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1. Tony is not allowed to replace the entire contents of the cafeteria with pop-tarts just because Thor has declared it the ‘food of the gods.’
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2. Natasha is not allowed to interrogate new S.H.I.E.L.D. employees and dispose of the ones she deems unworthy.
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3. Clint is not allowed to continue insisting that is the final step of the interview process to terrified new hires.
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4. Tony is not allowed to broadcast sing-along songs into the Hulk-cage, no matter amusing he finds teaching Hulk “Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear, turn around”
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5. Clint is not allowed to put the security feed of the Hulk’s Teddy Bear dance on Youtube.
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6. Bruce is not allowed to hack into personnel files to look up blackmail material on Director Fury.
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7. Tony is not allowed to insist that he’s already done so and that Fury’s middle name is Rainbow Sprinkles…. Because it isn’t.
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8. Thor is not allowed to be naked at Headquarters. Ever.
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9. Steve is not allowed to address any female S.H.I.E.L.D. agents as ‘little lady,’ ‘broad,’ or ‘dame.’ It only ends in getting slapped.
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10. Agent Coulson’s name isn’t “Mom.”
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11. Director Fury should never again be addressed as “Dad”
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12. Agent Hill is not the Avenger’s wicked stepmother.
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13. Clint is not allowed to lurk in the shadowy rafters spying on people, unless specifically instructed to do so for an official S.H.I.E.L.D. sanctioned mission.
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14. ‘Operation Irritate the Fuck Out of Nick Fury’ is not an official mission, no matter what Tony or Natasha say to the contrary.
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15. Debriefings should not be preceded by tequila shots.
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16. Debriefings should not be followed by tequila shots.
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17. There are to be no shots of any kind during debriefings.
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18. Thor and Hulk will wait to fight until after the battle is over.
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19. Tony Stark is not God’s gift to women.
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20. The Avengers do not need matching uniforms.
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21. Tony and Bruce are not allowed to have a contest to see who can make a bigger “boom” in the lab.
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22. Thor is not allowed to join in and make the biggest boom with his hammer.
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23. The Avengers will not be celebrating Steve’s 94th birthday.
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24. The laboratory is not Tony and Bruce’s ‘Super Secret Genius Clubhouse.’ They are not allowed to bar entry to employees based on IQ test results.
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25. The Avengers are not making a promotional pin-up calendar. Or a sex tape.
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26. Iron Man is not making a promotional pin-up calendar. Or a sex tape.
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27. Tony Stark is not making a promotional pin-up calendar. Or a sex tape.
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28. Thor is not allowed to ‘bring down the wrath of Odinson’ on the person who ate the last package of pop-tarts.
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29. Pants are not optional at team meetings.
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30. ‘Pepper said it was okay’ is not a good enough reason to defy a director order from command.
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31. The words “What’s the worst that could happen?” are never to be uttered on a mission ever again.
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32. MC Hammer did not write Thor a theme song.
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33. Gumby is not the love child of Bruce Banner and Reed Richards.
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34. Natasha and Clint are not allowed to impersonate members of the clergy ever again. Ever.
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35. Blasting ‘Don’t Worry, Be Happy’ at top volume into Bruce’s room on loop overnight is not an effective way to suppress the Hulk.
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36. Hawkeye is not sitting in the rafters waiting to pick off people playing Galaga on their computer during work hours.
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37. Tony is not allowed to bribe Natasha and Clint to physically, emotionally or psychologically torture General Ross for being ‘a great big douchebucket’ and ‘being mean to Brucie-kins.’
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38. Steve is ‘Captain America’ not ‘Captain New York and those 49 other, lesser states.’
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39. ‘Hulk SMASH!’ is not an effective diplomatic policy.
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40. Tony is not allowed to buy the Dodgers and move them back to Brooklyn to apologize for lighting Steve’s hair on fire.
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41. The phrase ‘Trust me, I’m a doctor’ never leads anywhere good.
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42. It is not funny to dare Bruce to drink three quarts of green food coloring before a urine test.
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43. Steve is not to be introduced as ‘Captain Tightpants’ or ‘The All-American Virgin.’
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44. The Avengers do not ‘charge into battle, naked like the Celts.’ Except for The Hulk. Sometimes.
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45. Natasha’s glare is not in fact fatal. Tony is not allowed to continue implying that it is.
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46. Tony is not allowed to convince Bruce to help him make death ray goggles so that it will be.
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47. The Avengers are not allowed to overthrow the American government, just because they didn’t like the results from the last election.
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48. The Avengers are not allowed to overthrow any government, without checking in with S.H.I.E.L.D. first.
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49. Clint is not allowed to sell Thor any ‘magic beans.’
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50. Natasha and Clint are not allowed to try to sell Tony to another planet, even if they are promised really cool new weapons in exchange.
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51. Tony and Bruce are not allowed to go to any science conferences without a chaperone.
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52. A robot Tony built does not count as a chaperone.
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53. Nikola Tesla is not a vampire being held in the bowels of S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters.
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54. Tony and Bruce are not allowed to go searching for him in the name of Science!
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55. Clint’s super-power is not ‘being super-annoying.’
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56. The following words and phrases are never to be uttered over communication devices during an active mission ever again:
“Exploring sexuality,” “Necrophilia,” “It’s getting hot in herr, so take off all your clothes,” “I hate everyone on this mission and I wish they’d die in a fire,” “Nick Fury can go suck on a big bag of sausages,” references to Bruce’s giant stash of weed, mention of anyone’s erection, or “Shawarma.”
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57. If it makes Tony giggle for more than 30 seconds, it isn’t allowed.
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58. If it makes Natasha crack a smile, it’s probably illegal.
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59. Thor taking Jane to see Asgard does not count as an alien abduction. Clint should stop referring to it as such.
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60. Just because Bruce agreed to work in Tony’s lab, does not mean he needs to get a “Property of Stark Industries” tattoo.
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61. Tony is not allowed to design a robot to draw said tattoo on Bruce when he falls asleep in the lab.
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62. Post-mission reports to Director Fury should not start out ‘So let me explain…’