Below are specific time marks and the scripts (adapted from the Internet Movie Script Database, n.d.) for related scenes that are illustrative of the Five-Stage Model and associated team related concepts. The scripts help you recall the scenes in the movie clips. Please answer the questions provided at the end of each Stage.

The Forming Stage

STEVE: Loki's gonna drag this out. So, Thor, what's his play? THOR: He has an army called the Chitauri. They're not of Asgard or any world known. He means to lead them against your people. They will win him the earth. In return, I suspect, for the Tesseract. STEVE: An army? From outer space? BANNER: So he's building another portal. That's what he needs Erik Selvig for. THOR: Selvig? BANNER: He's an astrophysicist. THOR: He's a friend. NATASHA: Loki has him under some kind of spell, along with one of ours. STEVE: I wanna know why Loki let us take him. He's not leading an army from here. BANNER: I don't think we should be focusing on Loki. That guy's brain is a bag full of cats, you could smell crazy on him. THOR: Have care how you speak. Loki is beyond reason, but he is of Asgard, and he's my brother. NATASHA: He killed eighty people in two days. THOR: He's adopted. BANNER: I think its about the mechanics. Iridium, what did they need the Iridium for? TONY: (Walks in with Coulson) It's a stabilizing agent. (To Coulson) I'll fly you there. Keep the love alive. (To the Avengers team) Means the portal won't collapse on itself, like it did at SHIELD. (To Thor) No hard feelings, Point Break. You've got a mean swing. Also, it means the portal can open as wide, and stay open as long, as Loki wants. (To the crew of the helicarrier) Uh, raise the mid-mast, ship the top sails. That man is playing Galaga! Thought we wouldn't notice. But we did. (Covering his eye, looks around) How does Fury do this? AGENT HILL: He turns. TONY: Well, that sounds exhausting. The rest of the raw materials, Agent Barton can get his hands on pretty easily. Only major component he still needs is a power source. A high energy density, something to kick start the cube. (Tony looks around the monitors and places a button size hacking implant on Fury's desk, without anyone noticing.) AGENT HILL: When did you become an expert in thermonuclear astrophysics? TONY: Last night. The packet, Selvig's notes, the Extraction Theory papers. Am I the only one who did the reading? STEVE: Does Loki need any particular kind of power source? BANNER: He's got to heat the cube to a hundred and twenty million Kelvin just to break through the Coulomb barrier. TONY: Unless, Selvig has figured out how to stabilize the quantum tunneling effect. BANNER: Well, if he could do that he could achieve Heavy Ion Fusion at any reactor on the planet. TONY: Finally, someone who speaks English. STEVE: Is that what just happened? (Tony and Banner shake hands. A glimmer in their eyes shines as the mutual respect for each other shows.) TONY: It's good to meet you, Dr. Banner. Your work on anti-electron collisions is unparalleled. And I'm a huge fan of the way you lose control and turn into an enormous green rage monster. BANNER: (Looks down) Thanks. NICK FURY: (Walking in) Dr. Banner is only here to track the cube. I was hoping you might join him. STEVE: Let's start with that stick of his (i.e., Lokis scepter). It may be magical, but it works an awful lot like a hydra weapon. NICK FURY: I don't know about that, but it is powered by the cube. And I'd like to know how Loki used it to turn two of the sharpest men I know into his personal flying monkeys. THOR: Monkeys? I do not understand. STEVE: I do! I understood that reference. (Tony rolls his eyes, while Cap looks proud of himself.) TONY: Shall we play, doctor? (Tony and Banner walk to the lab.)

Questions for Forming Stage

1. What is the goal of this team of Avengers? What does team composition mean for the Avengers? Do they have a strong sense of we?

2. Does each of the Avengers know what are expected of each of them? Which parts of the clip support your observations?