| 1 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/f4022d43ad7b222146451ead902f5132.jpg]][[caption-width-right:350: Avengers, Assemble![[note]]Clockwise from middle top: ComicBook/TheSentry, ComicBook/SpiderMan, ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}, ComicBook/CaptainAmerica, ComicBook/IronMan, [[Characters/DaredevilSupportingCharacters Ronin]], ComicBook/LukeCage, and ComicBook/SpiderWoman.[[/note]]]] |
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| 3 | The Franchise/MarvelUniverse's [[ComicBook/TheAvengers all-star superhero team]], rebranded for the new millennium. |
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| 5 | After ''ComicBook/AvengersDisassembled'', Tony Stark disbanded the Avengers. [[TimeSkip Six months later]], a prison riot at the Raft proved that the world needed an Avengers team, so ComicBook/CaptainAmerica recruited the other heroes who helped stop the riot -- ComicBook/IronMan, ComicBook/SpiderMan, ComicBook/LukeCage, and ComicBook/SpiderWoman -- to form the New Avengers. As the first few arcs went on, the team was joined by ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}, ComicBook/TheSentry and Ronin (a disguised [[Characters/DaredevilSupportingCharacters Echo]], sent by ComicBook/{{Daredevil}} in his place, later replaced by a resurrected ComicBook/{{Hawkeye}}). Following ''ComicBook/CivilWar2006'' through to the end of ''ComicBook/DarkReign'', the team was forced underground, but with the beginning of the Heroic Age they were free to operate openly. The series lasted for 64 issues (January, 2005-June, 2010). |
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| 7 | Following ''Dark Reign'', the team was officially sanctioned by S.H.I.E.L.D., and was one of two public teams of Avengers active in the Marvel Universe. They were led by Luke Cage, and they were based in Avengers Mansion. |
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| 9 | In other media, the team (consisting of Spider-Man, Luke Cage, [[Characters/IronManHeroes War Machine]], ComicBook/IronFist, Wolverine, and ComicBook/TheThing) appeared in a self-titled episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheAvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes''. Most of the members also are playable heroes in the Website/{{Facebook}} game ''VideoGame/MarvelAvengersAlliance''. Also, in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse, the New Avengers are referenced at the end of ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron''[[note]]The immediate follow-up, ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'', doesn't pick up on this[[/note]] in which, with [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Thor]] leaving for Asgard, [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk the Hulk]] for parts unknown, and Iron Man and Hawkeye leaving the team, Cap and ComicBook/BlackWidow decide to rebrand the team with War Machine, [[Characters/CaptainAmericaHeroes the Falcon]], Characters/ScarletWitch and ComicBook/TheVision as its new formation. |
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| 11 | Not to be confused with the British TV show ''Series/TheNewAvengers'', which was a revival of ''Series/TheAvengers1960s''. |
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| 13 | For the 2012 ''New Avengers'', please see ''ComicBook/TheAvengersJonathanHickman''. For the ''[[ComicBook/AllNewAllDifferentMarvel All-New, All-Different]]'' 2015 ''New Avengers'', please see ''ComicBook/NewAvengers2015''. |
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| 16 | !Tropes used in ''New Avengers:'' |
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| 20 | [[folder:Volume I Tropes]] |
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| 22 | * AccidentalHero: When a demon possesses Stephen Strange and Daimon Hellstrom, Wolverine stabs them with his claws. Strange recovers, and praises Wolverine for realizing that only massive physical trauma would make the demons leave their host. Spider-Man chimes in: Wolverine simply goes for blood, it was just CrazyEnoughToWork. |
| 23 | * AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs: Any place they use as a headquarters typically has a hard time. |
| 24 | ** The first annual has a [[PowerCopying Super-Adaptoid powered]] Yelena Belova attacking the New Avengers at their HomeBase in the Avenger's Tower. |
| 25 | ** The second annual has the Hood lead a villain attack to Doctor Strange's Sanctum Sanctorum that the New Avengers were using as their HomeBase. |
| 26 | * AllYourPowersCombined: |
| 27 | ** The Collective has the powers of all the mutants that Wanda {{DePower}}ed during ''ComicBook/HouseOfM''. |
| 28 | ** The [[PowerCopying Super-Adaptoid powered]] Yelena Belova gets all of the powers of the New Avengers when fighting them. But when the gets The Sentry's power, she [[PowerIncontinence can't handle it]]. |
| 29 | * AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: During ''ComicBook/SecretInvasion2008'', both this title and ''ComicBook/MightyAvengers'' didn't feature the titular Avengers, but instead revealed backstory for several of the Skrull replacements. Justified, in that both teams were trapped in the Savage Land for a large portion of the story, and the story was originally going to be a BatFamilyCrossover taking place in the two Avengers titles before ExecutiveMeddling decided to make the story a CrisisCrossover limited series instead. |
| 30 | %%* ArchEnemy: ComicBook/TheHood, the ComicBook/DarkAvengers. |
| 31 | * ArcVillain: |
| 32 | ** Sauron and the Savage Land Mutates for the "Breakout" arc, as they were behind the [[GreatEscape breakout in the Raft]]. |
| 33 | ** The Void for "The Sentry" arc, Sentry's SuperpoweredEvilSide that makes him attack the heroes while Sentry and Emma Frost have a BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind against it. |
| 34 | ** The Hand and Madame Hydra for the "Ronin" arc, with the New Avengers pursuing Silver Samurai to Japan and trying to prevent him from allying himself with The Hand and HYDRA. |
| 35 | ** The Collective for the "Collective" arc, as the Collective threatens the whole planet with its power. |
| 36 | ** ComicBook/IronMan and S.H.I.E.L.D. for ''ComicBook/CivilWar2006''. |
| 37 | ** ComicBook/{{Elektra}} and the Hand for the "Revolution" arc, with Ronin and the New Avengers fighting against them for control of the Japanese underworld. Although by the end we find out [[spoiler:Elektra was actually the Skrull Pagon in disguise]]. |
| 38 | ** Hood (Parker Robbins) for the "Trust" arc, with him organizing a VillainTeamUp while the heroes are busy and disorganized in the ''ComicBook/CivilWar2006'' aftermath. |
| 39 | ** Queen Veranke and the Skrulls for ''ComicBook/SecretInvasion2008''. |
| 40 | ** Norman Osborn (and his ComicBook/DarkAvengers) and The Hood (and his gang) for ''ComicBook/DarkReign'' and ''ComicBook/{{Siege}}''. |
| 41 | * TheAtoner: ComicBook/DoctorStrange during his stay with the team post-''ComicBook/CivilWar2006'', since he feels incredibly guilty for staying neutral during the war, which is why he lends them the Sanctum Sanctorum as their HomeBase for a while, allowing them to hide from Iron Man and the government forces. |
| 42 | %%** Daredevil, due to the events of ''ComicBook/{{Shadowland}}'' |
| 43 | * BackForTheFinale: Wolverine shows up at the very final issue to do a sneak attack on Count Nefaria, after being unavailable for the last few arcs due to events in ''ComicBook/XMen''. |
| 44 | * BadassInANiceSuit: During the [[GreatEscape Raft breakout]], Spider-Woman fights alongside the heroes in her S.H.I.E.L.D suit. She does start wearing a costume after that incident, when she joins the team for real. |
| 45 | * BadassInDistress: The first things the second line-up do are [[spoiler:try to retrieve Captain America's body from S.H.I.E.L.D. after learning that he may still be alive]], before flying to Japan to save Echo from being [[BrainwashedAndCrazy forced into the Hand]]. |
| 46 | %%* BadassLongcoat: Doctor Strange. |
| 47 | * BaldnessMeansSickness: During the {{flashback}} to Spider-Woman seventeen months-long procedure to get her powers back, we see that she lost her hair at some point, to illustrate how painful and demanding the procedure was. |
| 48 | * BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind: Sentry has one with his own inner demon, The Void, who's actually Sentry repressed persona who manifested itself when Mastermind used his powers to [[LaserGuidedAmnesia wipe out Sentry's memories]]. The Mastermind also created the delusion that if Sentry ever used his powers, a creature called The Void would appear and destroy the world. With the help of Emma Frost and his wife Lindy, Sentry manages to overcome it. |
| 49 | * BedTrick: The Wanda Maximoff that Hawkeye met and slept with in Transia is [[ActuallyADoombot retroactively made into a Doombot]] in ''ComicBook/AvengersTheChildrensCrusade'', meaning poor Clint actually slept with a Doombot without knowing. |
| 50 | * BenevolentBoss: Hood keeps his villains loyal by treating them well, including making an effort to bust them out of prison if they get arrested. |
| 51 | * BeautifulCondemnedBuilding: Discussed when Doctor Strange conceals the New Avengers in his own mansion, bespelled to look decrepit and boarded up (to twist the knife a bit more, it even wears a "Coming Soon -- A Starbucks" banner). |
| 52 | * BigBad: |
| 53 | ** Skrull Queen Veranke is the main antagonist for the run until her defeat in ''ComicBook/SecretInvasion2008'', having her hands in almost every bad thing that happens to the New Avengers since they formed as a HiddenVillain, which is appropriate since [[spoiler:she [[MoleInCharge joined them in the very first issue as Spider-Woman]]]]. |
| 54 | ** [[Characters/MarvelComicsNormanOsborn Norman Osborn]] and the Hood become the BigBadDuumvirate after ''ComicBook/SecretInvasion2008'', forming an alliance, with Norman taking control of the government as a VillainWithGoodPublicity while The Hood takes over the New York criminal world with his gang. |
| 55 | * BigBlackout: In order to knock out power to cause a GreatEscape on the Raft, Electro absorbs so much electricity that it causes a blackout in the entirety of New York. This is how Spider-Man, who was just hanging out in his apartment with Mary Jane, gets alerted that something's wrong. |
| 56 | * BigBrotherMentor: Iron Man takes Spider-Man as his protégé, giving him a highly advanced suit and a secure place for his family on the Avengers' tower. In ''ComicBook/CivilWar2006'', Spider-Man turns on his friend after being appalled by Iron Man's draconian methods to enforce the Super Human Registration Act. |
| 57 | * BoomHeadshot: |
| 58 | ** Just as Sauron is about to use his hypnotic gaze to enslave the New Avengers, he gets shot in the head by Yelena Belova. Although she turns her gun on the New Avengers right after. |
| 59 | ** The [[spoiler:Jarvis]] Skrull is killed by a headshot from Bullseye. |
| 60 | * BrainwashedAndCrazy: |
| 61 | ** Echo is brainwashed and fights alongside Elektra and the Hand. Iron Fist tries an IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight to no avail, but Doctor Strange manages to dispel the Hand's magic on her, undoing the brainwashing. |
| 62 | ** Spider-Man has to fight off Spider-Woman while she's enthralled by Mandrill's {{Pheromones}}. They eventually wear out, but Spidey and Jessica ''pretend'' it hasn't so they can get a drop on Mandrill when he gets close. |
| 63 | * BroughtDownToNormal: Using stolen Stark tech, EvilGenius Jonas Harrow builds a power disruptor device that Chemistro uses to [[DePower depower the New Avengers]], giving the Wrecking Crew a chance to take them out, with the only one untouched being BadassNormal Mockingbird. Curiously the power disruptor also knocks out Clint/Ronin, even though he's ''also'' a BadassNormal, and the story never explains why. It also works on The Sentry when he [[TheCavalry shows up to help them]]. |
| 64 | * ClimacticElevatorRide: An interesting variation: One issue has Luke Cage once falling off the top of a building while the team was fighting hand ninjas. He simply got up, took the elevator back to the roof, and got back into the fight. |
| 65 | * ComingInHot: |
| 66 | ** When the team goes to the Savage Land, Spider-Man gets worried since it ''always'' ends up in a crash-landing situation. Iron-Man dismisses the idea, only to narrowly avoid being InstantlyProvenWrong when they get attacked by dinosaurs. And when they do land safely, the ship gets instantly destroyed by a ''T. rex'' the moment they step out. And when they meet Wolverine, he also admits he crashed when he arrived on the island. |
| 67 | ** Iron Fist's plane ends up crashing landing when they're coming to the USA with [[spoiler:Skrull Elektra's body]]. Which allows [[spoiler:Spider-Woman to take the body away]]. |
| 68 | ** During ''ComicBook/SecretInvasion2008'', they once again have to go to the Savage Land and have to crash-land when the ship gets attacked by a dinosaur. |
| 69 | ** When they're tracking down The Hood with the eye of Agamotto, the Quinjet gets shot down by Madame Masque with a rocket launcher. |
| 70 | * CardboardPrison: The very first arc is about a major breakout at the Raft, but in future issues it doesn't take much effort for villains like the Hood to just casually go there and break people out. |
| 71 | * CasualDangerDialogue: Naturally, [[YouFightLikeACow Spider-Man]] is the chief offender, but they all have their moments. |
| 72 | --->'''Ronin''' ''[mid-battle]'' ''':''' Yo, Cage, do they always talk this much during a fight?\ |
| 73 | '''Luke Cage:''' Uh, yes, actually.\ |
| 74 | '''Iron Fist:''' Yeah, I didn't know there was banter involved. I don't do banter.\ |
| 75 | '''Luke Cage:''' You're doing banter now, Fist.\ |
| 76 | '''Iron Fist:''' No, I'm not.\ |
| 77 | '''Luke Cage:''' I didn't say it was ''good'' banter. |
| 78 | * ChekhovsGunman: Ronin. Despite being on all of the early covers, the character didn't appear until the midway point of the original line-up's run (and then immediately [[PutOnABus went to Japan to spy on the Hand]]), before becoming part of the team properly after ''Civil War''. |
| 79 | * ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Echo, after ''ComicBook/SecretInvasion2008''. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Spider-Man asking if anyone knew where she'd gone; and again with her reappearance when Luke Cage and Jessica Jones were looking for a Nanny, as she angrily asks if Cage even remembers that she used to be on the team. |
| 80 | * CListFodder: When the Collective showed up, he killed off the entirety of ComicBook/AlphaFlight -- a superhero team with over thirty years of history in the Franchise/MarvelUniverse -- before taking on the Avengers. Sure, that history consisted of being "Canada's premiere superhero team", but they were still mainstays of the setting. To add insult to injury, the guy who was possessed by the Collective at the time ends up on the new version of Alpha Flight and wears the same costume as its former leader. They've since done a major amount of backpedaling on Alpha Flight: Sasquatch was upgraded from dead to just injured after the "Collective" storyline and only Shaman and James [=MacDonald=] Hudson (the original Guardian) have been officially declared dead in the aftermath. |
| 81 | * ClothingDamage: |
| 82 | ** During the [[GreatEscape Raft breakout]], several of the heroes fighting get their clothes and costumes damaged and torn, to illustrate how much they're struggling fighting so many super-villains. Matt Murdock and Luke Cage in particular, get most of their shirts completely shredded while [[MagicPants pants seem immune to any damage]]. |
| 83 | ** When the New Avengers defeated the [[SuperpoweredEvilSide Dormammu possessed Hood]], he falls to the floor naked, having incinerated his clothes, with CensorSteam covering his waist before Spider-Man ties him up with web. |
| 84 | * TheCollector: The Wrecker tracks down his crowbar and costume to the house of a rich man who likes buying old super-villains costumes. According to his daughter, he likes to dress up and roleplay as them. |
| 85 | * CosmicRetcon: By virtue of Spider-Man being in the cast throughout the first volume, the effects of ''ComicBook/OneMoreDay'' wind up coming into effect during the build-up to ''ComicBook/SecretInvasion2008'' -- as such, everyone loses their knowledge of his secret identity until he unmasks to the team again after the event. |
| 86 | * CostumesChangeYourSize: Despite Echo and Clint having different body builds, they both wear the same Ronin costume interchangeably. |
| 87 | * CostumeCopycat: Spider-Man [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] the Dark Avengers use of costumes previously worn by ''actual'' heroes. |
| 88 | * CrazyJealousGuy: PlayedForLaughs with Luke Cage getting jealous of Spider-Man when Jessica confesses Peter Parker used to be her high-school crush. It becomes a RunningGag for a couple of issues. |
| 89 | * CreatorCameo: |
| 90 | ** Although he isn't named, the man officiating the wedding of Luke Cage and Jessica Jones is clearly based on Creator/StanLee. |
| 91 | ** Creator/PaulJenkins, the writer who created ComicBook/TheSentry, appeared as himself in the story that revolved around the character's origin. |
| 92 | * CrocodileTears: [[spoiler:Issue #14 with Spider-Woman telling her DoubleAgent story to Captain America retroactively becomes this, since we learn in the future she's actually Veranke, so she didn't actually feel bad about her situation at all.]] |
| 93 | * CrossThrough: The post-''ComicBook/CivilWar2006'' issues occur with the opening arc of ''ComicBook/MightyAvengers'', when the team's plane is downed by Ultron's EMP. After recovering, they watch her message to the world. |
| 94 | * ADayInTheSpotlight: During ''ComicBook/CivilWar2006'', each issue focused on an individual member of the team who didn't have their own series, with Captain America and Iron Man also getting issues due to scheduling conflicts with their own series. |
| 95 | * DealWithTheDevil: Luke Cage has to resort to making a deal with Norman Osborn in order to find his daughter after the Skrulls kidnap her. Luke doesn't actually go through with joining Osborn, which puts him in Osborn's shitlist. |
| 96 | * DecapitatedArmy: The Hand promptly retreats after Echo kills Elektra. Spider-Man notices this is odd, since they tend not to leave bodies behind which is when they notice [[spoiler:Elektra was actually a Skrull]]. |
| 97 | * DeepSleep: After witnessing Brother Voodoo repel Agamotto's invasion (with [[HeroicSacrifice tragic results]]), Doctor Strange wakes up in the next issue and is told he's been asleep for fifteen hours. |
| 98 | * DisabilitySuperpower: |
| 99 | ** Daredevil has enhanced senses, including a "radar sense" that shows him the world around him. |
| 100 | ** Echo is a deaf woman who possesses [[PhotographicMemory "photographic reflexes"]] that allow her to mimic the feats of those around her. |
| 101 | * DoctorDoctorDoctor: PlayedForLaughs in one of the Illuminati meetings: |
| 102 | -->'''Doctor Strange:''' Doctor Richards.\ |
| 103 | '''Reed Richards:''' Doctor Strange.\ |
| 104 | '''Tony Stark:''' You guys ''love'' calling yourself Doctor. I have ''three'' doctorates, you don't see me -\ |
| 105 | '''Reed:''' ''Doctor'' Stark.\ |
| 106 | '''Tony:''' Thank you. |
| 107 | * DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The Hood's attack on Tigra has some pretty blatant parallels to a rape, complete with a battered Tigra lying sobbing on the floor after it's over. When he sneaks up in her bedroom in the second annual, the scene also has rape parallels, especially since she SleepsInTheNude and most of his gang is clearly leering at her. A later arc in ''ComicBook/AvengersAcademy'' drives it home even further when Tigra discusses her assault on live television and states that it's not her shame to bear, but her attacker's. |
| 108 | * DoNotCallMePaul: After Spider-Man [[TheUnmasking unmasks]] and reveals his SecretIdentity to the team, he keeps getting stressed out whenever they refer to him as "Peter", paranoid that someone else (like a villain) could be listening. |
| 109 | * DontSneakUpOnMeLikeThat: When Wolverine sneaks up behind Spider-Woman on the Savage Land, her reaction is to flip him over and stabs him in the throat with his own claws. Given it's [[HealingFactor Wolverine]], he survives, but it's still very annoyed by it, but Jessica isn't sympathetic given he snuck up on her with his claws out. |
| 110 | * DoubleAgent: Victoria Hand, with the requisite "whose side is she really on?" questions. The period between the end of ''Dark Reign'' and ''Avengers vs. X-Men'' plays this for all it's worth. |
| 111 | * DoubleEntendre: When Ant-Man and Doctor Strange go [[FantasticVoyagePlot into Luke Cage's body to retrieve an explosive device from his heart]], Spider-Man can't resist reminding Luke that "you have two men inside you right now." |
| 112 | * DoubleReverseQuadrupleAgent: A complicated double agent situation is created due in regard to [[spoiler:Spider-Woman. First, she's contacted by HYDRA, who offer to get her powers back in exchange for her to become TheMole for them in S.H.I.E.L.D., however she immediately tells Nick Fury and they both arranged for her to be a DoubleAgent that would actually only [[FeedTheMole feed them intel Fury approved of]]. But unbeknown to Jessica or Fury, the HYDRA agents that gave her powers back turned out to actually be an alien Skrull cell that infiltrated HYDRA, and after giving Jessica her powers back, Queen Veranke used Jessica's DNA to enable her to [[MoleInCharge perfectly impersonate Jessica as Spider-Woman]]. She stayed as a mole in S.H.I.E.L.D., but jumped at the chance to join the New Avengers so she could keep an eyes on them and could get a chance to personally examine Tony's Stark tech. She only got found out during the ''ComicBook/SecretInvasion2008'' event.]] |
| 113 | * DramaPreservingHandicap: When Doctor Strange joined the team post-''ComicBook/CivilWar2006'', he was quickly stripped of his Sorcerer Supreme status, which greatly weakened him and limited what he could do with his powers. He would not be restored to full power until the final issue of Creator/BrianBendis' run. |
| 114 | * TheDreaded: Elektra, as far as Japan is concerned. [[spoiler:Or not, since it's her Skrull replacement.]] |
| 115 | * DroppedABridgeOnHim: |
| 116 | ** Yelena Belova, the blonde ComicBook/BlackWidow replacement for Natasha, is unceremoniously disfigured in the first arc after being set on fire. She is brought back in the annual as a villain only to be quickly disposed of by her HYDRA masters. |
| 117 | ** The entirety of ''ComicBook/AlphaFlight'' is apparently killed, [[KilledOffScreen off-panel no less]], by The Collective / Michael Pointer / [[spoiler:Xorn]]. This was [[RetCon eventually undone]]. |
| 118 | * EarnYourHappyEnding: The New Avengers go through ''hell'' on this run ever since ''ComicBook/CivilWar2006'' begins, what with them being on the losing side and their leader Captain America dying. The New Avengers [[FugitiveArc become fugitives]] on the run from their former friends. And soon enough they have to deal with a secret AlienInvasion from the Skrulls in ''ComicBook/SecretInvasion2008'' and even when they manage to thwart it, Norman Osborn ends up taking the credit and replaces Tony Stark as the new 'top cop' and the New Avengers fugitive status becomes even ''more'' dire. But they endure it, and Norman Osborn is finally defeated and exposed during the events of ComicBook/{{Siege}}, and The Hood's [[TheSyndicate crime syndicate]] gets permanently dissolved. Steve Rogers also comes BackFromTheDead and takes over as director of S.H.I.E.L.D. so the New Avengers can finally stop hiding. |
| 119 | * EmpoweredBadassNormal: Yelena Belova, the other Black Widow, is already a badass spy, but HYDRA gave her the PowerCopying powers of Super-Adaptoid, so she could face all of the New Avengers on her own. |
| 120 | %%** [[spoiler:Mockingbird, once she receives a dosage of the Infinity Formula.]] |
| 121 | * EstablishingCharacterMoment: ComicBook/TheSentry grabs Carnage and flies him out into space and tears the symbiote in two. The second arc established the Sentry's character to a fuller extent, but this established that he was ''not'' going to be a low-level hero. |
| 122 | * EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Electro took the Raft job because the money was enough for him to retire while providing for his [[ASideOrderOfRomance waitress girlfriend]]. But said girlfriend is horrified by what he did, and it turns out to be AllForNothing in the end as the New Avengers arrest him soon after. |
| 123 | * EveryoneWentToSchoolTogether: Spider-Man and Jessica Jones, complete with the embarrassing revelations that ''she'' had a crush on ''him''; and that Peter ''[[ForgottenFirstMeeting didn't even realize]]'' that Jessica Jones, superhero and former Bugle co-worker, went to the same school as him as he only knew her as "Coma Girl". |
| 124 | * EvilerThanThou: The Hood's first appearance is him shooting the Owl. |
| 125 | * FaceFramedInShadow: The villain who hired Electro to create a BigBlackout to cause the [[GreatEscape prison breakout]] at the Raft has their body covered by shadows. It's later revealed it was [[spoiler:Elektra, or rather the Skrull Elektra, supposedly working for the Savage Land Mutates, but actually working for the Skrulls to cause chaos with the Raft breakout.]] |
| 126 | %%* FakeKillScare |
| 127 | * FallingIntoTheCockpit: Echo has to Fly Iron Man's Quinjet when Captain America and Spider-Woman fall into the ocean. Tony is worried, warning her the plane isn't a normal one, but Echo manages it just fine. When he inquires how she learned, she just explains to him (and to the audience) that's how her powers [[PhotographicMemory "photographic reflexes"]] work: she learned how to fly, by just watching him do it. |
| 128 | * FantasticVoyagePlot: In one story arc, Hank Pym and Doctor Strange enter Luke Cage's body to remove an [[WhyAmITicking explosive device from his heart]]. |
| 129 | * FastballSpecial: |
| 130 | ** With Wolverine on the team, one of the heavy hitters will occasionally perform the traditional variant. |
| 131 | ** Spider-Man and Iron Fist used a variant in a battle with Ragnarok, with Iron Fist as the projectile. |
| 132 | * FinalBoss: The final villain they face is Madame Masque's father, Count Nefaria, who is about to make a deal with The Hood to give him powers. But the Avengers interrupt them. Despite being a FlyingBrick and SupermanSubstitute, Ms. Marvel and Wolverine defeat Nefaria rather easily in three pages. Partially justified, in that the New Avengers specifically planned out the quickest and most effective way to take him down, whilst he had no idea of the ambush. |
| 133 | * {{Foreshadowing}}: There are a few scenes that foreshadow what's going on with Spider-Woman: |
| 134 | ** When everyone's scared about who might be a Skrull, Doctor Strange casts a spell to make sure everyone is who they say they are, and if they're lying it hurts them. The only one to react negatively is Spider-Woman, who spends several panels having difficulty standing up. [[FailedASpotCheck Which no-one notices.]] |
| 135 | ** Spider-Woman's Civil War tie-in focus issue is completely lacking in any inner monologue or narration from her or anything that gets into her head and shows what she's thinking, unlike nearly every other focus issue. [[spoiler: Because of course, it's not her but Veranke and her inner motives are not at all what "Spider-Woman" appears to be doing.]] |
| 136 | * ForgottenFirstMeeting: When Spidey reveals himself as Peter Parker for the post-''ComicBook/SecretInvasion2008'', it leads to Jessica Jones actually recognizing him and revealing they [[EveryoneWentToSchoolTogether went to high school together]] (which actually was in her origin story), and she gets all excited because she used to have a huge crush on him. The funny thing is, this is the second time he's unmasked (he made a [[DealWithTheDevil deal with the devil]] to [[LaserGuidedAmnesia mindwipe]] the whole world into forgetting his identity), and she didn't say anything the first time! And Peter actually has no memory of her at all until she mentions she was in a coma, and he remembers her as "the coma girl", and she's very disappointed he didn't even know her name. |
| 137 | * FugitiveArc: Post-''ComicBook/CivilWar2006'', the New Avengers are fugitives from the government, with Tony Stark and his Avengers openly searching and trying to arrest them. This goes on until after the ''ComicBook/SecretInvasion2008'' arc is over... when [[VillainWithGoodPublicity Norman Osborn replaces Tony]] as the new 'top cop' in America and things get ''even worse'' until he's finally defeated and exposed as a villain during the events of ''ComicBook/{{Siege}}''. |
| 138 | * FullFrontalAssault: |
| 139 | ** After getting captured by the Savage Land Mutates, the New Avengers are all stripped naked and imprisoned. When Iron Man uses his voice to remotely control his suit to free everyone, the Avengers are forced to fight off the first wave of Savage Land Mutates in the nude, with plenty of convenient [[SceneryCensor objects]], [[CensorShadow shadows]] and ShouldersUpNudity shots to conceal any actual nakedness. |
| 140 | ** In the "The Collective" arc, Alaskan mutant Michael Pointer is possessed by the vengeful spirit of a dead Chinese mutant who idolizes Magneto, who also happens to drag along the power sets of all the mutants who were depowered on [[ComicBook/HouseOfM M-Day]]. After the initial explosion, which destroys his entire hometown, he starts walking to the lower 48 across Canada, obliviously destroying anything and anybody in his path. Throughout the four-issue arc, he is starkers -- his clothes were burnt off right at the start, although he has a BarbieDollAnatomy with his powers active. When he loses his powers and he turns back human, he's naked and [[HandOrObjectUnderwear uses his hands to cover himself until he's handed a blanket]]. |
| 141 | * GoMadFromTheIsolation: The Hand attempts to {{Brainwash|ing}} Echo by throwing her into a dark pit with no light for three days, making her almost go nuts with sensory deprivation. |
| 142 | * GoodThingYouCanHeal: When fighting the Hand ninjas, Wolverine is noticeably the only one that keeps getting fatally injured by them. |
| 143 | * GreatEscape: |
| 144 | ** The incident with led to the formation of the New Avengers was a big prison breakout that occurred at the super-villain prison [[TheAlcatraz the Raft]]. |
| 145 | ** Later, the Hood leads another breakout at the Raft, rescuing the men that were working with him as well as picking up new recruits. |
| 146 | * GroinAttack: |
| 147 | ** During the mission to rescue Echo, Luke Cage takes down Elektra by giving her a hard kick in the groin, which makes her crumple to the ground. It's PlayedForLaughs given the funny {{Reaction Shot}}s from everyone, with even The Hand {{Mook}} ninjas looking shocked. |
| 148 | ** During the BarBrawl against The Hood, Wolverine gets shot in the crotch, which leaves Logan too injured to pursue The Hood. Given he has HealingFactor, he's mostly just annoyed about it. |
| 149 | -->'''Wolverine:''' Maybe it'll [[BiggerIsBetterInBed grow back bigger]]. |
| 150 | * HandicappedBadass: Echo is a deaf woman with photographic memory; and Daredevil is a blind man with "Radar Sense". Both are superheroes with uncanny fighting skills. |
| 151 | * HeadTurningBeauty: |
| 152 | ** Spider-Woman gets this reaction from Iron Man and Luke Cage when she appears in her sexy red and yellow costume |
| 153 | -->'''Iron Man''': Well, Agent Drew... In the most P.C., non-threatening, professional way I'd like to say...\ |
| 154 | '''Luke Cage''': ''Damn'', girl.\ |
| 155 | '''Iron Man''': Exactly. |
| 156 | ** Luke Cage makes several remarks about Suspiria when he sees her, even when his wife is standing right next to him. |
| 157 | * HeroDoesPublicService: Between adventures with cosmic-level threats, the Avengers take time to stand on street corners in bad neighborhoods to help make people feel more secure and let small-time crooks know they're not below them. |
| 158 | * HeroismWontPayTheBills: PlayedWith in one of the final issues where [[ComicBook/CaptainAmerica Steve Rogers]], newly-instated as Director of S.H.I.E.L.D., offers each member of the team a stipend for their heroics. Luke Cage initially refuses because he is extremely anti-establishment and was adamant that the team remains autonomous. His wife immediately snatches the check and loudly reminds him that thanks to their last battle, they have nowhere to live, no food, no diapers, and no other necessities to take care of their infant child. Luke promptly shuts up and accepts the check. |
| 159 | * HeroWithBadPublicity: |
| 160 | ** One of Spider-Man's fears about joining the team is that he'll bring his bad publicity with him to the New Avengers. But Iron Man comforts him, pointing out joining the New Avengers will improve his publicity not the other way around. Tony and Steve even have a meeting with Jameson to -pre-warn him about Spider-Man's membership. But this backfires when Jameson acts as if Stark tries to bride him and he slams the entirety of the Avengers when they reveal themselves to the public, showing that poor Peter was right after all. |
| 161 | ** Their publicity becomes much worse during ''ComicBook/CivilWar2006'' when the team is split by Iron Man and Captain America, with the New Avengers who sided with Cap needing to go underground since S.H.I.E.L.D. is trying to arrest them. |
| 162 | ** Then when [[VillainWithGoodPublicity Norman Osborn rises to power in the USA]], their publicity gets even worse, with Osborn constantly manipulating things to make them look bad while making his ComicBook/DarkAvengers look good. |
| 163 | * HeterosexualLifePartners: Luke Cage and Iron Fist, naturally. Spider-Man mocks this by asking Luke if Danny is available for dating. |
| 164 | * HeyThatsMyLine: |
| 165 | ** Spider-Man invokes this in regards to Luke Cage. |
| 166 | -->'''Spider-Man:''' I'm telling you. This is fishy. Fishy fishy.\ |
| 167 | '''Luke Cage:''' My spider-sense is tingling too.\ |
| 168 | '''Spider-Man:''' That's copyrighted. |
| 169 | ** Hilariously invoked by the Thing when the New Avengers make a DynamicEntry into the New ComicBook/DarkAvengers base. |
| 170 | -->'''Thing:''' Guess what time it is!\ |
| 171 | '''Spider-Man:''' Really, you'll ''never'' guess!\ |
| 172 | '''Ms. Marvel:''' Is it ''clobberin[='=]'' time?\ |
| 173 | '''Spider-Man:''' Oh man, you guessed it right off the bat! ''First try!''\ |
| 174 | '''Thing:''' Guys, you called me all the way out here. The ''least'' you could do is let me do my own catchphrase! |
| 175 | * HiddenDepths: |
| 176 | ** Spider-Man's status as TheSmartGuy, but ''only'' after the changes due to the ''ComicBook/OneMoreDay'' ResetButton took effect. |
| 177 | ** In an early story, Iron Man chides Peter for not using his brain as much as he could. |
| 178 | * HiddenInPlainSight: When the team was hiding out at the Sanctum Sanctorum, Doctor Strange cast a spell on the building that made it appear as if it had been long been deserted. He even went so far as to use a codeword which also hid any inhabitants that used it. Subverted, as Iron Man suspected the team were doing this, but couldn't find a magic-user (or at least, a magic-user willing to work with S.H.I.E.L.D.) able to overcome Strange's spell. |
| 179 | * HomeBase: |
| 180 | ** Stark/Avengers Tower until ''ComicBook/CivilWar2006''. |
| 181 | ** Doctor Strange's Sanctum Sanctorum until he left the team. |
| 182 | ** "Avengers Apartment", the crappy apartment Iron Fist gets for the team to hide in until ''ComicBook/SecretInvasion2008'', which they use for all of two issues. |
| 183 | ** Bucky's Safehouse until ''ComicBook/{{Siege}}''. |
| 184 | ** Avengers Mansion since the end of ''ComicBook/DarkReign''. |
| 185 | * HostageSituation: When cornered, Madame Masque takes a civilian hostage, points a gun at the woman's head and demands the heroes to retreat. Bucky resolves the situation by just shooting Madame Masque in the head (her mask absorbs the impact, so she's just knocked out). It still causes Spider-Man to be upset at Bucky, as he thinks he endangered a civilian. |
| 186 | * IconicSequelCharacter: |
| 187 | ** Despite the popularity of the character, Spider-Man only joins the Avengers as a full-fledged member for the first time here. |
| 188 | ** The Ronin identity is better known as an alias of Clint Barton rather than Echo, thanks to Echo only wearing it for a handful of appearances before it was appropriated by Barton following ''ComicBook/CivilWar2006''. |
| 189 | * IdentityAmnesia: In Issue #26, Hawkeye tracks down Wanda to a mountain village in Transia, where she's living a normal life with no memory of her previous life. ''ComicBook/AvengersTheChildrensCrusade'' would later RetCon this Wanda as ActuallyADoombot that Doctor Doom made to throw people off Wanda's real trail. |
| 190 | * IDidntMeanToTurnYouOn: During the fight with the Wrecker, Spider-Woman has to activate her LivingAphrodisiac powers to get him to calm down for a sneak attack. Unfortunately, since all her teammates are male, it ''also'' affects them as well, causing them all to get annoyed for making them all hot-and-bothered, and ask them to at least warn then about it the next time she uses them. |
| 191 | * IHaveYourWife: Hood's plan to incapacitate heroes is to start targeting their families and loved ones. |
| 192 | * ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Elektra kills Echo by stabbing her in the chest with one of her Sais. But she has The Hand bring Echo BackFromTheDead soon after so she can be {{Brainwashed}} into serving them. At the end of the arc, Echo returns the favor, killing Elektra in the same fashion [[spoiler:which [[ThisWasHisTrueForm reveals she was actually a Skrull]]]]. |
| 193 | * ImpersonationExclusiveCharacter: [[spoiler:From the very first issue, Spider-Woman is actually the Skrull Queen Veranke, something that would only be revealed during the ''ComicBook/SecretInvasion2008'' event, ''much'' later. {{Downplayed|Trope}} in that Spider-Woman/Jessica does join the team for real after that event. Similarly, all of Elektra's appearances in the run were actually that of the Skrull Pagon in disguise.]] |
| 194 | * InformedFlaw: Echo is deaf, and people sometimes acknowledge they need to look at her so she can read their lips, but the team has several conversations where they noticeably never look at her, or they're wearing masks making her unable to read their lips. Despite this, it's never shown that she has trouble following the conversations and discussions and she even replies to comments made by people facing away from her. |
| 195 | * ItsNotYouItsMyEnemies: |
| 196 | ** Daredevil pulls this when Captain America first approaches him to be part of the first line-up. He tries to pull it again when Luke Cage and Jessica Jones ask him to join the team following ''ComicBook/FearItself'', but they point out it doesn't really work, since he'd be an Avenger and they'd have his back. |
| 197 | ** Doctor Strange tries a similar argument after Daniel Drumm swears vengeance on him, which sets up one of Luke Cage's better lines. "Okay. Raise your hand if any of you [the gathered members of the New Avengers] have ever had the bad guy threaten all holy hell on you before he died, went to jail, disappeared, vanished, or just in general felt like lipping off." Every hand in the room goes up. |
| 198 | ** On the other hand, Jessica Jones walked away from the team because her daughter's life was threatened by Norman Osborn. |
| 199 | * JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: J. Jonah Jameson makes a brief appearance in this run when the New Avengers approach him with a deal: if Jameson stopped bashing Spider-Man every time he needed an editorial, he'd get an exclusivity deal with them. He even got to hear ''Captain America'' tell him Spidey was a hero rather than a monster. His response? After shaking hands on the deal, he promptly went back to not only committing libel, but making accusations of bribery and digging up things like "wanted murderer" (Wolverine), "terrorist" (Spider-Woman) and "convicted drug dealer" (Luke Cage, who was framed and ''exonerated''). |
| 200 | * JiveTurkey: {{Downplayed|Trope}} since Luke Cage has been modernized somewhat in this run, his GoshDarnItToHeck tendencies are subverted more often than not. ("Sweet f&#$%g Christmas!") |
| 201 | * KillAndReplace: A Skrull attempts to do this to Echo, since she has the least ties and histories with the other and would have been the easiest to replace. But thankfully, Wolverine also suspected a Skrull would target her under the same logic and kept track of her, and they both managed to defeat it together. |
| 202 | * TheLeader: |
| 203 | ** Naturally, Captain American leads the first iteration of the team. |
| 204 | ** After the events of ''ComicBook/CivilWar2006'', Luke Cage becomes the unofficial team leader. |
| 205 | ** After the events of ''ComicBook/SecretInvasion2008'', Clint Barton as Ronin is elected the new official team leader, with Ms. Marvel as his NumberTwo. |
| 206 | * LegacyCharacter: |
| 207 | ** Subverted - After [[spoiler:the death of [[ComicBook/CaptainAmerica Steve Rogers]]]], Luke Cage states that they ''are'' Avengers, because Captain America said they were. |
| 208 | ** Clint Barton assumes the Ronin name after [[spoiler:Captain America's death]] and keeps it until the start of the Heroic Age. |
| 209 | ** Bucky joins the team during his tenure as Captain America. |
| 210 | ** Discussed by Iron Fist and Doctor Strange following ''ComicBook/CivilWar2006'', with the two of them bearing mantles (Sorcerer Supreme and the Iron Fist) that had been previously passed down to them, and they will later pass on in their lives. Capped off with this: |
| 211 | -->'''Iron Fist''': Well, whoever they are, I hate them.\ |
| 212 | '''Doctor Strange''': As do I. |
| 213 | * LeeroyJenkins: Norman Osborn gets so obsessed with capturing the New Avengers, he pursues Ms. Marvel by himself when he sees her escape. But when they're far enough, Ms. Marvel just turns back and kicks his ass, telling he's an idiot for thinking he can take her on his own alone and for rushing off on his lonesome. |
| 214 | * AndThenWhat: The Wrecker grabs a crowbar and starts to toss around Spider-Man, Wolverine and Luke Cage. Then, Spider-Woman walks up and asks "why?". She wonders why despite having the power of a god, [[ComicBook/{{Runaways}} a bunch of kids in Los Angeles]] managed to beat up him and his whole team. She very nearly converts him to the side of good, until it's revealed she wasn't even trying, just lulling him into a false sense of security. [[JustifiedTrope It helps]] that she is both an experienced spy and exudes {{pheromones}} that [[LivingAphrodisiac make men fall in love with her]]. |
| 215 | * LoopholeAbuse: |
| 216 | ** In the initial arc, Maria Hill informs Captain America that he can't just form a new team of Avengers because he feels like it. Cap then tells her that she can check his S.H.I.E.L.D. file and verify for herself that he was previously given "Full Champion License" during Nick Fury's tenure as S.H.I.E.L.D. director; which means that he has the authority to assemble any team he sees fit to go on any mission he sees fit and they don't need S.H.I.E.L.D. permission to put the Avengers back together. Never mind that S.H.I.E.L.D. never had any authority over the Avengers anyway. |
| 217 | ** When Brother Voodoo challenges Agamotto one-on-one, he uses a spell that gathers the collective strength and fighting ability of the New Avengers into a single person. |
| 218 | * LysistrataGambit: After Luke Cage's brief stint as TheParanoiac is over, Jessica Jones jokes to him that "he's never having sex again" as a punishment. |
| 219 | * MametSpeak: As [[AuthorTract expected]] of a Creator/BrianMichaelBendis comic, but ''especially'' whenever Luke and Jessica Jones are having a conversation - they get ''[[WallOfText entire pages]]'' worth of back-and-forth. |
| 220 | * ManOnFire: Yelena gets set on fire when she gets caught by Sauron's blast, which leads her to become heavily disfigured. HYDRA uses the promise to heal HER body in order to get her to work for them. |
| 221 | * ModestyBedsheet: |
| 222 | ** In Issue #14, when Nick Fury calls Spider-Woman in the middle of the night, she's seemingly [[SleepsInTheNude sleeping in the nude]] as she's only wearing a bedsheet (despite being alone in her bedroom). |
| 223 | ** Issue #26, after Hawkeye wakes up after passing out during his meeting with Wanda, he finds himself in her bed, [[UndressingTheUnconscious having been undressed by her]], supposedly to help with his health. When they end up sleeping together not long after, they both end up having separate sheets wrapped around their waists, with Wanda [[HandOrObjectUnderwear crossing her arms to cover her chest]]. |
| 224 | ** In the second annual, Tigra SleepsInTheNude and is covered with a sheet in her bedroom when the Hood and his men break him, and she keeps the sheet clutched to her chest the entire time. Given the dark tone of the scene and [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything parallels to rape]], it's very much played as FanDisservice. |
| 225 | ** Issue #54 opens with Brother Voodoo [[NotStayingForBreakfast sneaking out of the bed of a random woman he slept]], with him putting his clothes while she's covered by a bedsheet. |
| 226 | * TheMole: |
| 227 | ** It's revealed fairly early on that Spider-Woman is being a mole for S.H.I.E.L.D and then the New Avengers, although it takes some time before it's revealed it's for [[spoiler:HYDRA]]. But what's really surprising is that [[spoiler: she's actually [[MoleInCharge the Skrull Queen Veranke]] until after ''ComicBook/SecretInvasion2008'']]. |
| 228 | ** [[spoiler:Skaar was Steve Rogers' inside man in the second incarnation of the Dark Avengers.]] |
| 229 | * MsFanservice: Spider-Woman/Jessica Drew is the designed {{fanservice}} provider when she's on the team. She's drawn as a HeadTurningBeauty who wears a [[FormFittingWardrobe form fitting]] SensualSpandex as her hero costume, and gets plenty of MaleGaze shots. She also ends up naked fairly often, such one issue it even shows she SleepsInTheNude when Fury calls her one night and is confronted by Wolverine [[ShowerScene while she's in the middle of a shower]]. [[spoiler:Although technically speaking, it's actually Queen Veranke who's the Ms. Fanservice, since she's impersonating Jessica the whole time until ''ComicBook/SecretInvasion2008'', which also makes the whole thing double as FanDisservice. Notably, Jessica doesn't get into any {{fanservice}} situations when she comes back, though she still looks the same.]] |
| 230 | * NakedPeopleAreFunny: The UndressingTheUnconscious situation the New Avengers find themselves in after being captured by the Savage Land Mutates is PlayedForLaughs: |
| 231 | -->'''Spider-Woman:''' They couldn’t leave our underwear on?\ |
| 232 | '''Spider-Man''': I [[GoingCommando wasn’t wearing any]].\ |
| 233 | '''Spider-Woman:''' Why wouldn't you be wearing any underwear?\ |
| 234 | '''Spider-Man''': I chafe.\ |
| 235 | ''[{{beat}}]''\ |
| 236 | '''Spider-Woman:''' [[TooMuchInformation I want off the team]]. |
| 237 | * NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: The Hood is granted the Norn Stones by Loki after his connection with Dormammu's is severed. After [[spoiler:[[ComicBook/{{Siege}} Loki takes them back]]]], he seeks out Count Nefaria to try and invoke this again, but the New Avengers track him down and arrest him before he could get new powers again. |
| 238 | * NeverFoundTheBody: The "Collective" arc ends with a plane that has Magneto onboard exploding, with all hands lost. Everyone treats it like it's a serious possibility Magneto is actually, totally dead for reals. He showed up in an ''ComicBook/XMen'' comic a few months later. |
| 239 | * NeverMyFault: It's kinda Daniel Drumm's fault [[spoiler:his brother dies, yet he still blames the Avengers for it.]] |
| 240 | * NeverRecycleABuilding: The Avengers' mansion was left abandoned after the break-up of the team at ''ComicBook/AvengersDisassembled'', and stayed that way up to after ''ComicBook/{{Siege}}'', when it was given to Luke Cage and the New Avengers. Justified, as the owner Tony Stark could no longer give financial support to the Avengers, but the mansion still belonged to him, so he decided to keep it that way. |
| 241 | * NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: |
| 242 | ** The Hood gives one to Tigra, ambushing her in her home, and showing her that if she tries resisting, he knows where her mother leaves. He proceeds to give her a brutal beatdown, and records the whole thing so he can show it to his villain friends later. |
| 243 | ** The Wrecker gives on to Luke Cage after he's BroughtDownToNormal, pressing on his chest and damaging his heart leaving him an AlmostDeadGuy. To make matters worse, even after the New Avengers escape, due to getting his powers back, his [[NighInvulnerability skin is unbreakable]], preventing Night Nurse from being able to cut him open and do the surgery needed to save him, forcing the heroes to give up Cage to Norman Osborn so he can save his life. |
| 244 | * NoOneCouldSurviveThat: When Spider-Woman "accidentally" lets Madame Hydra escape by opening the plane's hatch and dropping her into the ocean, Spider-Man and Luke Cage are in disbelief she could survive being dropped into the ocean while tied up. Captain America, who's used to her ''always'' surviving, assures him otherwise. |
| 245 | * NoSell: ComicBook/SpiderMan is immune to telepathy while asleep, as one S.H.I.E.L.D. psychic finds out a few seconds too late. |
| 246 | * NukeEm: |
| 247 | ** S.H.I.E.L.D. nukes the Savage Land vibranium mining operation before the New Avengers can investigate it. |
| 248 | ** The American government's plan to deal with the Collective is to nuke what's left of Genosha while the Avengers are on it. Maria Hill refuses to do it. |
| 249 | * ObstructiveBureaucrat: Jeryn Hogarth, Daniel Rand's lawyer, manages to run circles around Iron Man, and seriously pisses off Ms. Marvel in the process. |
| 250 | * OhCrap: Purple Man tries to use his MindControl powers to get Luke Cage to turn on his friend and then commit suicide, all the while taunting him he'll pay a visit to Jessica and their child. Then Luke informs him Purple Man is still under the effect of a drug that [[RestrainingBolt takes away his powers]]. Cue a shot of Purple Man "Oh Crap" face before Luke starts pummeling him. |
| 251 | * OnceDoneNeverForgotten: |
| 252 | ** The Sentry throwing the Void into the sun. A minor RunningGag involves someone thinking he will solve the current problem by killing people in the same manner. |
| 253 | ** Spider-Man reminds everyone that Victoria Hand was Norman Osborn's [[NumberTwo right hand]] during ''ComicBook/DarkReign'' at every opportunity. |
| 254 | * OnceMoreWithClarity: In issue #14, we get several {{flashback}}s to Spider-Woman's story as a DoubleAgent to S.H.I.E.L.D. and HYDRA, and during ''ComicBook/SecretInvasion2008'', [[spoiler:we get to see many of those same scenes, but this time, in with the knowledge Veranke is posing as Spider-Woman]]. |
| 255 | * OneOfTheBoys: Within the team dynamic, Mockingbird is not part of the PseudoRomanticFriendship between Carol and the two Jessicas (ComicBook/SpiderWoman and ComicBook/JessicaJones), and instead whenever she's getting chummy with a team member, it's with one of the boys. She also has the most tomboyish personality, probably helped by her tomboyish name. |
| 256 | * OneSteveLimit: {{Averted|Trope}} between Jessica Jones and Spider-Woman (Jessica Drew). |
| 257 | * OnlyInItForTheMoney: Electro causes a GreatEscape at the Rafe purely for the money. |
| 258 | * OutOfFocus: Maya Lopez, a.k.a. Echo, fell victim to this in this run, which {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in some of her future appearances: |
| 259 | ** In Bendis' ''ComicBook/MoonKnight'', Ms. Marvel is unable to remember Maya's name and Spider-Man flat out ''forgets'' she ever left the team in the first place. |
| 260 | ** During a TerribleIntervieweesMontage for the position of Jessica Jones and Luke Cage's daughter's babysitter, one of the applicants is Maya who states "You know, I used to be on this f***ing team!" |
| 261 | * OverusedCopycatCharacter: When Luke asks if there's any connection between Spider-Man and Spider-Woman they're both annoyed to point out how many spider-themed characters there are now |
| 262 | -->'''Luke Cage:''' Spider-Man, Spider-Woman–You guys related?\ |
| 263 | '''Spider-Man:''' No.\ |
| 264 | '''Luke Cage:''': You give her her powers or something?\ |
| 265 | '''Spider-Man:''' No. She’s totally unrelated to me in any way.\ |
| 266 | Luke Cage: So she ripped off your name?\ |
| 267 | '''Spider-Man:''' Exactly.\ |
| 268 | '''Spider-Woman:''' Hey! You said it was okay.\ |
| 269 | '''Spider-Man:''' I didn’t say you could lend it out. There’s, like, ten of you now.\ |
| 270 | '''Spider-Woman:''' There’s three. And ''they'' are ripping ''me'' off. |
| 271 | * PageTurnSurprise: Doctor Strange[=/=][[DemonicPossession Zom]] annihilating friend and foe alike in Annual #2. Double points for being a blood-red two-page spread interrupting what had formerly been a blue and purple night scene. |
| 272 | * ParanoiaFuel: Becomes an InUniverse theme of the first volume, with the Avengers constantly wondering who they could trust, with several {{Double Agent}}s, TheMole reveals and the entirety of the [[ComicBook/SecretInvasion2008 secret Skrull invasion]]. |
| 273 | * TheParanoiac: While trust issues become a recurring thing and everyone becomes paranoid after [[spoiler:discovering Elektra was a Skrull]], Luke Cage is hit harder than most, to the point he starts suspecting even his own wife and child may be Skrulls, which earns him a couple of WhatTheHellHero speeches from Jessica. |
| 274 | * PlayingBothSides: |
| 275 | ** Jessica Drew[=/=]Spider Woman was revealed to be recruited by HYDRA to infiltrate S.H.I.E.L.D. as TheMole in exchange for her powers being restored, except Nick Fury had her [[FeedTheMole feeding HYDRA limited intel]] whilst S.H.I.E.L.D. analyzed the HYDRA cell and planned to use the intel to take them down; when Captain America recruited her to the New Avengers, HYDRA amended her role to also spy on the Avengers. When the team found out about her role as a DoubleAgent, it was decided to do the same thing she was doing for S.H.I.E.L.D. and have her feed HYDRA limited intel. [[spoiler:And ''then'' it turns out that she was replaced by [[MoleInCharge Skrull Queen Veranke]] during the procedure to restore her powers, and she was playing the New Avengers, HYDRA and S.H.I.E.L.D. as part of [[ComicBook/SecretInvasion2008 the Skrulls' plans to take Earth]].]] |
| 276 | ** [[spoiler:Victoria Hand, formerly Norman Osborn's right hand during ''ComicBook/DarkReign'', serves as the team's S.H.I.E.L.D liaison at [[ComicBook/CaptainAmerica Steve Rogers]]'s request, but provides info on the team to Osborn's new H.A.M.M.E.R organization. However, this is ''also'' at Rogers's request, as she provides info on H.A.M.M.E.R to him, with the New Avengers' distrust of her providing the ideal cover]]. |
| 277 | * PoorlyDisguisedPilot: ''ComicBook/SecretWar2004'' featured a team-up between many of the characters who would go on to form the core cast of ''New Avengers'', and also set up several plot threads for that series. |
| 278 | * PowerIncontinence: |
| 279 | ** HYDRA and A.I.M. give Yelena Belova [[PowerCopying Adaptoid-like powers]], but Yelena can't handle the stress when they take Sentry's powers, since it also means she takes in the Void's insanity. |
| 280 | ** When Ms. Marvel's binary powers got into contact with The Collective, she had a major FreakOut, due to getting into contact with [[AllYourPowersCombined the powers of various mutants at the same time]]. |
| 281 | * PowerOutagePlot: The comic opens with Electro causing a BigBlackout in New York City, which knocks out power to the Raft, the prison for supervillains, leading to a [[GreatEscape massive jailbreak]]. The new Avengers team is formed from heroes who happened to be there to respond to the crisis. |
| 282 | * InPrisonWithTheRogues: In the end of the first issue, it's revealed that Sentry is locked on The Raft by his own choice with the rest of the supervillains, the reason being that he was unable to control his own powers and killed his wife. However, during the jailbreak orchestrated by Electro, he comes to the aid of the heroes struggling against Carnage, where he snatches and grabs hold of the psychotic Symbiote and flies him into outer space where he proceeds to tear him apart. |
| 283 | * PsychicAssistedSuicide: In Issue #1, a cliffhanger occurs during the breakout of The Raft: Killgrave orders Luke Cage to kill all the heroes, then kill himself. The next issue reveals it didn't work because Killgrave's been pumped with drugs to suppress his powers and Luke proceeds to beat Killgrave to a pulp. |
| 284 | * ThePsychoRangers: |
| 285 | ** A ''ComicBook/TheAmazingSpiderManJMichaelStraczynski'' tie-in featured a team of evil Avenger doppelgangers working for HYDRA. Their costumes were basically green and yellow palette-swaps of the originals with the HYDRA octopus logo added on. "Militant" for Captain America, "Tactical Force" (though he prefers Karl) for Iron Man, "the Hammer" for Thor and "the Bowman" for Hawkeye. Spidey, of course, pointed out how done-to-death the evil twin thing was, and none of them ever faced their "originals" (albeit Hammer and Bowman had the justified excuse that Thor and Hawkeye were technically dead at this point). None of them were captured, but they haven't shown up since then (except for the Facebook game, ''VideoGame/MarvelAvengersAlliance''). |
| 286 | ** The ''ComicBook/DarkReign'' arc introduced the ComicBook/DarkAvengers, a [[EvilHero supposed hero team]] who are actually ''posing'' as their counterparts. This interaction is mostly based on Norman Osborn's Thunderbolts: [[Characters/MarvelComicsNormanOsborn Norman Osborn]] leads the team as the ComicBook/IronMan-ComicBook/CaptainAmerica mashup called '[[AmericanRobot Iron Patriot]]'; ComicBook/{{Ares|Marvel}} is a mashup of [[Characters/MarvelComicsThorOdinson Thor]] and [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHercules Hercules]]; ComicBook/{{Venom}} ([[Characters/MarvelComicsMacGargan MacGargan, previously known as Scorpion]]) as ComicBook/SpiderMan; Moonstone as [[Characters/MarvelComicsCarolDanvers Ms. Marvel]]; Noh-Varr as ComicBook/{{Captain Marvel|MarvelComics}}; [[Characters/DaredevilCentralRoguesGallery Bullseye]] as ComicBook/{{Hawkeye}} and ComicBook/{{Daken}} as ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}. Only ComicBook/TheSentry doesn't pose as anyone, because he's just that plain nuts to join an ObviouslyEvil team. Though the Dark Avengers didn't match up well with the actual Avengers they faced, for instance, there was no counterpart for Luke Cage or Spider-Woman. |
| 287 | * PutOnABus: |
| 288 | ** Wolverine, for the last few arcs of the first volume, due to his being on Utopia with the rest of the X-Men. Notable, as he was still considered a member of the team during this time - Everyone else who left the title wasn't. |
| 289 | ** Echo was sent to keep an eye on The Hand and Elektra shortly after "joining" the team. She only came back when they had to rescue her in the post-''ComicBook/CivilWar2006'' "Revolution" arc. But then she was written out of the book after ''ComicBook/SecretInvasion2008'', eventually joining the cast of ''ComicBook/MoonKnight''. |
| 290 | ** Doctor Strange joined the team post-''ComicBook/CivilWar2006'', but left to go WalkingTheEarth after the Hood and his gang destroyed his home. He only returns in Issue #52 as a GuestStarPartyMember until they deal with Dormammu-possessed Hood and he leaves to become TheMentor to Brother Voodoo. |
| 291 | * TheQueenpin: In the "Revolution" arc, Silver Samurai admits Elektra became this in the Japanese underworld, as TheLeader of The Hand, she took control of pretty much all Yakuza families and criminal business in Japan. [[spoiler:By the end of the arc, we find out she was actually a Skrull, and taking over the Japanese underworld was just a part of their plan for ''ComicBook/SecretInvasion2008'']]. |
| 292 | * ReadingTheStageDirectionsOutLoud: In one of the {{flashback}}s where [[spoiler:Spider-Woman]]/Queen Veranke says something in Skrull (as in, the Skrull language). If you decode the Skrull writing--which is English but in a very strange font--you'll see that the actual sentence she speaks seems to be a placeholder that the comic's writer forgot to exchange for an actual line: |
| 293 | -->'''Veranke:''' [[spoiler:Jessica]] says something very Skrully. |
| 294 | * ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Despite being pro-registration and under orders to arrest them, Ms. Marvel looks the other way several times when it comes to trying to arrest the New Avengers, despite many S.H.I.E.L.D. agents and her own teammates (Black Widow, Ares) not liking it. |
| 295 | * ReassignedToAntarctica: Spider-Woman explains this is what happened to her in S.H.I.E.L.D after ''Secret War'', due to being known as a Fury loyalist, she got assigned crappy jobs, such as overseeing the Raft in Issue #1. [[spoiler: This has a double meaning once we find out she's actually Veranke at the time, as it explains why Veranke was so eager to join a new team like the New Avengers]]. |
| 296 | * RecognitionFailure: In Issue #7, Wrecker is pissed when the girl he takes as a hostage doesn't know who he is. He's still mad about it when the New Avengers attack him, screaming the whole fight that he fought Thor and the Avengers before. |
| 297 | * RedHerring: |
| 298 | ** The "Ronin" arc introduces a mysterious masked vigilante called Ronin. A sequence of Ronin beating up Yakuza goons in Japan is intercut with flashbacks of ComicBook/CaptainAmerica asking ComicBook/{{Daredevil}} to join the team, with the latter declining due to recently having been outed to the public as Matt Murdock in his own series. Cap then brings up the period where he briefly adopted the superheroic alias of Nomad, suggesting that Matt could similarly take on a new costumed identity to join the Avengers without arousing suspicion. This, coupled with Ronin's penchant for using nunchaku (similar to Daredevil's trademark billy clubs), is clearly meant to fool the reader into thinking Ronin is indeed Matt Murdock, but Matt instead tells Cap that he has a friend who might be able to do the job. Subsequent issues continue the mystery, with Spider-Man guessing that it might be Daredevil's old allies Iron Fist or ComicBook/ShangChi under the mask, only for it to ultimately be revealed that [[SamusIsAGirl Ronin is actually Maya Lopez, a.k.a. Echo]]. |
| 299 | ** During the initial lead-up to ''ComicBook/SecretInvasion2008'', an issue of ''New Avengers'' ended with a dramatic close-up of Dani Cage, the daughter of Luke Cage and Jessica Jones, whose eyes were shown glowing. This was obviously meant to imply that she (and by extension, one of her parents) might be a Skrull, but was really just an indication that she'd inherited superpowers from her parents. |
| 300 | * RetroactiveLegacy: The tie-in to ''ComicBook/AvengersVsXMen'' revolved around Fongji Wu, a female, [[SignificantGreenEyedRedHead mixed-race]] Iron Fist that had managed to harness the [[ComicBook/TheDarkPhoenixSaga Phoenix Force]] long before ComicBook/JeanGrey was even born. |
| 301 | * RevolvingDoorCasting: The team Captain America assembles at the beginning of the series consists of himself, Iron Man, Spider-Man, Luke Cage, Spider-Woman, Wolverine and the Sentry. After the events of ''ComicBook/CivilWar2006'', Captain America, Iron Man and the Sentry are replaced by Doctor Strange, Echo, Iron Fist and Hawkeye. Finally, ''ComicBook/SecretInvasion2008'' shakes up the status quo once again, leading to the departure of Doctor Strange and Echo, while Bucky Barnes, Mockingbird, Ms. Marvel and Jessica Jones join the team. |
| 302 | * RhetoricalQuestionBlunder: When Iron Man first informs the Illuminati about the formation of the New Avengers: |
| 303 | -->'''Namor:''' When were you going to tell me about this?\ |
| 304 | '''Iron Man:''' It just happened yesterday.\ |
| 305 | '''Namor:''' I thought we had an arrangement here.\ |
| 306 | '''Iron Man:''' [[SarcasmMode Does anyone know how to say "It just happened yesterday" in Atlantean?]]\ |
| 307 | '''Reed Richards:''' Fortanu vasyama.\ |
| 308 | (''[[StunnedSilence everyone in the room stares at Richards]]'')\ |
| 309 | '''Reed Richards:''' Oh, I, uh... I thought you were really asking. |
| 310 | * RunningGag: |
| 311 | ** A recurring joke involves someone wondering who a minor/obscure Marvel character is. When a direct answer proves to be insufficient, they are told to "Google it". |
| 312 | ** Whenever the Avengers are getting their asses handed to them, someone (usually Spider-Man) suggests that Sentry [[OnceDoneNeverForgotten throws whatever is kicking the team's ass into the sun]]. |
| 313 | --> '''ComicBook/TheSentry:''' I don't throw ''everything'' into the sun... |
| 314 | * SamusIsAGirl: Ronin turns out to be Echo, with Spider-Man and Luke Cage both being surprised Ronin is female. When Silver Samurai finds out much later, he's also surprised Ronin was a girl. |
| 315 | * SceneryCensor: When Spider-Woman is telling Captain America about how she got her powers back from HYDRA, we get a shot of her naked during the procedure, with her crotch and one her breasts being covered by medical equipment (the other breast is covered by a [[SpeechBubbleCensoring conveniently placed speech balloon]]). |
| 316 | * ScreamingWoman: When the Hood attacks Tigra in her house, she is overpowered and screams "AIIEEEE" over and over. |
| 317 | * SecondEpisodeIntroduction: Wolverine is introduced in Issue #5, the only mainstream of the team not to have been recruited beforehand. |
| 318 | * SexyDiscretionShot: |
| 319 | ** When Hawkeye sleeps with the amnesiac Wanda, we only see them kissing before the scene cuts to the morning after, with Hawkeye [[NotStayingForBreakfast sneaking away]]. |
| 320 | ** When Echo and Hawkeye [[TheirFirstTime sleep together]] we similarly only see them kissing, before the scene cuts to them in bed post-sex. |
| 321 | * ShamefulStrip: |
| 322 | ** In the very first arc, the team is captured while doing some investigating in the Savage Land and all [[UndressingTheUnconscious stripped naked while they're out]]. Spider-Woman notes how humiliating it is and wishes that their captors could have at least let them keep their undergarments, though Spider-Man responds that he [[GoingCommando doesn't wear any anyway when in costume since it makes him chafe]]. |
| 323 | ** In ''New Avengers Annual'' #3, Clint Barton (usually Hawkeye but Ronin at the time) awakes from a botched attempt to kill Norman Osborn [[UndressingTheUnconscious stark naked]] and [[BoundAndGagged bound to a chair]], with Norman and the evil ComicBook/DarkAvengers (one of whom is female) sneering at him. He spends most of the issue chained naked to a table as Norman has Mentallo psychically torture him. |
| 324 | * ShootYourMate: PlayedWith. They're hardly mates, but Madame Hydra forces Spider-Woman to blast her so they can keep Spider-Woman's status as TheMole. But Madame Hydra getting taken down so easily tips off Iron Man and Captain America that there's more going on. |
| 325 | * ShoutOut: When Spider-Man rescues Echo from The Hand, he says "[[Film/StarWarsANewHope I'm Luke Skywalker and I'm here to rescue you]]". |
| 326 | * ShowerOfAwkward: |
| 327 | ** Echo ends up [[AccidentalPervert accidentally]] walking into Hawkeye while he's taking a shower. We only see him [[ShouldersUpNudity from the waist up]] but it's obvious that Echo saw more, and [[EatingTheEyeCandy stared for a bit]]. The incident is what kicks off their UnresolvedSexualTension. |
| 328 | ** After Spider-Woman joins the ''ComicBook/MightyAvengers'', Wolverine becomes suspicious that she's going to betray the New Avengers location to Stark and the others, so he decides to pay her a visit. So, while she's taking a ShowerOfAngst in her room, he suddenly appears behind her and puts his claws up to her neck and interrogates her and what she told Stark, with her obviously being uncomfortable with his presence. The situation is made even more awkward when Black Widow ''also'' walks into the shower and catches them in a NotWhatItLooksLike situation. |
| 329 | * TheSmurfettePrinciple: While a few female characters [[GuestStarPartyMember join the team for an arc or two]] (Echo in the "Ronin" arc, Ms. Marvel in the "Collective" arc), Spider-Woman is the only permanent female team member until she quits and joins the ''ComicBook/MightyAvengers'' cast, which is coincidentally when Echo permanently joins the team, thus becoming the sole female team member until after ''ComicBook/SecretInvasion2008'', when the team gets 3 women on the team (Spider-Woman, Ms. Marvel and Mockingbird). Technically Jessica Jones ''is'' always around, but she acts like a supporting character who's living with them as a civilian. |
| 330 | * SpeechBubbleCensoring: |
| 331 | ** When Sauron is speaking to the Avengers as their naked and strung up by their arms, his speech balloon is conveniently placed on their waist (and Spider-Woman still has GodivaHair covering her breasts). |
| 332 | ** In Issue #14, when Spider-Woman is telling Captain America about how she got her powers back from HYDRA, the {{flashback}} has a shot of her naked on an operating table, surrounded by doctors. Her right breast is [[SceneryCensor hidden by a utensil tray held up by one of the doctors]] while her left is covered up by a word balloon. The scene is recreated in #42. |
| 333 | * SpiritualSuccessor: Most of the original line-up of the New Avengers had fought in the ''ComicBook/{{Secret War|2004}}'' (also by Bendis). Too bad [[VictoryGuidedAmnesia they don't remember the details]]. |
| 334 | * StoryBreakerPower: Some arcs {{Handwave}} Sentry not being present, since he's too powerful for the story to work. This is lampshaded by Spider-Man at the end of the "Ronin" arc: |
| 335 | -->'''Spider-Man''': You know guys, I couldn't help but think during that entire thing that if Sentry was there, it would have been over in three minutes. |
| 336 | * SuperMobBoss: The Hood was an UnluckyEverydude who got a magical cape and shoes from a certain demon that granted supernatural powers, and with that in hand he fights to become a mob boss. But even without his magical clothes, he's also a BadassNormal who can fight with GunsAkimbo. When he loses his demonic powers, he makes a deal with Loki to get new ones, but given it's ''Loki'', Hood is eventually betrayed and loses them once [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness he's outlived his usefulness.]] He tries ''again'' to get powers via a deal with Madame Masque's father Count Nefaria, but the New Avengers interrupt the deal before it's realized and arrest everyone. |
| 337 | * SuperWindowJump: |
| 338 | ** When Wolverine has to escape Avengers Tower after interrogating Spider-Woman, he does so by jumping out of the window, revealing Spider-Man was nearby and catches him so they both make their escape. |
| 339 | ** When Luke Cage quits being Norman Osborn "Avenger" (before he even started) he does so by beating Bullseye and [=MacGargan=] before dramatically jumping out the window from Osborn's office. |
| 340 | * SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d between Echo and Daredevil. Matt was unable to join the team due to his legal problems at the time, so he suggested to Captain America that Echo join in his place. He pointed out that since she has virtually the same skill set and all his knowledge of the Japanese underworld, it'd be the next best thing to actually having him on the team. |
| 341 | * TheSyndicate: Hood's Gang is a criminal organization of super-villains that The Hood created after ''ComicBook/CivilWar2006'' left the heroes disorganized, and they are one of the most recurring foes of the New Avengers. Aside from Hood, some of its notable members includes Madame Masque (who acts as TheDragon), The Wrecking Crew (The [[TheBrute main muscle]]), Jonas Harrow (The EvilGenius and TheStarscream) and Jigsaw (The first recruit). |
| 342 | %%* SweetPollyOliver: Echo as Ronin. |
| 343 | * TakeThat: There were a few 'take that' moments towards ''ComicBook/OneMoreDay'', not only having Spider-Man [[TheUnmasking reveal his secret identity]] to the New Avengers as soon as he could and having Spider-Woman, who never has any [[NoFourthWall fourth wall breaking moments]], asking if Peter wasn't married. |
| 344 | * TalkingInBed: |
| 345 | ** Issue #36 has Doctor Strange and Night Nurse having a post-coital conversation, where he tells her about the guilt he has over having staying neutral during the events of ''ComicBook/CivilWar2006''. |
| 346 | ** In Issue #36, Luke Cage and Jessica Jone are snuggling in bed while he informs her (and the reader) about the symbiote invasion that occurred in ''ComicBook/MightyAvengers'' #8. |
| 347 | * TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: PlayedWith. Spider-Woman starts talking down to the Wrecker, asking him [[AndThenWhat what he's even going to do with himself after he beats them]]. But then it turns out it was just a plot to but enough time for Wolverine to sneak attack him InTheBack. Later she actually confesses that the reason he listened at all was due to her LivingAphrodisiac {{Pheromones}} power. |
| 348 | * ThatWasntARequest: When Iron Man and Captain America get into contact with Maria Hill to inform her about the new Avengers team, she is vehemently against it, but Tony and Steve quickly point out they have authority to assemble to the team on their own. |
| 349 | -->'''Tony Stark:''' I'm sorry if you were under the impression we were asking for permission. |
| 350 | * ThisWasHisTrueForm: [[spoiler:The New Avengers killing Elektra only to watch her body turn into a Skrull is treated as a WhamShot and is what triggers the events of ''ComicBook/SecretInvasion2008''.]] |
| 351 | * ThouShallNotKill: |
| 352 | ** Captain America and Wolverine butt head over this, as Steve has to leash Wolverine not to kill anyone a couple of times, even hitting him with his shield once, when Wolverine was about to kill Yelena. Captain America also orders this of Echo when she's investigating the Hand, and while she seems to comply to it for a while, eventually the Hand puts too much pressure on her and she goes back to using lethal force. |
| 353 | ** After Steve Rogers leaves, Spider-Man is the most outspoken against killing. He's angry when Bucky shots Madame Masque in the head (she only survived because of her mask) and gets extremely upset when Clint decides that MurderIsTheBestSolution when it comes to dealing with Norman Osborn, to the point he almost quits the team. |
| 354 | * TimeSkip: The comic book began with a six-month time skip from the events of ''ComicBook/AvengersDisassembled''. |
| 355 | * TokenEvilTeammate: Wolverine, of the NecessarilyEvil kind. ComicBook/IronMan notes to ComicBook/CaptainAmerica that, aside from strengthening human[=/=]mutant relations, this would be an important reason to have Logan around - He'd be able (and willing) to do [[ThouShallNotKill things that none of the other team members would]] (though Wolvie's considerably more mellow in those days). |
| 356 | * TooMuchInformation: After everyone [[UndressingTheUnconscious wakes up naked]] in the Savage Land, Spider-Woman notes Peter is the only one without underwear. He explains he [[GoingCommando never wears any in his Spidey outfit]] (it chafes). Spider-Woman's reaction? |
| 357 | -->'''Spider-Woman:''' I want off the team. |
| 358 | * TotalPartyKill: All of ComicBook/AlphaFlight, which, granted, are mostly C-list by fame, got killed in a WorfBarrage moment when fighting the Collective. After that, two of them were shown to be NotQuiteDead and those that weren't have apparently [[DeathIsCheap come back anyway]]. |
| 359 | * {{Transplant}}: Ms. Marvel sided with Iron Man in ''ComicBook/CivilWar2006'' and for a while was even TheLeader of the "official" government-sponsored Avengers team ''ComicBook/MightyAvengers'', and would often butt heads with the New Avengers team. However, after ''ComicBook/SecretInvasion2008'' and Norman Osborn's government appointment, she joins up with the New Avengers, even becoming their NumberTwo. |
| 360 | * TrashOfTheTitans: Bucky gets very upset with how messy the New Avengers leave his apartment once he lends it to them as their HomeBase. |
| 361 | * TraumaCongaLine: This series is ''hard'' on Doctor Strange. The final flare-up of dark magic which led him to give up the mantle of Sorcerer Supreme; the quest for his successor with a Dormammu-empowered Hood at his heels; and finally the abrupt [[DiabolusExMachina invasion of Agamotto]] into their dimension, which the new Sorcerer Supreme, Brother Voodoo, repelled at the cost of the Eye of Agamotto and his own life -- all happened in issues of ''New Avengers''. |
| 362 | * TrueCompanions: The team has a "family" vibe, complete with nearly-[[OnceAnEpisode once-a-book]] scenes of them sitting around a table eating and talking. |
| 363 | * TwoferTokenMinority: Ech is of mixed Latina and Native American descent. In fact, her having a disability (deafness) makes it a threefer. |
| 364 | * UndressingTheUnconscious: |
| 365 | ** When the New Avengers go to the Savage Land in pursuit of Sauron in Issue #5, they get ambushed by the Savage Land Mutates with Vertigo putting them all to ForcedSleep. When they next wake up, they're all been stripped naked and strung up by their arms (A combination of CensorShadow, GodivaHair, SceneryCensor, SpeechBubbleCensoring and ShouldersUpNudity are used to keep any naughty bits from being seen). |
| 366 | ** In Issue #26, Hawkeye has a panic attack upon finding an amnesiac Wanda in a village in Transia. He blacks out, and when he wakes up at her place she seems to have entirely undressed him, supposedly to help with his health, and he only wears a ModestyBedsheet wrapped around his waist for the rest of the scene. |
| 367 | ** In ''New Avengers Annual'' #3, after Clint gets captured by the Dark Avengers after his failed attempt to assassinate Norman, he wakes up naked and tied to a chair, facing all of them and they proceed to interrogate him. Clint tries to [[FullFrontalAssault fight them off, even while tied to a chair and naked]] but Sentry takes him out in one punch. When Bobbi and the rest of the team go to save him, he's still naked on an operating table, with Mentallo trying to read his mind. The whole time CensorShadow or SceneryCensor is covering his crotch we see him from the front, or he's seen from [[ShouldersUpNudity the waist up]]. |
| 368 | * UnfocusedDuringIntimacy: When Night Nurse (Linda Carter) and Doctor Strange have SexForSolace, Strange is so stressed by his guilt over not helping during ''ComicBook/CivilWar2006'' and the discovery of [[spoiler: a [[ComicBook/SecretInvasion2008 possible Skrull invasion]]]] that he's very unfocused. When they're TalkingInBed post-sex Linda says he was basically in the Astral Plane the entire time, and is somewhat miffed about it. |
| 369 | -->'''Night Nurse:''' Well, doctor if you're ''not'' going to succumb to any of my [[SexGoddess considerable talents]]... I am going to go back to my hospice and stare at the wall. |
| 370 | * UnholyMatrimony: The Hood and Madame Masque begin a relationship, soon after he [[RescueRomance rescues her]] from being a victim of KillAndReplace by the Skrulls in ''ComicBook/SecretInvasion2008''. |
| 371 | * TheUnmasking: |
| 372 | ** When Spider-Man first joined many in the team already were {{Secret Keeper}}s of him, and the ones who didn't found out during his dramatic unmasking in ''ComicBook/CivilWar2006''. Then the ''ComicBook/OneMoreDay'' CosmicRetcon happened, and nobody knew who Spider-Man was again, which came up in a post-''ComicBook/SecretInvasion2008'' story where Clint asked him to unmask for the team, with Spidey reluctantly complying. |
| 373 | ** Madame Masque unmasks herself to kiss Hood when [[UnholyMatrimony they become a couple]], although [[TheUnreveal we don't see her face]]. |
| 374 | * UnresolvedSexualTension: There's a bit of awkward sexual tension between Echo and Hawkeye, mostly on her part with her feeling awkward whenever he does something nice for her or gets close. [[RelationshipUpgrade It gets resolved]] in Issue #40. But their romance [[AbortedArc was completely dropped]] once Clint's ex-wife ComicBook/{{Mockingbird|MarvelComics}} returned "from the dead" (it's complicated) at the close of ''ComicBook/SecretInvasion2008'' and Echo was PutOnABus. |
| 375 | * UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: The Savage Land Mutates simply wanted to get Sauron back when they caused the [[GreatEscape Raft escape]], but that event caused several super-villains to go free, causing trouble all over the world [[spoiler: but they also [[SpannerInTheWorks unwittingly put the heroes on track of uncovering the Skrulls' invasion]]]]. |
| 376 | * TheVillainKnowsWhereYouLive: Hood pays visits to Tigra in her home to intimidate her or beat her up, and she's helpless to stop it since, more importantly, he knows where her mother lives. |
| 377 | * VillainsOutShopping: When the team is running from the Hand, they wind up at Silver Samurai's house, where he's watching Lindsay Lohan movies. |
| 378 | * YouKnowTooMuch: When the Adaptoid-powered Yelena Belova is defeated by the New Avengers, her HYDRA masters active an [[ExplosiveLeash remote failsafe bomb implanted on her]], killing her before she can talk. [[UnexplainedRecovery She came back later anyway]]. |
| 379 | * WakingUpElsewhere: |
| 380 | ** After Vertigo knocks out the New Avengers via ForcedSleep, they all awaken to find themselves in the Savage Land Mutates base, imprisioned and [[UndressingTheUnconscious naked]]. |
| 381 | ** The Silver Samurai describes his imprisonment as this. One day he went to sleep on his private plane, and the next morning he woke up in the Raft. S.H.I.E.L.D. kept him imprisoned and declared him LegallyDead. He didn't even know he was in New York until the riot allowed him to escape. |
| 382 | ** When Spider-Man is put under ForcedSleep by Agent Hook, the next time he wakes up he's in a S.H.I.E.L.D. cell being interrogated by Maria Hill. |
| 383 | * WeddingEpisode: The first New Avengers annual features the marriage between Luke Cage and Jessica Jones. And it actually goes peacefully, with Jessica even lampshading [[WeddingSmashers how she expected some goons to attack them]]. Notably, Creator/StanLee is the one officiating the wedding. |
| 384 | * WeHaveWaysOfMakingYouTalk: PlayedForLaughs. The heroes need information quickly and go to a local prison in order to get it from the inmates. Spider-Woman, aware of how dreadful the inmates' meals are, offers a bag of donuts to whoever agrees to assist the Avengers, which immediately prompts every single criminal to beg to be listened. |
| 385 | * WelcomeBackTraitor: Spider-Woman is treated poorly by most of the team after ''ComicBook/SecretInvasion2008'', due to the fact [[spoiler:Veranke was impersonating her the whole time. Even though they know it's not her fault, everyone save Ms. Marvel and Wolverine are still wary about her, and her past as a HYDRA DoubleAgent doesn't help]]. |
| 386 | * WeWorkWellTogether: The New Avengers were formed when a [[GreatEscape mass jailbreak of supervillains]] forced several heroes to band up and fight together. Captain America decided they make a good team, and tries to make them into the new Avengers. |
| 387 | * WhamEpisode: |
| 388 | ** Issue #6 has the Avengers find out S.H.I.E.L.D. has seemingly enslaved many of the inhabitants of the Savage Land so they would mine vibranium for them. And before the Avengers get a chance to investigate, the Helicarrier shows up and [[NukeEm nukes the entire operation]], leading the Avengers to question who to trust and kicking off the ParanoiaFuel theme of the run. |
| 389 | ** Issue #31 -- [[spoiler:Echo kills Elektra, and everyone watches in horror as Elektra's body reverts to her true form as a Skrull, [[TheReveal revealing]] that the Skrulls were covertly replacing high powered figures on Earth [[ComicBook/SecretInvasion2008 in preparation for an invasion]]]]. |
| 390 | * WhatHappenedToTheMouse: |
| 391 | ** During the "Revolution" arc, Silver Samurai notes that the Hand, under [[TheQueenpin Elektra's leadership]], are violently seizing control over the Japanese underworld. Once Elektra gets a sword through the chest [[spoiler:and turns out to be a Skrull]], the Avengers go home and never mention the Hand again. |
| 392 | ** The first time Earth has no Sorcerer Supreme, it's an immediate crisis that must be dealt with at once. The second time, it appears that two years of real-time can pass without any particular badness occurring. |
| 393 | * WorfEffect: |
| 394 | ** During the Raft breakout, Spider-Woman and Luke Cage can barely hold back Carnage, one of Spider-Man's most powerful foes. Sentry, whose powers were mostly unknown at the time, shows up and makes short work of Carnage, flying him off into space and tearing the symbiote in half. Carnage and Cletus were even assumed to be dead for a while. |
| 395 | ** All ''ComicBook/AlphaFlight'' members are killed when S.H.I.E.L.D. sent them to fight Collective / [[spoiler:Xorn]] to establish him as a threat. |
| 396 | * WorkoutFanservice: Spider-Woman is in the middle of a workout when Steve recruits her for the New Avengers, and the artist draws in a gratuitous MaleGaze shot where she has an AmazonianBeauty physique and is wearing a [[FormFittingWardrobe form-fitting tank top]]. |
| 397 | * WorfHadTheFlu: An issue had Wrecker narrating a fight between the titular team and The Hood's crime syndicate, explaining that he wouldn't have lost to Luke Cage, who is significantly weaker, if Doctor Strange hadn't confused him with his magic. |
| 398 | * WouldntHurtAChild: The Skrull who kidnaps Danielle Cage has no intention to actually hurt the baby, having only taken it as a bargaining chip to ensure his own safety and gives it up quickly to Luke after he pleads. Bullseye still kills him anyway. |
| 399 | [[/folder]] |
| 400 | |
| 401 | [[folder:Volume II Tropes]] |
| 402 | |
| 403 | * AlmightyJanitor: ComicBook/SquirrelGirl as a nanny. Although she is [[HyperCompetentSidekick demonstrably more capable]] than anyone else on the team, she sometimes has trouble [[RefugeInAudacity being taken seriously]], and everyone agrees that she's really the only one [[NiceGirl of an appropriate mindset]] to take care of a baby. |
| 404 | * AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: One storyline during focuses on Nick Fury gathering his own version of the Avengers in the fifties, which has nothing to do with the present-day segments. |
| 405 | * BigNo: Happens during the ''ComicBook/FearItself'' crossover, when Squirrel Girl sets her squirrels on a Nazi. |
| 406 | * BookEnds: |
| 407 | ** Vol. 2 #16 (The final ''ComicBook/FearItself'' tie-in) opened with Hawkeye questioning what makes someone "Avengers material" and several Avengers arguing that certain people don't belong on the team; the issue ends with the same Avengers pointing out that applying AlternateCharacterInterpretation means that same person ''is'' very much the type of person who should be an Avenger. |
| 408 | ** In a wider sense, Vol. 2 started and ended with arcs heavily based around magic, possession, Doctor Strange, and the title of Sorcerer Supreme. |
| 409 | * BorrowedCatchphrase: Norman Osborn escapes from prison and organizes a new team of ''ComicBook/DarkAvengers''. One of his recruits is Skaar, son of Hulk. He lists all the reasons why this new team will succeed, and finally points out that "[[Film/TheAvengers2012 besides, we got a Hulk]]". |
| 410 | * BrickJoke: In the first issue, Iron Fist gives Luke Cage a dollar to purchase Avengers Mansion from Tony Stark. When Luke leaves the team in the final issue of the volume, he sells it back to Stark for ''5'' dollars and Iron Fist complains that it was his money in the first place, whilst Stark notes that he sold the mansion to Cage for a fifth of that. |
| 411 | * BuryYourGays: [[spoiler:Victoria Hand [[DroppedABridgeOnHer gets a bridge dropped on her]] in the last story of vol 2.]] |
| 412 | * CaretakingIsFeminine: Luke and Jessica are looking for a babysitter/nanny for their new baby. There's a page of them talking to a large number of heroes (including Deadpool and Demolition Man, for some reason) before settling on Squirrel Girl. Squirrel Girl is, of course, pretty and kind and sweet and feminine. Unless she's pissed off. Then she's capable of taking down practically anyone, including Doctor Doom. Which is probably why they picked her. |
| 413 | * ContrivedCoincidence: The 1950s Avengers has Nick Fury recruiting people with superpowers for "The Avengers Initiative". But that doesn't explain the use of the name, as the Avengers were named that way by the Wasp simply for RuleOfCool. |
| 414 | * CoversAlwaysLie: The cover of Issue #23 shows the team grappling with Skaar, one of Norman Osborn's ComicBook/DarkAvengers. In actuality, Skaar turns out to be a DoubleAgent who infiltrated the Dark Avengers at Captain America's behest, and he never fights the heroes. In fact, Skaar's true allegiance had ''already'' been revealed at the end of issue #22, making #23's cover especially odd. |
| 415 | * FakeKillScare: Doctor Strange casts an illusion that causes [[DoubleAgent Victoria Hand]] to experience her own death as part of a shake-down to see where her loyalties truly lie. |
| 416 | * FastballSpecial: |
| 417 | ** In Issue #13, ComicBook/LukeCage needs to take down a plane. His projectile of choice? [[HeterosexualLifePartners Iron Fist, of course]]. ("I ''hate'' when he throws me!") |
| 418 | ** In Issue #21, Spider-Man does a web-slingshot variant of the same trick. |
| 419 | --->'''Spider-Man:''' Fist him!\ |
| 420 | '''Iron Fist:''' ''[in flight]'' Hate when people say that. |
| 421 | * HistoryRepeats: Implied to be happening during the ''ComicBook/AvengersVsXMen'' tie-in, in regards to Hope Summers and Fongji Wu. |
| 422 | * HowDidYouKnowIDidnt: When Dum-Dum Dugan shoots Victor Creed in the head: |
| 423 | -->'''Victor:''' So... They told you about my [[HealingFactor healin' factor]].\ |
| 424 | '''Dum-Dum:''' He heals? |
| 425 | * IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight: Subverted in the opening arc where Luke Cage gets possessed by a demon, Jessica Jones tries appealing to him, and it apparently works... only it turns out the demon's just screwing with her. |
| 426 | * IWasJustJoking: In the "Possession" arc, Doctor Strange has been trying to protect the Eye of Agamotto from various supernatural attempts to take it from him, while trying to figure out who is behind it all. Spider-Man suggests maybe "Agamotto" wants his eye back. Cue the [[OhCrap reaction panel]], while Spidey asks "You mean there really is an Agamotto.. and that really is his eye?" |
| 427 | * KillerRabbit: Squirrel Girl can summon an army of squirrels to kill you. Avengers Mansion is right by Central Park. She can summon a ''lot'' of squirrels. |
| 428 | * TheMaidenNameDebate: Spoofed in one issue where Luke Cage (a.k.a. "Power Man") tries to convince his wife to go by "Power Woman." |
| 429 | * {{Nerdgasm}}: Spider-Man cites the trope by name in Issue #17 when he sees the inner workings of an Ultimo the team is helping Iron Man with. |
| 430 | -->'''Spider-Man:''' Uh, guys, we have some really advanced stuff percolating under here. Nerdgasm. |
| 431 | * TheNewAdventures: The ''New'' Avengers, an Avengers team created after the team [[TheFellowshipHasEnded disbanded]] due to the events of ''ComicBook/AvengersDisassembled''. |
| 432 | * OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Squirrel Girl runs into three Nazi mechs. She charges them as they open fire. We next see her at Avengers Mansion, battered and bleeding. |
| 433 | * OffWithHisHead: In the {{flashback}} to Fury's Avengers, Sabretooth does this to a Red Skull. |
| 434 | * PopCulturalOsmosisFailure: Ms. Marvel doesn't recognize a quote from ''Film/{{Ghostbusters|1984}}'', much to Spider-Man and the Thing's consternation. |
| 435 | * PsychicAssistedSuicide: Daniel Drumm [[DemonicPossession possessed a man]] and shot himself in the head, making it look like the New Avengers were pulling this trope. |
| 436 | * ThePsychoRangers: Norman Osborn revives the Dark Avengers concept with a new team featuring Skaar, Son of Hulk (The Hulk/Red Hulk); Hawkeye's brother Trickshot (ComicBook/{{Hawkeye}}, duh); The Gorgon, Wolverine's deadliest enemy (ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}); Ragnarok, a robotic clone of Thor infamously created by Tony Stark's side during ''ComicBook/CivilWar2006'' ([[Characters/MarvelComicsThorOdinson Thor]]); Ai Apaec, a sinister sort of arachnid god (ComicBook/SpiderMan); June Covington, a deranged geneticist Osborn met in prison (ComicBook/ScarletWitch); and Superia, a StrawFeminist MadScientist with super strength (ComicBook/MsMarvel). Norman himself becomes the new [[AllYourPowersCombined Super-Adaptoid]], making him the only Dark Avenger without any real analogue. [[spoiler:Skaar turns out to subvert his role, being Captain America's [[TheMole Mole]] in the team.]] Just like the previous iteration, they don't match up well with the actual Avengers they face, as they still have no Luke Cage counterpart and there's no Hulk, Thor, or Scarlet Witch on the team. |
| 437 | * TheQuietOne: Fongji, former Iron Fist, hardly ever said a word, so much so everyone assumed she was mute. Eventually, however, she does start speaking. |
| 438 | * TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Daimon Hellstrom delivers an amazing one to the picketers in front of Avengers Mansion (and indirectly to the Marvel Universe civilian populace in general) after they defeat Agamotto in the first arc of Volume 2: |
| 439 | -->'''Nighthawk:''' I hope you dregs and slackers appreciate what these people just did for you today. They saved your lives! They saved the world! Not metaphorically. Actually! And they're not even going to come out and take a bow. You get me? The world gets to turn one more day and it's because of them. So you better go do something a hell of a lot more meaningful than watching reality TV and fighting over your seat on the bus. You'd better ''appreciate'' it.'' |
| 440 | * RagtagBunchOfMisfits: Under Luke Cage, the team consists of anyone he has managed to recruit, yielding a mismatched bag of heroes, some of whom are on their second (or third, or fourth) chance. Wong called them a "second-rate pile of Avengers" and Kyle Richmond, aka Nighthawk, said "clearly you guys are ComicBook/TheDefenders." |
| 441 | * ReedRichardsIsUseless: In Issue #9, some AIM agents stole some of {Wolverine's blood to manufacture bio-weapons. Iron Man then replied, "Do you realize how far we would advance as a technological species if we didn't have to put up with this every ten minutes?" |
| 442 | * RidingIntoTheSunset: [[spoiler:Luke Cage and Jessica Jones at the end of Volume 2, electing to call time on their tenure with the Avengers following [[ComicBook/AvengersVsXMen the latest events with the Phoenix]] in order to raise daughter Danielle.]] |
| 443 | * RunTheGauntlet: A variant on this happened in the conclusion, where ComicBook/DoctorStrange had to fight the assembled Avengers and New Avengers one-on-one, without hurting them, because a spirit-form enemy who wanted him dead was body-surfing from one to another. |
| 444 | * ServileSnarker: Wong, faithful manservant and friend to ComicBook/DoctorStrange, is normally a straitlaced and serious character, but in the issues of ''New Avengers'' when he's had to serve the title characters he gets very... ''snippy'' with them. |
| 445 | -->'''Wong:''' ''[entering the mansion, loaded down with luggage]'' When I dedicated my life in service to you as Sorcerer Supreme, I remember I closed my eyes and prayed that one day I would grow up to be a second-rate Jarvis for a second-rate pile of Avengers. |
| 446 | * ShockwaveClap: Luke Cage performs this maneuver in Issue #1. Victoria Hand (TokenGoodTeammate of the ComicBook/DarkAvengers) meets him at the Avengers Mansion because Captain America asked her to, but shows up with a gun on the grounds that she has no powers to defend herself with and the Avengers aren't exactly fond of her. Since he has Jessica and their baby with him, Cage demonstrates that the gun isn't much help by clapping his hands together so hard Victoria goes flying. |
| 447 | * SignificantGreenEyedRedhead: Hope Summers and Fongji, both of whom wield the power of the Phoenix. Fongji takes this even further by being an Iron Fist as well. They even look very similar. |
| 448 | * TerribleIntervieweesMontage: Luke and Jessica trying to find a superpowered nanny for their daughter. Some candidates are horrible, some are offended, and some take the opportunity to get in a few zings at the team. But the [[ComicBook/SquirrelGirl last one]] is perfect. |
| 449 | * TonightSomeoneDies: The cover of issue #6 came decked out with a large caption declaring that one of the featured people would die. The characters on the cover? Luke Cage, Ms. Marvel, Doctor Strange, Wolverine... as well as [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg Mockingbird and Brother Voodoo]]. Since Mockingbird had only recently been resurrected, Brother Voodoo's fate was sealed. |
| 450 | * TookALevelInJerkass: Wong, who spends a lot of his appearances in vol 2 insulting and swearing at everyone. |
| 451 | * UnstoppableForceMeetsImmovableObject: "I've always wondered what would happen if I [[BuffySpeak Iron]] [[DoubleEntendre Fisted]] a Hulk..."[[note]]Let's just say the object moves.[[/note]] |
| 452 | * VillainEpisode: The ComicBook/DarkAvengers concept was specifically revisited in Issue #18, which centered around Norman Osborn assembling a new incarnation of the group and forging bonds with HYDRA, A.I.M., and the Hand. Not a single hero -- much less an actual member of the Avengers -- appeared in the issue. |
| 453 | * WhatHappenedToTheMouse: When Iron Fist is abducted by [[spoiler:Agamotto]] pretending to be the Ancient One, he hears two voices, one that speaks in green and one in yellow. While the yellow one turns out to be [[spoiler:Agamotto]] the other one remains unrevealed. |
| 454 | * WhoWantsToLiveForever: Nick Fury warns against immortality, calling it "a ticket to every friend's funeral", when discussing whether to [[spoiler:give Mockingbird the Infinity Formula.]] |
| 455 | * WouldntHitAGirl: After [[DoubleAgent Victoria Hand]] has pissed off the Avengers thanks to her actions nearly resulting in Mockingbird's death, we get this lovely dialogue: |
| 456 | -->'''Wolverine:''' If there's one thing I hate, it's hittin' a dame.\ |
| 457 | ''[cue Mockingbird, who has recently gained SuperStrength, decking Hand without warning]''\ |
| 458 | '''Mockingbird:''' Fortunately, I have no such issue. |
| 459 | |
| 460 | [[/folder]] |
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