Micro-Episodes of "Avengers Unleashed"

The pilot episodes of Avengers Unleashed.

Featured Characters

 * Avengers (first appearance; assembled)
 * Captain America / Steve Rogers (first appearance) (flashback and main story) (origins revealed)
 * Iron Man / Tony Stark (first appearance) (flashback and main story) (origins revealed)
 * Thor (first appearance) (flashback and main story) (origins revealed)
 * Hulk / Bruce Banner (first appearance) (flashback and main story) (origins revealed)
 * Black Widow / Natasha Romanoff (first appearance)
 * Hawkeye / Clint Barton (first appearance)
 * Spider-Man / Peter Parker (first appearance) (flashback and main story) (origins revealed)

Captain America's segment

 * United States Army
 * Howling Commandos (first appearance) (flashback only)
 * James Buchanan "Bucky" Barnes
 * Dum-Dum Dugan
 * James Falsworth
 * Jim Morita
 * Gabe Jones
 * Jacques Dernier
 * Strategic Scientific Reserves (first appearance) (flashback only)
 * Col. Chester Phillips
 * Sgt. Duffy
 * Project Rebirth
 * Dr. Abraham Erskine (first appearance) (flashback only)
 * Stark Industries
 * Howard Stark (first appearance) (flashback only)
 * S.H.I.E.L.D.
 * Captain Marvel / Carol Danvers (first appearance)
 * Nick Fury (first appearance)

Iron Man's segment

 * Ho Yinsen (single appearance; dies)
 * Pepper Potts (first appearance)

Spider-Man's segment

 * Mary Jane Watson (first appearance) (flashback and main story)
 * Uncle Ben (single appearance; dies)

Hulk's segment

 * Betty Ross (first appearance)
 * Wasp / Janet Van Dyne (first appearance)

Thor's segment

 * Odin (first appearance)

Premise
Twelve micro-episodes centering on the origins of Captain America, Iron Man, Thor, Hulk, Spider-Man and the foundation of the Avengers respectively.

01) “Out of Time (Captain America's Story, Part 1)”
In the Arctic sea, Captain Marvel is melting some gigantic ice blocks until she discovers the frozen body of Captain America, who is heard narrating: "It's been for about 70 years... and I still ask myself: "How am I still here?"... "How am I still alive?"... if you call this just alive.". Scene shifts back to the year of 1945, when an sickly Steve Rogers was being subjected to Dr. Abraham Erskine's "super-soldier" experiment, fromwhich he emerged taller and more muscular. Shortly after, he also survived an explosion in the lab (which resulted in Erskine's death) caused by Red Skull's spy Heinz Kruger, whom Rogers then pursued and apprehended for interrogation. Scene then shifts to Rogers, in the moniker of Captain America, and his fellow Howling Commandos - James Buchanan "Bucky" Barnes, Dum-Dum Dugan, James Falsworth, Jim Morita, Gabe Jones and Jacques Dernier - assaulting the Red Skull's Hydra Base, where Captain America and Bucky pursue Skull in his airship the Valkyrie in a chaotic battle which causes the three to fall off the destroyed ship to their apparent deaths in the Arctic sea.

02) “Heart of Steel (Iron Man's Story, Part 1)”
In a desert of war-torn Afghanistan, Tony Stark, near death after beig critically wounded by one of his own company's rocket-propelled grenades which was used by his captors, awakens to discover that Professor Yinsen, a fellow captive who is a doctor, implanted an electromagnet into Stark's chest to keep the shrapnel shards which wounded him from reaching his heart and killing him. After secretly building a small, powerful electric generator called an Arc Reactor to power Stark's electromagnet and a prototypical suit of powered armor, Stark and Yinsen manage to make thier escape. Battling tneir way through the cave and destroy the stolen weapons before they can be sent to Hydra. Though they succeed, Yinsen is caught in the explosion and greatly injured. He has Stark promise him to take care of his daughter Toni Ho before dying as Stark sighs in relief, but saddened by his friend's death.

03) “For Asgard! (Thor's Story, Part 1)”
It begins with the flashback of a young Thor standing before the statues of the ancient Allfathers and kings of Asgard and swearing to honor their memory by doing what must be done to protect those in need of him. In Present Day, a ceremony is being held in Asgard by Odin for his son Thor, who is knighted by his father Odin as the Lord of Thunder and gifted with his war-hammer Mjolnir. Later, Thor overhears of the Jötun (frost giants from Jotunheim) attacking a village near Odin's castle and, followed by Sif and the Warriors Three (Fandral, Hogun and Volstagg), goes there to battle them. Right when he was the last Frost Giant at his mercy, Thor overhears a child from the village of who the mastermind behind the invasion is: Loki, who had allowed the Jötun as another attempt for the throne of Asgard. Thor confronts Loki at the Bifrost Bridge and, after a long fight, Thor manages to stop Loki from completing his device, which would be used to destroy the other Nine Realms, and take him to the Throne Room to stand trial. As punishment for his treachery (which previously cost the life of Thor's half-brother Balder), Loki is banished to the Frost Giant's realm of Jotunheim. Though pleased with the safety of Asgard, Thor expresses concern that Asgard is not the only realm which was threatened by Loki's schemes. Odin agrees with his words as Thor pays his last respects for Balder and leaves to protect Midgard / Earth as Odin heard saying: "May the Allfathers of the past guide you, my son.".

04) “The First Smash (Hulk's Story, Part 1)”
It all starts with Dr. Bruce Banner in a hospital bed being analysed by nurses as he remembers what happened; one month ago, he was working with colleague and girlfriend Betty Ross, within the Berkeley Biotechnology Institute on nanomed research to achieve instantaneous cell repair by using low level Gamma radiation exposure to turn on the nanomeds once they were introduced into a living organism, planning to use it to cure all from sicknesses such as cancer and Alzheimer's, though they got harassed by Major Glenn Talbot who planned to use their work to forge super soldiers (which Banner and Betty were reluctant to agree with due to the possible consequences). During routine maintenance of their appropriated gamma-ray spectrometer, a circuit shorted and triggered the experiment's program sequence. Unable to prevent the machine from firing, Banner threw himself in front of a colleague to shield the man and was exposed to a massive amount of gamma radiation. In Present Day, Banner sees and overhears from the outside Betty's father General Ross and his men (including Talbot) arriving to take Banner in and collect his DNA sample. Just as Betty is forced out of their way, Banner, seeing their act as a threat, gets angered enough to transform into the Hulk, fighting back against Ross' troopers and destroying their equipment. Hulk almost kills Ross and Talbot until Betty calms him down. Unable to finish Ross off in front his of daughter, Hulk forcibly flees saddened as Betty angrily scolds and scorns her father for ruining everything. As Betty also leaves tearfully with Dr. Leonard Samson comforting her, Hulk is shown sitting in the top of a building ashamed of his acts.

05) “Great Power... Great Responsibility (Spider-Man's Story, Part 1)”
It all starts with Peter Parker feeling ill in the school bus as he is comforted by Mary Jane. Just then, he starts having visions of Steve Rogers' transformation into a super soldier before he wakes up feeling well as if he was feeling nothing. As he goes home, Peter is heard narrating: "Well, apparently this is how it all started. A nerdy student who's treated by the popular guys like a little nobody until the first step of his big change goes by.". A short flashback plays in three hours ago, on which Peter and his classmates were attending to a field trip in a Oscorp research lab and left, but not before one of the facility's enhanced spiders follows Peter and bites him. Next day, Peter goes to school on foot and oddly, he arrives even before the school staff arrives. Suddenly discovering that the spider which bit him phisically enhanced him; making him stronger, faster and able to leap higher places and climb walls. This new trait allows him to humiliate the schools' finnest sport players in Basketball and Football. Having been taught and persuaded by Uncle Ben that a 'Great Power will also come with a Great Responsibility', Peter later uses his new tricks to help contribute with his neighborhood, though he also gets in a fight with Manuel, one of school's resident bullies, who got jealous of Peter's seemly new popularity and stalks him out of rage of being humiliated in front of his girlfriend Sally Avril (who broke up with him earlier). In the issuing mayhem, Manuel's car is hijacked and stolen by a unknown burglar. Suddenly, Peter overhears a gunshot and Sally screaming. Just then, Peter finds in horror his uncle Ben laying in the ground dead as Peter mourns his uncle and Sally comforts him.

06) “The First Avenger (Captain America's Story, Part 2)”
It starts with Steve Rogers walking around the streets and visiting a graveyard as he mourns his war colleges, who died years after World War II was over. A short flashback plays, showing Captain America being frozen in the Arctic sea along with Bucky and Red Skull before, decades later, being found still alive by S.H.I.E.L.D. agents guided by Captain Marvel, though Bucky and Skull are not found. Rogers is later comforted by Carol Danvers as they meet with the deccendants of his colleges, including Sharon Carter, who takes a secret liking to him. Remembering Dr. Erskine's supportive words, Rogers regains confidence as he vows to battle alongside his new allies against the new forces of Hydra while honoring the memory of his deceased friends. Scene shifts to Red Skull (frozen, but still alive) being found by Arnim Zola along with Bucky, who being experimented on by Madame Hydra.

07) “Armored Avenger (Iron Man's Story, Part 2)”
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08) “Asgardian Avenger (Thor's Story, Part 2)”
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09) “Incredible Avenger (Hulk's Story, Part 2)”
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10) “Webbed Avenger (Spider-Man's Story, Part 2)”
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11) “Hail Hydra! (the Avengers' Story, Part 1)”
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12) “Avengers Assemble! (the Avengers' Story, Part 2)”
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