Playing the Movie: The Avenger

Between the recent release of The Avengers to DVD and the popularity of my "Playing the Movie" articles for the Batman trilogy, I've decided it's time to play through the Avengers. For anyone who did not read the first series of articles, the way this works is that I select key moments from the film and create teams that two players could pit against one another to play that part of the movie in HeroClix. That said, you're matches could have much different results from those in the film, but it's a fun place to start with the build. Now unlike my Batman articles, there are very few "theme teams" in this article. That has to do mainly with this set not lending itself to keywords where you'd find teams from the film.

The movie opens with Nick Fury checking in on Selvig and the Cube. Loki teleports in and all hell breaks loose. He takes control of Hawkeye and Selvig, and they break out with the Cube. Since we didn't ge a Selvig in this set, I chose to just run with Loki and Hawkeye. For S.H.I.E.L.D. I went with the big three of Fury, Hill and Coulson backed by one lone agent to round out the points.

 70 AVM035 Nick Fury
 51 AVM011 Maria Hill
 50 AVM206 Agent Coulson
 19 AVM003A Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.
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190 Total

vs

125 AVM015 Loki
 75 AVM009 Hawkeye
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200 Total

Next, we move to Germany, where we get to have a bit of fun! Loki is sort of on his own at this point, but he can summon duplicates of himself. I know we could split hairs about the duplicates not really doing anything, but then it'd be harder to build a team. And although Cap and Iron Man fight together they certainly aren't Avengers yet. The only down side to these teams is that they both come in at 205, but since they both do, I figured it should be a fair fight.

 90 AVM018 Captain America
115 AVM019 Iron Man
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205 Total

vs

125 AVM015 Loki
 80 AVM029 Loki
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205 Total

After that, action moves to the helicarrier, our team is sort of assembled for the first time, when Loki's forces move in to free him.

 75 AVM001 Captain America
 40 AVM013 Bruce Banner (Sideboard AVM014 AND AVM202 Hulk)
 35 AVM036 Black Widow
150 AVM201 Thor
 50 AVM206 Agent Coulson
 50 AVM209 Tony Stark (Sideboard AVM205 Iron Man)
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400 Total

vs

125 AVM015 Loki
 65 AVM208 Hawkeye
 30 AVM010 S.H.I.E.L.D. Commando
 30 AVM010 S.H.I.E.L.D. Commando
 30 AVM010 S.H.I.E.L.D. Commando
 30 AVM010 S.H.I.E.L.D. Commando
 30 AVM010 S.H.I.E.L.D. Commando
 30 AVM010 S.H.I.E.L.D. Commando
 30 AVM010 S.H.I.E.L.D. Commando
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400 Total

From the helicarrier, our heroes are scattered, and need to finally come together to be The Avengers, and finish off Loki, and his ilk. For the purposes of Loki's team, I'll be running the Skrulls in place of the Chitauri (as was apparently intended).

 50 AVM007 Black Widow
  3 ATA057 Avengers Response Unit
 75 AVM009 Hawkeye
  3 ATA057 Avengers Response Unit
150 AVM201 Thor
  3 ATA057 Avengers Response Unit
255 AVM202 Hulk
  3 ATA057 Avengers Response Unit
100 AVM204 Captain America
  3 ATA057 Avengers Response Unit
150 AVM205 Iron Man
  3 ATA057 Avengers Response Unit
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798 Total

vs

220 AVM211 Loki
 60 AVM032 Skrull General
 60 AVM032 Skrull General
 40 AVM033 Skrull Saboteur
 40 AVM033 Skrull Saboteur
 50 AVM034 Skrull Warrior
 50 AVM034 Skrull Warrior
 28 AVM008A Skrull Commando
 28 AVM008A Skrull Commando
 28 AVM008B Skrull Commando
 28 AVM008B Skrull Commando
 40 AVM207A Skrull Infiltrator
 40 AVM207A Skrull Infiltrator
 40 AVM207B Skrull Infiltrator
 40 AVM207B Skrull Infiltrator
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792 Total

I know a couple of these team require a large amount of generics, and in truth, I'd likely go to other sets to finish them out, but these are the teams I'd run if I had the pieces. Hope you enjoyed this installment of Playing the Movie, and I hope to start running some similar comics oriented articles in the near future.