The Avengers premiered on May 4, 2012 The Avengers Box Office revenue was $1.521 billion dollars The Avengers budget was $225 million dollars The Avengers was the the 6th and final film of Phase 1

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1st appearance and origin of Captain America

1st appearance of James Buchanan Barnes aka Bucky, later becomes the Winter Soldier

1st appearance of the Red Skull, George Maxon, an agent of the true Red Skull

1st appearance of Doctor Reinstein aka Doctor Erskine, the inventor of the Super Soldier serum

1st appearance of Hurricane, later becomes Makkari

1st appearance of Tuk the Cave Boy, first offspring of the Inhumans

Introduction of Project Rebirth, the Super Soldier Program that eventually expanded into Weapon Plus

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Captain America portrayed by Chris Evans

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1st appearance of Stan Lee in a comic book as an illustrated character

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1st appearance and origin of the Hulk

1st appearance of Betty Ross

1st appearance of Rick Jones

1st appearance of General 'Thunderbolt' Ross

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The Hulk portrayed by Mark Ruffalo

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1st appearance and origin of Thor

Introduction of Thor's hammer, Mjolnir

1st team appearance of the Kronans, a race of rock-like aliens

1st appearance of Donald Blake, the human host of Thor

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Thor portrayed by Chris Hemsworth

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1st appearance of Iron Man

Debut of Iron Man's 'Model 1' armor

1st appearance of Wong-Chu, a Viet Cong warlord and Iron Man's first enemy

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Iron Man portrayed by Robert Downey Jr.

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1st appearance of Sgt. Nick Fury

1st team appearance of the Howling Commandos: Happy Sam Sawyer, Dino Manelli, Dum Dum Dugan, Junior Juniper, Rebel Ralston and Gabe Jones, the first ongoing black character in the mainstream Marvel Universe (post Fantastic Four #1)

In the book, Stan Lee's Amazing Marvel Universe, Stan explains Gabe Jones was intended to be black but due to a printing error, he was the same color as the other soldiers. Gabe's skin tone is noticeably different in the next issue though it doesn't appear to be a natural skin color

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Nick Fury portrayed by Samuel L. Jackson

Marvel ⋅ 1963

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1st team appearance and origin of the Avengers: Hulk, Iron Man, Wasp, Thor, Ant-Man

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Loki portrayed by Tom Hiddleston

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1st appearance of the Black Widow, Natasha Romanova

Death of the first Crimson Dynamo

1st appearance and death of the second Crimson Dynamo, Boris Turgenov

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Black Widow portrayed by Scarlett Johansson

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1st appearance and origin of Hawkeye

3rd appearance of Black Widow

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Hawkeye portrayed by Jeremy Renner

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Introduction of the Cosmic Cube

Marvel ⋅ 1973

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1st appearance of Thanos, an Eternal from Titan born with the Deviants gene

1st cameo appearance of Eros aka Starfox, brother of Thanos

1st appearance of Kronos, Grandfather of Thanos

1st appearance of Mentor, father of Thanos

1st appearance of Drax the Destroyer, created by Kronus to kill Thanos

1st appearance of the Blood Brothers

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Thanos portrayed by Damon Poitier

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1st appearance of the Mind Gem

Marvel ⋅ 1977

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Death of Warlock

Death of Pip the Troll

Death of Gamora

1st appearance of all six Infinity Gems: Soul, Time, Space, Mind, Reality, Power

First battle of Thanos and Warlock

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First mention of Project P.E.G.A.S.U.S., a prison facility and lab where renewable energy is studied

1st appearance of Jude the Entropic Man

Marvel ⋅ 2002

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1st appearance of Nick Fury bearing a likeness to Samuel L. Jackson

1st appearance of Ultimate Nick Fury is in Ultimate Team-Up #5

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Nick Fury portrayed by Samuel L. Jackson

Marvel ⋅ 2002

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1st appearance of the Chitauri

Marvel ⋅ 2005

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1st official team appearance of the New Avengers: Captain America, Spider-Man, Iron Man, Luke Cage, Spider-Woman

1st appearance of Maria Hill, former director of S.H.I.E.L.D.

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Maria Hill portrayed by Cobie Smulders

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1st appearance of Phil Coulson, agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. in comic books from the Marvel Cinematic Universe, not in-continuity

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Phil Coulson portrayed by Clark Gregg

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Introduction of J.A.R.V.I.S. [Just Another Rather Very Intelligent System], an AI system created by Tony Stark

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J.A.R.V.I.S. voiced by Paul Bettany

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1st appearance of Erik Selvig, a leading scientist in the research of the Cosmic Cube

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Dr. Selvig portrayed by Stellan Skarsgard

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