5 Off-The-Wall Avengers Theories (Based on Actual Evidence)

Marvel’s The Avengers is a force of nature in film right now, crossing over $300 million domestically this week and projected to take #1 at the box office for the second week in a row. Disney is reporting that it will cross $1 billion globally today, there’s been a lot of speculation as to what’s next for the franchise. Most of it has been pretty reasonable and measured, but what about bringing some crazy theories to the fore?Be forewarned that there are spoilers ahead, and if you’re one of the fourteen people who haven’t yet seen The Avengers, you should really go watch it before reading on.Well, we’ve got a few…!

The Avengers sets us up for Clone ThorMarvel Studios President Kevin Feige has said that Civil War is a candidate for a presumptive third Avengers movie, but were there any clues leading into that story in The Avengers? Well, there was a lot of in-fighting but that doesn’t really count.Oh, but there is that fight scene.Atop the Stark Tower, Thor and Loki throw down. At one point in the fight, Loki stabs Thor and manages to stun his brother and clearly pierce the skin.On Stark Tower.Where Tony has access to everything.Imagine if you will a scenario where the second Avengers or third Thor film should “kill” Thor, or at least send him off to another realm. If Civil War should be in the cards–or even if they just wanted a really powerful enemy for the team, this opens them up to the idea that Tony Stark has Thor’s DNA. And, like the hair from which the Clone Thor was made in the comics, Thor would be totally unaware that Tony had kept it. This could set up some nice conflict when and if the “real” Thor ever saw Iron Man again, and that’s a good thing becuase in the first movie, those two had great chemistry when they were at odds.Phil Coulson as The VisionThis one’s been in the ether for a while, and I’m not sure where it started, but it’s not mine.Without Wonder Man in the movie continuity (and, let’s face it, it’s as unlikely they’d ever release a character by that name into the marketplace as it is that DC would call Billy Batson “Captain Marvel,” since it’s effectively advertising for the other guy), whose brainwaves could be imprinted upon The Vision, The Avengers’ popular android?Well, Phil Coulson comes to mind.Ultron would be a movie unto himself and unless we get four or five films deep, the idea of his building The Vision and then the Avengers turning him good and all of that stuff is probably not likely to be something we ever see on the big screen. Tony Stark, though, is pretty good with cybernetics and AI (see also: J.A.R.V.I.S.), and was the Avenger most clearly shaken by the loss of Coulson, with whom he had a more substantive relationship with anybody else. What if we were to find out that Stark was able to “map” Coulson’s brain during one of the S.H.I.E.L.D. agent’s visits to Stark Enterprises and that he was able to either approximate or even actually copy the information into Vision?

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