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When an unexpected enemy emerges and threatens global safety and security, Nick Fury, director of the international peacekeeping agency known as S.H.I.E.L.D., finds himself in need of a team to pull the world back from the brink of disaster. Spanning the globe, a daring recruitment effort begins!
Every figure below is calculated across the whole of The Avengers, not taken from this film’s own record.
The Avengers (2012) ranks 3rd of the 4 rated films in The Avengers series, at 8.1/10 on TMDB against a series average of 8.0/10.
It is the film that started the series, 7 years before the most recent entry, Avengers: Endgame (2019).
Its 39,733 TMDB ratings are 31% of the 126,336 cast across the series, more than any other film in it.
Computed by Movies in Order from The Movie Database (TMDB) collection data for The Avengers, comparing all 4 released films in the series. Last recalculated September 2026.

The Avengers is film 1 of 6. See the complete watch order.