The Avengers: United They Stand
Series, 1999, The late '90s, Set in Avengers Mansion
The Avengers: United They Stand is #20 of 22 in release order and #20 of 22 in chronological order in the Fox Kids Classics.
The story
When the planet is threatened by Super Villains, time traveling conquerors, alien invaders, mythical monsters or mad robots bent on the total destruction of humanity, when the forces of evil are so overwhelming that no single hero has the power to save the world, when there is no hope left… the AVENGERS ASSEMBLE!
The Avengers: United They Stand recap
The Avengers: United They Stand (1999) sets an Avengers team led by Ant-Man against classic Marvel villains in a New York about 25 years in the future. Eric and Julia Lewald developed it for Marvel Studios and Saban, and it ran for 13 episodes on Fox Kids from October 30, 1999, to February 26, 2000. Hank Pym, as Ant-Man and Giant-Man, leads the Wasp (Linda Ballantyne), Wonder Man, Tigra, Hawkeye (Tony Daniels), the Falcon, the Scarlet Witch (Stavroula Logothettis) and the Vision. Licensing issues kept the core trio out: Captain America and Iron Man guest in one episode each, and Thor appears only in the opening titles. Fox commissioned the series after the success of Batman Beyond, which is why the producers moved the setting into the future. The team faces Ultron, Kang the Conqueror, Egghead, Baron Zemo's Masters of Evil, the Grim Reaper and the Zodiac, along with the Swordsman, the Circus of Crime, Namor and Attuma. A running thread pairs the Scarlet Witch with Wonder Man, whose fragile health she works to restore, while his brother, the Grim Reaper, attacks the Avengers in revenge for what happened to him. Late episodes take the Scarlet Witch and the Vision to Agatha Harkness and into a fight with Nicholas Scratch and the Salem's Seven.
The Avengers: United They Stand ending explained
The Avengers: United They Stand ends with "Earth and Fire: Part 2," aired February 26, 2000. Someone is after an ancient meteorite buried beneath an island, the source of disruptions in the Earth's magnetic fields; the Wasp has to face her father's old business partner, Cornelius Van Lundt, and the Avengers have a final showdown with the Zodiac. It closes the season rather than the story, since Fox Kids cancelled the series after 13 episodes. Marvel's next Avengers cartoon, The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes, arrived in 2010.
Where to watch The Avengers: United They Stand
The Avengers: United They Stand is streaming on Disney+ in the US. You can rent or buy it on Amazon, Apple TV, and Google Play.
Ratings
IMDb 5.2/10
Where it fits
- Release order: after Digimon: Digital Monsters, before Spider-Man Unlimited.
- Chronological order: after Digimon: Digital Monsters, before Spider-Man Unlimited.
Cast
- Linda Ballantyne as Wasp (voice)
- Tony Daniels as Hawkeye (voice)
- Ron Rubin as Vision (voice)
- Martin Roach as Falcon (voice)
- Rod Wilson as Ant-Man (voice)
- Lenore Zann as Tigra (voice)
- Stavroula Logothettis as Scarlet Witch (voice)
- John Stocker as Ultron (voice)
- Hamish McEwan as Wonder Man (voice)
- Graham Harley as Jarvis (voice)
- Francis Diakowsky as Iron Man (voice)
- Dan Chameroy as Captain America (voice)