MARVEL UNIVERSE (1996 series)

Exploding out of the Marvel Universe are its greatest heroes and most notorious villains! A savage, mutating Scorpion tears through New York City, and not even Spider-Man can stop him! But help soon arrives in the form of the rock-skinned Thing, and the two squash the Scorpion. To reverse his mutation, the Thing takes the Scorpion to the X-Men, where he is met by the Beast (who will do his best to cure the villain) and Wolverine, who will make sure he doesn't get out of line!

Exploding out of the Marvel Universe are its greatest heroes and most dangerous villains! On a rampage in New York City's Central Park, the villainous Carnage is stopped by the combined efforts of the web-slinging Spider-Man, the X-Men's Rogue, and the star-spanning Silver Surfer! Holding Carnage in a special containment cell, the team hands over their prisoner to the Avengers' War Machine. The armored warrior then takes off for the high-tech super-prison, the Vault, with Carnage in tow.

Exploding out of the Marvel Universe are its greatest heroes and most powerful villains! When a Stark Enterprises' scientist captures Venom in order to create a symbiote army, Spider-Man and Iceman team-up to stop him! Joined by the X-Men's Phoenix, the trio are able to destroy the laboratory and end the madman's plans! Putting the scientist into the custody of Iron Man, Phoenix leaves the Earth for deep space, fearing the return of her dark side.

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Attempting to use a magical amulet to become ultimately powerful, the Hobgoblin and Skinner unwittingly create a rift in time and pull out a being from the far future! Unable to control the amulet's magical powers, the villians [sic] are quickly defeated when Wolverine and Spider-Man show up to investigate the disturbance. Using their combined knowledge, even Spider-Man and Wolverine find themselves unable to reverse the amulet's effect. Taking a last-chance shot, Wolverine pierces the amulet with his adamantium claws, destroying it and releasing the energy it possessed, and closing the rift in on itself.

Employing the mysterious entity known as the Protector, the villainous Doctor Doom wages war against the X-Men! Stunning Wolverine with his powerful electrical blasts, Doctor Doom successfully breaches the X-Mansion's security systems. But when the X-Man from the future, Bishop, arrives with help from the Avengers' Iron Man, Doom and the Protector have met their match! Trading energy blast for energy blast, the four warriors fight to a standstill, when suddenly Wolverine recovers from his wounds and turns the tide for the heroes, sending both Doom and the Protector on their way!

Excitement abounds when Spider-Man in his civilian guise as photographer Peter Parker, investigates the disappearance of Tony Stark. Following clues to an abandoned warehouse, Parker is shocked to find a captive Stark held by the infamous criminal, the Kingpin. Realizing even Spider-Man would be outnumbered by the Kingpin's many heavily armed henchmen, he calls on his old friends the Human Torch, and the X-Men's Cyclops. Swinging into action alongside the Torch and Cyclops, the amazing duo release Stark while holding their own against the henchmen. Finally reaching his special suitcase, Stark is able to transform into the invincible Iron Man, making the battle a quick one for the heroes to win!

When the evil Apocalypse learns that the Mandarin is using the timestream in order to take over the world, he manipulates the world's greatest super heroes to stop him. Tricking Iron Man and Wolverine as well as the mysterious Ghost Rider into attacking the Mandarin, the heroes stop his master plan. But when the heroes realize they have been controlled by the villainous Apocalypse, they make a vow to defeat him too, whatever it takes!

When Genesis appears in Washington D.C. with the intention of releasing a super-virus to the city, the greatest heroes of the Marvel Universe arrive to stop him. Swinging in over the tops of monuments, Spider-Man is suddenly attacked by the savage Sabretooth who is now working to protect Genesis. Unable to get to the capital, the job is left to the Thing and Iron Man in his special Stealth Armor. Making a frontal attack against the villain, the Thing is able to keep Genesis' defenses busy enough for Iron Man to fly in and capture the viral canisters before they can be used.

Something dangerous is lurking in Manhattan by the light of the full moon. Soon, the mutant Wolverine encounters the monsters of science, Morbius the living Vampire and Halloween Jack! Wolverine is able to hold his own for a short time against the villains before luring them into a holographic trap set by Iron Man with the help of the steel skinned X-Man Colossus. The heroes seal the two monsters in an adamantium containment dome.

Misled by Mysterio's holograms, the bestial Man-Spider and Dragon Man set out to tap the geothermal energy of the Savage Land to power Mysterio's greatest illusion--The disappearance of the sun. Knowing the world's governments will pay billions to have the sun restored, Mysterio sends his two unwilling henchmen deep into the antarctic to work the massive machinery. Mysterio's plans are foiled when the invincible Iron Man disables the energy tap and contacts Cable to destroy Mysterio's illusion inducing satellite.