Tony Stark, a billionaire industrialist and genius inventor, is kidnapped and forced to build a devastating weapon. Instead, using his intelligence and ingenuity, Tony builds a high-tech suit of armor and escapes captivity. When he uncovers a nefarious plot with global implications, he dons his powerful armor and vows to protect the world as Iron Man.
After the events of The Incredible Hulk, S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Phil Coulson has some bad news for agent Jasper Sitwell: The World Security Council wants Emil Blonsky to join the Avengers Initiative, and Coulson has orders to obtain his release from General Thaddeus Ross. Unable to defy the Council's request, Coulson and Sitwell hatch a plan to sabotage it - with a very special secret weapon.
Now that the existence of super heroes and aliens has become public knowledge, the world is trying to come to grips with this new reality. Agent Phil Coulson is back in action and now has his eye on a mysterious group called The Rising Tide. In order to track this unknown enemy, he has assembled a small, highly select group of agents from the law-enforcement organization known as S.H.I.E.L.D. The team has a mission: To investigate the new, the strange and the unknown around the globe, protecting the ordinary from the extraordinary.