{year}=2012
{quality}=HD
{duration}=2h:22mn
Summary of the story
The Asgardian deity Loki encounters the Other, the leader of an extraterrestrial race known as the Chitauri. In exchange for retrieving the Tesseract, a powerful energy source of unknown potential, the Other promises Loki an army with which he can subjugate Earth. Nick Fury, the director of the espionage agency S.H.I.E.L.D., arrives at a remote research facility where physicist Dr. Erik Selvig is leading a team conducting experiments on the Tesseract. The Tesseract suddenly activates and opens a wormhole, allowing Loki to reach Earth. Loki absconds with the Tesseract and employs his scepter to enslave Selvig and other agents, including Clint Barton, to assist him.
In response, Fury reactivates the "Avengers Initiative". Agent Natasha Romanoff travels to Kolkata to recruit Dr. Bruce Banner to trace the Tesseract through its gamma radiation emissions. Fury approaches Steve Rogers to retrieve the Tesseract, and Agent Phil Coulson visits Tony Stark to have him examine Selvig's research. Loki is in Stuttgart, where Barton pilfers the iridium required to stabilize the Tesseract's power, leading to a confrontation with Rogers, Stark, and Romanoff that culminates in Loki's surrender. While Loki is being escorted to S.H.I.E.L.D., his adoptive brother Thor arrives and liberates him, hoping to persuade him to abandon his plan and return to Asgard. Stark and Rogers intervene, and Loki is taken to S.H.I.E.L.D.'s flying aircraft carrier, the Helicarrier, where he is incarcerated.