Welcome to Boomb Tube, where all of your favorite TV shows and Ultimate Spider-Man recapped on a weekly basis! This week: We’re going to party like it’s May 3rd, 2012 because it’s nothing but Avengers!! Spoilers ahead!
With DC Nation delayed until January and Ultimate Spider-Man off feeding on some farmers’ livestock, the only cartoon I have to review this week is Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes. Shenanigans kicked off when an imprisoned Captain Marvel (not the female one, the other one. No the other other one.) warning the Avengers that the Kree Armada is totes going to Earth to wreck some business. Conveniently, the Kree showed up at that moment to put a wormhole near the sun so the Kree could take over the solar system by splitting the sun in half. Can’t say those fellas don’t have initiative! The Avengers, with the help of Abigail Brand, Agent of SWORD; fight off Kree ground invaders seeking to free Ronan the Accuser and Mar-Vell from prison. Everyone struggles against the invisible Kree stealth squad. Everyone except Black Panther, because he’s just Batman times a million on this show. After learning about the wormhole-ripper-gate-thing, The Avengers fly off to stop the sun erupting; leaving Brand alone against the Kree with Yellowjacket who I would like to remind everyone is goddamn insane. Thankfully, everyone in the show acknowledges this fact, including Hank when he almost lets a bomb kill everyone just so he can mess with Brand. Billy Joel Armstrong screams at a few teenagers and he goes to rehab; Hank Pym fakes his death, develops a more violent personality, and pretends to murder several snake men, and he’s welcomed back onto the team. This is why people say they don’t understand superheroes.
Back in space, The Avengers keep fighting the Kree while developing a plan to shut down the sun-wormhole-plot-device. Iron Man says a bunch of sciency sounding words until Cap gives up and screams at Hawkeye to just shoot out the wormhole machines. Hawkeye does, because he is Hawkeye. Everything’s going all fine and dandy until the group realizes that someone is going to have to also drive the Kree ship in order to cancel out the wormhole. T’Challa volunteers, because he is just incredible. Cap urges T’Challa not to sacrifice himself until Tony reminds everyone how Cap was foretold by Kang to just utterly screw everything up for Earth. Cap shrugs and lets Black Panther fly into the sun. Before anyone has time to mourn, the rest of the Avengers are transported right into the middle of a huge fleet of Kree ships. With only two episodes left, Earth’s Mightiest Heroes is setting itself up for a huge finale, with Black Panther dead, an entire armada of Kree to fight, and the prom tomorrow, The Avengers are going to have one epic finale.
Score: 8.5/10 – With the ending coming up, Avengers is getting more and more exciting. A fantastic show to watch.
Next week: Back to Ultimate Spider-Man, and The Avengers fight off against the Kree. All of the Kree.
