CONCLUSION of Movie "The Avengers"

So how does The Avengers stack up on the Whedon scale? Remarkably. Whedon is known for creating richly detailed worlds for his genre productions, and while this is not one of his original ideas, The Avengers property had enough alignments to his sensibilities that it thoroughly feels like a Whedon work. There's familiar faces, strong feminist themes, self-sacrificing cowboys, a pronounced love of the genre, his trademark banter, a plot driven by incredible compelling and well-formed characters, and the gut-wrenching death of…someone. The Avengers would actually make a great argument in favor of auteur theory in this regard. And without TV execs meddling, this is among the most uncompromising of his works.

Of course, the most uncompromised is undoubtedly his self-produced web-series Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog. Nonetheless, The Avengers appears to be his most defining work, as it is full of enthusiasm, humor, action and above all hope. Because one element of Whedon I've saved until the end is his faith in humanity, his hope in it that pervades his efforts. Even in the darkest circumstances his projects have set forth, there's a thread of hope and heroism winning out. And as long as the Avengers assemble, there'll be hope….and hopefully more Whedon-created Marvel movies.