Original Avengers (except one) get matching tattoos

The gang were celebrating ten years of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the release of Avengers: Infinity War

With the Marvel Cinematic Universe marking a decade of films this year, it certainly seems cause for celebration.

Five of the original members of the Avengers team decided to mark the occasion, and the release of Avengers: Infinity War, with a set of matching tattoos of the team’s famous logo.

The work was done by New York-based tattoo artist Josh Lord, who in turn received his own (a little more amateur) tattoo inked by the cast themselves.

The one Avenger who declined the invite was Mark Ruffalo, though the reason why is unclear.

Robert Downey Jr. described the experience to Entertainment Weekly, stating: “Five of the original six Avengers got a tattoo. And the sixth was the tattoo artist, who gave it to five of us, the one who opted out being Mark Ruffalo.”

“It was (Scarlett) Johansson’s idea, and she and (Chris) Evans did it in New York. Then, their New York guy, Josh Lord, who is amazing, flew out to LA, he did me, did (Jeremy) Renner, and then we just bullied (Chris) Hemsworth into doing it, and he got it.”

"And each one of us drew a line on the artist with his own tattoo gun and it was a total massacre. Each of us contributed to giving the tattoo artist the sixth tattoo that he designed for us."

“By the way, he’s got another one on him that Scarlett did, which is beautiful, which is crazy, because the line she drew on him, which was just supposed to be a straight line, looked like a lightning bolt. It was a mess.”

Avengers: Infinity War is out now.

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