In case you didn't know, the evil threatening the world this time comes in the person of Loki, brother of Thor of Asgard, who wants to rule everything (sound familiar?). So a secret government agency assembles a team of heroes with no particular superpowers (except for one) to stop Loki and save the world (with me so far?). The team is Captain America, a guy with enhanced physical capabilities and dressed in red, white and blue; Iron Man, just another guy but also a technological genius who has invented a suit in which he can fly around and shoot things; Hawkeye, another guy with exceptional eyesight and a high-tech bow and arrow; the Black Widow, a ramped-up female James Bond; the above-mentioned Thor (who does have some "super powers"); and, oh yes, the Hulk. And a guy with an eyepatch who brings them all together to fight the evil Loki. And guess what? after lots of flying about and smashing things (including each other), our heroes actually defeat the evil Loki while leaving the door open for the next Avengers movie.So who's my favorite character in this hero-ridden adventure? None of the above. I nominate the following: Agent Phil Coulson, just a guy with no particular powers or exceptional abilities at all, except that he believes that fighting evil to save the world is worth giving everything for, even his life; and the nameless old German man in the town square who refuses to kneel at the command of the evil Loki because he remembers what happened when the German people knelt to a previous evil. Another guy with no particular powers, exceptional abilities, exciting fight scenes; a guy who isn't killed on the spot because the Avengers save him in the nick of time; a guy who's kind of old and not very attractive and doesn't even have a name. But this is a guy who knows that freedom means NOT bending the knee to evil, even in the face of death. That guy is my favorite character of this movie, and a real hero as far as I'm concerned.
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