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Considering how gut-bustingly witty many Joss Whedon productions are, this was bound to happen. Highlights include:
- Tony and Pepper discussing who gets the credit for Stark Tower, Tony says Pepper can claim 12%. She gives him a flat look.
Tony: I'm going to pay for that comment about percentages later in some subtle way, aren't I? |
Tony: We were having a moment. |
- From the same scene, Tony's reaction to Pepper being on a First-Name Basis with Coulson.
Tony: Phil?! His first name is "Agent". |
- Natasha tells Banner "it's only you and me" while convincing him to help SHIELD as Dr. Banner, not the Hulk. Then he scares her, she promptly grabs her gun... "I'm sorry, that was mean. I just wanted to see what you'd do." But she keeps holding the gun, while telling the huge team outside to back off as it was a false alarm...
Banner: Just you and me, huh? |
- Agent Coulson and Steve Rogers. Coulson is a Fan Boy, Steve finds him a bit creepy.
Agent Coulson: I watched you while you were sleeping. (Awkward silence). I-I mean... I was present when you were unconscious from the ice. |
- When Nick Fury meets with Captain America in the beginning they wind up betting ten dollars that there's nothing that can surprise Cap anymore. After he sees the SHIELD helicarrier take off, he heads to the bridge and wordlessly hands Fury a ten-dollar bill, which he accepts without even looking at Cap.
- Speaking of the helicarrier's initial takeoff, when Natasha initially suggests that Steve and Bruce come inside because it's "about to get hard to breathe" on the deck, Steve guesses that the carrier is submersible; Bruce wonders wryly if they really want him in a "submerged, pressurized, metal container," cue realization as the carrier begins to lift off:
Bruce: (bewildered smirk) Oh, no, this is much worse. |
- Black Widow mentions Coulson's fanboying over Captain America and his trading cards. A couple scenes later, we see Cap standing there passively watching the agents work and Coulson in the middle of sheepishly asking him to autograph his cards.
Black Widow: There was quite the buzz over at headquarters when they found you in the ice. I thought Coulson was going to swoon. Has he asked you to sign his trading cards yet? |
- After Cap and Iron Man have loaded Loki onto a Quinjet, it suddenly starts to storm...
Cap: Don't tell me you're afraid of a little lightning? |
- After Thor takes Loki away from SHIELD custody, Iron Man goes after them. Not wanting to be left behind, Captain America is about to follow suit when Black Widow advises him not to do so, as both Thor and Loki are powerful beings and could be considered gods. The good captain's response?
- Thor's confrontation with Loki gets interrupted by Tony:
Thor: Listen well, Brother-- (gets tackled offscreen by Iron Man) |
- Adding even more to the humor of the moment, Loki then casually settles down on his rock like he's a member of the audience to watch the show.
- Before that, Thor asks an obvious question. Loki's "um, duh" expression is priceless.
Thor: You think yourself above them? |
- During a briefing:
Thor: Loki may be beyond reason, but he is of Asgard and he is my brother. |
- The comment from Banner that led to the above exchange.
Banner: I don't think we should be focused on Loki; that guy's brain is a bag of cats. You can smell crazy on him. |
- This delightful The Wizard of Oz reference during the first group debriefing:
Fury: I'd like to know what Loki did to turn two of the sharpest men I know into his personal flying monkeys!! |
- Agent Coulson even gets a Funny Moment while dying via his BFG.
Coulson: ...So that's what it does. |
- Banner's conversation with the janitor. While totally naked after one HELL of a Hulk-Out (which was played completely seriously):
Son, you got a condition. |
- Made even funnier when he asks him if he's an alien, as he's played by Harry Dean Stanton who played a similar role (mechanic, but still) in Alien.
- When the janitor describes the Hulk as "Big and green and buck-ass nude".
- Captain America giving orders to the others, then...
Steve: Hulk? |
- Loki telling off the Hulk as if he were scolding a naughty child. What does the Hulk do? What he does best. Smash. Also counts as a Moment of Awesome.
Loki: ENOUGH! You are all beneath me! I am a god, you dull creature! And I will not be bullied by- |
- He seemed to know that pissing off the Hulk was a bad idea; the fact that his army was losing and he was alone in a room being chased by said Hulk meant he was desperate, and insulting Hulk was probably part intimidation part last-ditch attempt to preserve his fragile ego. Which makes it both funny and karmic at the same time.
- And that wasn't exactly a 'whimper', per se. That was the sound someone makes when they've had the wind knocked out of them, and it suddenly takes a conscious effort to get air into their lungs. And Hulk did this to a frickin' GOD without even breathing hard. Just to hammer in the fact that Loki is, for the first time in the movie, completely helpless against a mere earthling. Karmic indeed.
- A bit of funny trivia: When Clark Gregg was feeling down about just having filmed Coulson's death scene, the producers showed him an early animatic of this scene. He felt much better afterwards.
- The Hulk Offhand Backhands Thor right out of the shot after they crash one of the Chitauri leviathans into Grand Central Station. Doubles as a Brick Joke to settling their fight on the Helicarrier earlier in the movie.
- When everyone is arguing in the Helicarrier, Thor jumps in with this gem:
Thor: You people are so petty... and tiny. |
- What really sells it though is the grin on his face as he says it. Everyone else is about to reach breaking point, and here's Thor smiling like a kid watching a puppet show.
- Loki, in response to getting the tar beat out of him and watching his entire plan crumble into dust in the span of hours. Not to mention an angry roster of Avengers glaring at him as he lies on the floor.
- If you pay attention to the blocking, you'll note that the Avengers come up behind him through the open wall, meaning Loki was apparently heading toward the bar already.
- Natasha's opening scene where she is tied to a chair, dangled over a trapdoor, and about to be questioned by way of a pair of pliers to the face. Then someone's phone rings.
Thug 1: Da? [[[Beat]], in Russian] It's for her. |
- What sells it is the switch in her tone. How she was really playing up the part of a panicked captive, then Coulson calls and it pretty much like breaking character while shooting a scene. The Russians' bewildered expressions while wondering what the heck is going on is the icing on the cake.
- Which is followed by her swearing in Russian when Coulson tells her that she has to recruit Bruce Banner.
- Captain America orders some police around to set up a perimeter and ensure the safety of the civilians. While the cop in charge asks why he should follow him, Chitauri arrive and Cap just beats all of them to the ground. The cop then proceeds to relay the Captain's orders, word for word.
- The Avengers rendezvous in the streets to start the counter-attack against the Chitauri. Banner arrives... on a beat-up motorcycle. And observes, so casually that he sounds almost cheerful, "So, this all seems... horrible."
- I'll do ya one better. It was a scooter.
- Best CPR ever: Hulk roars to shock Tony into waking up.
- Even better, this was apparently ad-libbed by Mark Ruffalo.
- After the Hulk wakes him up with a roar, we get this:
Tony: Please tell me nobody kissed me. |
- Nick Fury (dis)regarding the World Security Council decision on the crisis:
I recognize the council has made a decision, but given that it's a stupid-ass decision, I've elected to ignore it. |
- Banner's Moment of Awesome as he transforms into The Hulk and lands a Megaton Punch on the Leviathan.
Steve: Doctor Banner? ...Now would be a really good time for you to get angry. |
- Some Casual Danger Dialog:
Black Widow: [fighting off Chitauri soldiers at range alongside Hawkeye] It's just like Budapest all over again! |
- Cap and Natasha are discussing the fastest way to get the top of the tower. Natasha just looks resigned as she sighs, "This will be fun," once they work out that that she has to bounce off Cap's shield in order hijack one of the Chitauri flyers.
- Fury shutting down Thor:
Thor: I thought humans were more evolved than this. |
- In the trailer at the end of Captain America the First Avenger, we see Cap punching a bag so hard it bursts. In the extended version of that scene in this film, after the bag is punched, we pan down to six more bags, and he puts one on the chain and starts training again. After he's done talking with Nick, he takes a bag back with him to his room.
- Made a touch funnier in that it's called a 'heavy bag' for a reason, and super-soldier Rogers is casually picking one up.
- And that he's doing it one-handed.
- Made a touch funnier in that it's called a 'heavy bag' for a reason, and super-soldier Rogers is casually picking one up.
- Just before the big fight, as also noted on the MOA page, Cap ordering down a S.H.I.E.L.D agent while trying to commandeer a ride... with the gravitas of a true old soldier...
- Loki's line after he manages to trap Thor in the cell that Loki himself had occupied and was originally meant to contain the Hulk by using one of his illusions.
Loki: Are you ever not going to fall for that? |
- The best part? Loki's probably been doing stuff like that since he was a toddler. Thor still fell for it.
- The finale of the Iron Man vs Thor fight.
Captain America: Hey! That's enough! Now, I don't know what you plan on doing here - |
- Just loving the fact that after shooting down one plane, Fury turns to see the second one taking off. No longer armed with a rocket launcher, he pulls out his sidearm and momentarily levels it at the retreating jet.
Iron Man practically needs his own page.
- Between Iron Man 2 and The Avengers, Tony Stark bought the MetLife building and has made all kinds of renovations, including installing the first production-model Arc Reactor. But his favorite renovation is his name on the building in giant letters.
Tony: It's like Christmas, but with more... me! |
- Tony entering the briefing and then getting utterly confused that no-one else has invented his high-tech holographic computers.
Tony: (covering an eye to imitate Fury's eyepatch) How does Fury even see these? |
- Tony Stark begins one of his signature rambling speeches by accusing one of the Mission Control officers of playing Galaga on the job. The long scene ends with one of the techies switching his screen back to the game when nobody's looking.
- What's great about the above two examples is that it's revealed to the audience that he's secretly planting a tiny device to hack into the S.H.I.E.L.D. computers and he's basically just distracting everyone by being a wiseass.
- Tony's attempt to blow off Agent Coulson:
Coulson: Mr. Stark, we need to talk. |
- Being playful with Bruce Banner:
Tony: You know, you should come by Stark Tower sometime, top 10 floors, all R&D. You'd love it, it's Candyland. |
- The funniest bit about that is after he shocks him, Tony quickly looks intently at Bruce's eyes to see if there's any hint of the Hulk.
- Tony Lampshading Thor's Shakespearean garb:
Thor: You have no idea what you're dealing with. |
- Then after Thor shoots Iron Man with a lightning bolt.
Jarvis: Power at 400% capacity. |
- When Stark and Banner find out that they're both huge techno-geeks and rattle off a string of Techno Babble to each other:
Bruce: He'd have to heat the cube to 120,000,000 Kelvin just to break through the Coulomb barrier. |
- Tony's first interaction with Steve.
Tony: Still you're pretty spry for an... older fellow. What's your thing? Pilates? |
- Tony forgets to factor in Steve's man-out-of-time issues while trying to fix the Helicarrier's busted engine, resulting in some sarcasm from Cap:
Tony: (from inside rotor) Okay, tell me what you see! |
- Just before the climactic battle, Cap and Tony still grieving over Coulson's death discuss Loki's next move:
Tony: That's the point. That's Loki's point. He hit all of us right at where we live. Why? |
- Tony and Loki, threatening each other.
Loki: I have an army. |
- More Casual Danger Dialog.
Tony: Guys, I'm bringing the party to you. |
- The defeat of the third Leviathan also warrants a mention:
Tony: You ever heard of Jonah? |
- Iron Man's idea of a post-victory celebration. And they actually do it, in the other stinger, as everyone is exhausted from the battle, and are nodding to sleep as they try and eat their shawarma. It was shown only in US releases.
Captain America: We won. |
- There's almost no way anyone would notice it on the first viewing, but Tony actually bounces past a shawarma joint when he crash-lands after diving through a Levithan. It's a blink-and-you-miss-it sort of thing, and is kind of amusing if you consider what it says about Tony. "Well, that was stupid, but at least it worked... huh, shawarma. What's shawarma? I am kind of hungry. I should try that."
- That whole sequence gets bonus points just for being such a brilliant parody of the Marvel Cinematic Universe's traditional post-credits stingers. At any movie screening, it's inevitable that at least half the audience will wait until the end of the credits to catch some mind-blowing Sequel Hook. Here, they wait until the end of the credits... and get to see six exhausted superheroes silently eating shawarma in a bombed-out cafe as the staff tries to mop up the post-alien invasion mess. Which is probably what would happen in real life to anyone involved in a less overblown but not that different situation.
- Made even funnier by the fact that Mark Ruffalo is obviously Corpsing.
- And even funnier by the fact that Cap is even more obviously dead asleep. A bit of Reality Subtext makes it better: The scene was shot a short time after the movie was done for, and in these day Chris Evans had grown a beard for another role. Understandably, he didn't want to shave it and this is how he resolved the trouble: via pretending that the then-clean-faced Steve had passed out asleep.
- And then the scene ends with Thor taking a massive, crunchy bite of his wrap with crumbs falling all over the table.
- Iron Man flying around a corner, popped a huge display of flares at an oncoming Leviathan, then wondering what to do next.
Iron Man: Okay, we got its attention. What the hell was step two? |
- Iron Man to Loki: "Make a move, Reindeer Games."
- Iron Man to Hawkeye, when eh's about to take him for a 'personal' flight against the enemy: "You might want to clench up, Legolas." Made even more hilarious by how unamused Hawkeye looks.
- Iron Man to Thor: "No hard feelings, Point Break..."
- Loki attempts to brainwash Tony by sticking his heart with the scepter as he did with Hawkeye and Selvig. Instead, it hits the arc reactor under his shirt with a clank. A moment of silence, and then Loki tries again. Clank.
Loki: ....that usually works. |
- Even during a tense moment, Tony gets in some snark:
Steve: Big guy in a suit of armor. Take that off, what are you? |
- Even more funny is Black Widow's nodding in agreement.
- The part where Tony reactivates the turbine, but Cap is too busy with the enemy to pull the emergency lever. This results in the former being trapped in the reactivated turbine.
- Made even better by the pinball-esque sound effects that accompany his bouncing around under the turbine.
- When Cap and Tony are arguing, Cap twice demands that Tony put on the suit so that they can go a few rounds. Then a brainwashed Hawkeye hits a turbine on the S.H.I.E.L.D carrier, exploding the room the group are in and dropping them to different sections of the ship.
Cap: (urgent, non threatening tone) Put on the suit. |
- ↑ In case anyone still doesn't get it, The Wizard of Oz came out in 1939. Cap was frozen in 1942.