History ComicBook / TheAvengers

* ''ComicBook/Avengers1000000BC'': The first Avengers, in the world OneMillionBC. Created in 2017 but have yet to recieve their own book; instead appearing in subplots in the main book.

* 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/VictorMancha. 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/UnstoppableWasp 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).

'''''[[TropeCodifier The other]]''''' SuperTeam.

The Avengers have been adapted for other mediums multiple times; a complete list of which can be found on [[Franchise/TheAvengers the Franchise page]]. The highest-profile and most influential version is the one that features in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse, with several members getting their own films and a few others being supporting characters, and the MCU usually brings the entire team together in an ''Avengers'' movie at the climax of a multi-film story arc. 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/IncredibleHulk 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/AaronJohnson), 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). The core lineup for the next era has yet to be determined, as the team disbanded once the story arc ended and no new movie reuniting them has been announced yet.

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

* ''ComicBook/Avengers1000000BC'': The first Avengers, in the world OneMillionBC.

The Avengers have been adapted for other mediums multiple times; a complete list of which can be found on [[Franchise/TheAvengers the Franchise page]]. The highest-profile and most influential version is the one that features in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse, with several members getting their own films and a few others being supporting characters, and the MCU usually brings the entire team together in an ''Avengers'' movie at the climax of a multi-film story arc. 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/IncredibleHulk 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/AaronJohnson), 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). The core lineup for the next era has yet to be determined.

* ArtifactOfDoom: The Avengers confronted the threat of the Serpent Crown, a [[MindControlDevice mind control device]] channeling the power of Set, an [[EldritchAbomination Elder God]].

* BreakingTheFellowship: Happenes several times:

** 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/{{Inferno}} 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.

** ''ComicBook/AvengersNoSurrender''.

* TheChosenOne: Mantis [[spoiler:who is destined to be the Celestial Madonna, the future mother of a [[FauxSymbolism Celestial Messiah]].]]

* ClothingDamage: Averted in ''Avengers'' #252. Hercules is attacked by the Blood Brothers, counter-attacks and defeats them... but his skirt is damaged in the attack, leaving his godly attributes fully visible. The Scarlet Witch lends him her cape, to avoid further humilliation.

* DieHardOnAnX: "Avengers: Under Siege"[[note]]Writeen in 1986 by Roger Stern, John Buscema and Tom Palmer; do not confuse it with ''ComicBook/{{Siege}}''[[/note]] is basically "''Film/DieHard'' in the Avengers Mansion"

--> '''Jarvis''': "There have been so many Avengers over the years. Some stayed so briefly, it is hard to even remember them. Hercules, the Beast, the Falcon, Hellcat, poor Ms. Marvel...I tried to serve them all well, to make their stays as pleasant as possible. After all. The life of an Avenger is not easy."

** Yellowjacket did not kill Henry Pym, he ''is'' Henry Pym. That's also the reason why the Wasp was getting married with a complete stranger who claimed to have killed her boyfriend.

** When the Vision is considered for membership, the team wonder about his full-range of capabilities. So Cap decides to attack him in order to see. When the Vision predictably defends himself, Iron Man and Thor leap in as well. Hank Pym quickly tells them to knock it off.

* {{Narm}}: InUniverse, when the Enchantress wants to use the late Zemo's machines on Zemo's mook, Erik Josten. He has no problems with it, as long as she didn't give him a corny name such as "Wonder Man", the previous guy. She calls him "Power Man", and he protests: that name is even more corny than the other, but what the hell...

* NotGoodWithRejection: Mantis declares her love for the Vision, but he mantains his love for the Scarlet Witch, and tells her to be JustFriends. Her despair is so great that, several centuries in the future, Kang detects it, and finally identifies her as the elusive Celestial Madonna.

* TheRemnant: The Supreme Inteligence 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 Inteligence, and try to kill them.

* ShotgunWedding: The Eternals visit the Avengers, and Sersi tells Ikaris not to threaten the Black Knight, because she wants him to be her "Gann Josin". Meaning, her husband under Eternal laws, and that includes a permanent telephatic link between them, so both shared the other's thoughts as in a single mind. Angered by his discussion with the Avengers, Ikaris turns the Black Knight into Sersi's Gann Josin right away. And the Black Knight? Fine, thanks for asking. Nobody ever ''asked'' him if he wanted that, and he certainly didn't.

* TakingTheBullet: Kang the Conqueror had a crush on the princess Ravonna, who rejected him. He gave her an alternative: get married with him by 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 gave the order to attack, and the war was 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]].

** Averted in ''New Avengers'', where {{Wolverine}} is recruited to the team specifically because he will cross a line they won't.

** ''ComicBook/TheCrossing'' was reviled for many reasons, chief among them being it tried to state that Franchise/IronMan was really a ManchurianAgent for Kang the Conqueror since the Avengers first fought him (which heavily derailed Iron Man's character) and that the various mental issues [[ComicBook/AntMan Hank Pym]] suffered over the years were really an earlier attempt to turn him into one before Kang moved onto Tony. ''The Crossing'' was so reviled that many elements of ''ComicBook/AvengersForever'' were itself a retcon towards it. It was revealed that the mastermind behind the story was actually Immortus disguised as Kang in an off-the-rails attempt to distract the Avengers from preparing for ComicBook/{{Onslaught}}, which was one part of a possible timeline where humanity conquers the stars. Tony Stark was never Brainwashed since the Avengers first fought Kang, but was being controlled by Immortus since ''ComicBook/OperationGalacticStorm''. It was said to be brainwashed FantasticRacism that went completely overboard and that Immortus lied through his teeth when he said he was the cause of Hank's issues. Various faces who turned evil throughout the story turned out to be Space Phantoms.

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/IncredibleHulk 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.

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/IncredibleHulk 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}}, the ComicBook/ScarletWitch, ComicBook/{{Quicksilver}}, ComicBook/TheVision, [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHercules Hercules]], ComicBook/SheHulk, ComicBook/WonderMan, [[ComicBook/CarolDanvers Captain Marvel]], ComicBook/{{Beast|Marvel Comics}}, ComicBook/BlackPanther, ComicBook/BlackWidow, and many many more.

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

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

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

** Longtime solo player Daredevil eventually joined the New Avengers in 2011. Out of the well-known heroes who don't fit the previous categories (remembering that SelfDemonstrating/{{Deadpool}} is more closely associated to the X-Men, being an X-Force member and all), only ComicBook/ThePunisher remains unaffiliated, but considering it's [[KnightTemplar the Punisher]] we're talking about...

* DistinguishedGentlemansPipe: Hank Pym used to smoke a pipe from time to time, before it became [[PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad PC]] not to smoke.

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/IncredibleHulk 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}}, the ComicBook/ScarletWitch, ComicBook/{{Quicksilver}}, ComicBook/TheVision, [[Comicbook/TheIncredibleHercules Hercules]], ComicBook/SheHulk, ComicBook/WonderMan, [[ComicBook/MsMarvel Captain Marvel]], ComicBook/{{Beast|Marvel Comics}}, ComicBook/BlackPanther, Comicbook/BlackWidow, and many many more.

* ''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.

* ''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.

** ''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/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/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/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.

The Avengers have been adapted for other mediums multiple times; a complete list of which can be found on [[Franchise/TheAvengers the Franchise page]]. The highest-profile and most influential version is the one that features in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse, with several members getting their own films and a few others being supporting characters, and the MCU usually brings the entire team together in an ''Avengers'' movie at the climax of a multi-film story arc. 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/IncredibleHulk 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/AaronJohnson), 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). The core lineup for the next era has yet to be determined.

* TheAlcoholic: Comicbook/IronMan and Comicbook/MsMarvel both fell OffTheWagon.

* AnimalThemedSuperbeing: Tons of members: ComicBook/AntMan (three versions), ComicBook/TheWasp (two versions), Yellowjacket (also 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 {{Wolverine}}.

** They have also faced Thanos when he had possession of the [[Comicbook/TheInfinityGauntlet Infinity Gauntlet]], which allows gives its user literal omnipotence; both Iron Man and Captain America have wielded the gauntlet as well.

* BadassNormal: Team members ComicBook/{{Hawkeye}}, Comicbook/BlackWidow, Mantis (until she gained powers), ComicBook/BlackPanther, and ComicBook/{{Mockingbird}}.

* BattleCouple: Hank Pym/Wasp, Vision/Scarlet Witch, Mockingbird/Hawkeye, [[Comicbook/{{Alias}} Jessica Jones]]/Luke Cage

** 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.

** "Comicbook/CivilWar"

* DynamicAkimbo: Not used as much their counterparts, the Comicbook/JusticeLeague, but usually, TheBigGuy on the team (Thor, Hercules, Wonder Man, etc.) will take this in contrast to the smaller and less imposing teammates. Cap also does it often, as the leader and most iconic of the group.

*** TheLancer: Comicbook/IronMan

* FogFeet: Veil from ''Comicbook/AvengersAcademy''.

* 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.

** Longtime solo player Daredevil eventually joined the New Avengers in 2011. Out of the well-known heroes who don't fit the previous categories (remembering that SelfDemonstrating/{{Deadpool}} is more closely associated to the X-Men, being an X-Force member and all), only Comicbook/ThePunisher remains unaffiliated, but considering it's [[KnightTemplar the Punisher]] we're talking about...

* SuperHeroGods: Team members Thor, Hercules, and Comicbook/{{Ares}} all claim to be actual mythological deities. Which, in the Marvel Universe, they ''are''.

* 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 the original Human Torch, Vision's brother-by-way-of-copied-brain-patterns Wonder Man, Wonder Man's brother the Grim Reaper, Mockingbird and her husband Hawkeye, and Ultron's second son 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/UnstoppableWasp 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 -> Mr. Fantastic -> Franklin Richards -> Hyperstorm -> Rachel Summers -> Cyclops).
* ThouShaltNotKill: ''Usually'' played straight. However, the Avengers recognize that the rules are different in times of war. And when they say war, they mean actual ''war'', such as ComicBook/{{Thanos}} invading with a massive space fleet, or Kang bringing in his army from the future to conquer the whole planet. Even then, however, they take it very seriously; after defeating Kang, for example, [[ComicBook/MsMarvel Warbird]] requested an official inquiry into ''her own'' actions, to see if they thought she had gone too far at one point. They decided she hadn't, but gave it the full consideration she requested.

* TokenMinority: Comicbook/TheFalcon resigned because he felt he had been recruited due to affirmative action - which he was - but he was the second Avenger of African descent (the first was Black Panther, who couldn't be with the team full-time because it conflicts with his duties as King of Wakanda). There were echoes of this when Triathlon (now named 3-D Man) was forced onto the team.

** ''Comicbook/AvengersDisassembled''.

* NeverLiveItDown:
** Invoked in-universe, ''everyone'' is suspicious of Spider-Woman, because [[ParanoiaFuel they think she is still the Skrull Queen - even after Norman Osborn vehemently ''shot her in the face to death'']].
*** [[MemeticMutation The queen was a skrull!!!]]
** Who could forget Hank Pym who slapped his wife just once, while he was having a (possibly phlebotinum-fueled) mental breakdown. Which only happened because of a miscommunication between writer and artist. It's not for nothing that this incident was used as the trope image.

* TwoLinesNoWaiting: While superhero comics typically avoid this trope, Kurt Busiek uses it a few times during his run on the book, having the team split up to deal with two or more concurrent threats. Most notably, there's the Triune Understanding subplot, which builds up slowly but steadily throughout Busiek's run. When the subplot finally reaches its culmination point, you'd think it would become the sole focus of the book... But said culmination actually happens during the long "Kang Dynasty" arc, with only a handful of Avengers involved while the rest are dealing with Kang's threat. Captain America even complains that instead of getting involved with Triune, they should be out there fighting Kang.

** Triatholon was a two-for token, being of African descent, as well as being a member of the [[ChurchOfHappyology Triune Understanding]], the new cult that was responsible for the Avengers getting a lot of bad press at the time.

* ChurchOfHappyology: The Triune Understanding was a {{Cult}} that harassed the Avengers and gave powers to the team member 3-D Man AKA Triathlon.