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«The Avengers”is not just a series of films, but a real phenomenon that has affected all aspects of popular culture. The latest installment in the franchise broke Avatar’s box office record, and the first set the bar for blockbuster quality to an unattainable height. A team of heroes protecting the Earth from any threat is a spectacular and exciting movie that you can watch more than once. If you’re tired, here are 10 more films similar to The Avengers.
10 Deadpool (2016)
Wade Wilson is a former commando who works as a mercenary. He meets Vanessa, a prostitute, with whom he has an affair and a year later she accepts his marriage proposal. Wilson is diagnosed with terminal cancer and leaves Vanessa unannounced so she doesn’t have to watch him die.
A mysterious recruiter approaches Wilson offering an experimental cure for his cancer. He is taken to the lab and injected with a serum designed to awaken latent mutant genes. They torture Wilson to cause stress and instigate any mutation he may have, to no avail, until Wade attempts to escape. During it, he was supposed to die, but his mutation woke up – super regeneration, which made him practically invulnerable.
The only negative is that his body is covered with scars from burns, which is why he begins to wear a mask. Now the target Deadpool – find the one who mocked him and bring Vanessa back.
9. Thor (2011)
Thor, the son of Odin prepares to ascend the throne of Asgard, but is interrupted when the Frost Giants attempt to steal an artifact from the vault of Asgard. Against the will of his father, Thor travels to Jotunheim to the giants, accompanied by his brother Loki, his childhood friend Sif, and the warriors Volstagg, Fandral and Ogun.
Having flared up due to the provocation of Laufey, the leader of the Jotuns, Thor starts the fight and loses, but his father comes to the rescue, destroying the fragile truce between the two races.
Due to Thor’s arrogance, Odin deprives his son of divine power and banishes him to Earth as a mortal, sending with him his hammer Mjolnir, which only the worthy can lift. Thor will have to prove that he is just that, and at the same time find friends on Earth, fall in love and meet Nick Fury’s agents.
Loki, meanwhile, will take the throne of Asgard by deceit and try to destroy his brother.
8. Incredible Hulk (2008)
This is the second film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Directed by Louis Leterrier and written by Zak Penn. Starring Edward Norton, Liv Tyler, Tim Roth and others.
In “Incredible Hulk» Bruce Banner becomes the Hulk due to a military scheme to activate the “Super Soldier” program using gamma radiation. On the run, he tries to cure himself of the Hulk before being captured by General Thaddeus Ross, but his worst fears come true when power-hungry soldier Emil Blonsky becomes a more like him but more violent monster.
7. Green Lantern (2011)
The film tells the story of Hal Jordan (Ryan Reynolds): a test pilot chosen to become the first person to be part of the Green Lantern Corps (an intergalactic police force). Hal is given a ring that grants him superpowers and must confront Parallax: a powerful being that threatens to upset the balance of power in the universe.
With a budget of $ 200 million, the film earned only 216 million at the box office, thus putting an end to the sequel.
6. The First Avenger (2011)
Steve Rogers is a patriotic guy, with all his heart longing to become a volunteer and go to the front of World War II. The problem is that his health leaves much to be desired: small, skinny and sickly Steve is not taken into the army.
Dr. Erskine, working on a serum to create super soldiers, overhears how much Rogers wants to serve his country and takes him into his program. With the help of the serum, the squishy man transforms into a tall, muscular and super-strong man who will have to face the German officer nicknamed the Red Skull. He also experienced the effects of Erskine’s serum, and he also managed to take possession of the tesseract, an artifact with which Skull and Dr. Zola create an advanced weapon for the Nazis.
It was Steve Rogers who First Avenger, as well as a symbol of America.
5. Fantastic Four (2005)
Dr. Reed Richards, a brilliant but timid physicist, is convinced that evolution was initiated millions of years ago on Earth by clouds of cosmic energy. He calculated that one of these clouds would soon pass near the Earth.
Together with his friend, astronaut Ben Grimm, Reid convinces his vain classmate Dr. Victor von Doom to grant him access to his private space station to test the cloud’s effects on biological samples. Von Doom agrees and brings on board his chief geneticist (and Reed’s former girlfriend) Susan Storm and her astronaut brother Johnny Storm.
All of them fly into space and, due to an error in the calculations, fall under radiation, which gives them superpowers. Victor, evil by nature, seeks power, and the rest, who were nicknamed “Fantastic Four‘ will oppose him.
4. Keepers (2009)
«Guardiansis an American superhero film directed by Zack Snyder, based on the limited comic book series of the same name by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons.
The plot centers on a group of retired superheroes in an alternate mid-80s America who come together again to find the killer of their comrades.
3. Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)
«Guardians of the Galaxyis the tenth film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The film is directed by James Gunn, who co-wrote the screenplay with Nicole Perlman, and starred Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista, Vin Diesel and Bradley Cooper (the latter two as voice actors).
In the story, earthling Peter Quill forms an uneasy alliance with a group of alien criminals who need to save the galaxy from a villain with a powerful artifact.
2. X-Men (2000)
The film tells about a world where a small part of people are mutants. Possessing superhuman powers causes them to distrust normal people. The focus is on the mutants Wolverine and Rogue as they come into conflict between two groups that have different approaches to accepting mutants: “The X-Men“Professor Xavier and the Brotherhood of Mutants, led by Magneto.
This is the film that marked the beginning of a massive film franchise that is almost 20 years old and has both failures and near-masterpieces.
1. Iron Man (2008)
Let’s finish the selection with a film, without which the Avengers simply would not exist. Box office and audience successIron Manallowed Marvel to create the most popular and profitable franchise in the history of cinema.
Robert Downey Jr. played Tony Stark to revive his career and created an on-screen hero who for 11 years was the leader of the Earth defenders team.