The Avengers Research Paper

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Every Marvel comic book fan that has faithfully watched every single one of Marvel’s other films is packed into a local theater as they prepare for what is the literal collection of all of Marvel’s most iconic comic book heroes into one spectacular fight fest. It is Marvel’s mashup otherwise known as Marvel’s The Avengers directed by Joss Whedon. The movie stars all the main protagonist of its previous films and include appearances from Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man, Chris Evans as Captain America and many more superheroes and their corresponding actors. The movie follows many Marvel movies as it is obviously a superhero action film that evokes childhood memories of comic books. Marvel’s The Avengers is an excellent Marvel comic’s movie due …show more content…

Firstly, Marvel’s The Avengers focuses on the “Avengers” and how they came together to fight a common threat that none of them could face alone. The group of superheroes battle amongst and within themselves as they try to cope with their inner turmoil; meanwhile, Loki (Tom Hiddleston) an alien invasion to take over the world for himself. The band of heroes must push past these differences and come together as a team for the common good of the world that they are bound to protect as an alien invasion looms and an all-out war ensures between the newly formed Avengers and the invading alien force that will change the Marvel movie universe forever.
Secondly, the host of iconic figures in Marvel’s The Avengers is central to the theme of the movie itself as the title of the movie involves a team of Marvel’s mightiest superheroes banding together to fight a common enemy bigger than all of them. The movie does this by incorporating characters such as Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.), Captain America (Chris Evans), The Incredible Hulk (Mark Ruffalo), Thor (Chris Hemsworth), Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson), Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner), and Nick Fury (Samuel Jackson) to …show more content…

This is significant because the movie would suffer greatly from subpar special effects and would be in an overall lower quality movie to watch visually as the explosions would not be as interesting and the fight scenes would seem forced. A prime example is the three-way fight scene involving Thor, Iron Man, and Captain America since the rays and blasts from Iron Man’s suit are directly made from special effects as are the abilities of Thor’s hammer such as calling in thunder to decimate the forest around them. The final clash of the fight which involves the three seeing that the fight has charred the forest surrounding them was completely done by special effects and looked like an actual wildfire had hit the area. Therefore, the special effects not only enhance the scenes that are portrayed on screen but can sometimes be the actual basis of the whole scene since the scene would not be portrayed accurately without the use of special effects. These special effects help to liven up the movie and strengthen it as a superhero movie in general and tie in parts of the movie that otherwise would not be

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