The Avengers — Movie Quotes

Spoken during the tense drink-pouring confrontation with Tony Stark in the penthouse of Stark Tower, moments before the portal opens.

The line crystallises Loki's entire strategy — quantity as intimidation — and sets up the film's most quoted reversal, in which raw numbers are answered by one unquantifiable variable.

Stark's unflustered reply to Loki's boast, delivered while calmly fixing himself a drink instead of reaching for a weapon.

Deflating bravado delivered as a shrug: the film's comic register and its thesis in five words — the Avengers' advantage is not scale but the unpredictable people in the room.

Loki confronts the Hulk in Stark Tower during the New York battle and is grabbed by the legs and slammed repeatedly into the floor.

The speech is cut off mid-word, and that interruption is the meaning: the film punctures divine self-importance with pure physical comedy, letting the joke do the ideological demolition.

Muttered by the Hulk as he walks away, leaving Loki face-up in a Loki-shaped crater in the floor.

Two words that became the film's signature laugh and a lasting internet meme — the ultimate deflation of the villain's cosmic pretensions by the least verbal member of the team.

Spoken in the mid-credits scene as the Other reports Loki's failure to a master who then turns to reveal himself as Thanos, smiling.

The line that reframed an entire franchise: it introduces death as a courtship rather than a threat, a nod to the character's comic-book infatuation, and turns the film's victory into the opening move of a much longer war.