The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes (TV series)

## Yost Universe

*"And there came a day unlike any other, when Earth's mightiest heroes found themselves united against a common threat. On that day they became the Avengers."*
―Nick Fury[src]***The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes*** is an American superhero animated television series based on the Marvel Comics series of the same name. It is the second animated series in the Christopher Yost Marvel Universe. The series is produced by Marvel Animation in cooperation with Film Roman and was initally released on Disney XD until it's cancelation where the series could be currently found on Disney+.

The first season premiered on October 20, 2010 and concluded on June 19, 2011.

While the second season premiered on April 1, 2012 and concluded on November 11, 2012.

A third season was in development but was ultimely cancelated. However it's creator, Christopher Yost, revealed the plots of this third season on the 10 arniversary of the series.

Appart from that the plans of both the fourth and fifth season was also revealed.

## Synopsis

### Season One

After 74 villains break out of prison, Marvel's most powerful superheroes team up to capture all of them, and also to defend the Earth from widespread threats.

### Season Two

After Loki's defeat, Captain America got replaced by a Skrull imposter as other superheroes, supervillains and others have been and the imposters are manipulating events which leds to the Secret Invasion. Only few people know that might gonna happen and must do something to stop it before its too late but how can they trust anyone since the Skrulls had already infiltrated every organization in the planet?

### Season Three

According to Christopher Yost, if the 3rd season had occurred, the first half of the season would have had Surtur as the main antagonist in an adaptation of Ragnarök, and the second half would have focused on introducing the X-Men, where he would have focused on Avengers vs. X-Men, in which the Phoenix Force would have played an important role. Being a season focused on "magic and mutants". It was also mentioned that his line-up for the X-Men would have been Professor X, Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Wolverine, Nightcrawler, Storm, Shadowcat, Colossus, Rogue, among others that were necessary. An episode was planned in which the X-Men would join the Avengers to also defeat common villains, such as Magneto, his brotherhood, Marauders, Silver Samurai, Omega Red and more.

### Season Four

Additionally, regarding the Fourth Season, Cristopher Yost mentioned that the first half would be called "Under Siege", while the second half would be dubbed "Infinity Quest". The plot of "Under Siege" would have been an adaptation of the comic "Acts of Vengeance" which would have involved a political and global story, with Dr Doom as the main villain in his quest to conquer the world, bringing together the best supervillains on the planet (probably the Mandarin, Magneto, Red Skull, Kingpin, Wizard and Loki, according to the original comic) to put the Avengers on the run, traveling to many international locations, appearing villains and guest stars from outside the United States; in turn, a Hydra invasion, with the help of Norman Osborn (Green Goblin), to Asgard also had to happen, adapting the Dark Reign and Siege story, and probably appearing the Dark Avengers.

### Season Five

As for a Fifth Season, the only thing that has been revealed is the interest in having adapted the Secret Wars arc (with the Beyonders starring), which would have involved all the teams of heroes and villains, along with all the possible characters from Marvel Comics, within a saga that would have spanned the entire season.

## Cast

### Starring Cast

* Eric Loomis as Tony Stark/Iron Man (Seasons 1-2)
* Rick D. Wasserman as Thor (Seasons 1-2)
* Fred Tatasciore as Bruce Banner/Hulk (Seasons 1-2)
	+ Gabriel Mann as Bruce Banner (Seasons 1-2)
* Vanessa Marshall as Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow (Seasons 1-2)
* Chris Cox as Clint Barton/Hawkeye (Seasons 1-2)
* Brian Bloom as Steve Rogers/Captain America (Seasons 1-2)
* Wally Wingert as Hank Pym/Ant-Man/Giant Man/Yellowjacket (Seasons 1-2)
* Colleen O'Shaughnessey as Jane van Dyne/Wasp (Seasons 1-2)
* Jennifer Hale as Carol Danvers/Ms. Marvel (Seasons 1-2)

### Recurring Cast

* Steve Blumn as James Howlett/Wolverine (Season 2)
* Crispin Freeman as Scott Lang/Ant-Man (Season 2)
* Drake Bell as Peter Parker/Spider-Man (Season 2)

## Production

Marvel announced in October 2008 that its Marvel Animation division and the outside studio Film Roman would produce an Avengers animated TV series, *The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes*, for planned broadcast in 2010. Fifty-two episodes have been confirmed as being in production. The show's executive producers include Simon Philips and Eric S. Rollman. Joshua Fine serves as supervising producer and Christopher Yost serves as story editor on the show. A 20-part micro-series debuted on September 22, 2010, on Disney XD, focusing on each hero's backstory and the events that lead to the main series. The idea behind the micro-episodes came after the success of *Star Wars: The Clone Wars*. The series started airing on Marvel's sister network, Disney XD in the United States on October 20, 2010, and on Teletoon in Canada on October 22, 2010, in English and March 2011 in French. According to Jeph Loeb, season 2 would presumably begin around October 2011, same as season 1 and producer Josh Fine tweeted in April 2011 that 13 episodes have been completed. Ciro Nieli, one of the show's developers, also had a hand in creating *Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go!*.

At the 2011 New York Comic-Con, Marvel TV director, Jeph Loeb contradicted his earlier statement of season 2 launch in late 2011. Loeb announced at the panel at New York Comic-con that "*Avengers* Season 2 will be coming in early 2012 (to coincide with *Ultimate Spider-Man*)." This date would later get clarified to April 1, 2012. Dong Woo Animation, Lotto Animation and Noxxon Enterprise has contributed some of the animation for this series.