4/5
Written by Luke Barnes
Summary
Someone is killing off Earth’s Mightiest Heroes, what would a world look like where the Avengers never formed?
The concept of this is far more interesting than the previous Star Lord episode, that is already a point in its favour as far as I am concerned.
I thought it was a little awkward how Black Widow centric this episode is considering what is going on with Scarlett Johansson and Disney in the real world, however she is not voiced by Johannsson here. I thought the mystery was actually quite well done and surprising, and much like the first episode this is a reality I would like to explore again in later seasons of the show.
The one thing I would say about this episode in a negative light is that it is the first time within the show were I have thought how limiting the ‘no new characters’ rule is. Can you imagine the finale of this episode whereby Nick Fury stands with a whole different team of Avengers to defeat Loki, maybe with some faces we have not even met yet, personally I think it would have been a hugely exciting moment.
That aside I think this is a fairly strong episode, I enjoyed the voice cast and thought everyone seemed to be having fun especially Lake Bell as Black Widow and Clark Gregg as Agent Coulson.
Overall, fun and with a dense premise rich for further exploration.
Pros.
The mystery
Bringing back scenes from The Incredible Hulk
The ending
Coulson and Black Widow
Cons.
They should have used the death of the Avengers as a spring board to introduce some new characters.
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