Avengers: Da og nå

Tony Stark har spilt i flere MCU-filmer enn noen annen karakter, og han har kommet langt siden Iron Man. Etter at han ble Iron Man, har Stark forandret seg fra et selverklært "geni, milliardær, playboy, filantrop", til en mann som er bestemt på å kjempe for det gode, og han har stått overfor mange fiender, fra mange forskjellige kanter av universet, og til selve Avengers.

Sammen med Spider-Man og Doctor Strange ble Iron Man uforvarende tatt med ut i rommet for å bekjempe The Children of Thanos i Avengers: Infinity War. Kun han og Nebula overlevde "the snap", og Avengers: Endgame starter der dette sluttet, med Tony strandet i verdensrommet.

Steve Rogers aka Captain America er den som er best egnet til rollen som superhelt, fordi det var meningen at han skulle bli det. I Captain America: Den første Avenger, Steve Rogers, meldte seg på et "Supersoldat"-eksperiment, og fikk større krefter som menneske. Etter å ha beskyttet tessaracten, en av Infinity-steinene, mot å komme i feil hender, var Rogers nedfrosset i flere tiår, og våknet kort tid før Avengers Assemble.

I Avengers: Infinity War anses Rogers fortsatt som kriminell etter å ha trosset myndighetene i Captain America: Civil War, men han, Black Widow og Falcon blir snart rekruttert for å hjelpe med å bekjempe Thanos i slaget ved Wakanda.

The first lady of the Avengers made her debut in Iron Man 2 acting as Tony Stark’s new assistant before her real identity as S.H.I.E.L.D agent Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow is revealed.

As her alliance to Steve Rogers and Tony Stark was strained in Captain America: Civil War, she is also on the run from the government and in hiding by the time Avengers: Infinity War begins. Like the other Avengers, Natasha survived the ‘snap’ and is willing to do whatever it takes in Avengers: Endgame.

Much like Tony Stark, the crown prince of Asgard is a changed man since debuting in 2011. In Thor, the eldest son of Odin, King of Asgard, is arrogant, reckless and regularly goes against his father’s wishes. As punishment, he is stripped of his strength, his hammer Mjolnir, and banished to Earth while his brother Loki seizes the throne.

Thor first faced Thanos in Avengers: Infinity War when the purple brute commandeered a ship filled with Asgardians and kills Loki. He literally lands on the windshield of the Guardians of the Galaxy’s ship, finds a new weapon and new friends in Rocket and Groot, eventually landing in Wakanda to face Thanos again.

While the ‘super soldier’ serum turned Steve Rogers into a superhero, it didn’t work out as planned for nuclear physicist Dr Bruce Banner. In an effort to recreate the World War II-era programme, extreme exposure to gamma radiation created The Incredible Hulk.

In Avengers: Infinity War, Hulk is the first Avenger to fight Thanos but he is quickly overpowered and left so traumatised by the defeat, he refuses to appear for the rest of the film and Bruce Banner is forced to go it alone in Iron Man’s ‘Hulkbuster’ suit.

Eagle-eyed Marvel fans spotted Clint Barton aka Hawkeye in an uncredited cameo in 2011’s Thor, but audiences didn’t become familiar with him until much later.

Unlike the other Avengers, Barton was not seen in Avengers: Infinity War because he, along with Ant-Man/Scott Lang, was on house arrest, but what we do know is Clint will return in Avengers: Endgame with a new weapon and a new haircut.

Avengers: Endgame is released on 25 April.