History Awesome / TheAvengers

* A collaboration between Marvel and Hajime Isayama has birthed the CrossOver mini-comic ''Attack on Avengers'': the Earth's Mightiest Heroes (along with Franchise/SpiderMan and the Comicbook/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy) go toe-to-toe with [[Manga/AttackOnTitan massive humanoid man-eating monsters]]!

[[caption-width-right:350:And Ultron will also have words with thee!]]

[[spoiler:-->''Hawkeye:'' Cap, ol' boy, when are you gonna learn that in this world-- you just gotta make your own luck! (shows Cap arrowhead
-->''Captain America:'' You...cheated?!?
-->''Hawkeye:'' A trick from my old carny days! The whole universe was at stake! Did you expect me to be a cornball like you...and play fair?]]
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* For the villain side, basically everything Kang the Conqueror does in the Kang Dynasty storyline that lasted for a year and a half. The first thing he does is give a speech, broadcast worldwide, that lasts for basically a whole issue...but even if he had vanished from the story immediately afterward, this would STILL be a crowning moment, as that one speech leads to military coups, invasions by two separate subspecies of humanity, worldwide supervillain uprisings, basically more chaos than most villains accomplish in their entire career. But, naturally, he doesn't vanish and becomes more and more badass as the story continues, until he conquers the ''entire planet Earth'' through military cunning and a knack for predicting his enemies, something no other Marvel villain had ever done. This story essentially turned him into Marvel's version of [[StarWars Grand Admiral Thrawn]].

* For the villain side, basically everything Kang the Conqueror does in the Kang Dynasty storyline that lasted for a year and a half. The first thing he does is give a speech, broadcast worldwide, that lasts for basically a whole issue...but even if he had vanished from the story immediately afterward, this would STILL be a crowning moment, as that one speech leads to military coups, invasions by two separate subspecies of humanity, worldwide supervillain uprisings, basically more chaos than most villains accomplish in their entire career. But, naturally, he doesn't vanish and becomes more and more badass as the story continues, until he [[spoiler:conquers the ''entire planet Earth'' through military cunning and a knack for predicting his enemies, something no other Marvel villain had ever done]]. This story essentially turned him into Marvel's version of [[StarWars Grand Admiral Thrawn]].

* One of Tony Stark's Iron Man armors underwent a viral-invasion-induced metamorphosis, turning him into a naked woman with a silvery gleam on her body [[spoiler:who turned out to be [[AttractiveBentGender Ultron]]]]. After announcing her intent to destroy the Earth, the Avengers fight her off, so she pulls off several plans to keep it going. With time running out, the Avengers pull a desperate plan. Hank Pym shrinks down the Avenger Ares, and launches him into the mouth of the [[spoiler:female Ultron]], so he can defeat her from the inside with his secret weapon: A Commodore 64.

** During a battle with ComicBook/IronMan's armors controlled by [[spoiler: female Ultron]] he ran out of ammo, so he just ripped in half one of the armors and used its rocket legs to burn other ones.

* During the ''ComicBook/UltronForever'' mini-series, the Walt Simonson-era Thor and Lady Thor are attacked by another Thor in a BadFuture, one working for Ultron. The first issue ends with Ultron!Thor impaling Simonson!Thor with his sword... [[spoiler:only for the next issue to begin with Simonson!Thor revealing that he's from the time where Hela cursed him, and therefore [[NoSell being impaled can't kill him]]. Thor then shocks Ultron's means of control out of his counterpart by creating a storm inside him.]]
** Later on, how does Ultron, [[spoiler:who has become godlike, and capable of deflecting Mjolinr]], get defeated? [[spoiler:Thor gives his hammer to Lady Thor, and she uses them to smash a hole in time, utterly atomizing Ultron.]]

-->'''Natasha:''' This kid is something special.

* In Avengers #400, Jarvis has been tricked by Loki to use his knowledge of Avengers' history to conjure duplicates of EVERY VILLAIN THE AVENGERS HAVE FACED BEFORE. When Loki doesn't have more use to Jarvis, tries to kill him, but Jarvis activates his Avengers commcard. He has only one card, but it's an ace. The seven Avengers still conscious ignore enemies that were about to kill them moments before, because one of them (Jarvis) is in danger.
* During the Onslaught Saga, the Avengers face Holocaust and Post. When Cap says "We cannot defeat them" Wasp thinks all hope is lost. It turns that Cap meant they needed to use their own strength against them. Cap activates Post's camouflage to trick Holocaust into shooting the invisible Post (trying to hit Cap). When Holocaust notices he was tricked, he gets so confused that becomes defeatable by Earth's Mightiest Heroes.

* A collaboration between Marvel and Hajime Isayama has birthed the CrossOver mini-comic ''Attack on Avengers'': the Earth's Mightiest Heroes (along with Franchie/SpiderMan and the Comicbook/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy) go toe-to-toe with [[Manga/AttackOnTitan massive humanoid man-eating monsters]]!

** At the end of the first arc, Iron Man figures out the solution to stopping the Horde: the team needs to combine their powers and pour them all into a single member. And who gets the honor of taking down the Horde? Robbie Reyes, the newbie. Who proceeds to snap out of his HeroicBSOD to straight up incinerate.

* Monica Rambeau is pretty much made of these, at least under certain writers. Her biggest highlight is probably attacking Zeus, as lightning, and actually hurting him. She was also chosen as leader of the Avengers not long after she joined them. AlEwing on Mighty Avengers has been giving her a lot of awesome moments, including single-handedly killing a Mindless One - a magical being that's pretty much unstoppable.

* ''Avengers 2018'’:
** The new Avengers team first challenge? A team of Celestials so powerful that they defeated Odin’s own team of Avengers a millennia ago.
** Who gets the honor of taking them down the Celestial? Robbie Reyes the relative newbie to the superhero game.
** Another one for Robbie, at the end of the "Challenge of the Ghost Riders" arc, Robbie delivers this speech to his uncle in hell, who's possessing the corpse of a Dark Celestial, before defeating him:

** In a later issue, Robbie takes down the Silver Surfer and appropriates his board.

Awesome moments in ''Comic/TheAvengers'' comics. See [[Awesome/TheAvengers2012 here]] for the 2012 Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse movie.

See [[Awesome/TheAvengers2012 here]] for the 2012 Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse movie.

* In issue 6, the Avengers are dealing with a large, alien rock that is about to detonate and can only be neutralized if it's hit very hard in the one spot that isn't pulsing. Thor's hammer would be perfect for the job... except that he was knocked unconscious as Donald Blake. So the Wasp deliberately agitates the Hulk into attacking her. He punches the rock's vulnerable spot when trying to hit her, which destroys the rock and saves the world.

* The ''Under Siege'' storyline from ''Avengers'' 273-277. Baron Zemo led a huge group of supervillains in an all-out assault on the Avengers' headquarters. The villains beat Hercules to the brink of death and tortured Captain America by tearing up mementos from his past and brutalizing Jarvis in front of him, but the heroes--led by the Wasp--rallied to win the day.

* Ultron, and an army of Ultron drones, has committed genocide of an entire country, held off a massive UN invasion force, and the Avengers wade into the battle anyway and are overwhelmed. In his headquarters Ultron is gloating to his prisoners when a wall explodes, revealing Thor, Iron Man, Black Panther, Firestar and Captain America wounded, bleeding, their costumes in shreds, standing there. Thor sums up the situation:

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** The new Avengers team first challenge? A team of Celestials so powerful that they defeated Odin’s own team of Avengers a millinea ago.

* In ''Comic/FantasticFour'' #243, Galactus has imprisoned the FF in force field bubbles and is about to feast upon Earth, reaching for the switch to activate his planet-demolishing machine...and then a blast of lightning rocks him away as Thor and the other Avengers arrive to help the FF.

See [[Awesome/TheAvengers2012 here]] for Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse's [[Film/TheAvengers2012 movie]].

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* Steed has one [=MoA=] in the episode "The Girl From AUNTIE", when he strolls into the villain's office and "goes undercover" with: "Good afternoon! My name is..." (Ostentatiously produces a large collection of business cards, flips through them, selects one, hands it over...) "...Wayne Pennyfeather Fitch!"
* Another one for Steed in "A Touch of Brimstone" - infiltrating the revived Hellfire Club, he's given an alarmingly ''huge'' goblet of strong drink as part of an initiation... he leisurely downs it without a break, then politely asks for a little more.
* In "A Sense of History," Steed is accosted by a group of rogue students and their extremely nasty leader. They attempt to bully Steed, but he grabs the leaders arm, obviously causing the leader extreme pain, all the while carrying on a casual conversation.
-->'''Professor:''' (''after breaking up the crowd of students'') If he bothers you again, just contact the Headmaster.\\
'''Steed:''' I'll do better than that. (''pause'') I'll break his arm.
* Tara fighting off her would-be-killers, Earle and Gardiner, in "The Curious Case of the Countless Clues", despite her broken ankle. Indeed, by the time Steed arrives to her "rescue", Tara has not only beaten to two, but is also calmly waiting for him with her feet up and drinking some tea.
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* The ''Under Siege'' storyline from ''Avengers'' 233-237. Baron Zemo led a huge group of supervillains in an all-out assault on the Avengers' headquarters. The villains beat Hercules to the brink of death and tortured Captain America by tearing up mementos from his past and brutalizing Jarvis in front of him, but the heroes--led by the Wasp--rallied to win the day.
** The Wasp and Ant-Man fought off the Absorbing Man and Titania. In particular, the Wasp used her shrinking spray on super-strong Titania to even the odds.