- [Narrator] This is the Marvel Cinematic Universe
in five minutes.
Phase one: Genius billionaire playboy philanthropist,
Tony Stark, is taken hostage in Afghanistan
by a terrorist group known as the Ten Rings.
Stark pretends to craft a Jericho missile,
but secretly builds a badass,
Arc Reactor-powered metal suit that he uses to break free.
Tony announces Stark industries
will no longer manufacture weapons,
which really pisses off his business partner, Obadiah Stane.
Pepper Potts discovers Stane
hired the Ten Rings to kill Tony,
but by the time she and a few Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
try to arrest Stane, he has already left Tony for dead
and reverse engineered his own massive mech suit.
Stark pops his old Arc Reactor back into his chest
and flies in to save the day.
Iron Man battles Iron Monger atop Stark industries
until Pepper overloads the original massive Arc Reactor
causing the surge that kills Stane.
Tony announces to the world that he is Iron Man.
He returns home to find Nick Fury lurking in the shadows,
waiting to discuss the Avenger Initiative.
Dr. Bruce Banner is recruited by General Thunderbolt Ross
to be the guinea pig for a gamma experiment
intended to recreate the World War II era
super soldier program.
The experiment fails, turning Banner into the Hulk,
who then destroys the lab and flees.
A fugitive, Banner hides out in Brazil.
Years later, Ross tracks him down
and sends in a special military unit
led by Emil Blonsky, to capture Banner.
Hulk smashes Blonsky and his agents three times
until finally being captured.
Blonsky injects himself with a mix
of Banner's blood and the Super Soldier Serum,
turning him into the Abomination.
Abomination rips through New York City
until Banner leaps out the helicopter,
transforms into Hulk, and takes the monstrosity down.
Along with half of Harlem.
The Palladium core of Stark's reactor is poisoning him.
Facing certain death, Stark goes full YOLO
making Pepper CEO of Stark industries
and driving in the Monaco Grand Prix.
Stark's joyride in Monaco is interrupted
by bird-loving mad scientist Ivan Vanko, A.K.A. Whiplash.
Iron Man narrowly survives Whiplash's attack.
Stark's business rival, Justin Hammer,
breaks Whiplash out of prison
to help produce knock-off Stark tech.
Tony gets wasted at his birthday party
and fights his B.F.F., Lieutenant Colonel James Rhodes,
who confiscates one of the Iron Man suits.
Fury, Black Widow, and Stark
discuss Vanko's daddy issues over doughnuts,
inspiring Stark to find the cure for his condition.
At the Stark Expo, Hammer's drones go rogue.
Iron Man and War Machine battle Whiplash
and his army of drones until Vanko gives in
and blows himself up.
Thor, the arrogant crowned prince of Asgard,
invades Jotunheim, thus shattering the fragile truce
between the Frost Giants and Asgardians.
Odin banishes Thor into Midgard, A.K.A. Earth,
stripping the God of Thunder of his power
until he can prove himself worthy.
Meanwhile his brother, Loki, the God of Mischief,
wants to steal the throne from under Odin.
Thor lands in New Mexico where he's intercepted
by a team of scientists led by Jane Foster.
Thor tracks the location of his iconic hammer
to a pop-up S.H.I.E.L.D facility.
He attempts to recover Mjölnir
but finds he's unable to lift the hammer and is captured.
Hey look, it's Hawkeye up in the nest.
Meanwhile Loki discovers he's an adopted Frost Giant
and offers Laufey, his true father,
the chance to kill Odin while he sleeps.
In need of Thor, the Warriors Three head to Midgard
and battle Loki's massive Destroyer.
Thor offers to sacrifice himself to save the others,
proving himself worthy, and thus Mjölnir returns to him.
Loki betrays Laufey and kills him,
but before Loki can destroy all of Jotunheim
with the Bifrost Bridge, Thor returns to stop him.
Loki fakes his death.
Thor makes amends with Odin, and declines the throne,
admitting he's not yet ready to be king.
In 1942 Brooklyn,
Steve Rogers is repeatedly denied by military recruiters
due to his small stature.
After finally enlisting, Rogers shows no hesitation,
jumping on a live grenade to save his peers.
His heroic act lands Rogers as the test subject
for the Strategic Scientific Reserve's
super soldier program, making him stronger, faster,
and way more handsome than ever.
Meanwhile, Johann Schmidt, A.K.A. the Red Skull,
and Arnim Zola harness and weaponize
the power of The Tesseract.
The army uses Captain America as a star-spangled mascot
to sell war bonds
until Cap hears his old pal Sergeant Bucky Barnes
is missing in action.
Rogers convinces Howard Stark and Agent Peggy Carter
to drop him behind enemy lines.
Cap infiltrates the Nazi HYDRA Fortress
and single handedly rescues his pal Buck
along with his entire unit.
Stark hooks Cap up with a vibranium shield.
Cap recruits a team of trusted soldiers
to take down the remaining HYDRA bases.
While attacking a HYDRA train carrying Zola,
Sargent Barnes is seemingly killed in action.
Rogers sneaks aboard Red Skull's New York bound plane
full of weapons of mass destruction.
Cap sacrifices himself by crashing the HYDRA plane
into the Arctic where he takes a 70 year ice nap.
Loki steal The Tesseract from S.H.I.E.L.D.
for The Other's mysterious master.
Nick Fury initiates The Avengers Initiative.
After a confrontation in Germany,
Loki surrenders to Stark, Romanova and Cap.
Thor drops down from the sky
in an attempt to return Loki to Asgard
but he is confronted by Cap and Iron Man.
After a brief scuffle,
Thor settles for imprisoning Loki aboard the Helicarrier.
The Avengers argue over S.H.I.E.L.D's intention
to use the powerful Tesseract as a weapon,
Banner gets angry,
and Loki kills everyone's favorite uncle,
Agent Coulson, and escapes.
Loki opens a wormhole over Stark Tower.
The Avengers assemble to stop the Shitari invasion of Earth.
Hulk tosses Loki around like the puny god he is.
Stark intercepts a bomb headed to the city
and nearly dies flying it back from the wormhole
and the Earth is saved.
Thor returns Loki and The Tesseract to Asgard.
The Other apologizes for his failure
and his master is revealed to be the mad titan Thanos.
And that's the story of phase one in five minutes.
(glitching)