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 desrt 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)”
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04) “The First Smash (Hulk's Story, Part 1)”
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05) “Great Power... Great Responsibility (Spider-Man's Story, Part 1)”
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06) “The First Avenger (Captain America's Story, Part 2)”
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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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