Hulk (comics) The Hulk first appeared in The Incredible Hulk #1 (cover dated May 1962), written by writer-editor Stan Lee, penciled and co-plotted by Jack Kirby,[6] and inked by Paul Reinman. Lee cites influence from Frankenstein[7] and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in the Hulk's creation: Lee also compared Hulk to the Golem of Jewish myth.[7] In The Science of Superheroes, Gresh and Weinberg see the Hulk as a reaction to the Cold War[9] and the threat of nuclear attack, an interpretation shared by Weinstein in Up, Up and Oy Vey.[7] This interpretation corresponds well when taken into account alongside other popularized fictional media created during this time period, which took advantage of the prevailing sense among Americans that nuclear power could produce monsters and mutants.[10] Arie Kaplan calls Hulk "schizophrenic.
Lee gave the Hulk's alter ego the alliterative name Bruce Banner because he found he had less difficulty remembering alliterative names. Robert Downey, Jr. Hawkeye (comics) Thor (Marvel Comics) Phil Coulson. Tom Hiddleston. He won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Newcomer in a Play for his role in Cymbeline while also being nominated for the same award the same year for his role of Cassio in Othello. In 2011 he won the Empire Award for Best Male Newcomer and nominated for the BAFTA Rising Star Award for his role in Thor. He won the MTV Movie Award for Best Fight and Best Villain in 2013 for his role in The Avengers. Early life and education Hiddleston was born in Westminster, London.[1] He is the son of arts administrator/former stage manager Diana Patricia (Servaes) and physical chemist James Norman Hiddleston.[2] His father is from Greenock, Scotland and his mother from Suffolk, England.[3] His younger sister Emma is also an actress while his older sister Sarah is a journalist in India.[4][5] Through his mother, he is a great-great-grandson of Sir Edmund Vestey.
Career Film and television Theatre Narrations Filmography Film Television Video game Radio Awards and nominations References. Loki (comics) Chris Evans (actor) Evans graduated from Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School.[3] He and his siblings were raised Catholic.[9][10] In 2011, Evans played the Marvel Comics character Captain America in Captain America: The First Avenger, and starred in the film What's Your Number? , a romantic comedy co-starring Anna Faris.[19][20] There were initially scheduling conflicts, as both films were set to film in the summer of 2010.[21] With actress Evan Rachel Wood, he was part of a 2011 advertising campaign for the perfume Gucci Guilty,[22] and the cologne Guilty pour Homme.[23] In 2014, Evans starred in Captain America: The Winter Soldier.[27] His upcoming films include his directorial debut, 1:30 Train,[28] the sequel to The Avengers, Avengers: Age of Ultron and the third Captain America film.[29] Evans said in March 2014 that once his contract with Marvel is up, he plans to take a break from acting to work on directing,[30] and believes he will be finished playing Captain America in 2017.[28]
Samuel L. Jackson. Jackson's many roles have made him one of the highest-grossing actors at the box office. Jackson has won multiple awards throughout his career and has been portrayed in various forms of media, including films, television series, and songs. In 1980, Jackson married LaTanya Richardson, with whom he has a daughter, Zoe. In October 2011, Jackson surpassed Frank Welker as the actor with the highest grossing film total of all time.[1] Early life Jackson was born in Washington, D.C., and grew up as an only child in Chattanooga, Tennessee.[2] His father lived away from the family, in Kansas City, Missouri, and later died from alcoholism.
Jackson attended several segregated schools[7] and graduated from Riverside High School in Chattanooga. Initially intent on pursuing a degree in marine biology, he attended Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia. Civil Rights Movement involvement I would like to think because of the things I did, my daughter can do the things that she does. Acting career 1970s–1980s. Captain America. Mark Ruffalo. Early life[edit] Ruffalo was born in Kenosha, Wisconsin. His mother, Marie Rose (née Hebert), is a hairdresser and stylist, and his father, Frank Lawrence Ruffalo, Jr., worked as a construction painter.[2][4][5] He has two sisters, Tania and Nicole, and a brother, Scott,[2] who died in December 2008. His father was of Italian descent, and his mother is of French Canadian and Italian ancestry.[6][7] Ruffalo has described himself as having been a "happy kid"[8] and his upbringing as taking place in a "very big" family with "lots of love".[9] Of his father, Ruffalo has said, "He was an amazing, charismatic guy who was city high school wrestling champion three times.
He was away a lot when I was growing up. Ruffalo spent his teen years in Virginia Beach, Virginia, where his father worked. Career[edit] Acting[edit] He is set to star in Second Coming, a low-budget indie film. Directing[edit] Personal life[edit] Political views[edit] Ruffalo appeared on Penn & Teller: Bullshit! Nick Fury. This article is about the first character named Nick Fury.
For his son, see Nick Fury, Jr. The modern-day Fury, initially a CIA agent, debuted a few months later in Fantastic Four #21 (Dec. 1963). In Strange Tales #135 (Aug. 1965), the character was transformed into a spy like James Bond and leading agent of the fictional espionage agency S.H.I.E.L.D. The character makes frequent appearances in Marvel books as the former head of S.H.I.E.L.D. and as an intermediary between the U.S. government or the United Nations and various superheroes.
It is eventually revealed that Fury takes a special medication called the Infinity Formula that halted his aging and allows him to be active despite being nearly a century old. Publication history[edit] Sgt. Fury initially appeared in the World War II combat series Sgt. Strange Tales and solo series[edit] [T]here was a very popular television show called The Man from U.N.C.L.E., sort of a James Bond type of thing.
A six-issue miniseries, Nick Fury vs. Scarlett Johansson. The Avengers (2012 film) Marvel Studios film Plot Rogers, Stark, Romanoff, Barton, Thor, and the Hulk rally in defense of New York City, and together the Avengers battle the Chitauri. The Hulk beats Loki into submission. Romanoff makes her way to the generator, where Selvig, freed from Loki's mind control, reveals that Loki's scepter can shut down the generator. Cast Production Development Pre-production Filming Part of The Avengers film set on East 9th Street in Cleveland, Ohio Part of The Avengers film set on Park Avenue in New York City Post-production Music Marketing Trailers Chris Evans, Tom Hiddleston, Cobie Smulders, and Clark Gregg promoting the film at the 2011 New York Comic Con Tie-in comics Promotional partners Video game Release Theatrical Home media Reception Box office United States and Canada Records The following are records set by the film upon its theatrical release. * While eight films have reached $100 million after two days, the film's gross by the end of the second day exceeded all of them.
Other territories Notes. Avengers (comics) The Avengers is a team of superheroes, appearing in comic books published by Marvel Comics. The team made its debut in The Avengers #1 (Sept. 1963), created by writer-editor Stan Lee and artist/co-plotter Jack Kirby, following the trend of super-hero teams after the success of DC Comics' Justice League of America.[1] The team debuted in The Avengers #1 (Sept. 1963), using characters created primarily by writer-editor Stan Lee with penciller and co-plotter Jack Kirby. This initial series, published bi-monthly through issue #6 (July 1964) and monthly thereafter ran through issue #402 (Sept. 1996), with spinoffs including several annuals, miniseries and a giant-size quarterly sister series that ran briefly in the mid-1970s.[3] Marvel filed for a trademark for "The Avengers" in 1967 and the United States Patent and Trademark Office issued the registration in 1970.[4] —Prologue from The Avengers used in the 1970s[14]
Maria Hill. Publication history[edit] Joe Quesada, who was Marvel's editor-in-chief during her first appearance, describes the character thus: "[Hill] is such a strong personality, she's like a force of nature and quite frankly, while perhaps not immediately loved by all involved, she's certainly as strong and imposing a figure as Nick Fury. Right now I feel that people view her as the outsider but [while] I don't think she's any harsher than Fury has ever been, what's different is that we aren't quite clear about her motives".
[dead link][2] Maria Hill appeared as a supporting character in the 2010–2013 Avengers series, from issue #1 (July 2010) through its final issue, #34 (January 2013), but only appeared sporadically after the first half of its run. Fictional character biography[edit] Introduction[edit] She earns Iron Man's respect when she ignores the President's orders to nuke an island the Avengers were on at the time.
Civil War[edit] Deputy Director[edit] 2008 – 2010 storylines[edit] MC2[edit] Iron Man. Iron Man is a fictional character, a superhero that appears in comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character was created by writer-editor Stan Lee, developed by scripter Larry Lieber, and designed by artists Don Heck and Jack Kirby. He made his first appearance in Tales of Suspense #39 (March 1963). Publication history[edit] Premiere[edit] Iron Man's Marvel Comics premiere in Tales of Suspense #39 was a collaboration among editor and story-plotter Stan Lee, scripter Larry Lieber, story-artist Don Heck, and cover-artist and character-designer Jack Kirby.[2] In 1963, Lee had been toying with the idea of a businessman superhero.[3] He wanted to create the "quintessential capitalist", a character that would go against the spirit of the times and Marvel's readership.[4] Lee said, I think I gave myself a dare.
In his premiere, Iron Man was an anti-communist hero, defeating various Vietnamese agents. Themes[edit] First series[edit] Later volumes[edit] Clark Gregg. Career[edit] In late October 2012, Joss Whedon, Kevin Feige and Gregg announced that he would be reprising his role as agent Phil Coulson in the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. series' pilot.[7] On April 20, 2013, Trust Me, a film written and directed by Gregg, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival.[8] Personal life[edit] Gregg was born April 2, 1962 in Boston, Massachusetts.[9] He is the son of Mary Layne (née Shine) and Robert Clark Gregg, an Episcopal minister and professor at Stanford University.[10][11][12] Gregg has been married since July 21, 2001 to actress Jennifer Grey. The couple have one child, daughter Stella, born December 3, 2001. Gregg has a brown belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu.[15] Filmography[edit] Actor[edit] References[edit] External links[edit]
Jeremy Renner. Early life Renner was born in Modesto, California, the first child of Valerie (née Tague) and Lee Renner, who managed a bowling alley.[4][5][6] His parents married as teenagers and divorced when he was ten.[7][8][9] He has five younger siblings.[10] His ancestry includes German, English, Scottish, Swedish, and Irish.[11][12][13] He graduated from both Fred C.
Beyer High School and Modesto Junior College.[14] Career Early work Early success: 2002–2008 Renner at the Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters premiere in 2013 Breakthrough: 2009–present After starring with Dallas Roberts in the comedy-drama Ingenious and starring in the short-lived television series The Unusuals, Renner went on to achieve critical success for his portrayal as bomb disposal expert, Sergeant William James in the 2009 Iraq war thriller The Hurt Locker (directed by Kathryn Bigelow). Renner was also featured in the ensemble cast of David O. Music Personal life Filmography Film Television Awards and nominations References. Cobie Smulders. Jacoba Francisca Maria "Cobie" Smulders[1] (born April 3, 1982)[2] is a Canadian actress and former model, known for her roles as Robin Scherbatsky on the television series How I Met Your Mother and Maria Hill in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Early life[edit] Smulders was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, to a Dutch father and an English mother.
She was named after her great-aunt, from whom she gained the nickname "Cobie".[3] Smulders worked in modeling, which she later said she "kind of hated", adding that the experience made her hesitant about pursuing acting as a career: "You know you go into these rooms, and I've had the experience of people judging you physically for so long and I was over that. But then it was like, 'Oh no, I have to actually perform.
After she quit modeling, she registered at the University of Victoria to study marine biology. Career[edit] Smulders at the 2011 New York Comic Con. Personal life[edit] Smulders resides in Los Angeles, California.[15] Filmography[edit] Black Widow (Natalia Romanova)