History Comicbook / SecretAvengers

As part of Comicbook/MarvelNOW, the title was relaunched in April 2013, with Nick Spencer (ComicBook/MorningGlories) writing and Luke Ross on art. The new volume focuses on ComicBook/{{SHIELD}} creating its own team of Avengers, starring ComicBook/NickFury Jr, PhilCoulson, ComicBook/DaisyJohnson / Quake (director) and Maria Hill (acting director) with a team of Avengers consisting of ComicBook/{{Hawkeye}}, ComicBook/BlackWidow, {{ComicBook/Mockingbird}}, and [[ComicBook/IncredibleHulk Hulk]] who are sent on missions so secret that even they can't know what they've done, requiring them to [[LaserGuidedAmnesia submit to a mindwipe]] afterward. The series lasted for 16 issues (April, 2013-April, 2014)

The title was relaunched again in May 2014 as part of ''[[Comicbook/MarvelNOW All New Marvel NOW!]]'' with the creative team of Ales Kot and Michael Walsh. Similar to the previous volume, ComicBook/{{SHIELD}} Director Maria Hill has assembled a black ops team with the cooperation of the Avengers for missions too murky for the Avengers to publicly be involved with. The team consists of Agents ComicBook/NickFury Jr, PhilCoulson, and Avengers ComicBook/{{Hawkeye}}, ComicBook/BlackWidow, and ComicBook/SpiderWoman. However, Maria has also hired ComicBook/{{MODOK}}, which the rest of the team is unaware of.

As part of Comicbook/MarvelNOW, the title was relaunched in April 2013, with Nick Spencer (ComicBook/MorningGlories) writing and Luke Ross on art. The new volume focuses on ComicBook/{{SHIELD}} creating its own team of Avengers, starring ComicBook/NickFury Jr, PhilCoulson, Daisy Johnson/Quake (director) and Maria Hill (acting director) with a team of Avengers consisting of ComicBook/{{Hawkeye}}, ComicBook/BlackWidow, {{ComicBook/Mockingbird}}, and [[ComicBook/IncredibleHulk Hulk]] who are sent on missions so secret that even they can't know what they've done, requiring them to [[LaserGuidedAmnesia submit to a mindwipe]] afterward. The series lasted for 16 issues (April, 2013-April, 2014)

As part of MarvelNOW, the title was relaunched in April 2013, with Nick Spencer (ComicBook/MorningGlories) writing and Luke Ross on art. The new volume focuses on ComicBook/{{SHIELD}} creating its own team of Avengers, starring ComicBook/NickFury Jr, PhilCoulson, Daisy Johnson/Quake (director) and Maria Hill (acting director) with a team of Avengers consisting of ComicBook/{{Hawkeye}}, ComicBook/BlackWidow, {{ComicBook/Mockingbird}}, and [[ComicBook/IncredibleHulk Hulk]] who are sent on missions so secret that even they can't know what they've done, requiring them to [[LaserGuidedAmnesia submit to a mindwipe]] afterward. The series lasted for 16 issues (April, 2013-April, 2014)

The title was relaunched again in May 2014 as part of ''[[MarvelNOW All New Marvel NOW!]]'' with the creative team of Ales Kot and Michael Walsh. Similar to the previous volume, ComicBook/{{SHIELD}} Director Maria Hill has assembled a black ops team with the cooperation of the Avengers for missions too murky for the Avengers to publicly be involved with. The team consists of Agents ComicBook/NickFury Jr, PhilCoulson, and Avengers ComicBook/{{Hawkeye}}, ComicBook/BlackWidow, and ComicBook/SpiderWoman. However, Maria has also hired ComicBook/{{MODOK}}, which the rest of the team is unaware of.

* AuthorAppeal: Nick Spencer, writer of the MarvelNOW version of the team, admits in interviews that Mockingbird is one of his favourite characters, and wanted to use her specifically because he always tries to use her in his work wherever he can.

The team's original line-up included [[ComicBook/CaptainAmerica Captain Steven Rodgers]], [[ComicBook/XMen Beast]], ComicBook/MoonKnight, ComicBook/{{Nova}}, Valkyrie, ComicBook/AntMan, [[ComicBook/WarMachine War Machine]] and ComicBook/BlackWidow. Later, ComicBook/{{Hawkeye}} took over the team, adding Captain Britain, the original Human Torch and even Comicbook/{{Venom}} [[note]]Flash Thompson[[/note]] to the roster. Steve Rogers had returned to his role as Captain America after the events of ''ComicBook/FearItself''. The series lasted for 37 issues (July, 2010-March, 2013)

The ''Secret Avengers'' is an ''[[ComicBook/TheAvengers Avengers]]''spinoff featuring a black-ops oriented team of Avengers in the Franchise/MarvelUniverse which started in the "Heroic Age". Originally led by [[ComicBook/CaptainAmerica Commander Steve Rogers]], who was placed in charge of America's superheroes after the deposition of a [[ComicBook/DarkReign drunk-with-power Norman Osborn]], the comic deals with the Secret Avengers' "off-the-grid" operations as they seek to protect the world from threats before they reach public attention.

The ''Secret Avengers'' is a ComicBook/TheAvengers spinoff featuring a black-ops oriented team of Avengers in the Franchise/MarvelUniverse which started in the "Heroic Age". Originally led by [[ComicBook/CaptainAmerica Commander Steve Rogers]], who was placed in charge of America's superheroes after the deposition of a [[ComicBook/DarkReign drunk-with-power Norman Osborn]], the comic deals with the Secret Avengers' "off-the-grid" operations as they seek to protect the world from threats before they reach public attention.

The team's original line-up included [[ComicBook/CaptainAmerica Captain Steven Rodgers]], [[ComicBook/XMen Beast]], ComicBook/MoonKnight, ComicBook/{{Nova}}, Valkyrie, ComicBook/AntMan, [[ComicBook/WarMachine War Machine]] and ComicBook/BlackWidow. Later, ComicBook/{{Hawkeye}} took over the team, adding Captain Britain, the original Human Torch and even Comicbook/{{Venom}} [[note]]Flash Thompson[[/note]] to the roster. Steve Rogers had returned to his role as Captain America after the events of ''ComicBook/FearItself''.

As part of MarvelNOW, the title was relaunched in February 2013, with Nick Spencer (ComicBook/MorningGlories) writing and Luke Ross on art. The new volume focuses on ComicBook/{{SHIELD}} creating its own team of Avengers, starring ComicBook/NickFury Jr, PhilCoulson, Daisy Johnson/Quake (director) and Maria Hill (acting director) with a team of Avengers consisting of ComicBook/{{Hawkeye}}, ComicBook/BlackWidow, {{ComicBook/Mockingbird}}, and [[ComicBook/IncredibleHulk Hulk]] who are sent on missions so secret that even they can't know what they've done, requiring them to [[LaserGuidedAmnesia submit to a mindwipe]] afterward.

The title was relaunched again in March 2014 as part of ''[[MarvelNOW All New Marvel NOW!]]'' with the creative team of Ales Kot and Michael Walsh. Similar to the previous volume, ComicBook/{{SHIELD}} Director Maria Hill has assembled a black ops team with the cooperation of the Avengers for missions too murky for the Avengers to publicly be involved with. The team consists of Agents ComicBook/NickFury Jr, PhilCoulson, and Avengers ComicBook/{{Hawkeye}}, ComicBook/BlackWidow, and ComicBook/SpiderWoman. However, Maria has also hired ComicBook/{{MODOK}}, which the rest of the team is unaware of.

"Secret Avengers" was also Captain America's team during ''ComicBook/CivilWar'', who fought against Iron Man's initiative for SuperhumanRegistrationAct. But that's excluded in this page. Go to ''ComicBook/CivilWar'' page and see if you can find anything about them.

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The title was relaunched again in March 2014 as part of ''[[MarvelNOW All New Marvel NOW!]]'' with the creative team of Ales Kot and Michael Walsh. Similar to the previous volume, ComicBook/{{SHIELD}} Director Maria Hill has assembled a black ops team with the cooperation of the Avengers for missions too murky for the Avengers to publicly be involved with. The team consists of Agents ComicBook/NickFury Jr, PhilCoulson, and Avengers ComicBook/{{Hawkeye}}, ComicBook/BlackWidow, and ComicBook/SpiderWoman. However, Maria has also hired ComicBook/MODOK, which the rest of the team is unaware of.

* ActionGirl: Natasha Romanov/Black-Widow, and Jessica Drew/Spider-Woman

Currently under construction.

* PutOnABus: [[spoiler: Mockingbird at the end of #16.]] Daisy also disappeared earlier after being fired for her illegal assassination attempt on the Scientist Supreme.

* TheMole: Solicitations teased that one of the team was secretly working for AIM, and when [[spoiler: MODOK]] tries to make peace with Hill, he suggests that its [[TokenEvilTeammate Taskmaster]]. [[spoiler: Its not; its Mockingbird via brainwashing]].

* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Forson has a big one when he not only leaves Mockingbird alone before she is rescued by Hawkeye, but then tries to kill her -- [[spoiler: it's enough for Bobbi and Barbara to align their thoughts and opinions in order to agree on one thing; Forson must die. And he does.]]

* BreakTheHautie: [[IronWoobie While Mockingbird was already broken]], after [[spoiler: she gets left behind enemy lines by Maria Hill, she goes through this. At first it has her start to question who she really is, thinking she might be a skrull, but then Forsen reveals he knows who she is and locks her up. Cue above mentioned BrainwashedAndCrazy trope.]] The current storyline is called ''How To Maim a Mockingbird'', which should give you an idea of what's going down; assuming she survives this, she's goin to be even more broken then she is already.
* CallBack: Natasha mentions her involvement in ComicBook/SecretWar, where she stood by and let Nick Fury mess with the memories of her fellow heroes without their consent. She also tells Clint that SHIELD isn't the Red Room and that this is their choice, and that they get to walk away (unlike similar work in her past where memories were removed and implanted without her consent and without her being allowed to leave). #7 has Maria tell Daisy that what they're doing was supposed to be about kobik, which is from the Marvel Now Point One issue.
* ContinuityPorn: For a lot of Mockingbird's past. Her ability to become anyone, learned by both being a spy and being trapped with skrulls for a long time become literal with camotech. There's even a call back to her very first appearance when flashbacks show that [[spoiler: a psychic Barbara Morse apparently started working for Forson after having visions of the future.]]

* KickTheDog and PetTheDog: Both to Mockingbird. Taskmaster's crowning moment of humanity is him genuinely trying to help her get off the island, and his sympathy when he starts to realize how broken she may be from this. Maria Hill leaving her on the island is one of the two main examples of her being forced to do something horrible to avoid political backfire from AIM's shenanigans. And Forsen allowing Mockingbird to run around, trying to avoid detection when he knew all along she was there, before [[spoiler: brainwashing her and making her kill Taskmaster]] is arguably one of the worst things he's done to anyone in the story so far. [[TheDogBitesBack Lets just hope that she'll get the chance to fulfil another 'dog' trope on Forsen]].

** SHIELD's use of the memory tech, despite all their efforts to be humane and fair about it, all ends up blowing up in their faces when it turns out [[spoiler:Forsen was the one who provided it to them. By extension, Hill cancelling the previously mentioned assassination at the last minute allowed Forsen to worm his way into the World Security Council, plant various traps to capture Hawkeye, Widow, and Fury Jr, as well as leave Rhodey seriously injured, and kill Taskmaster and brainwash Mockingbird. In short, Hill's attempt to clean up Daisy's fuck-up lead to her own massive fuck-up.]]
** Nick Fury Sr gets a retroactive one. He was the first director to use the memory tech, paving the way for the Secret Avengers team. The memory tech seems to have come from [[spoiler: Forsen]]. He might have won against [[spoiler: Strucker]] but [[spoiler: Forsen's]] plan seemed to have worked perfectly.

** Yelena [[spoilers: seems to play it straight, with no sign that she survived after being shot in #15.]]

* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: Taskmaster]] in #13.

* KickTheDog and PetTheDog: Both to Mockingbird. Taskmaster's crowning moment of humanity is him genuinely trying to help her get off the island, and his sympathy when he starts to realize how broken she may be from this. Maria Hill leaving her on the island is one of the two main examples of her being forced to do something horrible to avoid political backfire from AIM's shenanigans. And Forsen allowing Mockingbird to run around, trying to avoid detection when he knew all along she was there, before [[spoiler: brainwashing her and making her kill Taskmaster]] is arguably one of the worst things he's done to anyone in the story so far. [[TheDogBitesBack Lets just hope that she'll get the chance to fulfil another 'dog' trope on Forsen]].