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The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes
Genre	Action Adventure Science fiction
Created by	Stan Lee Jack Kirby
Developed by	Ciro Nieli Joshua Fine Christopher Yost
Written by	Christopher Yost Joshua Fine Michael Ryan Brandon Auman Kevin Burke Chris Wyatt Joe Casey Joe Kelly Steven T. Seagle Paul Giacoppo Brian Reed James Felder Mark Parsons
Directed by	Frank Paur Vinton Heuck Sebastian Montes Ciro Nieli Boyd Kirkland Roy Burdine Steven E. Gordon Gary Hartle
Voices of	Brian Bloom Chris Cox Jennifer Hale Peter Jessop Phil LaMarr Eric Loomis James C. Mathis III Colleen O'Shaughnessey Fred Tatasciore Rick D. Wasserman Wally Wingert
Theme music composer	Guy Erez and David Ari Leon
Opening theme	"Fight As One" by Bad City
Ending theme	"Fight As One" (instrumental)
Composer	Guy Michelmore
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	52 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers	Simon Philips Eric S. Rollman
Producer	Joshua Fine
Editors	Jonathan Polk Steve Ingram George Rizkallah Robert Walz
Running time	22 minutes (TV episodes) 5 minutes (micro episodes)
Production companies	Marvel Animation Film Roman Ingenious Media/Ingenious Broadcasting EIS PLCs
Original release
Network	Disney XD (United States) Teletoon (Canada)
Release	October 20, 2010 (2010-10-20) – November 11, 2012 (2012-11-11)
Related
Wolverine and the X-Men

The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes (also known as The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes!) is an American animated television series by Marvel Animation in cooperation with Film Roman, based on the Marvel Comics superhero team the Avengers. The show debuted both on Disney XD and online in the fall of 2010, starting with a 20-part micro-series.

Marvel Entertainment, LLC and Disney XD announced a "new Marvel Universe" programming block, named Marvel Universe, which began broadcasting in April 2012 and included the second season of Earth's Mightiest Heroes and the new Marvel animated series Ultimate Spider-Man.

The series initially features a team based on the roster for the original Avengers, composed of Iron Man (Anthony "Tony" Stark), Ant-Man/Giant-Man (Henry "Hank" Pym), the Hulk (Robert "Bruce" Banner), Thor (Thor Odinson), and the Wasp (Janet Van Dyne). The team is later joined by Captain America (Steven "Steve" Rogers), the Black Panther (T'Challa), and Hawkeye (Clinton "Clint" Barton) in the first season, while in the second season, Ms. Marvel (Carol Danvers) and the Vision join the roster, with Spider-Man (Peter Benjamin Parker) named to reserve member status. In terms of overall tone and style, the series is based principally on the original stories by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. However, it also tends to utilize material from all eras of the comic's run as well as other sources, such as the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

The series will be replaced and continued by Avengers Assemble, slated to air sometime in 2013.

Plot

Season One

As 75 of the world's most dangerous super-villains are mysteriously freed en masse from the Vault, the Cube, the Big House, and the Raft, five of Earth's mightiest heroes assemble a crime-fighting alliance called the Avengers. The Avengers' team includes Iron Man as de facto team leader, Ant-Man/Giant-Man, Thor, the Hulk, and the Wasp. Captain America joins the roster, followed by the Black Panther and Hawkeye. In the season finale, it is revealed that Thor's adopted brother Loki was responsible for the breakouts and that he had the Enchantress and her servant Executioner form the Masters of Evil.

Season Two

Season Two depicts the Avengers as they track down the remaining members of the Masters of Evil and end up facing the invasions of the Skrulls in the first half of the season and the Kree in the second half. The Avengers are unaware that Captain America had been replaced at the end of the first-season finale by a Skrull operative as part of their systematic infiltration of Earth. This season also alludes to a developing storyline that Surtur, now free of his imprisonment in Muspelheim, is slowly gathering his strength to oppose the Avengers as a prelude to Ragnarök. Ms. Marvel joins the team this season, followed by the Vision. Many other characters from the Marvel Comics universe, such as Spider-Man, Wolverine, Scott Lang (the second Ant-Man) and his daughter Cassandra, Heroes for Hire, Doctor Doom, Crossfire, Thaddeus E. "Thunderbolt" Ross (in both his human form and his "Red Hulk" form), the Guardians of the Galaxy (comprised of Star-Lord, Rocket Raccoon, Groot, Quasar and Adam Warlock), Beta Ray Bill, the Falcon and the Winter Soldier, make appearances. Series producers Joshua Fine and Christopher Yost have revealed that certain returning characters will adapt their Ultimate Universe counterpart costumes for the second season, such as Nick Fury appearing more like Ultimate Nick Fury with a shaven head and goatee, and the Skrull operative posing as Captain America wearing the costume directly adapted from Ultimate Captain America and wielding an energy shield. The second season premiere, entitled the "The Private War of Dr. Doom" (featuring Dr. Doom and The Fantastic Four), was shown to audiences at both the 2011 San Diego and New York Comic Cons, as well as the 2012 WonderCon in Anaheim. It premiered with the two-part Ultimate Spider-Man pilot on April 1, 2012.

Episode list

Cast

• Brian Bloom – Captain America
• Chris Cox – Hawkeye
• Jennifer Hale – Ms. Marvel
• Peter Jessop – Vision
• Phil LaMarr – J.A.R.V.I.S.
• Eric Loomis – Iron Man
• James C. Mathis III – Black Panther
• Colleen O'Shaughnessey – Wasp
• Fred Tatasciore – Hulk
• Rick D. Wasserman – Thor
• Wally Wingert – Ant-Man/Giant-Man/Yellowjacket

Crew

• Joshua Fine – Supervising Producer
• Vinton Heuck – Director
• Sebastian Montes – Director
• Jamie Simone – Casting and Voice Director
• Christopher Yost – Story Editor

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. 52 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 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-language and March 2011 in French-language. According to Jeph Loeb, Season 2 will presumably begin around October 2011, same as season 1 and Producer Josh Fine tweeted in April 2011 that 13 episodes have been completed. 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.

Future of series

A new Avengers show will premiere in 2013 called Avengers Assemble,. On Saturday, July 14, 2012 Loeb, Head of Marvel Television, stated at the 2012 Marvel Television Presents panel at San Diego Comic-Con that The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes hasn't been canceled as Avengers Assemble is being viewed as "a continuation of that series." Specifics of the transition/continuation between the two series have not been revealed at this time. Only Fred Tatasciore, the voice of the Hulk in Earth's Mightiest Heroes, will reprise the role for Avengers Assemble, while Adrian Pasdar, who voices Tony Stark/Iron Man in the separate Ultimate Spider-Man series, will also voice Stark in the new show.

Release

Critical reception

The series's premiere earned mostly positive reviews from critics and fans alike. It also currently holds a 8.5 making "Great" rating (based on 206 votes) on TV.com, and 8.6/10 rating (based on 3,180 votes and 11 reviews) on IMDb.com. Review aggregation website Metacritic reports that 9.2 of users have given the series a "Universal acclaim" review based on 5 reviews.

Comic book

The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes comic book series, written by Christopher Yost, and artwork by Scott Wegener, and Patrick Scherberger was published to accompany the series. It was a four-issue limited series. An ongoing comic book series titled The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes Adventures will debut in April 2012, alongside the Ultimate Spider-Man Adventures series. Christopher Yost will return as the main writer, with Adam Dekraker to serve as the comic's creative team, while Nuno Plati will provide artwork.

DVD releases

Region 1

United States

Canada

Region 2

^a Original release date was November 8, 2011.
^b This is the first home media release in Canada to be released by eOne Entertainment. The other Canadian home releases of The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes were released by Vivendi Entertainment.

International broadcast

Region	Network(s)	Series premiere	Timeslot
Australia	ABC3, Cartoon Network	March 8, 2011	Sundays at 9:25 am Sundays at 9:50 am Weekdays at 7:10 am / 7:15 am Weekdays at 1:15 pm
Canada	Teletoon	October 22, 2010	Fridays at 8:00 pm Eastern (New Episodes) Sundays at 11:30 am Eastern (Reruns)
The Netherlands	Disney XD	December 10, 2010	Fridays at 9:35 pm (Subtitles) Saturdays 9:10 pm (Subtitles) Mondays 10:20 pm (Subtitles) Wednesdays 7:50 pm (Dub)
Poland	Disney XD	November 8, 2010	—
Brazil	Disney XD, Rede Globo	October 31, 2010 (Preview) November 27, 2010 (Official)	Saturdays 9:00 pm/10:30 pm (Reruns) Sundays 9:00 am/10:30 am (New Episodes)
Mexico	Disney XD
Argentina
Panama
Peru
Honduras
Venezuela
Colombia
Chile
United States	Disney XD	October 20, 2010	Wednesdays at 8:30 pm Eastern (October 2010 – November 2010) Friday at 8:30 pm Eastern (Special; November 2010) Sundays at 10:00 pm Eastern (December 2010 – present)
Sweden	Disney XD	January 29, 2011	Weekdays at 3:35 pm
Italy	Disney XD	November 29, 2010	—
United Kingdom	Disney XD	November 2010	Weekdays at 10:25 pm (Reruns) Weekends at 5:30 pm (New Episodes)
	CITV	May 8, 2011	Sundays at 8:00 am
Germany	Disney XD	February 19, 2011	—
South Africa	Disney XD	May 2011	Saturdays and Sundays at 8:30 pm
Japan	Disney XD	July 18, 2011	Mondays at 8:30 pm (New Episodes) Sundays at 10:30 pm (Reruns)
Russia CIS	Disney XD (CIS) CTC	TBA	Weekdays at 8:30 am
France	France 4	June, 2011	Weekdays at 8:30 am
Philippines	Cartoon Network ABS-CBN	September 3, 2011	Saturdays and Sundays at 8:00 pm (Cartoon Network) Mondays to Fridays at 8:45 am (Season 1) Sundays at 8:45 am (Season 1 Rerun) Sundays at 8:15 am (Season 2) (ABS-CBN)
Ukraine	1+1	December, 2011	Saturdays and Sundays at 10:00 pm
Spain	Boing	February, 2012	Saturdays and Sundays at 12:10 pm
Kazakhstan	Channel 31	Summer 2012	Saturday and Sunday at 14:20 am & 7:20 am
Turkey	Disney XD	—	—
Greece	Disney XD	—	—
Czech	TV Nova	2011	Saturdays and Sundays at 8:00 am

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External links

• Official website
• The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes at IMDb
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• 2010s American animated television series
• 2010 American television series debuts
• 2012 American television series endings
• Avengers (comics) television series
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