There was an idea, Stark knows this, called the Avengers Initiative.
10 seconds sound clip from the The Avengers (2012) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 01:30:12 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
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- We're dead in the air up here.
- Our communications, the location of the Cube, Banner, Thor...
- I got nothing for you. I lost my one good eye. Maybe I had that coming.
- Yes, we were going to build an arsenal with the Tesseract.
- I never put all my chips on that number, though because I was playing something even riskier.
- There was an idea, Stark knows this, called the Avengers Initiative.
- To see if they could work together when we needed them to, to fight the battles that we never could.
- Phil Coulson died still believing in that idea. In heroes.
- Well, it's an old-fashioned notion.
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