Breakout (The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes)

"Breakout (The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes)"

Breakout is the name of the first two episodes of the animated television series The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes. It was originally broadcast on Disney XD in the United States on October 20, 2010. Part 1 originally aired on October 22, 2010 and Part 2 originally aired on October 29, 2010 on Teletoon in Canada.

Plot

Part 1

After Iron Man stops an A.I.M. arms trade between them and Lucia von Bardas, on behalf of Doctor Doom, he transports them to the Vault, where he lears of the attempted break-out of Baron Von Strucker from Jimmy Woo. He passes inspecting the prison and begins is return to New York. Meanwhile, Hank Pym talks with Mad Thinker to see what he meant when he referred to the villains in the super prisons as "soon being free". Also onboard, Wasp tells Maria Hill that she declines joining SH.I.E.L.D., given the organization's secrecy that's best highlighted when the two run into agent deemed classified. Bruce Banner is still trying to warn Leonard Samson about SHIELD's alterior motives for keeping him imprisoned, but Leonard is adament on curing Bruce. Meanwhile Hawkeye sits silently in his cell at the Vault, after having being framed by the double agent, Black Widow. Just then, all four super prisons' security systems shut down, allowing the combined 74 supervillains to escape. The tech-based foes in the Vault raid the armory keeping their weapons, until Hawkeye begins to stop them. Iron Man is alerted and immediatley returns to the Vault. The radiation based villains of the Cube break loose, during which Leonardis exposed to Gamma radiation when the deactivates and is injured by Zzzax. Bruce becomes the Hulk and escapes with Samson to safety, heading for the nearest civilized area. The villains try to follow him, but the Leader orders them to remain, for they have "work to do". The Pym particle-enhanced Big House's prisoners are freed, and the prison itself grows back to normal size, causing massive damage to the Helicarrier it was kept it. After crashing in the Hudson, Nick Fury learns of the other prisons' situations and realizes the same must be happening the secret fourth prison, the Raft.

Part 2

A flashback to 10 years before reveals Graviton's origin. In the present, Iron Man is outnumbered by old enemies at the Vault. To escape and fight Graviton, Tony self-destructs the Vault, but his armor was damaged and he radios a replacement from his Chicago tower. Thor, Hank Pym, and Wasp try to fight Graviton. Later, they are joined by Hulk and Iron Man and with their combined power they defeat Graviton and form the Avengers in order to catch the remaining 74 supervillians that escaped the four prisons.

Critical reaction

Brian Lowry of Variety called The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes!, "a slick but dizzyingly busy Disney XD animated program. If not the creative equal of Cartoon Network's superhero team-up Justice League from rival DC Comics, the show unleashes enough action to be plenty mighty with boys, as well as middle-aged guys with comics in Kevlar bags". Kofi Outlaw of Screen Rant called it "a fairly entertaining experience that should appeal to Marvel fans and cartoon fans alike, be they young or old. For all the positive things about it, however, Earth’s Mightiest Heroes still doesn’t quite reach the acclaimed status of DC Universe and their animated projects". Stephen Lackey of Mania.com stated, "Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes doesn’t compare to something like Justice League in animation or in story, but it is a step in the right direction for a Marvel animated product and it did end up being really entertaining".

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