Gamma World

**Gamma World** (also known as the **Gamma War**) was a big event-like battle from Marvel's *The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes*. It deals with the Avengers fighting Gamma Radiation based villains from the Cube high security prison. The episodes takes place in the two-part Season 1 special, "Gamma World."

## History

### Background

It all started with a place called the Cube, a high-security prison built by S.H.I.E.L.D. in the desert of Nevada to hold villains whose powers stem from Gamma Radiation with Dr. Leonard Samson being one of its scientists to cure the inmates. Bruce Banner was also imprisoned in the Cube due to his rampage as the Hulk and feared the dangers of the Cube. He warned Doc Samson that S.H.I.E.L.D. wasn't trying to cure the inmates but was instead trying to contain and weaponize them and that the prison itself was a huge gamma bomb about to go off. Then when the Breakout happened, all of the prisoners in the Cube were freed including Bruce. However, Doc Samson was exposed to some Gamma Radiation during the Breakout which granted him superhuman strength and turned his hair green when he was trying to save Bruce who was stuck under some rubble. Eventually, Bruce transformed into the Hulk and left the Cube with Doc Samson along with several other prisoners but some of the prisoners choose to stay which were Abomination, Absorbing Man, Zzzax, and the Leader because Leader wanted to use the Cube and its technology for his plans to take over the world. Meanwhile, after Hulk got Doc Samson to safety, he joined the Avengers and helped them defeat Graviton in Graviton's Attack but he soon left after his mind was manipulated by Amora the Enchantress. Before the Breakout, there was also a hero named Hawkeye who worked for S.H.I.E.L.D. with his partner, Black Widow. But one day, she betrayed S.H.I.E.L.D. for HYDRA and framed Hawkeye for it when he later found out which was due to a special undercover mission assigned to Black Widow by Nick Fury. As a result, Hawkeye was imprisoned in the Vault, a high-security prison built by S.H.I.E.L.D. to hold tech-based villains and their gear. But when the Breakout happened, Hawkeye escaped too and went to clear his name by capturing Black Widow. Meanwhile, the other Avengers tried to find Hulk but during their search, they found Captain America and later recruited Black Panther after helping him save his kingdom, Wakanda. But back at the Cube, strange and dangerous things were happening so some S.H.I.E.L.D. Agents went to investigate it but they were attacked by Abomination. Then a huge energy dome appeared that was made out of pure Gamma Radiation and mutated anyone who came in contact with it who would be placed under Leader's control. So S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent, Clay Quartermain called in the Avengers to help S.H.I.E.L.D. investigate the Cube right when the Avengers were trying to catch Hawkeye which allowed him to escape.

### The Battle

When the Avengers arrive at the Cube to meet up with Agent Quartermain the S.H.I.E.L.D. crew who are stationed there, they see the Gamma Energy Dome. Then after meeting up with Doc Samson, he and Agent Quartermain reveal to the Avengers that the Gamma Energy Dome is expanding to the point where it would hit a town in the next six hours and/or a major city in the next eight hours, and that it was being caused by the Leader. So the Avengers donned some Gamma Radiation proof suits made by Doc Samson to protect themselves from the Gamma Energy Dome except for Thor whose Asgardian physiology made him immune to its effects and they all went inside it with some S.H.I.E.L.D. Agents to investigate the Cube. While investigating, they encounter some of the Gamma Mutants which were once the S.H.I.E.L.D. Agents who first investigated the Cube after the Breakout happened. The Avengers, Doc Samson, and the S.H.I.E.L.D. Agents fight them off and eventually defeat them then they realize that the Gamma Energy Dome is being caused and powered by a Gamma Generator. The Avengers, Doc Samson, and S.H.I.E.L.D. Agents then go deep into the Cube to find the Gamma Generator and Leader even though Black Panther claims that Leader might be luring them into a trap. But then they are attacked by some of the Cube's prisoners which are the U-Foes; Vector, Ironclad, Vapor, and X-Ray whose powers had been increased due to Leader modifying their gamma inhibitor devices that Doc Samson made to drain gamma powers. The Avengers, Doc Samson, and S.H.I.E.L.D. Agents fight them off and defeat them but Black Panther realizes that both fights were all just a distraction for Zzzax to attack them and destroy their gamma suits which would allow them to also become gamma-mutated and put under Leader's control with Wasp being the first. Then Clay and the S.H.I.E.L.D. Agents are later gamma-mutated and attack the Avengers and Doc Samson, during which Black Panther runs away. The remaining Avengers and Doc Samson then decide to head for the Gamma Generator in the center of the Cube to shut down the Gamma Energy Dome and stop Leader. Doc Samson goes to the Gamma Generator to shut it down with the remaining Avengers fighting off the Gamma Mutants so he can. During the fight, Iron Man and Captain America try to hold off the Gamma Mutants while Thor helps Doc Samson shut down the Gamma Energy Dome. When they arrive at the Gamma Generator they are confronted by the Wrecking Crew instead of Leader who also increase their gamma powers with the gamma inhibitor devices which transforms them into Gamma Mutants who attack Thor and Doc Samson. They destroy Doc Samson's gamma suit but he is immune to the effects of the Gamma Energy Dome then the Wrecking Crew defeats both Doc Samson and Thor and holds them down. But then Black Panther arrives and destroys the Gamma Generator which shuts down the Gamma Energy Dome and changes everyone back to normal. Later, Black Panther reveals that the reason is left was so he could get close to the Gamma Generator and past Leader's forces then at night, both the Avengers and S.H.I.E.L.D. Agents recover as the Cube prisoners get taken into custody. However, the Gamma Energy Dome at the Cube was actually all just a test run for the Leader's true plan which he begins with Abomination and Absorbing Man. Which is using an even more powerful Gamma Generator to project a huge Gamma Energy Dome over Las Vegas that gamma-mutates everyone within the city and places them all under Leader's control then it spreads all over very fast across the desert until it reaches the Cube.

Meanwhile, Hawkeye after escaping the Avengers goes after Black Widow where he captures her from a secret hidden HYDRA warehouse base and goes to turn her over to the Avengers at the Cube. But by the time he arrives on his Sky Cycle, the Gamma Energy Dome expands right towards him, and he manages to escape to safety with Black Widow. All the Avengers and S.H.I.E.L.D. Agents become Gamma Mutants and are placed under Leader's control again including the ones who weren't mutated except for Thor and Doc Samson who are attacked and captured by the Gamma Mutants. Leader then broadcasts a message to the whole world announcing his plan to gamma-mutate it using the Gamma Energy Dome and calling it Gamma World. Thor and Doc Samson are then brought before Leader at his building lair in Las Vegas who has Abomination attack Thor for his own amusement. But Mjolnir gets left behind at the Cube where the Wrecking Crew tries to move it after escaping S.H.I.E.L.D. custody and having their gamma powers increased again. After escaping the Gamma Energy Dome and subduing Black Widow after she escaped, Hawkeye decides that in order to stop Leader, he needs to find Hulk to get Bruce Banner. After leaving Black Widow for the Gamma Energy Dome and saving Hulk from a Hulk Buster operation in Northern Canada, Hawkeye tries to get Hulk to help but he refuses until Hawkeye makes him laugh which changes him back to Bruce Banner who agrees to help. At his cabin lab, Bruce makes Hawkeye temporarily immune to the Gamma Energy Dome and finds out that if the Gamma Mutants are under the Gamma Energy Dome for too long their mutations will become permanent. He then states that to stop the Gamma Energy Dome they have to destroy Leader's Gamma Generator which he is able to find then Bruce transforms back into the Hulk and he and Hawkeye go to stop Leader. Meanwhile, Thor continues to fight off Abomination until he calls Mjolnir from the Cube but then Absorbing Man arrives and absorbs the structure of Mjolnir gaining its power which was part of Leader's plan. Thor then fights off both Abomination and Absorbing Man until Absorbing Man knocks him out of the lair and onto the road. Hawkeye and Hulk later arrive and they fight off Leader's forces with Hulk fighting off Abomination and Hawkeye fighting off the gamma-mutated Avengers. Hawkeye then uses some special arrows Bruce Banner made to cure the Avengers so Leader fights off Hawkeye in a mech suit. Meanwhile, Thor continues to fight off Absorbing Man and is able to defeat him by controlling Absorbing Man's Mjolnir structure and sending him up into the air. Hulk also continues to fight off Abomination on the roof of Leader's lair where the Gamma Generator is then Abomination later increases his power with a gamma inhibitor device until Hawkeye arrives and cures him of it with one of his arrows then Hulk knocks Abomination far away. Leader then arrives and prepares to attack both Hawkeye and Hulk with his mech suit but gets defeated after Thor makes Absorbing Man land on him. Hulk then destroys the Gamma Generator by ripping it off Leader's lair and throwing it into space which shuts down the Gamma Energy Dome and causes Leader's head to swell up and get big.

### Aftermath

With Leader and his forces defeated and all of the Gamma Mutants within the Gamma Energy Dome cured, the world is saved. Afterwards, Leader and his forces are arrested and sent to Prison 42 while Hawkeye is cleared of all charges. But he refuses to go back to S.H.I.E.L.D. so he can go after Black Widow again who escaped during the Gamma Energy Dome expansion. Hulk also rejoins the Avengers but only under the condition if Hawkeye joins them too who reluctantly does. But meanwhile, Abomination crawls through the desert until he is later found and recruited by the Masters of Evil. The Wrecking Crew also escaped before getting recaptured by S.H.I.E.L.D. but would later fight against the Avengers again. The Avengers would soon run into Black Widow who would explain to them about her special mission from Nick Fury in the War for the Cosmic Cube.

## Belligerents

### Avengers

* Iron Man
* Captain America
* Thor
* Hulk
* Wasp
* Black Panther
* Hawkeye
* Doc Samson
* Clay Quartermain
* S.H.I.E.L.D. Agents

### Leader's Forces

* The Leader
* Absorbing Man
* Abomination
* Zzzax
* U-Foes
	+ Vector
	+ Ironclad
	+ Vapor
	+ X-Ray

* Wrecking Crew
	+ Wrecker
	+ Piledriver
	+ Thunderball
	+ Bulldozer

* Gamma Mutants

## Videos

Hawkeye defeats Black Widow - Avengers- Earth´s Mightiest HeroesThe Avengers- Earth’s Mightiest Heroes (2010) - S1 E13 - The Avengers turn into Gamma Monsters againThe Avengers- Earth’s Mightiest Heroes (2010) - S1 E13 - Thor is captured - The Leader’s speechThe Avengers- Earth’s Mightiest Heroes (2010) - S1 E13 - Hawkeye rescues Hulk from Ross’ forcesThe Avengers- Earth’s Mightiest Heroes (2010) - S1 E13 - Absorbing Man absorbs MjolnirHawkeye versus Gamma Avengers - Avengers- Earth´s Mightiest HeroesThor destroys Absorving Man - Avengers- Earth´s Mightiest HerooesHawkeye joins The Avengers - Avengers- Earth´s Mightiest Heroes
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