100 Best The Avengers Quotes

Tony: That man is playing Galaga! Thought we wouldn't notice. But we did.

- Stark, we're on your three, headed northeast.
- What? Did you stop for drive-through?
- Swing up Park. I'm going to lay them out for you.
- Sir, we have more incoming.
- Fine. Let's keep them occupied.
- Nat?
- I see him.

- Kneel before me.
- I said kneel!

- I need these vehicles.
- Who's that?
- They didn't tell me.
- Hill!
- Do you copy?
- Barton has turned.
- They have the Tesseract!
- Shut them down!

- One out of five...
- Jarvis, anytime now.
- Jarvis, anytime now.
- You will all fall before me.
- Deploy!
- Deploy!

Tony: What's the stat, Rogers?
Steve: [looks at the Helicarrier tech] It seems to be powered by some sort of electricity!
Tony: ...well, you're not wrong.

- Thank you.
- Are you an alien?
- What?
- From outer space, an alien.
- No.
- Well, then, son, you've got a condition.

- He's headed for the detention level.
- Does anybody copy?
- This is Agent Romanoff.
- I copy.
- Stark, we're losing altitude.
- Yeah, I noticed.

- Gentlemen, you might want to step inside in a minute.
- It's going to get a little hard to breathe.
- Flight crew, secure the deck.
- Is this a submarine?
- Really?
- They want me in a submerged, pressurised, metal container?

Jarvis: [Thor has just thrown a thunderbolt on Iron Man] Power to four-hundred percent capacity.
Tony: How about that?

- What does it look like in there?
- It seems to run on some form of electricity.
- Well, you're not wrong.

- Okay, turn, turn.
- Less! Less!

- All personnel, the evacuation order has been confirmed.

- There are people inside and they're going to be running right into the line of fire.
- You take them to the basements or through the subway.
- You keep them off the streets.
- I need a perimeter as far back as 39th.
- Why the hell should I take orders from you?

Steve: Thor, what's his play?
Thor: He has an army, called the Chitauri. They're not of Asgard or any world known. He means to lead them against your people. They will win him the Earth. In return, I suspect, for the Tesseract.
Steve: An army. From outer space.
Bruce: So he's building another portal. That's what he needs Erik Selvig for.
Thor: Selvig?
Bruce: He's an astrophysicist.
Thor: He's a friend.
Natasha: Loki has them under some kind of spell. Along with one of ours.
Steve: I wanna know why Loki let us take him. He's not leading an army from here.
Bruce: I don't think we should be focusing on Loki. That guy's brain is a bag full of cats. You can smell crazy on him.
Thor: Have a care how you speak! Loki is beyond reason, but he is of Asgard and he is my brother!
Natasha: He killed eighty people in two days.
Thor: He's adopted.

- Just like Budapest all over again.
- You and I remember Budapest very differently.

- We are clear.
- All engines operating.
- S.H.I.E.L.D. Emergency
- Protocol 193.6 in effect.
- We are at level, sir.
- Good.
- Let's vanish.
- Engage retro-reflection panels.

Nick: You think you could make Loki tell us where the Tesseract is?
Thor: I do not know. Loki's mind is far afield. It's not just power he craves, it's vengeance, upon me. There's no pain would prise his need from him.
Nick: A lot of guys think that. Until the pain starts.
Thor: What are you asking me to do?
Nick: I'm asking, what are you prepared to do?
Thor: Loki is a prisoner.
Nick: Then why do I feel like he's the only person on this boat that wants to be here?

- I didn't make it.
- I just didn't argue with the god that did.
- So, you let him take it and the war criminal, Loki, who should be answering for his crime.
- I think he will be.

Stan: Superheroes? In New York? Give me a break!

- Stark, you copy that?
- I'm on it.
- Coulson, initiate defensive lockdown in the detention section then get to the armoury.
- Romanoff?
- We're okay.
- We're okay, right?

- No, I'm clocking out here.
- Not an option.
- It's okay, boss.
- This was never gonna work if they didn't have something to...

- The Council is on.
- Stark, you got a lot of strays sniffing your tail.
- I'm just trying to keep them off the streets.
- Well, they can't bank worth a damn.
- So find a tight corner.
- I will roger that.

Thor: I have unfinished business with Loki.
Clint: Yeah? Get in line.

- what happens then?
- They'll come back.
- Are you really sure about that?
- I am.
- Why?
- Because we'll need them to.

- No contacts, no IMs.
- If there was any tampering, sir, it wasn't at this end.
- "At this end"?
- Yeah, the Cube is a doorway to the other end of space, right?
- Doors open from both sides.
- Not yet.

Tony: [regaining consciousness] What just happened? Please tell me nobody kissed me.
Steve: We won.
Tony: Alright. Hey. Alright. Good job, guys. Let's just not come in tomorrow. Let's just take a day. Have you ever tried shawarma? There's a shawarma joint about two blocks from here. I don't know what it is, but I wanna try it.

- Well, maybe it's not about guns.
- If you want to get up there, you're going to need a ride.
- I got a ride.
- I could use a boost, though.
- Are you sure about this?
- Yeah. It's gonna be fun.

- Package is sent.
- Detonation in
- 2 minutes, 30 seconds, mark.

[after attacking Loki with full weapons activated]
Tony: Make a move, Reindeer Games...
[Loki quietly surrenders]
Tony: Good move.
Steve: Mr. Stark.
Tony: Captain.

- I need men in those buildings.
- Lead the people down and away from the streets.
- We're going to set up a perimeter all the way down to 39th Street.
- Well, we got its attention.
- What the hell was step two?

Natasha: [watching the aliens come toward them] This is just like Budapest all over again.
Clint: You and I remember Budapest very differently.

Steve: Stark, are you seeing any of this?
Tony: Seeing, still working on believing.

- Now, I don't know what you plan on doing here.
- I've come here to put an end to Loki's schemes.
- Then prove it. Put that hammer down.
- Yeah... No.
- Bad call. He loves his hammer.
- You want me to put the hammer down?

- Keep that engine down!
- Yes, sir.
- Detention, wait for cameras to go dark.
- Got it.
- Stay close.
- Let's go, Level 4.
- Engine three. I'll meet you there.

- We need full evac on the lower hangar bay.
- Grenade!

Natasha: I want to know what you've done to Agent Barton.
Loki: I would say I've expanded his mind.
Natasha: And once you've won, once you're king of the mountain, what happens to his mind?
Loki: Oh. Is this love, Agent Romanoff?
Natasha: Love is for children. I owe him a debt.
Loki: Tell me.
Natasha: Before I worked for SHIELD, I, uh... Well, I made a name for myself. I have a very specific skill set. I didn't care who I used it for, or on. I got on SHIELD's radar in a bad way. Agent Barton was sent to kill me. He made a different call.
Loki: And what will you do if I vow to spare him?
Natasha: Not let you out.
Loki: [smiles] No, but I like this. Your world in the balance, and you bargain for one man.
Natasha: Regimes fall every day. I tend not to weep over that, I'm Russian... or was.
Loki: And what are you now?
Natasha: It's really not that complicated. I've got red in my ledger, I'd like to wipe it out.
Loki: Can you? Can you wipe out that much red? Dreykov's daughter, Sao Paulo, the hospital fire?
[Natasha's calm demeanor starts to break]
Loki: Barton told me everything. Your ledger is dripping, it's GUSHING red, and you think saving a man no more virtuous than yourself will change anything? This is the basest sentimentality. This is a child at prayer... PATHETIC! You lie and kill in the service of liars and killers. You pretend to be separate, to have your own code. Something that makes up for the horrors. But they are a part of you, and they will never go away!... I won't touch Barton. Not until I make him kill you!
[Natasha's eyes start to bulge as her face turns fearful]
Loki: [snarling] Slowly, intimately, in every way he knows you fear! And then he'll wake just long enough to see his good work, and when he screams, I'll split his skull! This is MY bargain, you mewling quim!
[Natasha turns and takes several steps away]
Natasha: [starts to cry] You're a monster!
Loki: [laughing] Oh no, you brought the monster.
Natasha: [quickly dropping her facade] So, Banner... that's your play.
Loki: ...What?
Natasha: [on the intercom] Loki means to unleash the Hulk. Keep Banner in the lab, I'm on my way. Send Thor as well.
Natasha: [turning back to Loki] Thank you... for your cooperation.

- Your floating fortress falls from the sky.
- Where is my disadvantage?
- You lack conviction.
- I don't think I'm...
- So, that's what it does.
- All hands to crash stations immediately.

- Target acquired.
- Target engaged.
- Target angry, target angry!

Thor: You people are so petty... and tiny.

Natasha: Gentlemen, you might want to step inside in a minute. It's going to get a little hard to breathe.
[as the Helicarrier starts to power up, Steve Rogers and Bruce Banner walk to the edge]
Steve: Is this a submarine?
Bruce: Really? They want me submerged in a pressurized metal container?
[Rogers and Banner stand at the edge and they look over as the Helicarrier starts to slowly rise out of the ocean to fly]
Bruce: [smiles] Oh, no, this is MUCH worse!
[Rogers hands $10 to Fury]

- He has a fever and he's moaning but his eyes won't open.
- Slow down.
- My father...
- Like them?
- Please.

Natasha: [all arguing in the lab] Are you really that dense? S.H.I.E.L.D. monitors potential threats.
Bruce: Captain America is on threat watch?
Natasha: We ALL are!
Tony: [to Rogers] You're on that list? Are you above or below angry bees?
Steve: I swear, Stark, one more wisecrack out of you...
Tony: Verbal threat! Threatening! I'm being threatened!

- Always a way out.
- You may not be a threat but you better stop pretending to be a hero.
- A hero? Like you?
- You're a laboratory experiment, Rogers.
- Everything special about you came out of a bottle.

- If I send that bird out, we already have.
- You.
- Hawkeye!
- Nat, what are you doing?
- A little help?
- I got him.

- Look around you!
- You think this madness will end with your rule?
- It's too late.
- It's too late to stop it.
- No. We can, together.
- Sentiment.

- What did Loki do to you?
- He didn't. I just...
- Natasha.
- I've been compromised.
- I got red in my ledger.
- I would like to wipe it out.

- Turn off the Tesseract, or I'll destroy it.
- You can't.
- There is no stopping it.
- There is only the war.
- So be it.

- they were in Coulson's locker, not in his jacket.
- They needed the push.
- We have an unauthorised departure from Bay 6.
- They found him.
- Get our communications back up, whatever you have to do.
- I want eyes on everything.
- Yes, sir.

- and saw a man standing above everybody else, we ended up disagreeing.
- The soldier.
- The man out of time.
- I'm not the one who's out of time.
- Loki, drop the weapon and stand down.

- Right. I caught his act in Stuttgart.
- Yeah, that was just previews.
- This is opening night.
- And Loki, he's a full-tilt diva, right?
- He wants flowers, he wants parades.
- He wants a monument built to the skies with his name plastered...
- Son of a bitch.

- You come home.
- I don't have it.
- You need the Cube to bring me home.
- But I've sent it off, I know not where.
- You listen well, brother.
- I'm listening.

- The Army is here trying to contain the violence but clearly, it is outmatched.
- And I have to say, in all my years of reporting,
- I have never seen anything like this.
- We have limited information on the team but we do know that billionaire Tony Stark's Iron Man...

Iron: [as the fight begins] Call it, Captain!
Captain: Alright, listen up. Until we can close that portal, our priority's containment. Barton, I want you on that roof, eyes on everything. Call out patterns and strays. Stark, you got the perimeter. Anything gets more than three blocks out, you turn it back or you turn it to ash.
Hawkeye: [to Iron Man] Want to give me a lift?
Iron: Right. Better clench up, Legolas.
[Iron Man takes Hawkeye up to the roof]
Captain: Thor, you gotta try and bottleneck that portal. Slow 'em down. You got the lightning. Light the bastards up.
[Thor swings his hammer and flies off and Captain America turns to Black Widow]
Captain: You and me, we stay here on the ground, keep the fighting here. And Hulk?
[the Hulk turns and glares at Cap]
Captain: Smash!
[Hulk grins and leaps away]

- We've got civilians still trapped up here.
- Loki.

Natasha: Doctor, we're facing a potential global catastrophe.
Bruce: Well, THOSE I actively try to avoid.
Natasha: This is the Tesseract.
[she shows him a photo of the Tesseract on her cell phone]
Natasha: It has the potential energy to wipe out the planet.
Bruce: What does Fury want me to do? Swallow it?
Natasha: Well, he wants you to find it. It's been taken. It omits a gamma signature that's too weak for us to trace. There's no one that knows gamma radiation like you do. If there was, that's where I'd be.
Bruce: So Fury isn't after the monster?
Natasha: Not that he's told me.
Bruce: And he tells you everything?
Natasha: Talk to Fury, he needs you on this.
Bruce: He needs me in a cage?
Natasha: No one's gonna put you in a...
Bruce: STOP LYING TO ME!
[cringing back, Natasha quickly grabs her gun and points it at Banner]
Bruce: I'm sorry, that was mean. I just wanted to see what you'd do. Why don't we do this the easy way, where you don't use that, and the other guy doesn't make a mess? Okay?
[Natasha, still wary, doesn't lower her gun]
Bruce: Natasha?
Natasha: [she lowers her gun and speaks into her earpiece to the SHIELD agents who are surrounding the building outside] Stand down. We're good here.
Bruce: [Banner looks at Natasha in amusement] Just you and me?

Steve: Big man in a suit of armour. Take that off, what are you?
Tony: Genius, billionaire, playboy, philanthropist.
Steve: I know guys with none of that worth ten of you. I've seen the footage. The only thing you really fight for is yourself. You're not the guy to make the sacrifice play, to lay down on a wire and let the other guy crawl over you.
Tony: I think I would just cut the wire.
Steve: Always a way out... You know, you may not be a threat, but you better stop pretending to be a hero.
Tony: A hero? Like you? You're a lab rat, Rogers. Everything special about you came out of a bottle!
Steve: Put on the suit. Let's go a few rounds.

Loki: Enough! You are, all of you are beneath me! I am a god, you dull creature, and I will not be bullied by...
[Hulk flattens Loki with repeated smashes into the floor]
The: Puny god.

- You didn't know what you were doing.
- Actually, I think I did.
- I built in a safety to cut their power source.
- Loki's sceptre.
- It may be able to close the portal.
- And I'm looking right at it.

- There's not enough time.
- I got to put her in the water!
- You won't be alone.
- Oh, my God.
- This guy is still alive!

- Kneel.
- Not today!
- The guy's all over the place.
- Agent Romanoff. You miss me?

Loki: How will your friends have time for me, when they're so busy fighting you?
[taps Stark with his scepter, but the Arc Reactor stops the effect]
Loki: [tries again, with no success] This usually works...
Tony: Well, performance issues, it's not uncommon. One out of five...

- Levels 2 and 3 are dark.
- Sir, the Hulk will tear this place apart!
- Get his attention.
- Escort 6-0, proceed to
- Wishbone and engage hostile.
- Don't get too close.
- Copy.

Thor: I thought humans were more evolved than this.
Nick: Excuse me, did WE come to YOUR planet and blow stuff up?

- Reflection panels engaged.
- Gentlemen.

- If you fail, if the Tesseract is kept from us, there will be no realm, no barren moon, no crevice where he cannot find you.
- You think you know pain?
- He will make you long for something sweet as pain.

Tony: What else you got?
Clint: Well, Thor's taking on a squadron down on Sixth.
Tony: And he didn't invite me...

- Agent Coulson is down.
- A medical team is on its way to your location.
- They're here.
- They called it.

Faceless: Target acquired.
[Fires guns at Hulk]
Faceless: Target engaged.
[as Hulk leaps toward airplane]
Faceless: TARGET ANGRY! TARGET ANGRY!

- Power at 400% capacity.
- How about that?

Tony: [about Loki killing Coulson] He made it personal.
Steve: That's not the point.
Tony: That IS the point. That's Loki's point! He hit us all right where we live. Why?
Steve: To tear us apart.
Tony: Yeah, divide and conquer is great, but he knows he has to take us out to win, right? THAT'S what he wants. He wants to beat us, he wants to be seen doing it. He wants an audience.
Steve: Right. I caught his act at Stuttgart.
Tony: Yeah, that was just previews. This is - this is opening night. And Loki, he's a full-tilt diva, right? He wants flowers, he wants parades. He wants a monument built to the skies with his name plastered...
[Stark pauses; he and Rogers look at each other knowingly]
Tony: Sonofabitch!

[Loki awakens to find the Avengers staring down at him]
Loki: If it's all the same to you, I'll have that drink now.

Tony: JARVIS, have you heard the tale of Jonah?
Jarvis: I wouldn't consider him a role model.
[Iron Man flies through a Leviathan]

- Until you dragged me back into this freak show and put everyone here at risk.
- You want to know my secret,
- Agent Romanoff?
- You want to know how I stay calm?
- Dr Banner, put down the sceptre.

Steve: Does Loki need any particular kind of power source?
Bruce: He'd have to heat the cube to a hundred and twenty million Kelvin just to break through the Coulomb barrier.
Tony: Unless Selvig has figured out how to stabilize the quantum tunnelling effect.
Bruce: Well, if he could do that, he could achieve heavy ion fusion at any reactor on the planet.
Tony: Finally, someone who speaks English.
Steve: Is that what just happened?
[Stark and Banner shake hands]
Tony: It's good to meet you, Dr. Banner. Your work on anti-electron collisions is unparalleled. And I'm a huge fan of the way you lose control and turn into an enormous green rage monster.
Bruce: Thanks.
Nick: [to Stark] Dr. Banner is only here to track the cube. I was hoping you might join him.
Steve: Let's start with that stick of his. It may be magical, but it works an awful lot like a Hydra weapon.
Nick: I don't know about that, but it is powered by the cube. And I'd like to know how Loki used it to turn two of the sharpest men I know into his personal flying monkeys.
Thor: Monkeys? I do not understand.
Steve: I do!
[Stark rolls his eyes, while Captain America looks proud of himself]
Steve: I understood that reference.

Agent: [via phone] Mr Stark, we need to talk.
Tony: You have reached the life model decoy of Tony Stark, please leave a message.
Agent: This is urgent.
Tony: Then leave it urgently.
[Coulson enters Stark's penthouse, hanging up his cellphone]
Tony: Security breach.
Tony: [to Pepper] That's on you.
Agent: Mr Stark.
Pepper: Phil! Come in.
Tony: "Phil?" Uh, his first name is "Agent."

Waitress: [deleted scene: Cap, feeling disconnected from the world, sits at an outdoor cafe table sketching Stark Tower] Waiting on the big guy?
Steve: Ma'am?
Waitress: Iron Man. A lot of people eat here just to see him fly by.
Steve: Right. Maybe another time.
[pays his tab]
Waitress: The table's yours as long as you like. Nobody's waiting on it. Plus we've got free wireless.
Steve: Radio?
[she gives him a nice look over her shoulder as she walks away]
Stan: [from the adjacent table] Ask for her number, you moron.

Loki: The Chitauri are coming. Nothing will change that. What have I to fear?
Tony: The Avengers. That's what we call ourselves; we're sort of like a team. "Earth's Mightiest Heroes" type thing.
Loki: Yes, I've met them.
Tony: Yeah, takes us a while to get any traction, I'll give you that one. But let's do a head count here: your brother the demi-god; a super soldier, a living legend who kind of lives up to the legend; a man with breath-taking anger management issues; a couple of master assassins, and YOU, big fella, you've managed to piss off every single one of them.
Loki: That was the plan.
Tony: Not a great plan. When they come, and they WILL, they'll come for you.
Loki: I have an army.
Tony: We have a Hulk.
Loki: I thought the beast had wandered off...
Tony: You're missing the point! There's no throne, there is no version of this where you come out on top. Maybe your army comes and maybe it's too much for us but it's all on you. Because if we can't protect the Earth, you can be damned well sure we'll avenge it!

- And there's one other person you pissed off.
- His name was Phil.
- Right.
- Army.

[Banner arrives in New York on a motorcycle just as the Chitauri have begun their attack]
Bruce: So... this all seems horrible.
Black: I've seen worse.
Bruce: Sorry.
Black: No, we could... use... a little worse.

Loki: Please tell me you're going to appeal to my humanity
Tony: Uh, actually I'm planning to threaten you.
Loki: You should have left your armor on for that.
Tony: Yeah. It's seen a bit of "mileage" and you got the "glow-stick of destiny". Would you like a drink?
Loki: Stalling me won't change anything
Tony: No, no no, threatening! No drink? You sure? I'm having one.

- and drop a hundred feet of rock on us.
- He means to bury us.
- Like the pharaohs of old.
- He's right. The portal is collapsing in on itself.
- We've got maybe two minutes before this goes critical.
- Well, then.

- The Tesseract belongs on Asgard.
- No human is a match for it.
- You're not going alone.
- You're gonna stop me?
- Put on the suit, let's find out.
- I'm not afraid to hit an old man.
- Put on the suit.
- Oh, my God.

- Override order 7-Alpha11.
- 7Alpha11, confirmed.
- We're go for takeoff.
- Sir, we have a bird in motion!
- Anyone on the deck, we have a rogue bird.
- We need to shut it down!
- Repeat, takeoff is not authorised.

- We are not your enemies, Banner.
- Try to think!

- unlimited power.
- And for what?
- A warm light for all mankind to share.
- A warm light for all mankind to share.
- And then to be reminded what real power is.
- Well, let me know if "real power" wants a magazine or something.

Steve: Doctor Banner, now might be a good time for you to get angry.
Bruce: That's my secret, Captain: I'm always angry.
[Banner hulks out and punches the Leviathan]

- That stator control unit can reverse the polarity long enough to disengage maglev and that could...
- Speak English!
- You see that red lever?
- It will slow the rotors down long enough for me to get out.
- Stand by it. Wait for my word.

- The barrier is pure energy.
- It's unbreachable.
- Yeah, I got that.
- Plan B.
- Sir, the Mark 7 is not ready for deployment.
- Then skip the spinning rims.
- We're on the clock.

- No!
- Are you ever not going to fall for that?

- I got to get this superconducting coolant system back online before I can access the rotors, work on dislodging the debris.
- I need you to get to that engine control panel and tell me which relays are in overload position.

- Slow them down.
- You got the lightning.
- Light the bastards up.
- You and me, we stay here on the ground.
- We keep the fighting here.
- And Hulk...
- Smash.

Security: Are you an alien?
Bruce: What?
Security: From outer space, an alien.
Bruce: No.
Security: Well then son, you've got a condition.

Thor: Do not touch me again!
Tony: Then don't take my stuff.
Thor: You have no idea what you are dealing with.
Tony: Uh, Shakespeare in The Park? Doth mother know you weareth her drapes?
Thor: This is beyond you, metal man. Loki will face Asgardian justice.
Tony: He gives up the Cube, he's all yours. Until then, stay out of the way, tourist.

- We need a response team.
- These people may be isolated, unbalanced even but I believe with the right push they can be exactly what we need.
- You believe?
- War isn't won by sentiment, Director.
- No, it's won by soldiers.

- I have a plan. Attack.
- I'd sit this one out, Cap.
- I don't see how I can.
- These guys come from legend.
- They're basically gods.
- There's only one God, ma'am.
- And I'm pretty sure he doesn't dress like that.

- Enough!
- You are, all of you, beneath me!
- I am a god, you dull creature.
- And I will not be bullied by...

- Then tell him to suit up.
- I'm bringing the party to you.
- I don't see how that's a party.
- Dr Banner.
- Now might be a really good time for you to get angry.
- That's my secret, Captain.
- I'm always angry.

- looking for that briefcase.
- Roger that.
- Coulson, get back to base.
- This is a Level Seven.
- As of right now, we are at war.
- What do we do?

- Go where?
- I'll tell you on the way.
- Can you fly one of those jets?
- I can.
- You got a suit?
- Yeah.
- Then suit up.