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->''"I got a message from the Great Lakes Avengers\\
They offered me a membership, but I did not accept\\
'Cause they're a walking disaster!"''
-->-- '''[[Music/KirbyKrackleMusic Kirby Krackle]]''', in their song Great Lakes Avengers.

Created for Marvel Comics by John Byrne in the July 1989 issue of ''[[WestCoastTeam West Coast]] Avengers'', the Great Lakes Avengers were a group from Wisconsin. The original roster included:

* '''Craig "Mr. Immortal" Hollis''': Team leader. He dies, ''[[GoodThingYouCanHeal a lot]]'', [[ResurrectiveImmortality but gets better]]. Originally went solo, but realized a team might come in handy while he's reviving. [[MultipleChoicePast Depending on who's writing]], either ''Homo supreme'', or his mother made a [[DealWithTheDevil Faustian bargain with]] [[TheGrimReaper Deathurge]]. Or both.
* '''Matthew "Dr. Val "Flatman" Ventura" ???''': Team deputy leader. Very flat, and [[RubberMan stretchy]]. Often mistaken for the [[ComicBook/FantasticFour Fantastic Four's Dr. Reed Richards]]. Out of the closet. {{Mutant}}.
* '''Ashley "Big Bertha" Crawford''': The team's original source of funding, she's [[OverlyNarrowSuperlative the greatest swimsuit model in all of Wisconsin]]. Her powers allow her to shape the fat on her body as she pleases ([[MostCommonSuperpower explaining her supermodeling]]), and the ability to add "superbulk" to her body, though she has to throw it up to get rid of it. Mutant.
* '''Demarr "Doorman" Davis''': Originally a mutant with the power to teleport things [[WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway through his body]] ([[ArbitraryWeaponRange but only to the next room]]), he eventually took over [[TheGrimReaper Deathurge's job]] when [[AnthropomorphicPersonification Oblivion]] noticed his powers tapped into the ''Darkforce Dimension.'' [[TokenMinority Token black member]].
* '''Dinah Soar''': Member of an otherwise unknown race of pink flying reptiles. She is able to speak to only one person at a time; she chose [[InterspeciesRomance Mr. Immortal]]. She communicated with the other members of the team via a whistle. Killed in ''GLA #1''.

The team appeared sporadically in ''Avengers'' titles during the [[TheNineties early 90s]], and were even briefly joined by more "official" ''Avengers'' members Hawkeye and Mockingbird. After a few years absence, the team returned, renaming themselves the "Lightning Rods" after the ComicBook/{{Thunderbolts}}, who were popular at the time, and appearing in both the Thunderbolts and ComicBook/{{Deadpool}} comics of the time. Eventually, they reverted back to the name Great Lakes Avengers in time for a series of very small cameos in the [[CrisisCrossover JLA/Avengers]] crossover. (It should be noted that this is around the time the team started calling themselves the GLA. [[WildMassGuessing Coincidence?]] And apparently this confirms that they are actually "real" Avengers after all somehow.)
The team roster gained their first solo book in June of 2006, thanks to Dan Slott, with the four part ''GLA'' miniseries. This was also the first major roster change since their introduction, as Dinah Soar was killed and Flatman and Doorman went on a recruiting spree. New members included:

* '''Gene "Leather Boy" Lorrene''': Revealed to be an actual founding member of the team who was kicked out early due in part to not actually having powers and partly because he was a {{Leatherman}} and BDSM enthusiast who [[ComicallyMissingThePoint totally missed the point]] of Mr. Immortal's first call for "costumed adventurers". Angered at this, he eventually joined the team's RoguesGallery, along with Dr. Tannenbaum and Deathurge the squirrel.
* '''Doreen "ComicBook/SquirrelGirl" Green''': Mutant with squirrel like agility, the ability to [[SpeaksFluentAnimal talk to squirrels]], and a tail. Despite this laughable powerset, she's [[LethalJokeCharacter regarded by S.H.I.E.L.D. as the greatest superhero combatant alive]]. Gone up against, and {{d|idYouJustPunchOutCthulhu}}efeated ComicBook/DoctorDoom, M.O.D.O.K., Thanos and ComicBook/{{Deadpool}} (twice). Left the team when she felt she was "holding them back".
* '''Monkey Joe''' and '''Tippy Toe''': Squirrel Girl's [[NonHumanSidekick squirrels.]] Have a tendency to [[MediumAwareness speak to the reader]]. Monkey Joe was killed by a vengeful Leather Boy; [[DistaffCounterpart Tippy Toe]] became his replacement.
* '''Doug "Grasshopper" Taggert''': The original "Grasshopper" was a Roxxon security guard with a grasshopper themed PoweredArmor. Killed within 5.8 seconds of joining the team with a thrown sai to the face. Others have taken up the mantle, but they didn't do much better: one accidentally jumped all the way to space, one was killed by an angry ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}, and another turned out to be [[Comicbook/SecretInvasion a Skrull infiltrator]].
* '''Wade "ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}" Wilson''': Technically still a member of the team, he originally joined out of boredom and to chase after Big Bertha. Caused more conflicts than he helped with. He has since moved on to a different Avengers team, the Unity Squad from ''ComicBook/UncannyAvengers''.
* '''Goodness "Good [[NonIndicativeName Boy]]" Silva''': A furry artist teenage girl from the Detroit suburbs who has [[VoluntaryShapeshifting the ability to turn into her fursona, a male giant wolf]]. She became a member of the GLA in their ''ComicBook/MarvelNOW2016'' incarnation due to [[HilaritySues the help of a very enthusiastic lawyer]].

Since then, the team has appeared sporadically in a wide variety of titles. At the end of the GLA series, they were forced to change their name for in universe [[HilaritySues legal reasons]]. They first settled on the Great Lakes X-Men (after they realized that all their members were mutants), then became the Great Lakes Champions after winning a poker game. They registered during the ComicBook/{{Civil War|2006}} event and became the official Initiative team for the state of Wisconsin, and changed their name once again to the Great Lakes Initiative, momentarily taking on ComicBook/{{Deadpool}} as a reserve member. Some time after the ComicBook/SecretInvasion, Nevada team leader Gravity was [[ReassignedToAntarctica transferred as punishment]] to head up the Avengers in his home state. Squirrel Girl has joined the ComicBook/NewAvengers in [[BigApplesauce New York]] as official nanny for Luke Cage and Jessica Jones.

Flatman and Squirrel Girl did make a guest appearance on ''WesternAnimation/FantasticFourWorldsGreatestHeroes'' as part of a TerribleIntervieweesMontage. Both were rejected. Flatman also appeared in ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperHeroSquadShow'', while Squirrel Girl appeared in one of the video games based on the property.

In 2018, it was announced Squirrel Girl and Mr. Immortal would make their live-action debut as members of the ''New Warriors'' on Creator/{{Freeform}}. But the series was ultimately cancelled in 2019 after Freeform passed on the pilot and Marvel Studios unable to find another network to run it. Mr. Immortal would eventually appear on ''Series/SheHulkAttorneyAtLaw'' in 2022, although with a completely different backstory and personality.

The team received a short-lived series as part of ''ComicBook/MarvelNOW2016'', where the team moves to Detroit.

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!!Provides examples of:

* TheAce: Squirrel Girl is undoubtably the strongest member of the group- so much so that she later decides to leave after the group lets her do all the fighting.
* AcronymConfusion: Living Lightning thinks 'GLA' stands for 'Gay-Lesbian Alliance.'
* AliensInCardiff:
** In the 4-issue GLA series, Maelstrom manages to create his universe-ending device successfully, and has only the titular D-List team to face him. He notes that he succeeded in creating his doomsday device because he didn't go to a major city like Los Angeles, London, or New York, but instead went to Milwaukee, Wisconsin!
** In the ''Comicbook/MarvelNow2016'' ongoing the team is moved to Detroit. Complete with random Detroit citizens wondering if maybe the super people got lost on their way to New York.
%%* TheAllegedCar: The "Quinjetta," a pun on the Quinjet transports the main Avengers use.
%%* AndThisIsFor: Monkey Joe!
%%-->'''(The Ghost of) Monkey Joe says:''' Whatever. Not like it's gonna bring me back or anything. Feh, I'm outta here.
%%* AnimalThemedSuperbeing: Squirrel Girl, Dinah Soar, and the Grasshopper.
* AnyoneCanDie:
** Though it's usually Grasshopper.
** And always Mr Immortal. Often more than once.
* ArmedWithCanon: "That happened in a story by Steve-freakin'-Ditko, so it is ''so'' in canon!"
%%* {{Ascended Fan|boy}}girl: Squirrel Girl
* BackFromTheDead:
** This is literally Mr. Immortal's power.
** Doorman when the cosmic entity Oblivion choose him like his new angel of death.
%%* TheBeastmaster: Squirrel Girl
%%* BehemothBattle: [[spoiler:Dr. Nod]] versus Big Bertha- albeit somewhat briefly.
%%* BewareTheNiceOnes:
%%** Squirrel Girl, though only if you're a {{supervillain}}. Or Deadpool.
%%** Do not threaten Good Boy's loved ones if you value your life. [[spoiler:We still don't know what happened to Pitchfork after the cutaway, but judging from the other time she snapped maybe that was a GoryDiscretionShot too.]]
* BigApplesauce:
** Averted, though Flatman does take advantage of it for recruitment purposes.
** And {{lampshade|Hanging}}d by Maelstrom as he gloats over his plan to build his base not in New York, but Lake Michigan.
* BigBeautifulWoman: Bertha in the 2016 Marvel NOW Series has chosen to become this, keeping a few hundred pounds around at all times- is now a plus sized model to boot.
%%* BitingTheHandHumor: Makes fun of comic book fans and creators.
* BlessedWithSuck: Mr. Immortal's power is very useful, only not in superhero fights. The problem is that he is not invulnerable; his power doesn't work until he dies.
%%* BroughtToYouByTheLetterS: Mr. Immortal and Flatman.
* ChristmasLightChaos: Doorman lost his estranged dad when the latter slipped and fell off his roof while hanging up Christmas lights. Happily for him, Doorman is a Psychopomp who just happened to get assigned to collect his dad's soul, so he got an opportunity to say goodbye and clear the air between them.
%%* CListFodder
%%* CoolCar: The Quin-Jetta.
%%* DarkerAndEdgier: Both parodied and played straight in the miniseries.
* DeconReconSwitch: The miniseries is a deconstruction for the entire concept and a few of the members: Mr. Immortal's immortality is treated more as WhoWantsToLiveForever, as he'll outlive everyone he cares about, Big Bertha's throwing up to downsize from being Big Bertha is treated as horrifying instead of a joke and her bankrolling the team is slowly bankrupting her, and finally the team's joke status nearly causes Mr. Immortal to end it due to constantly being sidelined by the real Avengers until he hears the originals ended. However, despite the team's flaws, they're still shown as good people whose powers can be useful in the right situation as well as TrueCompanions. Mr. Immortal's ability, while still a case of BlessedWithSuck, is shown to be so powerful he'll seen the end of time, and Bertha decides that she'd rather have a true family who likes her for who she is than money any day.
%%* DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu: The team without Squirrel Girl.
%%* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: Squirrel Girl.
* DigitalPiracyIsEvil: Played for laughs in the intro of ''GLA #2'', where Squirrel Girl warns readers not to do anything Mr. Immortal does in this issue, "especially on page seven. That's where he downloads stuff off the internet for free."
* DistaffCounterpart:
%%** Tippy Toe for Monkey Joe.
** Big Bertha has the same power as ComicBook/XMen enemy [[TheBrute The Blob]], the difference being that she can revert back to normal body build (if you consider a swimsuit model's body build "normal").
* DudeWheresMyRespect: Mr. Immortal and the others actually once saved the universe from complete annihilation all on their own. Did they get any recognition for doing so? Nope. In fact, they were forced to drop the Avengers name because of it. This ends up being a CallBack in the team's first on-going as it's revealed that Flatman ''registered'' the Avengers name for copyright and thanks to a ''lot'' of oversight, the original holders, the Maria Stark Foundation, lost it and it went to him. This is what kicks off the Marvel NOW! series.
* ExploitedImmunity: Mr. Immortal once talked OmnicidalManiac Maelstrom into a SuicidePact. To show his commitment, Mr. I went first. After Maelstrom followed through with his half of the bargain, Mister Immortal came back to life and switched off his doomsday machine.
* FallenHero: Nain Rouge (one of the Marvel Now 2016 villains) claims this about himself, which failed to impress either Good or Bertha one bit. [[spoiler:He went from Z-lister Daredevil expy to CorruptPolitician basically, albeit he still sees himself as WellIntentionedExtremist, which would fly better as an interpretation if he wasn't a ''corrupt'' politician.]]
* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: Well, all of them, but Monkey Joe's especially, which was a direct TakeThat at [[ComicBook/ElongatedMan Sue Dibny]]'s infamous death in ''ComicBook/IdentityCrisis2004'' over at [[Creator/DCComics the Distinguished Competition]].
* FastballSpecial: Squirrell Girl threw Tippy-Toe at M.O.D.O.K. this way. They called it the ''Fuzzball Special''.
%%* FightUnscene: Squirrel vs. Thanos.
* FourthWallObserver: Squirrel Girl and her squirrels. When she and Deadpool team up in a GLA special, the Fourth Wall doesn't so much break as slink away quietly with its tail between its legs. Rather than explain to her in detail what happened to her boyfriend Speedball, Deadpool just hands a copy of the relevant comic to Squirrel Girl and lets her read it.
* FromASingleCell: Mr. Immortal. His is true immortality, which means that he cannot be permanently killed by any means. Once he reaches the point of death, he regenerates from any and all injuries, often returning to life almost immediately. When non-fatally injured, he heals at a normal human rate. However, those injuries will rapidly heal the next time he dies.
%%* FunPersonified: Squirrel Girl. Arguably the flagship character of this trope.
* GiantWoman: In the climax of GLA's 2016 run,[[spoiler: Bertha combats the villains' explosive growth into a massively fat giant monster- by taking the same pills(derived from her DNA)to match him in size.]] Her teammates are both suitably impressed and terrified.
* GenderBender: Good Boy is female in her normal human form, but her big blue werewolf "fursona" is male.
* GodzillaThreshold: What kicks off the Marvel NOW! series - Stark's lawyers approach Flatman in wanting to trade a large sum of money for the Avengers' name. However, when he takes interest in the suitcase they keep brandishing, they're forced to use it - in return for returning the "Avengers" name, the team would become an official and permanent part of the Avengers. [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone "May God have mercy on our souls."]]
* TheGrimReaper: Doorman. The cosmic entity Oblivion summoned him declaring that he could prove useful to him because of his connection to the Darkforce Dimension, akin to Deathurge, who had been recently captured by Mr. Immortal. Doorman therefore replaced Deathurge and became Oblivion's new angel of death.
* GuardianEntity: Deathurge to Mr. Immortal as his "imaginary" childhood friend/guardian.
* HeartIsAnAwesomePower: Yeah, the GLA's powers aren't as flashy or notable as those of the Avengers of X-Men. But Mr. Immortal's inability to die left him the only one able to defeat Maelstrom; Big Bertha's massive bulk grant her supreme strength and durability (up to stopping vehicles and bullets); and Doorman is in league with the omnipotent embodiment of nothingness. Mess with them at your own peril.
* HilaritySues: See when Tony Stark sued the Avengers name from them. Or the first two issues of the 2016 run where they gain official Avengers branch status and a new member.
* ImaginaryFriend: Mr. Immortal's imaginary childhood friend turns out to be Deathurge.
* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: Their encounter with the Asbestos Man (an old Human Torch villain) had them encountering a villain as unimpressive as they were; poor Orson Kasloff had barely managed to beat lung cancer and needed an oxygen tank to breathe. The encounter was a stalemate, as Asbestos Man was too weakened by age and illness to actually fight them, and none of them wanted to go near him for fear of exposure to his costume--ultimately, it ended in a surrender when they promised to remember him as one of their great villains.
* InterspeciesRomance: Mr. Immortal and Dinah Soar (who is an alien or mutant). She was the only one able to calm his fits of rage after being revived.
* {{Leatherman}}: Leatherboy was a rather notable version of this when he tried out for the team. [[AmbiguouslyGay Turns out he wasn't the gay member.]]
* LegacyCharacter: Grasshopper. Multiple characters have take his name...just to be killed.
* LethalJokeCharacter: Squirrel Girl. When she's accidentally cloned, containing the copy apparently merits Iron Man using his Hulkbuster armor. Not that it does any good.
%%* LethalHarmlessPowers: Who'd have thought very short range teleportation or stretching would be dangerous. [[RunningGag or the sheer power granted by talking to squirrels]]
* MadScientist: Doctor Tannebaum, the GLA's arch enemy who operates with a Christmas theme.
** Also, Doctor Nod, who tries to replicate Bertha's weight changing powers for a weight loss pill.
* MediumAwareness: Squirrel Girl is fully aware that she is in a comic book, but due to contractual issues she is only allowed to break the fourth wall during the recaps. However, Monkey Joe and Tippy-Toe are not limited by that limitation, so for them there is no fourth wall.
* MoodWhiplash:
%%** The 4-issue special is ''packed'' with this.
** The GLX-Mas special gives us a double mood whiplash when Demarr visits his dad, who lectures him about where his life is going. (After all, being a super-hero isn't a very lucrative career.) Turns out, [[spoiler:Papa Davis has been dead for the past few hours, and Demarr is here to bring him to the next world.]] Dad's reaction to finding out his son is the new angel of death? [[spoiler:"Wait'll I tell all our relatives on the other side!"]]
* MostCommonSuperpower: Big Bertha, in a literal example--since she can redistribute her fat at will, she can emphasize her curves in any way she wants.
* MultipleChoicePast: Whether Mr. Immortal's powers come from Deathurge, or Deathurge is merely helping him reach his destiny as ''Homo supreme''.
* NonHumanSidekick: Monkey Joe and Tippy Toe to Squirrel Girl.
* NotBloodSiblings: Mr. Immortal once had a romantic relationship with a foster sister. Now, if he could just hook up with some sort of undead, he'd have the near {{Squick}} trifecta.
* NotThatKindOfDoctor: So what exactly is Flatman a doctor of? Turns out: [[spoiler:Nothing. He is a community college drop out. He isn't even called [[AwesomeMcCoolname Val Ventura]], but he thought if he will be going by a fake name for the rest of his life, then he might as well add a fake doctorate and a fake fake epithet. Let's face it "Dr. Val Ventura, Man of Science!" sounds a lot better than "Matt, from the coffee shop" or "Matt, the Mr. Fantastic cosplayer".]]
%%* OddlySmallOrganisation
* OurWerebeastsAreDifferent: Good Boy is from a family of hereditary werebeasts. She is a werewolf, her brother Lucky a two tailed werefox. She explains the situation by making a comparison to having a [[UsefulNotes/FurryFandom fursona]] in real life.
%%* OverusedRunningGag: Squirrel Girl defeating major villains.
* PinkGirlBlueBoy: An inversion of the trope, as in their werecreature forms Good Boy (who is a girl) is blue, while her brother is pink.
* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything - They are superheroes on paper, but in reality they just play card games. Then they attempt to do something heroic, they are upstaged by the real [[Comicbook/TheAvengers Avengers]].
* PoweredArmor: The first Grasshopper's powers are derived entirely from a powered suit, metallic green in color and with an appearance reminiscent of his namesake. The suit's primary ability is that of a fantastic vertical leap, powered by long robotic grasshopper legs. These legs can also deliver devastating kicks. Its secondary abilities include "Insectroid Sensors", which work as an early warning system, and Zoom Lenses, which provide long range sight. Voice activated commands can be used to initiate some of the suit's powers. A notable fault of the suit seems to be that, despite its stiff and sturdy appearance, it offers little to no armor protection to the wearer.
* PowersAsPrograms: Dr. Nod uses the DNA of Big Bertha and MGH to concoct a pill that grants her powers for 24 hours. He plans to sell it as a [[MundaneUtility weight-loss supplement]].
* ProfoundByPopSong: Mr. Immortal talks Maelstrom into suicide by quoting lyrics from "One" by Three Dog Night, telling him that as the only known product of a union between a Deviant and an Eternal, he's always going to feel alone and ending the universe won't cure him. Surprisingly, this works, and Maelstrom blows his own head off.
%%* RageAgainstTheAuthor: Squirrel Girl at Monkey Joe's death.
* RandomPowerRanking: Mr. Immortal is an Omega Level mutant. He literally ''cannot'' stay dead. ''[[CompleteImmortality Ever.]]''
%%* RedShirt: Mr. Immortal is essentially a full red shirt army by himself. He even got a red shirt during Glx-Mas.
* ResurrectiveImmortality: Mr. Immortal's only superpower is the ability to resurrect in perfect health immediately after dying, regardless of the method of death. It is implied that he is ''homo s. supreme'', having evolved beyond death, and will survive to see the end of the universe. It's not an attractive prospect given [[ComicBook/{{Galactus}} what happened to the guy who survived to see the end of the previous universe]]. He can take advantage of it by killing himself to heal any persistent injuries, so it's not entirely a bad thing.
* RunningGag: Grasshoppers getting killed, each with less screen time.
* SeenItAll: The nurse at the hospital Good Boy's brother is taken to. The only marginally interesting thing about a were"wolf" (actually werefox) to her is the unusual coloring (he is ''pink'').
* SelfDeprecation: Squirrel Girl, in the miniseries, breaks the fourth wall numerous times to deliver swipes at the DarkerAndEdgier and HotterAndSexier trends in comics at the time.
* SelfImposedExile: Mr. Immortal once spent an entire year buried alive, away from his teammates, as a way of forcing himself to get sober after all the drinking and erratic behavior he engaged in after the death of Dinah Soar.
* ShoutOut:
** [[spoiler:Monkey Joe]]'s death is a very intricate shout-out to that of [[spoiler:Sue Dibny]] in ''ComicBook/IdentityCrisis2004'', with details down to the scorching to death, the off-panel killing, the [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext footprints on the brain]], and the fact that [[spoiler:the murderer is a forgotten friend]]. Plus, #3 of the 4-issue-special is called "Mistaken Identity Crisis".
** The design and functions of the Grasshopper armor (insectoid in appearance, delivers powerful kicks) is very reminiscent of the various ''Franchise/KamenRider'' heroes- the green color scheme resembles [[Series/KamenRiderBlackRX Black RX]] (albeit in a lighter shade of green), while the exposed face recalls [[Series/KamenRiderV3 Riderman]].
** Issue #2 of that series had an extended sequence with the GLA reaching out to every superhero they could think of to join their team - and all of them saying no. This was a reference to the first issue of DC's ''Villains United'', where Lex Luthor's villain squad contacted every baddie imaginable to join up, most of them saying yes.
* TheSlowPath: Squirrel Girl travels to the future and meets Mr. Immortal, only to find he isn't there using a time machine.
* SpeaksFluentAnimal: Squirrel Girl can talk to squirrels.
* StalkerWithACrush: Squirrel Girl for ComicBook/{{New Warrior|s}} Speedball. She defeats his enemies for him, she breaks into dungeons for him, she invades sovereign countries for him, she travels through time for him, and her fan letters to him are screened by the FBI! And ignoring that time when he was too deep for her, he has responded to her crush with what's seemingly equal attraction. She's not a fan of Penance.
* StoutStrength: Big Bertha's major power--swelling up her body mass grants her immense strength and durability. At her heaviest, she can quite literally stop a truck moving at full speed.
* SuicideDare: This is how they defeated [[spoiler: Maelstrom]] in their miniseries: Mr. Immortal convinces the villain that life isn't worth living, and even "goes first" to cap his argument, prompting said villain to blast their own head off.
%%* SuperZeroes: Though they've gotten better over time. They still don't get respected, though.
* TakeThatAudience: Monkey Joe and Tippy Toe like to mock comic book fans.
* TakingYouWithMe: A very hilarious zig-zag. When the villain Maelstrom created a device that would bring about the end of the universe, Mr. Immortal convinced him that if he destroyed everything, there would be nobody left to study what remained. This started to depress Maelstrom, which Mr. Immortal took advantage of. He convinced Maelstrom that the best course of action was suicide. Just to seal the deal, Mr. Immortal even agreed to a suicide pact and die with him. Mr. Immortal shot himself in the head to show he was serious, after which Maelstrom followed suit. Mr. Immortal woke up a few moments later to shut down the device.
* TemporaryBulkChange: Big Bertha's mutation allows her to swell her body fat immensely, going from a conventionally-thin supermodel to a super-sized, super-strong bruiser. She can undo this effect through "power puking." Said puking is- fortunately for us and Bertha- nowhere to be seen in the 2016 series.
* TheyKilledKennyAgain:
** [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Mr. Immortal]]. His one power is the ability to come back from the dead after a few minutes. Since he has a considerable lack of fighting skills, [[GoodThingYouCanHeal this mostly translates to him frequently dying in a variety of hilariously painful and bizarre ways.]] Death by giant novelty scissors, death by impalement from a remote control, death by alcohol poisoning from a ray that was only supposed to make him drunk...
** An interesting variation in the succession of Grasshoppers that join the same team; none of them are the same character, but all of them take the hero name Grasshopper, join the team to replace the last Grasshopper, and then get killed in various ugly ways, each with less panel time than the one before.
* TheThingThatWouldNotLeave: Squirrel Girl kicked Deadpool out of the GLI clubhouse when he wouldn't leave. She was alerted in a Meanwhile, in the Future situation: she had gone to the future, and the team leader (who is immortal) had waited 90 years to ask her to go back in time to kick Deadpool out.
* TonightSomeoneDies: Promised, and more or less made good on, for each issue of the "GLA" miniseries. And that's not even counting Mr. Immortal.
* TradeSnark: The lawyer of the Avengers would only ever refer to her clients as the ''Avengers™''. Yes, trademark sign included.
* TrueBeautyIsOnTheInside: Big Bertha is concerned about this, as many people only pursue her for her slender model form. When she finds out that Deadpool was attracted to her big form because he's a ChubbyChaser, she lectures him about how he is no better than the reverse. Deadpool, rather than taking offense, says that he's been waiting for someone to say that to him, unmasking and declaring that, on the inside, he's a real catch. Of course, his true face is [[BodyHorror so horrifying]] that Big Bertha [[BrownNote throws up at the mere sight of it.]]
* WeakButSkilled: Probably one of the most effective Initiative teams, as they've actually trained together. And then there's their invincible superweapon.
* [[WestCoastTeam Great Lakes Team]]: Lampshaded by the Vision, who asked them if the name "Midwest Avengers" wouldn't make more sense. Mr. Immortal argued that no, the name should have something to do with ''coasts''.
%%* WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway: Or being a door? Or being flat? Or dying a lot? Or being fat?
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatPerks: Flatman after first discovering his powers didn't go for superheroing. He went for entertainer closplaying as Mr. Fantastic at parties (and on supervillain ones got heckled and {{produce pelt|ing}}ed).

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