THQ's The Avengers
THQ built a first-person four-player Avengers game around the Skrull invasion, then lost the licence and closed its Australian studio before the film arrived.
Quick facts
- Existence state
- Never Born
- Peak stage
- working prototype
- Research confidence
- high
- Last verified
What it was
A cancelled first-person cooperative Avengers game developed by THQ Studio Australia.
Iron Man, Captain America, Thor and Hulk would fight through a Skrull invasion in a campaign tied to the 2012 film.
Existence timeline
THQ Australia starts a film-linked Avengers game.
Four heroes receive distinct first-person abilities.
Levels and cinematics enter production.
Marvel terminates THQ's agreement.
The Australian team is shut down.
Extended prototype footage reveals the cancelled game.
Why it ended
Marvel ended THQ's licence while the publisher was cutting costs, stopping the project in 2011.
Last confirmed trace
Playable builds, design footage and developer interviews reveal a substantial cooperative prototype.
What it left behind
Its leaked levels show a markedly different route for superhero games before the modern Marvel game boom.
How we classified it
The proposed archive unit never reached ordinary public access in the form being documented.
The strongest verified milestone maps to working_prototype under Arrival Score V1.
Sources & verification
Last reviewed 2026-08-01. Sources are linked so readers can inspect the evidence directly.