How we cite our quotes: All quotations are from The Avengers.
Quote #1
NICK FURY: We have no quarrel with your people.
LOKI: An ant has no quarrel with a boot.
NICK FURY: Are you planning to step on us?
LOKI: I come with glad tidings of a world made free.
NICK FURY: Free from what?
LOKI: Freedom. Freedom is life's great lie. Once you accept that, in your heart...
This is pretty much the basis of the film's conflict: Loki wants to rule the Earth, Nick Fury would rather he not. The conflict basically comes down to humanity's identity: are we going to be ants, or something more?
Quote #2
STEVE ROGERS: When I went under, the world was at war. I wake up, they say we won. They didn't say what we lost.
NICK FURY: We've made some mistakes along the way. Some, very recently.
STEVE ROGERS: Are you here with a mission, sir?
NICK FURY: I am.
STEVE ROGERS: Trying to get me back in the world?
NICK FURY: Trying to save it.
Cap's journey in this movie is finding his place in a world that he doesn't belong to. Can he be the hero he was in a time that doesn't seem to need them? As the guy who helped create these characters would say, "stay tuned, true believers!"
Quote #3
STEVE ROGERS: The uniform? Aren't the stars and stripes a little...old-fashioned?
PHIL COULSON: With everything that's happening, the things that are about to come to light, people might just need a little old-fashioned.
Cap's identity is rooted in the past, a past where guys walking around in bright blue tights weren't so out of place. But it also speaks to a purer code of honor, where people did the right thing just because it's the right thing to do. Coulson thinks that could come in handy in this latest situation.