6. Nick Fury Goes Renegade
Even though Nick Fury was originally white, the characters sheer badassery in this film makes it a role that Samuel L Jackson was destined to play. After all, this is a man who is rumoured to have had the initials for bad motherf****r engraved on his Lightsaber. Towards the end of the film, everything looks pretty bleak as Lokis Chitauri army begins to arrive in New York in force and are too much for the Avengers to handle. The worlds security council decide to go to their last resort plan and nuke the entire city. Nick Furys response is to tell them that Since its a stupid-ass decision, Ive elected to ignore it. The security council simply go over his head and send out a jet fighter carrying a nuke. Fury then grabs a rocket launcher and shoots the jet down, only failing to stop the second nuke-carrying jet because all hes got left is a handgun. Compared to the main six heroes, Nick Fury is a pretty minor character. But he stills a couple of great moments and this is definitely his best one.
5. Lokis Attack On Stuttgart
Lokis establishing character moment in The Avengers is his arriving on S.H.I.E.L.D.s helicarrier and causing complete and total mayhem as he steals the Tesseract, I personally prefer his attack on Stuttgart that he carries out mainly to provide a distraction while the mind-controlled Hawkeye steals the Iridium needed to stabilise the Tesseract. The initial use of the string quartet music Schubert is perfectly synced up with Loki violently subduing a man and brutally scanning his eye, and Tom Hiddlestons brilliantly over the top performance brilliantly complements his villainous rampage. http://youtu.be/oNtHgD9HAZM But the sequence also helps to portray him as more than just a hammy alien with a God complex. While he makes his big speech to the kneeling crowd, you really get the sense that, as well as having a God complex, he honestly believes that enslaving humanity would be best for them. On the downside, the two references to Hitler in such a short space of time is a bit heavy-handed but it still works quite well. And its capped off with a cracking fight sequence as Captain America and Iron Man swoop in to bring Loki to S.H.I.E.LD... http://youtu.be/L99ghiZFHDw