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* [[BigWhat Big "WHO?!"]]: '''Captain America:''' ''So, when will I meet the Avenger that saved me from Zemo? The one in the black catsuit''.

** In "Meet Captain America", we meet James Howlett, [[spoiler:who most fans know as {{Wolverine}}.]]

* AdaptationDistillation: ''The Avengers: EMH'' takes a large amount of elements from most of the "greatest hits" of the Avengers franchise and the mainstream Marvel Universe as a whole. The line-up is original lineup from ComicBook/TheAvengersLeeAndKirby, "Breakout" derives from the initial story-arc from ''ComicBook/NewAvengers'', ComicBook/IronMan and [[ComicBook/IncredibleHulk The Hulk]] are partly based on their [[Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse MCU incarnations]], as are some of their villains, etc. Captain Marvel, [[spoiler:Skrull Captain America's costume]], and Nick Fury in the second season are taken from the ComicBook/UltimateMarvel universe. Many episodes were adaptions of specific comic book storylines, such as ComicBook/TheKangDynasty or the ComicBook/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.

** 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.

** ComicBook/NickFury is split into two characters: Jack Fury, Nick's [[IdenticalGrandson identical grandfather]] who led the ComicBook/HowlingCommandos in World War 2; and Nick Fury, the 21st century super-spy who serves as the director of S.H.I.E.L.D. [[note]] In the comics, Nick Fury was both--he actually did serve in UsefulNotes/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.[[/note]]

* AbsenteeActor: With a ten-man ensemble cast, this happens often. In a strange case, Thor was missing from the Black Panther's introduction episode; the closest thing we got to an explanation in the episode itself is that Iron Man didn't know where he was, either. "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 in the second season 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 the second season, 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.

* 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.

* AdaptationDistillation: ''The Avengers: EMH'' takes a large amount of elements from most of the "greatest hits" of the Avengers franchise and the mainstream Marvel Universe as a whole. The line-up is original lineup from ComicBook/TheAvengersLeeAndKirby, "Breakout" derives from the initial story-arc from ''ComicBook/NewAvengers'', ComicBook/IronMan and [[ComicBook/IncredibleHulk The Hulk]] are partly based on their [[Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse MCU incarnations]], as are some of their villains, etc. Captain Marvel, [[spoiler:Skrull Captain America's costume]], and Nick Fury in the second season are taken from the ComicBook/UltimateMarvel universe. Many episodes were adaptions of specific comic book storylines, such as ComicBook/TheKangWar or the ComicBook/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.

* AdaptationDistillation: ''The Avengers: EMH'' takes a large amount of elements from most of the "greatest hits" of the Avengers franchise and the mainstream Marvel Universe as a whole. The line-up is the one of the ComicBook/FirstAvengersTeam by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, "Breakout" derives from the initial story-arc from ''ComicBook/NewAvengers'', ComicBook/IronMan and [[ComicBook/IncredibleHulk The Hulk]] are partly based on their [[Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse MCU incarnations]], as are some of their villains, etc. Captain Marvel, [[spoiler:Skrull Captain America's costume]], and Nick Fury in the second season are taken from the ComicBook/UltimateMarvel universe. Many episodes were adaptions of specific comic book storylines, such as ComicBook/TheKangWar or the ComicBook/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.

* 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."

* 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).

** The Abomination has the head and coloring of his classic self, the general body of Rick Jones as A-Bomb, and his background as a British soldier from [[Film/TheIncredibleHulk2008 his film incarnation]].

** The Abomination has the head and coloring of his classic self, the general body of Rick Jones as A-Bomb, and his background as a British soldier from [[Film/TheIncredibleHulk his film incarnation]].

* BerserkButton: MODOK is a bit touchy when someone starts making fun of his big giant head...which Thor and Wasp [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments do continuously when they first see him]].

** Madame Viper was a major character in Skrull Saga, with hints of a DarkAndTroubledPast[[note]] it is implied that something horrible happened to her in the past, which gave her scars on her face and the reason to hate people like Captain America[[/note]], and FoeYay between her and Captain America. Yet none of this is brought up ever again, with Cap and Viper becoming enemies in "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 "Yellowjacket", with no mention of her and is never seen or heard again.

** As does Ant-Man. [[spoiler:Goes UpToEleven as Yellowjacket.]]

* ExtranormalPrison:
** The Big House, 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.

** Maria Hill's efforts to start a SuperRegistrationAct and leading the heroes toward Civil War haven't come up since episode 28.

** Madame Viper was major character in Skrull Saga, with the hints of DarkAndTroubledPast[[note]] 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[[/note]], and FoeYay between her and Captain America. Yet none of this is brought up ever again, with Cap and Viper becoming enemies in "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.

** The other plot threads that were never fully resolved thanks to the cancellation of the show include Captain America's arrangement with Hela, Hulk's eventual return to the team, capturing the last of the breakout villains, Stark industries's woes, and Ronan the Accuser escaping custody.
* 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. "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 romance between Hawkeye and Widow was never even acknowledged after [[spoiler:she was revealed as the ReverseMole]].

** [[TheBaroness Viper]], [[TheMole the Black]] [[ReverseMole Widow]] and [[InTheHood Grim]] [[PsychoForHire Reaper]] for [[PuttingOnTheReich Baron Strucker]].

* ActuallyADoombot: [[spoiler:A Furybot actually. And a Maria Hill bot.]]

* AdaptationalVillainy: ComicBook/TheFalcon and Doc Samson seem like this, [[spoiler:though they later turn out to be BrainwashedAndCrazy]].

* AIIsACrapShoot: Ultron, [[SarcasmMode to the surprise of everyone.]]

* 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.]]

* 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.]]

* AvengersAssemble: As expected. Aided in this iteration by high-tech video key cards, courtesy of Stark Industries.

* ConspicuousCG: Many examples. The most notable include the Quinjets and the Helicarrier.

* 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]]

* 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.]]

* AdaptationalEarlyAppearance: This adaptation has a significant amount of cases for this trope.

** Comicbook/{{Ultron}} originally debuted in ''The Avengers'' #54, where he was created by Hank Pym, who had long since retired his original Comicbook/AntMan identity in favor of the name Goliath. ''The Avengers: EMH'' instead introduces Ultron in the fourth episode, where he is the creation of a less-experienced Hank Pym who is still using the Ant-Man name. Ultron goes on to serve as a minor recurring character before finally becoming a major villain in the the twenty-third episode.
** [[Comicbook/MsMarvel Carol Danvers/Ms.Marvel]] becomes an Avenger early in the second season, despite not joining the team until issue #183 in the comics.

** Comicbook/SpiderMan, Comicbook/{{Wolverine}}, Comicbook/LukeCage and Comicbook/IronFist all join the Comicbook/NewAvengers in the second season, even though they weren't formed until many years after the debut of the original team in the comics. [[Comicbook/FantasticFour The Thing]] and Comicbook/WarMachine, both of whom joined the West Coast Avengers in TheEighties, are also part of the adaptation's version of the New Avengers.
* AdaptationalVillainy: ComicBook/TheFalcon and Doc Samson seem like this, [[spoiler:though they later turn out to be BrainwashedAndCrazy]]. ComicBook/WonderMan however plays this trope straight, as he never repents or joins the Avengers as he did in the comics and this version of Loki are Far Worse then His Canon Comic Book Counterpart.
* AdaptationDistillation: ''The Avengers: EMH'' takes a large amount of elements from most of the "greatest hits" of the Avengers franchise and the mainstream Marvel Universe as a whole. The line-up is the one of the ComicBook/FirstAvengersTeam by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, "Breakout" derives from the initial story-arc from ''ComicBook/NewAvengers'', ComicBook/IronMan and [[ComicBook/IncredibleHulk The Hulk]] are based partly on their [[Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse MCU incarnations]], as are some of their villains, etc. Captain Marvel, [[spoiler:Skrull Captain America's costume]], and Nick Fury in the second season are taken from the ComicBook/UltimateMarvel universe. Many episodes were adaptions of specific comic book storylines, such as ComicBook/TheKangWar or the ComicBook/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.

* AdaptationalVillainy: ComicBook/TheFalcon and Doc Samson seem like this, [[spoiler:though they later turn out to be BrainwashedAndCrazy]]. ComicBook/WonderMan however plays this trope straight, as he never repents or joins the Avengers as he did in the comics.

* ContinuityCavalcade: Anytime someone holds up a newspaper, there's at least two references to other Marvel properties, from Franchise/XMen to ComicBook/FantasticFour to ThePunisher

* AnachronismStew: Sort of, as the series depicts the [[UsefulNotes/NewYorkCityCops NYPD]] in 1960s-1970s style uniforms with 1970s-1990s paints jobs (blue with white accents) on the police cars despite otherwise modern items being around.

* AnachronismStew: Sort of, as the series depicts the [[UsefulNotes/NewYorkCityCops NYPD]] is 1960s-1970s style uniforms with 1970s-1990s paints jobs (blue with white accents) on the police cars despite otherwise modern items being around.

* AnachronismStew: Sort of, as the series depicts the [[UsefulNotes/NewYorkCityCops NYPD]] is 1960s-1970s style uniforms despite otherwise modern items being around.

--->'''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.

* BrickJoke: Happens to Hawkeye in the season 1 finale. Hawkeye innocuously punches a random inmate in "Breakout, Part 1." At the end of the season, the man, Chemistro, still has a grudge against him for it and attacks him while Hawkeye's separated from the group.

** 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.