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Two animated series have been made, The Avengers: United They Stand, loosely based on the West Coast Avengers, ran from 1999 to 2000. And The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes, based on the early adventures of the team, premiered on October 20, 2010.
Marvel Animation has made three Avengers films, Ultimate Avengers, Ultimate Avengers 2 and Next Avengers.
The live-action film The Avengers was released on May 4, 2012, where Nick Fury recruited Iron Man, Captain America, Hulk, Thor, Black Widow and Hawkeye to form the Avengers to fight Loki and his attack against Earth. It set the record for the biggest opening debut in North America, with a weekend gross of $207.4 million.
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“The question confronting the Church today is not any longer whether the man in the street can grasp a religious message, but how to employ the communications media so as to let him have the full impact of the Gospel message.”
—Pope John Paul II (b. 1920)