Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Forum!

The Living Davebunal · Site Admin Joined: 11 Oct 2010 Posts: 238

This poorly-conceived attempt at an Avengers cartoon series was (very) loosely based on the The West Coast Avengers roster, and was composed of Ant Man (Hank Pym) as leader, with a team of Hawkeye, the Scarlet Witch, the Vison, Wonder Man, Wasp, the Falcon, and Tigra.

In short - none of the Big Three.

The visual re-design of the characters was hideous, and made them look very "Transformer"-ish so that they could have a "suit up!" sequence.

When Marvel went bankrupt, the series - like the Silver Surfer series, and the Captain America series in development - died a horrible death.

Season One (and only)

#01 - Avengers Assemble - Part 1 -- Ultron creates the Vision and sends him to destroy Ant-Man.

#02 - Avengers Assemble - Part 2 -- Wonder Man is put on life support and the Avengers must take over where he fell. Falcon joins the team and Vision is reprogrammed with some of Wonder Man's mind.

#03 - Kang -- After being accidentally freed by Dr. Chris Johnson and Falcon's nephew Andrew, Kang the Conqueror starts to create havoc while looking for a special crystal obelisk from ancient Egypt. This object would allow him to go back into the future and oppress millions of people. The Avengers must protect the world past, present and future, at all costs.

#04 - Comes A Swordsman -- While the Avengers face a group of thieves led by Ringmaster who robbed a biological weapons study lab, Hawkeye must face his past and his old mentor the Swordsman.

#05 - Remnants -- Strange remnants of Ultron's previous experiments create terror on an island where France's main nuclear testing facility exists. The Avengers race to control or destroy these machines before they start a nuclear war. Only they haven't planned on Ultron paying a visit as well.

#6 - Command Decision -- The Avengers must stop the Masters of Evil, who are trying to steal a shipment of highly dangerous government weapons. To make matters more difficult, Captain America comes on the scene leaving Ant-Man to work out his leadership issues while still focusing on the job at hand.

#07 - To Rule Atlantis -- Mysterious earthquakes are caused artificially. The Avengers suspect prince Namor of Atlantis so they go under the sea to investigate. They discover Namor is not causing the earthquakes, but managed to discover that Attuma is using the Dynamo machine to create earthquakes in his plot to conquer Atlantis.

#08 - Shooting Stars -- When satellites are blasted out of their orbits, the whole world is threatened. Learning that the criminal organization Zodiac is behind the chaos, the Avengers call upon the help of Iron Man and rocket into space to stop the blackmail of Earth's cities.

#09 - What a Vision Has to Do -- Vision volunteers to be "bait" to allow himself to be captured by Ultron as a way for the Avengers to track him to the villain's lair. It works, but Ultron is ready for them. This is the last appearance of Ultron in the series.

#10 - Egg-Streme Vengeance -- Egghead initiates a plot to destroy his archrival Ant-Man by making his "Pym particles" go crazy. The Avengers must prevent Ant-Man from shrinking to subatomic oblivion.

#11 - The Sorceress's Apprentice -- Scarlet Witch visits Agatha Harkness accompanied by Vision to see what she can do for Wonder Man, but she is kidnapped by the Salem's Seven. Scarlet Witch calls the rest of the Avengers to help her, but they are busy fighting the Grim Reaper.

#12 - Earth and Fire - Part 1 -- Something is dangerously affecting the magnetic fields of the Earth. Wasp realizes that her father's old business partner Cornelius Van Lundt is behind the disruptions. Wasp must face her past in order to save the Earth.

#13 - Earth and Fire - Part 2 -- Someone wants an ancient meteorite buried beneath an island, which is the reason for the disruptions in the Earth's magnetic fields. The Avengers have a final showdown with the Zodiac gang.

Paintball Captain America · Joined: 13 Oct 2010 Posts: 8 Location: 12078

While this show was far from perfect by any stretch of the definition, it wasn't bad if one completely IGNORES anything and everything they know about the Avengers.

Admittedly, for me, that's extremely hard to do. They could have done so much better than this.

There's really only two things I liked about this show...

1) The Vision's accompanying figure from Toy Biz. He looked less like a guy in a costume and more like a robotic character.

2) Watching my old VHS tapes of this show got my son into the Avengers and cemented Hank Pym as his favorite character ever. Thankfully, he's long since realized that Hank is cooler in the comics.

All in all, not good, not terrible, but definitely DISAPPOINTING!