Did anybody else notice that line?

I did. But I'm not a comics person, so I kind of assumed it referred to the way she'd come over to SHIELD. Some general redemptive backstory.

ION, I had lamb shawarma for lunch.

Also, there's a good chance that The Avengers is going to be the biggest grossing movie of all time.

It's already reached a billion and it's not even Memorial Day yet. At the very least it will be the third highest grossing movie of all time behind Avatar and Titanic, though it'll probably get past Titanic.

Well, IMAX and 3D will get it past Titanic, I think.

Did anybody else notice that line?

Well, Wikipedia notes that during her training in the Red Room, she was implanted with false memories to ensure her loyalty (this was a recent retcon). And at one point she was brainwashed by the KGB and battled the Avengers (but this was from back in the sixties). So it's in comics canon, but who knows what it was referring to in the movie.

Hec, I wouldn't put the information about Hawkeye going under Loki's control (and coming out) in whitefont for another week or so at least.

After Hawkeye is brought back from Loki's control, BW asks him how he feels. He says something to the effect of "You know what it's like to be emptied out and filled up with something else." Indicating a kind of Dollhousing in her backstory.

Is that in the comics? The Ultimates? Somewhere? Did anybody else notice that line?

Comics - 616, I think?

I doubt The Avengers will top Titanic in international gross. Titanic is still sitting at $2.1 billion internationally (counting, admittedly, re-releases). That's $700+ million more than the third place movie, HP VII.

Only James Cameron seems to have mastered the super-slow-burn long-running box office champ to the level of Avatar and Titanic (Avatar broke no opening weekend records, but holds records for third, fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh weekends, and holds first in third and fourth even when adjusted for inflation.) I don't think Avengers will hold that same sort of sway for the next several weeks; it's a different kind of movie, at a very different time of year.

I wouldn't be surprised if it hits 1.5 billion internationally, but I doubt we'll see it beating either of the Cameron Epics.

Because everything deserves the Friends treatment, I repost for you: Loki'd:

Where they all become room mates and everyone hates Loki (except Thor doi) and so they are grumpy, but he also hates all of them so the twist is that Loki himself is constantly trolled.

Bruce is always Hulk cus he can’t tolerate Loki, but he is like, sophisticated Hulk cus he is trying really hard not to rage.

Fanart at the link.

This is very apropos of art icons and the final scene of Avengers.

That is fabulous.