The Avengers: United They Stand (TV Series)

The Avengers: United They Stand, often shortened to just The Avengers, is the animated television series featuring The Avengers team in the Marvel Animated Universe. The show aired thirteen episodes starting October 30th, 1999 until February 26th, 2000.

The show is often considered the worst Marvel animated series ever created.

Characters
The series primarily used characters from The West Coast Avengers. Heroes included Ant-Man, Falcon, the Vision, the Wasp, Wonder Man, Tigra, Hawkeye, and Scarlet Witch. Both Hawkeye and Scarlett Witch previously appeared in Iron Man. Despite appearing in promotional images and in the title sequence, The Avengers' "Big Three" (Captain America, Iron Man, and Thor) were featured, though Captain America and Iron Man guest appeared with Thor slated to appear in the second season.

Other characters that appeared were Ultron, Kang the Conqueror, Egghead, the Masters of Evil, the Grim Reaper, the Zodiac, the Swordsman, the Circus of Crime, the Sub-Mariner, Attuma, Agatha Harkness and the Salem's Seven. In the first episode Beast, Black Panther, Hulk, Namor, Quicksilver, and two unknown heroes were seen in portraits.

Toys
The show was heavily criticized for it's complimentary toy line. The Avengers' costume were redesigned so that every character had "battle armor." There were battle armors for every occasion such as suits designed for jungle, ultra-armor, undersea, and space. In addition each character had their own personalized armor instead of being generic enough for everyone. In addition, the main villain Ultron would change designs quite often. All this seemed to suggest that the producers wanted to sell many different action figures.

Cancelation
Like Silver Surfer the series was cancelled after one season after Marvel's bankruptcy problems. And like Silver Surfer, scripts for a second season were started but never made.