15 Unscripted Moments That Are Completely Improvised By The Actors Becomes Iconic In The MCU

When it comes to making movies, it is absolutely vital to have a well-thought-out plan in order to carry out seamless production. Actors need to remember each line in the script exactly. This sounds easy, but not everyone can become an excellent actor because an actor's job is much more than just reciting words from a script.
People who write a script for a movie are creators, whose imagination is sometimes so unrealistic without real contexts. However, it's what talented actors can fix with their real emotions, which makes the movie more convincing and touching! Even sometimes, the most iconic moments in movies are totally improvised by truly gifted actors. Their improvisation is able to create a funnier, deeper, or more memorable moment for their character.
Especially, MCU fans seem quite familiar with such moments in their favorite movies. Let's take a look at some iconic improvised moments in MCU.

#1 Captain America: The First Avenger (2011), Hayley Atwell instinctively reached out to touch Chris Evans' chest

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After incredible Steve Rogers' transformation, Carter reached out to touch his chest, but this reaction wasn't planned."When Chris Evans first took his shirt off on the set of 'Captain America,' I just instinctively grabbed his man boob," Atwell told Esquire in 2011. "They kept it in the film. So we did a couple of takes of me being really inappropriate with my hand on his pec for the duration of the scene."

#2  Captain America: Civil War (2016), Downey Jr. came up with a line on the spot when Tom Holland forgot his blocking

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In the scene that Tony comes to offer Peter Parker to join the Avengers, Tony should have sat on Peter's beg if Peter had remembered that he had to stand up. But instead of ruining the scene and starting again, Tony fixed it by saying, "I'm going to sit here, so you move the leg."
Marvel Studio News reported that during the DVD commentary for the film, co-director Anthony Russo shared that Holland forgot he was supposed to move over on the bed, so Downey Jr. reminded him to scoot by improvising the line. Anthony appreciated it: "That's such a dexterous and inventive move on an actor's part."

#3 In the Thor series, Hemsworth also improvised smaller moments

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In addition to being successful as a powerful god, Hemsworth also presents himself as a humorous person who always improvises adding humorous details to the movies. Marvel producer shared his funny moments that weren't unscripted. Hemsworth unexpectedly hung up his hammer on a coat hook in "Thor: The Dark World," or improvised saying "Another!" after smashing a coffee mug in "Thor".

#4 Avengers: Endgame (2019), Karen Gillan and Downey Jr. improvised their paper-football scene

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The paper-football scene in Avengers: End-game wasn't in the script, and it was improvised by Nebula (Gillan). Even in 2019, The Hollywood Reporter asked Gillan which actor was better at the game, and she claimed victory.

#5 Iron Man (2008), Robert Downey Jr. ab-libbed the final line "I am Iron Man"

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"If you're changing something for no reason, that's one thing, but if you're changing something because you want to double-down on the spirit of who the character is? That's a change we'll make," this is what producer and president of Marvel Studios Kevin Feige shared about the most iconic improvised moment of Robert Downey Jr. while playing the role of Iron-Man.
He added: "Tony Stark not reading off the card and not sticking with the fixed story? Him just blurting out 'I am Iron Man?' That seems very much in keeping with who that character is."

#6 Avengers: Infinity War, Holland improvised and reworked his death scene

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A talented actor sometimes doesn't need a detailed script, even they make it much better without following it. It's because nothing is better than actual feelings. I'm talking about Spidey's iconic moment in Avengers: Infinity War - he set the record straight in a 2019 GQ video with that scene.
This is when Peter realizes that he's dying, he repeatedly tells Tony, "I don't want to go."

#7 Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), Chris Pratt improvised dropping the orb so well that it seemed like an accident

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In "Guardians of the Galaxy," Peter Quill (Pratt) presents a powerful orb to the Collector (Benicio del Toro) but nearly drops the precious item in the process. Director James Gunn wrote in a tweet that he thought the slipup was an accident.
But Pratt later replied director that that moment was a "hundred percent intentional" and that it's better to "ask forgiveness than permission" when it comes to going off-script.

#8 Ant-Man (2015), Paul Rudd improvised a comeback after Evangeline Lilly punched his character

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In "Ant-man", Hope Van Dyne (Lilly) had the training to help Scott Lang (Rudd) hone his superhero skills. While they're training, Hope punches Scott in the face to prove a point, and he asks, "Were you going for the hand?" This line was totally Rudd's improvs. Lilly said: "I was so glad that it ended up in there 'cause I love that line."

#9 Captain Marvel (2019), Samuel L. Jackson looked at a naked Skrull without being prompted

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While going to visit the body of a Skrull impersonates S.H.I.E.L.D. agent in the exam room, Nick Fury (Jackson) lifts the blanket to take a covert peak at the alien's lower half. He just did it randomly, but this scene was kept because it was very hilarious.

#10 Avengers: Infinity War, Dave Bautista ad-libbed the line "Why is Gamora?"

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In Avengers: Infinity War, the Avengers and the Guardians of the Galaxy meet for the first time, but they seem not to know well each other, so they have many questions, but the literal-minded Drax (Bautista) misunderstands a line of questioning about Gamora.
"The script only said, 'Where is Gamora?' 'I'll do you even better: Who is Gamora?' And then one day Bautista just goes, 'I'll do you one better: Why is Gamora?'" screenwriter Christopher Markus told Yahoo in 2018. "It's like, 'OK, you're very good at your job.'"

#11 Thor: Ragnarok (2017), Chris Hemsworth came up with the "get help" scene

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In "Thor: Ragnarok," Thor (Hemsworth) forces a reluctant Loki (Tom Hiddleston) to pretend to be injured so the hero could hurtle him into a group of clueless guards.
Director Taika Waititi of "Thor: Ragnarok" openly encouraged his actors to go off-script, he said: "That was his idea. There's a lot in things in the film which has come straight from his input. I'm very lucky to have someone around who's very invested in the emotionality of the scenes, but wants to have fun."

#12 Hemsworth said a child visiting the "Thor: Ragnarok" set came up with the "friend from work" line

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In "Thor: Ragnarok," when knowing the competitor is Hulk, Thor excitingly shouts "We know each other! He's a friend from work!"
Hemsworth said during a 2017 Comic-Con interview with Entertainment Tonight that the iconic line was inspired by a child visiting them on set. "We had a young kid ― a Make-A-Wish kid ― on set that day, and in between the takes I was talking with him and coming back and forth," Hemsworth said. "And he goes, 'You know, you should say he's a friend from work.'"

#13 Avengers: Infinity War" (2018), Elizabeth Olsen and Paul Bettany were asked to improvise Vision's death

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In "Avengers: Infinity War," Wanda Maximoff (Olsen) has to experience a tough moment while she needs to kill her lover. Later, the stars shared that directors Joseph and Anthony Russo walked up to them on set and asked them to ab-lib the dialogue for the death scene.
According to Bettany, the actors looked at each other in "abject terror" when they realized how much they would have to improvise, and the energy on set quickly became very silly. "Some brilliant editor somewhere cut out all the really, really embarrassing bits," Bettany said. Olsen added, "That's my favorite moment because it was so ridiculous, the whole thing was so ridiculous and to make it so emotional felt so silly … but the editors did a great job."

#14 Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017), Downey Jr. and Holland riffed off of each other in the car scene

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Everyone must remember the embarrassing and iconic moment in Spider-Man: Homecoming when Peter tries to hug Tony at the tail end of a conversation, but Tony just wants to open the car door. In an interview with entertainment reporter Kevin McCarthy, Holland said that particular scene is "so full of improvised moments." "We kind of really riffed off each other," Holland said. "... I think I just tried to hug him, I just thought it would be funny if I hugged him, and Robert's instincts are so good that he was like, 'Ah, I'm not trying to hug you, I'm just gonna get the door.'"

#15 Downey Jr.'s final scene in "Avengers: Endgame" was entirely unscripted

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There should be not Tony's death scene in "Avengers: Endgame" in the script, Tom Holland said. "They kind of brought us to set, they kind of told us what was going to happen or what they wanted to happen, and then we sort of just improvised if I can remember correctly," he added. "It was a really, really interesting way to shoot such a pivotal scene of the movie," he continued. "But it was a really emotional day, and I mean, looking back on it now, it was maybe the craziest day I've ever had on set, you know?"