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{{quote|'''Iron Man''': One on one, we can each take down a villain or two, but 74... none of us can do it alone. Together we have a chance. What we did here, it can change things. The world needs us, but not as SHIELD agents. As a team of our own. Together, we can avenge the wrongs caused by all these villains.

Originally, the team consists of [[Incredible Hulk|The Incredible Hulk]], [[Iron Man]], [[Ant-Man]], [[The Wasp]], and the [[The Mighty Thor]], with [[Captain America (comics)]], [[Hawkeye]], the [[Black Panther]], and a host of other heroes ready to join them. Together, they deal with such threats as the terrorist organization HYDRA, the mystical trickster god Loki, and many many more.

 

 

This is the second attempt at The Avengers having an animated series, ''[[The Avengers: United They Stand]]'' being the first. This one has been much better received. 2013 will apparently see ''Earth's Mightiest Heroes'' [http://www.forbes.com/sites/larissafaw/2012/04/30/marvels-five-year-plan-for-the-avengers-to-rescue-the-movies replaced] with an episodic show, with a format differing the serialized format of this series.

{{tropelist|Tropes associated with both the micro-episodes and TV series:}}

== A-D ==

* [[Actually a Doombot]]: {{spoiler|A Furybot actually}}

* [[Adaptational Badass]] This show gives us several examples. The more notable ones being Wasp and Grim Reaper.

* [[Adaptation Distillation]]: Though the series is based primarily on the original comics, the "Breakout" story-arc derives from the initial story-arc from ''New Avengers''. Furthermore, [[Iron Man]] and [[The Hulk]] are based partly on their movie incarnations, as are a number of their villains. Combine that with shades of [[Ultimate Marvel]], and it seems this show takes a little bit from everything.

** Abomination has elements of his comics self (his head and coloring), and his movie incarnation (he speaks with a British accent and according to his bio on the website and tie-in comic, he was a British soldier like in the movie).

* [[Adaptive Armor]]: Captain Mar-Vell and the other Kree warriors have armor-suits that can [[Morph Weapon|morph into various weapons]].

* [[Body Count Competition]]: Between Hulk and Thor during Kang's invasion.

* [[Body Horror]]:

** When they show a shot of Tony's heart we actually get to see the shrapnel embedded in it.

** Zemo and Claw both have a few seconds showing their bodies being horribly distorted as they transform into monsters.

* [[Characterization Marches On]]: Averted, with the Hulk. This portrayal owes more to the Hulk as he was originally depicted by [[Stan Lee]] and [[Jack Kirby]], rather than as the [[Psychopathic Manchild]] the character is most recognizable as. He uses tactics and is capable of outwitting his foes in addition to beating them senseless. Plus, he speaks in complete sentences! And ''sarcasm''!

* [[Charles Atlas Superpower]]: Half the things Black Panther does are at the very least incredibly improbable for any normal human, if not outright impossible. Witness his stunt in Come The Conqueror: When being fired at by Kang's robots, he's seen avoiding them by running along the side of a building. When he reaches the edge, he jumps backward and bounces off a building on the other side of the street and slashes a robot, ultimately landing without taking any damage.

* [[Chekhov's Gunman]]: "The Man Who Stole Tomorrow" has a scene explaining who the [[Fantastic Four]] are before getting on with the plot.

* [[The Chessmaster]]: The Leader, Loki, and {{spoiler|Ultron}}.

* [[The Complainer Is Always Wrong]]: Ant-Man's suggestion for the Serpent Society to nonviolently talk out their problems instead results in the battle between them and the Avengers intensifying, much to the frustration of Ant-Man's teammates.

* [[Completely Missing the Point]]: When Steve tries explaining to Tony why he should learn how to actually fight without his suit, Tony just brushes it off as Steve being too used to the "old ways" of doing things. The fact Steve brutally kicks his ass because he seriously lacks fighting skills doesn't seem to phase him, either. Tony just assumed he doesn't ''need'' to know how to fight, because his armor will handle any problem. It doesn't seem to occur to him that adding even basic fighting skills to the power provided by the Iron Man armor would make him that much more effective.

*** Played straight as well. He is black like the Ultimates and Cinematic incarnations of the character but has hair identical to the modern 616 version.

** While not a character, Kang's sword-shaped spaceship The Damocles is merged with The Peak, S.W.O.R.D.'s sword-shaped space station.

** It was done again in "Prisoner of War", with Captain America, {{spoiler|Mockingbird}}, {{spoiler|Invisible Woman}}, and {{spoiler|Agent Quartermain}} teaming up with Madame Viper, {{spoiler|King Cobra}}, and an A.I.M. agent named Dr. Lyle Getz in order to escape from the Skrull ship.

** Happens yet again in {{spoiler|"Assault On 42", when Annihilus and his Annihilation Wave invade Prison 42, the Avengers are forced to release many of the imprisoned supervillains (and Captain Mar-Vell) to help fight them. Captain America, however, refuses to let out Zemo, knowing that he'd just stab him in the back.}}

** The difference becomes more visible when viewing the monitor from a certain angle.

* [[Everything's Better with Monkeys]]: Or rather worse. Several villains are apes or have ape-like powers/motifs; Man-Ape, Mandrill, and Red Ghost's Super-Apes.

* [[Kirby Dots]]: Seen a lot, but notably when Pym shrinks or grows.

* [[Karma Houdini]]: The Serpent Society, {{spoiler|Enchantress, Baron Zemo, and most of the Masters of Evil, at least at the end of the first season }}.

* [[Lampshade Hanging]]: From ''Masters of Evil''

{{quote|'''Hawkeye''': You know, I don't think I want to be part of a team that I have to end up saving every week.}}

** Fury hands Whirlwind over to the Mutant Response Division. As in the villains from ''[[Wolverine and the X-Men]]''.

** Black Widow has Champion-class SHIELD security clearance. In the comics, she was a member of the short lived team known as the Champions.

** Cop shorthand for a supervillain attack is "Code Blue." Code Blue was the name of a special unit of the NYPD geared specifically to deal with supervillains in the comics.

** A newspaper seen in ''Enter the Whirlwind'' has headlines referring to the Punisher and Man-Thing.

** Hawkeye and Black Widow working as part of a SHIELD black-ops team ( {{spoiler|as well as Black Widow's subsequent betrayal}}) seems to be an homage to [[Mark Millar]]'s ''[[The Ultimates]]'' series. This also syncs up nicely with the [[Marvel Cinematic Universe]], where Hawkeye and Widow are both introduced as SHIELD operatives (rather than the original comics, where they were reformed supervillains).

** In "Everything Is Wonderful", Wonder Man is somewhat redesigned from his comic book counterpart so that he is now ''always'' living mass of ionic energy, whereas in the comics he can change back and forth at will. However, his original comic book costume briefly appears as a safety suit that Simon Williams wears during the procedure that turns him into Wonder Man.

** Gamma World resembles the plot of a What If comic where the accident that created the Hulk didn't occur and Gamma bombs were used on Nagasaki and Hiroshima creating a veritable army of gamma critters ranging from the beastial types up to the highly intelligent ones.

*** The Gamma Dome was also used in the comics by the Leader in the Warbound mini. The heroes becoming Gamma mutants is a reference to [[Fall of the Hulks]].

* [[Power Walk]]: The team does this in "The Kang Dynasty" as they board the Quinjet to attack Kang's mothership to show they have [[The Right Stuff]] to save the world.

* [[Precision-Guided Boomerang]]: Present and accounted for along with [[Bizarre and Improbable Ballistics]]. [[Captain America (comics)]]'s shield can make [[You Fail Physics Forever|all kinds of different scientists cry]].

* [[Prolonged Prologue]]: The Avengers don't officially form until the end of the seventh episode. Furthermore, Captain America doesn't join until the ninth episode, Black Panther doesn't join until the eleventh, and Hawkeye doesn't join until two episodes after that, meaning that the core team of eight Avengers that make up the first (26 episode) season doesn't assemble until the end of the thirteenth episode. However, the first seven episodes feature plenty of action by the heroes working solo and do set up the season nicely, so this is a case where [[Tropes Are Not Bad]].

* [[Punch-Punch-Punch Uh-Oh]]: A [[Giant Mook]] picks a fight with [[Luke Cage]] in "To Steal an Ant-Man". [[Nigh Invulnerable|Bad idea]].

* [[Split Personality Takeover]]: A unique variation of this, Hulk makes a deal with Banner to be a hero as long as he gets to be the Hulk all the time. Banner agrees, but acts as a [[Spirit Advisor]] at times.

* [[Spotlight-Stealing Squad]]: In a total inversion of both the trope and sister series [[Wolverine and the X-Men]], top movie seller [[Iron Man]] is not the center of the action, and instead seems to exist purely to make mistakes that leave every other team member looking better. Huh.

* [[Snake People]]: The Serpent Society is a group of snake-themed supervillains; although most of their snake-like appearance and abilities come from cybernetic limbs and such.

* [[Sssssnaketalk]]: King Cobra, field leader of the afore mentioned Serpent Society.

* [[The Worf Effect]]: Depends heavily on the episode and character. Averted with Hulk in the first season, who only really struggles with Kang's elite mooks, Abomination and the Executioner (even they don't really hold him up for too long). With Thor this is generally averted but has several examples throughout the first season jarring example was when {{spoiler|Ultron seemingly disintegrated him but not the Hulk and the very first episode Thor suffers this to showcase Graviton's power, but the Hulk awes Graviton with his power.}}

** In the second season with Thor removed from the early episodes the Hulk starts to have moments of this.

*** This reaches its logical extreme in the [[Season Finale]]: {{spoiler|despite attempting to pull a [[Big Damn Heroes]] in a suit of armor forged by the maker of Mjolnir himself, Iron Man fails to land ''even a single hit'' on Loki.}} Ouch.

*** Of course, when he is in his element using technology, it makes him a real Badass, such as his effortlessly fighting Kang in a [[Curb Stomp Battle]] (the second time).

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