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70's Avengers

    Swordsman 

Swordsman

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Alter Ego: Jacques Duquesne

Team Affiliations: The Avengers

First Appearance: The Avengers Vol. 1 #19 (August, 1965)

Beginning his career as a circus performer where he helped train a young Hawkeye, Jacques Duquesne later became the costumed mercenary Swordsman. He joined the Avengers, at first for nefarious reasons, but soon resolved to become a true Avenger when he fell in love with Mantis.

  • Back from the Dead: In the 2010 Dead Avengers miniseries, The Swordsman was one of a number of dead Avengers resurrected by the Chaos King, and apparently survived the end of Chaos War, unlike several of the others in that group.
  • Butt-Monkey: In Englehart's run. It even gets to the extent that the Lemony Narrator insults him over the scene of his damn funeral.
  • Carnival of Killers: He got his start performing at the Carson Carnival of Traveling Wonders.
  • Cool Sword: His sword shoots out lightning, fire and laser beams.
  • Disappeared Dad: He didn't even know he had a daughter, Adelynn Duquesne, who became Swordswoman.
  • Evil Mentor: Initially to Hawkeye. Seeing great potential in him, he and Trickshot trained the boy in blades and archery respectively, with Clint often being a secondary performer in the Swordsman's act.
  • French Jerk: French and could be quite the jerk.
  • Heel–Face Door-Slam: When he joins the Avengers, he develops a crush on Scarlet Witch. Ordered by The Mandarin to plant a bomb in the Avengers HQ, he fears she will be injured. Eventually he has second thoughts and tries to dismantle the bomb...but he's caught in the act, and the Avengers think that he's setting the bomb instead of already having set it and now trying to get rid of it. With them already having been suspicious of him and with the real explanation not likely to do him any favors ("No, you don't understand! Sure, I planned to blow you all up before and I planted this bomb to do that earlier, but that was then! Now I'm trying to disarm the bomb, I swear!"), the Swordsman goes on the run after a fight and, perhaps for lack of any better options, goes back to being a villain for a number of years, often teaming up with the original Power Man.
  • Heroic Sacrifice: Saving Mantis by getting in the way of Kang's force-blast.
  • Love Redeems: His attraction to the Scarlet Witch would have led him to betray The Mandarin and join the Avengers for real, if not for a misunderstanding. His love for Mantis not only motivated him to get his life together after he'd been reduced to a shell of his old self, but to join the Avengers again, this time for real.
  • Legacy Character: Three people have taken the Swordsman codename; Philip Javert, Andreas Strucker and his Cotati template.
  • Master Swordsman: He is a master of bladed weapons, most notably all forms of the sword.
  • The Mole: The Mandarin sent a faked message from Iron Man asking the Avengers to allow the Swordsman to join them. Although they suspected a trap, he was allowed to become a member.
  • Redemption Equals Death: A variant. The Swordsman had reformed and joined the team proper some time before this, but he was often somewhat ineffectual; it didn't help that he both got stuck in a wheelchair, and got sick. This comes to a head when Kang captures the rest of the team, only leaving Swordsman because he considered him 'useless'. (Hawkeye was spared as well, but only because he wasn't a member of the team at the time.) The two of them, after saving Vision, then invade Kang's base, with the Swordsman largely responsible for saving the rest of the group. And finally, in a final Heroic Sacrifice, he saves his love Mantis from Kang; by the time of his death, he had proved to both the team, to Mantis, and to himself, that he was truly a worthy Avenger after-all.
  • Sleeves Are for Wimps: His outfit lacked sleeves.
  • Worf Had the Flu: He gets wounded in a fight early in his tenure with the team, and he tries to tough it out and keep fighting with the team rather than getting it properly treated and taking the time to heal up. While he's doing this to prove himself to both the team and Mantis, he isn't very effective in his weakened condition, which results in Mantis losing respect for him.

80's Avengers

    Firebird 

Firebird

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Alter Ego: Bonita Juárez

Notable Aliases: La Espirita

Team Affiliations: West Coast Avengers, Secret Avengers

First Appearance: The Incredible Hulk Vol 2 #265 (November, 1981)

Bonita Juarez was raised as a devout catholic in Buena Vista in New Mexico. Bonita Juarez gained superpowers when she was hit by a ball of cold fire that came out of the sky. The fireball contained extraterrestrial radiation that gave Bonita energy-wielding powers. Initially fearful that this was the devil's work, Juarez eventually believed that the fireball was from the Firebird, a creature of Native American lore. Taking the creature's name, she became a costumed hero, eventually joining the West Coast Avengers.

  • Amicable Exes: With Hank Pym, her former West Coast Avenger's teammate.
  • Braids, Beads and Buckskins:
    • Averted with her initial costume, a yellow unitard with red boots and gloves, and Firebird-themed shoulder pads and tiara. Played straight with her later second uniform (see above).
    • Taken to near-ridiculous extremes during her short tenure on Omega Flight, with her costume being made up almost entirely of buckskin-tassels and a giant fur-cape.
  • Heritage Disconnect: In her early appearances, from her Native American roots. Later stories would have her rediscover her Native American heritage.
  • Magical Native American: Downplayed somewhat, as her Catholic upbringing is more often brought up in reference to her heritage.
  • Out of Focus: For much of The '90s, despite being a recurring member of the team. Kurt Busiek rectified this in his run.
  • What the Hell, Hero?: When Thor was in the serious grip of wangst during Kang Dynasty, Firebird called him out on it, at length.
  • Who Wants to Live Forever?: Firebird has at least experienced hints that her powers may include some form of immortality, as she has survived exposure to radiation and been able to fly in space on her own, but she is clearly uncomfortable with the notion that she may never actually die.

90's Members

    Rage 

Rage

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Alter Ego: Elvin Daryl Haliday

Team Affiliations: The Avengers

First Appearance: The Avengers #326 (November, 1990)

At age 13, Elvin Haliday was exposed to toxic waste after hiding from bullies that attacked him for being in their neighborhood. Returning to his grandmother's home, Elvin was nursed back to health. The chemicals caused Elvin's teenage body to grow into adulthood in a matter of weeks, but also endowed him with superhuman strength, speed, and stamina. Encouraged by his grandmother to use his newfound abilities for good, Elvin adopted a costume and name: Rage.

  • "Angry Black Man" Stereotype: In their first encounter, Rage scolded Captain America for the team's lack of any black members.
  • Big Guy, Little Guy: He was the big guy to Speedball's little guy.
  • Blood Knight: Picked a fight with Professor Hulk. He got humiliated.
  • Cool Mask: Wears a white one based on a luchador mask.
  • Dark Age of Supernames: His name just screams a Youngblood (Image Comics) name in the making.
  • In a Single Bound: Able to use his enhanced strength to leap great distances.
  • Lightning Bruiser: Extremely strong, quick, durable and full of stamina. In his first appearance, Rage was shown outrunning a speeding subway train.
  • Manchild: Literally, at first. He was a 14 year old boy in the body of an adult man.
  • Nigh-Invulnerability: Has superhuman durability and resistance to physical injury.
  • Parental Abandonment: He was an orphaned child and raised by his grandmother until she was murdered by Poison Memories gangsters. This led to Rage going after the gangsters and brutally snapping the neck of the gang leader as a result.
  • Raised by Grandparents: Elvin was raised by his grandmother until she was killed by Poison Memories gang.
  • Super-Strength: He can lift on average 75 tons, but when angered he can lift past 100 tons.
  • Tough Spikes and Studs: After the death of his grandmother, Rage goes on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge to find the person responsible while donning a new outfit with spiked pauldrons and knee pads. Rage ultimately finds the murderer of his grandmother and kills him.
  • Toxic Waste Can Do Anything: At age 13, Elvin Haliday was exposed to toxic waste after coming home from basketball practice. Returning to his grandmother's home, he was nursed back to health. The chemicals caused Elvin's teenage body to grow into adulthood in a matter of weeks, but also endowed him with superhuman strength, speed, and stamina. Encouraged by his grandmother to use his newfound abilities for good, Elvin adopted a costume and name: Rage.
  • Younger Than They Look: Youngest person to ever join the Avengers at 14. When the other members found out he was a minor, he was given probationary status, then demoted to becoming a member of the New Warriors when he helped them steal a Quinjet to help them on a mission.

    Living Lightning 

Living Lightning

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Alter Ego: Miguel Santos

Notable Aliases: Lightning, Relampago Vivo

Team Affiliations: West Coast Avengers, Secret Avengers

First Appearance: Avengers West Coast #63 (October, 1990)

Miguel Santos became Living Lightning, a being of electric energy after investigating one of his terrorist father's illegal experiments to seize control of the country. After a brief career as a misguided villain, Living Lightning became a member of the Avengers until eventually retiring from the team to enroll in college. Living Lightning remains active as a hero, balancing college work with heroism and is currently a member of the Rangers.

  • Batman Gambit: He famously defeated the Grandmaster by relying on this in Avengers: No Surrender, provoking him into a game of poker and then raising the stakes to a level that he gambled the Grandmaster wouldn't want to risk, when if the Grandmaster took his bait Miguel would have had all of his achievements erased and be reduced to a D-list loser in the public eye.
  • Camp Gay: Miguel generally doesn't display any stereotypical gay tendencies, except for a brief moment in No Surrender, when he calmly tells the Grandmaster:
    Lightning: "Oh, honey. I don't play."
  • Coming-Out Story: During his tenure in the West Coast Avengers, Miguel dated women. Later, though, Miguel was approached by members of the Great Lakes Avengers, who hoped to recruit them for their team. When he heard the team's acronym (GLA), Miguel mistook them for the Gay/Lesbian Alliance and inadvertently revealed that he was gay to GLA member Flatman. Followed by...
  • Flight: Lightning has the ability to transform his body into electrical plasma, in which form he can fly at sub-light speed.
  • One-Steve Limit: By the time of Avengers: No Surrender, he's changed his name simply to "Lightning", as he kept getting mistaken for the Living Laser.
  • Shock and Awe: Lightning has the ability to transform his body into electrical plasma, in which form he can fly at sub-light speed, generate electrical power as shocks or bolts, and surround himself with a protective electrical force field.
  • Super-Speed: Lightning has the ability to transform his body into electrical plasma, in which form he can fly at sub-light speed.

2000's Members

    Triathlon 

Triathlon

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Alter Ego: Delroy Garrett, Jr.

Notable Aliases: 3-D Man

Team Affiliations: The Avengers, Secret Avengers, Doctor Doom's Avengers, Agents of Atlas

First Appearance: Avengers Vol. 3 #8 (September, 1998)

Delroy Garrett Jr. was an Olympic sprinter destined for the gold. So driven was he to win, he started taking steroid supplements. Soon after he was discovered and banned from competing, and was stripped of all his medals. Distraught and directionless, he wandered aimlessly through life until happening upon a religious group called the Triune Understanding. They gave Delroy the direction he so desperately sought, while also mysteriously helping unlock the amazing power within him. He became Triathlon, and soon after joined the Avengers.

  • Affirmative-Action Legacy: Of the first 3-D Man, who was white.
  • Dude, Where's My Respect?: None of the new/younger heroes he meets (including fellow former Avengers like Rage) show him any of the "respect for seniority" that he feels he deserves post-Avengers. This gets even worse for him years later after joining Orchis, angry that he was supposedly booted from the Initiative despite leading the cavalry against the Skrulls just because he killed Crusader. This is ultimately nonsense. He was always on the side of the Avengers.
  • Face–Heel Turn: In Fall of the House of X (Crossover), we find out he joined Orchis. He was actually a double-agent for T'Challa.
  • Goggles Do Something Unusual: They initially assisted him in detecting Skrull impostors. Now, he doesn't need them anymore, learning to rely solely on his own abilities.
  • Jack of All Stats: He has abilities three times what a human in peak condition would have, however, none of it matches the top-tier guys in each of those areas (Say, Hulk, Quicksilver, Wolverine, Daredevil, etc.) but putting it all together makes him pretty potent.
  • Legacy Character: He's the second 3-D Man. He eventually starts going by that actual name when he joins the Agents of Atlas.
  • Once Done, Never Forgotten: A C-List former Avenger at best, what recognition he could've gained by exposing the Skrull infiltrators during Secret Invasion instead became notoriety after he shot Crusader in the head just as the fighting ended. He left the Initiative with most of the recruits hating his guts and showing no remorse for his actions. Despite later joining the Agents of Atlas, Crusader's murder was still held over his head to the point he joined Orchis for payback on the Avengers for supposedly being ungrateful. This is a lie. He is a double agent.
  • The Resenter: Of the Never My Fault variety. By the time of Fall of the House of X, we find out that he believes that the Avengers were ungrateful for his actions with the Skrull invasion, even suggesting they threw him out of the Initiative instead of him actually leaving on his own.
  • Self-Serving Memory: After joining Orchis, he claims he was kicked out of the Initiative for killing Crusader when in reality he left because the other recruits were all pissed at him for killing their friend.
  • Small Name, Big Ego: Whilst a member of The Initiative.
  • The Strength of Ten Men: He has three times the physical abilities of a man in peak physical condition.
  • Super-Senses: His senses are enhanced by three.
  • The Unapologetic: Feels absolutely no remorse for killing Crusader simply because he was a Skrull.

    Silverclaw 

Silverclaw

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Alter Ego: Maria De Guadalupe "Lupe" Santiago

Notable Aliases: La Garra Argentado, Daughter of the Volcano God

Team Affiliations: The Avengers

First Appearance: Avengers Vol. 3 #8 (September, 1998)

With the ability to transform herself into the form of animals native to her homeland, Silverclaw was a close friend of the Avengers' butler Jarvis and later became an Avenger herself.

    Jack of Hearts 

Jack of Hearts

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Alter Ego: Jonathan "Jack" Hart

Team Affiliations: The Avengers

First Appearance: Deadly Hands of Kung Fu #22 (March, 1976)

The son of the scientist Philip Hart who created an energy source called "zero fluid" and Marie, an alien humanoid woman of the Contraxian race.

    Jocasta 

Jocasta

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Alter Ego: Jocasta Vi Quitéria

Notable Aliases: Bride of Ultron

Team Affiliations: The Avengers, Mighty Avengers, Avengers A.I.

First Appearance: The Avengers Vol. 1 #162 (August, 1977)

Once the Bride of Ultron, Jocasta has become an honorary member of the Avengers after years of loyalty and sacrifice. She had until most recently held a position at The Avengers Academy.

  • Brain Uploading: Ultron originally intended her to have Janet's brain. It didn't quite take, but Jocasta has enough of Janet's memory engrams in her to say she's sure what Janet might think.
  • Chrome Champion: Her bodies are usually silver colored.
  • Energy Weapon: One of her many abilities is shooting lasers.
  • Good Counterpart: She's pretty much the good version of Ultron. She has her own Evil Counterpart in Alkhema.
  • Meaningful Name: Named after the mythical Jocasta, wife and mother of Oedipus. The robotic version has Ultron in a similar role - she was his 'daughter' but created as his wife (and Janet Van Dyne, the template for her mind, was perceived as his mother, of sorts). Her relationship with Hank Pym has a hint of this as well.
  • Non-Humans Lack Attributes: While she doesn't wear clothes, she doesn't have the human attributes that would make her indecent.
  • Ridiculously Human Robots: Not only does she have a ridiculously human personality, but Jocasta can actually alter her physical appearance to look completely indistinguishable from an actual human.
  • Robo Romance: She's had a long-standing on-again off-again romance with fellow robot Aaron Stack the Machine Man.
  • Robot Girl
  • Robot Hair: She's a robotic copy of Janet Van Dyne, and thus has a head shaped like her hairstyle.
  • Tangled Family Tree: She's technically both Ultron's daughter and intended bride. This, in her mind, makes her the Vision's sister and step-mom. And of course, this ties her to the monstrous Pym-Maximoff family tree.
  • We Can Rebuild Him: She was destroyed, but rebuilt during the 80s by agents of the High Evolutionary wishing to use her knowledge of the Avengers against them. Given much of Jocasta's original body was destroyed, they had to remake a lot of her body from back-up plans. Happened again afterwards, with Sunset Bain appropriating her remains for a while.
  • Yank the Dog's Chain: Rebuilt during "The Evolutionary War", and then she has to sacrifice herself to stop the High Evolutionary's schemes.

2010's Members

    Smasher 

Smasher

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Alter Ego: Isabel "Izzy" Kane

Notable Aliases: Messenger

Team Affiliations: The Avengers

First Appearance: Avengers (Vol. 5) #1 (February, 2013)

The newest member of the Avengers and the first human member of the Shi'ar Imperial Guard.

  • Action Mom: Has a son with Cannonball.
  • Alternate Company Equivalent: Inverted as she is the Distaff Counterpart legacy of a character based around the Legion of Super-Heroes character, Ultra Boy.
  • Brainwashed and Crazy: During the events of the opening story arc of the series Avengers World, She gets better.
  • Legacy Character:
    • She is the fifth character shown to hold the title of Smasher in the Marvel Universe.
    • She's also the granddaughter of a Golden Age hero. Originally Dan Dare but it was in later printings of her origin issue and other stories that was a Retcon to a Marvel Golden Age hero, Dan Kane, known as Captain Terror.
  • The Nth Doctor: Despite being the 5th named character, Izzy's origin shows that at any given time there are 1000s different 'subguardians' active at anytime working toward eventually taking over a 'Superguardian' title (such as Smasher) and join the main branch of the Imperial Guard.
  • Token Human: She's currently the only human on the Shi'ar's Imperial Guard.

    Hyperion 

Hyperion

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Alter Ego: Marcus "Marc" Milton

Notable Aliases: Sun-God, Caretaker, Father, Hype, The Sun

Team Affiliations: The Avengers

First Appearance: Avengers Vol 5. #1 (2012)

An incarnation of Hyperion from Earth-13034, he was brought into Earth-616 when he was saved from his dying universe by A.I.M., who intended to use him for their atypical generic evil plots. It is revealed in his origin issue that this Hyperion's Earth was destroyed by a universal incursion, a problem that the Illuminati where dealing with in New Avengers. Hyperion was liberated by the Avengers and afterwards was offered to become a member of the team. Hyperion accepted the Avengers' offer to join their ranks and subsequently joined the team to battle the Garden.

  • Alternate Company Equivalent: For Superman.
  • Alternate Self: He's a different version of Hyperion from the one the team has previously encountered. He had his own version of the Squadron Supreme, but they all died when his universe was destroyed.
  • Badass in Distress: After his universe was destroyed, he was captured by AIM, until Cap, Thor and Iron Man rescued him.
  • Bash Brothers: Forms this sort of relationship with Thor.
  • Character Death: Apparently, in Time Runs Out. He appears to have gotten better after Secret Wars (2015).
  • Eye Scream: On the receiving end from a Beyonder.
  • Innocently Insensitive: He's not too good with regular people, as demonstrated when he attempted to calm a police officer, and just sounded weird.
  • Knight Templar: Has shades of it.
  • Nigh-Invulnerability: He's a Superman Expy. It's a given. One supervillain tries to shoot him with a ray-gun capable of melting almost anything. Hyperion isn't even singed. Then he tries a sonic cannon. Doesn't do a thing. Then a last-ditch missile. His cape gets torn, but that's it.
  • Papa Wolf: He's very protective of the zebra-children that live in the Savage Land. And children in general. When the Melter kidnaps a little boy, he's incredibly pissed.
  • Sole Survivor: Of not only his original home world but of his entire home universe.
  • Void Between the Worlds: Where AIM found him after the destruction of his home universe.
  • Warrior Therapist: During a Hyperion focused issue he literally talks a child kidnapper armed with a Death Ray down instead of throwing a single punch.

    Abyss 

Abyss

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Alter Ego: Abyss

Team Affiliations: The Avengers, New Avengers

First Appearance: Avengers (Vol. 5) #1 (2012)

A member of The Garden and an avatar of creation, Abyss is an enemy of the Avengers. She plans to recreate Earth in a new vision and possesses the power of mind manipulation. She was ordered by Captain Universe to join the Avengers.

    Ex Nihilo 

Ex Nihilo

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Alter Ego: Ex Nihilo

Team Affiliations: The Avengers, New Avengers

First Appearance: Avengers (Vol. 5) #1 (February, 2013)

A member of The Garden, Ex Nihilo is an avatar of creation and a former enemy of the Avengers. He plans to terraform worlds, including Earth, and create his own species to populate them. He and Abyss were ordered to join the Avengers by Captain Universe.

  • Affably Evil
  • Brother–Sister Team: With Abyss.
  • Evilutionary Biologist: Of the cosmic type, he and his sister Abyss have been traveling from world to world evolving species that they deemed worthy of evolution. But he's not evil, per se. Just misguided. Once Captain Universe tells him to stop destroying worlds, he agrees.
  • Eye Beams: Fires one from the third eye on his forehead.
  • Heel–Face Turn
  • Heroic Sacrifice: Alongside Abyss and the rest of the Ex Nihilii, turning a Beyonder into a tree.
  • Hostile Terraforming: Attempts to do this to the Earth, drawing the attention of the Avengers.
  • Horned Humanoid: Sports two large uneven horns.
  • Jumped at the Call: After being informed that Captain Universe wanted him to join the team, Captain America asked if he had it in him to be an Avenger, he drew a line through the omega on his chest turning it into an A.
  • Large Ham: He's very jovial and bombastic, and almost never seen without a smile on his face.
  • Meaningful Name: His name in Latin means out of nothing.
  • Power Up Full Color Change: Changes from gold to black when using his powers offensively or enraged.
  • Third Eye: Has another eye on his forehead.
  • Well-Intentioned Extremist: Aleph, his father-figures, exists to destroy planets that the Builders no longer consider worthy. Ex Nihilo's attempt to terraform Earth was a last ditch effort to avoid doing this.

    Nightmask 

Nightmask

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Alter Ego: Adam Blackveil

Team Affiliations: The Avengers, New Avengers

First Appearance: Avengers (Vol. 5) #3 (March, 2013) note ; Avengers (Vol. 5) #6 (April, 2013) note 

An artificial human created by Ex Nihilo who was endowed with cosmic powers by the White Event.

  • Artificial Human: He was created on Mars by Ex Nihilo to be the new Adam to the new race of humans that would come to inherit the earth.
  • Harbinger of Impending Doom: After his birth he tries to warn everyone of the approaching White Event, unfortunately for him no one could understand a single word that he was saying.
  • Merlin Sickness: As of the eight month time jump he's aging in reverse, looking more like a teenager than the full grown adult he was when he was born on Mars. This is because he's part of a universal system that's broken, meaning he de-ages every time he uses his powers. It eventually kills him, though he eventually gets better.
  • Power Tattoo: The glowing crescent moon glyph on his forehead.
  • Really Was Born Yesterday: A fact which gets lampshaded on occasion.
  • Those Two Guys: Ends up in this dynamic with Star Brand once they meet.
  • The Unintelligible: He spoke only in builder code, at least until Captain Universe gave him the ability to speak English.
  • Walking Shirtless Scene: Most of the time he doesn't wear a shirt.

    Starbrand 

Starbrand

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Alter Ego: Kevin Connor

Team Affiliations: The Avengers, New Avengers

First Appearance: Avengers Vol 5 #7 (May, 2013)

A young man who receives the Star Brand and winds up with more power than he knows what to do with.

  • Artifact of Doom: The Star Brand, which gives it's wielder the power enough to destroy a world.
  • Death by Origin Story: Inadvertently caused the deaths of everyone in his college when he received the Star Brand.
  • Flying Brick: The Star Brand effectively turns him into one of these, though one powerful enough to defend an entire planet.
  • How Do I Shot Web?: His early use of the Star Brand resulted in a lot of trouble.
  • Legacy Character: Kinda-sorta. The Star Brand's been around since The New Universe and caused a lot of trouble when it showed up in the MU proper 15+ years ago.
  • Person of Mass Destruction: The Star Brand is one of the most powerful weapons in existence, and the White Events are designed to confer these powers on beings who are properly suited to use that power. This White Event went wrong, but Kevin seems to be doing fine with the power he's got. Usually.
  • Power Tattoo: The aforementioned Star Brand.
  • Power Up Full Color Change: When he interfaces with the Earth as a last-ditch move, the color of his uniform (which was created by his powers) permanently changes from red to blue.
  • Super Loser: He originally was an adorkable, socially awkward, scrawy dweeb that everyone mostly ignored. After he gets almost unlimited power he's still pretty much an adorkable, socially awkward, scrawy dweeb that everyone mostly ignores.
  • Superpower Lottery: Like you wouldn't believe.
  • Super-Senses: After a time, the Star Brand begins to give him these. He can see atoms merging.
  • Super-Strength: Strong enough to punch the Hulk into orbit, and a blow from Mjolnir doesn't even phase him. And that's just when he starts off.
  • Taking You with Me: To a Beyonder. Albeit not willingly.

    Alexis the Protector 

Alexis the Protector

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Alter Ego: Alexis

Notable Aliases: The Protector

Team Affiliations: Avengers A.I.

First Appearance: Age of Ultron #10 (August, 2013)

A highly advanced artificial intelligence from the Diamond, inhabiting the most advanced robot body on Earth.

  • Cain and Abel: Her relationship with Dimitrios could be thought of as such, both were born from the virus that Hank Pym created to destroy Ultron.
  • Blue Is Heroic: Her bodysuit is mostly blue.
  • Flight
  • Flying Brick: As an artificial being she's much more durable than any human, she also possess super strength and the ability to fly.
  • Hand Blast: Can Fire blast of purple energy from her fists.
  • Identity Amnesia: When she was first found, she had no memory of who or what she was.
  • My Future Self and Me: Has met two future versions of herself that helped her get past the mental blocks placed on her by Dimitrios.
  • Technicolor Eyes: Purple eyes which indicate she's not human.
  • Really 700 Years Old: Compared to most of the other A.I. beings in the diamond Alexis is ancient, being one of the original first six A.I. that evolved from the diamond.
  • Ridiculously Human Robot
  • Seers: Seems to have some type of precognitive ability.
  • Super-Strength: Shown lifting a piece of a giant sentinel overhead with one arm.
  • Tangled Family Tree: She's technically one of Pym's artificial grandchildren, since he was the creator of the virus that spawned the diamond and her and the other five original AI. This also makes her and Dimitrios 'cousins' to Vision, Jocasta, and Victor.

    Synapse 

Synapse

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Alter Ego: Emily Guerrero

Team Affiliations: Avengers Unity Squad

First Appearance: Uncanny Avengers (Vol. 3) #1 (December, 2015)

An original character introduced in the post-Secret Wars run of Uncanny Avengers, Synapse represents Inhumans on the Unity Squad. Her powers allow her to telepathically link the people around her for instant communication, put other people to sleep, and see through other living creatures' eyes.

  • Archnemesis Dad: A variant; her grandfather's Terrigenesis drove him insane, and he became the Gaia's Vengeance-themed Well-Intentioned Extremist known as the Shredded Man.
  • Living Lie Detector: Under Cable's tutelage, Synapse realized that she has a synaesthetic reaction to other people's thoughts. When someone is telling the truth, she registers it as smelling like seaweed, while lies smell like strawberries.
  • Only Sane Man: Synapse is not a fan of the Terrigen Clouds and thinks the Inhumans are not doing enough to help stop the problems they cause. In issue #6 of Uncanny Avengers volume 3, she calls out Medusa to her face on the fact that the Shredded Man would never have become so dangerous if the Inhumans hadn't carelessly unleashed the Terrigen Clouds, and advocates the Inhumans burn the Clouds out of the atmosphere before they do any more harm.
  • Telepathy: Distinguished by it being presented less as interacting with minds but more remotely interfacing with animal nervous systems and biology connected to it.
  • Token Minority: She's the only Inhuman member on the team.

2020's Members

    Star Brand II 

Star Brand II

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Alter Ego: Selby (doesn't have a first name yet)

Notable Aliases: Brandy Selby

Team Affiliations: The Avengers

First Appearance: Avengers (Vol. 8) #30 (January, 2020)

Brandy is the daughter of Suzanne Selby, an abducted human who passed the Star Brand on to her daughter. When Suzanne died during childbirth, The Avengers took custody of Brandy.

  • The Baby of the Bunch: She's probably the youngest Avenger so far, even with the rapid aging. Eventually, age starts catching up to her.
  • Bratty Half-Pint: For a period, which is probably not helped by being raised by Rocket Raccoon in the dystopian Heroes Reborn reality, a rapid Plot-Relevant Age-Up which meant she lacked the emotional maturity to deal with her powers, and the somewhat murderous default settings of the Starbrand power. Captain America mildly but pointedly knocks her out of it by telling her about her mother.
  • Fantastic Angst: Underneath her bravado, she's very aware that she's going to burn out soon, and feels like she lives only to fight. With the help of the other Avengers, she starts finding other things to live for and enjoy while she's alive.
  • Fantastic Racism: During her Bratty Half-Pint period. She grows out of it.
  • Flying Brick: On a cosmic scale, and that's just the start of her powers.
  • Goo-Goo-Godlike: She's got the power to destroy planets, plural, and she's introduced as an adorable baby. An adorable... floating baby.
  • Little Miss Badass: A young girl who utterly beats up Doctor Spectrum and helps in defeating the Squadron Supreme. Even as a baby, she's willing to attack Khonshu-empowered Moon Knight - and powerful enough that neither Captain Marvel nor Iron Man can steer her.
  • Little Miss Snarker: Having an alternate Rocket Raccoon as a parent left her pretty snarky.
  • Plot-Relevant Age-Up: She began as a baby, growing into a young girl during Heroes Reborn (2021), before aging all the way to a young adult during the fight against the Multiversal Masters of Evil.
  • Rapid Aging: The more she uses her powers, the faster she ages, risking total burnout. She seems to be reconciled to it, though the other Avengers are worried for her.
  • Rule of Symbolism: She's got a lot of star themed gear.
  • Took a Level in Kindness: After her second age-up, which makes her a young woman and takes her past the Bratty Half-Pint stage.

    Impossible City 

Impossible City

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Team Affiliations: The Avengers

First Appearance: Avengers (Vol. 9) #2 (June, 2023)

A multiverse travelling sentient city-ship.

  • And I Must Scream: Being made accomplice to the Ashen Combine's atrocities has driven the city to suicidal despair.
  • Genius Loci: A sentient city-ship.
  • I Choose to Stay: After being freed by the Avengers, the City decides to stay and join them.
  • Identity Amnesia: The Ashen Combine robbed the ship of its memories.
  • Made a Slave: Was enslaved by the Ashen Combine.
  • Prison Ship: The City's original purpose was as a prison for criminals.

Honorary Members

    Moira Brandon 

Moira Brandon

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Alter Ego:

First Apperance: Avengers West Coast (Vol. 2) #100 (November, 1993)

Moira Brandon was an aging movie star who sold the Avengers her mansion for the West Coast Team.

    Swordsman (Earth-921) 

Swordsman (Earth-921)

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Alter Ego: Philip Javert

Notable Aliases: Chevalier

Team Affiliations: The Avengers

First Appearance: Avengers #343 (January, 1992)

Philip Jarvert was from an alternate universe and opposed the Avengers as a member of the Gatherers. After severing ties with the villains, he joined with the Avengers and is romantically involved with fellow Gatherer and Avenger, Magdalene.

    Magdalene 

Magdalene

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Alter Ego: Magdalene

Notable Aliases: Lady Magdalena

Team Affiliations: The Avengers

First Appearance: Avengers #343 (January,, 1992)

Magdalene was a hero from a different reality and later became an honorary member of the Avengers

    Masque 

Masque

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Alter Ego: Giuletta Nefaria (3rd Bio-Duplicate)

Notable Aliases: Bethany Cabe, Marianne Rodgers, Whitney Frost

Team Affiliations: The Avengers

First Appearance: Iron Man #320 (September, 1995)

A duplicate of the original Whitney Frost aka Madame Masque, an Iron Man foe and occasional love interest. Masque's creation was brought on by the writer's attempts to explain why the original Madame Masque seemed to have died multiple times. It was revealed that the real Madame Masque was so paranoid that she had bio-synthetic duplicates of herself created to act on her behalf while she remained hidden and safe. This particular duplicate escaped before she could be fully imprinted with Whitney's personality and so she wandered the world, eventually settling in as an ally to the Avengers and a heroine for a short time before her death.

  • Action Girl: Just like the original.
  • Badass Normal: She fought alongside the Avengers and has no powers. Pretty much a requirement.
  • Back for the Dead: Showed up in two issues of Avengers (Vol. 3) only to try and convince the real Madame Masque to act heroically before dying.
  • Cool Mask: Duh. It's made of solid gold.
  • Expendable Clone: What she was intended to be, but she escaped before she could be imprinted into believing she was the real Madame Masque. As such, she acted like a different person.
  • Femme Fatale: Again, like the original.
  • Hand Cannon: Carried firearms that fired "taser blasts."
  • Heroic Sacrifice: Gave her life trying to save the Avengers from Count Nefaria. Her sacrifice also inspired the real Madame Masque to take a stand against Nefaria too.
  • Holographic Disguise: Wears an image inducer that she used to appear as Bethany Cabe, as well as several of Tony Stark's other love interests.
  • Killed Off for Real: By Count Nefaria's laser vision. He believed her to be his daughter, the real Madame Masque.
  • Vitriolic Best Buds: Had this going with the Black Widow, perhaps because the two were so similar.
  • We Hardly Knew Ye: Was brought around for a few issues, disappeared only to reappear for her death.

    Flux 

Flux

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Alter Ego: Dennis Sykes

Notable Aliases: Matter, Mighty Dennis, Captain Dennis, Denniserine

Team Affiliations: The Avengers (Honorary), Fantastic Four (Honorary)

First Appearance: Heroic Age: One Month to Live Vol. 1 #1 (November, 2010)

Dennis Sykes is a banker who appeared in the story 1 Month 2 Live. He gains superpowers and an untreatable cancer following an accident with toxic waste. With a life expectancy of barely a month, Sykes launches himself on a brief career as a superhero, in an attempt to make a difference in the world while he still can.

  • Blessed with Suck: He has cancer so badly he only has a few weeks left to live which is a very raw deal, even with the fact the accident giving him superpowers.
  • The Topic of Cancer: The main deal with him. According to Mr. Fantastic, he was already showing early signs of it before the accident. However, the accident mutated it to where it's in multiple organ systems and he has a month to live, with not even Mr. Fantastic unable to help him. The only upside is that it gave him he ability to reshape matter.
  • Transmutation: His main ability is being able to manipulate matter to a powerful degree. This includes repairing broken objects, melting walls, creating sculptures from materials present or from water molecules in the air.He can even manipulate matter in living beings, enabling him to expel foreign bodies and transform living tissue into other substances.
  • Your Days Are Numbered: Diagnosed with one month left to live.

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