Jeez, the guy just can’t win, can he…?
Cap can’t just ask Iron Man for help with everything, because Iron Man has got his own problems to deal with. There are plenty of problems that need one superhero to deal with, but which don’t need two.
I never made the Skrull connection, myself. To me, they were generic alien cannon fodder, is all, and the way they all conveniently collapsed reminded me (not pleasantly, either) of what happened in Phantom Menace after Cousin Oliver destroyed the droid control ship.
I suspected when he first spoke to Loki, not having been spoiled. He is one of the few who could get away with speaking to Loki like that. I, too, had a geek-asm when it was confirmed.
S’true, though. If I had a fiancee I wouldn’t be getting married in South Carolina, at least.
So, I’m the only one who knew who Thanos was who didn’t guess it was him after the ‘courting Death’ line? (I mean, I got the joke, once Thanos was revealed, I just didn’t take the hint immediately.)
I thought it was Hellboy. Then my girlfriend told me that Hellboy’s supposed to be good. Shows how little I know.
That’s exactly what I thought when that happened. Though I should have thought of it earlier - there a numerous instances in comic books where the heroes realize that they’re fighting automatons, not living creatures and say, “Good! No need to hold back!” and then proceed to tear !@#$ up. The heroes in the movie didn’t hesitate to start “killing”, so I assume they realized the aliens were automatons.
Nah…they just knew they were in a war, and look at the makeup of the team:
Cap: Soldier.
Hawkeye: Soldier.
Widow: Spy and assassin.
Hulk: Mindless engine of destruction.
Thor: Warrior god.
Iron Man: Former arms manufacturer with an only recently grown conscience.
Given the circumstances, they’ll all kill, no matter what the nature of the enemy. (Also, note the general lack of reluctance to kill during the raid on the Helicarrier, despite Loki’s troops being human, and at least some of them mind-controlled.)
That doesn’t seem to be a concern for heroes in the Marvel films. One of the first things Tony Stark does when he gets his prototype suit working in the first Iron Man movie is just straight-uphose some dudes down with napalm. Captain America, of course, killed Nazis left and right in his movie. Thor attacked a killed a whole bunch of Frost Giants for no reason in his film. In fact - someone correct me if I’m wrong, but the only superhero from this movie who we haven’t seen kill whole bunch of dudes is the Hulk, isn’t it? The big scary dude that’s got everyone freaked out has the lowest body count of the major cast members.
Ah, I didn’t realize there was another “true” stinger. I stand corrected. Guess I missed the shawarma scene, care to tell me what happened in that one?
Same here. I knew him by sight after he turned and then I was all “OH, courting Death… heh, because he’s in love with his indifferent dark mistress, good one Joss”
Killing doesn’t seem to be as much of an issue for most comic book heroes transplanted into movies. I suspect the decades of living under the comics code is the main reason for that. Even though now it’s all or mostly defunct, it’s now sort of a tradition for heroes not to kill in general. Since the MPAA isn’t nearly as restrictive, and most non-comic based action heroes are racking up body counts into the triple digits, the filmmakers just figure they’ve gotta do something to keep up.
Nothing. Absolutely nothing. Which was the beauty of the scene.
Well, that’s not entirely true. There was some chewing. 
I didn’t know until I read this thread. The only characters I recognized were Captain America and the Hulk. And there was a “hey, it’s Scarlett Johansson and Robert Downey Jr” moment.
I went to the movie because I like action films and people said it was good. But I didn’t know any background about any of the characters. I am not a comic book person. I saw Star Trek knowing nothing beyond the fact that there was a guy named Spock and I think I got into the swing of things quicker with that film than with the Avengers, but I still enjoyed it. I would say figuring out SHIELD and the Tesseract took me a good 20-25 minutes, though.
As far as I can tell, Hulk never kills anyone. There are always parachutes or radio messages (“we crashed but we’re okay!”) or that guy (bemused but completely unharmed) standing next to his tank that Hulk just threw two miles across the desert. The one time he really tries to kill a guy, Emil Blonsky, the guy gets better.
You’re not only not the only one, you got the joke quicker than I did. I recognized Thanos as soon as they showed him, but it wasn’t after the movie was over that I saw the double entendre: “Oh, court Death!” :smack: I initially thought the “death” reference was a play on his name and didn’t even think about the “court” part.
Now see, they should use that scene in the “Click It or Ticket” ad campaign. Clearly, the guy in the tank was strapped in
C’mon now, don’t be a tease! Who was chewing?
I thought the guy was Thrall, tbh.* (Why, no, I haven’t read any of the comics; why do you ask?) 
*though I realized it probably wasn’t