Avengers Assemble

***Avengers Assemble*** is an American animated television series based on the fictional Marvel Comics superhero team known as the Avengers. Designed to capitalize on the success of the 2012 film *The Avengers*, the series premiered on Disney XD on May 26, 2013, as the successor to *The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes*.

## Why It Rocks

1. The show features the most well-known Avengers in the team, Captain America, Iron Man, the Hulk, Thor, Black Widow, and Hawkeye. Later on in season 2, Ant-Man joins the team.
2. Marvel comic characters who are either in the MCU later on or not at all appear such as Mr. Impossible (a Fantastic 4 villain), MODOK, Attuma, Thing, and the Winter Guard make an appearance.
3. All the characters are charming and retain their personalities from previous Marvel properties, except for Thor and the Hulk, to some extent (this will be covered in the bad qualities section).
4. The show features story arcs that will be later shown in the MCU, such as season 2 having the same story arcs that are covered in Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame, except none of the characters get killed off.
5. Although Falcon was unnecessarily deaged to a teenager, his relationship with his mother is very interesting and touching.
6. Tony Stark getting angry in one episode was shocking and oddly satisfying as he gains superhuman strength temporarily to destroy his computer in a fit of rage, this is useful on the battlefield.
7. The show has an interesting take on Groot in season 1, before his redesign to match his MCU counterpart, as he looks like fetal version of Baby Groot.
8. Although Spider-Man is not on the team, his appearances are always funny and charming. (Mainly his imagination spot being presented as chibis)
9. Ant-Man is very funny even though his lifestyle got recharacterized as a degraded version of Tony Stark, his AI Joey is hilarious too.
10. A lot of jokes are hilarious.
11. Although it’s not shown, Hawkeye is indicated to have a crush on Black Widow and it holds up well.
12. ”The Age of Tony Stark” is an age regression episode but child Tony Stark is hilarious and more of Tony Stark’s past is revealed.
13. Arsenal being Tony Stark’s robot nanny in his childhood is an interesting spin on the character’s backstory.
14. Great voice acting from each of the cast members.

## Bad Qualities

1. Thor’s characterization is almost insulting to his character as he’s characterized to be a manchild with the same vocabulary as Starfire.
2. Hulk is inaccurately depicted as he never transforms back into Dr. Bruce Banner but is perpetually the Hulk.
3. Falcon is deaged to a teenager instead of kept as an adult, that was unnecessary and he gets annoying at times, mainly when he’s idolizing Tony Stark.
4. Sometimes there’s grossout/toilet humor in the show, the most notable example is when it’s revealed that Tony Stark wears adult diapers underneath his Iron Man suit to relieve himself (this is expected because it’s impossible for him to use the bathroom in the suit to begin with) and he has decoy picture he put in his suit when MODOK attempts to steal it, the decoy picture is him soiling his adult diaper while flashing it, it’s disgusting.
5. Season 2 felt a little rushed as seems like the writers couldn’t decide what season 2’s focus should be so Thanos was defeated in the first five episodes and it just jumps to the Ultron arc, almost randomly and ties in Ant-Man joining the Avengers.
6. Hyperion becoming a villain was unnecessary and he acts like a G-Rated Omni-Man from Invincible.
7. MODOK being bald was an unnecessary design.
8. Some of the characters were redesigned once they were introduced in the MCU, which is confusing for fans.
9. One episode shows Tony Stark drinking soda by the glass even though HE HAD A STRAW, we thought you were a supergenius, Tony!
10. Tony Stark was very unlikable during the Ultron arc, even though his reasonings were understandable, Howard Stark was a bad father and Arsenal was the closest thing to a parent to him as a child, he went about it very horribly, he acted like an insensitive jerk to the other Avengers, which caused them to quit and put many lives, including his own at stake, Nick Fury and Captain America called him out for it though. Thankfully, he was able to let go Arsenal/Ultron and revert back to his likable self.
11. Ant-Man’s characterization, although good is somewhat lazy as he comes off acting like a discount Tony Stark, building robots, having an AI, and a full blown lab, it’s also inaccurate to the character because Scott Lang was not a physicist and engineer but an electrician.
12. Season 5 (the last season of Avengers Assemble) got critically panned due to focus being shifted from the Avengers to Black Panther, which was unnecessary as it’s not King T’Challa’s show.