History ComicBook / AvengersDisassembled

Without government support, and without financial support from Stark (who was nearly bankrupt), the Avengers had no other choice but to break up.

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* FaceFramedInShadow: Wanda, in part 1. Not ominous at all, no siree...

* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Wanda. A bereaved mother gone out of her head with grief -- with the power to change reality on a whim. Lampshaded by Doctor Strange when he elaborated upon how dangerous it is for a Woobie to even possess power as vast as Wanda's simply because they will inevitably become this trope.

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** StupidSacrifice: When he was resurrected later, Hawkeye explained that he thought it was his moment of glory at the time. The others - and the audience - [[IdiotBall disagreed]], since he had plenty of time to just ''take off his quiver''. Hawkeye wound up feeling rather embarrassed by the whole affair.
** Being shot like that would leave him seriously injured though, right? Even if he had taken the quiver off, he'd have been in no condition to fight and probably would've been killed by something else in the mayhem.

* DarkerAndEdgier: The story itself isn't all ''that'' much darker than the average Avengers-story, DownerEnding aside, but it marked the start of Marvel taking a more openly deconstructive direction in their storytelling, with the Superhero community more consistently divided and fighting each other. After this story, there was at least one CrisisCrossover every few years, including such [[SarcasmMode optimistic tales]] as ''House of M'', ''Civil War'', ''World War Hulk'', ''Secret Invasion'', and ''Dark Reign''. Even after a break from this pattern with the ''Heroic Age'' line of comics, Marvel soon started putting out more of these stories such as ''Avengers VS X-Men'' an ''Axis'' and ''Civil War II'', finally culminating in ''Secret Empire''. Simply put, this story set the early catalyst for several major heroes to try and take a more large-scale approach towards doing good, and they repeatedly bungled up and fought amongst themselves because of it.

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* RetCanon: The ''Spectacular Spider-Man'' tie-in featured Peter getting mutated briefly and coming out of it with organic web-shooters like in the ''FilmSpiderManTrilogy''.

* WhamEpisode

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''Avengers Disassembled'' is a 2004 storyline of Comicbook/TheAvengers, that details the dissolution of the "classic" team and sets up ''ComicBook/HouseOfM'' and ''Comicbook/NewAvengers''.

At the climax of it all, Comicbook/DoctorStrange appears in his astral form, and tells them that the ComicBook/ScarletWitch's chaotic powers are to blame for this -- the memory of her lost children has driven her insane and taken all the checks off of her reality-warping powers. He engages Wanda in magical combat and [[MindRape turns the Eye of Agamotto against her]], leaving her in a coma. Her father Magneto takes her away to Genosha to take care of her.

* AliensSpeakingEnglish: Invoked. They capture a Kree who was talking in BlackSpeech. Since they know he can speak English, they order him to use a language they could understand.

* CanonDiscontinuity: The Chaos Magic, Agatha Harkness and other things associated to Wanda's power

* DarkerAndEdgier: The story itself isn't all ''that'' much darker than the average Avengers-story, DownerEnding aside, but it marked the start of Marvel taking a more openly deconstructive direction in their storytelling, with the Superhero community more consistently divided and fighting each other. After this story, there was at least one CrisisCrossover every few years, including such [[SarcasmMode optimistic tales]] as ''House of M'', ''Civil War'', ''World War Hulk'', ''Secret Invasion'', and ''Dark Reign''. Even after a break from this pattern with the ''Heroic Age'' line of comics, Marvel soon started putting out more of these stories such as ''Avengers VS X-Men'' an ''Axis'' and ''Civil War II'', finally culminating in ''Secret Empire''. Simply put, this story set the early catalyst for several major heroes to try and take a more large-scale opproach towards doing good, and they repeatedly bungled up and fought amongst themselves because of it.

* DroppedABridgeOnHim --> PutOnABus: Both in a row for Kesley Leigh, Captain Britain.

* NeverLiveItDown: Twice, both invoked.
** Henry Pym whines about never being able to live down the creation of Ultron, that everyone will always remember him because of that, and Tony Stark had a similar problem with his old alcoholism.
** Also during his drunk tirade, Tony yells at Pym about having a wife to beat up.

There came a day, a day unlike any other, when Earth's mightiest heroes found themselves in sudden and unexpected crises, each one worse than the one before. Tony Stark, while giving a speech at the UN (and completely sober), suddenly became intoxicated and began to insult the delegate of Latveria. Jack of Hearts, who had been dead, appeared at the door of the mansion... and exploded, killing Scott Lang. The Vision returned in a Quinjet, crashed it into the mansion, and released five Ultrons from his body. She-Hulk lost control during the battle and became as savage as the Hulk. The UN broke relations with the Avengers because of Stark's outburst. All of the heroes who had once been Avengers showed up to help... and the alien Kree launched an all-out attack. [[HeroicSacrifice Hawkeye died]] during in battle, taking out a Kree ship.

At the climax of it all, Comicbook/DoctorStrange appeared in his astral form. He told them that the ComicBook/ScarletWitch's chaotic powers were to blame for this -- the memory of her lost children had driven her insane and taken all the checks off of her reality-warping powers. He engaged Wanda in magical combat and [[MindRape turned the Eye of Agamotto against her]], which left her in a coma. Her father Magneto took away to Genosha to take care of her.

* AliensSpeakingEnglish: Invoked. They captured a Kree who was talking in BlackSpeech. Since they knew he could speak in English, they ordered him to use a language they could understand.
* BadCopIncompetentCop: Nick Fury get really angry when this trope came into play. What do you mean you have no sensor readings? There is a fraggin' Kree ship out there, shooting at the city!!! But don't be too hard on them, they were not prepared to deal with magic.
* BreakingTheFellowship: This storyline was the end of the Avengers as we had known them.
* BreakTheCutie: She-Hulk is always the LifeOfTheParty, but here she suffers a lot. She saw a friend killed for no reason, lost control like the Hulk and killed the Vision, controlled by the Scarlet Witch.

* CantGetAwayWithNuthin: Poor Tony Stark. After a long battle against the bottle, he got drunk... without actually drinking.

** When closing the mansion, Stark mentioned that he had stored and taken away all the fancy materials and technology. Still, when the ComicBook/YoungAvengers fought against Kang in the abandoned mansion a pair of months later, they had no problem in finding several old weapons of the Avengers.
** And the infamous one -- Doctor Strange told the Avengers that there was no such thing as "chaos magic," despite having used it himself in his own solo series. This was later explained by Chthon himself, who said that the Sorcerers Supreme and others had tried to limit his power by saying that there was no such thing as chaos magic.

** For all the dramatic build-up, Wanda was defeated pretty easily by Doc Strange in the end.

* DefectorFromDecadence: The UN may be seen as such.
* DiabolusExMachina: The string of catastrophes which hit the Avengers.

* DyingMomentOfAwesome: Hawkeye will not die simply because of an explosion of his arrows at his back. Not, that's too mundane for him. He has to take a Kree soldier, use his jet pack, fly into the motor of the main ship, and make it blow up. ''That'' is a fine way to die!

* FailedASpotCheck: On seeing Jack of Hearts back, Scott tries talking to him, not finding anything wrong about the face he's looking a little undead.

* AGlitchInTheMatrix: As Nick Fury realized, the Kree had all the power they needed to blow up the city from their ships, so why did they send land troops against the Avengers? This was a sign that the invaders were not the real Kree, but the Kree as imagined by the Scarlet Witch.

* InternalHomage: The last issue, before breaking up, the Avengers remembered some of their greatest adventures or moments. Each flashback drawn by a different artist.
* JustAMachine: Said by She-Hulk when she destroyed the Vision. Forgive her: she was not being herself. When Vision is rebuilt later (just before ''Comicbook/AvengersVsXMen''), he goes after She-Hulk and they have a heart-to-heart, with him forgiving her and her very depressed over what she did and, at the same time, relieved that her friend was back.

* RealityWarper: The Scarlet Witch became one.

* RetGone: Agatha Harkness is dead... but she did not die during this story. She died several years ago, and the times we saw her, it was the Scarlet Witch making things up.

There came a day, a day unlike any other, when Earth's mightiest heroes found themselves in sudden and unexpected crises, each one worse than the one before. Tony Stark, while giving a speech at the UN (and completely sober), suddenly became intoxicated and began to insult the delegate of Latveria. Jack of Hearts, who had been dead, appeared at the door of the mansion... and exploded, killing Scott Lang. The Vision returned in a Quinjet, crashed it against into the mansion, and released five Ultrons from his body. She-Hulk lost control during the battle and became as savage as the Hulk. The UN broke relations with the Avengers because of Stark's outburst. All of the heroes who had once been Avengers showed up to help... and the alien Kree launched an all-out attack. [[HeroicSacrifice Hawkeye died]] during in battle, taking out a Kree ship.

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* DarkerAndEdgier: The story itself isn't all ''that'' much darker than the average Avengers-story, DownerEnding aside, but it marked the start of Marvel taking a more openly deconstructive direction in their storytelling, with the Superhero community more consistently divided and fighting each other. After this story, there was at least one CrisisCrossover every few years, including such [[SarcasmMode optimistic tales]] as ''House of M'', ''Civil War'', ''World War Hulk'', ''Secret Invasion'', and ''Dark Reign''. Even after a break from this pattern with the ''Heroic Age'' line of comics, Marvel soon started putting out more of these stories such as ''Avengers VS X-Men'', finally culminating in ''Civil War II'' and ''Secret Empire''. Simply put, this story set the early catalyst for several major heroes to try and take a more large-scale opproach towards doing good, and they repeatedly bungled up and fought amongst themselves because of it.

* DarkerAndEdgier: The story itself isn't all ''that'' much darker than the average Avengers-story, DownerEnding aside, but it marked the start of Marvel taking a more openly deconstructive direction in their storytelling, with the Superhero community more consistently divided and fighting each other. After this story, there was at least one CrisisCrossover every few years, including such [[SarcasmMode optimistic tales]] as ''House of M'', ''Civil War'', ''World War Hulk'', ''Secret Invasion'', and ''Dark Reign''. Even after a break from this pattern with the ''Heroic Age'' line of comics, Marvel soon started putting out more of these stories, finally culminating in ''Civil War II'' and ''Secret Empire''. Simply put, this story set the early catalyst for several major heroes to try and take a more large-scale opproach towards doing good, and they repeatedly bungled up and fought amongst themselves because of it.