History ComicBook / TheAvengers

* {{Revision}}: Baron Heinrich Zemo was created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby in Avengers issue 4, and retroactively treated as Captain America's archnemesis during World War II. Readers may get the wrong idea from the stories, but Zemo was not created during UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks. And the famous story of the plane where Bucky "died" and Captain America fell into the ocean and froze, was not Captain America's finale retconned as NotQuiteDead, but a plot created by Lee and Kirby when they brought him back.
* RevisitingTheRoots: During the nineties, there were some attempts to fit the Avengers into UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks. The Wasp turned into a freak monster, Iron Man a time displaced freak, many members with leather jackets, a X-Men tone, Deathcry... the fandom did not rejoice. Marvel tried to fix it with ComicBook/HeroesReborn: it was like trying to extinguish the fire with oil. Finally, the Avengers became once more a viable comic book with Kurt Busiek and George Perez, who took a "back to the roots" angle and ignored the nineties stuff.

** Jim Hammond, aka [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks the Golden Age]] Human Torch, was a member of the WestCoastTeam for a short time.

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* RobotClown: The very first issue of the very first series offers an extremely weird example of this trope, with the Hulk disguising himself as a robot in clown makeup.

* ComicBook/AllOutAvengers (2022)

* The franchise's "Infinity Saga" revolves around a core team of ComicBook/IronMan (Creator/RobertDowneyJr), ComicBook/CaptainAmerica (Creator/ChrisEvans), [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Thor]] (Creator/ChrisHemsworth), [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk the Hulk]] (Creator/MarkRuffalo), ComicBook/BlackWidow (Creator/ScarlettJohansson), and ComicBook/{{Hawkeye}} (Creator/JeremyRenner); and other team members include ComicBook/WarMachine (Creator/DonCheadle), ComicBook/TheFalcon (Creator/AnthonyMackie), ComicBook/ScarletWitch (Creator/ElizabethOlsen), ComicBook/{{Quicksilver}} (Creator/AaronTaylorJohnson), ComicBook/TheVision (Creator/PaulBettany), ComicBook/AntMan (Creator/PaulRudd), [[ComicBook/BuckyBarnes The Winter Soldier]] (Creator/SebastianStan), ComicBook/SpiderMan (Creator/TomHolland), ComicBook/BlackPanther (Creator/ChadwickBoseman), and ComicBook/DoctorStrange (Creator/BenedictCumberbatch). ComicBook/TheWasp (Creator/EvangelineLilly) and [[Characters/MarvelComicsCarolDanvers Captain Marvel]] (Creator/BrieLarson) also star in their own films during this period, but arrive late in the arc and are only shown fighting with the Avengers in the GrandFinale where ''all'' of their allies show up.

** [[Characters/HawkeyeClintBarton Clint Barton/Hawkeye]] and [[Characters/MarvelComicsQuicksilver Pietro Maximoff/Quicksilver]] started out as copies of ComicBook/GreenArrow and Franchise/TheFlash who just so happened to be villains (Hawkeye made the mistake of falling for the Black Widow, who started out as TheBaroness, while Quicksilver was part of the [[ComicBook/XMen Brotherhood of Evil Mutants]]). In time, they would go their own way and later joined the Avengers (although Quicksilver has since gone back to being this to an extent as of ''ComicBook/HouseOfM'' and ''Son of M''.)

** Wolverine got this, getting the powers of the whole new Avengers and the two Supreme Sorcerers ([[MyFriendsAndZoidberg And Hellfire]]) to fight [[EldritchAbomination Agamotto]].

* BackupTwin: The second Swordsman (the one who goes around with Magdalena) is not the original one, who was KilledOffForReal and stays that way. He's the Sworsdman from a parallel universe, taken to the main one.

* BettyAndVeronica: Crystal and Sersi, fighting over Black Knight.

* BittersweetEnding: ComicBook/SecretInvasion. They save the world from the Skrulls, at least one character who was thought to be dead is revealed to have been a Skrull prisoner, but they lose Jan in the process.

* BreakOutCharacter: ComicBook/{{Rogue}} was introduced in "The Avengers Annual #10" in 1981 as a villain, where her primary role was ultimately to serve as an easy way for Creator/ChrisClaremont to excise the trauma that Carol Danvers should have suffered from her experiences in "The Avengers #200". After one more appearance as a villain in a two-part story in "ComicBook/{{Dazzler}} #22-#23", she went on to seek the help of the ComicBook/XMen in "Uncanny X-Men #171"... and became one of their leading ladies, amassing a popularity and a fandom that far eclipsed that of the woman originally known as Ms. Marvel.

** The first time is in Avengers 16, when the original team retires, with the exception of Captain America, who stays to guide the new recruits: Hawkeye, Quicksilver, and the Scarlet Witch.

** The Council of Cross-Time Kangs storyline culminates with the entire team quitting in issue 297. Issue 298 features Jarvis alone having to deal with the onset of ''ComicBook/Inferno1988'' at street level. The next two issues have the team reform with the Captain, Thor, Mister Fantastic, Invisible Woman, and [[ComicBook/TheEternals The Forgotten One]] (choosing to go by the name Gilgamesh). The lineup doesn't last too long, as Reed and Sue soon return to the ComicBook/FantasticFour (succeeded on the Avengers by ComicBook/{{Quasar}} and returning members She-Hulk, Black Panther, and Namor), and Gilgamesh soon was replaced by fellow Eternal Sersi.

* CallBack: During Gyrich's initial encounter with the Avengers, he tries to have Ms. Marvel fingerprinted. She tells the poor schmuck charged with this that if he tries, she'll rip his hand off. Many, ''many'' years later, during vol 3., Carol runs into the guy working at Project P.E.G.A.S.US., and reminds him of this fact, so that the Avengers can prove they are who they say they are.

* ConspicuousGloves: Introduced in 1981's ''Avengers Annual'' # 10, Rogue wears gloves so as not to accidentally touch anyone, [[PoisonousPerson since touch with her skin causes her to absorb others' powers, often harming or potentially killing them]]. Case in point, Carol Danvers, whom Rogue manages to render comatose while damaging her memory at the same time.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Warlock #11, in the 1970s. Trying to prevent himself from turning into the Magus, Warlock (with Thanos' help) uses a time probe to go some months into the future. He finds his future self in some destroyed sci-fi setting, dying among the remains. The dying Warlock is fully aware of what his younger self is about to do: capture his soul with the soul gem. He is completely bitter and cynical, and ready to die. "''[[http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-19yt71Nt_DI/UJbWdb_pneI/AAAAAAAADTY/udSmH6BR8wc/s1600/welcome+its+end.jpg Short time? You fool, it's been an eternity. During that time, everything I've ever cared for or accomplished has fallen into ruin! Everyone I've ever loved now lies dead! My life has been a failure! I welcome it's end!]]''" Warlock captures his future self's soul, and returns to the present. You asked about the Avengers? Oh, well, the Avengers, Warlock and Captain Marvel fought against Thanos' armada in ''Avengers Annual #7''. His main ship was actually a decoy, so Warlock and Marvel left the Avengers and foght Thanos at his real ship. And, after the battle... [[http://www.soundonsight.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/StrangeDeathofWarlock.png exactly the same thing happened]].

* GenerationXerox: The Young Avengers Stature, Iron Lad, and Vision (not quite the "same" Vision... well, long story) reenacted the weird LoveTriangle of the Scarlet Witch, Vision, and Wonder Man.

* HeterosexualLifePartners: Cap and Iron Man, though following ''ComicBook/{{Civil War|2006}}'' they went through a bit of a rough patch that put them in VitriolicBestBuds territory. Tony even voiced his concern about working with Steve when the Avengers reformed following the Siege of Asgard, but relented when he learned that it wouldn't be Steve who'd coordinate the team, but Tony's ''Civil War''-time [[TheLancer Lancer]] Maria Hill. Their friendship's since gotten back on track.

* HighTurnoverRate: It was proverbial for this until the modern era for having an expanding constantly shuffling roster, especially in the opening ten years or so. The complaints people had about ''Avengers Disassembled'' and ''New Avengers'' changing rosters suddenly and dramatically were par for the course. Jarvis reflects on this in ''The Avengers #280'' where he's hospitalized after the events of ''Under Siege'':

* IJustWantToBeSpecial: Komodo. The suggestion of having her powers removed causes her to break down in tears.

* InternalHomage: the Gatherers included the Coal Tiger, an alternate T'Challa from an ExpendableAlternateUniverse. That is actually one of the names that Lee and Kirby considered when they were first creating the Black Panther.

* KidFromTheFuture: During ''The Crossing'', a future version of Luna, Quicksilver and Crystal's daughter, shows up. She eventually dies taking an energy blast meant for one of her parents.

* LoveDodecahedron: The nineties team. Where to begin? Quicksilver and Crystal were having a crisis, and on the verge of breaking up. Crystal likes the Black Knight, but Sersi also likes him, and is a lot more dominant. She even took it as far as to make him his "Gann Josin", her husband under Eternal laws, with a mind link (even if Dane [[ShotgunWedding had never accepted that, or even be asked]]). But Sersi is stalked by Proctor, a scorned Black Knight from an alternate reality dumped by his local Sersi and who kills all the Sersis of the multiverse. He works with the Gatherers, other Avengers rescued from alternate realities, and loves one of those, Magdalena. But Magdalena loves her fellow gatherer the Swordsman, who reminds her of her late husband, the Swordsman of her own reality (note that the Swordsman of the main reality is still dead amid all this). Hércules, famed womanizer, falls in real love with Taylor Madison, a shy girl who thinks that she's about to die and does not dare to get engaged. The Black Widow starts to have a crush on Captain America. If you thought that the Vision, turned into an emotionless machine, would be spared from all this, think again. First he is kidnapped and replaced by an alternate Vision, who is a pervert that almost ruined Proctor's plans by trying to rape Crystal. The real Vision gets back, but he's so confused by everyone's emotional crises that he wants to retrieve his lost emotions and be capable to love the Scarlet Witch again. But before that, he must get rid of that annoying Deathbird, who makes it her life goal to seduce the all-logical Vision. Better than a Mexican telenovela, right?

* MadonnaArchetype: An old ''Avengers'' arc had the team trying to find and protect the "Celestial Madonna," a woman prophesied to birth the most powerful being in the universe. I forget if the child ever lived up to its hype, but the Madonna herself turned out to be [[spoiler: Mantis]].

* MyOwnGrampa: Marcus Immortus is his own father. Initially a son of Immortus, he could not leave Limbo the conventional way without disrupting the timeline, so he abducted Ms. Marvel, seduced her, and impregnated her... arranging things so that the baby (who grew at a fantastic speed, all pregnancy in a pair of days, and from baby to young adult in hours) was Marcus himself.

* NoTrueScotsman: All the Avengers have high standards of superheroism, and "Once an Avenger, always an Avenger"... except for the [[ComicBook/DarkReign Dark Avengers]].

* OpeningACanOfClones: The Gatherers, a group of Avengers from alternate realities, who could hunt alternate Avengers at will.

** In The Wedding of Hank Pym and Janet Van Dyne, originally, a supervillian named Yellowjacket appears claiming he killed Hank to the Avengers, namely Hawkeye. He turns around and kidnaps Janet and after a SlapSlapKiss moment she announces her intentions to marry him. It is made clear that by the end of the story line that Janet figured out it was actually Hank having a [[Main/SanitySlippage mental break from chemicals and adopting a new persona to cope]]. She saw this as her chance at happiness, [[http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/yjwedding11.jpg which she ranted about Hank ruining due to his focus on work]]. They've attempted to retcon this story twice. Once, by having everyone [[http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/yjwedding18.jpg on the Avengers forced to play along in order to help Hank cope]] during his [[FreakOut mental break]]. The other time, Creator/BrianMichaelBendis made it so it was said to be an elaborate [[http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kxF371gMSro/TQBQp75HknI/AAAAAAAAQG0/UO4-wSqvMec/s1600/scan0007.jpg PR]] [[http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kxF371gMSro/TQBPVWlAOxI/AAAAAAAAQGs/8wlqbfYFsM0/s1600/scan0004.jpg stunt]] [[http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_kxF371gMSro/TQBPVMAo0ZI/AAAAAAAAQGk/L6gP1bMR68E/s1600/scan0005.jpg with]] [[http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kxF371gMSro/TQBPVI1hcjI/AAAAAAAAQGc/EVsIiEAr1hs/s1600/scan0006.jpg everyone]] of the Avengers in the know, and that it was to throw the media.

* SociopathicHero: Norman Osborn, at least in the eyes of the civilians of the MU, as he runs the Dark Avengers.
* SpaceWhaleAesop: The ending of Avengers 61. Please don't try to summon Asgardian demons at home.

* TakingTheBullet: Kang the Conqueror had a crush on the princess Ravonna, who rejected him. He gave her an alternative: marry him of her own free will, or he would unleash all of his XXX century armies against her puny state, and crush it like an anthill. She still resisted, so Kang gives the order to attack, and the war is over in less than 2 pages. But there was a problem: Kang lieutenants wanted to execute Ravonna, as they did with all defeated royals, and attempted a coup against him. And so, Kang fought against his own army, to save Ravonna's life, and liberated her state. As the Avengers were being returned to the XX century, Baltag got free and shot Kang... but Ravonna, who finally fell in love with him, took the bullet to save him. And for a couple of years, [[BolivianArmyEnding the Avengers and the readers would be left with the doubt of Ravonna's ultimate fate, if she died saving Kang or not]].

* WomanScorned: Proctor is a [[GenderInvertedTrope gender-inverted example]]. In his alternate reality, he got married to Sersi, and shared a PsychicLink with her. However, she eventually lost interest in him, and left him to have fun elsewhere. Proctor got mad from her rejection, retrieved the cursed Ebony Sword and killed her with it, and not having enough with that, he started to kill all the Sersis from all alternate universes.

** ''ComicBook/AvengersTheInitiative'': Running from 2007 to 2010, the book follows the aftermath of the ComicBook/CivilWar, Iron Man opens "Camp Hammond", a military base where heroes old and young are put into bootcamp to train them to be "proper" heroes. Unfortunately everything that can go wrong actually goes almost horribly wrong with young heroes dying, mysterious attacks on faculty, a secret black ops team, alien invasions, numerous betrayals, and ComicBook/NormanOsborn. Ultimately shut down following the events of ''ComicBook/DarkReign'' and The ''ComicBook/{{Siege}}'' and relaunched (literally and figuratively) as ''ComicBook/AvengersAcademy''.

** The Avengers break up in "Avengers Disassembled", and return as a small team in ''New Avengers'', which has a vastly different line-up (most of the "classic" members being off doing other things). The team broke up again during ComicBook/CivilWar, as the characters had conflicting views about the Registration act.

** "Vision Quest"
** "ComicBook/TheCrossing"
** "ComicBook/AvengersDisassembled"
** "ComicBook/CivilWar"
** "ComicBook/SecretInvasion"
** "ComicBook/TheKorvacSaga"
** "ComicBook/OperationGalacticStorm", about the Kree-Shi'ar War, ends with the Kree Supreme Intelligence detonating a nega-bomb and obliterating most of its own species in an attempt to jump start their evolution (which [[AllForNothing didn't work]]). Half of the Avengers were so disgusted with this that they executed him.

* FugitiveArc: Happens to half of the Avengers members following Marvel's ''ComicBook/CivilWar'' storyline. With the SuperRegistrationAct in effect, the team members that rebelled against the law are forced to go underground and remain on the run. First from ComicBook/IronMan's regime and then from ComicBook/{{Norman Osborn}}'s.

* HeterosexualLifePartners: Cap and Iron Man, though following ''ComicBook/CivilWar'' they went through a bit of a rough patch that put them in VitriolicBestBuds territory. Tony even voiced his concern about working with Steve when the Avengers reformed following the Siege of Asgard, but relented when he learned that it wouldn't be Steve who'd coordinate the team, but Tony's ''Civil War''-time [[TheLancer Lancer]] Maria Hill. Their friendship's since gotten back on track.

** Iron Man won the ''ComicBook/CivilWar''.

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[[caption-width-right:350:AVENGERS ASSEMBLE![[note]]Pictured, left to right: [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk Hulk]], ComicBook/IronMan, [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Thor]], The Wasp, ComicBook/TheVision, ComicBook/CaptainAmerica, ComicBook/WonderMan, [[ComicBook/AntMan Hank Pym]], ComicBook/ScarletWitch, ComicBook/{{Quicksilver}}, ComicBook/CarolDanvers as ComicBook/MsMarvel, and Triathlon. Not pictured: about a hundred other heroes.]][[/note]]

* TangledFamilyTree: Ultron. No, seriously. You've got his "father" Hank Pym, Pym's wife Janet, his bride Jocasta based on Janet's brain patterns, his bride Alkhema based on Mockingbird's brain patterns, his "son" Vision, Vision's wife the ComicBook/ScarletWitch (and her brother ComicBook/{{Quicksilver}}), Quicksilver's ex-wife [[ComicBook/TheInhumans Crystal, and their daughter Luna]], Vision's brother-by-way-of-once-being-the-same-guy [[ComicBook/HumanTorch1939 the original Human Torch]], Vision's brother-by-way-of-copied-brain-patterns ComicBook/WonderMan, Wonder Man's brother the Grim Reaper, Mockingbird and her husband Hawkeye, and Ultron's second son [[ComicBook/{{Runaways}} Victor Mancha]]. Ultron actually calls this entire group his family. Vision was later brought back but with the mental imprint of Iron Lad aka Kang the Conqueror and dated Ant Man's daughter. When Jonas, as the Young Avengers Vision came to be known as, was destroyed, the original Vision was restored. He then [[ComicBook/TheVision2015 built a family]] for himself. Son Vin and wife Virginia were both quickly killed, but daughter Viv went on to become a member of [[ComicBook/Champions2016 The Champions]], a team which later added [[ComicBook/TheUnstoppableWasp Nadia Van Dyne]], Hank Pym's daughter who was adopted by Janet. Everyone is also a part of the [[ComicBook/{{Cyclops}} Summers]] Family Tree. (Vision -> Vision II -> Iron Lad -> Kang -> ComicBook/MisterFantastic -> Powerhouse -> Hyperstorm -> Rachel Summers -> Cyclops).

The Franchise/MarvelUniverse's all-star super-hero team, [[AlternateCompanyEquivalent equivalent]] to Franchise/TheDCU's Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica... except with more B-List heroes originally and a name that is based firmly on the concept of RuleOfCool (literally, Wasp picked the name because it sounded cool; some adaptations provide better explanations, though). The team debuted in The Avengers #1 in 1963. The classic lineup is ComicBook/CaptainAmerica, ComicBook/IronMan, ComicBook/AntMan, ComicBook/TheWasp, [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Thor]], and [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk The Hulk]]. The team also within the first few issues gained the series trademark of [[RevolvingDoorBand shifting lineups]], with the Hulk leaving the group with issue two, and Captain America not actually joining until issue 4, and with the major change of all the originals save Captain America being replaced by issue 16. Over the years, half of the Franchise/MarvelUniverse has been a member (to the point where all of of the ComicBook/FantasticFour has been a member at some point), with new members being recruited and old members coming back or leaving [[RotatingArcs as story dictates]]. Other long-serving members include ComicBook/{{Hawkeye}}, ComicBook/ScarletWitch, ComicBook/{{Quicksilver}}, [[ComicBook/TheVision the Vision]], [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHercules Hercules]], ComicBook/SheHulk, ComicBook/WonderMan, [[ComicBook/CarolDanvers Captain Marvel]], ComicBook/{{Beast|Marvel Comics}}, ComicBook/BlackPanther, ComicBook/BlackWidow, and many many more. Having been an Avenger is more or less treated as proof that you've hit the big time in Earth's superhero community.

** Count Nefaria copied the powers of Power Man[[note]]Erik Josten, not ComicBook/LukeCage; Nefaria predates Cage[[/note]], the Living Laser, and Whirlwind; the combination turned him into an evil CaptainErsatz of Franchise/{{Superman}}.

* AnimalThemedSuperbeing: Tons of members: ComicBook/AntMan (three versions), ComicBook/TheWasp (three versions), Yellowjacket (two versions), ComicBook/SpiderWoman (again, there were two different versions; funnily enough, the original one joined the team ''later'') Mockingbird, [[ComicBook/TheFalcon Falcon]], Hellcat / Tigra, Stingray, Mantis, ComicBook/BlackPanther, ComicBook/BlackWidow, Franchise/SpiderMan (two versions), and ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}.

* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: The fifth Lethal Legion, four spirits taken from Hell by Satannish. They are Axe of Violence, Cyana, Zyklon and Cold Steel (who wanted the name "[[Franchise/{{Superman}} Man of Steel]]", but unfortunately [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall it was already taken]]). As the story advances, we are informed that those villains were actually Lizzie Borden, Lucrezia Borgia, Heinrich Himmler and Joseph Stalin, turned into supervillains (or, more exactly, receiving superpowers). No CommieNazis: Zyklon and Cold Steel tried to kill each other when they recognized the other; they only worked together because Satanish forces them to. No afterlife for them, not even in hell: they [[CessationOfExistence ceased to exist]] during the fight of Satannish and Mephisto.

** ''Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes'' (2005) adds behind the scenes details to the early ''Comicbook/TheAvengers'' stories that did not exist then, such as Captain America visiting the Vietnam War Memorial, or showing villains dealing out more destruction than in the original stories, such as the Black Knight Nathan Garrett firing on civilians instead of just spraying Adhesive X.

* ''ComicBook/SecretInvasion''

* {{Flanderization}}: In Ultron's origin story, he attempted to kill his creator, Hank Pym, while referring to him as "father"; this prompted Pym to remark that the robot had developed an OedipusComplex. Later writers took that connection and ran with it, having Ultron attempt to turn Pym's wife, the Wasp (his "mother"), into a robot bride named [[Theatre/OedipusTheKing Jocasta]], and at one point he was reduced to a talking head being carried by a robot offspring named Antigone, after Oedipus's daughter who took care of him after his blinding. Ultron's {{retool}} in ''Mighty Avengers'' had him actually take the Wasp's likeness.

** ''ComicBook/NewAvengers2015'': Following ''ComicBook/SecretWars2015'', another new volume was released featuring Sunspot having taken over ComicBook/{{AIM}} and turning it into Avengers Idea Mechanics.

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* ''ComicBook/WestCoastAvengers'' (later renamed ''Avengers West Coast''): A spin-off book that began in 1985 running through 1993.
** ''Force Works'': A 1994-96 DarkerAndEdgier reboot/revamp of ''West Coast''.
** ''ComicBook/WestCoastAvengers2018:'' Modern revamp featuring a mostly new cast and premise.
* ''Solo Avengers'' (later renamed ''Avengers Spotlight''): An anthology/companion book for ''West Coast Avengers''; running from 1987 through 1989.
* ''ComicBook/GreatLakesAvengers'': A joke team that debuted in 1989 and received their own books in 2006 and 2016.
* ''ComicBook/{{Thunderbolts}}'': First debuting in 1997, the Thunderbolts are [[ThePsychoRangers the Avengers' evil counterpart]]. Although there have been a few {{Retool}}s in its history, all versions share the concept that they feature "ex-"supervillains attempting to act heroic (despite [[HeroWithAnFInGood not necessarily being good at it]]). One incarnation was officially tied to the Avengers when it served as their BoxedCrook rehabilitation program.
** ''ComicBook/DarkAvengers'': A second book featuring an evil counterpart team, this time with the villains only pretending to be heroes and taking on the identities of actual Avengers. The book was eventually merged with the Thunderbolts while still using the "Dark Avengers" title, and a separate Thunderbolts team launched in its place.
* ''ComicBook/NewAvengers'': Replaced the regular Avengers comic in 2004. With the return of the main Avengers title, it has continued as the adventures of a second official team.
** As part of ComicBook/TheAvengersJonathanHickman storyline, ''New Avengers'' featured ComicBook/TheIlluminati trying to stop the destruction of the multiverse, going behind the backs of the main Avengers team and the rest of the heroes.
** ''ComicBook/NewAvengers2015'': Following ''ComicBook/SecretWars2015'', another new volume was released featuring Sunspot having taken over ComicBook/{{AIM}} and turning it into Avengers Idea Mechanics.
** ''ComicBook/USAvengers'': A relaunch of the 2015 ''New'' team, where A.I.M. now works for the American government.
* ''ComicBook/YoungAvengers'': (2005-2006, 2013-) about a {{ComicBook/Teen Titan|s}}-esque group of young heroes. Despite patterning themselves after the Avengers, most have completely different connections to the originals, if any at all.
* ''ComicBook/MightyAvengers'': Running from 2007 to 2010, was at first a team of Avengers who were on the Pro-Registration side of the ''Civil War'' storyline, then later a team led by Hank Pym that was active outside the United States during the events of ''ComicBook/DarkReign''.
** ''ComicBook/MightyAvengers2013'' (later renamed ''Captain America and the Mighty Avengers''): The "Mighty" name was revived between the ''ComicBook/{{Infinity}}'' and ''ComicBook/SecretWars2015'' {{Crisis Crossover}}s.
* A series of books involving young Avengers-in-training:
** ''ComicBook/AvengersTheInitiative'': Running from 2007 to 2010, the book follows the aftermath of the ComicBook/CivilWar, Iron Man opens "Camp Hammond", a military base where heroes old and young are put into bootcamp to train them to be "proper" heroes. Unfortunately everything that can go wrong actually goes almost horribly wrong with young heroes dying, mysterious attacks on faculty, a secret black ops team, alien invasions, numerous betrayals, and ComicBook/NormanOsborn. Ultimately shut down following the events of ''ComicBook/DarkReign'' and The ''ComicBook/{{Siege}}'' and relaunched (literally and figuratively) as ''ComicBook/AvengersAcademy''.
** ''ComicBook/AvengersAcademy'': Running from 2010 to 2012, the book originally focused upon some veteran Avengers teaching a group of young teenagers recruited or forcibly turned into super-powered beings by Norman Osborn during his time running the Avengers Initiative, in hopes of ensuring that they don't become super-villains. Following the events of ''ComicBook/FearItself'', they opened the team up to all young heroes who wanted mentoring.
** ''ComicBook/AvengersArena'': A 2013 series launching with the premise of young heroes of Marvel (including five characters from ''ComicBook/AvengersAcademy'') fighting to the death, trapped on an island by supervillain Arcade, who has taken several levels in being a bad-ass as far as him seeking to kill the kids in order to regain his reputation as an assassin.
** ''ComicBook/AvengersUndercover'': A 2014 series that is a direct follow-up to ''ComicBook/AvengersArena'' which follows five teen survivors of the book ([[BreakTheCutie who are beyond broken]]) infiltrating Bagalia, the Masters of Evil's own sovereign nation, all the while deciding if they want to be heroes or join the dark side.
* ''ComicBook/PetAvengers'': Running from 2009 to 2011, a series of mini-series that focuses upon various animal companions of superheroes teaming up to fight evil.
* ''ComicBook/SecretAvengers'': Debuting in 2010, it follows teams sent on secret black-ops missions. It was originally led by (then-former) Captain America Steve Rogers, but has since been run by ComicBook/{{SHIELD}}.
* ''Avengers Assemble'': This book initially launched in 2012 as a tie-in to the film, featuring an in-continuity version of the film team. After issue eight, it turned into a "down time" book, following what the Avengers do in-between missions, with more of a focus on the female Avengers (namely, Black Widow, Spider-Woman, and Captain Marvel).
* ''ComicBook/UncannyAvengers'': Launched in 2012, this new title deals with the aftermath of ''ComicBook/AvengersVsXMen'' that acts as a sort of bridge team between the Avengers and the X-Men as a result of Captain America wanting to reach out and do a better job of helping out the mutants.
** ComicBook/UncannyAvengersCounterEvolutionary
** ComicBook/UncannyAvengers2023
* ''ComicBook/AvengersAI'': Running from 2013 to 2014, the book focused on a team of robotics-based heroes out to stop rogue [=AIs=] that spun out of the ''ComicBook/AgeOfUltron'' event.
* ''Avengers World'': A 2014-2015 comic focusing on the new expanded roster of the Avengers as they work to tackle multiple threats across the world. It acted as additional supplemental material, with each issue focusing on individual characters in the team as the two main Avengers books began to focus more on [[ComicBook/TheAvengersJonathanHickman their interconnected story]] that led into ''ComicBook/SecretWars2015''.
* ''ComicBook/AForce'': A 2015-16 title launched during ''ComicBook/SecretWars2015'' featuring a AmazonBrigade of Avengers from a number of different worlds coming together.
* ''ComicBook/TheUltimates'': The ComicBook/UltimateMarvel counterpart of the Avengers debuting in 2002. This version draws many comparisons to ''ComicBook/TheAuthority'', with taking a "widescreen" action approach along with attempts to take a look at how such actions would come across in a closer to real world setting. After a line wide relaunch it split into two different teams: Ultimate Avengers and The Ultimates, but another relaunch reunited under the Ultimates banner.
** ''ComicBook/TheUltimates2015'': A main-universe Ultimates team, launched as part of ComicBook/AllNewAllDifferentMarvel after the Ultimate line concluded. It features some of Marvel's most powerful and intelligent heroes as they seek to solve omniversal problems that are normally above even the Avengers' weight class, such as curing Galactus' hunger.
* ''ComicBook/AllNewAllDifferentAvengers'': Released during the ''ComicBook/AllNewAllDifferentMarvel'' initiative following ''Secret Wars'' starring a more grounded version of the team. This version deals with the team not having unlimited funds and half the team still being teenagers with problems like school. It ran from 2015-2016 before the title went back to being just ''Avengers''.
** ''ComicBook/{{Champions|2016}}'': Disillusioned with how the adult heroes have been acting after ''ComicBook/CivilWarII'', the teen half of ''All-New All-Different'' gather some other younger heroes and strike out on their own.
* ''ComicBook/OccupyAvengers'': Another team formed from the aftermath of ''ComicBook/CivilWarII'', ''Occupy'' features unpowered heroes going on the road to help everyday people. Ran from 2016-2017.
* ''ComicBook/SavageAvengers'': Launched in 2019, this team's main concept is that it's composed of violent {{Anti Hero}}es.
* ''Strikeforce'': Launched in 2019, they're a top secret black ops team that do the wetwork in the Avengers' favor.
* ComicBook/AllOutAvengers (2022)

[-''This page describes the Avengers team itself, for ''The Avengers'' comic series, please see the [[Franchise/TheAvengers franchise page]]''.-]

The comic has produced a good number of spin-offs and side team books including:
[[folder:Other Avengers teams]]

* ''Occupy Avengers'': Another team formed from the aftermath of ''ComicBook/CivilWarII'', ''Occupy'' features unpowered heroes going on the road to help everyday people. Ran from 2016-2017.

* TheResolutionWillNotBeTelevised: The first series "Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D." had the recurring mystery of the identity of the villain Scorpio. Nick Fury managed to unmasked him, but just cried out "You!"; readers were still left in the dark. The series was cancelled, without closure for the Scorpio thing, and Nick Fury was killed. Then, Roy Thomas tied up the loose ends in the Avengers: Skorpio was Jake Fury, Nick's brother. Nick took up the Scorpio identity and, taking advantage of his supposed death (the Nick who was shot was [[ActuallyADoombot actually a LMD]]) he infiltrated the Zodiac, to destroy them from within.

** ''Mighty Avengers'' vol 2 #12 establishes there was a Mighty Avengers team during the 1970's.
* ReedRichardsIsUseless: Henry Pym has: discovered Pym Particles, sub-atomic particles which can cause anything to shrink or grow (with an attendant increase in mass); created devices which allows communication with insects; and invented a device which converts thoughts into radio waves for transmission. Any of these scientific achievements would change the world. Pym uses them to pursue his passion of being a costumed adventurer. Talk about useless...
* TheRemnant: The Supreme Intelligence of the Kree destroyed his own Empire with a Nega-Bomb, and the Avengers executed him for that. Still, a small group of Krees, called the "Lunar Legion" (because they set their base on the blue area of the moon) blame the Avengers for the destruction of their Empire and their beloved Supreme Intelligence, and try to kill them. Of course, the SI turns out to be less dead than they thought.
* TheResolutionWillNotBeTelevised: The first series "Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D." had the recurring mystery of the identity of the villain Scorpio. Nick Fury managed to unmasked him, but just cried out "You!"; readers were still left in the dark. The series was cancelled, without closure for the Scorpio thing, and Nick Fury was killed. Then, Roy Thomas tied up the loose ends in the Avengers: Skorpio was Jake Fury, Nick's brother. Nick took up the Scorpio identity and, taking advantage of his supposed death (the Nick who was shot was [[ActuallyADoombot actually a LMD]]) he infiltrated the Zodiac, to destroy them from within.

* It has been announced that the Avengers will reunite for the following "Multiverse Saga", but the roster has yet to be determined. In the meantime, a number of new heroes that had been affiliated with the Avengers in the comics have been introduced, including ComicBook/ShangChi (Creator/SimuLiu), ComicBook/MoonKnight (Creator/OscarIsaac), [[Characters/MarvelComicsKamalaKhan Ms. Marvel]] (Creator/ImanVellani), and ComicBook/SheHulk (Creator/TatianaMaslany).

* FiveManBand: The original lineup:
** TheHero: Iron Man
** TheLancer: Thor
** TheBigGuy: Hulk
** TheSmartGuy: Ant-Man
** TheChick: Wasp
*** And, let's not forget the SixthRanger, Captain America, who later became the Hero as Iron Man became the Lancer and Thor replaced Hulk as the Big Guy.
** The Initiative's first wave of recruits had its own Band
*** TheHero: MVP
*** TheLancer: Hardball
*** TheBigGuy: Komodo and Armory
*** TheSmartGuy: Trauma
*** TheChick: Cloud 9.
*** [[spoiler:MVP is accidentally killed by Armory in the first issue; Armory is then sent to a psychiatric hospital after having the source of her powers removed. When the remaining cadets graduate, they're all sent to different teams.]]
** The ''New Avengers'' lineup from the first arc:
*** TheHero: ComicBook/CaptainAmerica
*** TheLancer: ComicBook/IronMan
*** TheSmartGuy: Spider-Man
*** TheBigGuy: Luke Cage
*** TheChick: Spider-Woman
*** The SixthRanger: Wolverine
** Listing the different Five Man Bands could take all day.

* FullyAbsorbedFinale: The first ''Spider-Woman'' series, ending with her apparent death, was resolved in ''The Avengers'' #239-242 with Jessica Drew losing her powers in order to help the Avengers beat Morgaine [=LeFey=].

* ArchivedArmy: One iteration of the Lethal Legion villain team, recurring enemies of the team, was composed of history's greatest murderers, given superpowers by hell. They were [[Characters/TheBorgias Lucrezia Borgia]], UsefulNotes/LizzieBorden, UsefulNotes/JosefStalin, and [[UsefulNotes/NaziGermany Heinrich Himmler]]. Lucrezia was codenamed "Cyana", granted [[AmazingTechnicolorPopulation blue skin]], AbsurdlySharpClaws coated with [[PoisonousPerson poison]], and a literal KissOfDeath. Lizzie was codenamed "Axe of Violence", granted light red skin, [[ArtificialLimbs her right hand was replaced by a double-headed axe]], and she carried two other double-headed axes used as throwing weapons. Josef was codenamed "Coldsteel", becoming a ChromeChampion with a body made of living steel, granting him SuperStrength and SuperToughness. Heinrich was codenamed "Zyklon", granted a PoweredArmor which allowed him to [[JetPack fly]]. He released DeadlyGas from his mask and gauntlets. They appeared in ''Avengers West Coast'' #98-100 (September-November, 1993).

* ConquerorFromTheFuture: Kang the Conqueror, an invading warlord and ruler of the world in the distant future, has attempted to conquer the Earth in our modern time period. The Avengers have repeatedly thwarted his ambitions. And then there are his counterparts from different points in his timeline: [[IHaveManyNames Rama-Tut, the Scarlet Centurion, Immortus]]....

* ContinuitySnarl: Kang's backstory.
* CoolPlane: The Quinjet.

* MasterSwordsman: The Swordsman, duh.

* NinetiesAntiHero: Force Works.

* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: Thor, Hercules.