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Avengers Assemble

Overview:

After the Tesseract was stolen by Thor evil brother Loki, S.H.I.E.L.Ds director Nick Fury decides he needs to assemble “earth’s mightiest heroes. Tony Stark (Iron man), Thor, Captain America, Hulk, Hawkeye and Black widow. But (expectedly) this doesn't go so well, as we are shown the god of thunder battling it out with Iron man before they are even asked to be a team. They realise this brawl allowed Loki to slip away. Now Loki armed with his new powers opens a portal and uses an army of Chitauri to declare war on earth. Using team work, and a heroic bit of self-sacrifice from Tony Stark, they defeat the monstrous aliens and save the earth, setting us up for more adventures to come.

Main Characters:

Iron man

Identity: Tony Stark

Abilities: intelligence, weapons expert, iron suits

Allies: Pepper Potts, Rhodey Rhodes, Jarvis

Arch nemesis: Mandarin

Origin: captured by terrorists after bomb blew up and left shrapnel in his body. Helped back to health by fellow captor Yinsen. They secretly build an armoured suit and plan to escape. This inspires Tony, when he returns home, to build a new and improved iron suit.

Captain America

Identity: Steven Rogers

Ability: strength, reflexes, speed

Allies: Bucky (winter soldier), Sam Wilson, Maria Hill

Arch nemesis: Red skull

Origin: joined the army during the war. Volunteered to try out a new super soldier serum developed to give America and edge in the war. But he was treated as a joke and rather than fighting in war he was used as advertisement for the war. He went to rescue Bucky and the rest of the platoon and to defeat the Red Skull. He flew a plane containing bombs into the arctic supposedly killing him. Rescued from the ice years later in the 21^st century by S.H.I.E.L.D.

Hulk

Identity: Bruce Banner

Abilities: super strength, super speed, super jumping, durability.

Allies: N/A

Arch nemesis: Leader

Origin: after an explosion at his lab he was hit with gamma rays. Now during times of stress he turn into a big green beast and fights between man or monster. He stays mostly isolated as he fears he cannot control the beast and it may cause too much harm toward people.

Thor

Identity: Thor Odinson

Abilities: can control lightning, wields Mjolnir

Allies: Odin, Heimdall, warriors three

Arch nemesis: Loki

Origin: Thor was born as the son of Odin alongside his half-brother Loki adopted by Odin. He grew to be the Prince of Asgard and uses his hammer Mjolnir and his storm powers to protect the nine realms but more importantly Asgard and Midgard (earth).

Hawkeye

Identity: Clint Barton

Abilities: incredibly accurate marksmanship, acrobats

Allies: Black widow, Nick Fury

Arch nemesis: circus of crime

Origin: Clint was an orphan with his brother. They both ran away to join the circus. He was trained by Swordsman and Tickshot. He later found out that Swordsman was a criminal. His brother believing that he should have joined Swordsman left him. He then went solo and once witnessed Iron Man saving people at a carnival. He met Black widow (a villain working for her country at the time). He later joined the avengers.

Black widow

Identity: Natasha Romanova

Abilities: spy training, acrobatics, intelligence

Allies: Hawkeye, Nick Fury

Arch nemesis: N/A

Origin: Natasha was orphaned as a child and was taken in by Ivan Petrovitch. She grew up with skills that were spotted by the soviet intelligence and was trained by them. She was recruited for the Black Widow program. After resisting her leaders she left Russia and started a life in America with the help of Nick Fury and did solo jobs for S.H.I.E.L.D as well as part time with the Avengers.

Loki

Identity: Loki Laufeyson

Abilities: sorcery, illusions, trickery

Allies: no specific allies

Arch nemesis: Thor

Origin: Loki was born as the child of the Frost Giant Laufey. His father had hidden him due to the embarrassment of Loki’s size. After Odin had killed Laufey he found Loki and decided to adopt him as a son alongside his biological son Thor. Loki grew up as the smart son while Thor grew up as the strong son. Loki felt as though Odin preferred Thor over him and was envious of Thor. He would repeatedly try to destroy Thor.