Following the panels for Thor and Captain America at Comic-Con Marvel did what we heard they might do: they assembled The Avengers!

Robert Downey Jr. (Iron Man), Mark Ruffalo (The Hulk), Scarlett Johansson (Black Widow), Samuel L.Jackson (Nick Fury), Chris Hemsworth (Thor), Chris Evans (Captain America), Clark Gregg (Agent Coulson), Jeremy Renner (Hawkeye) and director Joss Whedon all took to the stage and gave us our first look at the The Avengers.

You can watch the event below:

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Remember the S.H.I.E.L.D guy from Iron Man? Well we heard around a year ago that he will be making an appearance in Iron Man 2, and now according to Variety actor Clark Gregg, who plays Agent Phil Coulson, will also be appearing in Thor. This is cool news, even though it was expected. There will be a lot of cross-film appearances by a number of characters, such as Samuel L. Jackson’s Nick Fury, as Marvel prepare for The Avengers.

Agent Phil Coulson will no doubt be trying to recruit everyone. In Iron Man he repeatedly attempts to talk to Tony Stark about Stark’s escape from Afghanistan. Later he comes up with a cover story for Stark, one which Stark famously refuses to use resulting in the “I am Iron Man” announcement at the press conference.

Thor started filming last week under the direction of Kenneth Branagh and stars Chris Hemsworth as the hammer-wielding Norse god, as well as Anthony Hopkins, Natalie Portman, Tom Hiddleston, Samuel L. Jackson, Stellen Skarsgard and Kat Dennings.

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Clark Gregg will be returning as Agent Phil Coulson in Iron Man 2 according to THR. The S.H.I.E.L.D agent had a few scenes with Pepper Potts (Gwyneth Paltrow) in Iron Man and was mainly there to lay some foundations and to give a wink to the fans. However with Thor, Captain America and The Avengers on the horizon it’s possible that he’ll have a more important and expanded role in the sequel, possibly setting something up for those films along with Samuel L. Jackson’s Nick Fury.

THR also say that Kate Mara (Brokeback Mountain, Shooter) has joined the cast but her role is being kept under wraps, which suggests she is either playing someone super important…or someone not important at all, like a girlfriend or something (not that girlfriends aren’t important, it’s just they aren’t often important in films).

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