History ComicBook / MightyAvengers

** The first lineup is a reference to the ComicBook/FirstAvengersTeam. Iron Man, Hulk and Pym, are included. Iron Man and Hulk only stick around for their first fight, because the former was on the run from Norman Osborn at the time and the latter just wanted to be alone, mirroring how the Hulk left the team early on. Pym does not become a giant for fights anymore, but ComicBook/{{Stature}} fills that role. The Wasp is dead, but we have Jocasta, a robot with her mind. Captain America is dead, but we have his Guy Gardner version. Thor has his own problems, but we have another god, Hercules. And even a teenage sidekick, Amadeus Cho. And Jarvis, who shall never be absent from the Avengers. [[spoiler:And the team was united by Loki.]] Iron Man even notes the similarities when he gets Hercules and U.S. Agent to help him with Chthon:

** The first lineup is a reference to the ComicBook/FirstAvengersTeam. Iron Man, Hulk and Pym, are included. Iron Man only sticks around for their first fight, because he is on the run from Norman Osborn at the time, mirroring how the Hulk left the team early on. Pym does not become a giant for fights anymore, but ComicBook/{{Stature}} fills that role. The Wasp is dead, but we have Jocasta, a robot with her mind. Captain America is dead, but we have his Guy Gardner version. Thor has his own problems, but we have another god, Hercules. And even a teenage sidekick, Amadeus Cho. And Jarvis, who shall never be absent from the Avengers. [[spoiler:And the team was united by Loki.]] Iron Man even notes the similarities when he gets Hercules and U.S. Agent to help him with Chthon:

* RefusalOfTheCall: Hulk and Iron Man were summoned onto the team, but left once Mordred is defeated.

* WordsDoNotMakeTheMagic: Inverted. Words ''do'' make the magic, and the powerful Mordred is defeated simply by disrupting his hability to talk. No magic words = no enchantments. Just by losing that ability, a global threat is reduced to a helpless school bully.

--> A supersoldier. A god. These are all the Avengers ''I'' need.
** A Chinese super hero group met the exiled Inhuman king, order him to surrender... and he kills them all in a single stroke. The [=USAgent=] declares that he "[[ComicBook/AlphaFlight Alpha Flight'd]]" them. Alpha Flight was defeated in a similar way by Xorn, a few years before in ''New Avengers''.

** The first lineup is a reference to the ComicBook/FirstAvengersTeam. Iron Man, Hulk and Pym, are included. Pym does not become a giant for fights anymore, but ComicBook/{{Stature}} fills that role. The Wasp is dead, but we have Jocasta, a robot with her mind. Captain America is dead, but we have his Guy Gardner version. Thor has his own problems, but we have another god, Hércules. And even a teenager sidekicker, Amadeus Cho. And Jarvis, who shall never be absent from the Avengers. [[spoiler:And the team was united by Loki]]

* CompositeCharacter: When discussing the line-up of the Avengers team, Tony Stark agreed that they needed "a Thor" (that is, [[AGodAmI a mighty god]]), and "a Wolverine" (that is, an AxCrazy TokenEvilTeammate). They chose Ares, who is ''both things''.

* NeverLiveItDown: InUniverse, once again for Hank Pym. Even the freaking Skrulls, who are planning to kill off all of Earth's heroes and take over the planet, give his Skrull imitators short-shrift for replacing a "wife-beater".

* BadassGay: Paigon, the Skrull that replaces Elektra, who greets the Skrull Queen by kissing her, on the lips.

* TheWorfEffect: Wonder Man spends most of his time on the team getting sent flying.

* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: The ComicBook/SecretInvasion tie-in issues focus on the [[spoiler:Skrulls infiltration efforts, along with Nick Fury gathering the ComicBook/SecretWarriors.]]
** Not to mention how Electra was captured by the Skrulls.

* BecauseISaidSo: Ms. Marvel, leader of the Avengers, does not want Spider-Woman in the team, or at least have a vote. But no. Spider-Woman is incorporated into the Avengers because Tony Stark, head honcho of SHIELD, says so.

* GenderBender: Ultron "hacked" Tony Stark's body, and used it as his own body... and turned it into a female body in the process. The body of the Wasp, to be precise. So, for the same price we have: a male human turned into a female cyborg, a male robot in a female body, and a female woman (the wasp) having to fight against a naked woman that looks exactly like her.

* OnlyInItForTheMoney: How Iron Man convinces Ares to join the team.

* ProperlyParanoid: After learning about the Skrull infiltration, Tony Stark checked all the people around with his armor: Ms. Marvel, Wonder Man, the Wasp, Spider-Woman, Black Widow, Jarvis, Ares, the Sentry... he was dead sure that someone among them was a Skrull, capable to elude detection, just as the armor confirmed everyone's identity. [[spoiler:The Skrulls were Spider-Woman and Jarvis.]]

* ShoutOut: Iron Man convinces Doctor Doom not to kill him and the Sentry by using Franchise/PlanetOfTheApes as an example of what could happen if they stay. Doom reluctantly agrees.

* TyrantTakesTheHelm: The Black Widow's reaction when she realized that, in the absence of Tony Stark and Maria Hill, ''she'' was in change of SHIELD's hellicarrier.

* AndTheAdventureContinues: By the time of the last adventure, the team has disbanded. Still, they all met by their own means at Asgard during the ComicBook/{{Siege}}, and Pym led the to the battle for a last time...
* BigBookOfWar: There are three groups around claiming to be the Avengers: this group, the New Avengers and the Dark Avengers. Pym pointed to the press that, according to the internal statutes of the Avengers, the "real" Avengers are his group, as he's the only founding member in either of the three groups.

** The first lineup was a reference to the ComicBook/FirstAvengersTeam. Iron Man, Hulk and Pym, are included. Pym does not become a giant for fights anymore, but ComicBook/{{Stature}} fills that role. The Wasp is dead, but we have Jocasta, a robot with her mind. Captain America is dead, but we have his Guy Gardner version. Thor has his own problems, but we have another god, Hércules. And even a teenager sidekicker, Amadeus Cho. And Jarvis, who shall never be absent from the Avengers. [[spoiler:And the team was united by Loki]]
** A Chinese super hero group met the Inhuman exiled king, ordered him to surrender... and he killed them all in a single stroke. The [=USAgent=] mentioned that he "[[ComicBook/AlphaFlight Alpha Flight'd]]" them. Alpha Flight was defeated in a similar way by Xorn, a pair of years before.
** Dan Slott's run began exactly like Kurt Busiek and George Pérez run: with a vision of the statues of the founding members of the Avengers. Of course, the statues were standing in all their glory back then, and now they were a ruin (as the mansion was abandoned), but it's the same statue.

* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: Loki, the God of cheats and lies, does not like very much to be defeated by a puny human. But Pym is not a mere human, he's the Scientist Supreme.
* FightingAShadow: Stature's first reaction was to attack the Scarlet Witch, the woman that murdered her father. It was useless, as it was just an astral projection.
* ForcefulKiss: Ronin realized that the Scarlet Witch was an impostor by stealing a kiss from her, her lips are not the same. He's lucky that, at least, Loki was a woman at that point.
* IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight: An interesting twist. Quicksilver was attacked by the [=USAgent=], a chauvinist UpToEleven, who had been turned into a savage subhuman. He told him something that got to him through the devolution process: that, if they did not attack the giant man, "[[DirtyCommunists the reds]] will win!"
* KarmicJackpot: Henry Pym created flesh arms and legs for Jocasta, so she can feel things like humans do. Jocasta got very angry with Pym later, and gave him a megaton punch... with her flesh arms. If she was still with the mechanical arms, she would have broken his head.

* LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain: The Scarlet Witch is not really the Scarlet Witch. Henry Pym is Earth's scientist supreme, and couldn't be fooled for long. Ronin also [[http://evil-inc.com/images/blogart/Avengers_liplock.html discovered it]]. How? Let's keep that a secret. He pointed that if Mockingbird ever finds out that detail, she will stuff her combat staffs into his parts where the sun does not shine.
* MissedTheCall: Captain America (Bucky) could not be used for the team because [[DeathIsCheap he was killed during the initial crisis]]. So, the role was given to the closest thing available: the [=USAgent=].

* NotSoStoic: The Vision is pure logic, he saw a "wave" that turns people into stone, and he simply intrigued by the phenomenon. It takes much more than that to get an emotional response or a BigNo from him. Something like the return of the ComicBook/ScarletWitch, perhaps? Yep. That will do it.
* PortalNetwork: The new Avengers mansion, located in another dimension, has [[PortalDoor Portal doors]] to anywhere in Earth.
* RatedMForManly: The Colective Man, with the strength of all the Chinese people combined, broke [=USAgent=]'s shield with a single punch. That's [[BadassCrew the strength of a united nation]], so different to the US, where everyone minds his own business! The [=USAgent=] stroke back: in America [[TheHero a single man, the right man, can make the difference]]! One of the women present asked them to stop fighting, because she will drown under so much testosterone.
* RefusalOfTheCall: Hulk and Iron Man were summoned into the team, but left it once Mordred was defeated.
* RefusedByTheCall: Loki never intended Stature to join the group (she considers her a TagAlongKid for the Vision), much less Quicksilver (who invited himself). Both ones have very strong feelings towards the Scarlet Witch: Quicksilver wants to recover his sister, and Stature wants to kill the murderer of her father.

* UnPerson: The ancient king of Attilan. He has been completely erased from Inhuman history, and his very name is strictly forbidden.
* UnreliableNarrator: Loki. What else needs to be said? It's Loki
* WordsDoNotMakeTheMagic: Inverted. Words ''do'' make the magic, and the powerful Mordred was defeated simply by disrupting his hability to talk. No magic words = no enchantments. Just by losing that hability, a global threat is reduced to a helpless school bully.

* AmicableExes: Wasp and Hank Pym are [[DefiedTrope not]] this, after several years of getting along just fine.

** The first lineup was a reference to the ComicBook/FirstAvengersTeam. Iron Man, Hulk and Pym, are included. Pym does not become a giant for fights anymore, but Stature fills that role. The Wasp is dead, but we have Jocasta, a robot with her mind. Captain America is dead, but we have his Guy Gardner version. Thor has his own problems, but we have another god, Hércules. And even a teenager sidekicker, Amadeus Cho. And Jarvis, who shall never be absent from the Avengers. [[spoiler:And the team was united by Loki]]

* CameBackWrong: Averted. When Tony Stark wakes up in the hospital, and told him that Ultron had temporarily turned him into a woman, the first thing he did was to raise the sheet and check below. They told him that everything's fine, that it's still there.

* BigBookOfWar: There are three groups around claiming to be the Avengers: this group, the New Avengers and the Dark Avengers. Pym pointed to the press that, according to the internal statutes of the Avengers, the "real" avengers are his group, as he's the only founding member in either of the three groups.

** A Chinesse super hero group met the Inhuman exiled king, ordered him to surrender... and he killed them all in a single stroke. The [=USAgent=] mentioned that he "[[ComicBook/AlphaFlight Alpha Flight'd]]" them. Alpha Flight was defeated in a similar way by Xorn, a pair of years before.

* FightingAShadow: Stature's first reaction was to attack the Scarlet Witch, the woman that murdered her father. It was useless, it was just an astral projection.

* GenreSavvy: After a few dozen attempted invasions, Hank's figured out that Earth isn't going to roll over the next time the Skrulls come a'knocking. Naturally, the Skrull infiltrator he's talking to takes offense to this.

* JerkAssGods: Ares is a loud-mouthed, obnoxious [[StayInTheKitchen sexist]] ass. He is also CrazyAwesome.

* NeverLiveItDown: In-universe, once again for Hank Pym. Even the freaking Skrulls, who are planning to kill off all of Earth's heroes and take over the planet, give his Skrull imitators short-shrift for replacing a "wife-beater".

The second volume, written by Creator/AlEwing, revolved around an entirely new team formed during ''ComicBook/{{Infinity}}'', and lead by [[ComicBook/LukeCageHeroForHire Luke Cage]] and it included among its cast ComicBook/MonicaRambeau, ComicBook/WhiteTiger (Ava Ayala), Power Man (Victor Alvarez), ComicBook/TheFalcon, and ComicBook/SheHulk. During ''ComicBook/{{Axis}}'' it was relaunched and rebranded into ''Captain America and the Mighty Avengers'', though it still contained the same characters and plot as before. The title lasted only ten issues before being softly cancelled in the build-up to ''[[ComicBook/SecretWars2015 Secret Wars]]''. During ''Secret Wars'', Ewing wrote a two issue mini-series, ''Captain Britain and the Mighty Defenders'', which had similar characters and themes. Ewing has since brought Blue Marvel and Monica Rambeau over to the ''[[ComicBook/TheUltimates2015 Ultimates]]'' series, while White Tiger and Power Man reappeared in ''[[ComicBook/NewAvengers2015 New Avengers]]''.

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The third volume, written by Creator/AlEwing, revolved around an entirely new team formed during ''ComicBook/{{Infinity}}'', and lead by [[ComicBook/LukeCageHeroForHire Luke Cage]] and it included among its cast ComicBook/MonicaRambeau, ComicBook/WhiteTiger (Ava Ayala), Power Man (Victor Alvarez), ComicBook/TheFalcon, and ComicBook/SheHulk. During ''ComicBook/{{Axis}}'' it was relaunched and rebranded into ''Captain America and the Mighty Avengers'', though it still contained the same characters and plot as before. The title lasted only ten issues before being softly cancelled in the build-up to ''[[ComicBook/SecretWars2015 Secret Wars]]''. During ''Secret Wars'', Ewing wrote a two issue mini-series, ''Captain Britain and the Mighty Defenders'', which had similar characters and themes. Ewing has since brought Blue Marvel and Monica Rambeau over to the ''[[ComicBook/TheUltimates2015 Ultimates]]'' series, while White Tiger and Power Man reappeared in ''[[ComicBook/NewAvengers2015 New Avengers]]''.

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!Tropes Used by the third team (2013 -- 2015).
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* AmoralAttorney: Kenneth and Kevin Crask are this. The [[LemonyNarrator captions]] even call Kevin a 'slimeball'. Kenneth is perfectly willing to threaten a man he just saved from prison. [[spoiler: And later, he kills him.]]
* AntagonisticOffspring: [[spoiler: Max Brashear has become this to his father.]]
* AscendedExtra: Adam Brashear, the Blue Marvel, had previously appeared in one miniseries and two back-up stories before this series.
** The Bear, who previously appeared in a single issue of a flashback arc of ComicBook/IronMan, turns out to be an important part of the Four Who Rule's plan.
* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: [[spoiler:Turns out this is what's become of Kevin Brashear, rendering saving him pointless.]]
* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:Jason Quantrell violently murders Gideon Mace. It couldn't have happened to a nicer guy. Even when the entity taking his place is foiled, Mace remains dead.]]
* BaitAndSwitch: All those references to "beyond" are surely leading up to the Beyonders, right? [[spoiler:Nope! It's the ''[[ComicBook/{{Nextwave}} Beyond Corporation]]'', and Nextwave is canon after all!]] [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]], since [[spoiler:the thing possessing Quantrell alludes to the Beyonders being entities of a similar type to the Beyond Corporation.]]
* BaldBlackLeaderGuy: Luke Cage, though Monica functions as the field leader.
* BashBrothers: Power Man (Victor Alvarez) and White Tiger (Ava Ayala) have become this and their powers compliment each others.
* BattleCry: No, not [[AvengersAssemble that one]]. Power Man comes up with one for himself and White Tiger: "Tiger power!" (citing it as the only decent way their names can go together) Ava is less than impressed.
* BerserkButton:
** Don't point a giant robot at Jessica Jones' baby.
** W.A.S.P.E. goons don't like being compared to Hydra. Hydra are Nazis, whereas W.A.S.P.E are nihilists.
** The Beyond Corporation is this for Monica Rambeau, mostly because everyone thinks she's nuts when she brings them up. [[spoiler:She gets vindicated when they ''do'' show up.]]
* BewareTheSillyOnes: Of all the ridiculous creatures sent to capture [[spoiler:Blade, the Were-Roosters are the ones that succeed. Blade [[LampshadeHanging lampshades this]].]]
* BigBad: For Ronin, it's the Deathwalkers, also known as the Four Who Rule.
** And now they're the entire team's BigBad.
** For ''Captain America and the Mighty Avengers'', it seems to be Jason Quantrell. [[spoiler:Turns out it's an [[EldritchAbomination extradimensional being]] that's taken over him.]]
* BigStupidDoodooHead: W.A.S.P.E have bad words for Hydra.
* BodyHorror: All over the place after ''Axis''.
* BossSubtitles
* BreadEggsBreadedEggs: ComicBook/SuperiorSpiderMan has "Minions, robots, and minion-driven robots".
* BreakingSpeech: White Tiger gives an epic one to the Tiger God in #8; When it threatens to devour her soul, she tells it to try, pointing out that her friends wouldn't allow anyone else to wield the Amulets after her. She then mocks it for talking about the days when humanity feared it, and how modern humans hunt, cage and pity its kind. She follows up by stating that the Tiger God is afraid of humanity, and that she is more feared then it is,and finishes by demanding the Tiger God give her all its power. And it ''does so''.
-->'''Ava''': Your time is done. '''I'm''' the beast that hunts in the darkness now. '''I'm''' the monster who even monsters fear. '''I'm the White Tiger'''. You want a deal? This is your deal. Give me everything you have. Now. Or crawl away and die and I'll do it without you.
-->'''Tiger God''': ...Damn you.
* BrickJoke: A very quick one. In issue 4 Falcon complains that everyone assumes he goes everywhere with Captain America. A short conversation later and Power Man appears, and on seeing Falcon asks where Captain America is.
* TheBusCameBack: Dave Griffen, Luke Cage's best friend from his solo series, returns after not showing up in a comic in years.
* TheCameo: Peter Corbeau, once a major supporting character in ComicBook/{{XMen}} back in the seventies, appears for one panel in ''Last Days'', talking about the Incursions.
* CheapCostume: Ronin starts out using a "Spider Hero" costume.
* ComicBookDeath: The last time The Bear appeared, she was blown up and apparently killed. Since she's [[spoiler:a Were-Bear created by The Four Who Rule,]] she got better.
* ConspicuousTrenchcoat: Despite the fact that he's supposed to be laying low, Ronin insists on wearing his foul-smelling trenchcoat everywhere.
* ContinuityNod:
** In issue 4, Falcon mentions that Spidey's been stealing food from the other Avengers and spitting in it, as seen over in the concurrent run of ComicBook/TheAvengers.
** Power Man mentions the fight against [[ComicBook/YoungAvengers Mother]], and the fact that Monica doesn't know what he's talking about. Later on in the issue, we see him reading texts from Loki, who's in the middle of robbing a casino in his own series.
** Monica Rambeau's time in ComicBook/{{Nextwave}} is acknowledged, but apparently the Beyond Corporation never existed. And yet she still has nightmares about the baby M.O.D.O.K. She also uses the skull-mark expletive from that series. [[spoiler:Then, they find out that the Beyond Corporation ''did'' exist.]]
** While Adam Brashear talks with Ulana, we see several alternate universes from ComicBook/WhatIf, along with [[ComicBook/{{FF}} Scot Lang yelling at Uatu]].
** The reason Spitfire isn't with Blade is because she's keeping an eye on the Black Knight, who according to [[ComicBook/TheAvengers Avengers: World]] is having some issues,
** Watching Avenger Prime and Deathwalker Prime fighting, Luke angrily mutters if what's happening isn't some "[[ComicBook/XMen Dark Phoenix]] [[SymbolSwearing $#!%]]."
* ContinuityPorn: There is a lot of it, Al Ewing knows a lot about Marvel history. He has brought back several characters and locations that hadn't shown up in years. Like the Krask brothers.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Jason Quantrell, head of Cortex Incorporated, is this from the word 'go'.
* DarkerAndEdgier: "Captain America and the Mighty Avengers" compared to the previous volume, dealing with BodyHorror, MindRape, and the end of absolutely all existence. That said, there's still moments of humour, and hope.
* DeathFakedForYou: Apparently Adam Brashear faked his death some time before 1972, for his own reasons.
* {{Determinator}}: Luke Cage. The Deathwalker Prime forces everyone on Earth to submit to its will, and sticks Luke inside an illusion. He still keeps fighting it. For the record, the only other person shown resisting is ''Captain America'', and he's not shown resisting anywhere near as much as Cage.
* DiggingYourselfDeeper: Spidey's attempt to apologise for what [=SpOck=] did isn't helped by him bringing up threatening to send Danielle into child-care. He even admits he's got no idea why he said it.
* DueToTheDead: Averted, according to Ulana the Watcher, they don't bury their dead, because as far as they're concerned the corpse is another item inhabiting the universe, and to dispose of it would count as interference.
* DynamicEntry: Adam Brashear used to be good at making these.
* EldritchAbomination: The first BigBad the team faces off against is Shuma-Gorath.
** [[spoiler:The Beyond Corporation. All of them.]]
* EvilCripple: After his encounter with Spider-Man (way back in TheEighties), Gideon Mace is confined to a wheelchair.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Several to who Ronin actually is. A big one is when Monica mentions fighting vampires in New Orleans.
* FusionDance: The Four Who Rule merge into one being, controlling the fifth element of the earth, Deathwalker Prime, who controls spirit.
** The Mighty Avengers do this as well to defeat them, becoming "Avenger Prime".
* GoneHorriblyRight: Jason Quantrell got a bunch of mad scientists to build a gateway to another dimension. And they did. Everyone else was killed, and Quantrell... [[FateWorseThanDeath wasn't so lucky]].
* TheGreatestStoryNeverTold: ''Something'' happened in 1972, involving the Blue Marvel and Luke Cage's father.
** The ComicBook/OriginalSin tie-in investigates what it was that happened. [[spoiler:The Four Who Rule were trying to bring about the end of the world. Blade, Kaluu, Dr. Brashear and Luke Cage's father wound up working together to foil it.]]
* GreenLanternRing: Monica can turn her body into all kinds of energy, [[{{ComicBook/Nextwave}} except the kind they make up on]] Franchise/StarTrek.
* HeelFaceTurn: Because of ''Axis'', The Plunderer and his minions decide to become Robin Hood-esque thieves. It doesn't work out for them.
* HeroicWillpower: [[spoiler: Deathwalker Prime traps every person in the world in a nightmarish illusion meant to break their wills. Luke Cage is the only person with the willpower to free himself (with the captions even pointing out that he is "unbreakable"). The only other person who was even able to resist was Steve Rogers, who is seen in a single panel, trying to stand up under the mental onslaught.]]
* HumanSacrifice: How the Four Who Rule got their immortality, by sacrificing everyone in their kingdoms.
* {{Hypocrite}}: A right-wing news-anchor criticisms Sam Wilson for using potentially lethal force against a pair of hoodlums, then immediately starts an editorial about why the police ''should'' be allowed to use it more often. She even had the gall to call the Punisher a '''patriot''' for his actions.
* HypocriticalHumor: James Lucas scolds his son for swearing, and then when Luke confronts him about what he got up to in the seventies, he starts swearing himself.
* IJustWantToBeNormal: James Lucas admits that the world of monsters and superbeings isn't for him. It's why he avoided his son for so long.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler:How the Were-Roosters subdue Blade.]]
* {{Irony}}: In the last issue, Monica nearly destroys the Ultimate Earth, only to be captured by The Maker, who believes she must have hesitated because it was her first time killing.
* ItsAllAboutMe: ComicBook/SuperiorSpiderMan doesn't want the Mighty Avengers around because they'd 'get in his way'. So he shows up at their door with an army of {{Mooks}} and demand they work for him.
* ItsPersonal: Gideon Mace killed Ava's family. She wants him dead.
** Kaluu was drawn into the conflict with the Four Who Rule because they stole his people's grave goods.
* IWasQuiteAFashionVictim: Blade's original bright yellow outfit returns in the ''ComicBook/OriginalSin'' flashbacks.
* JerkAss: ComicBook/SuperiorSpiderMan is this, through and through.
** Kaluu.
* KickTheDog: Superior Spider-Man threatens to have Danielle Cage sent into childcare.
** While beating up Power Man, the Tiger God feels the need to tell him Aya doesn't love him.
* KnightTemplar: Sam Wilson becomes one under the effect of the Inversion, crippling two criminals, violently assaulting the Plunderer and his goon, and acting like an utter dick to the Avengers. He does mercifully get over it, though.
* LargeHam: The Plunderer.
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Luke Cage's comment on destroying the Deathwalker's macguffin, about not having "saved the world" in a while can be taken on it's face, or as a comment on the nature of superhero comics focusing less on over-the-top heroics, and [[ComicBook/CivilWar more on]] [[ComicBook/AvengersVsXMen conflicts between superheroes]].
* LemonyNarrator: The captions, pretty much all the time.
* LetsGetDangerous: Drained of several pints of blood and surrounded by unfriendly were-scorpions, [[spoiler:Blade]] admits he was holding back. Violence ensues
** Monica, when she learns that [[spoiler:the Beyond Corporation is behind Quantrell.]]
* LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain: She-Hulk and Blue Marvel, when one of Blue Light's gang uses a strobe effect to escape them. Then Adam goes and tells Monica anyway, much to She-Hulk's displeasure.
* LightEmUp: Adam Brashear is capable of generating light. Comes in handy against the undead.
* LotusEaterMachine: The Deathwalker Prime tries this on the Avengers. To its credit, it does at least try different illusions for each of them. It still doesn't work.
* {{Macguffin}}: The Lost Talisman of Kamar-Taj. The Deathwalkers want it, [[spoiler:and Blade has it.]]
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Sam Wilson, after the Inversion.
* MyGreatestFailure: Adam Brashear, the Blue Marvel, is [[spoiler: unable to save his son from the Neutral Zone]]
* NakedPeopleAreFunny: Kaluu uses his magic to transport Redline into another dimension, absent all his clothes, save his underwear.
* NonHumanUndead: [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Ninja Were-Snakes]].
-->'''Caption''': Yes. [[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer Ninja Were-Snakes]].
** Followed by Were-Slugs, Bugs, Rhinos, Octopi, Honey-Badgers, and Roosters, all to capture [[spoiler:Blade]].
-->'''Caption''': "Don't say we never give you anything."
** Oh, and the Were-Lampreys.
** The Bear turns out to be... a Were-Bear.
* OhCrap: Adam has one during ''Infinity'', when his disaster warning system sounds off a level 8 alert, since he designed it and had no idea it could go that high.
* OlderThanTheyLook: Adam Brashear is pushing somewhere over eighty. He looks to be in his mid-fifties at the most.
** Confirmed in ''ComicBook/TheUltimates2015'', he's 87 years old.
* OmniDisciplinaryScientist: Adam Brashear, the Blue Marvel.
* PerpetualSmiler: Jason Quantrell never stops smiling. It gets seriously [[SlasherSmile creepy]] after ''Axis''.
* PokemonSpeak: For whatever reason, the criminal Redline is incapable of doing anything but shouting his name out. Repeatedly.
* PoorCommunicationKills: Max Brashear appears in his father's undersea lairs without warning. Spider-Man assumes he's attacking, and the two fight until Monica intervenes.
* PreAssKickingOneLiner: "Hello, boys. Let the [[ComicBook/SheHulk mediation]] begin."
* ThePromise: Blade promised to return to Spitfire, and England, alive. It's what motivates his escape attempt from the Deathwalkers.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Jason Quantrell gives Gideon Mace a short but effective one in #3 of the relaunch, pointing out that Mace lacks subtlety, and that the world is leaving him behind, despite his efforts to keep up.
** Blue Marvel gives a great one to the Illuminati on how completely full of themselves they were to assume only ''they'' could find out a solution to the Incursions when Blue Marvel is a genius in his own right whose research could have cracked the solution.
* TheReveal: Ronin is [[spoiler: {{ComicBook/Blade}}.]]
** Doctor Positron is [[spoiler:Adam's other son]]. Though it's not as if he's going to any lengths to hide it.
* {{Retcon}}: The events of ''ComicBook/{{Nextwave}}'' were ultimately revealed to be in-canon, with Monica revealing that the only ones who knew that it actually happened where those involved. And it particularly hurt Monica. Or at least it's canon in the sense the Beyond Corporation was messing with their minds.
* RousingSpeech: Spidey manages to give a good one when he takes an inverted Captain America's shield from him. He claims it was like the shield bringing something out of him. An issue later, Same makes his own speech, on all the things Captain America has to stand for. He agrees with Peter.
* ScrewThisImOutOfHere: Kaluu, in his own words, spent most of ComicBook/{{Infinity}} trying to flee to a 'less doomed plane of existence'.
* SeenItAll: A very dark variant, where a woman being interviewed by the news lists off all the normal fears and anxieties a normal person in the Marvel Universe has, before noting that the end of all existence is just another thing on the list.
* ASharedSuffering: Utilised by the team during their FusionDance, listing all the members who've lost a family member, and how it unites them.
* ShoutOut: Spider-Man [[Film/TheAvengers2012 has an army]]. Luke Cage has [[ComicBook/SheHulk a lawyer]].
** Doctor Positron [[Film/AustinPowers welcomes the superheroes to his underground lair]], despite the fact that they aren't underground. He explicitly labels the Austin Powers movies as his favourite films.
** In issue 10, a caption has this to say of New York: "It's a helluva town." A reference to ''Theatre/OnTheTown''.
** [[spoiler:Kevin Brashear, on his return from the Neutral Zone, looks amazingly like [[ComicBook/{{Watchmen}} Doctor Manhattan]] And by "amazingly", we mean exactly.]]
** Power Man's caption for ''Captain America and the Mighty Avengers'' #3 reads [[WesternAnimation/{{Popeye}} "Strong to the finish, 'cause New York is his spinach."]]
* ShootingSuperman: Monica shrugs off Barbara [=McDevitt's=] time-manipulating abilities, so the lady tries to shoot her. Monica can turn intangible.
* StandardFiftiesFather: Blue Marvel's reaction to aforementioned Film/AustinPowers reference? Remarking that he finds those movies vulgar, followed by annoyed muttering from Doctor Positron, who happens to be [[spoiler:his son.]]
* SuperSpeed: Monica can move at the speed of light. It comes in handy against a foe who can [[TimeStandsStill slow down time]].
* TakeThat: A few in the Last Days tie-ins to ''ComicBook/SecretWars2015'' towards the characters in the Hickman series (though not towards the series themselves).
** Issue #8 of ''Captain America and the Mighty Avengers'' has most of the cast point out that ComicBook/TheIlluminati should have asked for help to deal with the incursion crisis rather than hiding it from the world until it was too late to stop it.
** Issue #9 takes one of the ArcWords from [[ComicBook/JonathanHickmansAvengers The Avengers]] and twists it. "We were Avengers" in the main series is used in a melancholy, nostalgic sense to show that despite their best efforts the Avengers were slowly falling apart at the seams. In Mighty Avengers it's the opposite, showing heroes and regular people alike banding together to help others even in the face of the end of the world, and stating to each other that ''this'' was what made them real heroes.
* TargetedHumanSacrifice: Blade, by the Four Who Rule.
* TemptingFate: Monica claims that nothing W.A.S.P.E have can hurt her. Seconds later, they do just that. Lampshaded by the captions.
-->'''Caption''': "Just jinxed it."
* ThereCanOnlyBeOne: The Four Who Rule acknowledge this, that ultimately only one of them could rule. They've got a solution for that. [[spoiler:It still doesn't work.]]
* TokenEvilTeamMate: The ComicBook/SuperiorSpiderMan, seeing as how he is really Otto Octavius. He's not actually part of the team, but he wants to be in charge.
** Also when the Tiger God takes over Ava.
** Kaluu also counts, though he's more a {{Jerkass}} at most. It still gets some angry comments from Steven Rodgers during ''Last Days''.
* TookALevelInBadass: Not that she was a slouch before, but Monica gets a free power-up during ''Infinity''.
* TookALevelInJerkass: Sam Wilson and Luke Cage, after ComicBook/{{Axis}} causes their personalities to be inverted. It wears off after the event, but they have to live with the consequences.
* TranquilFury: Jessica Jones is furious about Luke setting up ''another'' Avengers franchise, and potentially putting their baby in danger. She says this while chatting amicably with Adam Brashear, and moving furniture about.
* TheTunguskaEvent: An act of magic gone very wrong. It also happened to create The Bear in the process.
* ViolentGlaswegian: Cairn of the Four Who Rule has a strong Scottish accent, and is also the biggest and most physically violent of the lot.
* WhatTheHellHero: Adam and Monica are anything but impressed by Reed Richards and T'Challa's actions over in ''[[ComicBook/JonathanHickmansAvengers New Avengers]]''.
* WhatYouAreInTheDark: Everywhere in the final issue before ''Secret Wars''. Jen feels bad about the possibility of having to kill, Monica hesitates to destroy an entire universe, because her impact site was a children's playground, Dave and Soraya the tech support stay in The Gem to man the hotlines, Adam and Max are still trying to fix things (with Adam turning down a phone call from his daughter to focus on work), Danny, Luke and Ava try and save who they can, and Jessica helps out in an emergency center.
** Brought home by the doctor in the last segment, as he addresses the reader.
-->''You were struck by falling masonry while assisting in the evacuation of the school, according to the Samaritan who brought you in. By their reckoning, at least three of the younger children owe their lives to you. That might not seem like much, half an hour or so before the end comes - it's a small blessing. But the small things ''matter''. The ''effort'' matters. If we ''give in''... if we don't at least ''try''... then the world has ''already'' ended.''
* WithUsOrAgainstUs: Steve Rogers says this to the team during the ''Last Days'' tie-in, even though the team's not done or doing anything to him.
* YouAreTooLate: Blade escapes his shackles and confronts the Four, the Mighty Avengers arrive on the scene... and the Four reveal they already drank Blade's blood, and don't need him. They're moving on to the next stage of their plan.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler:After using Gideon Mace to "stir the pot" with his bigotry, Jason Quantrell has him killed, as he needs things to move faster than Mace can accommodate for.]]
* YouCantGoHomeAgain: Ava tries going back to her family during ''Last Days'', but since she's the White Tiger, they're terrified by her (Because of what happened to Hector Ayala and Angela Del Toro) and drive her away.
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* CivvieSpandex: Wonder Mans' initial outfit is just plain-clothes, until Wasp insists he wear an actual outfit.

** A Chinesse super hero group met the Inhuman exiled king, ordered him to surrender... and he killed them all in a single stroke. The [=USAgent=] mentioned that he pulled "an Alpha Flight" on them. Alpha Flight was defeated in a similar way by Xorn, a pair of years before.

* ItsAllAboutMe: ComicBook/SuperiorSpiderMan doesn't want the Mighty Avengers around because they 'get in his way'. So he shows up at their door with an army of {{Mooks}} and demand they work for him.

* IWasQuiteAFashionVictim: Blade's original bright yellow outfit returns in the ComicBook/OriginalSin flashbacks.

The '''Mighty Avengers''' is a comic book focused on Comicbook/TheAvengers. It has something of a NonIndicativeName (the group did not call itself "The Mighty Avengers", but simply "The Avengers"). It was not the only team claiming to be the Avengers at the time.

* LegacyCharacter
** Henry Pym with his new identity, the Wasp.
** Amadeus Cho never became "Ant Man", or engaged in size changing, but he got the Ant Man helmet.

* {{Hypocrite}}: A news-anchor criticises Sam Wilson for using potentially lethal force against a pair of hoodlums, then immediately starts an editorial about why the police ''should'' be allowed to use it.

* {{Badass}}: Elektra, naturally. The first Super-Skrull sent to replace her doesn't succeed. Or the second, or the third. It takes the fourth using invisibility to get the drop on her.

* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:Jason Quantrell violently murders Gideon Mace. It couldn't have happened to a nicer guy. Even when the Beyonder taking his place is foiled, Mace remains dead.]]

** For ''Captain America and the Mighty Avengers'', it seems to be Jason Quantrell. [[spoiler:Turns out it's a Beyonder that's taken over him.]]

The third volume, written by Creator/AlEwing, revolved around an entirely new team formed during ''ComicBook/{{Infinity}}'', and lead by [[ComicBook/LukeCageHeroForHire Luke Cage]] and it included among its cast ComicBook/MonicaRambeau, ComicBook/WhiteTiger (Ava Ayala), Power Man (Victor Alvarez), ComicBook/TheFalcon, and ComicBook/SheHulk. During ''ComicBook/{{Axis}}'' it was relaunched and rebranded into ''Captain America and the Mighty Avengers'', though it still contained the same characters and plot as before. The title lasted only ten issues before being softly cancelled in the build-up to ''[[ComicBook/SecretWars2015 Secret Wars]]''. During ''Secret Wars'', Ewing wrote a two issue mini-series, ''Captain Britain and the Mighty Defenders'', which had similar characters and themes. Ewing has since brought Blue Marvel and Monica Rambeau over to the ''[[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ComicBook/TheUltimates2015 Ultimates]]'' series.

* TookALevelInJerkass: Falcon and Luke Cage, after ComicBook/{{Axis}} causes their personalities to be inverted. It wears off after the event, but they have to live with the consequences.

* ViolentGlaswegian: Cairn of the Four Who Rule has a strong Scotish accent, and is also the biggest and most physically violent of the lot.

* WithUsOrAgainstUs: Steve Rodgers says this to the team during the ''Last Days'' tie-in, even though the team's not done or doing anything to him.