History YMMV / TheAvengersUnitedTheyStand

** [[Characters/MarvelComicsUltron Ultron]] is a rogue A.I. obsessed with nothing less than the total extermination of not just the Avengers, but [[KillAllHumans all of humanity]]. After building the android Vision, Ultron first has him attack the envoy of the President of the United States, nearly killing both the President and his agents, then organizes the attempted mass shooting dozens of innocent people, children included. In another instance, after Vision has gained sapience and betrayed his evil ways, Ultron [[HostageSituation holds the comatose Wonder Man hostage]] to try to force the Avengers to destroy Vision's capacity for emotion and turn him back into his slave, after which Ultron tries to kill them all. In his crowing moment of villainy, after failing to [[NukeEm bombard the Earth with nuclear missiles]], Ultron attempts to spread a technovirus across the planet, then watch as every machine on Earth comes alive and wipes out every human they see, paving the way for Ultron's mechanical tyranny to begin.
** [[DiabolicalMastermind Cornelius van Lunt]], better known as [[OurMinotaursAreDifferent Taurus]], the merciless leader of [[TheOmniscientCouncilOfVagueness Zodiac]], first establishes his ruthlessness by ordering a minion cut apart into twelve pieces [[YouHaveFailedMe for his failure]]. A monstrous mastermind with a plan that involves splitting the Earth itself apart for the sake of power, through the course of the series Taurus regularly endangers millions of lives, from bombarding Earth with falling satellites and nuclear missiles, to having entire villages and towns wiped off the map by natural disasters, all of which he sees as mere collateral to his EvilPlan.

** [[DiabolicalMastermind Cornelius van Lunt]], better known as [[OurMinotaursAreDifferent Taurus]], the merciless leader of [[TheOmniscientCouncilOfVagueness Zodiac]], first establishes his ruthlessness by ordering a minion cut apart into twelve pieces [[YouHaveFailedMe for his failure]]. A monstrous mastermind with a plan that involves splitting the Earth itself apart for the sake of power, through the course of the series Taurus regularly endangers millions of lives, from bombarding Earth with falling satellites and nuclear missiles, to having entire villages and towns wiped off the map by natural disasters, all of which he sees as mere collateral to his EvilPlan.

** "Kang": [[Characters/KangTheConqueror Kang himself]], the titular [[GalacticConqueror Conqueror]], is accidentally freed from his temporal prison after having [[ConquerorFromTheFuture conquered the 31st century]]. Having destroyed the Avengers of his time, Kang's takeover of Earth killed millions and reduced billions more to Kang's slaves. Intending to resume his takeover of all space-time, starting backward from the 31st century to conquer epoch and waste countless more lives, Kang even [[RapidAging ages all of New York]] to the point of near-oblivion just as a display of his power.

** [[AIIsACrapshoot Ultron]] is a rogue A.I. obsessed with nothing less than the total extermination of not just the Avengers, but [[KillAllHumans all of humanity]]. After building the android Vision, Ultron first has him attack the envoy of the President of the United States, nearly killing both the President and his agents, then organizes the attempted mass shooting dozens of innocent people, children included. In another instance, after Vision has gained sapience and betrayed his evil ways, Ultron [[HostageSituation holds the comatose Wonder Man hostage]] to try to force the Avengers to destroy Vision's capacity for emotion and turn him back into his slave, after which Ultron tries to kill them all. In his crowing moment of villainy, after failing to [[NukeEm bombard the Earth with nuclear missiles]], Ultron attempts to spread a technovirus across the planet, then watch as every machine on Earth comes alive and wipes out every human they see, paving the way for Ultron's mechanical tyranny to begin.

* CompleteMonster (issue #2 ("Hail and Farewell")): [[DiabolicalMastermind Baron Wolfgang von Strucker]], the withered old monster running ComicBook/{{Hydra}}, plans to eradicate all humanity save for those in Hydra to make way for his ideal race of "[[MasterRace homo hydra]]" in its place. Strucker is a megalomaniacal SocialDarwinist who applies his insane standards of perfection [[BadBoss even on his own men]], killing a defector with his Satan Claw and deliberately inviting the Avengers into his base to weed out any Hydra mooks too weak to make it in his new world.

* OlderThanTheyThink: In what is probably the show's greatest lasting contribution, it was the first time Ant-Man and Wasp were depicting wearing full-face insectoid helmets, a look which would later make its way to the ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'', and, as a result, nearly [[LostInImitation every subsequent adaptation of the characters.]]

** "Kang": The [[GalacticConqueror eponymous Conqueror]] is accidentally freed from his temporal prison after having [[ConquerorFromTheFuture conquered the 31st century]]. Having destroyed the Avengers of his time, Kang's takeover of Earth killed millions and reduced billions more to Kang's slaves. Intending to resume his takeover of all space-time, starting backward from the 31st century to conquer epoch and waste countless more lives, Kang even [[RapidAging ages all of New York]] to the point of near-oblivion just as a display of his power.
** [[DiabolicalMastermind Cornelius van Lunt]], better known as Taurus, the merciless leader of [[TheOmniscientCouncilOfVagueness Zodiac]], first establishes his ruthlessness by ordering a minion cut apart into twelve pieces [[YouHaveFailedMe for his failure]]. A monstrous mastermind with a plan that involves splitting the Earth itself apart for the sake of power, through the course of the series Taurus regularly endangers millions of lives, from bombarding Earth with falling satellites and nuclear missiles, to having entire villages and towns wiped off the map by natural disasters, all of which he sees as mere collateral to his EvilPlan.

** [[DiabolicalMastermind Cornelius van Lunt]], better known as [[ALoadOfBull Taurus]], the merciless leader of [[TheOmniscientCouncilOfVagueness Zodiac]], first establishes his ruthlessness by ordering a minion cut apart into twelve pieces [[YouHaveFailedMe for his failure]]. A monstrous mastermind with a plan that involves splitting the Earth itself apart for the sake of power, through the course of the series Taurus regularly endangers millions of lives, from bombarding Earth with falling satellites and nuclear missiles, to having entire villages and towns wiped off the map by natural disasters, all of which he sees as mere collateral to his EvilPlan.

** "Kang": The [[GalacticConqueror eponymous Conqueror]] is accidentally freed from his temporal prison after having conquered the 31st century. Having destroyed the Avengers of his time, Kang's takeover of Earth killed millions and reduced billions more to Kang's slaves. Intending to resume his takeover of all space-time, starting backward from the 31st century to conquer epoch and waste countless more lives, Kang even [[RapidAging ages all of New York]] to the point of near-oblivion just as a display of his power.

* CompleteMonster: [[AIIsACrapshoot Ultron]] is a rogue A.I. obsessed with nothing less than the total extermination of not just the Avengers, but [[KillAllHumans all of humanity]]. After building the android Vision, Ultron first has him attack the envoy of the President of the United States, nearly killing both the President and his agents, then organizes the attempted mass shooting dozens of innocent people, children included. In another instance, after Vision has gained sapience and betrayed his evil ways, Ultron [[HostageSituation holds the comatose Wonder Man hostage]] to try to force the Avengers to destroy Vision's capacity for emotion and turn him back into his slave, after which Ultron tries to kill them all. In his crowing moment of villainy, after failing to [[NukeEm bombard the Earth with nuclear missiles]], Ultron attempts to spread a technovirus across the planet, then watch as every machine on Earth comes alive and wipes out every human they see, paving the way for Ultron's mechanical tyranny to begin.

* CompleteMonster: ComicBook/{{Ultron}} is a [[AIIsACrapshoot rogue A.I.]] obsessed with nothing less than the total extermination of not just the Avengers, but [[KillAllHumans all of humanity]]. After building ComicBook/TheVision, Ultron first has him attack the envoy of the President of the United States, nearly killing both the President and his agents, then organizes the attempted mass shooting dozens of innocent people, children included. In another instance, after Vision has gained sapience and betrayed his evil ways, Ultron holds the comatose Wonder Man hostage to try to force the Avengers to destroy Vision's capacity for emotion and turn him back into his slave, after which Ultron tries to kill them all. In his crowing moment of villainy, after failing to [[NukeEm bombard the Earth with nuclear missiles]], Ultron attempts to spread a technovirus across the planet, then watch as every machine on Earth comes alive and wipes out every human they see, paving the way for Ultron's mechanical tyranny to begin.

* HoYay: To a pretty significant degree between Hawkeye and Wonder Man, their interactions can be seen as indicating that they are more than friends.

* OlderThanTheyThink: In what is probably the show's greatest lasting contribution, it was the first time Ant-Man and Wasp were depicting wearing full-face insectoid helmets, a look which would later make its way to the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse, and, as a result, nearly [[LostInImitation every subsequent adaptation of the characters.]]
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot:
** Hawkeye in this version is more of a loose cannon and prone to leaving the team, and there's WesternZodiac villains this time, but they never try to recruit Hawkeye to be Sagittarius.
** Also criticized was the fact that the ''Big 3'' of the lineup were absent (again, due to legal snafus regarding planned films; in Cap's case, he was also supposed to have gotten his own series just before this, but Marvel's bankruptcy put the kibosh on that); and yet, they could have followed up the brief Avengers cameos in ''WesternAnimation/FantasticFour'', or have the Hulk from [[WesternAnimation/TheIncredibleHulk1996 his UPN series]] appear, etc. etc. Instead, they turned it into a mishmash of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'' (what with the vaguely futuristic setting) and ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' (with the whole armor dealies that half the team wore). Again, Marvel's bankruptcy might've had something to do with this (the armor was likely for then-Marvel subsidiary Toy Biz's line of figures for the show).

* {{Narm}}:
** Pretty much every line in the show.
** Tigra making random tiger sounds every time she so much as jumped or crawled.
** Vision apparently recharges by sunlight, so one episode has him with that folding suntanning shield and shades. [[{{Trolling}} Though there's some hint that Hawkeye put him up to it.]]

* HilariousInHindsight:
** Hawkeye is the resident BadassNormal with an unnecessarily gruff voice. [[Film/TheDarkKnightTrilogy Sounds like a cool idea.]]
** Sam Wilson[=/=]The Falcon is actually called 'Uncle Sam' by his nephew in the first episode. Guess who would take the mantle of [[ComicBook/CaptainAmerica a different patriotic symbol]] later on?
** Hank Pym yelling in anguish that he built Ultron [[Film/RevengeOfTheSith "to serve humanity, not destroy it!"]]
** There's WesternZodiac-based villains, and [[Series/KamenRiderFourze Virgo is the one with teleporting ability.]]

* CompleteMonster: ComicBook/{{Ultron}} is a [[AIIsACrapshoot rogue A.I.]] obsessed with nothing less than the total extermination of not just the Avengers, but [[KillAllHumans all of humanity]]. After building ComicBook/TheVision, Ultron first has him attack the envoy of the President of the United States, nearly killing both the President and his agents, then organizes the attempted mass shooting dozens of innocent people, children included. In another instance, after Vision has gained sentience and betrayed his evil ways, Ultron holds the comatose Wonder Man hostage to try to force the Avengers to destroy Vision's capacity for emotion and turn him back into his slave, after which Ultron tries to kill them all. In his crowing moment of villainy, after failing to [[NukeEm bombard the Earth with nuclear missiles]], Ultron attempts to spread a technovirus across the planet, then watch as every machine on Earth comes alive and wipes out every human they see, paving the way for Ultron's mechanical tyranny to begin.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Hawkeye in this version is more of a loose cannon and prone to leaving the team, and there's WesternZodiac villains this time, but they never try to recruit Hawkeye to be Sagittarius.

* OlderThanTheyThink: In what is probably the show's greatest lasting contribution, it was the first time Ant-Man and Wasp were depicting wearing full-face insectoid helmets, a look which would later make its way to the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse, and, as a result, nearly [[AudienceColoringAdaptation every subsequent adaptation of the characters.]]

** Also criticized was the fact that the ''Big 3'' of the lineup were absent (again, due to legal snafus regarding planned films; in Cap's case, he was also supposed to have gotten his own series just before this, but Marvel's bankruptcy put the kibosh on that); and yet, they could have followed up the brief Avengers cameos in ''WesternAnimation/FantasticFour'', or have the Hulk from [[WesternAnimation/TheIncredibleHulk his UPN series]] appear, etc. etc. Instead, they turned it into a mishmash of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'' (what with the vaguely futuristic setting) and ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' (with the whole armor dealies that half the team wore). Again, Marvel's bankruptcy might've had something to do with this (the armor was likely for then-Marvel subsidiary Toy Biz's line of figures for the show).

* CompleteMonster: ComicBook/{{Ultron}} is a [[AIIsACrapshoot rogue A.I.]] obsessed with nothing less than the total extermination of not just the Avengers, but [[KillAllHumans all of humanity]]. After building the android ComicBook/{{Vision}}, Ultron first has him attack the envoy of the President of the United States, nearly killing both the President and his agents, then organizes the attempted mass shooting dozens of innocent people, children included. In another instance, after Vision has gained sentience and betrayed his evil ways, Ultron holds the comatose Wonder Man hostage to try to force the Avengers to destroy Vision's capacity for emotion and turn him back into his slave, after which Ultron tries to kill them all. In his crowing moment of villainy, after failing to [[NukeEm bombard the Earth with nuclear missiles]], Ultron attempts to spread a technovirus across the planet, then watch as every machine on Earth comes alive and wipes out every human they see, paving the way for Ultron's mechanical tyranny to begin.

** Hawkeye is the resident BadassNormal with an unnecessarily gruff voice. [[Film/TheDarkKnightSaga Sounds like a cool idea.]]

** Also criticized was the fact that the ''Big 3'' of the lineup were absent (again, due to legal snafus regarding planned films; in Cap's case, he was also supposed to have gotten his own series just before this, but Marvel's bankruptcy put the kibosh on that); and yet, they could have followed up the brief Avengers cameos in ''WesternAnimation/FantasticFour'', or have the Hulk from [[WesternAnimation/TheIncredibleHulk his UPN series]] appear, etc. etc. Instead, they turned it into a mishmash of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'' (what with the vaguely futuristic setting) and ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' (with the whole armor dealies that half the team wore). Again, Marvel's bankruptcy might've had something to do with this (the armor was likely for then-Marvel subsidiary Toy Biz's line of figures for the show.

** Also criticized was the fact that the ''Big 3'' of the lineup were absent (again, due to legal snafus regarding planned films; in Cap's case, he was also supposed to have gotten his own series just before this, but Marvel's bankruptcy put the kibosh on that); and yet, they could have followed up the brief Avengers cameos in ''WesternAnimation/FantasticFour'', or have the Hulk from [[WesternAnimation/TheIncredibleHulk his UPN series]] appear, etc. etc. Instead, they turned it into a mishmash of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'' (what with the vaguely futuristic setting) and ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' (with the whole armor dealies that half the team wore). Again, Marvel's bankruptcy might've had something to do with this (the armor was likely for then-Marvel subsidiary Toy Biz's line of figures for the show), but still, this show was just a trainwreck.