History Trivia / TheAvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: [[WhatCouldHaveBeen/AvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes Has its own page.]]

* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** Josh Fine in an interview says if he continued to helm the series for a third season, said season would have been the "Magic Season" (Season 1 being the Assemble Season, Season 2 being the Cosmic Season). He didn't go into too much detail, but some have speculating that Comicbook/DoctorStrange, Dormammu, Comicbook/ScarletWitch, and other characters would have shown up. He's also mentioned that Tony and Maria's conversation about registering super-heroes from episode 28 would have been followed up. Apparently, Fine even had some ideas for a FOURTH Season, but hasn't given any details.
** The show contains elements from what was originally going to be a Hulk series. This is probably why many of the Hulk's RoguesGallery appear on the show since they don't normally menace the Avengers (aside from Absorbing Man).
** Some of the first choices for the Avengers' foe in "Breakout, Part 2" included Doctor Doom and ComicBook/{{Magneto}}. However, it apparently seemed inappropriate for "Earth's mightiest heroes" to team up and defeat someone ''another'' superhero team had fought many times before.
** Ron Wasserman, the composer of the themes of ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'' and ''WesternAnimation/XMenTheAnimatedSeries'', had tried pitching a theme song for the show.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_G7_s8Bi9o This trailer]] boasts voices and animation that differ from the actual show.
** The lyrics to an extended version of "Fight as One" would have included [[http://cne-comics.blogspot.com/2012/04/avengers-theme-song-second-verse.html these]].
** Mockingbird was due to join the Avengers, but it became too expensive to have EG Daily voice a major protagonist.
** In an interview with Josh Fine, he said that they would have liked to introduce ComicBook/{{Taskmaster}} in Season 3.
** According to Chris Yost, "Emperor Stark" started off as a faithful adaptation of the ''Emperor Doom'' graphic novel, but with Vision replacing Wonder Man as the Avenger who was unaffected by Doctor Doom's mind-control device. A script excerpt Yost later released on Twitter supports this claim, showing a ColdOpen where Doctor Doom captures the Purple Man to exploit his powers, much like in the comic.
** The original writers wanted to put ''Earth's Mightiest Heroes'' in the same continuity as ''WesternAnimation/{{Wolverine and the X|Men2009}}-Men''. Chris Yost once wrote in one of Marvel's live blogs that they take place in the same universe, but later said that the swift cancellation of ''Wolverine and the X-Men'' ultimately put a damper on these hopes.
** Captain America was originally supposed to fight the Nazis in the World War 2 flashbacks, but ExecutiveMeddling meant that the creators could have either realistic firearms or Nazis, but not both. They went with the firearms.
** The solicit synopsis for the twelfth issue of the ''Marvel Universe'' comic series suggests the existence of an unreleased comic placing the Avengers and Loki in an EnemyMine situation.
** A [[http://thomasperkins.blogspot.ca/search/label/Earth%27s%20Mightiest%20Heroes blog]] belonging to one of the show's character designers showed some potential plots that the show could have gone into, including:
*** [[ComicBook/FantasticFour the Impossible Man]] giving Ant-Man, Wasp, Captain America, and the Hulk the powers of the Fantastic Four.
*** The appearances of Deathlok, Daimon Hellstrom, 3-D Man and ComicBook/RomSpaceknight (though it's likely if they had attempted that, it wouldn't have been possible due to legal hangups with Creator/{{Hasbro}}, successor to Parker Brothers, who licensed Rom to Marvel).
*** The ComicBook/XMen and the Avengers teaming up, with Comicbook/{{Rogue}} apparently having Ms. Marvel's powers and costume.
*** Hulk fighting alongside ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Saga_of_Crystar Crystar, Crystal Warrior]]'' (an obscure MerchandiseDriven comic from Marvel in the early 80s).
*** Giant-Man fighting alongside Captain Marvel (Comicbook/MonicaRambeau) and Machine Man (shades of ''ComicBook/{{Nextwave}}'', perhaps?)
*** Mockingbird being saved by the Human Fly.
*** The Wasp becoming ComicBook/CaptainUniverse.
*** Bill Foster becoming the new Giant-Man (or possibly Goliath).
*** Thor and Adam Warlock fighting what appears to be [[ComicBook/DoctorStrange Shuma-Gorath]].
*** The Hulk fighting Comicbook/OmegaTheUnknown.
*** Captain America encountering Baron Blood and Comicbook/{{Morbius}}.
** ''WesternAnimation/AvengersAssemble'' was originally going to be a follow-up to ''Earth's Mightiest Heroes'' with an emphasis on introducing kids to the wider Franchise/MarvelUniverse. When ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'' broke box office records, the EMH sequel was scrapped ''mid-production'' by ExecutiveMeddling so that Disney could launch a cartoon with the heroes from the movie instead.
** Creator/ColleenOShaughnessey [[https://mobile.twitter.com/VOColleen/status/1139596758688731136?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1139596758688731136&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fs9e.github.io%2Fiframe%2F2%2Ftwitter.min.html%231139596758688731136 originally]] auditioned for Pepper before she was cast as Wasp.
** Christopher Yost [[https://twitter.com/yost/status/1244056612303560704 shared a few plans]] for the back-half of season two before Creator/ManOfActionStudios took over:
*** Galactus was going to be the villain of a three-part episode instead of the finale, where he attacked Hala instead of Earth.
*** The New Avengers would've been formed after the Galactus three-parter, as the regular Avengers would've been halfway across the universe at that point.
** Comicbook/TheSentry was originally going to be introduced in "Assault on 42," and eventually would've gotten his own spotlight episode before going on to join the New Avengers. An excerpt from an early draft of "New Avengers" also revealed that Yellowjacket would've been part of the team, as he and Spider-Man were the ones who actually went to recruit the Sentry at his home in the suburbs.
** [[https://www.comicsbeat.com/avengers-earths-mightiest-heroes-season-3-christopher-yost/ Christopher Yost posted some additional details]] on what might have occurred in Season 3 through his Twitter, including the debuts of (in addition to the aforementioned Doctor Strange, Scarlet Witch, Comicbook/{{Quicksilver}} and Dormammu) the X-Men, Comicbook/TheDefenders, Comicbook/TheEternals, [[Comicbook/SubMariner Namor]], Tigra, the Comicbook/WestCoastAvengers and Comicbook/{{Nova}}, as well as villains like Comicbook/{{Magneto}}, Nightmare, Kulan Gath, the Juggernaut, the High Evolutionary and Rama-Tut. A multi-part storyline adapting elements of both ''Comicbook/AvengersVsXMen'' and ''Comicbook/HouseOfM'' would've served as the finale.
** Carol Danvers would've adopted the Captain Marvel identity in Season 3, and ComicBook/WonderMan would've returned despite his apparent demise in Season 2.
** Surtur would have been the main antagonist of the first half of Season 3, with Ragnarok being the Midseason Finale
** In the third season finale, Wanda and Jean would work together to shunt the Phoenix Force into a pocket dimension a la Heroes Reborn, the X-Men sacrificing themselves to keep it there. Epilogue would be the opening scene from ''Wolverine and the X-Men''.
** If there was a season 4, the first half would be called Under Siege and the second half Infinity Quest.
** The fifth season would have been an adaptation of the Secret Wars, (with the Beyonder and possibly all the heroes and villains of the series) which would have spanned the entire season.

** Creator/TomKane reprises his ''WesternAnimation/NextAvengers'' role as Ultron and his ''WesternAnimation/HulkVs'' role as Professot Thronton.

* IronyAsSheIsCast: A twisted example. Creator/SteveBlum is Jewish -- and one of his roles here is literal Nazi ComicBook/RedSkull.

* CreatorsFavorite: Chris Yost has [[http://marvel.com/news/tv/2012/11/8/19680/chris_yost_bids_avengers_emh_farewell called]] Wasp the Avenger he felt most attached to, and Baron Zemo his favorite among the show's villains.

** In the Italian dub Creator/MarioCordova reprises Doctor Doom's role after dubbing the character in the ''Film/FantasticFourDuology''.

** In the third season finale, Wanda and Jean would work together to shunt the Phoenix Force into a pocket dimension a la Heroes Reborn, the X-Men sacrificing themselves to keep it there. Epilogue would be the opening scene from Wolverine and the X-men.
** If there was a season 4 the first half would be called Under Siege and the second half Infinity Quest.

** ''WesternAnimation/AvengersAssemble'' was originally going to be a follow-up to ''Earth's Mightiest Heroes'' with an emphasis on introducing kids to the wider MarvelUniverse. When ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'' broke box office records, the EMH sequel was scrapped ''mid-production'' by ExecutiveMeddling so that Disney could launch a cartoon with the heroes from the movie instead.

** In the Italian dub Creator/MarioCordova reprises Doctor Doom's role after dubbing the character in the ''Film/FantasticFourDuology''.

** Creator/DavidKaufman reprises his role from the ''VideoGame/UltimateSpiderMan'' video game as the Human Torch.

** ''[[WesternAnimation/UltimateSpiderMan2012 Ultimate Spider-Man]]'' became a cause of great misery for ''EMH'' fans, and not just because the following ''Avengers'' cartoon shared its universe. Producer Josh Fine's Twitter page says that Marvel Animation managed to reach episode 39 by June 2011, but a later panel at Comic-Con revealed that Disney XD will not air episodes 27-52 until the release of ''Ultimate Spider-Man''...in 2012. Then, after ''Ultimate Spidey'' earned an undeniably large hatedom, Disney XD decided to run some new ''Ultimate Spidey'' episodes without new ''Earth's Mightiest Heroes'' adventures after them, to see if the Avengers deserve the credit for Marvel Universe's ratings. '''Then,''' three ''Earth's Mightiest Heroes'' episodes guest-starring [[Creator/JoshKeaton Josh]] [[WesternAnimation/TheSpectacularSpiderman Keaton]] as Spider-Man got redubbed by Ultimate Spidey's VA, Creator/DrakeBell, apparently without Josh's consent or even knowledge. A [[http://www.toonzone.net/forums/showthread.php?295227-Josh-Keaton-amp-Avengers-EMH&p=4007987#post4007987 Twitter movement]] for getting Marvel to release the undubbed versions has begun, though it failed to get Disney XD to air those versions.

* TheOtherMarty: As mentioned in ExecutiveMeddling, Creator/JoshKeaton was going to reprise his ''WesternAnimation/TheSpectacularSpiderMan'' role of Spider-Man himself and had already recorded his lines, but it was decided to have Creator/DrakeBell of ''[[WesternAnimation/UltimateSpiderMan2012 Ultimate Spider-Man]]'' redub the lines. Evidence also points to the idea that Creator/DaranNorris, who voiced J. Jonah Jameson on ''Spectacular'', had also reprised the role and was redubbed with Creator/JKSimmons, who played the character in ''Film/SpiderManTrilogy'' and ''Ultimate''; Norris plays a random policeman at the start, and Betty Brant was reprised by her ''TSSM'' actress.

** Creator/GabrielMann reprises his ''WesternAnimation/WolverineAndTheXMen2009'' role as Bruce Banner. Likewise, Creator/AlexDesert reprises his role from that show as Nick Fury (which makes sense since ''The Avengers: EMH'' and ''WATXM'' are set in the same continuity)

** Creator/GreyDeLisle reprsies her role from ''WesternAnimation/TheSpectacularSpiderMan'' as Betty Brant. Infamously, so did her costars Creator/JoshKeaton and Creator/DaranNorris reprise their respective roles from the same series as Spidey himself and J. Jonah Jameson before being redubbed by two more: respectively, Creator/DrakeBell (who voices Spidey in ''[[WesternAnimation/UltimateSpiderMan2012 Ultimate Spider-Man]]'') and Creator/JKSimmons (who played Jonah in the ''Film/SpiderManTrilogy'' and reprised the role in ''Ultimate'').

** The original writers wanted to put ''Earth's Mightiest Heroes'' in the same continuity as ''WesternAnimation/WolverineAndTheXMen2009''. Chris Yost once wrote in one of Marvel's live blogs that they take place in the same universe, but later said that the swift cancellation of ''Wolverine and the X-Men'' ultimately put a damper on these hopes.

** Carol Danvers would've adopted the Captain Marvel identity in Season 3, and Comicbook/WonderMan would've returned despite his apparent demise in Season 2.

* TalkingToHimself:
** Graviton and Hulk have the same voice actor. This goes on into Season 2, where Fred Tatiascore voices Hulk and the Thing, who spend most of their episode arguing and fighting. Red Hulk also has this same actor.
--->'''Graviton:''' ''[after flooring the heroes]'' I'm stronger than ALL of you! [[TemptingFate I'M THE STRONGEST ONE THERE IS!!!]]\\
'''Hulk:''' ''[[[BigDamnHeroes landing on a nearby building]]]'' You ''sure'' about that?
** Rick D. Wasserman also voices Thor and the Absorbing Man, who have a fight in "Gamma World" while exchanging battle cries.
** Baron Zemo and Abomination are both voiced by Creator/RobinAtkinDownes, and the it turns out that they are the two Masters of Evil who argue the most.
** Vanessa Marshall does this when Black Widow shows Madame Viper the vial of Hulk blood she stole.
** Captain America when he fights [[spoiler:his Skrull double.]]

* ExecutiveMeddling: The last episodes of the first season aired in other countries well over a month before they will air in the US, because Disney/Marvel wanted to finish out the season to match up with the releases of the Thor and Captain America movies.

*** On the bright side, only two or three ''Ultimate Spider-Man'' episodes aired without a new installment of ''Earth's Mightiest Heroes'' afterward, and some weeks also saw fans of neither show get anything new.

* CreatorBacklash: In [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/d96c6ac8_5e7f_4bff_93c7_999eec2b6586.jpeg November 2020]][[note]]A year and a day since Creator/DisneyPlus made ''EMH'' available to stream again in the US[[/note]], Creator/ChristopherYost called out Creator/DrakeBell replacing Creator/JoshKeaton as Spider-Man's voice as a "pretty unnecessary" executive decision.

* CreatorBacklash: In [[https://twitter.com/yost/status/1329966226131468289?s=20 November 2020]][[note]]A year and a day since Creator/DisneyPlus made ''EMH'' available to stream again in the US[[/note]], Creator/ChristopherYost called out Creator/DrakeBell replacing Creator/JoshKeaton as Spider-Man's voice as a "pretty unnecessary" executive decision.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Like ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'', the series gives a snap shot of a very different Marvel than what would follow, as the runaway success of the Avengers film led to sweeping changes to a variety of characters, making this series a last hurrah for many aspects that would be altered by the films. Among the many visible differences include a much more professional Guardians of the Galaxy team, the classic Ms. Marvel superhero outfit, a purely villainous Loki, and heavy association of Hank Pym and Janet Van Dyne with the Avengers. Many characters who came into prominence after the show that are heavily featured in modern Marvel are also absent, such as Miles Morales, Kamala Khan, and Spider-Gwen/Ghost Spider (in fact, out of these three, only Miles even ''existed'' by the time the show ended).

* NoExportForYou: [=DVDs=] in the United Kingdom lack the episode introducing Captain America, Bucky, Wolverine, Red Skull, and Kang the Conqueror.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Like ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'', the series gives a snap shot of a very different Marvel than what would follow, as the runaway success of the Avengers film led to sweeping changes to a variety of characters, making this series a last hurrah for many aspects that would be altered by the films. Among the many visible differences include a much more professional Guardians of the Galaxy team, the classic Ms. Marvel superhero outfit, a purely villainous Loki, and heavy association of Hank Pym and Janet Van Dyne with the Avengers. Many characters who came into prominence after the show that are heavily featured in modern Marvel are also absent, such as Miles Morales, Kamala Khan, and Spider-Gwen/Ghost Spider.

* BadExportForYou:
** Inverted. Canada has the show available as either 2-Disc DVD sets containing 13 episodes each, or 2-Disc Blu-Ray sets of each season. Australia has single-disc [=DVDs=] containing only six or seven episodes each, but also an eight-disc DVD boxset of the whole series, and 4-Disc Blu-Ray sets for each season. American fans have to settle for collecting the first season episodes on four single-disc, sold-seperately [=DVDs=], and the second season as a pair of 2-Disc [=DVDs=] that don't play the episodes in chronological order.
** The UK seemed to play this straight at first. They released the show on single-disc [=DVDs=], like in America, but also skipped an episode, "Meet Captain America". However, they later re-released the series on DVD through 4-Disc sets of each season, which feature all 52 episodes in chronological order.

** Ron Wasserman, the composer of the themes of ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'' and ''WesternAnimation/XMen'', had tried pitching a theme song for the show.

** ''WesternAnimation/{{Ultimate Spider-Man}}'' became a cause of great misery for ''EMH'' fans, and not just because the following ''Avengers'' cartoon shared its universe. Producer Josh Fine's Twitter page says that Marvel Animation managed to reach episode 39 by June 2011, but a later panel at Comic-Con revealed that Disney XD will not air episodes 27-52 until the release of ''Ultimate Spider-Man''...in 2012. Then, after ''Ultimate Spidey'' earned an undeniably large hatedom, Disney XD decided to run some new ''Ultimate Spidey'' episodes without new ''Earth's Mightiest Heroes'' adventures after them, to see if the Avengers deserve the credit for Marvel Universe's ratings. '''Then,''' three ''Earth's Mightiest Heroes'' episodes guest-starring [[Creator/JoshKeaton Josh]] [[WesternAnimation/TheSpectacularSpiderman Keaton]] as Spider-Man got redubbed by Ultimate Spidey's VA, Creator/DrakeBell, apparently without Josh's consent or even knowledge. A [[http://www.toonzone.net/forums/showthread.php?295227-Josh-Keaton-amp-Avengers-EMH&p=4007987#post4007987 Twitter movement]] for getting Marvel to release the undubbed versions has begun, though it failed to get Disney XD to air those versions.

* TheOtherMarty: As mentioned in ExecutiveMeddling, Creator/JoshKeaton was going to reprise his ''WesternAnimation/TheSpectacularSpiderMan'' role of Spider-Man himself and had already recorded his lines, but it was decided to have Creator/DrakeBell of ''WesternAnimation/{{Ultimate Spider-Man}}'' redub the lines. Evidence also points to the idea that Creator/DaranNorris, who voiced J. Jonah Jameson on ''Spectacular'', had also reprised the role and was redubbed with Creator/JKSimmons, who played the character in ''Film/SpiderManTrilogy'' and ''Ultimate''; Norris plays a random policeman at the start, and Betty Brant was reprised by her ''TSSM'' actress.

** Creator/GreyDeLisle reprsies her role from ''WesternAnimation/TheSpectacularSpiderMan'' as Betty Brant. Infamously, so did her costars Creator/JoshKeaton and Creator/DaranNorris reprise their respective roles from the same series as Spidey himself and J. Jonah Jameson before being redubbed by two more: respectively, Creator/DrakeBell (who voices Spidey in ''WesternAnimation/{{Ultimate Spider-Man}}'') and Creator/JKSimmons (who played Jonah in the ''Film/SpiderManTrilogy'' and reprised the role in ''Ultimate'').