History Comicbook / AvengersAcademy

* FifteenMinutesOfFame: Striker's mother had an affair with a prominent politician. After her fame ran out, she began pushing her son to become famous as well.

* KickTheSonOfABitch: Even though Tigra lambastes the participants for their actions, it's hard for the reader not to take some satisfaction when several of the Academy's students respond to learning how the Hood invaded Tigra's home, beat her viciously, made her beg for her life and threatened her mother, by deciding to PayEvilUntoEvil and do the same thing to him, putting up a video of the Hood pleading for his life on WebSite/YouTube.

** [[spoiler:Future Reptil's]] inner monologue reveals that he doesn't remember Ava Ayala existing in his timeline, not even knowing that the original White Tiger had a living sister. On a meta level, Ava never appeared in the Marvel Universe before that particular arc (she's a CanonForeigner from ''WesternAnimation/UltimateSpiderMan''); as such, this can come off as commentary on how she was suddenly retconned in.

* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: When the students are told that they can stop Korvac, Mettle says that the Avengers are already fighting him and [[WhoWouldWantToWatchUs "we're not even in the cartoons"]]. Striker points out that Reptil ''is'', because kids love dinosaurs. This is a reference to ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperHeroSquadShow'' cartoon, which features Reptil as a rookie alongside the more famous classic Avengers.

** In their appearance in ''The Amazing Spider-Man'', Spidey explains to the students in class how [[AmbitionIsEvil he was wrong for trying at first to use his powers for financial gain]] instead of [[ComesGreatResponsibility helping people]] and the students ask why he didn't just patent his webbing and make millions that he could donate to needy charities. Spidey counters that he'd have to give up his secret identity to patent it, but one of them points out he could have used proxies in the form of shell companies to hide the source of the webbing, and point by point take apart Mr. Parker's lesson plan as being illogical and overall, useless.

* StageMom: Striker's mother. She actually [[spoiler:hires Whirlwind to attack the students so that her son will gain publicity.]]
* {{Stripperiffic}}:
** Averted in the original students. And the new students avoid it, too, unless you count Lightspeed showing off her midriff.
** But not by original teacher Tigra, who runs around in a bikini. She even defends this in some issues where the students and the Runaways meet up. Running around california while covered in fur is hot enough, thank you.
* ShockAndAwe: Striker has the ability to create and manipulate electricity.

* ShootTheShaggyDog [[spoiler:Veil gets one of these during the ComicBook/FearItself event, where she finds and rescues a mother from a collapsed building, only for the mother to be gunned down in front of her daughter just after being saved.]]

* SurferDude: Mettle before his recruitment into the Initiative/Avengers Academy, also making him one of the few ethnically Hawaiian superheroes.

!!Contains examples of:

** Reptil who can turn into any Dinosaur. At first, it was only in parts, later he could change into a whole animal. [[spoiler: his adult self can change into any animal from the dimension that Moon-boy and Devil Dinosaur came from.]]

* ArchEnemy: [[spoiler: Jeremy Briggs is everything they fear becoming wrapped up in a package of being everything they also want.]]

* AwesomenessByAnalysis: Finesse. Considering [[spoiler: she's heavily implied to be Taskmaster's daughter, this is a given.]]

* BlessedWithSuck: The original cast is pretty much ''built'' on this. We have Veil who can turn into mist... yet her power is slowly killing her. Then we have Hazmat whose body produces deadly radiation, and has to be confined to a suit to protect others (think Captain Atom meets Rogue). Then there's Finesse, who is a super fighter but her brain can't handle all the information, causing her to discard social skills as "extraneous data", with the similarly empowered [[spoiler:Taskmaster]] stating that his own short-term memory suffers similarly, as his brain constantly dumps "useless" data to imprint more combat skills. [[spoiler: Sure enough, a future version of Finesse shows she has awful short-term memory, to the point that she's continually forgetting her daughter's name.]] And then there's Mettle, who was a champion surfer before his powers awakened granting him SuperStrength and NighInvulnerability...but making him look like a metal version of ComicBook/RedSkull (he even yells once 'I'm not related to Red Skull, I'm Jewish'). Striker and Reptil are the safest of them, but they've got issues of their own to work around (and Striker's aren't even related to his powers).
* BookEnds: [[spoiler: The series starts off with Veil being picked on in school and ends that way. Except in the end, Veil has picked up more self confidence and ass-kicking skills.]]

* DePower: [[spoiler: Jeremy Briggs' evil plan involves depowering every genetic-based superhuman in the world, and then selectively restoring only those individuals willing to work for him.]]

* FiveTokenBand: Goes very, very close to this trope with the original lineup. Reptil is Latino, Mettle is half-Jewish and half either Black or Polynesian, Hazmat is a Japanese-American girl, Veil is also a girl and Striker is [[spoiler: gay.]] Later additions to the core team (White Tiger, Julie Power and X-23) are Latino, bisexual and a clone, respectively and are all girls.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Giant-Man and Tigra are hit with this when the kids are called into action during the Fear Itself arc, especially when [[spoiler: Mettle kills a {{Mook}} and Tigra asks if he's prepared to do it again to protect civilians.]]

* StraightGay: [[spoiler: Striker.]]