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* ActionGirl: Danielle Cage, the now grown-up daughter of Luke Cage and Jessica Jones, is the leader of the new Avengers team, and she’s inherited the mantle and powers of ''Thor''.
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* HeelRealization: Grant was a desperate man who underwent a procedure to create new {{Super Soldier}}s for Doom's army because he had no money. After beating up protesters and seeing his comrade about to strike a mother and child, be betrayed Doom and decided to become a hero.

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* HeelRealization: Grant was a desperate man who underwent a procedure to create new {{Super Soldier}}s for Doom's army because he had no money. After beating up protesters and seeing his comrade about to strike a mother and child, be he betrayed Doom and decided to become a hero.
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* KillEmAll: [[spoiler: Doom systematically hunts down and eliminates the remaining villains who helped mastermind the supervillain uprising (Comicbook/{{Ultron}}, Count Nefaria, Doctor Octopus and Baron Strucker), purposefully setting himself up as the last remaining BigBad the Avengers have to face.]]
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* EndOfAnAge: [[spoiler: The end of the VillainWorld that the Wastelands has been for decades, as the old villains are dying one by one. Even Doctor Doom, who has killed the remaining masterminds of the uprising, is slowly dying himself from cancer.]]
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* BigBad: Doctor Doom is the final big enemy the new Avengers have to face.
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* BackForTheDead: Ultron (yes, the same version who is married to Hawkeye’s ex-wife and works as a mechanic) returns in the first issue, only to shortly afterwards become the first ex-villain to be hunted down and terminated by Doctor Doom.
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* AWorldHalfFull: Sure, this is a world where the villains won and killed most of the heroes. However, thanks to the efforts of Old Man Logan, a new team of Avengers has emerged to take on the bad guys. [[spoiler:In the end, most of the villains that took over the world have been killed and the state of society while not perfect is gradually moving towards a bright future with a new age of heroes]].

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* AWorldHalfFull: Sure, this is a world where the villains won and killed most of the heroes. However, thanks to the efforts of Old Man Logan, a new team of Avengers has emerged to take on the bad guys. [[spoiler:In the end, most of the villains that took over the world have been killed and the state of society while not perfect is gradually moving towards a bright future with a new age of heroes]].heroes]].
* YourDaysAreNumbered: [[spoiler: Doctor Doom, as it turns out, has terminal cancer.]]
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* AWorldHalfFull: Sure, this is a world where the villains won and killed most of the heroes. However, thanks to the efforts of Old Man Logan, a new team of Avengers has emerged to take on the bad guys [[spoiler:and in the end, most of the villains that took over the world have been killed and the state of society while not perfect is gradually moving towards a bright future with a new age of heroes]].

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* AWorldHalfFull: Sure, this is a world where the villains won and killed most of the heroes. However, thanks to the efforts of Old Man Logan, a new team of Avengers has emerged to take on the bad guys [[spoiler:and in guys. [[spoiler:In the end, most of the villains that took over the world have been killed and the state of society while not perfect is gradually moving towards a bright future with a new age of heroes]].

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''Avengers of the Wastelands'' is a 2020 comic by Ed Brisson and Jonas Scharf. It is the last story set in ''ComicBook/TheWastelands''.

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* AffirmativeActionLegacy: The black female Danielle Cage inherits the mantle of Thor from the white Scandinavian Norse god of the same name, who is already dead in this universe.
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"Avengers of the Wastelands" is a 2020 comic by Ed Brisson and Jonas Scharf. It is the last story set in ''ComicBook/TheWastelands''.

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"Avengers ''Avengers of the Wastelands" Wastelands'' is a 2020 comic by Ed Brisson and Jonas Scharf. It is the last story set in ''ComicBook/TheWastelands''.
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* AWorldHalfFull: Sure, this is a world where the villains won and killed most of the heroes. However, thanks to the efforts of Old Man Logan, not only has a new team of Avengers emerged [[spoiler:but the evil overlords that conquered the planet have been killed and the world can start rebuilding]].

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* AWorldHalfFull: Sure, this is a world where the villains won and killed most of the heroes. However, thanks to the efforts of Old Man Logan, not only has a new team of Avengers has emerged [[spoiler:but to take on the evil overlords bad guys [[spoiler:and in the end, most of the villains that conquered took over the planet world have been killed and the world can start rebuilding]].state of society while not perfect is gradually moving towards a bright future with a new age of heroes]].

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"Avengers of the Wastelands" is a 2020 comic by Ed Brisson and Jonas Scharf. It is the last story set in ComicBook/TheWastelands.

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"Avengers of the Wastelands" is a 2020 comic by Ed Brisson and Jonas Scharf. It is the last story set in ComicBook/TheWastelands.''ComicBook/TheWastelands''.



* TheCape: Of the new Avengers, Dannielle Cage is the closet fit, being the most traditionally heroic member of the team and the one with the strongest aversion to killing enemies.

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* TheCape: Of the new Avengers, Dannielle Cage is the closet closest fit, being the most traditionally heroic member of the team and the one with the strongest aversion to killing enemies.



* VictoryIsBoring: Count Nefaria muses that after finally killing all the world's heroes, the villains lost their sense of purpose. This is why he ended up becoming [[TheAlcoholic an alcoholic]] [[spoiler: and why he [[MercyKill actually THANKS Doom for finally ending his life]]]].

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* VictoryIsBoring: Count Nefaria muses that after finally killing all the world's heroes, the villains lost their sense of purpose. This is why he ended up becoming [[TheAlcoholic an alcoholic]] [[spoiler: and why he [[MercyKill actually THANKS Doom for finally ending his life]]]].life]]]].
* AWorldHalfFull: Sure, this is a world where the villains won and killed most of the heroes. However, thanks to the efforts of Old Man Logan, not only has a new team of Avengers emerged [[spoiler:but the evil overlords that conquered the planet have been killed and the world can start rebuilding]].
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* DidntThinkThisThrough: Nefaria laments this in regards to the supervillains and their ultimate victory. Without heroes to pit themselves against or put them in check humanity [[NukeEm resorted to nukes to stop them.]] Without heroes to curb their ambitions they [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder fell to infighting and plotting against one another,]] unable to rebuild the nuked world and left to rule ruins. Without heroes to fight and challenge them they became listless and aimless, [[GloryDays obsessed with the past and its former glories.]]
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Dani Cage managed to raise the Mjolnir in ''Dead Man Logan'', and became the new Thor. After the death of Logan she united forces with Hulk (the baby that Logan took in the first miniseries, now a bit grown up) and Dwigth, owner of the remaining Ant-Man technology. They are joined later by a new Captain America and by Viv Vision, and make their final stand against the ruler of the wastelands: Dr. Doom.

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Dani Cage managed to raise the Mjolnir in ''Dead Man Logan'', and became the new Thor. After the death of Logan she united forces with with Hulk (the baby that Logan took in the first miniseries, now a bit grown up) and Dwigth, Dwight, owner of the remaining Ant-Man technology. They are joined later by a new Captain America and by Viv Vision, and make their final stand against the ruler of the wastelands: Dr. Doom.
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"Avengers of the Wastelands" is a 2020 comic by Ed Brisson and Jonas Scharf. It is the last story set in ComicBook/TheWastelands.

Dani Cage managed to raise the Mjolnir in ''Dead Man Logan'', and became the new Thor. After the death of Logan she united forces with Hulk (the baby that Logan took in the first miniseries, now a bit grown up) and Dwigth, owner of the remaining Ant-Man technology. They are joined later by a new Captain America and by Viv Vision, and make their final stand against the ruler of the wastelands: Dr. Doom.

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* TheAgeless: Being an Asgardian, Enchantress is the only supervillain to not have visibly aged in the decades since the uprising. She looks just as stunning as she did back in her days of fighting the original Avengers.
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Most of the world's heroes are still dead, but the evil overlords who conquered the planet have all been defeated or killed, and now the people of Earth can begin rebuilding.]]
* TheCape: Of the new Avengers, Dannielle Cage is the closet fit, being the most traditionally heroic member of the team and the one with the strongest aversion to killing enemies.
* TheChessmaster: Doom's entire plan throughout the course of the series was ultimately to [[spoiler: set up a situation where a new group of Avengers were forged so that they could grant him the glorious death in battle he craves.]]
* CruelMercy: [[spoiler: Dwight ultimately chooses to spare Doom's life, denying him the death in battle that he worked so hard for and forcing him to live out his last days as a feeble old man.]]
* DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler: Doom confronts Comicbook/DoctorOctopus with the intention of killing him, only to discover that he's been reduced to a skeleton attached to his trademark metal arms, which are now being operated by an A.I. program.]]
* FiveSecondForeshadowing: During the final battle with the Avengers, Doom can be heard coughing and wheezing inside his armor. [[spoiler: It's revealed shortly after this that he's dying of cancer.]]
* HeelRealization: Grant was a desperate man who underwent a procedure to create new {{Super Soldier}}s for Doom's army because he had no money. After beating up protesters and seeing his comrade about to strike a mother and child, be betrayed Doom and decided to become a hero.
* HowTheMightyHaveFallen: Count Nefaria is now a washed up old man getting hammered in a local tavern, bragging about how he used to be one of the most feared and respected villains of his day.
* KillEmAll: [[spoiler: Doom systematically hunts down and eliminates the remaining villains who helped mastermind the supervillain uprising (Comicbook/{{Ultron}}, Count Nefaria, Doctor Octopus and Baron Strucker), purposefully setting himself up as the last remaining BigBad the Avengers have to face.]]
* LegacyCharacter: Danielle Cage is the new Thor, Bruce Banner Jr. is the new Hulk and Dwight, the CreepyChild from the original ''Old Man Logan'' story arc, is now the new Ant-Man. Later in the series, they're joined by Grant, the new Captain America.
* TheMole: [[spoiler: The penultimate issue reveals that Doom had spared the lives of a few of the civilians from Dwight's community and subsequently used them to blackmail the boy into bringing the Avengers to him.]]
* MyGreatestFailure: Dwight is haunted by his inability to stop Doom from destroying the small community he and the other survivors from Forge's compound had set up.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Intentional example. [[spoiler: Doom murdered his former comrades so that his own death at the hands of the new Avengers would be seen as the major historical event that brought about the end of the Age of Villains.]]
* StrippedToTheBone: [[spoiler: Dwight summons a swarm of locusts to attack Enchantress, [[Comicbook/NormanOsborn Green Goblin]], Wild Child and Shocker, leaving behind nothing but their skeletons.]]
* SuicideByCop: [[spoiler: Doom's plan. Realizing that he's dying of incurable cancer, he tries to set up one last battle against the new Avengers, believing that being killed by them will allow him to go out in a blaze of glory.]]
* VictoryIsBoring: Count Nefaria muses that after finally killing all the world's heroes, the villains lost their sense of purpose. This is why he ended up becoming [[TheAlcoholic an alcoholic]] [[spoiler: and why he [[MercyKill actually THANKS Doom for finally ending his life]]]].

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