is headed by Monica Rappaccini (Jolene Andersen)[20][21] and George Tarleton / MODOK (Usman Ally), who is severely mutated as a result of the events of A-Day.
[22][23] Other villains include Emil Blonsky / Abomination (Jamieson Price),[24] Tony Masters / Taskmaster (Walter Gray IV),[25] and Loki (Travis Willingham).
(Harry Hadden-Paton),[28] Hank Pym (Danny Jacobs),[29] Phil Sheldon (Walter Gray IV),[30] Nick Fury (Charles Parnell), Maria Hill (Jennifer Hale),[31] Dum Dum Dugan (Greg Baldwin),[32] Jimmy Woo (Aleks Le),[33] Dante Pertuz (Michael Johnston), Cerise (Cherry Thompson),[34] Yusuf Khan (Brian George), Justin Hammer (Nicolas Roye), Lucky the Pizza Dog, Shuri (Erica Luttrell), Okoye (Debra Wilson), Zawavari (Dave Fennoy), Liz Allan (Elizabeth Grullon), and Mark Raxton (James Arnold Taylor).
The ceremony is interrupted by a terrorist attack led by Taskmaster, which leads to the Chimera's Terrigen Crystal-powered core exploding and Captain America's apparent death.
San Francisco is destroyed and blanketed by Terrigen Mist in the aftermath, which causes numerous individuals to involuntarily manifest superhuman powers as Inhumans, including Kamala.
Five years later at her home in Jersey City, Kamala discovers damaged video footage which seemingly implicate a scientist named Tarleton in Captain America's death.
During their search for parts to help Stark, Kamala and Banner stumble upon the Ant Hill, an Inhuman sanctuary and the Resistance's headquarters run by Hank Pym.
While in custody, she learns Rappaccini's efforts to make an Inhuman cure are unsuccessful, leading Tarleton to prioritize the manufacturing of Adaptoid androids.
restores the footage which shows Captain America ordering Tarleton to seal him inside so he can destroy the Chimera's reactor, apparently causing the explosion.
Stark upgrades his suit to achieve space travel and infiltrates the satellite where he discovers Captain America is alive and placed in suspended animation so Rappaccini could harvest his blood to power the Adaptoids and covertly accelerate Tarleton's mutation.
Reassembled, the Avengers deduce that Rappaccini hired Taskmaster to hijack the Chimera and steal the Terrigen Crystal, which unearthed the buried object in the bay.
After Captain America offers her a chance to join the Avengers, Bishop leads the team on a raid, during which they discover Rappaccini is in contact with a future version of herself and that Hawkeye apparently works with her.
Several weeks after falling into a coma, Hawkeye dreams about his future self searching for Fury and coming across a time gate built by Pym.
While mourning for the future Hawkeye, the Resistance, S.H.I.E.L.D., and the Avengers work to find the present Fury's whereabouts and properly use Project Omega to stop the impending Kree invasion.
T'Challa attempts to use Wakanda's Kimoyo network to locate Klaue, but the latter hijacks and damages it before capturing and killing Shuri's research team.
Before so, knowing that she will not be able to defeat Odin, she made a temporary truce with Loki Laufeyson, allowing the god of mischief to kill the fallen All-Father while he is off-guard on focusing his fight against Jane-Thor.
Until the day during his time trained by Red Room, Bucky fell in love with Black Widow, who partially restored some of his humanity and past memories.
For three years since Captain America's presumed demise in A-Day, A.I.M., particularly Monica acquired Red Room's assets to brainwash Bucky once more and experiment on him.
[35] More than two years later at E3 2019, Square Enix hosted a press conference that shared more details on the game, including a full trailer and release date.
The 14-minute presentation showcased a trailer made from in-game footage, a brief description of the gameplay including characters, multiplayer and customization, and a preview of the actors behind the game.
[38] Marvel's Avengers was originally set to release on PlayStation 4, Stadia, Windows, and Xbox One on 15 May 2020, but was pushed back to 4 September, to adjust and polish the game.
[45] Crystal Dynamics studio head Scot Amos stated the exclusivity of Spider-Man came from Marvel and Sony's existing partnership, and clarified that he was meant to be the only console-exclusive character.
"[80] Electronic Gaming Monthly said "Marvel's Avengers squanders the potential of what might have been a fun superhero romp by grafting on an annoying, overly repetitive games-as-a-service component.
Playing as the cast of heroes offers decent thrills, and the campaign tells an enjoyable enough story, but odds are good you'll get bored long before you grind your way to the top.
"[74] IGN gave the game 6/10, praising its combat, superhero flavor and campaign, but criticizing its technical issues, loot system and recycled, repetitive end-game.
[83] Gene Park of The Washington Post noted that only over a thousand players were playing Avengers on PC, which he described as "an early and worrying symptom of a dying live service game.
After receiving a statement from Crystal Dynamics, he advised players, "There are plenty of other games out there to play, and as much as I would love to engage my superhero fantasies on a daily basis, nonstop for weeks on end, it's not currently happening in Marvel's Avengers.
[91][92] This move followed an update in March 2021, which altered the progression system to make the leveling-up process take significantly longer than it did when the game first launched.
"[95] Dave Trumbore of Collider felt it was a "too-short introductory outing" for Kate, whom he described as "[bringing] an energy on par with Kamala Khan's youthful spirit and Tony Stark's sharp wit to the team, though it's her tool kit of melee/ranged/teleporting skills that are a cut above on the battlefield.
[102][103] Despite initial strong sales, Avengers failed to turn a profit for Square Enix, with the publisher reporting an estimated loss of $63 million for their latest fiscal period at the time.