History AvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes / TropesLToP

* LighterAndSofter: The show is this compared to its predecessor ''WesternAnimation/WolverineAndTheXMen'' which, according to the producers, takes place in the same continuity, being far more optimistic and light-hearted (even when taking its darker moments into account).

* PowerWalk: The team does this in "The Kang Dynasty" as they board the Quinjet to attack Kang's mothership to show they have The Right Stuff to save the world.

** This is taken UpToEleven when Kang's attack on the entire ''planet'' causes seemingly no lasting damage. If that's not enough, Kang's invasion is immediately followed by Malekith unleashing the Casket of Ancient Winters on Midgard, which screws up the climate on a global scale, engulfing the whole world in winter. Once again, no harm done at all.

** The Damocles base did not had a [[ColonyDrop spectacular destruction]] as in ComicBook/TheKangWar, it was captured and used by the good guys.

* PunchPunchPunchUhOh: A GiantMook picks a fight with ComicBook/{{Luke Cage|HeroForHire}} in "To Steal an Ant-Man". [[NighInvulnerable Bad idea]].

* MegatonPunch: Hulk gives one to Abomination and sends him flying.
** Giant-Man also does this several times to various villains.

* NotSoDifferent: Hulk gives the rest of the Avengers this [[spoiler:when he quits, comparing them to Ross and SHIELD, with the difference being that the latter are honest about their fear of him.]]

** A rather silly example in "Living Legend": After the Avengers defeat Doughdoy, a large crowd emerge from behind the Statue of Liberty and cheer them on... Even though just a moment ago Doughboy engulfed the entire Liberty Island, which logically would have suffocated them.

** Ms. Marvel is a tall, beautiful blonde haired woman who wears a costume that highlights her large breasts, muscular yet voluptuous body, toned broad shoulders, strong muscles, toned stomach, sizable backside, and long muscular legs.

** Amora the Enchantress is a tall, extremely beautiful blonde haired woman who wears an outfit that highlights her voluptuous yet athletic body and shows off her very large breasts and toned broad shoulders.

* LeftHanging: The showrunners did the best they could with the time they had left to wrap up as many arcs as they could, but the fact remains that at the end of the series that the Surtur Arc was left unfinished.

** Maria Hill is a very attractive, fairly tall tan-skinned woman who wears a very form-fitting dark-blue standard S.H.I.E.L.D. agent uniform that accentuates her backside and legs, ripped broad shoulders, and atletic body.

** Madame Viper is an extremely sexy, green haired woman who wears a very form-fitting green outfit that highlights her very buxom breasts, voluptuous yet muscular body, toned broad shoulders, and long legs.

** Maria Hill is a very attractive, fairly tall tan-skinned woman who wears a very form-fitting dark-blue standard S.H.I.E.L.D. agent uniform that accentuates her very buxom breasts, ripped broad shoulders, and voluptuous yet muscular body.

* ProlongedPrologue: The Avengers don't officially form until the end of the seventh episode. Furthermore, Captain America doesn't join until the ninth episode, Black Panther doesn't join until the eleventh, and Hawkeye doesn't join until two episodes after that, meaning that the core team of eight Avengers that make up the first (26 episode) season doesn't assemble until the end of the thirteenth episode. However, the first seven episodes feature plenty of action by the heroes working solo and do set up the season nicely, so this is a case where TropesAreNotBad.

* LateArrivalSpoiler: The bonus interviews on the [=DVDs=] containing the first half of season one consist of interviews revealing events from the second season. In the process, the interviewees also spoil events from season one episodes not included on those [=DVDs=], such as Carol Danvers getting superpowers.
** That event also becomes spoiled in the trailer included on the ''{{Film/Thor}}'' Blu-Ray, which contained several scenes of [[spoiler: ComicBook/MsMarvel]] fighting alongside the Avengers.
** A group shot in the trailer for the second season revealed that [[spoiler: Hank Pym]] left the team at the end of season one.

* LegacyCharacter: [[spoiler: Scott Lang becomes the new Ant-Man after Pym abandons the identity. Hank later returns under the new identity of Yellowjacket.]]

* LowerDeckEpisode: "To Steal an Ant-Man" doesn't feature any of the Avengers except for Wasp, who only gets about three minutes of screentime, and Hank Pym, who had [[spoiler: quit the team by this point anyway]]. While Hank does get some more CharacterDevelopment, the episode sometimes seems to skew the focus more on Iron Fist, Luke Cage, and/or Ant-Man II (who made their first appearances here).

** Subverted in season 2 when Iron Man gives him some new stretchy pants, but Hulk eventually switches them back for his old pants.

** It's also pretty blatantly implied that [[spoiler: Skrull!Madame Viper is dead. Although some characters simply reference as being "locked up"(Fury probably didn't tell them she was a Skrull), the last we see of her she's lying motionless on a slab having reverted back to her natural Skrull form (as they so often do when shuffling off this mortal coil).]]

* NothingIsScarier: [[spoiler: The Skrull ship]] where they torture their prisoners. [[spoiler: Captain America]] was their prisoner for two months and never broke, much to his captor's shock. With the prisoners' screams being heard throughout the ship and [[spoiler: the Skrulls]] having no trouble holding back, it makes you wonder what they did to [[spoiler: Captain America.]]

** [[spoiler: Captain Mar-vell did not die of cancer. In fact, he became the new ruler of the Kree empire]].

** [[spoiler: Susan Storm getting the Baxter Building and its inhabitants back from an alternate dimension]] in "Secret Invasion."
** In "Ultron Unlimited", [[spoiler: only Captain America holds back getting captured by his robot counterpart]].

** [[spoiler: Madame Viper's a Skrull]]
** [[spoiler: Loki's face when Odin wakes up in "A Day Unlike Any Other"]]

** Also, from "Welcome to the Kree Empire". [[spoiler: If only Sword was more up to date on the Kree work, and if only Ms. Marvel wasn't so aggressive. If only they had more time to talk, then all these problems might have been less difficult. The bit with Cap as a Skrull though can't be compensated for though. Once he attacked Ronan, there was really no hope of a peaceful solution.]]
*** Except[[spoiler: there really isn't much that could have been done for peace anyway. S.W.O.R.D. and Carol didn't really do anything wrong, the Kree showed up, threatened them, started attacking the S.W.O.R.D. HQ and then assaulted a S.H.I.E.L.D. crew on Earth. When Carol DID try to talk with Mar-Vell, Ronan attacked her. This was less a case of Poor Communication Kills and more a case of 'The Kree are assholes use to getting their way by throwing their military weight around and who have almost no concept of diplomacy'. It's doubtful things would have gone smoothly even if the Skrull Cap hadn't gotten involved.]]

* PowerupLetdown: Going into the final battle for Season One, almost half the team (Hawkeye, Wasp, Antman, and ComicBook/IronMan) get cool new costumes, with inferred power. Of these, only Wasp's seems to change her performance at all (she goes from useless attacks to one-shotting giants, everyone else... gets this trope).

* PreviouslyOn: Each episode from the second season begins with a recap. Disney XD also shows episodes 20-26 with recaps attached, since they aired several months after episode #18[[note]]#19 aired before #17[[/note]]. Strangely, these recaps often show clips out of order, and also sometimes repeat information reviewed in the actual episode (such as which Avenger got replaced by a Skrull before season two began).

** WordOfGod says S&P gave them a stark choice: keep the guns and remove the Nazis, or keep the Nazis and have everyone [[FamilyFriendlyFirearms firing lasers]]. The staff chose to keep the guns. This episode was set during World War II. [[CaptainObvious Guns were involved.]]

* PrecisionGuidedBoomerang: Present and accounted for along with BizarreAndImprobableBallistics. ComicBook/CaptainAmerica's shield can make [[YouFailPhysicsForever all kinds of different scientists cry]].

** From “Masters of Evil”:

* LeeroyJenkins: A Skrull disguised as Captain America falls into this category. As mentioned on multiple occasions through the course of this show, the Skrulls were at war with the Kree. On “Welcome to the Kree Empire “, the earth was invaded by the Kree for the first time. The Avengers confront Ronan the Accuser, accompanied by Marvel. Marvel was trying to have the Avengers stand down, believing humanity had a better chance of surviving if they don’t resist. Without warning, the Skrull disguised as Captain America hurls his shield at Ronan shouting, “Avengers, attack!”

* MagicalSecurityCam: Played straight on a number of occasions, such as the news report of the Avengers fighting the dough monster at the end of “Living Legend”, but notably subverted in “Infiltration”, where Nick Fury reviews footage of Hulk's capture by the Hulkbusters in ''Nightmare In Red'', all the camera footage are from the perspective of the Hulkbusters soldiers present, and even camera angle changes are explained as footage from different soldiers.
* MagicPants: Done obviously with the Hulk, however in the “Gamma World” two-parter episode [[spoiler:when Wasp turns into a literal wasp, her outfit is torn and shredded, but the fabric covering her lady parts are still intact.]]

* MacGuffinMelee: The episode "Hail Hydra" had this between The Avengers, Hydra, AIM, and SHIELD for the Cosmic Cube.

* NoEndorHolocaust: Thor is shown vaporizing a very large part of urban New York in “Breakout, Part 2” in order to give his power a sense of scale, however the size and location the crater change in the immediately following scene so that he doesn't kill tens of thousands of people. This is most likely the animator's fault.

* ObliviousAstronomers: [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in “Assault on 42”. If nothing actually lives in the Negative Zone, why have any sensors at all monitoring the outside?

** In "Ultron Unlimited”, [[spoiler: only Captain America holds back getting captured by his robot counterpart]].

* ParentalBonus: In “The Coming of the Hulk”, a Las Vegas cop runs into a man giving out cards which sends the cards flying. Adults will recognize this as a common feature of Vegas, where men handout cards with the numbers of call girls. This is further driven home by one of the cards flying past the camera and showing a girl who seems to be topless but the naughty bits are tastefully covered by playing cards.

* PoorCommunicationKills: The episode "Everything Is Wonderful" fits this trope to a T. All Tony Stark had to do was inform Simon that the latter's company was going under and Stark himself was only purchasing it to save it. Instead of doing this flat-out, he remained aloof, inattentive, unfeeling, and cold as Simon was practically weeping at his feet. Pym called him out on it, and even though Stark knew what he was doing, it still didn't drive him to run after Simon as he stormed out in a huff. And then Simon gets transformed into a being of pure energy, driven only to destroy Stark for his perceived callousness.
** Also, from “Welcome to the Kree Empire”. [[spoiler: If only Sword was more up to date on the Kree work, and if only Ms. Marvel wasn't so aggressive. If only they had more time to talk, then all these problems might have been less difficult. The bit with Cap as a Skrull though can't be compensated for though. Once he attacked Ronan, there was really no hope of a peaceful solution.]]

* PragmaticAdaptation: The episode "Operation: Galactic Storm" (and its next episode, "Live Kree or Die") features a pair of details from ComicBook/OperationGalacticStorm: the wormholes next to the sun that risks its stability, the concerns of the Supreme Intelligence about the Kree being in an evolutionary dead end, unlike humanity, and its final deactivation. But the main plot of the comic book storyline was left aside: an alien holocaust is just too much for a kids show (and worse, an holocaust which is not [[NoEndorHolocaust downplayed]] nor [[InferredHolocaust inferred]]). And the killing of the Supreme Intelligence is only done with lasers, not with a gory execution of someone doing it a "lobotomy" from the upper side.

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* LampshadeHanging: From “Masters of Evil”:
--> '''Hawkeye''': You know, I don't think I want to be part of a team that I have to end up saving every week.

--->''"Don't worry, I'm here to save the world.... again."''

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-->'''Johnny:''' Time to settle this once and for all.
-->'''Clint:''' Is it 7:00 already?
-->'''Ben:''' I brought the chips! Let's play some cards, Avengers!

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-->'''Spider-Man''': What I'm gonna do right now is find J. Jonah Jameson and web his mouth shut.
-->'''Captain America''': I'm okay with that.

[[folder: O]]

--->"Hulk '''smash''' rock, ''Einstein''!

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* PostModernMagik: While battling the Enchantress and the Executioner, Iron Man's suit is damaged, Giant Man is out, and Wasp is caught by the Enchantress. When Hulk arrives and breaks the Enchantress' concentration. Thor powers up Mjolnir's thunder magic.
--> '''Enchantress:''' Your magic is nothing against mine.
--> '''Thor:''' You are not my target, witch!
--> '''Previously crippled Iron Man stands up surrounded by electricity.'''
--> '''Jarvis:''' Armor energy reserves at 214%.