I’d heard about a new Avengers movie and immediately thought of Emma Peel and John Steed.
Now I’m hearing the Avengers is some sort of comic book hero movie? 
That’s confusing. Heck, the Avengers still pops up on cable channels in reruns. That’s how I became a fan 20 years ago.
Trying to keep up with pop culture isn’t easy.
Yep, me too, I thought Scarlett Johanssen was playing Emma Peel and Robert Downey, Jr., was Steed.
Robert Downey, Jr., would be great as John Steed too. I was so excited about an Avengers remake movie.
The Avengers was such a great series. I wish the name wasn’t used for a comic book movie. We’ll have this confusion for a long time.
Eventually a Avengers movie will be made based on the old series.
I’ll cop to it. Even tho I’m in my early 30s and they filmed part of the movie in my town (Cleveland). I didn’t know until it came out that it was the superhero Avengers and not the bowler hat Avengers.
Yeah, me too. I was never that much of a Marvel comic guy, and I grew up watching John Steed and Emma Peel.
I was a fan of those Avengers as well - I would pay good money to see that movie.
Back in my day, we watched the Avengers (1961). We didn’t have that new-fangled, damn whippersnapper fruity super-mans Avengers (1963)!
The only thing I was disappointed about when I watched ‘The Avengers’ was that we never got to see Emma um… peel.
I have the opposite problem. I knew about the superhero team from when I was 7 years old picking up a stray comic book, but I’ve still never watched any of the shows or movie. Anytime I hear The Avengers, I immediately think about the comic book. I originally was confused when the 1998 movie came out (it looked bad so I skipped it).
This is why, in the UK, the film is called Avengers Assemble.
Unfortunately, there was. But I understand why you blotted it out of your memory.
Maybe someday you’ll get to see a play called MAN AND SUPERMAN.
Bowler hat Avengers? Never heard of anyone other than the superhero Avengers.
No, of course not. The marketing for this movie has been everywhere. Disney has absolutely saturated all media with ads. With the exception of simply looking at the showtimes, I don’t know how anyone with a tv or computer could be aware of the name but not the brand. Even walking through a retail store, the Avengers merch is everywhere.
The Marvel movies leading up to this made a billion at the box office, were huge hits, and actively built towards The Avengers. Captain America’s movie even had “The First Avenger” in the title. And The Avengers have been a continuous brand in comics since 1963.
The other, by comparison, couldn’t be further out of the public’s consciousness. A second rate, foreign, tv show that could be kindly called a cult success in the sixties which was later remade in the 90s into one of the worst and most disposable movies Sean Connery ever made.
For many of us the Avengers was right up their with James Bond and The Saint.
It was a huge success in reruns for decades. I wasn’t even born when the Avengers first aired. But I saw all the episodes in reruns in high school.
I had forgotten about the Avengers remake movie over ten years ago. It was terrible.
They seem to be more known overseas, in the old country in Latin America, they were big in the 70’s, there was a lag on the releases in Latin America due to the dubbing of the show to Spanish.
One funny bit established that they inhabit the same universe as James Bond:
Steed and Emma got a greeting card from Cathy Gale:
Emma Peel: [Mrs. Peel is helping Steed open his Christmas cards] “Best wishes for the future - Cathy”
John Steed: Mrs. Gale! And how nice of her to remember me… What can she be doing in Fort Knox?
While I know the new movie is about some comic book characters, every time I hear “The Avengers” I still think of the British TV series. I don’t care much about comic books and I love British TV.
When I was a kid, I saw that The Avengers was coming on TV. Then it was that British TV show, not the superheroes, and I was sad.
Me, too!