The Avengers take on high school

For my final project for this class I will be rewriting a scene from The Avengers. Specifically, the argument scene from the first movie, where the whole team, minus Hawkeye, is in Dr. Banner’s lab arguing about S.H.I.E.L.D. and one another.  What sparked this idea was Whedon’s remake of Much Ado to Nothing. I decided I wanted to pull this scene out and put it in a completely different time or place, the only difference being that I will rewrite the words to fit into the period of choice rather than just adapt the scenery and actors. For my choice in location for this scene, I chose a high school. I thought it would be interesting to simplify Whedon’s elaborate characters into a single high school stereotype. These characters have so much depth in the original scene, I thought it would humorous and interesting to make this a scene to go in your typical trashy teen movie, a guilty pleasure genre of mine. I want to try to incorporate humor similar to that of Joss Whedon, thinking about some of the characters he created in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. This particular piece of fan fiction will have some challenges for me. Firstly, figuring out the perfect stereotype for each character in the scene and then figuring out what I want the big issue to be. In the original scene, they’re fighting about the Tesseract, weapons of mass destruction and other worlds – obviously all topics not discussed every day in a high school. Thus it will be important to find a logical situation which a fight like this could arise out of.