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'Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes' Canceled

It's a sad day for comic fans but there might be a bit of good news with this.

For months there's been rumors that The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes was going to be canceled. This didn't make any sense since the show was so well received along along with the fact that the movie was so successful. The show did a lot to prepare audiences for the movie and was appearing to be a possible place to try out new ideas like Guardians of the Galaxy or Beta Ray Bill to gauge what audience reaction would be.

Sadly, Marvel released an official press release (according to Marvel TV News) stating the series would not be renewed for a third season.

What's the good news?

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Marvel will replace EMH with their own new show, Avengers Assemble in 2013.

Why? What's the difference. I guess this new show would be completely produced and under Marvel's control. In many ways, that will be a good thing. It's just unfortunate that EMH has to go away.

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Edited By Omega Ray Jay

That's a real shame and quite the double edged sword, loved this show.

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Edited By the_stegman  Moderator

Sigh, why does everything I love always die?

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Edited By airbound_dude

once again marvel has given the axe to something that was not broken. this one joins spectacular spider man in the list of great shows that were cut down before their time...so sad

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Edited By comix christian

Never really got into this show, hopefully Avengers Assemble will have better animation, 'cause EMH looks really, really bad (Is it just me or does the second season look even worse then the first?) And the story seems to be going nowhere second season, just a lot of poorly animated guest stars...

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Edited By laabitres

i know im kind asad thi sshow was awesome but its all good now marvels in control they been messin up on allot n DC has been doin better in about everything but movies lol

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Edited By ms__omega

Great another good show gone :(

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Edited By shackle

I'd be willing to bet the new show will be superior, and the whining over the demise of EMH is going to look pretty silly when AA debuts.

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Edited By DanialCarroll

I hope the new show is as good or better, because the Spidey cartoon is just lame.

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Edited By texgnome1

From what I understand, this is completely at the direction of Jeph Loeb. He wants to replace it with somethign else. Yet another example of "fixing" something that isn't broken. *sigh*

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Edited By Webjaker

I JUST caught up to the most current episode last night and was thinking how amazing the show was and that they couldn't possibly cancel it ....RARRRGHLLL.

If this new show DOES happen and has the same Voice cast, then fine!

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Edited By jcbart

I never really liked Earth's Mightiest Heroes. The animation style was not to my liking, and I thought they threw far too much into the mix. Hopefully with Avengers Assemble, it'll be more focussed and more driven. The poster looks good, so I'm excited to see what Marvel offers us on their own!

Also, can this confirm that we'll be seeing Falcon in the Cinematic Universe very soon? To include the six MCU Avengers (especially with Hawkeye in a very Ultimate/MCU uniform) and then Falcon? They're clearly using this cartoon to get more children into Marvel and hopefully into the movies, so it makes a lot of sense to introduce them to characters here before the MCU.

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Edited By ambigu0us

That's just frustrating.

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Edited By Avenging-X-Bolt

I'm f\|~in done with animated Marvel. I'm not putting up with their crap a second longer.

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@jcbart said:

I never really liked Earth's Mightiest Heroes. The animation style was not to my liking, and I thought they threw far too much into the mix. Hopefully with Avengers Assemble, it'll be more focussed and more driven. The poster looks good, so I'm excited to see what Marvel offers us on their own!

Also, can this confirm that we'll be seeing Falcon in the Cinematic Universe very soon? To include the six MCU Avengers (especially with Hawkeye in a very Ultimate/MCU uniform) and then Falcon?

I completely agree. And I bet Falcon will be in Captain America 2.
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Edited By NightFang3

@Danial79 said:

I hope the new show is as good or better, because the Spidey cartoon is just lame.

Avengers Assemble is said too be set in the same universe as Ultimate Spider-Man.

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Edited By starrk_coyote

i guess this new avengers show will be a Serious take on the avengers..... :)

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Edited By BigBDawg

It really is a double edged sword that Avengers EMH is gonna be cancelled. I wonder how Avengers Assemble will do, especially with the rumor of it being set in the same universe as Ultimate Spider-Man. Ialso wonder besides Steve, Tony, Thor, Bruce, Clint, Natasha, and Sam who else will show up in it.

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Edited By fps_dean

I wasn't a huge fan of the animation style of EMH, but overall I am a huge fan of the show. I thought they did a good job with the storylines and everything else though.

I hope Avengers Assemble is at least just as good.

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@shackle said:

I'd be willing to bet the new show will be superior, and the whining over the demise of EMH is going to look pretty silly when AA debuts.

Yeaaah, and some people were willing to bet that Ultimate Spider-Man would be better than Spectacular Spider-Man. Guess that the whining over the demise of that show looks silly now, right?

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Edited By zackattack529

Animated Marvel got Nothing on DC animated ;)

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Edited By Lots_Of_Love

I never understood why people didn't like Avengers EMH art style it was inspired by Jack Kirby.

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Edited By Mutant God

Assemble better not be alligned with Ultimate Spider Man

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Edited By deadpool25mm

No!!! this show was awesome!!! whyyyyyy!!!

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No doubt we'll watch the new show in our house, but what a shame. Ultimate Spider-Man is a piss-poor show compared to Spectacular, and I have little hope Assemble will be better than Earth's Mightiest Heroes. Really, my big question for Marvel is, "Great, now are you going to make a decent Avengers comic that my son (or the public) can read?"

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Edited By danhimself

I really hope that it's not going to be similar to Ultimate Spider-man...that show is horrible

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Edited By gmanfromheck

This, of course, says it all.

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Edited By daedalus25

Ugh. What's the point of this, Marvel? Once again trying to fix something that's already working perfectly. (Just like you're doing with Ms. Marvel.)

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Edited By grifter78

I'm sorry Tony, but Earth's Mightiest Heroes was not a good show. It was very basic and boring. I hope they take more time on Avengers Assemble.

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Hopefully this will be like Ultimate Spiderman, pretty excited

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Edited By Baddamdog

That's a real shame. I heard they're trying to create an animated universe again, so this will be in the same style as Ultimate Spider-man so the two can inter cross

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Edited By I_Stay_Puft

This is the one few comic book shows that I've been able to stomach over the past 10 years. No real gimmicks, just really good writing with snippets and nods to the comics. Is there any news how many episodes season 2 will end on?

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Marvel making bad decisions and canceling another successful show? So shocking.

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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! I love Avergers:EMH. I read that Avengers Assemble is going to be more kid-like as Ultimate Spider-Man. Sucks that Ant-Man, Wasp, Black Panther, and Wasp are going to be replaced by Falcon and Black Widow. LAME!

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Edited By BritishMonkey

and all of this is jeph loebs fault

fucking loeb

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R.I.P you crappy show.

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@TheHeat said:

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! I love Avergers:EMH. I read that Avengers Assemble is going to be more kid-like as Ultimate Spider-Man. Sucks that Ant-Man, Wasp, Black Panther, and Wasp are going to be replaced by Falcon and Black Widow. LAME!
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@grifter78 said:

I'm sorry Tony, but Earth's Mightiest Heroes was not a good show. It was very basic and boring. I hope they take more time on Avengers Assemble.

"Basic"? "Boring"? Bwahahahahahah, who said there were no comedians on the internet?

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@Or35ti said:

The style of animation looks a lot cooler than Earth's Mightiest Heroes, which I never was able to get into.

THAT'S NOT THE STYLE OF ANIMATION!!!!!!!!!!

That's just a promo shot of the costumes used.

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@Or35ti said:

The style of animation looks a lot cooler than Earth's Mightiest Heroes, which I never was able to get into.

You do know that picture is not going to be the style of animation, right? That's just a promo poster drawn by some comic book artist.
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i hate this. EMH is the best marvel cartoon in years. excellent series. if the new cartoon is anything like ultimate spider-man. i will not be happy.

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Edited By ArtisticNeedham

It could end up being a really great show, but them canceling a show I already watch and love to put on a new show makes me not want to give the new show a chance.

In an interview I read recently Loeb said that EMH started after he became in charge of Marvel media (or whatever his job title is, I don't remember) and also said that they want less serial shows or more stand alone episodes to shows that you can miss one and still not miss the story. You can skip one episode and not worry that you have to get caught up. In some ways this is what I loved about EMH and what I still love about Young Justice. The intricate storylines that evolve and shape the season. But in other ways I lived shows like Timm's Batman and Superman which were also less serialized. So maybe that wont change things. I want to see what the character designs will look like and how the animation is, before I fully judge the new show. But replacing EMH with this new show reminds me of when they fired Norm McDonald from Weekend Update and replaced him with Colin Quinn, the anger from the fans never let Quinn show what he could do I think. I might actually like this new show if they hadn't destroyed a show I love to make it.

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@chrisrea said:

No doubt we'll watch the new show in our house, but what a shame. Ultimate Spider-Man is a piss-poor show compared to Spectacular, and I have little hope Assemble will be better than Earth's Mightiest Heroes. Really, my big question for Marvel is, "Great, now are you going to make a decent Avengers comic that my son (or the public) can read?"

My thoughts exactly my friend.

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Edited By Doitmikestyle

Yeah, this is too bad. However, for all you whackos out here complaining how BAD and LOUSY this show is, IT IS A KIDS SHOW that happens to be pretty good for adults to watch as well-Stop being nerds. My kids and I love this show and watch a new episode every weekend, we have already caught up with all the episodes(The Vision) for this season. Sad it is gone. Lets hope the AA movie is very close in story type as EMH.

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Edited By Overlander

EMH has been the best comic book show of all time.

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Well if this show isn't better than emh then I'm going to be mad.

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Edited By DragonRex1

So where's the GOOD news?

Marvel has proven they SHOULDN'T have full control over the animated stuff with Ultimate Spider-Man.

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They never utilized the Hulk anyway so C'est la vie. lol

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Edited By CircularLogic

There gonna feel really bad announcing this, especially when Ultimate Spider-man gets inevitably cancelled since no one seems to really like the show, critic or fan. This is gonna bit them on the @ss, just saying.

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Edited By benhoot

New theme song tho

"We will fight as one, until the battles won, one times one is one, forever fight as one!"