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[[caption-width-right:300:Onward! To all-ages humor!]]

First launched in 2003, ''Marvel Adventures'' is a line of LighterAndSofter comics featuring some of the company's top characters and set outside of the 616 canon that most Creator/MarvelComics characters inhabit. Each issue contains a story that's finished by the end of the last page (though setups for larger arcs sometimes occur), and does so in a lighthearted fashion where everything usually [[StatusQuoIsGod gets back to the way it's supposed to be]]. Likewise, its setting allows it to completely ignore world-changing events from the main comics, such as ''ComicBook/{{Civil War|2006}}''.

April 2010 saw the cancellation of practically all the series. The survivors (''ComicBook/SpiderMan'' and ''Super Heroes'') became renumbered, starting again from #1. 'Marvel Adventures' also got dropped from the titles.

However, the spirit of ''Marvel Adventures'' lives on in ''Marvel Action'', a joint series published by Marvel and Creator/IDWPublishing.
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!!''Marvel Adventures'' contains examples of:

* AcademyOfEvil: The self-defense classes Peter Parker attends so he can learn a few moves and give himself justification to stand up to bullies when he's not Spidey is soon revealed to be one of Taskmaster's facilities to train potential soldiers.
* AccidentalAthlete: In ''Marvel Adventures Spider-Man'' #34, Peter Parker is recruited as a shortstop for his high school baseball team after he's seen using his super-powers to deftly catch and return a wayward ball. Team pitcher Flash Thomson is enraged because he suspects Parker's skills are due to illegal drugs, while the Green Goblin wants to eliminate Parker so his son's rival team can win instead.
* AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul: In this universe, Emma Frost is a much closer friend and confidante to Spider-Man (and Chat) than she is with any of the X-Men.
* AdaptationalBadass: In this continuity, Spider-Man is capable of fighting off Dr. Doom all on his own, whereas his 616 counterpart usually didn't get so lucky and had to resort to talking Doom out of killing him and whoever he was trying to protect.
** Also, Janet van Dyne as Giant Girl instead of Wasp.
* AdaptationalCurves: Emma Frost is typically a MsFanservice in the mainline Marvel comics, but she's also indicated several times in the past that she has "The best body money can buy". In the ''Spider-Man'' book, Emma is aged down to around high school aged (on par with Peter Parker) and is notably more voluptuous than her 616 counterpart. It isn't specified if she dyes her hair in this continuity either, so she may be a natural blonde as well.
* AdaptationalDumbass: Downplayed with [[ComicBook/AntMan Hank Pym]]. He's not said to be one of the smartest people on the planet in this continuity, but he is still a highly intelligent scientist and discoverer of the Pym Particles.
* AdaptationalEarlyAppearance: In the 616 continuity, Spider-Man and Wolverine only joined ComicBook/TheAvengers in the ''Comicbook/NewAvengers'' series, decades after the team was founded [[ComicBookTime (although probably only years in-universe)]]. Here, they appear as members of the team from the beginning, and are possibly founding members.
* AdaptationalModesty: Both [[http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20091004024125/marveldatabase/images/1/18/Felicia_Hardy_%28Earth-20051%29.jpg Black Cat]] and [[http://img4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20140222160642/marveldatabase/images/e/ec/Greer_Grant_%28Earth-20051%29_2.jpg Tigra]] are more covered up than their mainstream counterparts. The former is actually more in line with her ''original'' outfit.
* AdaptationalWimp: [[ZigzaggedTrope Zigzagged]] with AdaptationalBadass when it comes to Emma Frost. Her 616 counterpart is one of the most powerful psychics on the planet, bested only by PhysicalGod figures like Jean Grey and Quentin Quire, whereas Marvel Adventures Emma has a drastically reduced range and level of control (implied to be due to her inexperience with her powers) and her powers no longer work on animals. However, she trades her range for a CompellingVoice, {{Psychometry}}, and a powerful degree of TouchTelepathy.
* AdmiringTheAbomination: ComicBook/DoctorStrange has one of these moments. ("Such ''magnificent'' power. It could destroy us at ''whim''.")
* AgeLift: ComicBook/EmmaFrost is around ComicBook/SpiderMan's age in this version, whereas she's usually older.
* AIIsACrapshoot: It took ''seconds'' for Ultron to go into [[MurderousMalfunctioningMachine crush-kill-destroy mode]].
-->'''Spider-Man:''' Well, that's an all new 'everything goes wrong' speed record!
** Also, the creation of Vision. Huge lightning storm + experimental programs + Storm + combat practice robots = lethal sentient robot.
* AllYourPowersCombined: As in other universes, the Super-Adaptoid has the ability to copy powers and personalities. Quicksilver uses this to defeat it, as having it copy ComicBook/CaptainAmerica gives it enough moral fiber to reject its creator and run off to become a hero.
* ArtStyleDissonance: This comic is much more light-hearted and comedic than 616 Marvel fare, but it's drawn the exact same way as 616 Marvel, which makes the sillier moments stand out that much more.
* AttackItsWeakPoint: Wolverine nails Gorg in the gut, which takes the wind out of the enemy leader, and allows for a follow-up headbutt to take Gorg down for the count.
* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: Giant-Girl, of course. Ant-Man and Erik Josten as well, but only for one issue.
* BigEater: The Hulk and the Thing. Spider-Man tried with a load of hot dogs, but he's not quite in their league
* BitingTheHandHumor: So many. A fan favorite is Doc Samson's [[ComicBook/OneMoreDay "Needs a wife" assessment of Spider-Man]] when the Avengers go in for therapy.
** Some believe that it was these little instances that led to the imprint enduring so much ExecutiveMeddling.
%%* BrokenAesop
* BoisterousBruiser: Amazingly enough, [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHercules Hercules]] manages to be an even ''bigger'' example than his 616 counterpart.
* ButterflyOfDoom: The Agents of Atlas discovering Cap in the ice leads to Kang ruling the world in the modern day.
* CanonCharacterAllAlong: The Silencer, a villainess in the ''Spider-Man'' series, turned out to be a teenaged ComicBook/EmmaFrost.
* CanonImmigrant: Sophia "Chat" Sanduval made her 616 debut during the 2011 ''Spider-Girl'' series starring ComicBook/AnyaCorazon.
* CarFu: Ka-Zar accidentally takes out Stegron by landing the Quinjet on top of him. It's ''Jet'' Fu technically, but the same principle applies.
* TheCasanova: Both Tony and Storm. While Tony has his civilian [[GirlOfTheWeek ladies]] and Black Widow, Storm's hooked up (in the past) with T'Challa and Hawkeye, and currently with Thor, as well as getting a LesYay scene with Giant-Girl.
* ChessWithDeath: Except it's chess with Galactus. More on trope entry.
* TheChewToy: Unlike most cases where Wolverine is ''everywhere'', fandom didn't really mind him being a major member of the team, mostly because the writers ''loved'' playing him up for gags like Spidey's "Kick Me" sign, the aforementioned pummeling by Odin, the slingshot trick (Spidey again), etc.
* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: ComicBook/IronMan being subjected to the CuteButCacophonic pit of space kitties as penalty for losing a round of Kree karaoke. Apparently, they're loud enough to even outdo the suit's sound filters, as he ends up mostly deaf for several pages.
* CuteBruiser: Though her first comic scene in "Lover's Leaper" had Thundra lash at Luke Cage with her chain, another scene a while "earlier in the story" ask him and Hawkeye, "Which one of you two is Luke Cage?", looking happy to date Luke in the beginning.
* CuteMachines: When Doc Ock gets separated from his artificially intelligent tentacle harness, the device is left wandering around, sort of at loose ends. Spidey adopts it as a pet. When Doc returns for it, it suffers a brief crisis of loyalty; after all, Spidey has been so ''nice'' to it.
* DatingServiceDisaster: After Hawkeye accidentally uploads ALL the personal data of the male Avengers, not just his, to a dating site owned by Batroc the Leaper, the villain gets the others to go on dates with several ladies. It catches up to Batroc and the other Avengers when the ladies get stood up to Batroc's multi-booking the guys for many dates at the same time. Once Luke tells the ladies what really happened they aren't pleased about it at all...and HilarityEnsues after the ladies yell at Batroc "Get Him!" and a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown is hinted at by Cap and the others.
* DeadpanSnarker: Spider-Man especially, but everyone has at least one moment of getting to be this. Even Captain America.
* DeathByOriginStory: Spoofed, and then averted, when the Avengers hear Giant-Girl's origin story from her dad. They assume she took up crime fighting to avenge the death of her mother, much to Dr. Van Dyne's confusion, since his wife is alive and well (she's just out at tennis).
* DemotedToExtra: Spider-Man rarely actually contributes to the plot as an Avenger.
* DidntThinkThisThrough: Iron Man uses his stealth armor to sneak into Latveria to rescue his employees that Dr. Doom was holding hostage. Not long after sneaking into Castle Doom, Tony is caught as Doom points out that he's trying to use an experimental invisibility suit to infiltrate the lair of the nemesis of Sue Storm. In other words, the one place on earth that's guaranteed to have measures to detect such things.
* DrivesLikeCrazy: [=KaZar=] is a ''terrible'' driver, as Spidey will rant about when provoked. Did come in handy, though, when he managed to land a Quinjet on Stegron and his forces completely by accident.
* DrivingTest: Spidey's Spider-sense gives him an advantage... sort of.
* EngineeredHeroics: ''Giant-Sized Avengers'' has Kang messing around causing disasters, which he then fixes, to make the people of Earth adore him.
* EngineeredPublicConfession: Captain America vs. Loki. "Did you just humiliate a deity in front of three million potential worshipers?"
* EvilChancellor: Who is President Rogers' first and only choice to cede ''all'' global authority to? Why, none other than High Chancellor Kang, of course. Just as Kang planned.
* EvilLaugh: For a hero, Storm's surprisingly good at it. Though she was playing a witch who could control the weather, it could be her [[LargeHam needing to make it convincing]] (which was part of Wolverine's plan, "just like we said!").
** Also used by Tigra when demonstrating her nonexistent cat-controlling powers.
* FluffyTheTerrible: To an EldritchAbomination, "Bob" is creatively exotic.
* FunPersonified: The whole line, but fans especially loved Batroc's appearance. He's just enjoying fighting the Avengers guys ''so much'' that you have to grin along.
* GeniusLoci: Ego the Living Planet. [[CasanovaWannabe Who turns up in the Solar System to hit on the Earth.]]
* GiantFootOfStomping: The U-Foes found out the hard way that this is an effective tactic when Giant-Girl got dropped on them. As did the Absorbing Man, courtesy of the Hulk.
* GodwinsLawOfTimeTravel: A Watcher manages to not get in trouble for acting instead of watching when he returns a dimension-hopping Johnny Storm home. His method of getting out of it is by pointing out that with all the dimension-screwing Johnny was causing, he missed out on getting to watch several interesting timelines (including one where the ''Aztecs'' somehow won WWII) unfold.
* GoshdangItToHeck: It's a LighterAndSofter genre written for all ages, what do you expect?
* GroinAttack: Cap, of all people, does this to the Wrecker with his shield at one point.
* HatePlague: Hate-monger's hate ray.
* HauntedHeadquarters: Before finding out Vision was actually a case of AIIsACrapshoot, the Avengers thought a ghost had infiltrated their base to kill them.
* HeroesGoneFishing: The villains probably wouldn't end up getting beaten half the time if they weren't constantly interrupting perfectly normal activities, such as godly dating or a friendly game of basketball.
* HeroInsurance
* IAlwaysWantedToSayThat: Due to an unstable time portal, Spider-Man, Ant-Man, Hulk, and Tigra meet Sgt. Nick Fury's Howling Commandos in ancient Egypt.
-->'''Spider-Man''': We're the ''Avengers.'' From the ''future!'' Man, that was ''cool.'' I ''always'' wanted to say that.
* IKnowMaddenKombat: Inverted; Spider-Man's reflexes and all of his fights with the Green Goblin turn out to make him a natural at baseball.
* ImprobableWeaponUser: Deadpool fights Nova by throwing pretzels at him.
* IntimidatingRevenueService: The Avengers fear the taxman more than supervillains.
* INeedToGoIronMyDog: The very first issue of ''Marvel Adventures The Avengers'', the warden of a new supermax prison suggests the team stay behind and have some of the prison food. The team politely decline with Giant Girl saying they need to oil Iron Man, leaving the Armored Avenger flummoxed.
* ItOnlyWorksOnce: The Avengers attempt to threaten Galactus with the Ultimate Nullifier, but the cosmic being scoffs saying that Fantastic Four caught him off guard when they threatened him with the doomsday device and he wasn't sure if they would go through with using it. He now knows that humans aren't that crazy and are simply bluffing. [[InstantlyProvenWrong And then Spider-Man activates it.]]
* JiveTurkey: The aforementioned Goom, who learned all his English from watching MTV and Jerry Springer.
-->'''Spider-Man:''' This is so messed up.
* LargeHam: Doctor Strange does it intentionally, as inflated confidence and a cheery outlook actually help his powers. Later, he convinces Spidey to give it a go as well as part of a ruse to trick a blind reality-devouring monster, and Spidey's a natural.
** Also used in the "fight" between Tigra and Rhino, complete with over-the-top self-narration and CallingYourAttacks.
* LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain: Understandably, after managing to get Ego the Living Planet away from the Earth's orbit, the Avengers choose not to tell anyone else that he was flirting with the Earth and that he left because he essentially considered humanity cooties.
* LighterAndSofter: Than the 616 continuity.
* LivingLegend: The Fantastic Four have already heard of the legendary Black Panther before he attacks them.
* LogicBomb: Reed Richards vs. alien supercomputer. "Can you make a rock so big you can't lift it?" Reed 1, computer 0.
* MagicPants: Gleefully lampshaded in Avengers. "I'd rather not, I just got a new suit. ...Yes, it's purple."
* {{MST}}: The historical film of Captain America. "So if it's cool, you said it, and if it's cheesy, the filmmakers added it in."
* MoneyForNothing: In one issue, the Silver Surfer, at the urging of a TV show host, starts using his Power Cosmic to do things like give people gold to help with their financial issues and generating crops in desert countries. Unfortunately, the sheer amount of gold in the economy turns it upside down (a gallon of milk costs ''ten thousand dollars''), city services have been shut down because everyone who was working in them became millionaires and quit, and the influx of crops also creates a population boom of locusts.
* MustHaveCaffeine: When Doctor Strange is gliding around from one dimension to another doing his morning rounds, he has a paper cup of coffee in his hand. It's fun to imagine the Sorcerer Supreme stopping by Starbucks before checking in on Nisilette the Unimaginable.
* MythologyGag: Even in an entirely different universe, Gorilla Man still hates Wolverine. And he still has a habit of smacking people he dislikes upside the head.
* NarrativeProfanityFilter: While watching a newsreel of Captain America's service in World War II, Cap mentions that a particularly cheesy line was added in by the filmmakers after the fact. When asked what he ''really'' said, Cap embarrassedly notes, "I can't say with ladies present."
* NeverSayDie: In Super Heroes volume 2 #4, Deadpool is never referred to by his code name. Someone would always refer to him as "Wade Wilson. Better known as-" before being interrupted mid-sentence.
* NotMeThisTime: One issue had Giant Girl mysteriously controlled and fighting the Avengers. The team automatically assumes the Puppet-Master. Ironically, while he had ''nothing'' to do with Giant Girl's predicament, they ''did'' stop him from taking over the Fantastic Four.
* OhCrap: Many, but two are especially priceless: the panel where Spidey realizes Captain Stacy just suckered him into revealing his identity to him in Marvel Adventures: Spider-Man, and the reaction of an intergalactic conqueror when he discovers that he and his army are all roughly 1/100th the size of Earthlings in Marvel Adventures: Avengers.
* PassThePopcorn: After his first encounter with the Avengers, Loki creates the Wrecker just to see what ''he'll'' do with similar powers. He's entertained by the results.
%%* PhlebotinumBomb
* ThePowerOfHate: Hate-monger ([[spoiler: aka Karl]]) believes that this is what allows evil organizations to function and coordinate effectively. That, and fear of torture.
* PrecursorHeroes: The Agents of Atlas, who operated in secret in the 1950s.
* RippleEffectIndicator: After Tigra and her fellow Avengers return, in a cabinet in the Tower of London is a statue of Bast, Egyptian cat goddess...in ''Tigra's'' likeness donated by a pre-SHIELD Sgt. Nick Fury and his Howling Commandoes.
* RunningGag: Spider-Man being confused for Daredevil.
* SassyBlackWoman: Momma Cage, and how! Few non-powered folks could give Luke Cage [[EarAche an ear twist]] to get his attention and not get pummelled.
* SelfServingMemory: Spider-Man accuses Captain America of having this when, while watching a newsreel presentation, Cap claims that the really cheesy one-liners were dubbed in later (what he ''really'' said, he can't repeat with ladies present), but the badass one-liners are totally accurate.
* ShootingSuperman: Baron Zemo attempts to defy Captain America by punching him. However, he only has ordinary person strength and hurts his knuckles.
* ShoutOut: Mixed in liberally with the BitingTheHandHumor.
-->'''Iron Man:''' Like we'd ever [[ComicBook/PlanetHulk shoot the Hulk into space.]]
** The series also has it fair share of non-biting the hand shout outs, including a future version of Black Widow mentioning that Nova [[ComicBook/{{Annihilation}} "is going to grow up."]]
** Non-Marvel references make it in as well.
-->''(the man in the Zemo costume is unmasked)''
-->'''Spider-Man''': [[Franchise/ScoobyDoo It's the amusement park owner! And he would have gotten away with it too, if not for us meddling kids!]]
** Luke Cage has his own [[Film/{{Shaft}} familiar-sounding]] theme song.
%%* {{Soaperizing}}
%%* SpannerInTheWorks
* SparedByTheAdaptation: Janet van Dyne's dad, who was killed by the Creature from Kosmos in her debut, is alive and well in this continuity.
* SpeaksFluentAnimal: Sophia "Chat" Sanduval.
* SpoofAesop
-->'''Spider-Man:''' The lesson is: trust no one.
-->'''Storm:''' That's ''not'' the lesson.
* StalkerWithACrush: Surprisingly enough, ''yes''. Erik "[[ComicBook/{{Thunderbolts}} Atlas]]" Josten's sole appearance in the ''Avengers'' title involved him making it look like Hank Pym had intentionally vanished so that he could get closer to Giant-Girl while Pym was missing.
** [[spoiler: Emma Frost]] turns out to be one of these for ''Peter Parker'', whose life has been turned upside down by his long-term girlfriend Chat suddenly believing that they've never dated and Gwen Stacy (here Peter's UnluckyChildhoodFriend) swearing up and down that they've been together for weeks. [[spoiler: Emma has been haphazardly wiping Chat's romantic feelings for Peter and building wild dating scenarios in Gwen's mind to support her gaslighting, all because she fell ''hard'' for Peter [[LoveAtFirstSight at first touch]], considering his mind and resolve to be "the most beautiful thing she had ever seen". It all comes crashing down when Chat's animal friends keep telling her that she actually ''is'' Peter's girlfriend and she quickly deduces that it's Emma's doing.]]
%%* StrangeMindsThinkAlike
* UngratefulBastard: The Baston-Karians, boy howdy: "Why are you still here? You are finished saving our world, are you not?"
* UncannyValleyMakeup: In-universe, Susan trying our a "dramatic look" with heavy makeup makes everyone who sees her shout that she's an alien.
* UnsoundEffect: Everywhere, but especially when it comes to Hulk and Batroc. "GAMMABOOOOM!" and "[=LeThumpt=]!" indeed.
* WhatAreYouInFor
* WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway: In the origin story for Janet Van Dyne's transformation into Giant Girl, she was given a special harness outfitted with Pym Particles and the ability to talk to ants. Janet is ''very'' unimpressed until HYDRA comes knocking and she accidentally goes giant, quickly turning this trope into HeartIsAnAwesomePower.
* WouldntHurtAChild: At one point, the Avengers have a showdown with Loki's Masters of Evil, who have gathered at a middle school, which Loki levitates into the air. Cap is paralyzed with horror at the thought of all the kids in the school endangered or killed, only for the Wrecker to [[LampshadeHanging lampshade]] this trope: "There weren't no kids in there! [[EvenEvilHasStandards Whaddya think we]] [[WouldHurtAChild are,]] monsters?"
* YouAndWhatArmy: Poor Jamie Madrox. He so badly wants to use this gag on somebody.
* YouMeddlingKids: Spider-Man uses this in an Avengers adventure after unmasking Baron Zemo.
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