The Avengers in Animation

Sixty years of animated Avengers, from a 1966 series drawn by photocopying the comics to a show that was retitled every year.

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Where to start with The Avengers in Animation

None of these connect to each other. Eleven separate attempts at the same team across sixty years, by five different studios in two countries, and not one of them is a sequel to another. So this is not a story order. It is the order worth watching them in, best first.

  1. 1
    The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes (2010) The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes

    Start and possibly stop here. Fifty-two episodes that adapt the comics closely, build a real arc, and assume nothing. It is the one people recommend, and it was cancelled while it was still good.

  2. 2
    Ultimate Avengers: The Movie (2006) Ultimate Avengers: The Movie

    If you want a film rather than a series. Seventy-two minutes, and it tells the origin cleanly.

  3. 3
    Ultimate Avengers 2: Rise of the Panther (2006) Ultimate Avengers 2: Rise of the Panther

    A direct sequel to the first, and the only sequel on this page. Black Panther is in it twelve years before his film.

  4. 4
    The Marvel Super Heroes (1966) The Marvel Super Heroes

    Worth ten minutes as a curiosity rather than as a programme. The animation is the actual comic panels, photocopied, with the mouths moved.

Then what? Avengers Assemble replaced Earth's Mightiest Heroes and ran six years under five different subtitles; it is lighter and less regarded. The Super Hero Squad Show is for small children. The three Japanese productions are hard to find in English and Disk Wars never aired in America at all. United They Stand is the one nobody defends.

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The First One

  • The Marvel Super Heroes 1966, 1 season, 65 episodes

The Nineties Attempt

  • The Avengers: United They Stand 1999, 1 season, 13 episodes

Straight To Video

  • Ultimate Avengers: The Movie 2006
  • Ultimate Avengers 2: Rise of the Panther 2006
  • Next Avengers: Heroes of Tomorrow 2008

The Disney XD Era

  • The Super Hero Squad Show 2009, 2 seasons, 52 episodes
  • The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes 2010, 2 seasons, 52 episodes
  • Avengers Assemble 2013, 5 seasons, 127 episodes

The Japanese Ones

  • Marvel Disk Wars: The Avengers 2014, 1 season, 51 episodes
  • Avengers Confidential: Black Widow & Punisher 2014
  • Marvel Future Avengers 2017, 2 seasons, 39 episodes

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