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'''Marvel Disk Wars: The Avengers''', is a {{Shonen}} {{superhero}} {{anime}} series created as a collaboration between Creator/ToeiAnimation (makers of the venerable ''Anime/SailorMoon'', ''Anime/PrettyCure'', ''Franchise/OnePiece'', and ''Franchise/DragonBall'' [[CashCowFranchise Cash Cow Franchises]]), Creator/{{Disney}}, and Creator/MarvelComics.

Based off Marvel's popular ''[[Franchise/TheAvengers Avengers]]'' franchise, the series sees ComicBook/CaptainAmerica, Comicbook/IronMan, Franchise/SpiderMan, ComicBook/IncredibleHulk, [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Thor]], and ComicBook/TheWasp teaming up with a group of teens to track down the world's superheroes, who have been locked away in special [=DISK=]s by Comicbook/{{Loki}}.

The series is the third collaboration between Marvel and the Creator/ToeiCompany after their ''[[Series/SpiderManJapan Spider-Man]]'' {{Tokusatsu}} series and ''Comicbook/TheTombOfDracula'' MadeForTVMovie. It is also Marvel's third anime collaboration after the above-mentioned ''Dracula'' film and the ''MarvelAnime'' project done with Creator/{{Madhouse}}. Additionally, it is the fourth Avengers AnimatedAdaptation after ''WesternAnimation/TheAvengersUnitedTheyStand'', ''WesternAnimation/TheAvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes'', and ''WesternAnimation/AvengersAssemble''.

The story begins when Tony Stark is revealing a new technology called [=DISK=]s to the public. The technology is meant to make the holding and rehabilitation of supervillains safer and easier. Most of the world's most famous superheroes are present. Meanwhile, a boy from Japan named Akira and his brother go to visit their father, who has been away from home working on the technology, and a group of teenagers get lost at the event.

Loki quickly crashes the party and manages to get the upper hand when he takes Pepper Potts hostage. He promptly steals the disks for himself and imprisons almost all of the heroes present, hoping to use the Disk technology to force them to work for him. However, to command the disks, one has to have a "bio code" installed in them, and an odd chain of events leads to Akira and the others receiving the bio codes instead of Loki. Now, with Spider-Man being just about the only superhero left completely free and Iron Man only able to function with Akira's help, its up to the kids to find the rest of the heroes in the world until they can be freed.
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!! ''Marvel Disk Wars: The Avengers'' provides examples of the following tropes:

* AdaptationDistillation: The show takes elements from the original, as well as the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse.
* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Wolverine is a fair bit more youthful-looking here than in the original universe, and has none of the excessive body-hair the man is known for.
* AgeLift: Tony Stark looks a bit younger then in most adaptations (at least, in adaptations where he ''isn't'' [[WesternAnimation/IronManArmoredAdventures supposed to be a teenager]]). For example, his facial hair is limited to a tuft on his chin. This was probably done to make him not appear so much older than the Shounen Hero lead, Akira.
* AndIMustScream: Averted. The heroes and villains don't show much concern over being trapped in [=DISK=]s. They'd very much like to get ''out'' of them, but they're a lot better off than people who usually tend to get trapped in these kinds of things.
* AnimeHair: The show's version of Iron Fist notably sports this.
* AscendedFanboy: Edward is a big fan of superheroes, and his favorite is Captain America. He even runs a web-site dedicated to them. Of course, he ends up partnered with The Hulk.
* BaldBlackLeaderGuy: ComicBook/NickFury, the head of SHIELD.
* BewareTheSillyOnes: Joel, who acts like a stereotypical RockStar. He also sat back and watched with a gleeful grin as Abomination stalked and quite possibly killed a SHIELD agent meant to watch over Chris
* BigBrotherMentor: To the five kids, Spider-Man.
* BigEater: Such a concept is no stranger to The Hulk, as seen in the first episode where's he's eating an armful of fruit at Tony Stark's party.
* TheCameo: [[Series/AgentsOfSHIELD Agent Coulson]] appeared as a ComicBook/{{SHIELD}} agent that happens to be entertaining the people who won a tour of The Raft through a Stark Industries contest in the first episode.
* CallingYourAttacks: Used here, with such notable examples being Wasp's "Wasp Sting" and Cyclops' "Optic Blast!"
* CanonForeigner: The Avengers five teenaged partners, Loki's minions, the Celebrity Five, and Senator Robert, a member of the World Security Council [[spoiler: and Loki's secret identity]].
* ComicBookFantasyCasting: ComicBook/{{Hawkeye}} looks just like a blonde Creator/JeremyRenner.
* DescriptionCut: Used in a dramatic fashion in the second episode, when Captain America defiantly states that those who "believe in justice" and "walk the path of righteousness" will stand against Loki...while cutting to Chris, who is alone and on the verge of walking away from the effort to help save the heroes.
* EvilGenius: One of Loki's minions, Tim Gillian, refers to himself this way.
* FantasticRacism: Mutants are once again hated and feared, but in an interesting bit of GenreSavvy, the kids just don't get why they get all of the hate while people like Thor, Wasp, Iron Man and Spider-Man wander around and are considered heroes.
* FiveBadBand: The "Celebrity Five", the masked minions who work for Loki. Each of them serve as an EvilCounterpart to the kids, and specialize in summoning a specific class of villain. They also all have day jobs that their work as evildoers conflicts with.
* FriendToAllChildren: Wasp makes a suggestion to Hulk that she thinks might make him more approachable to kids. Hulk actually is keen on the idea until Wasp herself spelled it out for him that she was just kidding.
* FiveEpisodePilot: The first StoryArc, detailing the Raft breakout, lasted three episodes. Additionally, it takes six episodes to bring the team itself together.
* FunWithAcronyms: According to Tony in the first episode, "[=DISK=]" is actually an abbreviation for "Digital Identity Securement Kit".
* GenderFlip: This show's version of Death Adder from the Serpent Society is a woman, like in the Ultimate Marvel incarnation, rather than a man in the main Marvel Universe.
* GratuitousEnglish: There's quiet a bit of it in this series. For example, Tony Stark, as voiced by Hanawa Eiji, gratuitously uttered "ladies and gentlemen!" in the 1st episode. All examples of CallingYourAttacks are an example of this.
* GottaCatchThemAll: The plot involves the Avengers and their partners traveling the globe to rescue the captured superheroes and villains after they get scattered throughout the world.
* HeadphonesEqualIsolation: Chris has a pair of big ol' headphones around his neck to go with his skull-and-crossbones nit cap to help reinforce his aloof nature.
* HotScoop: Rosetta Riley, of the suspiciously specifically named "Big News Channel". She's actually one of Loki's minions.
* HourOfPower: The biocodes installed in Akira and the other children are incomplete, and as a result, the heroes they are partnered with can only be released for a few minutes at a time. Once their Activity Time Limit runs out, they return to their [=DISK=]s and cannot be released again until the children recover. Since the heroes first becoming partnered to the children, Tony and Pepper have discovered that said time limit has steadily begun to increase.
* IHaveYourWife: Loki and his allies force the heroes to submit to being sealed inside [=DISK=]s by holding Pepper Potts hostage.
* InternationalCoProduction: Between Marvel and Toei Animation, with Bandai as a partner developing the toyline.
* InTheNameOfTheMoon: This being an anime, all of the heroes have one after being released from their [=DISK=]s via D-Smash:
-->Iron Man: "It's party time!"
-->Thor: "In the name of Mjolnir!"
-->Captain America: "Soldiers! March on without fear!"
-->Hulk: "SMASH!!" (or he just roars).
-->Wasp: "Together! We will shoot down evil!"
* KickTheDog: The Wrecker wastes no time in beating the stuffing out of Tony once he's been forced to surrender.
* KidAppealCharacter: The kids themselves, as they're closer to the target age group than the heroes themselves.
** Spider-Man also serves as this, what with his being notably younger than the other heroes and the only one not trapped in a [=DISK=] or partnered up with anyone.
** We've seen plenty of the Hulk, but nothing of Bruce Banner. Naturally, the youngest of the kids, Edward, gets paired up with the Hulk.
* KneelBeforeZod: This is Loki's first command to Thor once the heroes are forced to surrender. Loki even mentioned that IAlwaysWantedToSayThat.
* LawOfChromaticSuperiority: Akira is the main character and Iron Man's partner. In true anime hero fashion, Akira's clothes and Iron Man's armor are both red.
* LighterAndSofter: Than Marvel's [[Anime/MarvelAnime previous anime collaborations]], which were aimed at the {{Seinen}} demographic.
* MagicFromTechnology: Loki's minions say the villain Diablo is controlling the Hulk through magic, but Diablo corrects them, telling them he does it through Alchemy.
** Tim notably states that he wants to unlock all the secrets of magic by recreating them through technology.
* MalevolentMaskedMan: Loki's minions all wear masks to hide their true identities. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] by the fact that they all have rather prominent jobs.
* MassOhCrap: The heroes and the kids alike get a huge one in Episode 22. They're fighting against Loki [[spoiler: who's drawing power from all of the [=DISK=]s he and his minions have acquired.]] In mid-battle, their Activity Time Limit runs out, and the heroes start returning to their [=DISK=]s.
* MerchandiseDriven: The show was launched with a tie-in toyline centered around Bandai's POG-like [=DISK=]-based Bachicombat game, and all then disks used in the show are based on the ones in the toyline. Additionally, the transformable disks in the toyline appear in the second version of the show's ending animation.
* MilesGloriosus: Such a concept is no stranger to Tony Stark, a.k.a. Iron Man. [[CloserToEarth Pepper Potts is of course embarrassed by it]], but Akira takes the flash and flair with awe.
* TheMole: One of Loki's minions, Tim Gillian, is a SHIELD scientist aboard the Hellicarrier, and is thus able to keep Fury and the rest of SHIELD from intervening to stop Loki's plans in the second episode.
** Likewise, the seemingly benign reporter Rosetta Riley is actually a member of Loki's gang.
* MoleInCharge: [[spoiler:Senator Robert of the World Security Council takes over SHIELD and arrests Nick Fury on the grounds of collaborating with the villains, but Robert is actually Loki in disguise.]]
* MyGreatestFailure: Cap still isn't over Bucky's death, and it's affecting how he treats Chris.
* MythologyGag:
** Akira wears a red hoodie with the number "1962" on it. 1962 was the year Spider-Man debuted in ''Amazing Fantasy''.
** The lineup of heroes are the founding members of the Avengers, save for Captain America replacing ComicBook/AntMan.
** The kids wielding Captain America and the Hulk's Disks are named Chris and Ed as a nod to Creator/ChrisEvans and Creator/EdwardNorton, the actors who played Cap and Hulk in the two [[Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger Captain America]] [[Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier movies]] and ''Film/TheIncredibleHulk'', respectively.
** The First Episode is named "[[WesternAnimation/AvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes The Mightiest of Heroes]]".
** Dummy, Tony Stark's bumbling mechanical arm assistant, makes several cameos in the series.
** One of the things Loki tell a brainwash hulk is that his friends plan to [[ComicBook/PlanetHulk send him to a desolate planet]].
* OptOut: [[spoiler:Chris does this in episode 19. He leaves the group on account of his relationship with Captain America not going the way he wants it to.[[note]]He wants nothing less than to be seen and treated as Cap's equal and has anxiety issues over how Cap sees him in relation to and with regards with his former protegee, Bucky.[[/note]] The others try to stop him and call him out on his selfish decision, but it doesn't stick and he leaves anyway. [[ForegoneConclusion Time will tell]] whether it really sticks or whether he ends up going through a TenMinuteRetirement.]]
* QuirkyMinibossSquad: The "Celebrity Five", the masked minions who work for Loki. Each of them serve as an EvilCounterpart to the kids, and specialize in summoning a specific class of villain. They also all have day jobs that their work as evildoers conflicts with.
* SealedGoodInACan: Most of the world's superheroes have been trapped inside specialized containment [=DISK=]s. Of course, so are the supervillains, making this also an example of SealedEvilInACan.
* ShipSinking: Akira's friendship with Noriko had about thirty minutes in-universe to develop, then Hikaru showed up. That's gotta be a record.
* ShoutOut: Tony's nickname for Akira, "Samurai Boy", is a reference to a certain director of samurai movies the kid shares a name with, Creator/AkiraKurosawa.
* SleepModeSize: Whenever recovering inside their [=DISK=]s, the Avengers can only interact with the outside world through small holograms after having their personal [=DISK=] set on one of the kids' specialized armbands.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: The Wasp is the only female Avenger; likewise, of the five kids, Jessica is the only girl.
** When the X-Men show up, {{Storm}} is the only female member. Though Noriko does end up joining them later.
* SnakePeople: King Cobra can assume this kind of form.
* SpoiledSweet: Jessica is noted to be from a rich family, yet she is quick to strike up friendly conversations with the aloof Chris and shy and introverted Ed. This verges on becoming a SubvertedTrope when she reveals that she was only helping everyone out out of a sense of "noblesse oblige", but she was actually nervous about letting others become her friend.
* SuperRegistrationAct: One becomes enforced by the president under the orders of Senator Robert in the ninth episode, but the Avengers and the kids work around it by taking refuge in Japan.
* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: To defeat the Lizard, Iron Man uses a [[WaveMotionGun his "Ultimate Unibeam"]], which takes more than ten seconds to use.
* UnexpectedCharacter: The first trailer shows some longtime Marvel mainstays like Comicbook/WarMachine, Comicbook/{{Venom}}, and the [[ComicBook/NormanOsborn Green Goblin]], but also contains some truly obscure choices like the Fixer and Death Adder. However, Venom, Death Adder, and Fixer have yet to appear in the actual show.
** Pepper Potts turns out to be fairly important as the kids' "handler" as well. Likewise, Agent Coulson appears in the first episode as a SHIELD tour guide.
** Noriko Ashida, aka "Surge", one of the [[NewMutants newer members]] of the X-Men, later shows up after the group moves to Japan. Much like the use of Armor in the [[Anime/XMen X-Men anime]], she was probably chosen because the character herself is Japanese.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Noriko Ashida aka Surge.
* WhatTheHellHero: Tony Stark got called out twice in the first episode for holding a party to announce his creation to the world and for doing it on an island ''full of captured supervillains''. Both are later justified by the plot, in that the [=DISK=]s are specifically designed to imprison supervillains [[spoiler: and that he threw a party in order to show the fruits of his and Akira and Hikaru's father's work to his sons]].
** Happens in episode 19, when Noriko calls Hikaru out on revealing her status as a mutant after he said he wouldn't. Of course, he didn't and she was actually caught on camera by Stark International's cameras.
* WolverinePublicity: The Avengers used in the show are the ones from [[Film/TheAvengers the movie]] (minus Comicbook/BlackWidow and Hawkeye). Spider-Man (who is an A-lister in his own right and [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff very big in Japan]]) and the Wasp are the only non-movie regular characters, at least at the start.
** The show also began airing the same month ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'' is released, creating some nice synergy.
** The TropeNamer himself appears in episode 16.
* XMeetsY: ''Film/TheAvengers'' meets ''Franchise/{{Digimon}} (''Anime/DigimonFrontier'', to be specific)''. Alternately, ''Film/TheAvengers'' meets ''Anime/MonsterRancher'' with a side of ''Anime/TransformersArmada''.
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