NOTE: ALL SPOILERS, NOT OF WHICH ARE CONFIRMED, ARE AFTER THE JUMP. THIS VIDEO IS PERFECTLY SAFE -- it's a short clip from the scene where Thor asks Cap if he's ready for another bout, mostly after hitting Loki's baddies with cars, and it's awesome. Hit the jump if you want to know three major things that might possibly happen in the movie which are totally spoilers... if they're true.
All right, you were warned. Here are the three rumors I'm hearing the most consistently:
• The aliens are Chitauri.
No real surprise there. The Chitauri are of course the Skrull-like aliens from the Ultimates comic which provide a convenient alien army for Loki without stepping on the toes of the actual Skrulls, who may be tied up in the Fantastic Four movie license (I don't really know why this would be, or why Marvel would limit the Skrulls to the FF at any point, but whatever). Note: I think it's important for Loki to have an alien army -- it really opens up the space aspect of the Marvel movie-verse in a way that more Norse bad guys wouldn't.
• Loki kills Agent Coulson.
As the only expendable hero in the cast, the chances of Coulson dying were always pretty good, and with Joss Whedon and his penchant for killing off beloved side characters, I imagine Coulson made out his will the day after Whedon signed his contract. Fucking Joss Whedon.
• Thanos appears after the credits.
Apparently Loki gets his Chitauri army from some alien, and that alien has a brief conversation with Thanos as the post-credits stinger, setting up Avengers 2.
Now, here's why all of these might not be true: most of the "spoilers" seem to be coming from ComicBookMovie.com, which has a track record of about 18% accuracy when it comes to these sorts of things. When you remember that the Coulson Dies and Thanos rumors have literally been floating around for more than a year or two, well, let me just point out that CBM really isn't saying anything new. Now, maybe the fact that the rumors have been around so long means something in and of itself, but right now, at the moment, I've not seen or heard from anyone I 100% on the matter of Avengers spoilers. So take these things with about a tablespoon or salt, is what I'm saying.
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Cheers!
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Being from Brazil, I confirm the spoilers. Agent Coulson's death is awesome though, but we never see his body AND it's Marvel, so we never know who might come back from the dead :-).
Oh good grief. If you really care that much, here's the major bit - skip past if you care about spoilers:
1.) Coulson dies via Loki impaling him2.) The first post credit sequence features the skrull. I think super skrull.
Coulson might have faked his death..he did get stabbed through the back with Lokis staff..I am sure they will bring him back somehow:)
All of that is true..Thanos is at the end..you even see his boot in the opening scene.Couslon dying sucks but whatever.
I can confirm the Coulson rumor as being true. I was sad. Sadly, the version I saw didn't have the hidden surprise at the end...I will be seeing it opening day though and will very much be looking for that one!
(Spoilers) Just saw the movie (out early for some reason in HK and I caught a midnight release) - every point is true.
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Just saw Avengers (awesome and must-see) and can vouch for the rumors above. Live in the Philippines so... yeah. Yay, third-world countries.
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Haha it's actually quite funny, since all of those spoilers are actually true in the film. Take it from someone who has seen it
All these spoilers are Right!.... I'm from Argentina and The Avengers's openning was on april 23... :)
I always liked the theory that Loki thought the aliens were those undead norse demon creatures, only for it to be revealed that they were Skrull all along, who then betray Loki (who is forced to team up with the Avengers) for their master Thanos.-Nothing I would want to see in the comics, but for a movie adaption it would work.
In the Ultimate universe Fury says at one point that the Chitauri are also know as Skrulls. They only had the other name to not tip that they were skrulls for a few weeks when that story arc first came out.
Rumor has it that Coulson dies, like said above, but is rebuilt as a cyborg named... Vision!
Not saying its true. But if it is, how do people feel about this?
Captain America: Hey, aren't we supposed to have wings on our head
Thor: What, and cover up this beautifully coiffed head of luxurious hair with an icky helmet....ewww
Captain America: I know, they actually wanted to put a mask over my gorgeous face!!
I feel bad for all the TR readers who decided they didn't want to see any 'spoilers' and are now getting the shakes when this article is just a bunch of old, doubtful crap.
I was at the Orlando screening Saturday. All of this is true. The movie is also amazingly good!!
I guess I should put in the caveat that I'm wrong, and everyone's just assuming Sony has the rights to the Skrulls in general based on the Super Skrull and/or Marvel has decided it's not worth the legal fight. But if that's the case it's because Marvel and Sony have very very very bad lawyers, and I find that very unlikely. But like I said, I haven't seen the agreement and am just making reasonable guesses. The most important thing is that licensing agreements aren't something that just come mysteriously into the world. If Sony has the Skrulls, it's because something in their licensing agreement says that they do, or is leading people to believe that they do.
If Thanos shows up at the end, I WILL have an orgasm. If he kills something, I will have a lethal orgasm.
he only shows up after the graphical credits...much like sinestro at the end of green lantern, hinted as the next villain for the sequel
Aren't all orgasm supposed to be a little shameful? If they aren't I want my money back
Hope Thanos looks like Thanos as in a hulk sized person and not just some little scrawny looking purple guy
i was at the fan screening this past weekend & can confirm all 3 rumors. Avengers transcends epic imho
Those aliens look CG as fuck. Also, they won't kill Coulson, this theory has already been debunked by Clark Gregg and (I believe) Whedon himself.
Actually I think these are coming from the Super Hero Hype forums via CBM. I've heard descriptions of these scenes from a few folks on there and it sounds legit.
I feel like such a bad geek for not being very familiar with Thanos though.
I'm with you on this. Agent Coulson hasn't been Agent Coulson since his little webisode online. It's very Ultimates /Secret Invasion to do that.
Come on, they wouldn't write Agent Coulson into Ultimate Spider-Man only to kill him off a month later, right? Right?
Why are they still insisting on making another Fantastic Four movie? The 2005 movie was ok at best, the sequel was a horrible commercial for the Silver Surfer movie which never happened because Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer was such a horrible commercial masquerading as a movie. And the Silver Surfer character deserves better treatment than that.
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Avengers better be good!
See all my posts above.
Simple answer: Fox has to make another FF movie, or they surrender the film rights to FF and Marvel Studios gets them back. Fox doesn't want this to happen.
Remember how good that went last time an FF movie had to be made. The unwatchable, never released except in bootleg, Fantastic Four movie with actual physical effects instead of CGI. Lord help us.
Well there's one thing against another Fantastic Four movie...the Human Torch is now Captain America! Either Chris Evans does both roles, since the Torch isn't under the Marvel Studios banner, or they reboot FF with a new cast (or just recast Evans).
My guess is a reboot. It's a cheap and easy way to keep the film rights at Fox.
It wouldn't be the first time a cheap-ass FF movie was made to retain film rights.
Fantastic Four------gross:$330,120,875
Fantastic Four: Rise Of The Silver Surfer-----gross: $289,000,000
The movies still sucked.
Just because something is popular doesn't mean it's good. Taco Bell, for instance.
Besides, notice most of their box office money was made the first 3 weeks. Additionally, it looks as if more than half that was made in DVD/BluRay/Downloads.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt01...
The sequel did far worse, while it did huge business the first two weeks, it dropped off sharply immediately afterwards. That's why we didn't see a Silver Surfer movie.
