Line #73 Comicbook/UncannyAvengers


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3	''Uncanny Avengers'' is a Creator/MarvelComics title, featuring a mix of characters from their biggest franchises: ComicBook/TheAvengers, the ComicBook/XMen, and (starting with volume three) ComicBook/TheInhumans.
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5	Originally launched as part of the ComicBook/MarvelNOW initiative in 2012, ''Uncanny Avengers'' introduced the Unity Squad, assembled by ComicBook/CaptainAmerica in the wake of ''ComicBook/AvengersVsXMen'' to promote teamwork between them and improve public perception of mutants.
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7	In addition to Cap, the initial lineup included ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}, [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Thor]], [[Characters/XMen60sMembers Havok]], ComicBook/TheWasp, ComicBook/{{Rogue}}, ComicBook/ScarletWitch, ComicBook/WonderMan, and Sunfire. The entirety of its first volume was written by Creator/RickRemender, with a team of rotating artists that included John Cassaday, Steve [=McNiven=], and Daniel Acuña.
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9	''Uncanny Avengers'' relaunched with a [[ComicBook/UncannyAvengersCounterEvolutionary second volume]] (subtitled ''Counter-Evolutionary'' for the collected edition) after twenty-five issues, following the events of ''ComicBook/{{AXIS}}''. Remaining on the team were Scarlet Witch and Rogue, while new additions included [[ComicBook/TheFalcon the new Captain America]], ComicBook/{{Quicksilver}}, ComicBook/TheVision, Sabretooth, and Doctor Voodoo. This run --also by Remender and Acuña-- was much shorter than its predecessor, ending after five issues to make way for ''ComicBook/{{Secret Wars\|2015}}''.
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11	It eventually relaunched with a third volume (subtitled ''Unity'' for collected editions) written by Creator/GerryDuggan and drawn by Ryan Stegman. This iteration of the team saw the return of Steve Rogers, Rogue, Quicksilver, and Doctor Voodoo, while new additions included ComicBook/SpiderMan, the [[ComicBook/FantasticFour Human Torch]], a new Inhuman called Synapse, and... ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}. Funded exclusively by the Merc with a Mouth, the new Unity Squad operated out of an abandoned theater in UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity, and later recruited ComicBook/{{Cable}} in their ranks.
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13	After a brief run written by Creator/JimZub, the third volume was consolidated into a single ''Avengers'' title (along with Creator/MarkWaid's ''ComicBook/{{The Avengers\|MarkWaid}}'' and Creator/AlEwing's ''ComicBook/USAvengers'') for the weekly "[[ComicBook/AvengersNoSurrender No Surrender]]" story arc, which includes the Unity Squad.
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15	In 2023 it will be revived for a [[ComicBook/UncannyAvengers2023 fourth volume]], again written by Gerry Duggan with art by Javier Garron. This iteration of the team is created as part of the ''ComicBook/XMenTheKrakoanAge'' saga ''ComicBook/FallOfX'', and sees Captain America (Steve Rogers), Deadpool, Rogue and Quicksilver joined by Psylocke (Kwannon) and Monet St. Croix as a new Unity Squad, this time working together to discover the mystery identity of the new Captain Krakoa and stop his team of killers.
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18	!!''Uncanny Avengers'' provides examples of:
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22	* ComicsMerger: Volume 3 ends with issue 30, merging with ''ComicBook/USAvengers'' and ''ComicBook/{{The Avengers\|MarkWaid}}'' to form the new weekly book ''ComicBook/AvengersNoSurrender''.
23	* FantasticRacism: What the Unity Squad was formed to combat. It's a mixed bag in how effective it is. Best illustrated in issue one of volume three, wherein Rogue blows up on Synapse at a press conference over the Mutant/Inhuman divide, forcing Rogers attempting (and failing) to salvage it.
24	* HeadbuttingHeroes: Rogue and Scarlet Witch are not fond of one another most of the time, given one [[ComicBook/HouseOfM wiped out a species with a sentence fragment]] and the other was dating her father. This is ''especially'' true after Wanda rejoins the team in volume 3, having just been possessed by a demon during the events of ''ComicBook/SecretEmpire''.
25	* AHouseDivided: Even when not actively fighting against each other, former X-Men side with their own while the Avengers do the same, hiding secrets from one another and such that are important.
26	* MonochromeCasting: A complaint about the initial line-up of the team, and one which Remender himself jokingly acknowledged by calling the team "Crackerfest 2012" at Comic Con. [[TokenMinority Possibly the reason behind Sunfire's inclusion]]. It gets slightly better as it goes on, with the team eventually including Synapse (a Latina woman) and Doctor Voodoo (a black man). It's also worth noting that Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver are Romani Jews.
27	* SuperTeam: The Unity Squad is a team originally conceived as a joint venture between the Avengers and the X-Men. In volume three, the umbrella expands to include Inhumans.
28	* TookALevelInJerkass: A common fan complaint about the cast of the book, particularly Scarlet Witch and Rogue, who are both hostile and antagonistic to each other from their very first scene together. It doesn't help that the last time the two mutants met, in ''ComicBook/AvengersTheChildrensCrusade'', Rogue was the only X-Men member who ''wasn't'' angry at Wanda. Though one ''Uncanny Avengers'' issue {{hand wave}}d this by saying that Rogue became uncharacteristically angry and bitter after Xavier's death.
29	* WeAreStrugglingTogether: There's a reason why X-Men and Avengers don't usually work together in long-term collaborations and it's shown here. Even though Havok is classified as the team leader of their first iteration, Captain America called the shots most of the time and leaves him as little more than a figurehead. When it comes to threats they handled things differently as well, with Wolverine doing what needs to be done, including executing them, while the Avengers don't condone it and Wasp flat-out refuses to work with him. Somewhat subverted, still: While Wolverine is more traditionally associated with the X-Men, he has been an Avenger for a very long time. Captain America's stance on Wolverine's killing seems to vary wildly from moment to moment based on the needs of the story, a fact that he even somewhat acknowledges when he admits he didn't react properly. Thor also tends to side with the X-Men over his fellow Avengers, with Havok doing the opposite.
30	* WolverinePublicity: A few cases throughout the volumes:
31	** Captain America was in three other Avengers titles at the time of the original volume's launch, while Thor was in two. TropeNamer Wolverine was also a member of another Avengers team as well as the X-Men. All three of them also had solo books.
32	** [[ComicBook/TheFalcon Sam Wilson]] joins the cast following the events of ''ComicBook/{{AXIS}}'', making this the ''fourth'' team he's was added to since his movie debut in ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier''.
33	** Post-''ComicBook/SecretWars2015'', the team primarily funds itself through ComicBook/{{Deadpool}} merchandise. ComicBook/SpiderMan was also heavily promoted leading up to the first issue, [[spoiler:only to promptly quit the team in said first issue because he can't stand Deadpool.]]
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37	* ActualPacifist: Wonder Man.
38	* TheAlcoholic: Sunfire.
39	* ApocalypseHow: [[spoiler:Exitar the Executioner succeeds in destroying the Earth and everyone on at the time in Issue #17.]]
40	* TheAtoner: Wanda for her role in ''ComicBook/HouseOfM'' and Sunfire for his FaceHeelTurn around the time of ''Messiah Complex''.
41	* AuthorFilibuster: Havok in issue #5 and Wanda in issue #9 most prominently about the existence of a mutant culture and intersectionality, but Remender has been using his characters to quote lines he's said himself in interviews since issue one of this book.
42	* BadFuture:
43	** One is teased in the fourth issue, apparently caused by [[spoiler:Red Skull merging with ComicBook/{{Onslaught}}]].
44	** The Apocalypse Twins themselves come from one where [[spoiler: Red Skull revealed events from the Dark Angel Saga that led to mutant concentration camps.]]
45	* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler:The Twins blow-up the earth and get Planet X, however it gets undone by issues 20 & 21.]]
46	%%* BatmanCanBreatheInSpace: Sunfire.
47	* BigBad: '''Red Skull'''. Virtually everyone hates this man including the Unity Squad, the Apocalypse Twins, and the X-Men (Magneto and Cyclops group included), and he's the cause of all the problems in the series so far, either directly or indirectly. It's surprising that none of them have put off their differences long enough to work together and take him down...
48	* BigBadEnsemble: [[spoiler: As of issue 21, Kang has predictably betrayed Earth's heroes in a bid to take [[PhysicalGod Exitar's]] power and become conqueror of the universe.]]
49	* BreakingTheFellowship: Nine issues in and they're already splitting up with some help from the Apocalypse twins.
50	* BreakThemByTalking: Daken to Wolverine and the Twins to Wanda.
51	* CaughtOnTape: Sabertooth apparently taped Wolverine killing Daken and Red Skull made copies, with intent on showing it everywhere.
52	* TheChessmaster: Kang and his various alternate selves. The things you can plan for when you can travel through time...
53	* CompellingVoice: The Red Skull's henchman Honest John is an incredibly powerful variant of this. Not only can he make people do the things he says, but to make extra sure his victims don't rebel he also appears to them in the form they're most likely to trust (thus, he looks different to every person).
54	* CurbStompBattle: Thor vs Uriel. [[spoiler: Uriel didn't stand a chance.]]
55	* DiabolusExMachina: Magneto manages to beat the Red Skull to death barehanded for all his atrocities. The catharsis of this is completely spoiled because this somehow allows the Skull to resurrect as [[CameBackStrong Red Onslaught]]. Magneto gets admonished by Rogue and Wanda both for [[ThouShaltNotKill killing him]] and causing this to happen, like anyone could see that coming.
56	* DirtyCoward: Honest John has no problem with manipulating others to wipe out mutants, but when Red Skull orders him to kill one himself, he balks at the idea.
57	* DividedWeFall: The Apocalypse Twins goal against the Avengers Unity Squad. [[spoiler: It didn't take much to get to the BreakingTheFellowship moment.]]
58	* EarthShatteringKaboom: [[spoiler:Earth is destroyed in the #17 Issue.]]
59	* EmbarrassingNickname: Sunfire a.k.a "Hot Sake", given to him by the people of Japan according to Daken.
60	* EqualOpportunityEvil: ComicBook/RedSkull, of all people, has expanded his organization to include mutant-haters of all races and creeds. He himself is still as much a bigot as ever, though, so this is simply PragmaticVillainy.
61	* EvilCostumeSwitch: {{ComicBook/Daken}}, Banshee, and ComicBook/TheSentry after they join the Apocalypse Twins' Horsemen of Death. Grim Reaper gets a snazzy new outfit too, but he's worn black since the beginning.
62	* {{Expy}}: Mzee is a very lazy one from the Juggernaut.
63	* EyeScream:
64	** Daken impales Woverine through the eyes with his claws...from behind.
65	** Uriel blinds Eimin to avoid having her killed in a SadisticChoice.
66	* FinalSolution: Red Skull's plans for mutants.
67	* FormulaBreakingEpisode: The ''Uncanny Avengers'' annual, coming in the middle of a long DarkerAndEdgier arc where [[spoiler:most of the characters were presumed dead]], is a lighthearted comedy full of LeaningOnTheFourthWall and jokes about ExecutiveMeddling. The annual is so different from the tone of the rest of the series that it's never even made clear where it fits in the continuity.
68	* FreudianExcuse: All of the S-Men's lives were ruined by mutants in some way; one of them watched as his entire village was massacred by the Acolytes, for instance.
69	* GodzillaThreshold: Thor decides to team up with Kang and his team of hand-picked heroes to undo the damage the Apocalypse Twins have done by traveling back in time. Havok, Wasp, and Beast do so as well.
70	* HeroWithBadPublicity: Most of the Mutant members of the team, thanks to the actions of the Phoenix Five.
71	* JerkassHasAPoint: Rogue isn't exactly wrong when she angrily points out that everything that's happened to the Avengers and the X-Men since ''Disassembled'' and ''House of M'' was directly because of Wanda losing control of her powers.
72	* LateArrivalSpoiler: The identities of the team's final three members was initially kept a secret, but were revealed to be Wonder Man, Wasp, and Sunfire by the cover to issue #5.
73	* LemonyNarrator: The first half of Remender's run used bombastic third-person narration, harking back to the style of earlier Marvel runs like Creator/ChrisClaremont's ''X-Men'' and Creator/KurtBusiek's ''Avengers''. The experiment received mixed reactions and was dropped for the rest of the run in favor of the more common first-person narration.
74	* LivingBattery: Wonder Man.
75	* MoodSwing: In #13, Cap suffers extensive hearing damage after taking Banshee's [[MakeMeWannaShout sonic scream]] at point blank range. This leads to him yelling "WHAT?!", repeating Havok's own words, and generally talking louder than he should during their otherwise serious infiltration of the Apocalypse Twins' base.
76	* MyGodWhatHaveIDone:
77	** After being freed from Red Skull's influence in Issue #4, a lot of people have this reaction since they were being used as a part of his FinalSolution on the mutants.
78	** Wolverine gets one when he finds out that his killing of Daken had been videotaped and will be spread around. This increases anti-mutant hysteria as mutants become depicted as killers of their own children and so a bad future begins...
79	* NeverTrustATrailer: The solicitation for #13 promised that the Sentry would kill an Avenger, a scene that appears nowhere in the actual comic.
80	* NiceJobBreakingItHero
81	** Thor enchanting that Axe to kill Apocalypse [[spoiler:came back to bite the world when the Twins used it to gather the Life and Death Seeds, dooming the earth to be destroyed.]]
82	** Wanda summoning all the mutants on Earth. [[spoiler:She thought she was betraying them, but the twins planned accordingly and she did exactly what they needed her to do.]]
83	** Magneto [[spoiler: killing the Red Skull created the ''Red Onslaught''.]]
84	* NobleBigot: Sentry. He doesn't hold Thor being responsible for his death against him and unlike the other Horsemen, is quite fixated on protecting mankind from outside threats (unfortunately, mutants count). Best displayed when he [[spoiler:helps Rogue delay the Celestial Executioner long enough for Thor to slay it and then volunteering to take its corpse into deep space so that it can dissolve safely.]]
85	* OhCrap: The Red Skull has a spectacular one in the second series when [[spoiler:Deadpool puts Magneto's helmet on Rogue's head, freeing her of his mental control. The moment she gives him a DeathGlare, he ''bolts in an absolute panic''. Not that this helps, as she beats the crap out of him and takes him to Beast for impromptu brain surgery to remove Xavier's brain.]]
86	* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: The Red Skull, naturally. Though he's focusing on mutants, he still makes it clear he's an all around racist and sexist bigot.
87	* PoorCommunicationKills: At the climax of the "Ragnarok Now" arc, [[spoiler:Rogue kills Scarlet Witch for betraying the Avengers, without realizing that Wanda had only feigned defection, and was actually planning to take down the Apocalypse Twins herself. Not that it mattered since things went JustAsPlanned by them]].
88	* ThirdPersonPerson: Sunfire.
89	* WellIntentionedExtremist: The twins' ultimate goal is to separate the mutants from humans to stop from the BadFuture caused by Red Skull. [[spoiler:Which they intended to enforce by setting the Earth up to be destroyed after they got all the mutants on the Ark. Really it could be seen as simple revenge against Kang, as there is no longer an Earth for him to conquer.]]
90	* WestCoastTeam: Sort of. The team still operates in New York, but they're stationed in Avengers Mansion rather than Stark Tower, where the main Avengers team resides.
91	* WorldSundering: The twins' ultimate goal, to create a world for mutants to stop their persecution. [[spoiler:And then destroy the earth.]]
92	* YouAreTooLate: Happens twice in the same comic. The cavalry in the form of Rogue and Sunfire charge in to stop Wonderman and Scarlet Witch from casting a spell that'll bring a mutant army, but Daken and Grim Reaper end up skunking them. When Rogue finally gets close enough to gut Wanda, it's too little and late to stop the spell from finishing. Then Wolverine charges in, he manages to save Sunfire from Daken but he's too late to stop Rogue killing Wanda and too late to stop the Grim Reaper from killing Rogue in return. BigDamnHeroes failure.
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96	See [[ComicBook/UncannyAvengersCounterEvolutionary here]] for tropes from this volume.
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100	* BadFuture: [[spoiler: At the end of issue 2, we cut to 50 years after Boston is vegantize, with little to nothing left while Cable decides to go back to set things right.]]
101	* TheBadGuyWins: The Shredded Man succeeds in destroying Boston and eventually the world. Luckily, ComicBook/{{Cable}} came back to SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong. [[spoiler:He almost fails when Synapse almost {{Neck Snap}}s the villain.]]
102	* BigDamnKiss: [[spoiler:In issue #22, Rogue does this with Deadpool after everything he's done to win the day. This seems to be leading towards something of an OfficialCouple status, especially since it seems that Wade is on the outs with his wife in his own titles.]]
103	* BrainBleach: ComicBook/WonderMan was finally freed from {{ComicBook/Rogue}} when she absorbed ''ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}'''s HealingFactor upon kissing him. The two continue making out and only stopped because Rogue became too weak and fainted upon Wonder's release. Later, ComicBook/{{Beast\|MarvelComics}} thinks Rogue was exposed to Wade's power because she finally slapped him and Wonder Man says he'd give every dollar to remember it that way.
104	* HeirInLaw: Johnny, by virtue of being Reed Richards' brother-in-law, is the sole heir to his patents and the settlement proceeds against a large group of IP thieves.
105	* {{Hypocrite}}: Rogue, a mutant and a long-standing member of the X-Men, for initially being hostile towards Synapse for being Inhuman. And similar when she's also hostile toward ''ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}'' and doesn't agree with Cap making him an Avenger. Cap calls her on it and says Wade has proven himself, also reminding her that she used to be part of the Brotherhood. She and Synapse become very trusting comrades. And it's an understatement to say [[https://ic.pics.livejournal.com/silverfang2/29185537/1123288/1123288_1000.jpg she comes around on Deadpool]].
106	* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Well, maybe not celebrities, but Deadpool is crushed by the real life statue of [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam the RX-78-2 Gundam]] by [[spoiler:the Hand-brainwashed and resurrected Hulk]].
107	* OnlySaneMan: In vol 3 issue 6, having had to fight her own grandfather almost to the death after his Terrigenesis gave him delusions of being GaiasVengeance that led to him nearly slaughtering all humanity, and having to save New Attilan from Hellion when he suffers a bout of Terrigen-induced PowerIncontinence, Synapse confronts Medusa over the fact that all of this could have been avoided if the Inhumans had never released the Terrigen Clouds and points out that the quickest way to solve everything would be to burn the Terrigen Clouds out of the atmosphere.
108	* PoorCommunicationKills: One of the biggest problems in the team, due to the DysfunctionJunction with all the members. [[spoiler: This ultimately causes them to fail in saving Boston, which ended up causing TheEndOfTheWorld.]]
109	* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Wanda gives a brutally scathing one to Pietro when he starts blaming everyone but himself for getting Synapse injured at the hands of the Juggernaut, telling him to GetOut. The fact that it was his ''sister'' saying that drives him to tears.
110	* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: [[spoiler:Peter barely makes it 8 pages into #1 before he ups and quits because of Deadpool.]] He eventually returns on Deadpool's request [[spoiler:when Red Skull captures the rest of the team]], but insists it's a team-up only, he's not rejoining the team.
111	* ShoutOut: Johnny's T-shirt in issue #26 says "Flame On" in Aurebesh, one of the written forms of Galactic Basic from ''Star Wars''.
112	* SixthRanger:
113	** Crosses into UnexpectedCharacter as [[spoiler:ComicBook/{{Cable}}]] ends up joining the team as part of a SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong mission.
114	** Wasp is also one, rejoining the Unity Squad after teaming up with them to fight an Ultron-merged Hank Pym.
115	** Wanda also rejoins the team in #26, after [[ComicBook/ScarletWitch2015 an extended sabbatical]] away from the Unity Squad.
116	* ShipTease: Rogue and Deadpool. In vol 3, issue 22, Rogue kisses Deadpool twice, with him telling her she deserves better. They talk a bit more, then we see them sharing another kiss sometime later. In issue 23, the recap of the previous chapter states that Rogue's actions last chapter were a confession of having feelings for Deadpool, and that said chapter was their first date. The other Unity squad members debate the relationship, with Synapse wondering if it's really a thing. Quicksilver thinks it makes sense because Rogue and Deadpool are the loneliest people in the world. But the question of them being together is left ambiguous, and Deadpool ends up leaving the team shortly after to work with Captain America, who tells him that Rogue is not on their side.
117	* SpotlightStealingSquad: Lampshaded:
118	--> '''Rogue:''' I'm not letting this Avengers mission become a [[spoiler:ComicBook/{{Cable}} and ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}]] shoot 'em up.
119	* StatusQuoIsGod: After several years of being able to control her powers just fine, Rogue goes back to her usual inability to touch people. It's because she's suffering from Terrigen Poisoning a.k.a. the M-pox.
120	** She's back to being able to control the powers as of issue 28. Rogue touches Johnny with her bare hands to no ill effect, and seems to be taking to wearing fingerless gloves (something she'd be deathly afraid to do if her powers were still uncontrollable).
121	* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Just about every mission has come down to this so far.
122	* ThisIsSomethingHesGotToDoHimself: Steve tells Tony to hang back and not get involved in the Boston incident, stating that if the Unity Squad can't handle this, then they'll be forced to disband.
123	* WestCoastTeam: The Unity Squad has set up in an old theatre, not that the Avengers are doing much better when the volume begins. As of Issue 28, they've started to rebuild Avengers mansion again.
124	* WhamShot: A literal example from the last page of issue 28 -- Brother Voodoo and the Scarlet Witch's meddling in Cytorrak's domain has apparently caused the Juggernaut to appear... [[OhCrap in midair]] [[FromBadToWorse just above the Unity Squad's heads...]] [[ThisIsGonnaSuck and is falling directly on top of them!]]
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127	[[folder: Volume 4 (2023 -- 2024)]]
128	-> See ComicBook/UncannyAvengers2023
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