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The finale begins with Iron Man meeting Captain America for their weekly Roof-Top Real-Talk. Tony expresses his concerns about how the world is becoming so much more dangerous with all of the enemies The Avengers have been fighting, like The Kree, or Kang, or, worst of all, Krang. Before Steve can tell Tony to kick back and relax with a candlelit dinner, Galactus happens. Well, actually, Terrax, Air-Walker, Firelord, and Starfust arrive as Galactus’s heralds and tell Earth it’s going to get eaten. Interesting choice on the showrunners’ part of leaving out the Silver Surfer in favor of the other heralds; instead of the usual “Silver Surfer learns humanity and turns away Galactus with the nullifer without the other heroes really doing anything!” shtick that’s been done a million time, we get what Mightiest has always been strong on: The Avengers kicking ass. On the other hand, the inclusion of the lesser-known heralds led to one of the very few times I’ve ever watched something comic-book related and gone “Who the hell is that?”
After the Avengers unsucessfully try to get Terrax to stop screaming about consuming Earth; a gigantic ship appears above New York City, its occupant unknown to anyone who has never picked up a comic book. While wondering who this “Galactus” is, Steve brings up that the Skrulls mentioned a “Galactus” devouring their homeworld a few episodes; something he should have really mentioned to someone since. Just a little note before one of the meetings. Steve then calls in for backup from every character featured on this show: Scott Lang Ant-Man, The Hulk, The New Avengers led by Drake Bell Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four, The Heroes for Hire, War Machine, Howard the Duck, and Justice League of America’s Vibe. The larger group of Avengers break up into four groups across the world to stop the Heralds the only way they know how: Punch. There’s also a genuinely great moment where Yellowjacket (who should not be on the team for psychological reasonsm but hey! Superheroes!) responds to Mr. Fantastic’s plea to approach Galactus’s ship cautiously by shooting a hole in it and asking “What’s he going to do? Eat us more?”
While Drake Bell and others are fighting off The Heralds; Tony, Hank, Reed, Ms. Marvel, and Doc Samson fly into Galactus’s ship. There, they find the Devourer of Worlds in sleep mode. Taking advantage of the moment, Yellowjacket fires a shrink gun at Galactus Unfortunately, Galactus just regrows himself, because having Galactus be defeated solely by Hank Pym would be too incredible for any human to bear witness to.
Meanwhile, all of the other Avengers destroy The Heralds’ towers through the power of punching. Galactus, displeased with this development, teleports off to laser some Avengers. Galactus’s unhappiness is narrated by Drake Bell in case you didn’t catch that he was ticked off. Through the sheer power of plot convenience, Galactus reconstructs the towers himself, raising the question of why he didn’t just arrange them himself when it only takes him three seconds. Tony mentions this costing Galactus precious energy, but as he so succinctly states “That doesn’t matter now.” Galactus begins devouring the planet, when Reed says a bunch of science that includes the word “anti-matter.” This inspires Tony to build a new gate to The Negative Zone so they can trap Galactus in a never ending universe of Anti-Matter he’ll never finish consuming.
After a climactic battle with Thor, Galactus is sent away to the Negative Zone. Two incredibly well done moments, ruined a few seconds later by a fart joke by Drake Bell. With that, a bunch of passerbys, who should probably try to go home and find their families or something, praise The Avengers for saving the planet and presumably beat up Drake Bell Spider-Man behind a shed.
Review Score: 8/10 – While it felt a little rush, this was a pretty interesting and action-packed twist on the “Galactus Episode” that nearly every Marvel cartoon does.
