The Avengers Were the Avengers a formal team by the end of the movie? [Spoilers]

[cherokeesam]

They're a team .... they're just not the one you guys are talking about in the comics.

You mean the comic-book team this film was actually based on....? Nah, don't know why anyone would expect a film called "Avengers" to be about "The Avengers."

Oh well, coulda used more Emma Peel and John Steed.

 

[Punisher Rising]

They were definitely a team. They overcame all conflicts internal and external to band together in the face of a greater threat and emerged from it all a loyal and efficient team.

 

[Bren]

I could never be upset about it so please, don't flatter yourself.

You're getting into some serious extremely campy territory now ..... training together? Are we going to get an 80's style montage complete with the comeback track "Eye of the Bilchsteim" from the band Survivor??? I think you have the wrong film if you're expecting that. Any kind of training or "team building" will be indirect like you saw with the Helicarrier sequence.

The whole point of the NYC battle was that they finally came together as a team and once again Fury attests that when Earth needs them they will return to fight together.

Campy and cheesy??? Just because Rock Sexton says so, does not make it so.

These individuals are being seen by an agency like SHIELD as Earth's protectors. Not having them train together would be IDIOTIC!

Furthermore, the idea of a Team training together cannot be campy or cheesy. The execution could be, of course, but if you think it could only ever be cheesy/campy, you show remarkable lack of imagination.

Now if the direction and style of the film doesn't warrant a training scene, I wouldn't have it in there. But I would still think this team (as based on the comic version) would have trained together and wouldn't mind it being alluded to (like you said, indirectly). Imo, the Avengers have definitely not 'trained' together yet. They may have read eachother's vitals (although Stark does mention something like "was I the only one to read the documents") but that's not training (going back to the 'formal team' point of the question).

5th point; Fury's words to Hill at the end made me feel that they would come when they were needed because they were HEROES/Good people. It did not make me think, "because they were a team".

Anyway, I'm done.

PS I never flatter myself. And I wouldn't start here via self-important forum posters...

 

[DJ Kornphlake]

You mean the comic-book team this film was actually based on....? Nah, don't know why anyone would expect a film called "Avengers" to be about "The Avengers."

Oh well, coulda used more Emma Peel and John Steed.

*whoosh*

 

[zentype]

They team up when the world needs them to team up. There isnt a world-threatening event every day ya know.

This. The MCU is still somewhat grounded in reality. This isn't the books where super villains and aliens attack on a weekly basis. As of now, there's no need for a full-time super powered team. The current threats just don't justify it.

Now depending on what happens with the next few movies and with Thanos around the corner, that could all change. The world could become a completely different place overnight.

When the Avengers move into their new headquarters in the sequel, and they wind up with all this crappy Ikea furniture still in the boxes because Stark spent all his money on the building, then we'll hear Steve say, "Avengers, Assemble ... that jhurkeinflugen living room set."

Haha awesome~ someone email this to Joss asap. I'd love to see that, seriously. Have it at the end of the movie after the big battle post-credits. Steve says it to be funny, then Thor throws Mjolnir at him and goes back to sleep.

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