5 Cool Facts About the Avengers
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5 Cool Facts about The Avengers Mudabbir Ahmad Earth’s mightiest heroes come together for a second time on the big screen today with Avengers: Age of Ultron hitting cinemas. Early reviews have suggested that this Joss Whedon directed film manages to match, if not top the entertainment and fun that the first Avengers film provided. The film marks the end of Marvel’s Phase 3 for its movies, and from now on the Marvel films are set to take a very interesting turn as Antman, The Inhumans, Captain Marvel and Black Panther films line-up for release, besides Captain America: Civil War and the third Thor film ‘Ragnarok’. All these films are to set up the final two instalments of Avengers- Infinity War 1 and Infinity War 2, in or after which we may see an entirely new team of Avengers. Interesting, isn’t it? With the Avengers film releasing today, we bring you these 5 cool facts about the Avengers- 1. The first "Avengers" consisted of Iron Man, Thor, Hulk, Ant-Man and Wasp. The issue came out in 1963. 2. The Wasp came up with the name ‘Avengers’. The Wasp thought that the ’Avengers" sounded "dramatic". It sure does! 3. The Prologue for 1970s The Avengers comic books is, "And there came a day, a day unlike any other, when Earth's mightiest heroes and heroines found themselves united against a common threat. On that day, the Avengers were born—to fight the foes no single super hero could withstand! Through the years, their roster has prospered, changing many times, but their glory has never been denied! Heed the call, then—for now, the Avengers Assemble!" Once the film project had gotten underway, Chris Evans (Captain America) sent a text message to Clark Gregg (Agent Coulson) simply saying 'Assemble'. 4. The Avengers members may change from time to time. A total of 86 comic characters have been Avengers’ members till now. 5. Not many villains are powerful enough to make it difficult for a single superhero to fight them. And there have been very few of them that have made the Avengers assemble. These top villains are Loki, Kang the Conqueror, Ultron, Taskmaster, Grim Reaper and Enchantress..