Avengers: Rise of the Masters of Evil

Summary
Avengers is a live-action marvel televison series about a group of superheroes (Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, Hulk, Spider-Man, Wasp, Ant-Man, Luke Cage, Hawkeye, War Machine, Wolverine, Black Widow and Black Panther) are joined together to save the world from being taken over by the Masters of Evil, a team of villains bent on destroying the Avengers and conquering the world. In the series, the Avengers will also face other dangerous villains of the Marvel Universe and other heroes will also make appearences in the series.

Genres
Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi and Thriller

Music by
Brian Tyler

Cast and characters
Robert Downey, Jr. as Tony Stark/ Iron Man

Chris Evans as Steve Rogers/ Captain America

Andrew Garfield as Peter Parker/ Spider-Man

Hugh Jackman as Wolverine

Mark Ruffalo as Bruce Banner / Hulk

Lou Ferrigno as The Hulk (voice)

Chris Hemsworth as Thor

Kevin Phillips as James Rhodes/ War Machine

Scarlett Johansson as Natasha Romanoff/ Black Widow

Jeremy Renner as Clint Barton/ Hawkeye

Columbus Short as Luke Cage

Eva Longoria-Parker as Janet Van Dyne/ Wasp

Nathan Fillion as Hank Pym/ Ant-Man

Djimon Hounsou as TChalla/ Black Panther

Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury

Cobie Smulders as Maria Hill

Masters of Evil
Tom Hiddleston as Loki

Chelan Simmons as Enchantress

Hugo Weaving as Red Skull

Topher Grace as Eddie Brock/ Venom (leaves the Masters of Evil at the end of season 2)

Liev Schreiber as Victor Creed/ Sabertooth

Tim Roth as Abomination

Ray Stevenson as Deadpool

Nathan Jones as The Executioner

Jeremy Irons as Ultron (joins in season 2)

Other Heroes and Villains
Jeff Bridges as Iron Monger

Mickey Rourke as Whiplash

Peter Dinklage and Andy Serkis as MODOK

David Thewlis as Baron Zemo

Sebastian Stan as Winter Soldier

Vin Disel as Absorbing Man

Ty Burrell as The Leader

Nika Futterman as The Skrull Queen (voice)

Kevin Michael Richardson as Super Skrull (voice)

John DiMaggio, Steven Blum, Nolan North and Troy Baker as The Skrulls (voices)

Ian McKellen as Magneto

Rebecca Romijn as Mystique

Aaron Stanford as Pyro

Vinnie Jones as Juggernaut

Eric Dane as Multiple Man

Gerard Butler as Shocker

Kevin Spacey as Mysterio

Sean Bean as Scorpion

Robbie Coltrane as Kingpin

Chris Lee as Vulture

Chris Eccleston as Electro

Brock Lesnar as Rhino

Vincent Cassel as Whirlwind

Gary Oldman as Klaw

Jackie Earle Haley as Carnage

Mark Strong as Doctor Doom

Ron Perlman as Thanos (voice)

Anthony Hopkins as Odin

Ray Park as Iron Fist

Matt Damon as Daredevil

James Marsden as Cyclops

Kelsey Grammer as Beast

Josh Holloway as Gambit

Shawn Ashmore as Iceman

Anna Paquin as Rouge

Season 1
Episode 1: Assemble (part-1): The episode begins when Thor defeats Loki in Asgard and Odin banishes him to Earth. At first, Loki sees this as a problem, but soon sees this as an opportunity to become the ruler of Earth. Three days later, he meets with some of his asgardian allies, Enchantress and Executioner, who plan to help him create a team of Earth's super villains called the Masters of Evil. Another two weeks later, Nick Fury calls together various super heroes that are allies of S.H.I.E.L.D. and tells them that the world is in danger because of a new group of super villains known as the Masters of Evil who are led by Thor's brother Loki. He then tells them that S.H.I.E.L.D. needs their help to defeat this new evil and that the heroes must join forces to become a group of super heroes called the Avengers.

Episode 2: Assemble (part-2): After their defeat at the hands of the Masters of Evil, the Avengers return to the S.H.I.E.L.D. helicarrier. Iron Man blames Captain America for the teams failure and Cap blaims Tony, so the two leave the Avengers. Soon, the remaining heroes find the Masters of Evil who are breaking into a S.H.I.E.L.D. base. The heroes ask Fury why they would be doing this, but he does not answer. When the Avengers leave, Black Widow asks Fury if he is going to tell them soon and he replies that he dosen't plan to. When the Avengers battle the Masters of Evil, they are defeated more easily then before and are about to be killed when the heroes are saved by Iron Man and Captain America, who decide to rejoin the Avengers. Loki then reveals to the heroes their plan in an attempt to turn the Avengers against S.H.I.E.L.D. The heroes are then told that the villains are trying to steal a wepon that S.H.I.E.L.D. posseses called the Cosmic Cube, which a very dangerous villain of WWII is imprisoned, but this does not turn the heroes against S.H.I.E.L.D., but the villains are then able to get to the Cosmic Cube and release the villain, Red Skull, who joins the Masters of Evil. The Avengers then work together to defeat the Masters of Evil.

Episode 3: Hail HYDRA: A HYDRA of the modern Earth, led by Baron Zemo, attacks a S.H.I.E.L.D. base and steal a experimental S.H.I.E.L.D. weapon. After S.H.I.E.L.D. fails to stop them, the Avengers are sent after the group. As they follow the villains, Cap has flashbacks of his last days in WWII when he fought against Rad Skull alongside his sidekick Bucky who he lost during the battle. As Cap's flashback ends, the Avengers find the HYDRA base. The heroes break in and battle HYDRA forces and it is revealed that Baron Zemo is planning to use the S.H.I.E.L.D. weapon to destroy New York by amplifying it's power with gamma radiation. The heroes move in to defeat Zemo, but are attacked by Zemo's personal guard, the Winter Soldier. Captain America thinks that he looks alot like Bucky. Zemo orders Winter Soldier to battle the others while he deals with Captain America. While the Avengers battle Winter Soilder an Cap battles Zemo, Zemo tells Cap about who Winter Soldier really is and that he created him from Bucky. After Cap is told this, he promises to save Bucky and continues to battle. At the end of the battle, Winter Soldier and Zemo are defeated, but the two escape and set the base to self destruct, however, the Avengers are able to escape before the base self destructs. While the Avengers return to the S.H.I.E.L.D. helicarrier, Baron Zemo talks to HYDRA technician George Tarleton about how they would like to use him as a test subject for an experiment which will increase his intelligence and he accepts the offer.

Episode 4: Ready, A.I.M, Fire: George Tartleton is turned into MODOC, Mobile Organism Designed Only for Computing, but turns on the scientists who created him and kills them. He then renames himself MODOK, Mobile Organism, Disigned Only for Killing. He then betrays HYDRA, believing that he is to intelligent to be controlled by someone and starts a new group called A.I.M. He then starts a war with HYDRA and the two terrorist organizations begin to battle. Although S.H.I.E.L.D. doesn't have any problems with this at first, hoping that the two groups will destroy each other, but soon, the two groups begin to start battles in Manhattan, so Nick Fury sends the Avengers to stop their war.

Episode 5: Iron Monger: One night, thugs attack Tony at Stark Enterprises and because they catch him off guard, they are able severly hurt him, but he is saved by Rhodes. Stark tries to interorgate one of the thugs, but is unable to get any information. Tony plans to see if more thugs will come the next night and hides out at Stark Enterprises the next night. When the thugs arrive, they are accompenied by Obadiah Stane, an old friend of Tony's father and his mentor. While hiding, Tony discovers that Stane is trying to kill Tony so he can take his armour. Tony tries to get to his armour, but he is heard by one of Stane's thugs and is beaten by the rest of the thugs while Stane steals the Mark I and Mark II armours, but before Tony is killed by the thugs, he is saved by Rhodes and a squad of SWAT members. Most of the thugs are arrested by the SWAT team, but Stane escapes. He hideas out at an old abandones HYDRA base and there, he uses the technology there to creat a new suit of armour from Mark I and Mark II. He is successful and creates a new suit which he wears and plans to use to destroy Tony and take over Stark Industries. He then dubs himself Iron Monger and goes on a rampage looking for Tony. After Tony and Rhodes find out about this, they get the Avengers to back them up.

Episode 6: The Black Panther: One of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s most dangerous criminals, Klaw, escapes imprisonment and the Avengers are called in to stop him. They follow him to the African nation of Wakanda where he finds a large deposit of the mineral Vibranium. Using this Vibrainium he easily defeats the Avengers, so the Avengers must get help from The Black Panther, King of Wakanda. When they try to get his help though, he refuses to get involved with their enemies. In the end of the episode, Black Panther decides to help them and the Avengers defeat Klaw. Black Panther then joins the team.

Episode 7: Shocking: The Shocker breaks out of prison and gets back his technology. He then plans to take revenge on Spider-Man and now Spider-Man is going to have to get help from the Avengers to stop him.

Episode 8: Prison Break: The Masters of Evil plan to break every super-powered criminal out of the Vault and now the Avengers must stop them before they can free the criminals. In the end of the episode, the Avengers stop the Masters of Evil. To make sure that the criminals are kept in prison, Ant-Man gives his latest invention, Ultron, to S.H.I.E.L.D.

Episode 9: The Master of Magnetism: Magneto and the Brotherhood of Mutants plan to wipe out all humans in New York City and it's up to the Avengers to stop them.

Episode 10: Doomed: After Doctor Doom threatens to destroy Washington D.C. with nuclear warheads, the Avengers are sent to Latveria to stop him, although they are only able to stop him when the robot Ultron is sent to help by S.H.I.E.L.D. At the end of the episode, Ultron's eyes glow red.

Episode 11: The Avengers vs The X-Men (part-1): The Masters of Evil join forces with A.I.M and the Brotherhood of Mutants to take revenge on the Avengers. When Loki meets with Magneto and MODOK to find a way to destroy the Avengers, Magneto tells Loki that there is still a chance that they will fail since they have all been defeated by the Avengers before. Loki then tells him that they must then find new enemies to battle them. MODOK suggests using mind control on other heroes and Magneto then says he knows the perfect heroes... the X-Men.

Episode 12: The Avengers vs The X-Men (part-2): With Wolverine, Spider-Man and War Machine as the last of the Avengers not captured by the Masters of Evil, A.I.M and The Brotherhood, they decide to recruit other heroes to help them rescue the Avengers.