MCU Rewind: Assembling the Avengers Was An Impossible Task, But Marvel Studios Did It Perfectly
The hype leading up to the first MCU team-up film was nowhere near the level the hype leading up to Endgame has reached. Still, at the time, The Avengers was one of the most hotly anticipated superhero movies of all time. I honestly don’t recall what the prevailing feeling on social media was about the movie, but personally, I believed it would be a disaster. Taking four distinct characters from four discrete stories and putting them together in a single movie felt like too much for anyone to achieve. Even though my expectations were low, I planned to see it opening weekend. I wanted to support the effort because, even if the execution were flawed, I wanted the MCU to try again and again until they got it right. So, imagine my surprise when after the wordless post-credits scene closed, I was left stunned in my seat because they did it. Avengers was about as perfect as such a film could be, and it marked the beginning of a new era in cinematic storytelling.
The opening of the film was something of a risk, and it actually made me very frightened about what awaited us. A character known as The Other — played and/or voiced by Alexis Denisof — opens with some straight-up exposition. He talks about the Tesseract being “awakened” and reveals that Loki, his magic spear, and the Chitauri are…
