If you guys don't have access to this show, I suggest that you find a way to watch it. This show is Marvel gold. I have loved every episode so far and can't wait to keep watching. So far, each episode has basically been an introduction to an individual member of the Avengers. Namely, Iron Man, Thor, The Hulk, and Captain America respectively. I have really loved the way that this show sets the characters up so they each have their own little story arcs, while still building towards the stories where they finally team up. Basically, it's a stripped-down version of the MCU.
Iron Man is Born!
In his story, we see Tony Stark fight off giant robots sent from HYDRA. The action scenes are very fun and comicbook-esque. Tony Stark (not surprisingly) saves the United Nations from the horrendous fate they would have had to face if HYDRA's robots had succeeded in destroying them. We then see some HYDRA goonies getting dragged off by Nick Fury and Maria Hill to a super secret prison where many super secret things are kept.
The man who does the voice of Tony Stark in this series sounds ridiculously like Robert Downey Jr. and it was really throwing me off for most of the episode. But I really liked the portrayal. Also, Pepper Potts in this series is just as protective and worried as she is in the MCU. I think we should just crown her the Ultimate Worrier. Nick Fury seemed to be hiding something so I'm really looking forward to discovering his character a little more.
Thor The Mighty
This episode was a really fun watch. We get Thor smashing some huge Frost Giants, and then later, decimating the Wrecking Crew on Earth; where he also meets Jane Foster, a paramedic who was sent to help clean up the Wrecking Crew catastrophe. There's also a really cool battle between Thor and Loki involving a lot of lightning and magic. Loki has some really cool powers that we have never seen in the MCU (here's hoping we will get some in Thor 3!). We're talking like dark magic that was used in many different ways. The most we've seen Loki do between two Thor movies is move some furniture and make things appear differently than they would without magic. I'm really hoping Marvel will help him flesh out some cool powers in later movies.
Overall, this episode was really enjoyable. It ended on an unfinished note regarding the whereabouts of Loki so I have no doubt that he will be back later. He has a lady friend who also appears to have magical abilities, so between the two of them, I'm sure they can come up with a dastardly plan that will require the efforts of multiple Avengers.
Hulk vs. The World
I don't know that the title is really explanatory of the episode, so I'll go ahead and try to explain what happened. We open on Bruce Banner running away from a very large armored tank in Las Vegas. General Ross appears to know that Banner is somewhere in the city and plans on capturing him. Bruce gets to a diner and runs into one of the "abominations" that were captured and experimented on by SHIELD. They have an epic fight and Black Widow and Hawkeye eventually join in to help stop them. Hulk destroys his opponent and Bruce Banner is taken back to the Vault were SHIELD takes some of his blood in an attempt to try and "cure him." Bruce, however has an inkling that they merely want to make more creatures like The Hulk.
Meanwhile, Hawkeye spots Black Widow being super secretive and hacks into her profile and finds a transmission from her to HYDRA scheduling the pick up of SHIELD information. He follows her and she turns on him at the last minute, telling SHIELD that Hawkeye is the traitor. Some HYDRA and SHIELD agents get taken down and Hawkeye is captured. Black Widow (in a discombobulating Russian accent) declares that she is now in the clear and is still working as a double-agent for HYDRA.
This was a really interesting twist that I honestly didn't see coming. Everyone knows that Black Widow has a lot of gray area thinking when it comes to her morals, but I wasn't sure that a betrayal from her would come so soon in the series. I'm liking where this is going, though. I almost wonder if she is a triple-agent. How long can she really keep a facade for SHILED? And speaking of SHIELD, I'm really not surprised that they may be trying to make more beings like The Hulk. They've had a history, at least in the MCU, of trying to use an Infinity Stone to create weapons of mass destruction. They want to keep themselves and everyone else on Earth protected, so it makes sense, but I feel like they usually go about in in the wrong way while also trying to keep it a secret from everybody. Also, I've really been enjoying the sass that comes from Hawkeye. We need more of this in the MCU.
Meet Captain America
This episode was interesting because it was essentially a flashback. Someone who I'm guessing now will be a "bad guy" later figures out that Captain America is the reason for his timestream being disrupted. So he uses a really fancy computer system to "travel back in time" and watch the day that Captain America, Bucky, and the Howling Commandos try to take down the Red Skull. He realizes that when Captain America fell in the ocean, he didn't die, but instead, he was just frozen for 70 years.
I really liked the storyline of this episode. It was fun to see the Howling Commandos almost exactly as they were in the MCU. However, I did not like Bucky. He looks like he's a kid who just tagged along with Captain America one day and Cap was just too nice to say no. His outfit was kind of ridiculous. He was pretty much the Robin to this Captain America's Batman. I didn't like the look or personality of the character at all. I'm sure they'll do the Winter Soldier arc, and I will love that. But as of right now, Bucky is not high on my list of most-loved characters in this series. The MCU wins that one. I'm betting that, like in the MCU, wince we didn't necessarily see the Red Skull die, that he will probably be back at some point in this series. I love the "origin" stories, but I'm ready for the Avengers to finally be able to team up.
Tell me that outfit doesn't look ridiculous. I don't know. Maybe it's just me.
I will get back to Guardians of the Galaxy comics extremely soon and be back with my review of Issue #5. Until then, remember that it's okay to be a fan of Bruce Banner just because he can turn into an enormous green rage monster. It's pretty cool.
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