve Rogers: I wanna know why Loki let us take him. He's not leading an army from here.
 * Bruce Banner: I don't think we should be focusing on Loki. That guy's brain is a bag full of cats, you could smell crazy on him.
 * Thor: I don't care how you speak. Loki is beyond reason, but he is of Asgard, and he's my brother.
 * Natasha Romanoff: He killed eighty people in two days.
 * Thor: He's adopted.
 * Bruce Banner: Iridium, what did they need the Iridium for? [Stark walks in with Coulson where everyone is gathered discussing Loki]
 * Tony Stark: It's a stabilizing agent. [Stark says something quietly to Coulson] Means the portal won't collapse on itself, like it did at SHIELD. [to Thor] No hard feelings Point Break, you've got a mean swing. [referring to the Iridium] Also, it means the portal can open as wide, and stay open as long, as Loki wants. [after asking one of the Carrier BridgeTechs to raise the monitors] That man is playing gallaga! [Steve looks at Stark in confusion] Thought we wouldn't notice, but we did. [Stark looks at one of the computer monitors in front of him and covers one eye] How does Fury even see these?
 * Agent Maria Hill: He turns.
 * Tony Stark: Sounds exhausting. The rest of the raw materials, Agent Barton can get his hands on pretty easily. Only major component he still needs is a power source. A high energy density, something to kick start the cube.
 * Agent Maria Hill: When did you become an expert in thermonuclear astrophysics?
 * Tony Stark: Last night. The packet, Selvig's notes, the Extraction Theory papers. Am I the only one who did the reading?
 * 'Steve Rogers: Does Loki need any particular kind of power source?
 * Bruce Banner: He got to heat the cube to a hundred and twenty million Kelvin just to break through the Coulomb barrier.
 * Tony Stark: Unless, Selvig has figured out how to stabilize the quantum tunnelling effect.
 * Bruce Banner: Well, if he could do that he could achieve Heavy Ion Fusion at any reactor on the planet.
 * Tony Stark: Finally, someone who speaks English.
 * Steve Rogers: Is that what just happened?
 * Tony Stark: It's good to meet you, Dr. Banner. You're work on anti-electron collisions is unparalleled. And I'm a huge fan of the way you lose control and turn into an enormous green rage monster.
 * Bruce Banner: Thanks.
 * Nick Fury: Dr. Banner is only here to track the cube. I was hoping you might join him.
 * Steve Rogers: Let's start with that stick of his. It may be magical, but it works an awful lot like a Hydra weapon.
 * Nick Fury: I don't know about that, but it is powered by the cube. And I'd like to know how Loki used it to turn two of the sharpest men I know into his personal flying monkeys.
 * Thor: Monkeys? I do not understand.
 * Steve Rogers: I do! I understood that reference.
 * Bruce Banner: The gamma readings are definitely consistent with Selvig's reports on the Tesseract. But it's gonna take weeks to process.
 * Tony Stark: If we bypass their mainframe and direct a reroute to the Homer cluster, we can clock this around six hundred teraflops.
 * Bruce Banner: All I packed was a tooth brush.
 * Tony Stark: You know, you should come by Stark Towers sometime. Top ten floors, all R and D. You'd love it, it's candy land.
 * Bruce Banner: Thanks, but the last time I was in New York I kind of broke...Harlem.
 * Tony Stark: Well, I promise a stress free environment. No tension. No surprises. [suddenly he pokes Banner with an electrical shock device]
 * Bruce Banner: Ow! [Stark looks at Banner closely]
 * Tony Stark: Nothing? [Steve walks in on them]
 * Steve Rogers: Hey! Are you nuts? [to Banner]
 * Tony Stark: You really have got a lid on it, haven't you? What's your secret? Mellow jazz? Bongo drums? Huge bag of weed?
 * Steve Rogers: Is everything a joke to you?
 * Tony Stark: Funny things are.
 * Steve Rogers: Threatening the safety of everyone on this ship isn't funny. No offense, doctor.
 * Bruce Banner: No, it..it's alright. I wouldn't have come aboard if I couldn't handle pointy things.
 * Tony Stark: You're tiptoeing, big man. You need to strut.
 * Steve Rogers: And you need to focus on the problem, Mr. Stark.
 * Tony Stark: You think I'm not? Why did Fury call us and why now? Why not before? What isn't he telling us. I can't do the equation unless I have all the variables.
 * Steve Rogers: You think Fury's hiding something?
 * Tony Stark: He's a spy. Captain, he's the spy. His secrets have secrets. [points to Banner] It's bugging him too, isn't it?
 * Bruce Banner: Uh...I just wanna finish my work here and...
 * Steve Rogers: Doctor?
 * Bruce Banner: 'A warm light for all mankind to share', Loki's jab at Fury about the cube.
 * Steve Rogers: I heard it. [pointing at Stark]
 * Bruce Banner: Well, I think that was meant for you. Even if Barton didn't post that all over the news.
 * Steve Rogers: The Stark Tower? That big ugly...building in New York? [Stark gives him a look] [referring to Stark]
 * Bruce Banner: So why didn't SHIELD bring him in on the Tesseract project? I mean, What are they doing in the energy business in the first place?
 * Tony Stark: I should probably look into that once my decryption programme finishes breaking into all of SHIELD's secure files.
 * Steve Rogers: I'm sorry, did you say...?
 * Tony Stark: Jarvis has been running it since I hit the bridge. In a few hours we'll know every dirty secret SHIELD has ever tried to hide. [points the bag of blueberry's in his hand towards Steve] Blueberry?
 * Steve Rogers: Yet you're confused about why they didn't want you around?
 * Tony Stark: An intelligence organization that fears intelligence? Historically not possible.
 * Steve Rogers: I think Loki's trying to wind us up. This is a man who means to start a war, and if don't stay focused, he'll succeed. We have orders, we should follow them.
 * Tony Stark: Following is not really my style.
 * Steve Rogers: And you're all about style, aren't you?
 * Tony Stark: Of the people in this room, which one is; a) wearing a spangly outfit, and b) not of use?
 * Bruce Banner: Steve, tell me none of this smells a little funky to you?
 * Steve Rogers: Just find the cube. [looking angry, Steve walks out of the lab] [referring to Steve]
 * Tony Stark: That's the guy my dad never shut up about? Wondering if they shouldn't have kept him on ice.
 * Bruce Banner: The guy's not wrong about Loki, he does have the jump on us.
 * Tony Stark: What he's got is an ACME dynamite kit. It's gonna blow up in his face, and I'm gonna be there when it does.
 * Bruce Banner: And I'll read all about it.
 * Tony Stark: Uh-huh. Or you'll be suiting up like the rest of us.
 * Bruce Banner: Ah, see. I don't get a suit of armor. I'm exposed, like a nerve. It's a nightmare.
 * Tony Stark: You know, I've got a cluster of shrapnel, trying every second to crawl its way into my heart. [pointing to the energy in his chest plate] This stops it. This little circle of light. It's part of me now, not just armor. It's a terrible privilege.
 * Bruce Banner: But you can control it.
 * Tony Stark: Because I learned how.
 * Bruce Banner: It's different.
 * Tony Stark: Hey, I've read all about your accident. That much gammer exposure should have killed you.
 * 'Bruce Banner: So you're saying that the Hulk, the other guy, saved my life? That's nice. It's a nice sentiment. Save it for what?
 * Tony Stark: I guess we'll find out.
 * Bruce Banner: You may not enjoy that.
 * Tony Stark: You just might.
 * Agent Phil Coulson: As soon as Loki took the doctor we moved Jane Foster. We've got an excellent observatory in Traunsee. She was asked to consult there very suddenly yesterday. Handsome fee, private plane, very remote. She'll be safe.
 * Thor: Thank you. It's no accident Loki taking Erik Selvig. I dread what he plans for him once he's done. Erik is a good man.
 * Agent Phil Coulson: He talks about you a lot. You changed his life. You changed everything around here.
 * Thor: They were better as they were. We pretend on Asgard that we're more advanced, but we...we come here battling like Bilchsteim.
 * Agent Phil Coulson: Like what?
 * Thor: Bilchsteim. You know; huge, scaly, big antlers. You don't have those?
 * Agent Phil Coulson: Don't think so.
 * Thor: They are repulsive, and they trample everything in their path.
 * Thor: When I first came to earth, Loki's rage followed me here and your people paid the price. And now again. In my youth I courted war.
 * Nick Fury: War hasn't started yet. You think you can make Loki tell us what the Tesseract is?
 * Thor: I do not know. Loki's mind is far afield, it's not just power he craves, it's vengeance upon me. There's no pain that would prise his need from him.
 * Nick Fury: A lot of guys think that, until the pain stops.
 * Thor: What are you asking me to do?
 * Nick Fury: I'm asking, what are you prepared to do?
 * Thor: Loki is a prisoner.
 * Nick Fury: Then why do I feel like he's the only person on this boat that wants to be here? [Natasha visits Loki in his cell]
 * Loki: There's not many people that can sneak up on me.
 * Natasha Romanoff: But you figured I'd come.
 * Loki: After. After whatever tortures Fury can concoct, you would appear as a friend, as a balm. And I would cooperate.
 * Natasha Romanoff: I wanna know what you've done to Agent Barton.
 * Loki: I'd say I've expanded his mind.
 * Natasha Romanoff: And once you've won. Once you're king of the mountain. What happens to his mind?
 * Loki: Is this love, Agent Romanoff?
 * Natasha Romanoff: Love is for children. I owe him a debt. [referring to Natasha's debt to Barton]
 * Loki: Tell me.
 * Natasha Romanoff: Before I worked for SHIELD, I uh...well, I made a name for myself. I have a very specific skillset. I didn't care who I used it for, or on. I got on SHIELD's radar in a bad way. Agent Barton was sent to kill me, he made a different call.
 * Loki: And what will you do if I vow to spare him?
 * Natasha Romanoff: Not let you out.
 * Loki: Ah, no. But I like this. Your world in the balance, and you bargain for one man?
 * Natasha Romanoff: Regime's fall everyday. I tend not to weep over that, I'm Russian, or I was.
 * Loki: And what are you now?
 * Natasha Romanoff: It's really not that complicated. I've got red in my ledger, I'd like to wipe it out.
 * Loki: Can you? Can you wipe out that much red? Drakoff's daughter? Sao Paulo? The hospital file? Barton told me everything. Your ledger is dripping, it's gushing red, and you think saving a man no more virtuous than yourself will change anything? This is the basest sentimentality. This is a child at prayer. Pathetic! You lie and kill in the service of liars and killers. You pretend to be separate, to have your own code, something that makes up for the horrors. But they are a part of you, and they will never go away. I won't barter Barton! Not until I make him kill you. Slowly, intimately, in every way he knows you fear. And then he'll wake just long enough to see his good work, and when he screams I'll split his skull! [Natasha turns away from Loki] This is my bargain, you mewling quim! [Natasha sounds like she's weeping]
 * Natasha Romanoff: You're a monster.
 * Loki: Oh, no. You brought the monster. [suddenly Natasha turns to face Loki again but with no evidence of tears]
 * Natasha Romanoff: So, Banner? That's your play?
 * Loki: What? [Natasha talks into her earpiece]
 * Natasha Romanoff: Loki means to unleash the Hulk. Keep Banner in the lab, I'm on my way. Set the door locked. [Natasha turns to Loki again] Thank you, for your cooperation. [she turns and walks off]
 * Nick Fury: What are you doing, Mr. Stark?
 * Tony Stark: Uh...kind of been wondering the same thing about you.
 * Nick Fury: You're supposed to be locating the Tesseract.
 * Bruce Banner: We are, the model's locked and we're sweeping for the signature now. When we get a hit, we'll have the location within half a mile.
 * Tony Stark: And you'll get your cube back, no muss, no fuss. What is Phase 2? [suddenly Steve appears with one of the weapons he's found on the ship]
 * Steve Rogers: Phase 2 is SHIELD used the cube to make weapons. [to Stark] Sorry, the computer was moving a little slow for me.
 * Nick Fury: Rogers, we gathered everything related to the Tesseract. This does not mean that we're...
 * Tony Stark: I'm sorry, Nick. [Stark moves the computer screen towards Fury which shows plans of the weapon] What were you lying?
 * Steve Rogers: I was wrong, Director. The world hasn't changed a bit. [Thor and Natasha walk into the lab as Steve, Stark and Banner are accusing Fury of lying to them]
 * Bruce Banner: Did you know about this?
 * Natasha Romanoff: You wanna think about removing yourself from this environment, doctor?
 * Bruce Banner: I was in Calcutta, I was pretty well removed.
 * Natasha Romanoff: Loki's manipulating you.
 * Bruce Banner: And you've been doing what exactly?
 * Natasha Romanoff: You didn't come here because I bat my eyelashes at you.
 * Bruce Banner: Yes, and I'm not leaving because suddenly you get a little twitchy. I'd like to know why SHIELD is using the Tesseract to build weapons of mass destruction.
 * Nick Fury: Because of him. [pointing at Thor]
 * Thor: Me?
 * Nick Fury: Last year earth had a visitor from another planet who had a grudge mass that levelled a small town. We learned that not only are we not alone, but we are hopelessly, hilariously, out gunned.
 * Thor: My people want nothing but peace with your planet.
 * Nick Fury: But you're not the only people out there, are you? And, you're not the only threat. The world's filling up with people who can't be matched, they can't be controlled.
 * Steve Rogers: Like you controlled the cube?
 * Thor: You're work with the Tesseract is what drew Loki to it, and his allies. It is the signal to all the realms that the earth is ready for a higher form of war.
 * Steve Rogers: A higher form?
 * Nick Fury: You forced our hand. We had to come up with something.
 * Tony Stark: A nuclear deterrent, cause that always calms everything right down.
 * Nick Fury: Remind me again how you made your fortune, Stark?
 * Steve Rogers: I'm sure if he still made weapons, Stark would be neck deep...
 * Tony Stark: Wait! Wait! Hold on! How is this now about me?
 * Steve Rogers: I'm sorry, isn't everything?
 * Thor: I thought humans were more evolved than this.
 * Nick Fury: Excuse me, did we come to your planet and blow stuff up? [suddenly they all start talking over each other and arguing]
 * Thor: You speak of control, yet you court chaos.
 * Bruce Banner: It's his M.O., isn't it? I mean, what are we, a team? No, no, no. We're a chemical mixture that makes chaos. We're...we're a time-bomb.
 * Nick Fury: You need to step away.
 * Tony Stark: Why shouldn't they guy let off a little steam?
 * Steve Rogers: You know damn well why! Back off!
 * Tony Stark: Oh, I'm starting to want you to make me.
 * Steve Rogers: Yeah, big man in a suit of armor. Take that off, what are you?
 * Tony Stark: Genius, billionaire, playboy, philanthropist.
 * Steve Rogers: I know guys with none of that worth ten of you. I've seen the footage. The only thing you really fight for is yourself. You're not the guy to make the sacrifice play, to lay down on a wire and let the other guy crawl over you.
 * Tony Stark: I think I would just cut the wire.
 * Steve Rogers: Always a way out. You know, you may not be a threat, but you better stop pretending to be a hero.
 * Tony Stark: A hero, like you? You're a laboratory experiment, Rogers. Everything special about you came out of a bottle. [while everyone is arguing in the lab, Barton is sneaking up on the ship with a group of soldiers]
 * Steve Rogers: Put on the suite, let's go a few rounds. [Thor laughs at them]
 * Thor: You people are so petty, and tiny.
 * Bruce Banner: Yeah, this is a tee...
 * Nick Fury: Agent Romanoff, would you escort Dr. Banner back to his...
 * Bruce Banner: Where? You're renting my room.
 * Nick Fury: The cell was just...
 * Bruce Banner: In case you needed to kill me, but you can't! I know, I tried. I got low, I didn't see an end, so I put a bullet in my mouth and the other guy spit it out. So I moved on, I focused on helping other people. I was good until you dragged me back into this freak show and put everyone here at risk. You wanna know my secret, Agent Romanoff? You wanna know how I stay calm? [everyone is now looking at Banner with suspicion, Fury unhooks his gun]
 * Steve Rogers: Dr. Banner, put down the scepter. [at that same moment the computer shows a signal for locating the Tesseract] [Banner puts down the scepter. and walks towards the computer monitor]
 * Bruce Banner: Sorry, kids. You don't get to see my party trick after all.
 * Thor: Located the Tesseract?
 * Tony Stark: I can get there faster.
 * Steve Rogers: Look, all of us...
 * Thor: The Tesseract belongs on Asgard, no human is a match for it. [Stark turns to leave but Steve stops him]
 * Bruce Banner: Sorry, kids. You don't get to see my party trick after all.
 * Thor: Located the Tesseract?
 * Tony Stark: I can get there faster.
 * Steve Rogers: Look, all of us...
 * Thor: The Tesseract belongs on Asgard, no human is a match for it. [Stark turns to leave but Steve stops him]
 * Steve Rogers: You're not going alone!
 * Tony Stark: You gonna stop me?
 * Steve Rogers: Put on the suit, let's find out.
 * Tony Stark: I'm not afraid to hit an old man.
 * Steve Rogers: Put on the suit [at that moment Banner who's looking at the monitor notices something about the Tesseract]
 * Bruce Banner: Oh, my God! [Barton shoots an explosive arrow at the ship blowing up one of the engines, everyone is thrown in every direction]
 * Steve Rogers: Put on the suit!
 * Tony Stark: Yep! [Steve helps Stark up and out of the lab] [after the blast from the bomb, Natasha is trapped under a pile of rubble and next to her is Banner who is struggling with morphing into the Hulk]
 * Natasha Romanoff: Doctor? Bruce, you gotta fight it. This is just what Loki wants. We're gonna be okay. Listen to me. [Banner tries to stop the transformation] We're gonna be okay. Right? I swear on my life I will get you out of this, you will walk away, and never... [Banner failing to stop his transformation into the Hulk shouts at Natasha]
 * Bruce Banner: Your life? [Banner suddenly starts transforming into the Hulk and gives Natasha one last knowing look]
 * Natasha Romanoff: Bruce. [Natasha struggles free of the rubble and takes off with the Hulk chasing after her] [Steve finds one of the damaged engines and calls to Stark]
 * Steve Rogers: Stark, I'm here! [Stark flies in his Iron Man suit and gets close to the damage engine]
 * Tony Stark: Good. See what we got. [as he looks at the damaged engine] I gotta get this super conducting cooling system back online before I can access the rotors and work on dislodging the debris. [Stark looks over at Steve] I need you to get to that engine control panel and tell me which relays are in overload position. [Steve gets himself to the control panel and opens it up] What's it look like in there?
 * Steve Rogers: It seems to run on some form of electricity.
 * Tony Stark: Well, you're not wrong. [as Natasha is still running from the Hulk, he corners her and is about to hit her when Thor comes plowing through and grabs the Hulk and they start fighting]
 * Thor: We're not your enemies, Banner! Try to think! [suddenly Hulk punches Thor sending him flying across the ship] [referring to the damaged engine]
 * Steve Rogers: The relays are intact. What's our next move?
 * Tony Stark: Even if I clear the rotors, this thing won't re-engage without a jump. I'm gonna have to get in there and push.
 * Steve Rogers: Well if that thing gets up to speed, you'll get shredded!
 * Tony Stark: Then stay in the control unit and reverse polarity long enough to disengage mag...
 * Steve Rogers: Speak English!
 * Tony Stark: See that red lever? It'll slow the rotors down long enough for me to get out. Stand by it, wait for my word. [Steve jumps towards the red lever] [as they are fighting with Loki's soldiers on the ship]
 * Agent Maria Hill: Sir, the Hulk will tear this place apart!
 * Nick Fury: Get his attention. [as the Hulk and Thor are battling it out one of the SHIELD pilots tries to shoot the Hulk from his jet outside the ship, the Hulk leaps out and lands on the jet's nose, tears it apart and finally plummets to earth] [after Barton uses the computer to shut down the remaining engine] It's Barton, he took our systems. He's headed for the detention lab. Does anybody copy?
 * Natasha Romanoff: This is Agent Romanoff. I copy. [to Thor as he gets tricked by Loki's body double power thinking he's escaping the cell and instead he ends up in the cell]
 * Loki: Are you ever not going to fall for that? [to Thor as he tries to use his hammer to break the glass cell] The humans think us immortal. Should we test that? [as Loki is about to open the whole in the middle of the glass cell, Coulson suddenly appears and threatens Loki with a Phase 2 weapon prototype]
 * Agent Phil Coulson: Move away, please. [Loki moves away from the switch] You like this? We started working on the prototype after you sent The Destroyer. Even I don't know what it does. Do you wanna find out? [just as he's about to use the weapon suddenly Loki stabs Coulson from behind]
 * Thor: Nooo! [Loki hits the button and opens the whole in the cell and drops Thor out of the ship trapped in the glass cage, just as the cage is about to hit the ground he uses his hammer to break free through the glass and leap free] [after dropping Thor to earth, Loki turns to leave but Coulson stops him]
 * Agent Phil Coulson: You're gonna lose.
 * Loki: Am I?
 * Agent Phil Coulson: It's in your nature.
 * Loki: You're heroes are scattered, your floating fortress falls from the sky. Where is my disadvantage?
 * Agent Phil Coulson: Your lack conviction.
 * Loki: I don't think I... [suddenly shoots Loki through the wall with the Phase 2 weapon which blasts out fire]
 * Agent Phil Coulson: So that's what it does. [as Stark is trying to get the engine started up]
 * Tony Stark: Cap, need a lever. [Steve, who had been fighting with Loki's soldiers is now hanging from the edge of the ship hanging on to a wire]
 * Steve Rogers: I need a minute here!
 * Tony Stark: Lever! Now! [Steve drags himself back on the ship but Loki's soldiers start shooting at him, Stark then gets dragged out of the engine just as Steve manages to pull the red lever] [as Loki escapes the ship via a jet, Fury finds Coulson gravely wounded]
 * Agent Phil Coulson: I'm sorry, boss. They got rabbited.
 * Nick Fury: Just stay awake. Eyes on me.
 * Agent Phil Coulson: No, I'm clockin' out here.
 * Nick Fury: Not an option.
 * Agent Phil Coulson: It's okay, boss. This was never gonna work if they didn't have something to... [Coulson dies before he can finish the sentence] [after Coulson dies, Fury gathers the remaining Avengers in the ship's meeting room]
 * Nick Fury: These were in Phil Coulson's jacket. Guess he never did get you to sign them. [he throws Coulson's Captain America trading cards on the table towards Steve] We're dead in the air up here. Our communications, location of the cube, Banner, Thor. I got nothing for you. Lost my one good eye. Maybe I had that coming. [he pauses for a moment] 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, called The Avengers Initiative. The idea was to bring together a group of remarkable people, see if they could become something more. 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. [Stark gets up and walks off] Well, it's an old fashioned notion. [Banner now in his human form, wakes up naked in a pile of rubble in an abandoned building]
 * Security Guard: You fell out of the sky.
 * Bruce Banner: Did I hurt anybody?
 * Security Guard: There's nobody around here to get hurt. You did scare the hell out of some pigeons though.
 * Bruce Banner: Lucky.
 * Security Guard: Or just good aim. You were awake when you fell.
 * Bruce Banner: You saw?
 * Security Guard: The whole thing, right through the ceiling. Big and green and buck ass nude. Here... [he throws Banner a pair of trousers] I didn't think those would fit you until you shrunk down to a regular size fella.
 * Bruce Banner: Thank you. [Banner put on the trousers]
 * Security Guard: Are you an alien?
 * Bruce Banner: What?
 * Security Guard: From outer space, an alien?
 * Bruce Banner: No.
 * Security Guard: Well then, son, you've got a condition. [after Natasha has won her fight with Barton, she's strapped him down so that he can shake off Loki's mind control]
 * Natasha Romanoff: Clint, You're gonna be alright.
 * Clint Barton: You know that? Is that what you know? I got...I gotta go in though. I gotta flush him out.
 * Natasha Romanoff: We don't have that long, it's gonna take time.
 * Clint Barton: I don't understand. Have you ever had someone take your brain and play? Pull you out and send something else in? Do you know what it's like to be unmade?
 * Natasha Romanoff: You know that I do.
 * Clint Barton: Why am I back? How did you get him out?
 * Natasha Romanoff: Cognitive recalibration I hit you really hard in the head.
 * Clint Barton: Thanks. [Natasha frees his hands from the restraints] Tasha, how many agents?
 * Natasha Romanoff: Don't. Don't do that to yourself, Clint. This is Loki. This is monsters and magic and nothing we were ever trained for.
 * Clint Barton: Loki, he got away?
 * Natasha Romanoff: Yeah. I don't suppose you know where?
 * Clint Barton: I didn't need to know. I didn't ask. He's gonna make his play soon though. Today.
 * Natasha Romanoff: We gotta stop him.
 * Clint Barton: Yeah? Who's we?
 * Natasha Romanoff: I don't know. Who's ever left.
 * Clint Barton: Well, if I put an arrow in Loki's eye socket, I'd sleep better I suppose.
 * Natasha Romanoff: Now you sound like you.
 * Clint Barton: But you don't. You're a spy, not a soldier. Now you want to wade into a war. Why? What did Loki do to you?
 * Natasha Romanoff: He didn't, I just... [she pauses]
 * Clint Barton: Natasha.
 * Natasha Romanoff: I've been compromised. I got red in my ledger, I'd like to wipe it out. [referring to Coulson]
 * Steve Rogers: Was he married?
 * Tony Stark: No. He was a uh...cellist, I think.
 * Steve Rogers: I'm sorry. He seemed like a good man.
 * Tony Stark: He was an idiot.
 * Steve Rogers: Why? For believing?
 * Tony Stark: For taking on Loki alone.
 * Steve Rogers: He was doing his job.
 * Tony Stark: He was out of his league. He should have waited. He should have...
 * Steve Rogers: Sometimes there isn't a way out, Tony.
 * Tony Stark: Right. How did that work for him?
 * Steve Rogers: Is this the first time you've lost a soldier?
 * Tony Stark: We are not soldiers! I'm not marching to Fury's fife.
 * Steve Rogers: Neither am I. He's got the same blood on his hands that Loki does, but right now we gotta put that behind us and get this done. Now Loki needs a power source, if we can put together a list...
 * Tony Stark: He made it personal.
 * Steve Rogers: That's not the point.
 * Tony Stark: That is the point. That's Loki's point. He hit us all right where we live. Why?
 * Steve Rogers: To tear us apart.
 * Tony Stark: He had to conquer his greed, but he knows he has to take us out to win, right? That's what he wants. He wants to beat us, he wants to be seen doing it. He wants an audience.
 * Steve Rogers: Right. I caught his act in Stuttgart.
 * Tony Stark: Yeah. That's just previews, this is...this is opening night. And Loki, he's a full-tail diva. He wants flowers, he wants parades, he wants a monument built to the skies with his name plastered!
 * Steve Rogers: Is this the first time you've lost a soldier?
 * Tony Stark: We are not soldiers! I'm not marching to Fury's fife.
 * Steve Rogers: Neither am I. He's got the same blood on his hands that Loki does, but right now we gotta put that behind us and get this done. Now Loki needs a power source, if we can put together a list...
 * Tony Stark: He made it personal.
 * Steve Rogers: That's not the point.
 * Tony Stark: That is the point. That's Loki's point. He hit us all right where we live. Why?
 * Steve Rogers: To tear us apart.
 * Tony Stark: He had to conquer his greed, but he knows he has to take us out to win, right? That's what he wants. He wants to beat us, he wants to be seen doing it. He wants an audience.
 * Steve Rogers: Right. I caught his act in Stuttgart.
 * Tony Stark: Yeah. That's just previews, this is...this is opening night. And Loki, he's a full-tail diva. He wants flowers, he wants parades, he wants a monument built to the skies with his name plastered! [suddenly Stark realizes that Loki wants to use Stark Towers] Son of a bitch.
 * Steve Rogers: Time to go.
 * Natasha Romanoff: Go where?
 * Steve Rogers: I'll tell you on the way. Can you fly one of those jets? [Barton walks into the room]
 * Clint Barton: I can. [Steve looks at Natasha and she nods her head to confirm Barton's on their side]
 * Steve Rogers: You got a suit?
 * Clint Barton: Yeah.
 * Steve Rogers: Then suit up. [as Steve, Barton and Natasha walk onto the jet]
 * Young Shield Pilot: You guys aren't authorized to be in here.
 * Steve Rogers: Son, just don't.
 * Agent Maria Hill: Sir.
 * Nick Fury: Agent Hill?
 * Agent Maria Hill: Those cards, they were in Coulson's locker, not in his jacket.
 * Nick Fury: They needed the push. [he watches as Stark flies off in his Iron Man suit and the jet that Steve, Barton and Natasha have boarded sets off] They found it. Get our communications back up, whatever you have to do. I want eyes on everything.
 * Agent Maria Hill: Yes, sir. [Stark arrives at Stark Towers where Selvig, still under Loki's mind control, is created a device powered by the Tesseract]
 * Tony Stark: Shut it down, Dr. Selvig.
 * Selvig: It's too late! It can't stop now. He wants to show us something! A new universe.
 * Tony Stark: Okay. [Stark uses his suit to shoot at the device but the Tesseract shoots up a blue bolt into the sky, opening a doorway to outer space, where the Chitauri's army awaits]
 * Jarvis: The barrier is pure energy. It's unbreachable. [Stark lands on Stark Towers and unsuits himself walking into his penthouse where Loki is waiting]
 * Loki: Please tell me you're going to appeal to my humanity.
 * Tony Stark: Uh...actually, I'm planning to threaten you.
 * Loki: You should have left your armor on for that.
 * Tony Stark: Yeah, it's seen a bit of mileage. You've got the blue stick of destiny. Would you like a drink?
 * Loki: Stalling me won't change anything.
 * Tony Stark: No, no, no! Threatening. No drink? You sure? I'm having one.
 * Loki: The Chitauri are coming, nothing will change that. What have I to fear?
 * Tony Stark: The Avengers. It's what we call ourselves, sort of like a team. 'Earth's Mightiest Heroes' type of thing.
 * Loki: Yes, I've met them.
 * Tony Stark: Yeah, takes us a while to get any traction, I'll give you that one. But, let's do a head count here. Your brother, the demi-God; a super soldier, a living legend who kind of lives up to the legend; a man with breath-taking anger management issues; a couple of master assassins, and you, big fella, you've managed to piss off every single one of them. [as Loki turns away, Stark puts on his Iron Man suit homing bracelet]
 * Loki: That was the plan.
 * Tony Stark: Not a great plan. When they come, and they will, they'll come for you.
 * Loki: I have an army.
 * Tony Stark: We have a Hulk.
 * Loki: I thought the beast had wandered off.
 * Tony Stark: You're missing the point. There's no throne, there is no version of this, where you come out on top. Maybe your army comes and maybe it's too much for us, but it's all on you. Because if we can't protect the Earth, you can be damned well sure we'll avenge it.
 * Loki: How will your friends have time for me, when they're so busy fighting you? [suddenly Loki hits Stark on the chest with his scepter planning to mind-control him, but the scepter doesn't work on Stark because of his mechanical heart] It should work!
 * Tony Stark: Well, performance issues. You know? [in anger Loki grabs Stark by the throat and flings him across the room] Jarvis, anytime now. [Loki grabs Stark by the throat again]
 * Loki: You will all fall before me. [Loki throws Stark out the window but Stark uses a homing bracelet to call his Iron Man suit, so the suit flies out the window and catches him before he hits the ground, he flies back up to the Tower where Loki is still standing]
 * Tony Stark: And there's one other person you pissed off! His name is Phil. [after the gateway has opened and the Chitauri warriors fly down to earth and start attacking the streets of Manhattan, Thor arrives on Stark Tower]
 * Thor: Loki, turn off the Tesseract or I'll destroy it!
 * Loki: You can't. There is no stopping it. There is only the war!
 * Thor: So be it. [Loki attacks Thor and they start fighting] [as Stark is battling with the Chitauri warriors, Natasha, Steve and Barton arrive in the jet]
 * Natasha Romanoff: Stark, we're heading north east.
 * Tony Stark: What, did you stop for drive-thru? Swing that park, I'm gonna lay 'em out for you. [after their jet crashes, Steve, Natasha and Barton end up on the ground, they notice a giant airship that looks like a flying worm coming through the portal along with more warriros]
 * Steve Rogers: Stark, are you seeing this?
 * Tony Stark: I'm seeing, still working on believing. Where's Banner? Has he shown up yet?
 * Steve Rogers: Banner?
 * Tony Stark: Just keep me posted. [referring to the giant worm like ship as he flies past it] Jarvis, find me a soft spot. [referring to the Chitauri destroying Manhattan]
 * Thor: Look at this! Look around you! You think this madness will end with your rule?
 * Loki: It's too late. It's too late to stop it.
 * Thor: No. We can, together. [suddenly Loki stabs Thor]
 * Loki: Sentiment! [referring to the Chitauri warriors that have landed near them]
 * Steve Rogers: You think you can hold them off?
 * Clint Barton: Captain, it would be my genuine pleasure. [as Barton and Natasha start shooting at the Chitauri, Steve makes his way towards the cops nearby to help them] [as they are fighting off the Chitauri together]
 * Natasha Romanoff: Just like Budapest all over again!
 * Clint Barton: You and I remember Budapest very differently. [as they watch Manhattan getting destroyed by the Chitauri warriors]
 * Police Sergeant: Does the army know what's happening here?
 * Young Cop: Do we?! [suddenly Steve jumps in front of them]
 * Steve Rogers: I need men in these buildings. There are people inside that can run into the line of fire. You take them through the basement or through the subway, you keep them off the streets. I need a perimeter as far back as 39th.
 * Police Sergeant: Why the hell should I take orders from you? [suddenly two of the Chitauri warriors attack, the cops watch in shock as Steve fights them off with ease, the Sergeant turns to his officer and gives out Steve's earlier orders] I need men in those buildings, lead the people down and away from the streets. [as Thor arrives on ground to join Steve, Natasha and Barton]
 * Thor: The powers surrounding the cube is impenetrable. [Stark talks to them through his Iron Man suit]
 * Tony Stark: Thor is right, we gotta deal with these guys.
 * Natasha Romanoff: How do we do this?
 * Steve Rogers: As a team.
 * Thor: I have unfinished business with Loki.
 * Clint Barton: Yeah, get in line.
 * Steve Rogers: Save it. Loki's gonna keep this fight focused on us and that's what we need. Without him these things could run wild. We got Stark up top, he's gonna need us... [just then Banner arrives on a motorbike]
 * Bruce Banner: So, this all seems horrible.
 * Natasha Romanoff: I've seen worse.
 * Bruce Banner: Sorry.
 * Natasha Romanoff: No, we could use a little worse.
 * Steve Rogers: Stark, we got him, Banner, just like you said.
 * Tony Stark: Tell him to suit up. I'm bringing the party to you. [they watch as Stark draws the giant worm ship towards them]
 * Natasha Romanoff: I don't see how that's a party.
 * Steve Rogers: Dr. Banner, now might be a good time for you to get angry.
 * Bruce Banner: That's my secret, Captain. I'm always angry. [he transforms into the Hulk and smashes the giant worm like ship to bits] [they watch as hundreds more giant worm like ships comes through portal]
 * Natasha Romanoff: Guys.
 * Tony Stark: Call it, Captain.
 * Steve Rogers: Alright, listen up. Until we can close that portal up there, we're gonna use containment. Barton, I want you on that roof, eyes on everything. Call out patterns and strays. Stark, you got the perimeter. Anything gets more than three blocks out, you turn it back or your turn it to ash.
 * Clint Barton: [to Stark] Wanna give me a lift?
 * Tony Stark: Right. Better clench up, Legolas. [Stark lifts Barton up to the building]
 * Steve Rogers: Thor, you've gotta try and bottleneck that portal, slow them down. You've got the lightning, light the bastards up. [to Natasha] You and me, we stay here on the ground, keep the fighting here. And Hulk, smash! [as they are all busy fighting off the Chitauri army]
 * Natasha Romanoff: Captain, none of this is gonna mean a damn thing if we don't close that portal.
 * Steve Rogers: Our biggest guns couldn't touch it.
 * Natasha Romanoff: Well, maybe it's not about guns.
 * Steve Rogers: You wanna get up there, you're gonna need a ride.
 * Natasha Romanoff: I got a ride. I could use a lift though.
 * Steve Rogers: Are you sure about this?
 * Natasha Romanoff: Yeah, it's gonna be fun. [Steve gives her boost with his shield and Natasha jumps up and commandeers one of the hover boards to fly to the top of Stark Tower]
 * World Security Council #2: Director Fury, the council has made a decision.
 * Nick Fury: I recognize the council has made a decision, but given that it's a stupid assed decision, I've elected to ignore it.
 * World Security Council #1: Director, you're closer than any of our subs, you scramble that jet...
 * Nick Fury: That is the island of Manhattan, Councilman. Until I'm certain my team can't hold it, I will not order a nuclear strike against a civilian population.
 * World Security Council #1: If we don't hold them in the air, we lose everything.
 * Nick Fury: I'd send that bird out, we already have. [after Hulk throws Loki through a window into the Stark Tower penthouse]
 * Loki: Enough! You are all of you beneath me! I am God, you dull creature, and I will not be bullied by... [Hulk grabs Loki by the legs and smashes him against the floor repeatedly and finally throws him aside to the ground]
 * The Hulk: Puny God. [as Hulk walks away Loki whimpers in pain] [after Natasha lands on on the top of Stark Tower, Professor Selvig is hit in the head with a piece of shrapnel, ending Loki's mind control]
 * Natasha Romanoff: Doctor.
 * Selvig: Loki's scepter, the energy...the Tesseract can't fight. You can't protect against yourself.
 * Natasha Romanoff: It's not your fault. You didn't know what you were doing.
 * Selvig: Well, actually I think I did. I built in a safety to cut the power source.
 * Natasha Romanoff: Loki's scepter.
 * Selvig: It might be able to close the portal. And I'm looking right at it. [after the world security council has decided to ignore Fury's advice and sent a nuclear missile towards Manhattan]
 * Nick Fury: Stark, you hearing me? We have a missile headed straight for the city.
 * Tony Stark: How long?
 * Nick Fury: Three minutes, at best. [as they are battling it out with the Chitauri, Steve is struck down and Thor helps him back to his feet]
 * Thor: You ready for another bout?
 * Steve Rogers: What, you gettin' sleepy? [on Stark Tower, Natasha has Loki's scepter and is about to shut the portal when she calls to the others]
 * Natasha Romanoff: I can close it! Can anybody hear me? I can shut the portal down!
 * Steve Rogers: Do it!
 * Tony Stark: No, wait!
 * Steve Rogers: Stark, these things are still coming!
 * Tony Stark: I got a nuke coming in, it's gonna blow in less than a minute. [as he flies towards the missile] And I know just where to put it. [as Stark grabs the missile and heads towards the portal]
 * Steve Rogers: Stark, you know that's a one way trip.
 * Jarvis: Stark, we're losing altitude.
 * Tony Stark: Yeah, I noticed. [Stark uses the last of the power in his suit and flies straight through the portal and sends the the nuke towards the massive Chitauri mother ship, blowing it up] [after exploding the Chitauri ship, Stark's suit dies and he slowly falls backwards and just as Natasha closes the portal Stark falls through the gap and plummets to the earth]
 * Steve Rogers: Sun of a gun!
 * Thor: He's not slowing down. [just before Stark hits the ground, the Hulk snags him out of the air] [after Hulk saves Stark, Steve takes off Stark's helmet, but he appears to be dead, Hulk yells in fury, and the noise startles Stark awake]
 * Tony Stark: What the hell? What just happened? Please tell me nobody kissed me?
 * Steve Rogers: We won.
 * Tony Stark: Alright. Hey. Alright. Good job, guys. Let's just not come in tomorrow. Let's just take a day. Have you ever tried shawarma? There's a shawarma joint about two blocks from here. I don't know what it is, but I wanna try it.
 * Thor: We're not finished yet.
 * Tony Stark: And then shawarma after. [in Stark's penthouse, Loki turns to finds himself surrounded by The Avengers]
 * Loki: If it's all the same to you, I'll have that drink now. [Stan Lee's cameo]
 * Old Man in TV Report: Superheroes? In New York? Give me a break! [as we see TV news montage about The Avengers]
 * Senator Boynton: These so called heroes have to be held responsible for the destruction done to the city. This was their fight. Where are they now? [as Fury meets with the world security council, at the same time we see The Avengers meet up one last time to say goodbye and to give the Tesseract to Thor who takes it and Loki back to Asgard]
 * World Security Council #3: Where are The Avengers?
 * Nick Fury: I'm not currently tracking their whereabouts. I'd say they'd earned a leave of absence.
 * World Security Council #2: And the Tesseract?
 * Nick Fury: The Tesseract is where it belongs, out of our reach.
 * World Security Council #1: That's not your call.
 * Nick Fury: I didn't make it. I just didn't argue with the God that did.
 * World Security Council #1: So you let him take it and the war criminal, Loki, who should be answering for his crime.
 * Nick Fury: Oh, I think he will be.
 * World Security Council #2: I don't think you understand what you've started, letting The Avengers loose on this world. They're dangerous.
 * Nick Fury: They surely are, and the whole world knows it. Every world knows it.
 * World Security Council #1: Was that the point in all this? A statement.
 * Nick Fury: A promise. [last lines]
 * Agent Maria Hill: Sir, how does it work now? They've gone their separate ways, some pretty extremely far. We get into a situation like this again, what happens then?
 * Nick Fury: They'll come back.
 * Agent Maria Hill: Are you really sure about that?
 * Nick Fury: I am.
 * Agent Maria Hill: Why?
 * Nick Fury: Because we'll need them to. [final shot shows Stark with Pepper Pots looking at plans for rebuilding Stark Tower, the letters for "STARK TOWER" have been blown away, and all that remains is a giant A] [lines during the credits; the leader of the Chitauri warriors kneels before a mysterious alien]
 * The Other: The humans are stronger than we thought. To attack them is to court death. [the mysterious alien simply turns and smiles, and we see it is Thanos] [after credits scene; the Avengers are sitting at a shawarma restaurant eating in silence as the workers are cleaning up behind them]
 * [End of The Avengers]