Avengers: Legend of the Ten Rings

***Avengers: Legend of the Ten Rings*** is a superhero film based on the Marvel Comic's team of the same name. It is the 34th Film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and a sequel to Avengers: Endgame, Alpha: Rise of the Phoenix Force, Eternals, Captain Marvel, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania and Shang-Chi; it is also a crossover with The Fantastic Four. It was release in May 2023.

The movie was written and directed by Zack Snyder and stars Calum Kelmer, Kit Harrington, Brie Larson, Anthony Mackie, Richard Madden, Gemma Chan, Simu Liu, Meng'er Zhang, Evangeline Lilly, Paul Rudd, with Tony Leung, with Laurence Fishburne and Michelle Pieiffer.

It serves as a direct sequel to Shang-Chi and is followed by Black Panther II. It makes up the Ten Rings trilogy and is the first Avengers movie of the Phoenix Conquest.

## Synopsis

Marvel's ***Avengers: Legend of the Ten Rings*** sees the Earth's greatest hero's assembling to battle the Mandarin and his villainous organisation "The Ten Rings". Only by banding together and trusting in one another can they halt his path of chaos and destruction.

## Plot

### General Plot

- The Mandarin has all of the rings and attempts to revive his wife, when it fails he seeks out the Eternals to use their power to bring her back, upon manipulating their power they begin to die and the deviants run rampant causing death on Earth.

- Janet Van-Dyne orders the Avengers to reassemble and uses both Hope and Scott to summon all possible Avengers, the team they create includes Captain Marvel, Ant-Man, Wasp, Hulk, Captain America and Black Knight, while they fight Wenwu for the first time, they free Shang-Chi who joins them, but, they are trapped before Alpha returns and manages to create time for them to escape.

- Ikaris reveals to Wenwu that Alpha is more powerful than any of the Eternals and that the power running through him would be enough to power the rings and bring back his wife. Ikaris and Sersi are tortured enough that they become thralls to Wenwu, who then goes to seek out Alpha.

- Whlile travelling home, Alpha and Carol form different opinions on what to do, she wants to keep the rings and use them for good, which Bruce, Scott and Hope support. Alpha wants to destroy them which Dane and Shang-Chi agree with. While they travel Ikaris attacks them and wipes the floor with them, Carol sacrifices herself to give them time to escape is captured.

- The final showdown is at the new Shield facility in Maryland where Wenwu and the ten rings attack and the Avengers are forced to work together to defeat him, they begin to lose when Wenwu takes advantage of their inability to work together and also enthrals several of them. Their dedication sees them through and they assemble and defeat his army of deviants while Shang-Chi defeats his father one-on-one, Alpha battles an enthralled Captain Marvel and Black Knight frees Ikaris and Sersi.

### Act 1 - Inciting Incident (Wenwu captures the Eternals and the Deviants return)

* Show Wenwu failing to bring back Ying Li, Xialing suggests they reach out and get the help of the surviving Eternal Sersi who, along with Ikaris, survived the emergence. He agrees and sets out to find them. Upon finding Sersi, he defeats Black Knight easily and attempts to leave with her, but, Ikaris arrives and battles him, he too is defeated and also is taken.
* Black Knight goes to SHIELD to seek out their help and while he speaks to them, due to Ikaris not being around to eliminate them, a report of Deviants emerging comes up, he travels to Russia with Ant-Man, Wasp and Captain America to battle them. Following the battle, this convinces Janet to reassemble the Avengers to defeat Wenwu.
* Janet pages Captain Marvel and explains the situation to her, she agrees to join and is clearly still upset over Alpha's death.
* Shang-Chi attempts to escape with Ikaris and Sersi, but, due to his injuries he slows them down and they remain in custody, Wenwu notices Ikaris weakness being his love for Sersi and plans to exploit it. He also attempts to use Sersi's life powers to enhance the rings power but it fails.

### Act 2 - Bringing together the team and failing to regain the rings from Wenwu + losing Carol

* Janet explains the situation to the New Avengers and the team attack Wenwu's fortress in China, while Carol keeps the Ten Rings attention out front, the rest sneak in and free Shang-Chi. Carol is knocked unconscious outside when she thinks she sees Alpha and is distracted by it. The Avengers fight their way through the base before Wenwu wipes the floor with them due to their inability to work together. Before he kills them, Alpha suddenly appears shocking everyone, especially Wenwu, he defeats The Mandarin in combat allowing the rest to escape.
* After the Avengers escape, Wenwu decides to use Alpha's power to make the rings stronger following advice from Ikaris, Sersi is angry that Ikaris would help him just to protect her and reminds him they are not together anymore, this upsets Ikaris enough for him to be mentally weak enough to be taken over by the liar ring, Sersi attempts to combat the power but is too taken over.
* On the quintet, Alpha reunites with everyone, Carol is angry at him for letting her mourn and when he makes excuses that he needed to search for what he came for, she gets angrier. Things get worse when they have split decisions on what to do with the rings if they defeat Wenwu. The argument is interrupted by Ikaris and Sersi attacking them and wiping the floor with them, Carol sacrifices herself to let the others escape and is captured by Ikaris.

### Act 3 - Wenwu attacks the base to gain Alpha's power and the Avengers Assemble to defeat him

* Back at the SHIELD base, Alpha is fuelled by rage and wants to hunt down the Ten Rings but he is convinced not to by Black Knight who says they need to work together to get Sersi and Carol back, Janet briefs the team on what to do next but Death Dealer makes an attempt on her life and sends the base into chaos, they individually go after him, but, Alpha is attacked by an enthralled Carol, he attempts to battle her while the team is also attacked by Sersi and Ikaris.
* Wenwu and Xialing reach the base with the ten rings army and lays waste to the security team. Carol and Alpha battle while Alpha tries to break through to her. Sersi and Dane battle and he attempts to break through, eventually, he defeats her and prepares to end her suffering through the ebony blade, but, when he can't do it, she senses this and breaks free of the rings power. Shang-Chi and Sam fight Wenwu and Xialing, Shang-Chi manages to hold his own against his father as the rings won't truly kill someone with the same DNA as their master. Sersi and Dane attempt to free Ikaris who is battling Scott and Hope, eventually, they pin him down and Sersi tries to break through to him, but, it doesn't work, suddenly, Wenwu siphons Carol, Ikaris and Sersi, who is partially linked still, and uses their life energy to summon the Dweller-in-Darkness to lay waste to everything if Alpha doesn't submit.
* While the Dweller lays waste to the nearby city, the Avengers put their differences aside, Alpha manages to partially heal Carol, Sersi and Ikaris with his power but it weakens him more. As the dweller lays waste, Wenwu watches the destruction from the top of a building.
* The Avengers battle their way through the city and Black Knight manages to kill death dealer, this encourages the team to battle towards Wenwu, Xialing and Shang-Chi fight and he convinces her to turn against their father as their mother was a warrior of life and their father does not truly care about her, all he is doing is disrespecting their mothers memory. Xialing agrees to help them and she reveals that most of their fathers power went into the Dweller so that if they can kill it then it will drain him. The others are informed of the plan and they set out to the street to enact it.
* Shang-Chi and Xialing sneak into the tower, Xialing begs her father to stop but he doesn't listen, she attacks him and he loses his concentration. Meanwhile, Hope and Sam leads the Dweller to the Avengers, and Scott grows in size to slow it down, as Ikaris, Alpha and Carol stun it by blasting it with their phoenix infused powers, finally Dane strikes it with the ebony blade and Sersi absorbs the life force from it and releases it into the world. Shang-Chi uses this moment to strike his father down, both siblings take the rings from him. Wenwu attempts to fight both of them and shows his skill but the remaining Avengers appear and they all defeat him.
* Following the battle, the Avengers are thanked by SHIELD and Carol prepares to depart for space, she and Alpha talk and she thanks him for helping her, he attempts to talk about what happened but she leaves before he can. Sam, Scott, Hope, Dane, Shang-Chi and Xialing remain active Avengers to protect earth while Alpha departs to continue his search for the child, however, Janet allows him to use her resources and he matches the words Grey, the Phoenix Force energy and recent news to find out something and flies off to find John Grey, who is living on the Xavier estate.

## Cast

* Calum Kelmer as Alpha the Eternity Warrior
* Kit Harrington as Dane Whitman/Black Knight
* Brie Larson as Carol Danvers/Captain Marvel
* Anthony Mackie as Sam Wilson/Captain America
* Richard Madden as Ikaris
* Gemma Chan as Sersi
* Simu Liu as Shang-Chi
* Meng'er Zhang as Xu Xialing
* Evangeline Lilly as Hope Van-Dyne/Wasp
* Paul Rudd as Scott Lang/Ant-Man
* Tony Leung as Wenwu/The Mandarin
* Laurence Fishburne as Deputy Director Bill Foster
* Michelle Pfeiffer as Director Janet Van-Dyne
* Cobie Smulders as Maria Hill (Post-credit scene; Uncredited)
* Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury (Post-credit scene; Uncredited)
* Andy Le as Death Dealer
* Florian Montanau as Razor Fist
* Fala Chen as Ying Li