Parents Guide for
The Avengers (2012) More at IMDbPro »

In a non-sexual scene, a man wakes up in a pile of rubble, fully nude, and another man tosses him some clothing (only his bare chest, abdomen, back, legs, and briefly a portion of his bare hip are shown).

One female character wears a tight-fitting latex costume for most of the film which displays cleavage.

A man tells a woman on the phone, "Enjoy the moment," and she replies, "Get in here and I will."

A man asks a woman if she can "bunk over."

A man makes a joke about "performance issues" and how they're "not uncommon" (a subtle double entendre).

The violence is intense, with minimal amounts of blood, but there is nothing very graphic.

An alien deity with a glowing staff strikes a man in the face with it (he falls to the ground), grabs another man, pushes him down on a table and uses a spinning, cutting device to cut out his eye (the man writhes as the device cuts his eye; no blood is shown).

A man points a large weapon at an alien deity, who then stabs the man through the back with a curved blade; it sticks out through his chest (some blood's on the blade, on the victim's shirt, and in his mouth), and the man then shoots the alien deity, who is thrown across the room and blasted through a wall (we later learn that the man died).

An alien deity with a glowing staff fires it toward people in a room, several are struck and thrown, he is shot at by armed guards (he is not harmed), he stabs a guard (a crunch sound and blood shown), and he fires the staff at several others in the room.

Two guards are struck by arrows and fall dead; one falls off a roof and onto the ground below.

A man shoots another man (there appears to be a bit of blood, but he seems OK).

A woman is shown lying dead on the floor with a burn mark on her face.

During an extended confrontation that causes mass destruction, an alien monstrous vessels (they look like sea creatures with huge sharp teeth, fin-like protrusions from the sides and skeletal body and tail, and seem alive) fly out of a portal and toward Earth, they slam into buildings, and many alien soldiers off-load and attack civilians; intense, but not in a very frightening way.

Many alien soldiers descend on Earth, people are shot, and things are blown up; cars explode and flip, buildings crumble, and people scatter in fear (children are shown among those fleeing or being evacuated).

A man shoots arrows at alien soldiers and a woman shoots them with a handgun (they are struck and some black goo sprays from a couple of wounds).

A superhero fights with alien soldiers and cuts off the arm of one (black goo spurts).

A flying alien monstrous vessel is shot in its underbelly and it crashes to the ground, dead.

A superhero tells a large green superhero to "smash" and the large green superhero responds with a smile and begins destroying many alien soldiers; he leaps onto a side of a building and using his fists to smash the heads and bodies of alien soldiers.

Several alien monstrous vessels are caught in a portal as it begins to close and they are crushed.

A huge green superhero hangs from an alien monstrous vessel's mouth, climbs on its back, and tears it to pieces.

A woman jumps on a flying vessel, throws one alien soldier off, stabs another, and uses it to steer.

A superhero uses his shield to slice off the face or head of an alien soldier (only a flash of red).

A superhero knocks an alien deity off a ledge, they crash into a tree, and the two fight: they fight while flying through the air, dragging one another along a rock face, slamming each other into trees in a forest, and one squeezes the metal arm of the other.

An alien deity fires a glowing staff toward a man and the beam is blocked by a superhero's shield; the deity and the superhero fight with punches and kicks.

A woman makes a reference to an alien deity having killed over 80 people in 2 days.

An alien deity slams a hammer onto a superhero's shield, making a loud clanging sound and emitting a large ring of energy which causes two superheroes and the deity to fall to the ground and the vegetation around them to be destroyed.

A giant green superhero chases a woman, she flips through small passageways to avoid him, she shoots a pipe that sprays steam in his face, he hits her, and she is thrown into a wall.

An alien deity and a huge green superhero fight, the deity is thrown into equipment and it is crushed, and the deity strikes the superhero with a large hammer and he is thrown into a plane, crushing it (blood is on the deity's nose).

A huge green superhero is shot at by an airplane, he crashes through glass, jumps onto the plane, tears it apart, the pilot ejects and is thrown (he is safe), the plane explodes, and the huge superhero is thrown (we hear him yell).

A man is thrown out a high-rise building's window and falls toward the ground, a flying device clamps onto his wrists and covers his body with a metal suit, which enables him to fly, and he flies back up just before hitting the ground.

Two alien deities fight throwing each other around and striking each other repeatedly until one stabs the other in the side (he pulls the blade out of his side and he appears OK).

A huge green superhero suddenly punches an alien deity, who is thrown off-screen (played for laughs).

An alien talks to another alien about human beings, saying, "To challenge them is to court death," and the second alien turns to face the camera and smiles.

A huge green superhero slams an alien deity back and forth as if he is a rag doll; the deity is shown to be alive but stunned in a hole in the floor after this treatment, and he is heard squealing and shown with cuts and bruises on his face (played for laughs but still a little startling).

A superhero falls to Earth, he is snatched out of the air by another superhero and placed on the ground where he lies motionless for a few moments and then awakens.

An alien deity is locked in a glass containment pod and dropped out of a flying vessel, he breaks out of the pod before it crashes to the ground and he is thrown across the ground (he is shown to be OK).

A superhero spins inside a huge turbine, and he is sucked against a wall and dropped into the mechanism (he is tossed around and sparks fly).

Several guards and people shoot at armed men and people are struck (no blood is evident).

A woman tied to a chair fights with three men, kicking and punching and head-butting them; one man is thrown off a level and dangles by a chain wrapped around his ankle (we hear a crunch and he moans).

A man and a woman fight with punches and kicks and head-butts, they draw knives and attack each other, one holds a knife to the throat of the other, and one is slammed hard into a metal railing and then kicked in the head.

A woman tied to a chair and being interrogated is punched in the face and threatened (blood is on her knee where her stockings are torn).

A man yells and slams his hands on a table causing a woman to draw a gun and point it at him and many armed people to surround the building they are in.

An alien deity with a glowing staff presses the tip of it against a man's chest and the man's eyes become black and then turn crystal blue; he does to same to another man whose skin becomes discolored and his eyes change like the previous victim (they are both still alive).

A huge installation explodes and it sinks into a hole in the ground while people inside run for safety; a woman is trapped in tunnel when it collapses (she has a bit of blood on her nose).

A man fires an explosive arrow at a flying vessel, it explodes and many people inside the vessel are thrown from the blast.

An arrow strikes the controls of a huge flying vessel and all of the systems go dead causing the vessel to tip and begin to fall from the sky.

A missile with a nuclear payload is fired at a city, and a superhero steers the missile away from the city, into the sky and then into another dimension where it is shown destroying an alien base with a massive explosion.

A man in a helicopter fires at a vehicle on the ground, and a man in the vehicle fires at the helicopter causing it to spin out of control and crash.

A car chase shows installation guards shooting at a vehicle with an alien deity armed with a glowing staff and he fires the staff several times causing chase cars to explode and flip; a man and a woman in separate cars speed through a tunnel, bumper-to-bumper, while shooting at each other.

A plane shoots at alien soldiers as they drop to the ground, an alien deity shoots the plane, and it spins out of control and crashes to the ground (the occupants are unharmed).

A storm swirls around an airplane; an alien deity lands on top of the plane, grabs another alien deity out of the plane and jumps out (the two deities crash onto a mountain, unharmed).

While scientists experiment with an energy source, the laboratory vibrates and rumbles, a glowing cube emits flashes of light, a beam of light is shot across the room, a portal is opened and an alien deity appears on a platform.

After an explosion, a woman's leg is pinned under debris (she frees herself).

When a flying vessel lists, a superhero falls off a small ledge and catches onto a cable before pulling himself back up.

An alien deity slams his hand against a glass wall and yells at a woman on the other side threatening to make a man kill her in all of the ways she's afraid of (he also talks about ripping a man's head in half).

An alien is shown with a metallic mask covering gray-tinged flesh, his teeth are red, he has six fingers and he speaks with a deep and booming voice.

One not-fully-enunciated scatological term, 2 mild scatological terms, 1 sexual reference, 1 religious profanity, and some name-calling. Words like "ass", "hell", and "damn" are used intermittently, including one use of "son of a gun".

Note: There is one use of especially strong language: Loki calls Black Widow a "mewling quim" which is a British equivalent of saying "whiny cunt", but it will most likely go over children's heads.

A man and a woman hold glasses of champagne and the woman drinks from her glass.

People are shown holding and drinking from champagne glasses at an event.

A man pours himself a drink (and drinks) and offers an alien deity one (he declines at first but asks for the drink later).

A man asks another man, clearly in jest, if he uses a "huge bag of weed" to stay in control.

There are several prolonged and intense action sequences, but they're not shot in an overtly horrific or graphic way, and there are also many comedic moments throughout the film that lighten the tension.

A man, who is known to transform into a dangerous monster when emotionally excited, suddenly yells and slams his hands on a table as if he is losing his temper and about to change, momentarily frightening an agent sent to talk to him.

A villain is shown terrorizing guests at a party, gouging a man's eye out with a device on a table like an altar (not graphic) and forcing all those present to kneel before him; the eye-gouging is very startling and this villain's mental state (which is significantly unhinged throughout the film, suggestive of mental illness) may be upsetting or frightening on its own.

A villain in a prison cell surrounded by a glass wall attempts to unsettle a female operative sent to interrogate him in a manner that culminates with him slamming on the glass with his fist, screaming at her, threatening to hurt and kill her, and insulting her (she is driven to tears by this). However, that response turns out to be a ruse to trick the villain into revealing his plans.

A man transforms into a large green monster (he is seen convulsing and is making loud noises, which is mildly disturbing) and then chases a woman and suddenly appears from nowhere in the dark and roars loudly (viewers may jump).

An alien deity is trapped in a large capsule, which is then dropped from an aircraft from a high altitude in a function designed to kill a superhuman when it hits the ground (he is temporarily buffeted but manages to escape at the last second).

A superhero intercepts a nuclear missile headed for Manhattan, forces it into a portal leading to an alien base, and agrees to call his girlfriend (implying that he understands he might die); however, the call fails and he stares at the exploding alien base while falling back through the portal (he is unconscious as he plummets toward the earth but he is saved before hitting the ground and is revealed to be alive and unharmed).