Something to Avenge

****SPOILER ALERT! IF YOU ARE ONE OF THE THREE PEOPLE LEFT ON THE PLANET WHO HAVE NOT SEEN THE AVENGERS, READ NO FURTHER!****

So, I’ve seen Marvel’s: The Avengers probably 6 or 7 times now. It’s holding up to repeat watching like crazy, and I still cheer at certain parts. I think that, in all the hoopla, and the fangirling over Loki and Jeremy Renner’s ass, and the shwarma jokes, something very important about the movie has been overlooked: Agent Coulson is a goddamn MARTYR.

His dying words to Nick Fury are, “It’s OKAY, boss. It was never gonna work if they didn’t have something to…” (I think we all know that “…avenge” was the ending to that line). The guy believed in the idea of The Avengers so much that he became the heart of the floundering team, and gladly (presumably, I keep hearing rumors he’ll be back as The Vision) gave his life to give them a rallying point. I maintain that he knew full well he’d head down that road when he first sauntered into Stark Enterprises to debrief Tony Stark in the first Iron Man flick.

So, anyways, I did this as a bit of a warm-up today. Agent Coulson was a bad-ass, and the reason The Avengers got their shit together and saved the world.