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* AsLethalAsItNeedsToBe: Wasp's stings. Usually annoying BeamSpam, occasionally armor-piercingly powerful. During the five-part pilot, she manages to whip off a blast that cut a railroad car in half (a railroad car that was being thrown through the air right at her). It didn't even seem to be a matter of concentration or energy use, because she went right back to her normal BeamSpam right afterward.
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** Madame Viper was major character in Skrull Saga, with the hints of DarkAndTroubledPast[[hottip:*: it is implied that something horrible happened to her in the past, which gave her scars on her face and gave her the reason to hate people like Captain America]], and FoeYay between her and Captain America. Yet none of this is brought up ever again, with Cap and Viper becoming enemies in the episode "Along Came A Spider" with no acknowledgment of their [[FoeYay relationship]] in "Prisoner Of War". Also she becomes the leader of the Serpent Society in "Along Came A Spider" and escapes sewer with them in the sewers, but she is mysteriously absent when the Society was attacked and captured by Hank Pym in episode "Yellowjacket, with no mention of her and is never seen or heard again.
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** The Raft, a prison with three layers of security consisting of: all robot guards (no hostages), {{Power Nullifier}}s ''and'' having the whole prison shrunk to 1/60th scale, so escapees are still small.
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** Later on a second prison was built in the negative zone. Here, escape means you end up in the middle of (breathable) outer space.
** The Raft, a prison with three layers of security consisting of: all robot guards (no hostages), {{Power Nullifier}}s ''and'' having the whole prison shrunk to 1/60th scale, so escapees are still small.
** Later on a second prison was built in the negative zone. Here, escape means you end up in the middle of (breathable) outer space.
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* AdaptationalVillainy: TheFalcon and Doc Samson seem like this, though they later turn out to be BrainwashedAndCrazy. WonderMan however plays this trope straight, as he never repents or joins the Avengers as he did in the comics.
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* AdaptationalVillainy: TheFalcon and Doc Samson seem like this, though they later turn out to be BrainwashedAndCrazy. WonderMan however plays this trope straight, as he never repents or joins the Avengers as he did in the comics.
* AdaptationalVillainy: TheFalcon and Doc Samson seem like this, though they later turn out to be BrainwashedAndCrazy. WonderMan however plays this trope straight, as he never repents or joins the Avengers as he did in the comics.
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*** Happens in "Assault on 42". [[SubvertedTrope Kinda]]. It's actually attacked from the outside by a horde of unstoppable alien insectoids who can eat through metal like it actually ''is'' cardboard. [[spoiler:The prisoners are actually let out to help fight them off.]]
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* CatchPhraseInterruptus: Banner tries to say, "YouWontLikeMeWhenImAngry" to Falcon in "Nightmare in Red," only to find that [[spoiler: the serum Falcon injected prevents him from Hulking out.]]
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* YouFailGeographyForever: Look closely at the scenes of Earth from space in the "Gamma World" episodes. Apparently, Las Vegas and the American southwest are located in northeastern Canada.
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** [[WesternAnimation/TheFantasticFour HERBIE]] passes by as Hank Pym and Reed Richards study [[spoiler: Princess Ravonna]] during one of the last scenes of "The Kang Dynasty."
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** Wasp in "Come the Conqueror" against the scarabs. [[CrowningMomentofAwesome She found bigger stingers]]
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** Gamma World Pt. 2: The Hulk has to join Hawkeye to go up against the villain (and rescue Thor)
** Masters Of Evil: Hawkeye teams up with Black Panther [[spoiler: to give Ant-Man enough time in his lab for the BigDamnHeroesMoment]] against a team full of the Avengers' enemies
** Widow's Sting: Hawkeye and Mockingjay team up to go after Hydra [[spoiler: Captain America and Black Panther provide this episode's BigDamnHeroesMoment]]
** Hail Hydra!: Hawkeye,[[spoiler: Black Widow]], Black Panther, and Ant-Man
** The Fall of Asgard: Hawkeye and an elf from one of the realms
** A Day Unlike Any Other: [[spoiler: Until Iron Man shows up in his new armor]], a shield-less Captain America and Hawkeye are the last Avengers still fighting
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** Gamma World Pt. 2: The Hulk has to join Hawkeye to go up against the villain (and rescue Thor)
** Masters Of Evil: Hawkeye teams up with Black Panther [[spoiler: to give Ant-Man enough time in his lab for the BigDamnHeroesMoment]] against a team full of the Avengers' enemies
** Widow's Sting: Hawkeye and Mockingjay team up to go after Hydra [[spoiler: Captain America and Black Panther provide this episode's BigDamnHeroesMoment]]
** Hail Hydra!: Hawkeye,[[spoiler: Black Widow]], Black Panther, and Ant-Man
** The Fall of Asgard: Hawkeye and an elf from one of the realms
** A Day Unlike Any Other: [[spoiler: Until Iron Man shows up in his new armor]], a shield-less Captain America and Hawkeye are the last Avengers still fighting
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* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: 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.
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* AbortedArc: Surtur and his Asgard shenanigans are this thanks to the cancellation of the show. This pulls the plug on numerous sub-plots such as:
** The results of [[spoiler:Skurge's HeelFaceTurn]] are never shown.
** Beta Ray Bill's story and his people are left hanging. As well as any ShipTease with Sif.
** [[spoiler: Amora's still captured.]]
** When Thor had a hammer forged for Beta Ray Bill, he owes one favor to the dwarf king, and it can be anything, and the king looked as if he was interested in collecting.
** Maria Hill's efforts to start a SuperRegistrationAct haven't come up since episode 28.
** Abigail Brand's [[spoiler: implied alien ethnicity.]]
** [[spoiler:Korvac's]] plotline never went anywhere after his debut.
** [[spoiler:Kang's]] final episode never resolved his main arc, but it will have to do as a conclusion to his story.
*** What happened to his minions?
** The romance between Hawkeye and Widow was never even acknowledged after [[spoiler:she was revealed as the ReverseMole]].
** Madame Viper was major character in Skrull Saga, with the hints of DarkAndTroubledPast[[hottip:*: it is implied that something horrible happened to her in the past, which gave her scars on her face and gave her the reason to hate people like Captain America]], and FoeYay between her and Captain America. Yet none of this is brought up ever again, with Cap and Viper becoming enemies in the episode "Along Came A Spider" with no acknowledgment of their [[FoeYay relationship]] in "Prisoner Of War". Also she becomes the leader of the Serpent Society in "Along Came A Spider" and escapes sewer with them in the sewers, but she is mysteriously absent when the Society was attacked and captured by Hank Pym in episode "Yellowjacket, with no mention of her and is never seen or heard again.
** Despite it being heavily foreshadowed, [[spoiler: we never see Simon Williams undergo his full redemption arc and become Wonder Man.]]
* AbsenteeActor: With a ten-man ensemble cast, this happens often. In a strange case, Thor was missing from the Black Panther's introduction episode; and the closest thing we got to an explanation in the episode itself is that Iron Man didn't know where he was, either. The episode, "Masters of Evil", did offer an retroactive explanation, though--Thor didn't know the ID card's beeping was a sign for the Avengers to assemble (now if only we knew why he didn't take the hint when it started saying "AvengersAssemble!" in Tony's voice).
** The absences of season 2 are justified, however, as the roster grew and shrank constantly.
-->'''Chris Yost:'''...in true Marvel fashion, Avengers come and go, so [[spoiler: Thor]] was out of the picture except for a one-off in the first half of Season 2, then [[spoiler: Hulk]] was out for the majority of it until the end...every member of the team doesn't have to be in every episode.
* ActorAllusion: One episode features KeithSzarabajka voicing an alien who lands on earth and talks about how excited we should all be for the unpleasant fate in store for us, shoots lasers at JenniferHale, before she and the team defeat him. [[MassEffect Where have we seen this before?]]
* ActionGirl: All the women in the series are action girls, heroes, villains and SHIELD agents (even Jane Foster, within her context; that's why Thor likes her).
* ActuallyADoombot: [[spoiler:A Furybot actually. And a Maria Hill bot.]]
** Averted with the actual Dr. Doom, as his Doombots can't be mistaken for him at all.
* AdaptationalBadass This show gives us several examples. The more notable ones being Wasp and Grim Reaper.
* AdaptationDistillation: The show takes a little bit from most of the "greatest hits" of the Avengers franchise. The line-up is the one of the ComicBook/FirstAvengersTeam by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, the "Breakout" story-arc derives from the initial story-arc from NewAvengers, ComicBook/IronMan and [[ComicBook/IncredibleHulk The Hulk]] are based partly on their [[MarvelCinematicUniverse movie incarnations]], as are a number of their villains, etc. Captain Marvel, Captain America's second costume and Nick Fury in the second season are taken from the UltimateMarvel universe. Many episodes were adaptions of specific comic book storylines, such as ComicBook/TheKangWar or the SecretInvasion. In general, ''all'' of the characters are a Greatest Hits version of various portrayals of them from the comics--for instance, Hank Pym has been Ant-Man, Giant Man and Yellowjacket. Add to that an overload of cameos and continuity nods, and there is everything an Avengers fan may want; if there was something missing, that's just because there was not enough space.
* AdaptiveArmor: Captain Mar-Vell and the other Kree warriors have armor-suits that can [[MorphWeapon morph into various weapons]].
* AfterTheEnd: Kang took the Avengers to the future, where the destruction of the sun by the Kree destroyed all life on Earth. All life... except cockroaches. [[WhyWontYouDie They survive anything]].
* AIIsACrapShoot: Ultron, [[SarcasmMode to the surprise of everyone.]]
** Averted with JARVIS.
* AirborneAircraftCarrier: The SHIELD helicarier is present as the SHIELD main base of operations, and it even held a prison (The Big House) at the beginning of the series.
* AllAccordingToPlan: The forces of the Leader captured Thor and took him to the Leader's base. Thor summoned his hammer, and fought against the Abomination until he retrieved it. He thought that, by retriving his hammer, he had won... but the Leader had calculated that, and was in fact expecting him to do that: the Absorbing Man, hidden as the floor, touch his hammer and absorved its power. [[spoiler: Unfortunately for the Leader, he did not have enough information about the hammer to know that this would be the Absorbing Man's downfall.]]
** There was also one on the good guy's side. Nick Fury told Tony Stark the greatest secret of the world: that there were shape-shifting aliens infiltrating Earth, and that one had infiltrated the Avengers. And Tony simply goes and shares what he has heard, and asks who is the alien. Yes, really. Obviously, nothing came out of that, the Avengers broke up, and whoever was the alien is now aware of Fury's actions. Way to go, Nick! No: it was AllAccordingToPlan. He confirmed that Iron Man is the real deal, and left the yet unknown alien in a position where he may make a mistake and reveal himself. And the aliens surely know about him anyway.
* AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs: The Masters of Evil and Ultron both successfully infiltrate the mansion and nearly own everyone. Funny enough, it is Ant-Man who is crucial to stopping them both times.
* AMythologyIsTrue: The worlds of Norse myth are depicted as real, but it's the only one mentioned. The cosmology of Greek myth (along with Hercules) do not appear in the series.
* AnachronicOrder: The fifth volume of Disney's [=DVDs=] plays [[http://marvel.toonzone.net/news.php?action=fullnews&id=844 some season 2 episodes]] in production order:
-->27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 34, 33, 40, 35, 37, 36, 38. Plus, #41 as a "bonus feature."
* AncientAstronauts: It is suggested by Red Skull that the Asgardian monsters are the source of the ancient Norse myths (but he did not explain how did such monsters appear in ancient times, without Red Skull or Tony Stark to make a machine to cross dimensions)
* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler: Ultron co-ops Tony's armor, making him fight the Avengers WITH HIM STILL IN THE ARMOR. He gets only a few brief moments where his com systems work to try and warn Thor that something has control of his armor.]]
** Also, [[spoiler: the Realm of Silence Loki is exiled to in Thor's episode, but then again Loki is such a Magnificent Bastard that it doesn't really faze him.]]
*** Which then carries over to [[spoiler: Loki's fate after his big plan fails at the end of Season 1. True to Norse mythology, he is trussed up and left in the care of a giant serpent which constantly [[EyeScream DRIPS VENOM INTO HIS EYES.]] Yikes.]]
*** [[spoiler: Nasty enough by itself, but remember - Loki's immortal. His eyes won't eventually lose their capacity to feel pain: nor can he escape by thirst, starvation or old age. He's there until Odin forgives him or until the world ends... and Odin isn't a particularly forgiving god.]]
** Amora used Chemistro's gun to turn his armor to gold. He remains conscious for what is implied to be several hours before Tony and Janet find him and call for help.
* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: Hank to Wasp in the episode "459".
* AnimationBump: The animation becomes choppy at random points, but almost never during fight scenes.
* {{Animorphism}}: "In Gamma World", Black Panther and Wasp mutate into... well, a panther and a wasp.
* AppliedPhlebotinum: Vibranium.
* ArbitrarySkepticism: In the episode "459", Wasp doesn't initially believe in aliens. Norse gods, people made of living sound, guys being frozen in the Arctic for forty years, no problem. But aliens? That's just crazy. Hank holds on to his skepticism even longer, even as the evidence starts to pile up.
** [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] by the fact that Wasp was teasing Carol, and in Hank's case he points out the was no organic signature and therefore no life. He even justifies his disbelief in this exchange:
-->'''Wasp:''' I thought you said it ''wasn't'' aliens?
-->'''Ant Man:''' I [[ExactWords never said]] it wasn't an ''alien robot''.
* ArcWords
** The Skrulls frequently chant the phrase, "As it is written," as they discuss their invasion of Earth.
** "Hail, Hydra!"
* ArchEnemy: Each of the Avengers has one, actually.
** RedSkull and Baron Zemo to Captain America
** The Leader and Abomination to the Hulk
** Wonder Man considers himself Iron Man's ArchEnemy, though it's one-sided. Crimson Dynamo also considers himself Iron Man's ArchEnemy. So does the Living Laser. Let's just say that a lot of people don't like Tony.
** Man-Ape to Black Panther
** Comicbook/BlackWidow to Hawkeye [[spoiler: until she revealed she was working for Nick Fury. Afterwards, they shared a kiss.]]
** Whirlwind to Wasp, albeit usually PlayedForLaughs
** Loki to Thor
** Ultron to Hank Pym
** The Kree to Ms. Marvel
** Vision doesn't really have one, as he was the only Avenger to actually have been born during the show and Ultron doesn't consider him his arch-enemy.
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Wasp implores Vision like so as he tries to kidnap her:
-->What do you want with me? Who are you working for? And ''why'' would you combine green and yellow with your skintone?
* ArtImitatesArt: During the siege of Asgard, Balder jumps to a Frost Giant, runs over his body, attacks him at a weak point and the giant falls, with Balder jumping forward and landing as a hero with the fallen giant behind him. The whole sequence was very similar to one made by Legolas to kill an Oliphant in [[Film/TheLordOfTheRings The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King]]
* AsLethalAsItNeedsToBe: Wasp's stings. Usually annoying BeamSpam, occasionally armor-piercingly powerful.
* AudibleSharpness: Grim Reaper's scythe and Black Panther's claws.
* AvengersAssemble: As expected. Aided in this iteration by high-tech video key cards, courtesy of Stark Industries.
** [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] hilariously in "Living Legend".
-->'''Iron Man:''' Avengers, Assemble!
-->'''Ant Man:''' We're all ''right here''.
-->'''Iron Man:''' ...
** Lampshaded again in "This Hostage Earth" where after sending the Avengers off to 7 hotspots Tony is about to shout this corrects himself and instead says "Avengers Disassemble!"
** The [[spoiler: Captain America]] imposter says, "Avengers, Attack!" instead.
** When Wasp and Hawkeye come to fight Skrulls in "Infiltration:"
-->'''Wasp:''' Avengers, assemble...but only the human ones!
** The series finale has this phrase in its title.
* BackForTheFinale: Virtually every other superhero that appeared in the show came back during Galactus' invasion to help out the Avengers.
* BadassAdorable: Wasp.
* BadassBiker: Hawkeye. Even cooler, his sky-cycle flies!
** And Cap.
* BadassCape: Grim Reaper, Thor, Dr. Doom, and Vision.
* BadassInDistress: [[spoiler: Captain America prisoner of the Skrulls.]]
* TheBaroness: Viper always fit this role, but in this version has a tendency to pull grenade pins with her tongue. Which is appropriate, as the TropeNamer [[GIJoe Baroness]] was based on Viper to begin with. [[spoiler: The bit about being a [[VoluntaryShapeshifting Skrull]] is new, though.]]
* BaitAndSwitchCredits: Episodes from Season Two begin with an OpeningNarration creating the impression that the Avengers consist entirely of the "Big Three"-Iron Man, Captain America, and Thor-and the Incredible Hulk. More often than not, the succeeding episode will actually feature only one, two, or three of those heroes, fighting with help from some Avengers who would probably seem unfamiliar to viewers who neither read the comics nor saw the first season. (Moviegoers could at least recognize Hawkeye.)
* BashBrothers: Captain America and Bucky; The Warriors Three; Luke Cage and Iron Fist; Thor and Beta Ray Bill.
* BatmanGambit: It turns out HYDRA's attack on the United Nations in "Iron Man is Born" were all a plot to [[spoiler:get the Grim Reaper inside The Vault so he could break out Wolfgang von Strucker, the head of HYDRA.]]
** Wasp tricks members of AIM into leading her and Thor to their base.
* BattleCry: "AVENGERS, ASSEMBLE!"
* BattleDiscretionShot: [[spoiler: When the Skrull appears and aims Captain America with his futuristic gun the camera goes outside the room and we only see a flash of light in the window.]]
* BearHug: Thor joyfully does this to his teammates, including the Hulk!
* BerserkButton: MODOC is a bit touchy when someone starts making fun of his big giant head...which Thor and Wasp [[CrowningMomentOfFunny do continuously when they first see him]].
-->'''Thor:''' Like a Frost Giant's head on an infant's body.
** Don't even dare to hurt Janet, lest you push Hank Pym's berserk button and get curb-stomped. Quite literally, as he is called GIANT Man.
* BigApplesauce: The Avengers Mansion, Stark Industries, and several other places important to the team are located in New York City. Some episodes also saw the Avengers either saving or visiting some real-life NYC landmarks. Iron Man somewhat lampshades this in the series finale:
-->'''Iron Man:''' Okay, why is always ''my'' building?
* BigDamnHeroes: Happens A LOT.
** Pulled by Black Panther, saving Captain America from Baron Zemo. Cap returns the favor in "Panther Quest".
** Played with in "Masters of Evil". At first, it looks like Black Panther and Hawkeye have failed to rescue the other Avengers, until they reveal [[spoiler:they were just buying Ant Man some time to get some stuff from his lab. Then, ''he'' gets a BigDamnHeroes moment.]]
** Wasp in "Come the Conqueror" against the scarabs. [[CrowningMomentofAwesome She found bigger stingers]]
** Hulk's entrance into the battle against Graviton, and again in the Avengers first fight against Ultron.
** Iron Man gets a quite impressive one in "A Day Unlike Any Other". [[spoiler:Loki has defeated the rest of the team, and Iron Man comes crashing down through the roof in new armor made of Uru metal.]]
** Thor does an epic one during the climax of [[spoiler:the Skrull invasion]].
* [[BigBadassWolf Big Badass Wolves]]: Malekith has huge wolves under his command, and the same wolves later attack Hawkeye [[spoiler:when he gets portaled into Alfheim, the Asgardian Realm of the Elves.]] Then there's Hoarfen, the gigantic ice wolf in "A Day Unlike Any Other".
* BigBadEnsemble: Several of the villains have their own agendas, notably Baron Strucker, Baron Zemo, the Leader, Kang, and [[spoiler: Ultron]]. The presence of an overarching BigBad is built up throughout the season, however, and it's ultimately revealed to be [[spoiler: Loki, who was directly or indirectly responsible for just about everything except Kang and Ultron]].
** Season Two brings us a new crop of Big Bads, each with their own plans: [[spoiler:Queen Veranke and the Skrulls, Ultron again, Red Skull, the Kree Empire, and Galactus. Surtur would have been a Big Bad, but thanks to the series' cancellation he never actually fought the Avengers.]]
* [[BigWhat Big "WHERE?!"]]: Thor was vanished from Asgard and, unable to return, he asked Tony Stark for help, to see if he could send hm with some technological way. After a long work, Stark and T'challa ended a machine for that. He was so proud of it... but Captain America spoiled his pride. "''Not to rain on your parade Tony, but I saw a similar machine do that kind of thing back in my day. It worked, too.''
* [[BigWhat Big "WHO?!"]]: '''Captain America:''' ''So, when will I meet the Avenger that saved me from Zemo? The one in the black catsuit''.
* BlastingItOutOfTheirHands: Hawkeye (who else?) made this one to save Mockingbird, even when he could have killed the Black Widow if he just shot a pair of centimeters to the right. Of course, he did not miss, he's Hawkeye.
* BlobMonster: Arnim Zola's Doughboys.
* BloodlessCarnage: Has a fair amount.
* BodyCountCompetition: Between Hulk and Thor during Kang's invasion.
* BodyHorror:
** People undergoing {{Painful Transformation}}s in "Gamma World", especially Iron Man's and Wasp's.
** When they show a shot of Tony's heart we actually get to see the shrapnel embedded in it.
** Zemo and Klaw both have a few seconds showing their bodies being horribly distorted as they transform into monsters. Bruce Banner's transformations into the Hulk are pretty alarming, although at least he gets to shift back... on occasion.
* BondVillainStupidity: Practically everyone from Hydra and numerous other villains. The worst case probably was in Captain America's first episode, when Red Skull even failed to order Cap and Bucky ''restrained'' before going into EvilGloating mode, even though the (quite vulnerable) device crucial to his plans was in the same room.
** Greatly averted with Ultron, Dr. Doom, and the Skrulls, all of whom are very genre savvy.
* BoxingLessonsForSuperman: As Steve points out (and proves...much to Hawkeye and Hulks amusement), Tony (aka Iron Man) is a very poor hand-to-hand fighter and is rather helpless without his armor. Cap ends up giving him some lessons.
* {{Brainwashed}}: Enchantress tried to pull this on The Hulk. It ends about as well as you might expect, but she successfully creates a rift with him and the team. It backfires in the long run, since now Hulk seems to have a grudge against her.
** [[spoiler:The Red Skull does this first to Bucky, making him into the Winter Soldier, and later to Doc Samson and Falcon.]]
* BreakingTheFellowship: [[spoiler: After the reveal that Skrulls are on Earth, the Avengers splinter, with Iron Man, Ms. Marvel and Black Panther leaving out of mistrust and fear for the others. All that's left of the official Avengers at the time are Captain America, Hawkeye, Hulk, and Wasp.]]
** [[spoiler: And not long after that, Skrull!Cap takes advantage of the Red Hulk's rampage to get Hulk out of the picture, making it a team of ''three''.]]
* TheBridge: Kang has one at the Damocles base. Fury has no special "seat" at the hellicarrier, there is such a bridge but he's always standing.
* BroughtDownToNormal: Happens to Captain America, Thor, and Iron Man in the appropriately titled "Powerless" due to a magic spell. Cap is back to his scrawny, pre-Super Solider serum self, Iron Man is in his prototype armor (which he can't remember how to work), and Thor is a mortal ([[MythologyGag who gets his leg broken early on]]).
* ButForMeItWasTuesday: A rare heroic example
--> '''Chemistro:''' How can you not remember who I am!? You punched me in the face!
--> '''Hawkeye:''' That doesn't really narrow it down, pal.
* CainAndAbel: Thor and Loki.
* CallingTheOldManOut: Thor does this to Odin at the end of "My Brother, My Enemy", having watched his brother do it first.
* CannotSpitItOut: Ant Man and Wasp.
* CanonImmigrant: The show uses JARVIS, Tony Stark's advanced AI program from the live-action Iron Man movies, instead of Edwin Jarvis, the Avengers' butler from the comics.
* CardboardPrison: The Vault, Cube, Big House, and Raft all fall victim to this trope in the ''first episode''.
** Justified as a [[PhysicalGod Asgardian]] was behind the breakouts. Something most prisons wouldn't expect.
** Prison 42 on the other hand is currently working well as the new super villain prison. [[TemptingFate We'll see if that lasts in season 2.]]
*** Happens in "Assault on 42". [[SubvertedTrope Kinda]]. It's actually attacked from the outside by a horde of unstoppable alien insectoids who can eat through metal like it actually ''is'' cardboard. [[spoiler:The prisoners are actually let out to help fight them off.]]
* CastingGag: Creator/ScottMenville plays the very [[WesternAnimation/TeenTitans Robin-like]] BuckyBarnes.
* CavalryBetrayal: As SHIELD did not arrive yet, Iron Man fought alone against the dreadnoughts of Hydra outside the United Nations. SHIELD finally arrived and helped him... and tried to take him prisoner (or something like that).
* CerebusRollercoaster: Granted, the show never seemed entirely fluffy, but the dark themes seemed to progressively increase from "Ultron-5" onward. After the retool, though, the level of darkness became more inconsistent, sometimes reverting to the level from the early episodes.
** Also note that season 1 has a Y rating (everyone of all ages can watch), while season 2 bears a Y7 stamp (children six years old and younger probably shouldn't watch).
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Averted, with the Hulk. This portrayal owes more to the Hulk as he was originally depicted by StanLee and JackKirby, rather than as the PsychopathicManchild 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''!
** Also displayed in Hulk's case, in that he shows on occasion he can draw on Bruce Banner's knowledge when he cares to, [[spoiler:identifying Michael Korvac's energy emissions as cosmic radiation at a glance in the eponymous episode]].
* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: 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.
** Justified by backstory; Black Panther, like Captain America, is basically a super powered fighter masquerading as a BadassNormal -- the training, skills, ability and intellect of a BadassNormal bolstered by a rare SuperSerum herb native to Wakanda and, in some tellings, a mystical connection to a patron panther god.
* ChekhovsGunman: "The Man Who Stole Tomorrow" has a scene explaining who the ComicBook/FantasticFour are before getting on with the plot.
** Lucia von Bardas, TheDragon to Doctor Doom, shows up at the beginning of the first Breakout episode. She and her master later appear in the Season 2 premiere as the prime antagonists.
** Technovore and Purple Man, only shown very briefly during the breakout, each have their own episode in Season 2.
* TheChessmaster: The Leader, Loki, and [[spoiler: Ultron]].
** [[spoiler: Season 2: Queen Veranke, Red Skull, and Ultron, again]]
* ChewToy: Poor, poor Tony Stark. See TheWorfEffect, below, for details.
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Played straight in "This Hostage Earth" when [[spoiler:Amora stabbed Grey Gargoyle in the back, and then subverted when Zemo betrays her before she can betray him (Which he fully expected).]]
* CliffHanger: [[spoiler: Cap getting replaced by a Skrull at the end of Season 1.]]
** [[spoiler: There's a mid-season one with the U.S. broadcast of season 2 where Nick Fury tells Iron Man his team has been infiltrated by a Skrull, Iron Man, Ms. Marvel, and Black Panther leave the team, and it's revealed that Mockingbird had been replaced by Queen Veranke some time after her first appearance.]]
* CoDragons: Abomination and Absorbing Man to the Leader.
** [[TheBaroness Viper]], [[TheMole the Black]] [[ReverseMole Widow]] and [[InTheHood Grim]] [[PsychoForHire Reaper]] for [[PuttingOnTheReich Baron Strucker]].
** [[spoiler: Red Hulk, Winter Soldier, Doc Samson, and Falcon to Red Skull, although the latter three were brainwashed.]]
* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: Inverted. Black Panther wears black, while the bad guy Man-Ape wears white.
** Played straight with Ultron. Blue lights = Peaceful Ultron. Red lights = Violent Ultron.
* ComicBookFantasyCasting: Tony Stark was designed to look like RobertDowneyJr and even sounds like him. People often say that it sounds like Eric Loomis is doing an impression of RDJ. [[http://marvel.com/news/story/15715/the_avengers_earths_mightiest_heroes_voicing_iron_man Turns out that's Loomis's normal voice]].
* [[CompilationMovie Compilation Episodes]]: The twenty micro-episodes were later compiled into the first five episodes for airing on television.
** Fans have taken this a step further, editing all the micro-episodes into a single long movie.
*** The reverse is true, actually. Disney XD only split the first five episodes into the mini-episodes. Later airings and DVD releases have them as they were intended.
* TheComplainerIsAlwaysWrong: 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.
* CompositeCharacter: Baron Zemo is a combination of elements of his own comics counterpart (Heinrich Zemo) and his son and successor (Helmut Zemo). Similarly, the Crimson Dynamo is a villain--but wears the suit worn by Gennady Gavrilov, a hero, from the comics and, according to his bio in issue 2 of the tie-in comic, has element of the already-Composite Character of Ivan Vanko from ''[[Film/IronMan Iron Man 2]]'' (his real name and reasons for hating Iron Man stemming from something that happened between their fathers).
** Inverted with NickFury, who's actually split into two characters: Jack Fury, Nick's [[IdenticalGrandson identical grandfather]] who led the HowlingCommandos in World War 2; and Nick Fury, the 21st century super-spy who serves as the director of SHIELD. [[hottip:*: In the comics, Nick Fury was both--he actually did serve in WorldWar2, but ComicBookTime eventually forced the writers to establish that he took anti-aging drugs to explain how he was still alive six decades after the war ended.]]
*** 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, at least until the second season, where he looks more like his Ultimate incarnation.
** 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.
** The Super-Skrulls of the Skrull invasion are composite characters with the combined powers and uniform details of several super heroes (some had appeared, others had not).
* ConspicuousCG: Many examples. The most notable include the Quinjets and the Helicarrier.
* ContinuityCameo: {{Wolverine}} appears one of Cap's micro-episodes.
-->'''[[IdenticalGrandson Jack Fury]]:''' Howlett! We need recon!\\
'''Wolverine:''' I'm workin' on it, bub!
** [[WesternAnimation/TheFantasticFour HERBIE]] passes by as Hank Pym and Reed Richards study [[spoiler: Princess Ravonna]] during one of the last scenes of "The Kang Dynasty."
** On [[spoiler:Nick Fury's board of Skrull suspects]] there are several pictures of characters that never appeared on the show. These include Cyclops and Beast of the {{ComicBook/X-Men}}, the ScarletWitch, {{Magneto}}, ComicBook/CloakAndDagger, and Armadillo.
** Several of the power mash-up Super-Skrulls have the costumes and powers of a few characters that never appeared on the show, including Cyclops, Nightcrawler, Colossus, and [[TheInhumans Black Bolt]].
* ContinuityNod: When he's being deactivated and utters random information, the Supreme Intelligence mentions the first alien contact of the Kree, which was with the Skrulls... and even mentions the Cotati. The what? Some kind of FantasticFlora that lived in Hala along with the Kree, before the Kree destroyed them all (or most of them). The Cotati and the first contact of Kree and Skrull were seen at ComicBook/TheCelestialMadonnaSaga.
** Carol Danvers mentioned that, in the airforce, her codename was "Warbird". In comics, she took the name Warbird during Kurt Busiek's run, and returned to Ms. Marvel during Bendis' run.
* ConvectionSchmonvection: Hulk surviving re-entry unscratched is all well and good, but his [[MagicPants pants]] surviving is another thing.
* CurbStompBattle: Cap vs Tony in the practice boxing ring. Guess who won.
** Also Zemo taking down Grim Reaper in all of 2 seconds. Now that's skills.
** Actually happens quite a lot, with heroes and villains on both ends. One notable instance is Doctor Doom's debut, where he takes down all of the Avengers (minus Thor and Ant-Man) and the Fantastic Four without any trouble at all.
* DarkMessiah: Both The Leader and Ultron claim to be "saving" the world. The Leader actually has followers, though.
** The Skrulls do this too, with [[spoiler:the Skrull-Captain America]] filling the Dark Messiah role.
* DeadpanSnarker: The Wasp, Iron Man, Hawkeye, and Bucky.
** The Hulk occasionally manages this as well.
** As does Ant-Man. [[spoiler:Goes UpToEleven as Yellowjacket.]]
** Black Panther is a little more subtle about it, but a good portion of his few lines are surprisingly sarcastic, especially when addressing Hawkeye, whom he enjoys messing with.
** Captain America had a few individual snarky moments, but not as many as the others.
** Ms. Marvel too. Vision is really the only Avenger that's not, and even he gets one or two sarcastic lines.
** Not to mention Spider-Man, Wolverine, the Thing, Luke Cage, Mockingbird, Maria Hill... It's practically a WorldOfSnark.
* DealWithTheDevil: [[spoiler:Captain America agrees to give his soul to Hela in order to return to the land of the living and help his fellow Avengers.]]
** [[spoiler:Actually, he promised his soul only if he died in combat against Loki. We don't know if he's still bound by that promise, seeing as how he didn't die in the battle.]]
*** Had the series continued, the only way to really tell would be if anything killed him.
* DeathByOriginStory
** T'Chaka
** Bucky [[spoiler:at least, before the cosmic cube changed reality]]
** Ravonna. Not the same story, but she also gets in a "almost dead" condition at the end of her story in comic books.
* DefiantStoneThrow: The subway passengers who pelted the Serpent Society to help Cap.
* DeusExMachina: Literal example when Thor returns to Midgard (Earth) just in time to stop a Skrull invasion.
* DeusExitMachina: Invoked by the Masters of Evil, who send Hulk to Jötunheimr to fight the Jötun (Frost Giants) so he can't cause a CurbStompBattle. [[spoiler: It does keep him out the way, until Thor opens a portal to bring him back, and he stomps through covered in snow, carrying a big ice club, and ''pissed''.]]
* DieHardOnAnX: The head writer, Christopher Yost, promoted "Alone Against AIM" as, "''Film/DieHard'' at Stark Industries!"
** The first season episode "Masters of Evil" also has a plot like this.
* DiplomaticImmunity: Of a type. With Doctor Doom as lord of Latveria, he can't be directly attacked in his own country or even brought to justice by Avengers or Fantastic Four.
* DisneyDeath: [[spoiler:Thor and Black Panther]] each get one. [[KilledOffForReal Not everyone is so lucky, however]].
* DoNotAdjustYourSet: The Leader sent a message to all the world. It was seen by everybody: Nick Fury, Hydra, Pepper Pots, Henry Pym in Wakanda, the Masters of Evil, a random multitude; even Clint and Natasha in the middle of the desert (the leader hacked SHIELD's private lines as well). Of the characters introduced so far, they missed Jane Foster, the bar in the desert, perhaps Dr. Doom, Kang (his ship is cloaked somewhere up there), and a short shot at the White House would have been interesting.
** The Skrulls made a second one, to broadcast their message of conquest.
* DramaticallyMissingThePoint: 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.
* DualWielding: Some of Kang's armory includes two [[LaserBlade glowing swords]] that he wields with surprising skill, even going toe-to-toe with Captain America.
** Not too surprising, since Kang (like his thematic opposite, Captain America) is a OneManArmy. Kang (or at least his MarvelComics analog) visits other times and dimensions and devastates entire planets not ForTheEvulz but to ''perfect his art.''
** Sif and Zemo also fight with a set of paired blades.
* DVDCommentary: The final volume of Disney's [=DVDs=] has at least one commentary performed by the voice actors of Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, and Hulk, in character.
* DysfunctionJunction: The team has some issues to work out. Noted in-series by Ant Man, who acknowledges that a group of people who are essentially strangers won't initially act like a team. Later, Hawkeye rants to BlackPanther about how the other Avengers are completely unsuited for superheroics (though to be fair, a couple of his critiques are flat out wrong, and as Panther points out, he didn't say a thing about CaptainAmerica).
* EarlyBirdCameo: Crimson Dynamo, Technovore, and MODOK showed up in "Nick Fury: Agent of SHIELD".
** There are several in the Hulk micro-episode, "This Monster, This Hero", as well. Villains seen in The Cube include Bi-Beast, X-Ray, Vector, Vapor (three of the four members of the U-Foes), Abomination, The Leader, and Radioactive Man, among others; most of these returned in "Gamma World". In the earlier episode where the Hulk fought Absorbing Man, Mr. Hyde appeared when Banner was talking about the Cube. Also in the Hulk micro-episode was SHIELD agent Morse, who returned in "Widow's Sting" as Mockingbird.
** In "Meet Captain America", we meet James Howlett, [[spoiler: who most fans know as {{Wolverine}}.]]
** "Come the Conqueror" briefly shows Black Knight Dane Whitman defending London from Kang's robots.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: The series finale has the Avengers being cheered by the public for defeating [[spoiler:Galactus]], showing that people care for them again after everything that happened with the Skrulls.
* EasilyThwartedAlienInvasion: The Skrull Invasion, for all the buildup, consist of a single space ship, a few hundred Skrulls at best and a dozen or so Super-Skrulls. The loss of a single battle against the Avengers and return of Thor is all it takes before the Skrulls try to kill every one on Earth. Many of the other villains with far less resources did much better at conquering the world.
* EliteMooks: Kang's [[TerribleTrio three elite guards]] on Damocles Base gave the Avengers a run for their money, thanks to help from their boss's time-controlling powers.
** Except that it was obvious almost immediately that their only advantage was their boss's time manipulation technology, allowing them to make [[TimeStandsStill Time Stand Still]] around themselves and perform a SpeedBlitz on the Avengers. Once Hawkeye's flare arrow blinded the mooks and impaired their ability to react to their opponents, the Avengers defeated them easily.
* EmpathyDollShot: Thor finds a doll amongst the rubble in the devastated future shown in "The Man Who Stole Tomorrow"
* EnemyCivilWar: Between AIM and HYDRA in "Hail, Hydra!".
* EnemyMine: Subverted; Hawkeye adamantly refuses to work alongside Black Widow again no matter how desperate the situation.
** That was later subverted again, [[spoiler:when he actually did, although technically she wasn't a villain.]]
** This is played perfectly straight in "Acts of Vengeance" when Zemo, Abomination, Wonder Man, and Crimson Dynamo join forces with the Avengers to fight off the wrath of a vengeful Enchantress and Executioner.
** 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, 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.]]
** During the Skrull invasion, [[spoiler:Doctor Doom gives Tony a piece of tech that can help detect and reveal Skrulls. However, he finds it beneath him to actually join the Avengers in battle, and prefers to let them do all the dirty work.]]
* EndOfSeriesAwareness: "Avengers Assemble" begins with Tony asking Steve if he ever wonders how the Avengers will go down in history, prompting this exchange:
-->'''Steve:''' This is only the second time I've heard you use the word, "history."
-->'''Tony:''' That's because I've never been able to imagine a world without me in it...until recently.
** Also, the last line said in the episode (and the show) before the fade to the show's logo.
-->'''Captain America:''' You wanted to know how history will remember the Avengers, Iron Man? Well, here's your answer.
* EnhancedOnDVD: When "Masters of Evil" first aired, the final scene looked so dark, the viewers [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Loki_EMH_14_iTunes_807.png couldn't see Loki's face]]. This scene became [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Loki_EMH_14_Netflix_3429.png brightened]] in the version shown on Netflix. The producer confirmed [[http://www.toonzone.net/forums/showthread.php?284912-quot-The-Avengers-Earth-s-Mightiest-Heroes-quot-News-amp-Discussion-Thread-Part-5-(Spoilers)&p=3886170#post3886170 here]] that the broadcast version obscured Loki because of post-production and video transferring errors, not because of a stylistic choice.
** The difference becomes more visible when viewing the monitor from a certain angle.
* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: Or rather worse. Several villains are apes or have ape-like powers/motifs; Man-Ape, Mandrill, and Red Ghost's Super-Apes.
-->'''Thor:''' "Tis surprising how many monkeys we face in battle."
* EvilGloating: When Sue Storm and Wasp get kidnapped, Wasp tries to piss off their captor by talking crap at him. Unfortunately, her captor's DoctorDoom, so it doesn't work.
-->'''Doctor Doom''': "Miss Van Dyne, I am not some common criminal that can be distracted by your prattling. You are nothing to Doom, and your pathetic attempts to play mind games with me amount to exactly less than nothing. So please, stop embarrassing yourself."
* EvilVersusEvil: The Kree-Skrull conflict, wherein whoever wins, humanity loses. Both of the sides are known for conducting painful medical experimentation on those they capture and go around the galaxy wiping out or enslaving other planets/species. The Kree are supposed to be the "good guys", given their [[ItsAllAboutMe self-designated]] role of [[HumanityOnTrial judging other species]], and it helps that two heroes featured in the show are Kree. Conversely, while the Skrull are supposed to be the "evil" side (and are more malicious in behavior), they have a sympathetic backstory (Galactus ate their home planet), and favor enslaving humanity whereas the Kree favor exterminating it.
* EvolvingCredits: The team shot at the end of the opening titles varies depending on the size of the team at the episode's start.
** Additionally, the ''Earth's Mightiest Heroes'' logo at the intro's close originally had an empty circle underneath it. During the second half of the first season, the circle became replaced by a variant of the MarvelCinematicUniverse's "Avengers Assemble" emblem.
* ExposedToTheElements: Hulk has no need for such things as spacesuits. Give him an oxygen mask and he's just fine in his [[MagicPants stretch pants]].
* EyeScream: When Balder the Brave rams his sword into a Frost Giant's eye. Black Panther does something similar in "A Day Unlike Any Other", except with his claws.
** And later, [[spoiler: Loki's FateWorseThanDeath]].
* {{Eyedscreen}}: Used when we first see Tony putting on the Iron Man armor. Again in "Gamma World" when Bruce says they're going to The Leader "the direct route".
* AbortedArc: Surtur and his Asgard shenanigans are this thanks to the cancellation of the show. This pulls the plug on numerous sub-plots such as:
** The results of [[spoiler:Skurge's HeelFaceTurn]] are never shown.
** Beta Ray Bill's story and his people are left hanging. As well as any ShipTease with Sif.
** [[spoiler: Amora's still captured.]]
** When Thor had a hammer forged for Beta Ray Bill, he owes one favor to the dwarf king, and it can be anything, and the king looked as if he was interested in collecting.
** Maria Hill's efforts to start a SuperRegistrationAct haven't come up since episode 28.
** Abigail Brand's [[spoiler: implied alien ethnicity.]]
** [[spoiler:Korvac's]] plotline never went anywhere after his debut.
** [[spoiler:Kang's]] final episode never resolved his main arc, but it will have to do as a conclusion to his story.
*** What happened to his minions?
** The romance between Hawkeye and Widow was never even acknowledged after [[spoiler:she was revealed as the ReverseMole]].
** Madame Viper was major character in Skrull Saga, with the hints of DarkAndTroubledPast[[hottip:*: it is implied that something horrible happened to her in the past, which gave her scars on her face and gave her the reason to hate people like Captain America]], and FoeYay between her and Captain America. Yet none of this is brought up ever again, with Cap and Viper becoming enemies in the episode "Along Came A Spider" with no acknowledgment of their [[FoeYay relationship]] in "Prisoner Of War". Also she becomes the leader of the Serpent Society in "Along Came A Spider" and escapes sewer with them in the sewers, but she is mysteriously absent when the Society was attacked and captured by Hank Pym in episode "Yellowjacket, with no mention of her and is never seen or heard again.
** Despite it being heavily foreshadowed, [[spoiler: we never see Simon Williams undergo his full redemption arc and become Wonder Man.]]
* AbsenteeActor: With a ten-man ensemble cast, this happens often. In a strange case, Thor was missing from the Black Panther's introduction episode; and the closest thing we got to an explanation in the episode itself is that Iron Man didn't know where he was, either. The episode, "Masters of Evil", did offer an retroactive explanation, though--Thor didn't know the ID card's beeping was a sign for the Avengers to assemble (now if only we knew why he didn't take the hint when it started saying "AvengersAssemble!" in Tony's voice).
** The absences of season 2 are justified, however, as the roster grew and shrank constantly.
-->'''Chris Yost:'''...in true Marvel fashion, Avengers come and go, so [[spoiler: Thor]] was out of the picture except for a one-off in the first half of Season 2, then [[spoiler: Hulk]] was out for the majority of it until the end...every member of the team doesn't have to be in every episode.
* ActorAllusion: One episode features KeithSzarabajka voicing an alien who lands on earth and talks about how excited we should all be for the unpleasant fate in store for us, shoots lasers at JenniferHale, before she and the team defeat him. [[MassEffect Where have we seen this before?]]
* ActionGirl: All the women in the series are action girls, heroes, villains and SHIELD agents (even Jane Foster, within her context; that's why Thor likes her).
* ActuallyADoombot: [[spoiler:A Furybot actually. And a Maria Hill bot.]]
** Averted with the actual Dr. Doom, as his Doombots can't be mistaken for him at all.
* AdaptationalBadass This show gives us several examples. The more notable ones being Wasp and Grim Reaper.
* AdaptationDistillation: The show takes a little bit from most of the "greatest hits" of the Avengers franchise. The line-up is the one of the ComicBook/FirstAvengersTeam by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, the "Breakout" story-arc derives from the initial story-arc from NewAvengers, ComicBook/IronMan and [[ComicBook/IncredibleHulk The Hulk]] are based partly on their [[MarvelCinematicUniverse movie incarnations]], as are a number of their villains, etc. Captain Marvel, Captain America's second costume and Nick Fury in the second season are taken from the UltimateMarvel universe. Many episodes were adaptions of specific comic book storylines, such as ComicBook/TheKangWar or the SecretInvasion. In general, ''all'' of the characters are a Greatest Hits version of various portrayals of them from the comics--for instance, Hank Pym has been Ant-Man, Giant Man and Yellowjacket. Add to that an overload of cameos and continuity nods, and there is everything an Avengers fan may want; if there was something missing, that's just because there was not enough space.
* AdaptiveArmor: Captain Mar-Vell and the other Kree warriors have armor-suits that can [[MorphWeapon morph into various weapons]].
* AfterTheEnd: Kang took the Avengers to the future, where the destruction of the sun by the Kree destroyed all life on Earth. All life... except cockroaches. [[WhyWontYouDie They survive anything]].
* AIIsACrapShoot: Ultron, [[SarcasmMode to the surprise of everyone.]]
** Averted with JARVIS.
* AirborneAircraftCarrier: The SHIELD helicarier is present as the SHIELD main base of operations, and it even held a prison (The Big House) at the beginning of the series.
* AllAccordingToPlan: The forces of the Leader captured Thor and took him to the Leader's base. Thor summoned his hammer, and fought against the Abomination until he retrieved it. He thought that, by retriving his hammer, he had won... but the Leader had calculated that, and was in fact expecting him to do that: the Absorbing Man, hidden as the floor, touch his hammer and absorved its power. [[spoiler: Unfortunately for the Leader, he did not have enough information about the hammer to know that this would be the Absorbing Man's downfall.]]
** There was also one on the good guy's side. Nick Fury told Tony Stark the greatest secret of the world: that there were shape-shifting aliens infiltrating Earth, and that one had infiltrated the Avengers. And Tony simply goes and shares what he has heard, and asks who is the alien. Yes, really. Obviously, nothing came out of that, the Avengers broke up, and whoever was the alien is now aware of Fury's actions. Way to go, Nick! No: it was AllAccordingToPlan. He confirmed that Iron Man is the real deal, and left the yet unknown alien in a position where he may make a mistake and reveal himself. And the aliens surely know about him anyway.
* AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs: The Masters of Evil and Ultron both successfully infiltrate the mansion and nearly own everyone. Funny enough, it is Ant-Man who is crucial to stopping them both times.
* AMythologyIsTrue: The worlds of Norse myth are depicted as real, but it's the only one mentioned. The cosmology of Greek myth (along with Hercules) do not appear in the series.
* AnachronicOrder: The fifth volume of Disney's [=DVDs=] plays [[http://marvel.toonzone.net/news.php?action=fullnews&id=844 some season 2 episodes]] in production order:
-->27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 34, 33, 40, 35, 37, 36, 38. Plus, #41 as a "bonus feature."
* AncientAstronauts: It is suggested by Red Skull that the Asgardian monsters are the source of the ancient Norse myths (but he did not explain how did such monsters appear in ancient times, without Red Skull or Tony Stark to make a machine to cross dimensions)
* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler: Ultron co-ops Tony's armor, making him fight the Avengers WITH HIM STILL IN THE ARMOR. He gets only a few brief moments where his com systems work to try and warn Thor that something has control of his armor.]]
** Also, [[spoiler: the Realm of Silence Loki is exiled to in Thor's episode, but then again Loki is such a Magnificent Bastard that it doesn't really faze him.]]
*** Which then carries over to [[spoiler: Loki's fate after his big plan fails at the end of Season 1. True to Norse mythology, he is trussed up and left in the care of a giant serpent which constantly [[EyeScream DRIPS VENOM INTO HIS EYES.]] Yikes.]]
*** [[spoiler: Nasty enough by itself, but remember - Loki's immortal. His eyes won't eventually lose their capacity to feel pain: nor can he escape by thirst, starvation or old age. He's there until Odin forgives him or until the world ends... and Odin isn't a particularly forgiving god.]]
** Amora used Chemistro's gun to turn his armor to gold. He remains conscious for what is implied to be several hours before Tony and Janet find him and call for help.
* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: Hank to Wasp in the episode "459".
* AnimationBump: The animation becomes choppy at random points, but almost never during fight scenes.
* {{Animorphism}}: "In Gamma World", Black Panther and Wasp mutate into... well, a panther and a wasp.
* AppliedPhlebotinum: Vibranium.
* ArbitrarySkepticism: In the episode "459", Wasp doesn't initially believe in aliens. Norse gods, people made of living sound, guys being frozen in the Arctic for forty years, no problem. But aliens? That's just crazy. Hank holds on to his skepticism even longer, even as the evidence starts to pile up.
** [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] by the fact that Wasp was teasing Carol, and in Hank's case he points out the was no organic signature and therefore no life. He even justifies his disbelief in this exchange:
-->'''Wasp:''' I thought you said it ''wasn't'' aliens?
-->'''Ant Man:''' I [[ExactWords never said]] it wasn't an ''alien robot''.
* ArcWords
** The Skrulls frequently chant the phrase, "As it is written," as they discuss their invasion of Earth.
** "Hail, Hydra!"
* ArchEnemy: Each of the Avengers has one, actually.
** RedSkull and Baron Zemo to Captain America
** The Leader and Abomination to the Hulk
** Wonder Man considers himself Iron Man's ArchEnemy, though it's one-sided. Crimson Dynamo also considers himself Iron Man's ArchEnemy. So does the Living Laser. Let's just say that a lot of people don't like Tony.
** Man-Ape to Black Panther
** Comicbook/BlackWidow to Hawkeye [[spoiler: until she revealed she was working for Nick Fury. Afterwards, they shared a kiss.]]
** Whirlwind to Wasp, albeit usually PlayedForLaughs
** Loki to Thor
** Ultron to Hank Pym
** The Kree to Ms. Marvel
** Vision doesn't really have one, as he was the only Avenger to actually have been born during the show and Ultron doesn't consider him his arch-enemy.
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Wasp implores Vision like so as he tries to kidnap her:
-->What do you want with me? Who are you working for? And ''why'' would you combine green and yellow with your skintone?
* ArtImitatesArt: During the siege of Asgard, Balder jumps to a Frost Giant, runs over his body, attacks him at a weak point and the giant falls, with Balder jumping forward and landing as a hero with the fallen giant behind him. The whole sequence was very similar to one made by Legolas to kill an Oliphant in [[Film/TheLordOfTheRings The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King]]
* AsLethalAsItNeedsToBe: Wasp's stings. Usually annoying BeamSpam, occasionally armor-piercingly powerful.
* AudibleSharpness: Grim Reaper's scythe and Black Panther's claws.
* AvengersAssemble: As expected. Aided in this iteration by high-tech video key cards, courtesy of Stark Industries.
** [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] hilariously in "Living Legend".
-->'''Iron Man:''' Avengers, Assemble!
-->'''Ant Man:''' We're all ''right here''.
-->'''Iron Man:''' ...
** Lampshaded again in "This Hostage Earth" where after sending the Avengers off to 7 hotspots Tony is about to shout this corrects himself and instead says "Avengers Disassemble!"
** The [[spoiler: Captain America]] imposter says, "Avengers, Attack!" instead.
** When Wasp and Hawkeye come to fight Skrulls in "Infiltration:"
-->'''Wasp:''' Avengers, assemble...but only the human ones!
** The series finale has this phrase in its title.
* BackForTheFinale: Virtually every other superhero that appeared in the show came back during Galactus' invasion to help out the Avengers.
* BadassAdorable: Wasp.
* BadassBiker: Hawkeye. Even cooler, his sky-cycle flies!
** And Cap.
* BadassCape: Grim Reaper, Thor, Dr. Doom, and Vision.
* BadassInDistress: [[spoiler: Captain America prisoner of the Skrulls.]]
* TheBaroness: Viper always fit this role, but in this version has a tendency to pull grenade pins with her tongue. Which is appropriate, as the TropeNamer [[GIJoe Baroness]] was based on Viper to begin with. [[spoiler: The bit about being a [[VoluntaryShapeshifting Skrull]] is new, though.]]
* BaitAndSwitchCredits: Episodes from Season Two begin with an OpeningNarration creating the impression that the Avengers consist entirely of the "Big Three"-Iron Man, Captain America, and Thor-and the Incredible Hulk. More often than not, the succeeding episode will actually feature only one, two, or three of those heroes, fighting with help from some Avengers who would probably seem unfamiliar to viewers who neither read the comics nor saw the first season. (Moviegoers could at least recognize Hawkeye.)
* BashBrothers: Captain America and Bucky; The Warriors Three; Luke Cage and Iron Fist; Thor and Beta Ray Bill.
* BatmanGambit: It turns out HYDRA's attack on the United Nations in "Iron Man is Born" were all a plot to [[spoiler:get the Grim Reaper inside The Vault so he could break out Wolfgang von Strucker, the head of HYDRA.]]
** Wasp tricks members of AIM into leading her and Thor to their base.
* BattleCry: "AVENGERS, ASSEMBLE!"
* BattleDiscretionShot: [[spoiler: When the Skrull appears and aims Captain America with his futuristic gun the camera goes outside the room and we only see a flash of light in the window.]]
* BearHug: Thor joyfully does this to his teammates, including the Hulk!
* BerserkButton: MODOC is a bit touchy when someone starts making fun of his big giant head...which Thor and Wasp [[CrowningMomentOfFunny do continuously when they first see him]].
-->'''Thor:''' Like a Frost Giant's head on an infant's body.
** Don't even dare to hurt Janet, lest you push Hank Pym's berserk button and get curb-stomped. Quite literally, as he is called GIANT Man.
* BigApplesauce: The Avengers Mansion, Stark Industries, and several other places important to the team are located in New York City. Some episodes also saw the Avengers either saving or visiting some real-life NYC landmarks. Iron Man somewhat lampshades this in the series finale:
-->'''Iron Man:''' Okay, why is always ''my'' building?
* BigDamnHeroes: Happens A LOT.
** Pulled by Black Panther, saving Captain America from Baron Zemo. Cap returns the favor in "Panther Quest".
** Played with in "Masters of Evil". At first, it looks like Black Panther and Hawkeye have failed to rescue the other Avengers, until they reveal [[spoiler:they were just buying Ant Man some time to get some stuff from his lab. Then, ''he'' gets a BigDamnHeroes moment.]]
** Wasp in "Come the Conqueror" against the scarabs. [[CrowningMomentofAwesome She found bigger stingers]]
** Hulk's entrance into the battle against Graviton, and again in the Avengers first fight against Ultron.
** Iron Man gets a quite impressive one in "A Day Unlike Any Other". [[spoiler:Loki has defeated the rest of the team, and Iron Man comes crashing down through the roof in new armor made of Uru metal.]]
** Thor does an epic one during the climax of [[spoiler:the Skrull invasion]].
* [[BigBadassWolf Big Badass Wolves]]: Malekith has huge wolves under his command, and the same wolves later attack Hawkeye [[spoiler:when he gets portaled into Alfheim, the Asgardian Realm of the Elves.]] Then there's Hoarfen, the gigantic ice wolf in "A Day Unlike Any Other".
* BigBadEnsemble: Several of the villains have their own agendas, notably Baron Strucker, Baron Zemo, the Leader, Kang, and [[spoiler: Ultron]]. The presence of an overarching BigBad is built up throughout the season, however, and it's ultimately revealed to be [[spoiler: Loki, who was directly or indirectly responsible for just about everything except Kang and Ultron]].
** Season Two brings us a new crop of Big Bads, each with their own plans: [[spoiler:Queen Veranke and the Skrulls, Ultron again, Red Skull, the Kree Empire, and Galactus. Surtur would have been a Big Bad, but thanks to the series' cancellation he never actually fought the Avengers.]]
* [[BigWhat Big "WHERE?!"]]: Thor was vanished from Asgard and, unable to return, he asked Tony Stark for help, to see if he could send hm with some technological way. After a long work, Stark and T'challa ended a machine for that. He was so proud of it... but Captain America spoiled his pride. "''Not to rain on your parade Tony, but I saw a similar machine do that kind of thing back in my day. It worked, too.''
* [[BigWhat Big "WHO?!"]]: '''Captain America:''' ''So, when will I meet the Avenger that saved me from Zemo? The one in the black catsuit''.
* BlastingItOutOfTheirHands: Hawkeye (who else?) made this one to save Mockingbird, even when he could have killed the Black Widow if he just shot a pair of centimeters to the right. Of course, he did not miss, he's Hawkeye.
* BlobMonster: Arnim Zola's Doughboys.
* BloodlessCarnage: Has a fair amount.
* BodyCountCompetition: Between Hulk and Thor during Kang's invasion.
* BodyHorror:
** People undergoing {{Painful Transformation}}s in "Gamma World", especially Iron Man's and Wasp's.
** When they show a shot of Tony's heart we actually get to see the shrapnel embedded in it.
** Zemo and Klaw both have a few seconds showing their bodies being horribly distorted as they transform into monsters. Bruce Banner's transformations into the Hulk are pretty alarming, although at least he gets to shift back... on occasion.
* BondVillainStupidity: Practically everyone from Hydra and numerous other villains. The worst case probably was in Captain America's first episode, when Red Skull even failed to order Cap and Bucky ''restrained'' before going into EvilGloating mode, even though the (quite vulnerable) device crucial to his plans was in the same room.
** Greatly averted with Ultron, Dr. Doom, and the Skrulls, all of whom are very genre savvy.
* BoxingLessonsForSuperman: As Steve points out (and proves...much to Hawkeye and Hulks amusement), Tony (aka Iron Man) is a very poor hand-to-hand fighter and is rather helpless without his armor. Cap ends up giving him some lessons.
* {{Brainwashed}}: Enchantress tried to pull this on The Hulk. It ends about as well as you might expect, but she successfully creates a rift with him and the team. It backfires in the long run, since now Hulk seems to have a grudge against her.
** [[spoiler:The Red Skull does this first to Bucky, making him into the Winter Soldier, and later to Doc Samson and Falcon.]]
* BreakingTheFellowship: [[spoiler: After the reveal that Skrulls are on Earth, the Avengers splinter, with Iron Man, Ms. Marvel and Black Panther leaving out of mistrust and fear for the others. All that's left of the official Avengers at the time are Captain America, Hawkeye, Hulk, and Wasp.]]
** [[spoiler: And not long after that, Skrull!Cap takes advantage of the Red Hulk's rampage to get Hulk out of the picture, making it a team of ''three''.]]
* TheBridge: Kang has one at the Damocles base. Fury has no special "seat" at the hellicarrier, there is such a bridge but he's always standing.
* BroughtDownToNormal: Happens to Captain America, Thor, and Iron Man in the appropriately titled "Powerless" due to a magic spell. Cap is back to his scrawny, pre-Super Solider serum self, Iron Man is in his prototype armor (which he can't remember how to work), and Thor is a mortal ([[MythologyGag who gets his leg broken early on]]).
* ButForMeItWasTuesday: A rare heroic example
--> '''Chemistro:''' How can you not remember who I am!? You punched me in the face!
--> '''Hawkeye:''' That doesn't really narrow it down, pal.
* CainAndAbel: Thor and Loki.
* CallingTheOldManOut: Thor does this to Odin at the end of "My Brother, My Enemy", having watched his brother do it first.
* CannotSpitItOut: Ant Man and Wasp.
* CanonImmigrant: The show uses JARVIS, Tony Stark's advanced AI program from the live-action Iron Man movies, instead of Edwin Jarvis, the Avengers' butler from the comics.
* CardboardPrison: The Vault, Cube, Big House, and Raft all fall victim to this trope in the ''first episode''.
** Justified as a [[PhysicalGod Asgardian]] was behind the breakouts. Something most prisons wouldn't expect.
** Prison 42 on the other hand is currently working well as the new super villain prison. [[TemptingFate We'll see if that lasts in season 2.]]
*** Happens in "Assault on 42". [[SubvertedTrope Kinda]]. It's actually attacked from the outside by a horde of unstoppable alien insectoids who can eat through metal like it actually ''is'' cardboard. [[spoiler:The prisoners are actually let out to help fight them off.]]
* CastingGag: Creator/ScottMenville plays the very [[WesternAnimation/TeenTitans Robin-like]] BuckyBarnes.
* CavalryBetrayal: As SHIELD did not arrive yet, Iron Man fought alone against the dreadnoughts of Hydra outside the United Nations. SHIELD finally arrived and helped him... and tried to take him prisoner (or something like that).
* CerebusRollercoaster: Granted, the show never seemed entirely fluffy, but the dark themes seemed to progressively increase from "Ultron-5" onward. After the retool, though, the level of darkness became more inconsistent, sometimes reverting to the level from the early episodes.
** Also note that season 1 has a Y rating (everyone of all ages can watch), while season 2 bears a Y7 stamp (children six years old and younger probably shouldn't watch).
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Averted, with the Hulk. This portrayal owes more to the Hulk as he was originally depicted by StanLee and JackKirby, rather than as the PsychopathicManchild 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''!
** Also displayed in Hulk's case, in that he shows on occasion he can draw on Bruce Banner's knowledge when he cares to, [[spoiler:identifying Michael Korvac's energy emissions as cosmic radiation at a glance in the eponymous episode]].
* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: 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.
** Justified by backstory; Black Panther, like Captain America, is basically a super powered fighter masquerading as a BadassNormal -- the training, skills, ability and intellect of a BadassNormal bolstered by a rare SuperSerum herb native to Wakanda and, in some tellings, a mystical connection to a patron panther god.
* ChekhovsGunman: "The Man Who Stole Tomorrow" has a scene explaining who the ComicBook/FantasticFour are before getting on with the plot.
** Lucia von Bardas, TheDragon to Doctor Doom, shows up at the beginning of the first Breakout episode. She and her master later appear in the Season 2 premiere as the prime antagonists.
** Technovore and Purple Man, only shown very briefly during the breakout, each have their own episode in Season 2.
* TheChessmaster: The Leader, Loki, and [[spoiler: Ultron]].
** [[spoiler: Season 2: Queen Veranke, Red Skull, and Ultron, again]]
* ChewToy: Poor, poor Tony Stark. See TheWorfEffect, below, for details.
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Played straight in "This Hostage Earth" when [[spoiler:Amora stabbed Grey Gargoyle in the back, and then subverted when Zemo betrays her before she can betray him (Which he fully expected).]]
* CliffHanger: [[spoiler: Cap getting replaced by a Skrull at the end of Season 1.]]
** [[spoiler: There's a mid-season one with the U.S. broadcast of season 2 where Nick Fury tells Iron Man his team has been infiltrated by a Skrull, Iron Man, Ms. Marvel, and Black Panther leave the team, and it's revealed that Mockingbird had been replaced by Queen Veranke some time after her first appearance.]]
* CoDragons: Abomination and Absorbing Man to the Leader.
** [[TheBaroness Viper]], [[TheMole the Black]] [[ReverseMole Widow]] and [[InTheHood Grim]] [[PsychoForHire Reaper]] for [[PuttingOnTheReich Baron Strucker]].
** [[spoiler: Red Hulk, Winter Soldier, Doc Samson, and Falcon to Red Skull, although the latter three were brainwashed.]]
* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: Inverted. Black Panther wears black, while the bad guy Man-Ape wears white.
** Played straight with Ultron. Blue lights = Peaceful Ultron. Red lights = Violent Ultron.
* ComicBookFantasyCasting: Tony Stark was designed to look like RobertDowneyJr and even sounds like him. People often say that it sounds like Eric Loomis is doing an impression of RDJ. [[http://marvel.com/news/story/15715/the_avengers_earths_mightiest_heroes_voicing_iron_man Turns out that's Loomis's normal voice]].
* [[CompilationMovie Compilation Episodes]]: The twenty micro-episodes were later compiled into the first five episodes for airing on television.
** Fans have taken this a step further, editing all the micro-episodes into a single long movie.
*** The reverse is true, actually. Disney XD only split the first five episodes into the mini-episodes. Later airings and DVD releases have them as they were intended.
* TheComplainerIsAlwaysWrong: 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.
* CompositeCharacter: Baron Zemo is a combination of elements of his own comics counterpart (Heinrich Zemo) and his son and successor (Helmut Zemo). Similarly, the Crimson Dynamo is a villain--but wears the suit worn by Gennady Gavrilov, a hero, from the comics and, according to his bio in issue 2 of the tie-in comic, has element of the already-Composite Character of Ivan Vanko from ''[[Film/IronMan Iron Man 2]]'' (his real name and reasons for hating Iron Man stemming from something that happened between their fathers).
** Inverted with NickFury, who's actually split into two characters: Jack Fury, Nick's [[IdenticalGrandson identical grandfather]] who led the HowlingCommandos in World War 2; and Nick Fury, the 21st century super-spy who serves as the director of SHIELD. [[hottip:*: In the comics, Nick Fury was both--he actually did serve in WorldWar2, but ComicBookTime eventually forced the writers to establish that he took anti-aging drugs to explain how he was still alive six decades after the war ended.]]
*** 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, at least until the second season, where he looks more like his Ultimate incarnation.
** 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.
** The Super-Skrulls of the Skrull invasion are composite characters with the combined powers and uniform details of several super heroes (some had appeared, others had not).
* ConspicuousCG: Many examples. The most notable include the Quinjets and the Helicarrier.
* ContinuityCameo: {{Wolverine}} appears one of Cap's micro-episodes.
-->'''[[IdenticalGrandson Jack Fury]]:''' Howlett! We need recon!\\
'''Wolverine:''' I'm workin' on it, bub!
** [[WesternAnimation/TheFantasticFour HERBIE]] passes by as Hank Pym and Reed Richards study [[spoiler: Princess Ravonna]] during one of the last scenes of "The Kang Dynasty."
** On [[spoiler:Nick Fury's board of Skrull suspects]] there are several pictures of characters that never appeared on the show. These include Cyclops and Beast of the {{ComicBook/X-Men}}, the ScarletWitch, {{Magneto}}, ComicBook/CloakAndDagger, and Armadillo.
** Several of the power mash-up Super-Skrulls have the costumes and powers of a few characters that never appeared on the show, including Cyclops, Nightcrawler, Colossus, and [[TheInhumans Black Bolt]].
* ContinuityNod: When he's being deactivated and utters random information, the Supreme Intelligence mentions the first alien contact of the Kree, which was with the Skrulls... and even mentions the Cotati. The what? Some kind of FantasticFlora that lived in Hala along with the Kree, before the Kree destroyed them all (or most of them). The Cotati and the first contact of Kree and Skrull were seen at ComicBook/TheCelestialMadonnaSaga.
** Carol Danvers mentioned that, in the airforce, her codename was "Warbird". In comics, she took the name Warbird during Kurt Busiek's run, and returned to Ms. Marvel during Bendis' run.
* ConvectionSchmonvection: Hulk surviving re-entry unscratched is all well and good, but his [[MagicPants pants]] surviving is another thing.
* CurbStompBattle: Cap vs Tony in the practice boxing ring. Guess who won.
** Also Zemo taking down Grim Reaper in all of 2 seconds. Now that's skills.
** Actually happens quite a lot, with heroes and villains on both ends. One notable instance is Doctor Doom's debut, where he takes down all of the Avengers (minus Thor and Ant-Man) and the Fantastic Four without any trouble at all.
* DarkMessiah: Both The Leader and Ultron claim to be "saving" the world. The Leader actually has followers, though.
** The Skrulls do this too, with [[spoiler:the Skrull-Captain America]] filling the Dark Messiah role.
* DeadpanSnarker: The Wasp, Iron Man, Hawkeye, and Bucky.
** The Hulk occasionally manages this as well.
** As does Ant-Man. [[spoiler:Goes UpToEleven as Yellowjacket.]]
** Black Panther is a little more subtle about it, but a good portion of his few lines are surprisingly sarcastic, especially when addressing Hawkeye, whom he enjoys messing with.
** Captain America had a few individual snarky moments, but not as many as the others.
** Ms. Marvel too. Vision is really the only Avenger that's not, and even he gets one or two sarcastic lines.
** Not to mention Spider-Man, Wolverine, the Thing, Luke Cage, Mockingbird, Maria Hill... It's practically a WorldOfSnark.
* DealWithTheDevil: [[spoiler:Captain America agrees to give his soul to Hela in order to return to the land of the living and help his fellow Avengers.]]
** [[spoiler:Actually, he promised his soul only if he died in combat against Loki. We don't know if he's still bound by that promise, seeing as how he didn't die in the battle.]]
*** Had the series continued, the only way to really tell would be if anything killed him.
* DeathByOriginStory
** T'Chaka
** Bucky [[spoiler:at least, before the cosmic cube changed reality]]
** Ravonna. Not the same story, but she also gets in a "almost dead" condition at the end of her story in comic books.
* DefiantStoneThrow: The subway passengers who pelted the Serpent Society to help Cap.
* DeusExMachina: Literal example when Thor returns to Midgard (Earth) just in time to stop a Skrull invasion.
* DeusExitMachina: Invoked by the Masters of Evil, who send Hulk to Jötunheimr to fight the Jötun (Frost Giants) so he can't cause a CurbStompBattle. [[spoiler: It does keep him out the way, until Thor opens a portal to bring him back, and he stomps through covered in snow, carrying a big ice club, and ''pissed''.]]
* DieHardOnAnX: The head writer, Christopher Yost, promoted "Alone Against AIM" as, "''Film/DieHard'' at Stark Industries!"
** The first season episode "Masters of Evil" also has a plot like this.
* DiplomaticImmunity: Of a type. With Doctor Doom as lord of Latveria, he can't be directly attacked in his own country or even brought to justice by Avengers or Fantastic Four.
* DisneyDeath: [[spoiler:Thor and Black Panther]] each get one. [[KilledOffForReal Not everyone is so lucky, however]].
* DoNotAdjustYourSet: The Leader sent a message to all the world. It was seen by everybody: Nick Fury, Hydra, Pepper Pots, Henry Pym in Wakanda, the Masters of Evil, a random multitude; even Clint and Natasha in the middle of the desert (the leader hacked SHIELD's private lines as well). Of the characters introduced so far, they missed Jane Foster, the bar in the desert, perhaps Dr. Doom, Kang (his ship is cloaked somewhere up there), and a short shot at the White House would have been interesting.
** The Skrulls made a second one, to broadcast their message of conquest.
* DramaticallyMissingThePoint: 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.
* DualWielding: Some of Kang's armory includes two [[LaserBlade glowing swords]] that he wields with surprising skill, even going toe-to-toe with Captain America.
** Not too surprising, since Kang (like his thematic opposite, Captain America) is a OneManArmy. Kang (or at least his MarvelComics analog) visits other times and dimensions and devastates entire planets not ForTheEvulz but to ''perfect his art.''
** Sif and Zemo also fight with a set of paired blades.
* DVDCommentary: The final volume of Disney's [=DVDs=] has at least one commentary performed by the voice actors of Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, and Hulk, in character.
* DysfunctionJunction: The team has some issues to work out. Noted in-series by Ant Man, who acknowledges that a group of people who are essentially strangers won't initially act like a team. Later, Hawkeye rants to BlackPanther about how the other Avengers are completely unsuited for superheroics (though to be fair, a couple of his critiques are flat out wrong, and as Panther points out, he didn't say a thing about CaptainAmerica).
* EarlyBirdCameo: Crimson Dynamo, Technovore, and MODOK showed up in "Nick Fury: Agent of SHIELD".
** There are several in the Hulk micro-episode, "This Monster, This Hero", as well. Villains seen in The Cube include Bi-Beast, X-Ray, Vector, Vapor (three of the four members of the U-Foes), Abomination, The Leader, and Radioactive Man, among others; most of these returned in "Gamma World". In the earlier episode where the Hulk fought Absorbing Man, Mr. Hyde appeared when Banner was talking about the Cube. Also in the Hulk micro-episode was SHIELD agent Morse, who returned in "Widow's Sting" as Mockingbird.
** In "Meet Captain America", we meet James Howlett, [[spoiler: who most fans know as {{Wolverine}}.]]
** "Come the Conqueror" briefly shows Black Knight Dane Whitman defending London from Kang's robots.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: The series finale has the Avengers being cheered by the public for defeating [[spoiler:Galactus]], showing that people care for them again after everything that happened with the Skrulls.
* EasilyThwartedAlienInvasion: The Skrull Invasion, for all the buildup, consist of a single space ship, a few hundred Skrulls at best and a dozen or so Super-Skrulls. The loss of a single battle against the Avengers and return of Thor is all it takes before the Skrulls try to kill every one on Earth. Many of the other villains with far less resources did much better at conquering the world.
* EliteMooks: Kang's [[TerribleTrio three elite guards]] on Damocles Base gave the Avengers a run for their money, thanks to help from their boss's time-controlling powers.
** Except that it was obvious almost immediately that their only advantage was their boss's time manipulation technology, allowing them to make [[TimeStandsStill Time Stand Still]] around themselves and perform a SpeedBlitz on the Avengers. Once Hawkeye's flare arrow blinded the mooks and impaired their ability to react to their opponents, the Avengers defeated them easily.
* EmpathyDollShot: Thor finds a doll amongst the rubble in the devastated future shown in "The Man Who Stole Tomorrow"
* EnemyCivilWar: Between AIM and HYDRA in "Hail, Hydra!".
* EnemyMine: Subverted; Hawkeye adamantly refuses to work alongside Black Widow again no matter how desperate the situation.
** That was later subverted again, [[spoiler:when he actually did, although technically she wasn't a villain.]]
** This is played perfectly straight in "Acts of Vengeance" when Zemo, Abomination, Wonder Man, and Crimson Dynamo join forces with the Avengers to fight off the wrath of a vengeful Enchantress and Executioner.
** 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, 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.]]
** During the Skrull invasion, [[spoiler:Doctor Doom gives Tony a piece of tech that can help detect and reveal Skrulls. However, he finds it beneath him to actually join the Avengers in battle, and prefers to let them do all the dirty work.]]
* EndOfSeriesAwareness: "Avengers Assemble" begins with Tony asking Steve if he ever wonders how the Avengers will go down in history, prompting this exchange:
-->'''Steve:''' This is only the second time I've heard you use the word, "history."
-->'''Tony:''' That's because I've never been able to imagine a world without me in it...until recently.
** Also, the last line said in the episode (and the show) before the fade to the show's logo.
-->'''Captain America:''' You wanted to know how history will remember the Avengers, Iron Man? Well, here's your answer.
* EnhancedOnDVD: When "Masters of Evil" first aired, the final scene looked so dark, the viewers [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Loki_EMH_14_iTunes_807.png couldn't see Loki's face]]. This scene became [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Loki_EMH_14_Netflix_3429.png brightened]] in the version shown on Netflix. The producer confirmed [[http://www.toonzone.net/forums/showthread.php?284912-quot-The-Avengers-Earth-s-Mightiest-Heroes-quot-News-amp-Discussion-Thread-Part-5-(Spoilers)&p=3886170#post3886170 here]] that the broadcast version obscured Loki because of post-production and video transferring errors, not because of a stylistic choice.
** The difference becomes more visible when viewing the monitor from a certain angle.
* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: Or rather worse. Several villains are apes or have ape-like powers/motifs; Man-Ape, Mandrill, and Red Ghost's Super-Apes.
-->'''Thor:''' "Tis surprising how many monkeys we face in battle."
* EvilGloating: When Sue Storm and Wasp get kidnapped, Wasp tries to piss off their captor by talking crap at him. Unfortunately, her captor's DoctorDoom, so it doesn't work.
-->'''Doctor Doom''': "Miss Van Dyne, I am not some common criminal that can be distracted by your prattling. You are nothing to Doom, and your pathetic attempts to play mind games with me amount to exactly less than nothing. So please, stop embarrassing yourself."
* EvilVersusEvil: The Kree-Skrull conflict, wherein whoever wins, humanity loses. Both of the sides are known for conducting painful medical experimentation on those they capture and go around the galaxy wiping out or enslaving other planets/species. The Kree are supposed to be the "good guys", given their [[ItsAllAboutMe self-designated]] role of [[HumanityOnTrial judging other species]], and it helps that two heroes featured in the show are Kree. Conversely, while the Skrull are supposed to be the "evil" side (and are more malicious in behavior), they have a sympathetic backstory (Galactus ate their home planet), and favor enslaving humanity whereas the Kree favor exterminating it.
* EvolvingCredits: The team shot at the end of the opening titles varies depending on the size of the team at the episode's start.
** Additionally, the ''Earth's Mightiest Heroes'' logo at the intro's close originally had an empty circle underneath it. During the second half of the first season, the circle became replaced by a variant of the MarvelCinematicUniverse's "Avengers Assemble" emblem.
* ExposedToTheElements: Hulk has no need for such things as spacesuits. Give him an oxygen mask and he's just fine in his [[MagicPants stretch pants]].
* EyeScream: When Balder the Brave rams his sword into a Frost Giant's eye. Black Panther does something similar in "A Day Unlike Any Other", except with his claws.
** And later, [[spoiler: Loki's FateWorseThanDeath]].
* {{Eyedscreen}}: Used when we first see Tony putting on the Iron Man armor. Again in "Gamma World" when Bruce says they're going to The Leader "the direct route".
