Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes, Season 2, Episode 23: New Avengers
Anyway, the episode quickly sets up the story -- the regular Avengers get wiped out from the timeline when Kang somehow breaks free. A brief flashback later on tells us that a bunch of alternate-universe Kangs, the Council of Ricks Kangs, freed him and tells him to clean his silly mess. Before Iron Man's "death", however, he managed to activate the New Avengers protocol, telling Jarvis to recruit a bunch of other heroes.
And the lucky heroes? First up, we've got everyone's friendly neighbourhood Spider-Man, who's ripped away from enjoying an Aunt May sandwich to being overwhelmed by the raptors and ninjas and robots coming out of the timeline. The other heroes are a bit more professional. Wolverine is feral as he slashes and murders raptors (offscreen to us, but not to poor Spider-Man). War Machine is all business, and we have him meeting the far more jovial Thing, leading to a fun little moment of confusion when the Thing is confused as to why Tony Stark somehow became a black man. Meanwhile, Iron Fist's voice actor kind of mangles Japanese pronunciation, while he and Luke Cage are all business as they kick ninja ass.

(And it's just about as well that they are reserve members, because I don't think Black Panther, Ms. Marvel, Yellowjacket and Vision even had two lines shared between them for the past three episodes.)
Overall, though, despite my jadedness about how this episode has been handling the actual Avengers, any excuse to see Spider-Man and Wolverine team up with a bunch of honestly charming characters is pretty rad. Kang is honestly kind of flat in his return, and both War Machine and Iron Fist are also kind of bland, but we get a lot of fun snarky dialogue from Luke Cage and Thing. Overall, an honestly pretty fun and grand little guest star episode. And also our last guest star episode, as we ratchet up towards a season finale.
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