History WesternAnimation / AvengersAssemble

* AnAesop:
** The final episode of the Squadron Supreme arc drives home the point that [[MachiavelliWasWrong you cannot prevent conflict or succeed in a cause by controlling others with fear]], because in the end, [[PowerOfFriendship compassion and friendship always win out]].
** The ultimate message at the end of "The House of Zemo" is that just because someone is your family, doesn't mean you have to unconditionally love and obey them when they abuse you or make it clear they don't care about you.

* ForWantOfANail: "Planet Doom" takes place in an alternate timeline where Doom prevented Tony Stark from being wounded in the Middle East, Bruce Banner from being exposed to Gamma Radiation, and Captain America from being unfrozen. The resulting world has no Avengers or any other heroes, allowing Doom to easily conquer the planet.

* WindowLove: Captain America and Iron Man do this against a force field in the Season 3 finale, since [[spoiler: Tony has to stay behind in Doctor Strange's pocket dimension to keep Ultron from escaping.]]

''Avengers Assemble'' is an American animated series that premiered on Creator/DisneyXD's WesternAnimation/{{Marvel Universe|DisneyXD}} block in 2013. Based on the long-running ''[[ComicBook/TheAvengers Avengers]]'' comic book franchise and inspired by the success of the live-action ''[[Film/TheAvengers2012 Avengers]]'' movie, the show uses a cast and designs similar to those seen in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse. It's not ''quite'' an AnimatedAdaptation of the movies (they never reference events from it), more a series that just takes cues from it. It is set within the same universe as ''WesternAnimation/UltimateSpiderMan2012'' -- or least it ''was'', until the last two seasons suddenly switched over to being connected to ''WesternAnimation/MarvelsSpiderMan'' with no acknowledgement to the former show. [[ContinuitySnarl Your guess is as good as ours how that works.]]

The third season was titled ''[[NewSeasonNewName Avengers: Ultron Revolution]]'', capitalizing on the success of the ''[[Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron Age of Ultron movie]]'' and gradually building up to a ''ComicBook/CivilWar'' adaptation to tie in to ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar''. ComicBook/BlackPanther, [[ComicBook/MsMarvel Captain Marvel]], and [[ComicBook/MsMarvel2014 Ms Marvel]] have guest spots in the season.

** There's a lot for the [[ComicBook/CivilWar storyline]] that is the basis for the Season 3 finale:

''Avengers Assemble'' is an American animated series that premiered on Creator/DisneyXD's WesternAnimation/MarvelUniverse block in 2013. Based on the long-running ''[[ComicBook/TheAvengers Avengers]]'' comic book franchise and inspired by the success of the live-action ''[[Film/TheAvengers2012 Avengers]]'' movie, the show uses a cast and designs similar to those seen in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse. It's not ''quite'' an AnimatedAdaptation of the movies (they never reference events from it), more a series that just takes cues from it. It is set within the same universe as ''WesternAnimation/UltimateSpiderMan2012'' -- or least it ''was'', until the last two seasons suddenly switched over to being connected to ''WesternAnimation/MarvelsSpiderMan'' with no acknowledgement to the former show. [[ContinuitySnarl Your guess is as good as ours how that works.]]

** By this point ComicBook/NickFury resembling Creator/SamuelLJackson instead of his mainstream MarvelUniverse self hardly ''counts'' as a RaceLift anymore; the last time we saw his old design outside the comics was ''VideoGame/MarvelUltimateAlliance 2''.

* OffModel: While Tony remotely watches the other Avengers do their hero thing, trying to guess how or whether they will succeed Jarvis comments that if Tony were actually betting against himself, he'd owe fifteen billion dollars. This figure is accompanied by a flashing digital display of the number 15,000,000, which for those of us playing at home, is actually fifteen million.

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[[caption-width-right:313:Well, the old BattleCry seems kind of redundant now, eh?[[note]]Clockwise starting from the left: Clint Barton[=/=]ComicBook/{{Hawkeye}}, Bruce Banner[=/=]ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk, Sam Wilson[=/=]ComicBook/TheFalcon, Steve Rogers[=/=]ComicBook/CaptainAmerica, [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Thor the Thunderer]], Natasha Romanoff[=/=]ComicBook/BlackWidow and Tony Stark[=/=]ComicBook/IronMan[[/note]]]]

* AdaptationalVillainy: [[ComicBook/SquadronSupreme Hyperion]] gains the villainy of King Hyperion, his MirrorUniverse counterpart from ''ComicBook/{{Exiles}}''. As such, he's depicted as a sociopath who is revealed [[spoiler: to have destroyed his own planet when they wouldn't submit to his rule. However, given the rest of the Squadron Supreme appeared and how they behaved, it may be a downplayed version as they're more in line with the Squadron Sinister, though played straight with Power Princess and Nuke as the Squadron Sinister never had versions of them, and this version of Killmonger is far worse then his comicbook or movie counterparts]].

** "...Assemble", originally a series of shorts to introduce the All-New, All-Different Avengers, doesn't fit anywhere. It's Ms. Marvel's first day as an Avenger, and all the other All-New, All-Different characters are having a training session in Avengers Compound, while she discusses them with Captain America. In the actual series, all the All-New characters joined simultaneously, ''after'' the Compound was destroyed and Cap was sent to Dimension Z, and immediately had to fight the Cabal. On Disney+, the compilation version is placed just after the original Avengers are brought back, and presumably after the Compound was rebuilt, but that makes it ever weirder that Kamala is calling it her first day, and talking about her teammates as if she still hasn't met them properly.

** "...Assemble", originally a series of shorts to introduce the All-New, All-Different Avengers, doesn't fit anywhere. It's Ms. Marvel's first day as an Avenger, and all the other All-New, All-Different characters are having a training session in Avengers Compound, while she discusses them with Captain America. In the actual series, all the All-New characters joined simultaneously, ''after'' the Compound was destroyed and Cap was sent to Dimension Z. On Disney+, the compilation version is placed just after the original Avengers are brought back, and presumably after the Compound was rebuilt, but that makes it ever weirder that Kamala is calling it her first day, and talking about her teammates as if she still hasn't met them properly.

* "...Assemble", originally a series of shorts to introduce the All-New, All-Different Avengers, doesn't fit anywhere. It's Ms. Marvel's first day as an Avenger, and all the other All-New, All-Different characters are having a training session in Avengers Compound, while she discusses them with Captain America. In the actual series, all the All-New characters joined simultaneously, ''after'' the Compound was destroyed and Cap was sent to Dimension Z. On Disney+, the compilation version is placed just after the original Avengers are brought back, and presumably after the Compound was rebuilt, but that makes it ever weirder that Kamala is calling it her first day, and talking about her teammates as if she still hasn't met them properly.

** In Season 3, it was stated that prior to becoming Ant-Man, Scott Lang was a scientist who sold tech to supervillains, and it's implied that this is what landed him in jail. In Season 4, he's now stated to have been a former thief, much like his movie counterpart, but who's to say he hadn't done both?

** Season 5 ''Black Panther's Quest'' is a continuity nightmare. It's still officially listed as taking place after Season 4 ''Secret Wars'', but several characters are missing without explanation. The crossover with Spider-Man features the Spidey of ''WesternAnimation/MarvelsSpiderMan'' and '''not''' ''[[WesternAnimation/UltimateSpiderMan2012 Ultimate Spider-Man]]'' (a change that also carried on into ''[[WesternAnimation/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy2015 Guardians of the Galaxy]]'')! The changed character designs are also the same as in ''Marvel's Spider-Man''. When T'Challa meets with Attuma in Atlantis, he's a completely different character from the tyrant in the Red Skull's Cabal in the early seasons. It's like the show just hopped universes between seasons.

** "Under the Spell of the Enchantress" is essentially one big ''WesternAnimation/Frozen2013'' reference. The Enchantress takes over a frozen asteroid, has snowmen act as her servants, including one big one that "loves big hugs".

** The final season takes place in the same universe as ''WesternAnimation/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy2015'' and ''WesternAnimation/MarvelsSpiderman''.

** Despite Captain America's promise to redeem Bucky, now the Winter Soldier, the show seems to forget about this plot point between each of Bucky's appearances. This has yet to be resolved.

* ArtisticLicenseReligion: Valhalla being portrayed as the underworld ruled by Hela where people go when they die in "Valhalla Can Wait". In the actual mythology, the realm of the dead she rules is Helheim, and is the place where most people go when they die, while Valhalla is a Hall on Asgard where only the greatest warriors can go after their death. This is particularly jarring because it's one of the few points that the original comic and actual Norse Mythology ''agree'' on.