Fans of the Marvel Cinematic Universe have been on a roller coaster ride as Robert Downey Jr.’s and Chris Evans’ contracts have come to an end. We have been accustomed to the original Avengers cast, and it is difficult to imagine future Avengers films without Iron Man and Captain America.
However, Marvel’s Avengers Assemble, an MCU-related animated series, is a promising show in which the character designs and behaviors are directly influenced by the actors that play them in the MCU, so you will not have to worry about things like the actors’ contracts.
The show has five seasons so far and does an excellent job with story adaptations, action-packed sequences, and, of course, conversations. There are a lot of great dialogues in this series that you should not miss. When opposed to live-action, animation allows the authors to expand the world and play with new stories, allowing Earth’s Mightiest Heroes to continue to face difficult problems.
However, as the number of stories grows, so do the challenges. With more challenges, it is simple for our beloved characters to get into some trouble, whether it is with their own brains or with their mortality. In this video, we will look at 12 episodes from the Marvel Cinematic Universe when the Avengers had to cope with heavier themes like death, sacrifice, and doom!
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Red Skull Steals Iron Man’s Life Support System Leaving Tony Dead
[The Avengers’ Protocol, Part 1 – Season 1, Episode 1]
The Avengers are engaged in battles of their own with Stark monitoring them, craving to step right into the action himself. He waits for someone to call for him for backup but he is interrupted by JARVIS, who locates a dying Red Skull and his HYDRA operation.
Tony immediately reaches Captain America to assist him at Red Skull’s location but he is a little too late. Cap gets vaporized by one of Red Skull’s lasers, causing Stark to seek vengeance for his comrade. He tries to kill the terrorist then and there, but MODOK teleports to their location and defeats Iron Man. Stark watches as the other two escape with Cap’s shield while he finds himself in despair.
Stark notifies his comrades about the Captain’s untimely demise and they arrive at the Avengers Mansion. Stark activates the Avengers Protocol.
Red Skull gloats over outliving his old enemy at the HYDRA Headquarters, while the Avengers close in on his facility. Red Skull learns about this and deploys his forces. The Avengers fight them off and manage to enter the hideout where they find Captain America alive. However, Red Skull has swapped his consciousness into Cap’s body and overpowers him. Captain, in Red Skull’s body, saves Iron Man but is knocked down himself.
Iron Man powers down all the systems in the facility with his unibeam but it also shuts his armor down. However, the distraction was good enough for Falcon to infiltrate the hideout with ease. He defeats Red Skull and helps Captain America return to his original body. The victory, however, does not last long as Red Skull awakens MODOK and makes him steal Iron Man’s arc reactor and armor by force for Red Skull to sport it himself.
He teleports away with MODOK while Stark passes out from his injury.
Thor Decides To Sacrifice Himself Save The World
[The Serpent of Doom – Season 1, Episode 4]
Rock Troll Ulik from the Realm Below comes to Midgard or Earth using Codgel, an Asgardian weapon. He fights Thor with the weapon’s powers and manages to overwhelm him when Stark comes to his aid. Yet, they find themselves cornered but Thor manages to knock the weapon into the air. As he is dragged, Stark tries to find it but fails, as HYDRA agents get their hands on it themselves. Things get worse when Doom Dogs attack HYDRA and it finally falls in the hands of Doctor Doom.
Captain America interrogates Ulik who confesses to wanting to take down Thor. The Avengers track the weapon to the Latverian Embassy and they head to it in the Aven-Jet Prime. They launch an assault, but Hawkeye gets blasted by Doom. Meanwhile, the Doom Bots and Doom Dogs attack the Avengers and they witness an enraged Doom.
Doom uses Codgel to fight and splits the ground. The Midgard Serpent, now released, attacks the city. Thor tells the others that the creature will grow until it consumes Earth, and goes after it. Unable to withstand its power, Thor decides to sacrifice himself.
Doom blasts him before he can do that and the serpent attacks Doom and then Iron Man. Doom tries to control it with his weapon but is stopped by Cap and Hawkeye. Iron Man finds Ulik’s dimensional rift and Thor blasts it open. The creature is led to the rift and knocked to the realm below. Thor seals it with his hammer and returns to Ulik, asking him to go back to Asgard for justice.
Hulk Is Forced To Prove His Strength Or Die Trying
[Depth Charge – Season 1, Episode 9]
A giant monster runs free in Manhattan. Hulk intercepts it and the two fight but he realizes that something is wrong with the monster. He believes that the monster is scared and not ferocious.
The Avengers notice the Atlantean army heading towards Manhattan, with their boss Attuma leading the charge. They bear a grudge against the surface dwellers and wish to take over Manhattan by making it go underwater.
The Avengers battle the Atlanteans, and the fight heads to the New York subway. The Avengers discover a device attached at several points. The device activates and destabilizes the city’s bedrock, causing it to slowly slide underwater. Meanwhile, a huge tidal wave gets closer to the city.
Falcon and Iron Man hold back the tides by creating an energy barrier, while Attuma provokes Hulk to fight him. Hulk is determined to show off his strength but has a severely hard time against Attuma. The shockwaves created by their fight end up making cracks on the barrier created by Iron Man and Falcon. The Avengers try to get Hulk to calm down, but their pleas fall on deaf ears. After Attuma proves his superior strength, Hulk secedes. Attuma throws him towards the barrier, causing it to crash, and the wave takes over New York City.
The Avengers struggle while the city is in danger. But suddenly, some of the water is drained from the city and Iron Man realizes that Hulk is literally holding the island on his shoulders, underwater. Iron Man and Thor join Hulk to help him out when Attuma attacks them, causing Hulk to get overpowered out of rage. Not only does Hulk end up protecting the island and his friends but he also bodies Attuma and wins the battle. All thanks to some extra doses of anger.
Doctor Doom Erases The Avengers From History
[Planet Doom – Season 1, Episode 15]
Thor returns to Asgard when Odin chides him for his obsession with Midgard or Earth and calls humans weak. Thor tries to defend them when Heimdall informs him about losing sight of Earth for a moment. He returns to New York City and sees Doctor Doom’s tower, where the Avengers’ tower should’ve been.
Doom’s army attacks him, when Hawkeye, Falcon, and Spider-Man aid him in the fight. However, they do not know Thor, are called Bull’s-Eye Bart, Snap, and Slinger instead, and refer to their group as the Defenders. They talk about Thor being the only one Doom fears.
Doctor Doom attacks them with his gamma repulsors. Mjolnir is seized in a static time-space bubble, while Black Widow, now called Black Bride, seems to be working for Doom. Thor tries to make sense of things when Doom mentions how the Avengers and Fantastic Four do not exist anymore. He also comes across Stark and Banner but they work for Doom and have none of their powers.
Thor learns that Doom had saved them before their accidents and realizes that Doom went back in time to stop them from getting their powers, which is why the Avengers do not exist. They are all sentenced to capital punishment but the Punisher frees them. It turns out that Natasha, Stark, and Banner double-crossed Doom to defeat him. Thor gets Mjolnir back and fights bravely. Doom is cornered and he tries to go back in time and prevent the Avengers from being born when he is stopped by Banner and Captain America, who just got freed from his cryogenic state.
Thor goes back in time to stop Doom from changing the timeline and incinerates him with his lightning. He goes to the Avengers’ Tower and is happy to see his friends.
The Avengers Are Evil Now
[The Dark Avengers – Season 2, Episode 9]
A group of robots attacks New York, but Hyperion and the Squadron Supreme manage to take care of it. The crowd cheers for them as they are believed to be Earth’s Mightiest Heroes and it turns out that the villain behind the robots was Iron Man himself, who encases the Squadron Supreme in a force field.
The Squadron Supreme fights back, and Tony manages to make Doctor Spectrum create a wavelength where the Avengers can be seen, causing the squad to worry about Tony seeing through their illusion. With the help of JARVIS, he finds the other ‘Avengers’, who are also criminals. He brings them all together. Meanwhile, Nighthawk from Squadron Supreme lashes out at Doctor Spectrum for failing to create a reality without the Avengers at all. So, they decide to kill them.
Speed Demon and Power Princess try to kill Hawkeye, who is saved by Falcon and brought to Tony Stark’s ship. Thor, Hulk, and Black Widow come across one another while trying to steal a device but the device falls apart and Hyperion shows up to kill them. But before he can do so, Stark knocks him down with his ship and takes the other three to his base.
Stark tells everyone how the Squadron Supreme has altered reality with the reality stone but the others aren’t interested in turning things back. Everyone is in awe when they think about how Captain America had saved Falcon, and it was almost as if they had worked before. Just then, Nighthawk launches a bomb at them and Stark dies as he intercepts it and flies far into the air. The ship almost crashes but the Avengers manage to ease things and decide to take down the Squadron Supreme.
The Avengers fight them at the Squadron Supreme’s headquarters. Captain America knocks the Reality Stone away from Hyperion with his shield and the shield returns to its original form. Hyperion shoots him away with his atomic vision but Cap is saved by Iron Man, who is not dead.
Doctor Spectrum has blasted away and the Squadron Supreme is defeated, one by one. Captain America turns reality back to normal and Hulk and Thor defeat Power Princess and Speed Demon. The squad tries to destroy the headquarters, which is now the Avengers Tower, but the tower’s automatic repair and some help from the Avengers fix it. In the end, when Captain mentions how he will always remember what Tony did, Tony tells him that they would’ve all done the same thing.
Villainous Mechanical Maniac Ultron Defeats Thanos
[Thanos Triumphant – Season 2, Episode 13]
Thanos fights Dormammu and retrieves the Infinity Gauntlet from Black Widow. He creates a citadel near the Earth’s orbit, where the Avengers intercept him. Their jet is destroyed and the Avengers are stranded.
Despite the immense effort, they are no match for Thanos. They even try to get Thanos to use one stone against them by hurting his inflated ego. But, he uses the time stone and ages the Avengers to the point of oblivion. He does the same on Thor but it backfires as Asgardians get stronger with age, so Thanos is forced to bring everyone back. He then uses the mind stone to turn the Avengers against each other but Hulk asks them to direct their rage towards Thanos instead.
Miraculously, the Avengers overpower him and manage to take the gauntlet away. They return to Earth, where Nick Fury talks about the evil associations such as HYDRA disbanding and Red Skull turning himself in. Cap smells something fishy and realizes that it’s the effect of Thanos’ reality stone. The Avengers snap back but Thanos destroys Tony’s suit, only to realize that it’s an empty suit of armor, monitored by Stark back on Earth.
He uses the space stone to bring Stark and his workspace to the battle scene, where Stark brings out a modified Arsenal. Previously, the Arsenal could contain the power of only one stone, but now it can contain the gauntlet. Thanos attacks it and it manages to take away the gauntlet. They all suddenly find themselves on Earth.
The Avengers beat Thanos up when Arsenal confesses to a change in contingency plans. Stark is baffled and Ultron takes over Arsenal. Now with the power of the gauntlet and its own code, it flies away with the plan of destroying humanity.
The Destruction Of The Avengers Begin
[Avengers Disassembled – Season 2, Episode 15]
Iron Man’s holding back when it comes to information about Ultron, making things take a turn for the worse. Tired of this, Captain America leaves the Avengers. Meanwhile, Ultron has gained control over a rebuilt Super-Adaptoid. It attacks Roxxon using that.
The Avengers come to the rescue along with Spider-Man to fight the Super-Adaptoid. They are backed into a corner but Captain is thankfully unable to stay away from the action while his comrades are struggling. He joins in. However, the SHIELD drop team, made up of the Life Model Decoys, falls under Ultron after he takes total control over it.
After a fierce battle, Ultron manages to take control of the Avengers Tower. This also gives him access to Iron Man’s Hall of Armors, putting him in a very convenient spot for someone who likes to overwrite programming. He brings Stark’s satellites under his command and uses them to launch missiles toward the Earth and the Avengers. To avoid catastrophe, Iron Man is forced to destroy the Avengers Mansion and with that, all of his prized tech.
The entire fiasco leads to major conflict within the Avengers team. With Tony and Captain America being at odds for a while now, the Avengers get divided into two teams, with Tony leading Thor and Hawkeye, and Cap leading Falcon, Hulk, and Black Widow. Amongst Ultron’s missions, one of his very first missions was to disassemble the Avengers. With this conflict, their mission of his becomes a success and the Avengers are disassembled.
SteelCorps Remove Almost All Gamma Radiation From Earth
[Dehulked – Season 3, Episode 8]
Tony Stark fights the SteelCorps and finds his suit and life in jeopardy when Hulk comes in to protect him. Unfortunately, one of the SteelCorp robots hit him with a blaster that sucks the gamma radiation out of Hulk’s cells, turning him back into Bruce. Tony and Bruce manage to survive by a narrow margin. Bruce also recognizes the voice of the guy who hit him with the blast but can’t remember who it is.
Back at the lab, Bruce is unable to turn back into the Hulk even though he has some residual gamma radiation in him which is only bound to increase with time. He decides to nerd around as the smart guy Bruce Banner. He upgrades Hawkeye’s arrows and modifies Cap’s helmet. However, he is saddened by the fact that his teammates want his muscle back and do not appreciate his smart side enough. Disappointed, he walks away.
The SteelCorps power up another gamma-sucker device and the Avengers crash the site with Bruce coming in the Hulkbuster armor. The perpetrator turns out to be his old lab partner Igor Drenkov, who intends to recreate the accident for himself to become a hero. With his smarts, Bruce manages to cool down the reactor. However, Igor manages to capture him and drain his gamma radiation into himself for a power-up.
Igor turns out to be a menace for the Avengers, absolutely destroying them in battle. With his smarts, Bruce manages to get back into the room with the device containing his radiation. He takes in all the gamma once again, returns to his friends as the Hulk, and this time he uses a little bit of intelligence while ‘smashing’. Igor is drained of the gamma and Hulk takes him down as Bruce with a punch.
Red Hulk Threatens To Destroy A Town
[World War Hulk – Season 3, Episode 22]
A leader uses his particle-accelerating gamma bomb and turns Red Hulk into an overpowered, fire-wielding beast, and the Avengers are no match for it. Not only does he defeat everyone but he attacks the Leader as well. They manage to evade it, but Red Hulk catches up and almost destroys their quinjet. Tony gives everyone except Thor a Hulkbuster suit and they manage to hold off Red Hulk for a while but they’re still not strong enough.
Meanwhile, Hulk struggles with his inner psyche when Banner comes to his side to advise him. It works out and Hulk decides to go help the Avengers, even when Truman Marsh calls him a monster and says that he will be blamed for the collateral damage. After the battle, Hulk realizes that he is not strong enough for Red Hulk. Change of plans.
Hulk asks Tony to hit him with more gamma radiation so that he can get stronger. They are a bit skeptical to do so, given Hulk’s inability to control himself in the past but they take the risk. The plan works out and after a fit of rage, Natasha, Stark, and Bruce manage to calm Hulk down and he sets off to fight Red Hulk with a new plan.
The two Hulks fight, and even though Red Hulk still seems to be stronger by a margin, Hulk tells him that he will win as he has the Avengers by his side. Tony encloses both of their necks with a collar and Hulk takes in the gamma from the Red Hulk. Once again, Banner comes to his side and helps him cool down amidst the obnoxious amount of gamma radiation that was now in its body. It works out and the Hulk shrinks to its normal, green form. Well, normal for him.
Loki Has Turned The Earth Into A Frozen Wasteland
[The Return – Season 4, Episode 13]
The Avengers and the New Avengers return to Earth via a portal but discover that the Earth has turned into a frozen wasteland. With dragons flying overhead, Frost Trolls attacking, and Asgardian magic all over, Thor realizes that it is Loki’s doing.
They find Loki, who sits in a frozen room guarded by his Frost Trolls and wields the Casket of Ancient Winters. He manages to free everyone in their tracks as he wants to rule over Thor’s beloved Midgard and destroy it but they eventually escape.
Everyone gathers at Jane Foster’s house, who explains the situation to them. Two giant stone ships called the world breakers were placed at the north and south ends of Manhattan. If the Avengers tried to get rid of the winter using Jane’s portal technology, Loki would use the ships to activate Ragnarok. So, Cap decides to go to the North, Captain Marvel to the south, and Thor to Loki with some other allies.
At the North end, Captain and his team are made to face the Destroyer while Loki uses his Casket to control Vision. Vision attacks the Avengers but Ant-Man realizes that even though he can hit the others, he isn’t doing so. Thor tries to use Mjolnir to take down Loki but Vision intercepts it. Loki is dumbfounded when he realizes that despite being controlled, he is still worthy enough to lift the legendary hammer when Vision hits Loki with it, proving that he was faking it all along.
Meanwhile, the two teams on both ends manage to destroy the World Breakers, and Jane uses her now modified portal technology to send the winter away from Earth. In the end, Loki is captured and imprisoned in the Avengers’ quarters so that they can keep an eye on him.
Loki Becomes The Sorcerer Supreme
[All Things Must End – Season 4, Episode 25]
After the Avengers defeat the Beyonder with Loki’s help, Loki betrays them by using the Eye of Agamotto, becoming the Sorcerer Supreme, and taking over Asgard. The Avengers cannot take the Eye away from him either as it has to be given and Dr. Strange had only given it to Loki to defeat The Beyonder. Meanwhile, with the pathways to Asgard blocked by magic, Jane decides to use science instead of magic to get there.
Loki closes all pathways from Midgard to Asgard and imprisons All-Father Odin with the help of his magical powers and the Casket of Darkness, to become the All-Father himself. He uses his magic to prevent Thor from getting his hands on Mjolnir, but Lady Thor comes in and seizes it. The Avengers assemble at the throne room and take on Loki.
Loki opens a portal from the Bifrost to New York City and sends his beasts, the Mindless Ones, to Earth, causing more trouble for the Avengers. Throughout the whole sequence, everyone is made painfully aware of his inflated ego as well.
The Avengers and New Avengers fight the Mindless Ones and Ant-Man enlarges Hulk to overpower their side. Meanwhile, Thor, Jane Foster’s Thor, and Dr. Strange fight Loki, who seems too powerful to be true. To make matters worse, he unleashes the power of the All-Dark and it begins to take over Yggdrasil, the tree of life. Thor and Lady Thor try to stop it with their lightning but Loki’s magic protects it. Even Dr. Strange’s magic fails to contain it.
In the end, Thor tells Loki that destroying the Tree of Life would kill him too, which Loki finds hard to believe. He uses the Eye of Agamotto to see it for himself and watches the Earth, Asgard, and himself get destroyed. Shocked by the revelation, he throws the Eye away, calling it a liar. Dr. Strange seizes it and cancels the magic used on the All-Dark by Loki. Thor and Lady Thor strike it with lightning, saving Yggdrasil from All-Dark.
A devastated Loki catches the remnants of the All-Dark, gloating over how he is the strongest, but it takes over his body and the Avengers win, once again.
Captain America Dies Saving Humanity
[Descent Of The Shadow – Season 5, Episode 12]
The Secret Avengers fight the Shadow Council as Killmonger and his comrades try to take a precious crown away, a crown to bring Wakanda to its rightful place in the world, according to Killmonger. The Secret Avengers try to stop them and Captain America gets his hands on the crown. However, it is revealed that it is Princess Zanda who had shapeshifted into Captain America.
Suddenly, the Avengers chime in to give T’Challa a helping hand. Stark asks Killmonger why he is so hell-bent on getting a crown and learns that it is not just any crown, but the greatest weapon Wakanda has ever produced. Meanwhile, Natasha and Clint try to take down Princess Zanda, who outwits them with her shapeshifting. Shuri manages to take down Ulysses Klaue, and the crown falls in Zemo’s hands while T’Challa fights Killmonger. However, despite being T’Challa’s ally, Zemo wears the crown and seizes the power for himself.
Zemo tries to cause damage to New York City when the power of the crown begins to mess with their head. He sends a huge energy wave, but T’Challa’s vibranium suit and Steve’s vibranium shield protect them. Shuri tortured Klaue into a confession. Killmonger had learned about the lost legend of that crown, which is why he had Klaue digging around in the sky. Even though the crown is powerful within Wakanda, outside the country it becomes unstable.
T’Challa has an epiphany and realizes that the crown is unstable without vibranium. Steve fights Zemo and manages to get the crown off, but its shock waves, which have already wrecked Brooklyn Bridge, get too dangerous to control. T’Challa tries to hold it back with his suit and somehow manages to take it to the Embassy. And yet, nothing works. Ultimately, Steve tries to contain a huge blast with his shield and body and presumably dies while doing so. The Avengers enter the room and Natasha claims that Black Panther killed Captain America.
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