Help needed from fellow Avengers addicts!

historyterry has been reading my Clint/Coulson fic. Which is awesome except...he hasn’t watched the Avengers yet. Or any of the other films. (As an aside, I’m both awed and terrified by the idea that my fic is encouraging people to delve into this world *g*).

Next weekend he’s sitting down to watch the Avengers. Finally. Leaving aside my terror at the idea that he decide I’ve brought him in on false pretences, I need some help.

Can anyone point me to an easy précis of what he’s missed in the other films so he won’t be confused in the Avengers? Not massive long descriptions of the other films, just quick summaries of the elements that carry over?

Otherwise I’ll have to write one for him and I’m, uh, HORRIBLY BIASED. It will be all “Iron Man is unimportant, Iron Man 2 is unimportant, THOR HAS 3 MINUTES OF CLINT AND COULSON BEING AWESOME AND I FORGET WHAT ELSE MIGHT BE IMPORTANT THERE, Captain America is unimportant…wait, Tesseract, there’s that”. See? Not helpful.

So, you know, any links that anyone can send me that will be a quick read and leave him less confused by Loki and Tesseracts and stuff would be so wonderful.