- This is the story of the Marvel Cinematic Universe
in five minutes, phase two.
A reclusive Tony Stark
builds an excessive collection of Iron Man suits.
Aldrich Killian invites former girlfriend, Pepper Potts,
to join his company.
The mysterious terrorist known as the Mandarin
blows up Tony's Malibu mansion.
Tony escapes only to end up stranded without power
in rural Tennessee.
He teams up with 10 year old Harley
to track the Mandarin's stronghold to Miami.
Stark infiltrates the terrorist base
and discovers the Mandarin
is actually just an English actor named Trevor.
Meanwhile, Killian blows up Air Force One.
Iron Man and Iron Patriot reunite
to save people falling from the doomed plane.
On an oil tanker,
Killian reveals he's subjected Pepper to extremis,
in order to force Stark into curing the whole
blowing up all test subjects issue.
Tony traps Killian in a self-destructing Iron Man suit.
Killian survives only for Pepper to reemerge and kill him.
Tony remotely blows up his legion of Iron Man suits
as a showing of devotion to Pepper.
The Convergence, a rare alignment of the nine realms
that opens portals between worlds in imminent.
Jane Foster falls through a portal into another world
where she's infected by the Aether.
Thor brings Jane to Asgard.
The Aether wakes the Dark Elf, Malekith,
who attacks Asgard with a cursed soldier.
Thor's mom is killed protecting Jane from Malekith.
Thor, Jane and Loki take a secret portal to Svartalfheim
to confront Malekith.
Loki tricks the Dark Elf
into extracting the Aether from Jane
but Thor fails to destroy
allowing Malekith to draw the Ather's power.
Thor cradles a fatally wounded Loki like a baby.
Thor battles Malekith across multiple worlds
until the Dark Elf is sent back to his home world
and crushed under his own ship.
Back on Asgard, Loki impersonates Odin and takes the throne.
Nick Fury raises concerns about Helicarriers
linked to spy satellites
with senior S.H.I.E.L.D. official, Alexander Pierce.
Fury is ambushed.
He hands off a flash drive to Cap
before being gunned down by the Winter Soldier.
Cap refuses to share the data with Pierce,
who labels Cap a fugitive
and orders agents to hunt him down.
In an underground bunker,
Cap and Black Widow uncover Arnim Zola's conscious
who reveals HYDRA has been operating within S.H.I.E.L.D.
since World War II.
Rogers recruits Sam Wilson, A.K.A. Falcon,
to help stop HYDRA.
They're attacked by the Winter Soldier
who Cap discovers is none other than his B.F.F. Bucky.
They escape to the not-dead-after-all Fury's safe house.
Black Widow exposes S.H.I.E.L.D.'s HYDRA problem
to the public.
Fury kills Pierce and Bucky fights Cap atop a Helicarrier.
Cap refuses to fight back.
The airship crashes into S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters
and Bucky pulls an unconscious Cap out of the river.
After witnessing the death of his mother,
Peter Quill is abducted by Yondu's Ravagers.
Many years later, Quill,
or Star-Lord as he likes to call himself,
steals an orb containing the Power Stone.
Gamora ambushes Quill on Xandar.
Rocket Racoon and Groot enter the fray,
only for all four to end up in prison.
They enlist the help of Drax to escape
so they can sell the orb to Gamora's buyer.
They take Quill's ship, Milano, to nowhere.
The collector's assistant grabs the orb
causing an explosion.
Drax gets drunk and summons Ronan to their location.
Nebula destroys her sister's ship,
leaving Gamora floating in space.
Quill rescues Gamora but the orb is lost to Ronan.
Quill enlists Yondu and the Ravagers to help
in exchange for dibs on the orb.
Together, with the Nova Corps, the fight Ronan over Xandar.
Gamora takes down Nebula, stuck aboard a crashing ship.
Groot sacrifices himself to save the team.
Quill distracts Ronan
while Drax and Rocket destroy the war hammer,
freeing the Infinity Stone.
The Guardians hold the stone
and together they hone the power to defeat Ronan.
Rocket grows a new Groot from his old pal's remains.
The Avengers raid Baron Strucker's HYDRA base in Sokovia
to retrieve Loki's Scepter.
They run into twin test subjects,
Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch.
Stark and Banner secretly use the AI from the Scepter's gem
to complete the Ultron global defense program.
Convinced he must end humanity to save Earth,
Ultron destroys Jarvis and crashes The Avengers party.
Ultron kills Strucker
and uses his base to build an army of Ultron robots.
Ultron's deal with Ulysses Klaue for Wakandan vibranium
is interrupted by The Avengers.
Scarlet Witch forces them to see terrifying visions
causing Banner to Hulk out.
Tony rocks the Hulkbuster armor
to stop the big guy's rampage.
Ultron forces the Korean scientist
to create a powerful body made of vibranium.
Wanda reads Ultron's mind
and sees his plan for human extinction.
The twins turn on Ultron who captures Romanova and escapes.
Stark uploads Jarvis into the vacant synthetic body
and the Vision is born.
Ultron uses vibranium to lift the Sokovian capital city
high above the ground
with plans to crash it into the Earth
and trigger global extinction.
Fury and War Machine help evacuate the floating city
while The Avengers battle Ultron's army.
Quicksilver sacrifices himself to save Hawkeye.
Scarlet Witch destroys Ultron Prime but the city is falling.
Thor and Iron Man overload the machine,
breaking apart the land mass and saving the Earth.
From the new Avengers headquarters,
Cap prepares to train his new team.
Hank Pym retires from S.H.I.E.L.D.
to keep them from replicating his Ant-Man shrinking tech.
In the present day, his daughter Hope
and former protege, Darren Cross, run Pym's company.
Cross-test a shrinking suit of his own,
Dean the Yellowjacket.
Free from prison, Scott Lang visits his daughter
but is sent away by his ex and her new policeman husband.
Lang finds out Baskin Robbins don't play
and is fired due to his criminal record.
Luis convinces a desperate Lang
to join one more can't-miss heist.
Lang unknowingly ends up stealing Pym's Ant-Man suit.
Lang returns the suit to Pym
who recruits Lang to be the new Ant-Man.
Pym refuses to let Hope don the suit
after losing her mother, the Wasp, to The Quantum Realm.
Ant-Man has a run-in with Falcon.
Lang and his team infiltrate Pym Tech
to sabotage Cross' Yellowjacket,
unveiling the subsequent sale of the tech to HYDRA.
Ant-Man battles the Yellowjacket,
ultimately going sub-atomic to defeat him.
And that's the story of the Marvel Cinematic Universe,
phase two in five minutes.
- [Narrator] Fine, I'll do it myself.
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