English Conversation 8 : Dialog Film "The Avengers"

Pepper Potts: Is this about the Avengers? Which I know nothing about.

Tony Stark: The Avengers initiative was scrapped, I thought. And I didn't even qualify.

Potts: I didn't know that either.

Stark: Apparently I'm volatile, self-obsessed, and don't play well with others.

Potts: That I did know.

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Loki: I am Loki, of Asgard. And I am burdened with glorious purpose.

Selvig: Loki, brother of Thor.

Nick Fury: We have no quarrel with your people.

Loki: An ant has no quarrel with a boot.

Nick Fury: You planning to step on us?

Loki: I come with glad tidings. Of a world made free.

Nick Fury: Free from what?

Loki: Freedom. Freedom is life's great lie. Once you accept that, in your heart... [taps Selvig with the spear] you will know peace.

Nick Fury: Yeah, you say peace. I kinda think you mean the other thing.

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Loki: [To crowd] Kneel before me. I said... kneel! Is not this simpler? Is this not your natural state? It's the unspoken truth of humanity that you crave subjugation. The bright lure of freedom diminishes your life's joy in a mad scramble for power. For identity. You were made to be ruled. In the end, you will always kneel.

Old German: [Stands] Not to men like you.

Loki: There are no men like me.

Old German: There are always men like you.

Loki: Look to your elder, people. Let him be an example. (Loki prepares to kill the man with his staff, but Steve Rogers saves the old man)

Steve Rogers/Captain America: You know, the last time I was in Germany, and I saw a man standing above everybody else, we ended up disagreeing.

Loki: The soldier. [laughs] A man out of time.

Rogers: I'm not the one who's out of time.

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Rogers: Stark, we need a plan of attack!

Stark: I have a plan: Attack!

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Romanov: I'd sit this one out, Cap.

Rogers: I don't see how I can.

Romanov: These men come from legend. They're basically gods.

Rogers: There is only one God, ma'am. And I'm pretty sure He doesn't dress like that!

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Thor: [Throws Loki on the ground] Where is the Tesseract?!

Loki: [laughs] Oh, I missed you, too!

Thor: Do I look to be in a gaming mood?

Loki: [groans] Oh, you should thank me. With the Bifrost gone, how much dark energy did the Allfather have to muster to conjure you here? Your precious Earth.

Thor: [drops Mjolnir then grabs Loki] I thought you dead.

Loki: Did you mourn?

Thor: We all did. Our Father-

Loki: Your father. [shoves Thor] He did tell you my true parentage, did he not?

Thor: We were raised together! We played together! We fought together! Do you remember none of that?!

Loki: I remember a shadow. Living in the shade of your greatness. I remember you tossing me into an abyss. I who was, and should be, king!

Thor: So, you take the world I love as recompense for your imagined slights? No. The Earth is under my protection, Loki!

Loki: [laughs] And you're doing a marvelous job with that. The humans slaughter each other in droves while you idly fret. I mean to rule them! And why should I not?

Thor: You think yourself above them?

Loki: Well, yes.

Thor: Then you miss the truth of ruling, Brother. A throne would suit you ill.

Loki: [growls] I've seen worlds you've never known about! I have grown, Odinson, in my exile! I have seen the true power of the Tesseract, and when I wield it-

Thor: Who showed you this power? Who controls the would-be king?!

Loki: I am a king!

Thor: Not here! You give up the Tesseract; you give up this poisonous dream! You come home.

Loki: [smirks] I don't have it. [Thor raises the hammer] You need the cube to bring me home, but I've sent it off, I know not where.

Thor: Listen well, Brother. I-

[Iron Man knocks Thor off the cliffside]

Loki: I'm listening.

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Thor: Do not touch me again.

Stark: Then don't take my stuff.

Thor: You have no idea what you're dealing with.

Stark: [Looks at the surrounding trees] Uh, Shakespeare in the Park? [About Thor's cape] Doth Mother know you weareth her drapes?

Thor: This doesn't concern you, metal man. Loki will face Asgardian justice.

Stark: He gives up the cube, he's all yours. Until then ... [Closes his helmet] stay out of the way. [Under his breath] Tourist.

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Nick Fury: [Loki is sealed in the cell, Nick Fury shows the function to dump it from the helicarrier] In case you try to escape. If you so much as scratch that glass... [chute opens beneath the cell] Thirty thousand feet, straight down in a steel trap. You get how that works? [Gestures to Loki] Ant. [Gestures to console] Boot.

Loki: It is an impressive cage. Not built, I think, for me.

Nick Fury: Built for something a lot stronger than you.

Loki: Oh, I've heard. The mindless beast, makes play he's still a man. How desperate are you? That you call on such lost creatures to defend you?

Nick Fury: How desperate am I? You threaten my world with war, you steal a force you can't hope to control, you talk about peace, and you kill 'cause it's fun. You have made me very desperate. You might not be glad that you did.

Loki: Ooh. It burns you to have come so close. To have the Tesseract, to have power. Unlimited power. And for what? A warm light for all mankind to share? And then to be reminded what real power is.

Nick Fury: Well, let me know if 'real power' wants a magazine or something.

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Rogers: Loki's going to drag this out. So, Thor, what's his play?

Thor: Loki has an army, called the Chitauri. They are not of Asgard or any other world known. They will win him the Earth, in return, I suspect, for the Tessaract.

Rogers: An army... from outer space.

Banner: So, he's building another portal. That's what he needs Dr. Eric Selvig for.

Thor: Selvig?

Banner: He's an astrophysicist.

Thor: He's a friend.

Romanov: Loki has him under some kind of spell. Along with one of ours.

Rogers: I want to know why Loki let us take him. He's not leading an army from here.

Banner: I don't think we should be focused on Loki. The guy's mind is a bag of cats. You can smell crazy on him.

Thor: Have care how you speak. Loki may be beyond reason, but he is of Asgard. And he is my brother.

Romanov: He killed eighty people in two days.

Thor: ...He is adopted.

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Rogers: We have orders. We should follow them.

Stark: Following's not really my style.

Rogers: And you're all about style, aren't you?

Stark: Of the people in this room, which one is A) wearing a spangly outfit; and B) not of use?

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Rogers: Big man in a suit of armor. Take that off, what are you?

Stark: Genius, billionaire, playboy, philanthropist.

Rogers: I know guys with none of that worth ten of you. I've seen the footage; you fight for nobody but yourself. You're not the kind to make the sacrifice play, to lay down on a wire and let the other guy crawl over you.

Stark: I think I would just cut the wire.

Rogers: Always a way out. You know, you may not be a threat, but you better stop pretending to be a hero.

Stark: A hero? Like you? You're a laboratory experiment, Rogers. Everything that's special about you came out of a bottle.

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