Breaking the Fourth Wall

An Avengers Ask blog with a twist. Ever wonder what the Avengers themselves would think of the various versions of themselves in different forms of media? Wonder no longer! This is a blog for the Avengers that everything is based on (as far as they know), and they are well aware. They have seen the movies and cartoons, read the comics, played the games, and they have opinions, so ask away!

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How is everyone holding up today! Any big fights to rest up from or has it been quiet lately? ❤️

Tony: Clint pretty much always has some injury or another to rest up from.

Clint: You're one to talk, Shellhead. Who ended up in the infirmary after the last fight? I know it wasn't me.

Bruce: *rubbing his temples* I think it's been a little too quiet lately.

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do any of you miss avengers tower or do you prefer the compound?

Steve: In our world we still have the tower as well as the compound. And the mansion. Our roster keeps expanding.

Clint: We pretty much let everyone join now. Remember when we had to prove ourselves or was that just me?

Tony: Well you were trying to kill me not long before you broke in and basically forced yourself onto the team...

Clint: Hey, Jarvis helped! Not with the trying to kill you part, but getting me on the team.

Tony: Notice how he doesn't deny trying to kill me.

Natasha: We've all been there.

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since expanding the team of 6 - who have been each of your favourite additions to the team over the years? have you been surprised by the members you’ve become close with? :)

Clint: Does Kate count? I guess she's not technically a big A Avenger, but she's got her own team, and we did that West Coast stint not that long ago.

Steve: Sam has been nothing but a positive light since I met him. He's everything the stars and stripes should stand for.

Tony: The spider-kid is pretty smart and resourceful, he just needs an off button sometimes.

Natasha: Coming from you?

Tony: Hey-

Natasha: Jessica Drew has been great to work with, and it's always nice having more women around.

Clint: When's the next spa day?

Natasha: If you crash this time we're leaving you behind and stealing your clothes.

Clint: You say that like it'll somehow keep me from leaving.

Thor: I appreciate the presence of another king in T'Challa.

Bruce: My cousin, Jennifer.

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Let’s try this again

New year, same old shit, so let’s give this blog a go again! We could all use some mindless fun right now, right? So please check out the IC Intro and The Guidelines linked at the top of the main blog, and ask away!

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Hi:) Do you like Star Wars? What is your favourite character?

Steve: Star Wars has definitely featured in a few of our movie nights.  My favourite is Luke, I enjoyed watching his journey.

Tony: Han Solo is the man.  And you gotta feel for Anakin, right?

Natasha: Leia. A hero any young girl should be proud to look up to.

Clint: R2D2! Who doesn’t love a sassy robot? And Chewie is awesome!

Tony: So the characters you can’t actually understand?  Kinda like your place on this team, huh?

Clint: Yeah, and whose favourite characters are still alive after all these movies? Yeah, thought so.

Thor: I liked Finn.  To see him born into that way of life but recognize it was wrong and break away was fascinating. 

Bruce: Yoda.

Tony: Cranky old hermit. That checks out.

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Do you have any pre or post mission rituals?

Clint: Sleeping. Does sleep count?

Natasha: As a pre or post mission ritual?

Clint: Yes.

Tony: Food.  After we win I always buy us a load of food.  Need to refuel and all that.  

Bruce: Meditation.

Steve: Relaxing with my team is my favourite post mission ritual.

Natasha: *smiling* You sap.  I usually have to patch Clint up.

Clint: Ha ha, you’re hilarious.

Thor: *laughing* It is true! Except remember last week when it was Clint who saved the day? Long distance weaponry does have its uses!

Clint: Thank you! Not every battle is won by getting close and punching people.  Though, I mean, that’s fun too.

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Thank you so much for your answer Clint, I agree 1000%. And you deserve all the cookies, always!:D Now my question to everyone: since most of your arcs in MCU is coming to an end (some already ended:() who do you think would be the best for the next Avengers team?

Clint: I like this anon.

Natasha: Of course you do, they said you’re right and should get cookies.

Clint: Clearly they’re very smart.

Natasha: Anyway, Carol seems more focused on other worlds, but she would be a huge asset for any team.  And I would love to see Wanda be more involved, but I worry she is heading down a different path.

Steve: I’m glad that Sam got the shield, he’s exactly what Captain America should be. I’m not sure if he’s leader material yet, but he’s definitely a team player, and he’ll get there.

Tony: Obviously War Machine rox. Now there’s a leader for you.  And Peter’s still a kid but he’s learning, and he’s got all my cool gadgets to help him.

Thor: Do we all have to die or retire?  Can Bruce and I not return and continue with the new team?  Especially since Asgard is now on Midgard.  

Bruce: I’m okay with stepping back.  T’Challa and Shuri should both be Avengers though.

Clint: Ant-Man and the Wasp!  I like to give Scott a hard time, but as long as he brings Hope with him that’s fine. She seems cool.  

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Clint, do you have any hope that they’ll do you at least a bit of justice in the upcoming Hawkeye series? Maybe this time without completely out of blue plots and with at least some character development? Or maybe you’ll just show up, pass the baton and disappear, cause -you know- chickens won’t feed themselves? I can’t help but be a pessimist about it myself. (And my apology to Natasha for possible rant but I just had to ask:))

Clint: I dunno. I’d like to say I have hope ‘cause at least the promo stuff we’ve seen so far looks good, but I just have no idea how they can do a riff on that run of comics while I have a farm full of children I’m stuck on, you know?  I’m still stuck with the previous out of the blue plot and no development, and building on that now feels too little, too late.  The only way I can see the show really working and doing the movie version of me any sense of justice is to get rid of the old and make way for the new, and I’m not talking about retiring to make room for Katie Kate.  Give me a divorce, let me start over with the apartment and the dog.  Actually show how the past, what, 12 years or so of hardships messed me up.  Five second ninja wasn’t enough, though come on, that was cool.

So yeah, no idea.  Sad to say I think any chance of the movies doing me justice went out the window when they decided a secret family was a good idea.

There, you see Tasha and Anon?  I can be all level headed and stuff.  I don’t always fly off on a rant!  

Natasha: Good for you. What do you want, a cookie?

Clint: Yeah, actually.  I always want cookies.

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Which game from Marvel Games is your favourite?

Steve: We were all pretty big fans of Avengers Academy. It was a fun, unique take, and had some great humour.

Clint: Some of the actions were hilarious!  Too bad the gameplay kinda sucked.

Tony: I didn’t see anything wrong with it.

Clint: Yeah, ‘cause you spent hundreds every month to speed everything up.

Tony: And?

Thor: What was the game with the little blobs that looked like us?

Natasha: Marvel Tsum Tsums?

Thor: Yes, the Tsum Tsums! I enjoyed that one.

Bruce: Future Fight is pretty graphically stunning, though a bit overly complicated.  And there’s that new one that’s-

Natasha: We don’t talk about that one.

Clint: *grumbling* stupid game cutting me out and acting like it’s some different universe when it looks exactly like the movies.

Tony: Good job, you got him going again.

Thor: LEGOS! I like the Lego games. It’s fun when the enemy crumbles like a Kronan. 

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Do you own your own merch? Or maybe you like someone else's stuff?:)

Steve: I think we all have a little bit of our own merchandise, as well as each other’s.

Tony: Mostly because Clint loves to find the most hideous things he can find and give them to us.

Steve: He also really likes to wear boxers with our faces on them...

Bruce: Clint definitely has the largest collection, especially of his and Natasha’s merchandise.  He took great offence to how often they were left out in the movie merchandise and bought everything he could.  

Clint: Hey, just because we don’t have powers doesn’t mean we shouldn’t be included! The movies made us original members of the team!

Natasha: Not having powers is not why I wasn’t included.  Not entirely.

Clint: Oh yeah, ‘cause they thought girls don’t sell.  That’s why I bought two of everything I could find of yours!  And now look at all the stuff you have!

Steve: *whispering so Clint won’t hear* He’s really excited and proud of Natasha, but he’s pretty upset he’s the only one getting left out now more often than not.  It’s a sore spot.  We try to be supportive, but if you can promote him getting more please do! He’s especially upset he doesn’t have a “Marvel 80th” Funko Pop yet.

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What are your thoughts on Guardians of the Galaxy? Do you guys hang out sometimes?

Steve: They’re not on Earth often, but when they do come here we usually get to see them.

Clint: Sometimes we even get to hang out instead of just teaming up to save the world.  Again.

Thor: I very much like Groot.  He is a tree of few words, but he has the soul of a warrior.  He would make a fine Asgardian.

Clint: I got Rocket hooked on pizza, so now they have to come back every so often.  

Natasha: And somehow a pizza addicted alien racoon doesn’t even rank in the top ten of weird things we’ve seen in our lives.

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Do Clint and Bucky not like each other?

Natasha: I have been told I need to work on my joking skills.  They are friends, even if they may not like to admit it, but Clint... he seems to take great joy in annoying Barnes as much as possible.  It may be one of his favourite pastimes. He would get great mileage out of their “ship” being called “perfection”. 

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Sorry guys but really.. Winterhawk is the perfection:)

Natasha: Don’t tell Barnes that, he’ll be traumatized.  Actually, don’t tell Clint that, he’ll make sure Barnes is traumatized. 

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Have you read fanfics and see fanarts about Stony, Thoruce and Clintasha?

Steve: We have. Thor is strangely fascinated with ‘fanworks’. Is that the right term?  He likes to show us the fanart and tell us all about the stories he’s read.

Clint: I think those are his favourite ships too, though he also loves ThunderShield and ThunderWar.  

Natasha: Don’t forget “Science Boyfriends” and “IronStrange”

Clint: Stucky, Staron, Steggy...

Steve: Are you just making up words now?

Natasha: IronFrost

Clint: Pepperony

Steve: What about you two? Doesn’t he have any other ‘ships’ for you?

Natasha: *shrugs*

Clint: *shakes head*

Thor: (yells from off camera) Clintasha forever!

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Hey!:) First of all, love your blog. It's one of my favourite places on tumblr, absolutely never fails to make me smile:D I am also very happy that we can hear more from Clint, mcu really didn't let him shine. (And yes, the mini-skirt was glorious, never to be forgotten.) My question is: what kind of music do you like? Is Tony really a rock fan? Does Thor enjoy any of our Midgardian stuff? And what about the others?

Clint: hey, thanks for writing in! We really appreciate hearing that you like the blog, and especially that you like hearing from me.

Natasha: Please don’t get him started on the MCU.  He’ll never stop.

Clint: Hey, when you get sidelined and stuck with some random ass family for no good reason then you can shut me down.

Natasha: How about “random ass” romance, then death?

Clint: At least that was one film then forgotten, and you got to be an important part of the team in all the movies.

Natasha: Fine, you can keep your “The movies treated me the worst” crown.

Clint: Thank you.  Now back to anon’s question, we like a lot of different music.  Tony is definitely a rock fan, Natasha likes classical with a side of things I can’t mention or she’ll kill me; Bruce is a jazz fan, believe it or not.  Steve is an  ‘easy listening’ kind of guy, and me?  I’m more into rock but I like a little bit of everything.  If it sounds good and I can sing it, why not?

Thor has really enjoyed hearing our music.  Recently he’s discovered boy bands, and seems to be a big fan, so that’s been fun.  This morning I heard some Taylor Swift coming from his room, so maybe he’s moved on.

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What's everyone's hogwarts house?

Bruce: Ravenclaw

Steve: Gryffindor 

Natasha: Slytherin

Clint: Gryffindor too!

Tony: Pfft, you’re definitely a Hufflepuff

Clint: That’s not what the quiz said.

Tony: It was 50/50

Clint: 51/49...

Tony: You just don’t want to be the only one stuck in Hufflepuff.  Nobody wants to be Hufflepuff.

Thor:  I will be in Hufflepuff with you Clint!

Tony: That’s not how it works! You don’t get to choose, the sorting hat puts you where you belong.

Thor: I am supposed to trust a hat to know me better than I know myself? 

Bruce: In the books, yes, though it does take your preference into account.  For us there’s a quiz you can take.

Tony: He’ll end up Gryffindor.

Thor: I have decided Clint and myself will be Hufflepuff. The hat would not argue with me.

Clint: Well, there you go. That’s settled.  Tony’s definitely Slytherin by the way.

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Who here has the highest killcount?

Bruce: If you mean overall, Thor has been around for many centuries and been through many battles, so I think he has everyone beat by a long shot, but if you mean just humans?  Steve was in the war, so probably has quite a few under his belt, and Natasha is much older than she looks and... let’s say she never shied away from killing.  In general, though, the Avengers try not to go that route, but sometimes... sometimes we can’t always control it...