History ComicBook / AmericaChavez

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America Chavez is a Creator/MarvelComics character created by Joe Casey and Nick Dragotta, first appearing in ''Vengeance'' #1 (dated July 2011).

Raised in the extradimensional Utopian Parallel by her two mothers, America is a multiversal traveler who ran away from home after Mrs. and Mrs. Chavez sacrificed themselves to save their universe.

Upon leaving the Utopian Parallel, one of her first major acts as a crimefighter came through joining the Teen Brigade, with whom she prevented the Young Masters of Evil from disrupting Chaos and Order. She also had a fling with the Ultimate Nullifier, which quickly ended due to [[IncompatibleOrientation irreconcilable differences]] between them.

Not much longer after her tenure with the Teen Brigade, she joined the ComicBook/YoungAvengers to protect Wiccan --the future Demiurge-- from Kid ComicBook/{{Loki}}, who'd previously approached America about killing him before he could devolve into the Demiurge persona. During this time, she began a close friendship with teammate ComicBook/KateBishop --AKA ComicBook/{{Hawkeye}}-- and continued to serve on the Young Avengers, up until [[ComicBook/SecretWars2015 the collapse]] of the Franchise/MarvelUniverse.

In the wake of Earth-616's incursion with [[ComicBook/UltimateMarvel Earth-1610]], America now existed on ComicBook/DoctorDoom's [[PatchworkWorld Battleworld]] in the [[{{Matriarchy}} Arcadia]] region. In this reality, America served as a member of ComicBook/AForce, their {{amazon brigade}} of ComicBook/{{Avengers}}, and was also the foster daughter of Lady Loki and foster sister of [[ComicBook/{{Runaways}} Nico Minoru]]. Upon breaking one of God Doom's laws, she was sent to The Wall as punishment, but ended up joining Abigail Brand's secret ComicBook/{{siege}} against their ruler, alongside the Myth/RobinHood-esque Lady Katherine of Bishop.

When the Franchise/MarvelUniverse was restored, America joined ComicBook/{{The Ultimates|2015}} alongside [[ComicBook/MsMarvel Captain Marvel]] and ComicBook/BlackPanther, working to take on cosmic threats to the multiverse. During the [[ComicBook/CivilWarII second Civil War]], America went against her Ultimates leader and took ComicBook/IronMan's anti-future profiling side, much to Carol's chagrin.

As part of [[ComicBook/MarvelNOW2016 Marvel NOW!]], America headlined her first ongoing series --simply titled ''America''-- which followed her adventures as a multiversal college student.

After her solo adventure, She accepts ComicBook/KateBishop's invitation to join the new version of the [[ComicBook/WestCoastAvengers2018 West Coast Avengers]] as part of ''ComicBook/MarvelAFreshStart''. In 2021, she got her own five-issue mini-series, ''America Chavez: Made in the USA''.

Xochitl Gomez will play her in the upcoming film ''Film/{{Doctor Strange In The Multiverse of Madness}}'', set in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse.

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!! America Chavez appears in the following works:

[[index]]
[[AC:Notable Comic Books]]
* ''Vengeance'' (2011)
* ''ComicBook/YoungAvengers'' vol. 2 (2013 -- 2014)
* ''ComicBook/{{The Ultimates|2015}}'' vol. 2 (2015 -- 2016)
* ''ComicBook/AForce'' vol. 1 (2015)
* ''ComicBook/{{Siege}}'' vol. 2 (2015)
* ''Ultimates[[superscript:2]]'' (2016 -- 2017)
* ''ComicBook/{{America|2017}}'' (2017 -- 2018)
* ''ComicBook/MarvelRising'' (2018 -- present)
* ''ComicBook/{{West Coast Avengers|2018}}'' (2018 -- 2019)
* ''America Chavez: Made in the USA'' (2021)

[[AC:Live-Action Film]]
* ''[[Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness]]'' (2022), played by Xochitl Gomez

[[AC:Western Animation]]
* ''Franchise/MarvelRising'', voiced by Creator/CierraRamirez:
** ''[[WesternAnimation/MarvelRisingSecretWarriors Secret Warriors]]'' (2018)
** ''[[WesternAnimation/MarvelRisingChasingGhosts Chasing Ghosts]]'' (2019)
** ''[[WebAnimation/MarvelRisingUltimateComics Ultimate Comics]]'' (2019)
** ''[[WesternAnimation/MarvelRisingHeartOfIron Heart of Iron]]'' (2019)
** ''[[WesternAnimation/MarvelRisingBattleOfTheBands Battle of the Bands]]'' (2019)
** ''[[WesternAnimation/MarvelRisingOperationShuri Operation Shuri]]'' (2019)
** ''[[WesternAnimation/MarvelRisingPlayingWithFire Playing with Fire]]'' (2019)

[[AC:Video Games]]
* ''VideoGame/LEGOMarvelsAvengers'' (2016)
* ''VideoGame/AvengersAcademy'' (2016)
* ''VideoGame/MarvelPuzzleQuest'' (2017)
* ''VideoGame/MarvelFutureFight'' (2017)
* ''VideoGame/LegoMarvelSuperHeroes2'' (2017)
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!! America Chavez provides examples of the following tropes:

* TheAce: America Chavez is one of the most powerful superheroes in the Marvel Universe that isn't a RealityWarper. She's beautiful, confident, and seemingly beloved by all--a sharp contrast to the fact many Marvel heroes are HeroWithBadPublicity types.
* ActionHero: Violence is her main solution. Her answer to the question "Do you have a plan?"? "Punch everyone".
* AmazonianBeauty: Look at the above picture, specifically her abs. She's also shown to have pretty muscular legs.
* BatmanCanBreatheInSpace: She can fly through space unaided without having to worry about breathing.
* BoxingBattler: America's usual form of attack is to just punch her targets, and her solo series reveals that she took boxing classes for several years.
* BrokenPedestal: [[spoiler: As the Demiurge, Billy was basically her ''{{God}}''. Then she discovers he's just an angsty teenager]].
* CaptainPatriotic: Played with in that she fills in the niche of the "red, white and blue" superhero in the team but it's unclear what she thinks about America the Nation. She's Miss America because that's her real name.
* ChairmanOfTheBrawl: During ''Civil War II'', she expresses her opinion on Carol Danvers' increasingly authoritarian and "WithUsOrAgainstUs" attitude by smashing her over the head with a chair.
* CivvieSpandex: Her "costume" is essentially a ComicBook/CaptainAmerica t-shirt with a jacket and pair of shorts. WordOfGod is that her suit was designed with {{Cosplay}}ers in mind.
* ConvenientlyAnOrphan: Her mothers sacrificed themselves to create a paradise and future for her before she was ten. [[spoiler:America couldn't stand by and see her homeworld do nothing, so she jumped into a portal and became a hero on her own.]]
* CosmicMotifs: Stars are usually seen throughout America's wardrobe.
* CoversAlwaysLie: Her solo comic is simply called ''America'', she always wears a Captain America t-shirt and both her clothing and the covers to her comics have a patriotic aesthetic. If you knew nothing about the character beforehand, you'd be forgiven for thinking she has some kind of connection to Captain America when, in reality, the comic is named after her, she barely knows Captain America and she has no established opinion on the country.
* DependingOnTheWriter: Is she GoodIsNotNice TheCape who sacrificed paradise to be a hero or a SmugSuper ItsAllAboutMe {{Jerkass}}?
* {{Determinator}}: Once led an unlikely army of [[OurGhostsAreDifferent shades]] in a limbo dimension against the god-like master of that plane. Was repelled numerous times but still kept going until she eventually killed him with help of ComicBook/TheDefenders.
* DefectorFromParadise: She wanted to follow in her parents' footsteps, and figured that a perfect world didn't need heroes.
* DidNotThinkThisThrough: Her parents HeroicSacrifice was a SenselessSacrifice which also traumatized their daughter. Apparently, they never thought a paradise world for America would require her loved ones.
* DimensionalTraveler: Has the ability to generate Star-shaped portals to other dimensions.
* Main/EvilCounterpart: Simon Rodstvow from the Ultimates series.
* ExperimentedInCollege: Briefly experimented with heterosexuality while in the Teen Brigade.
* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: As she puts it to Kate: "I've seen the way you look at me. You're not that straight."
* {{Fangirl}}: [[spoiler: She idolized the Demiurge as a child and when she finally met Billy, she came to the conclusion that he's a bit of an idiot like everyone else. She still makes friends with Billy, though.]]
* FlyingBrick: She can fly ''and'' pack a serious punch.
* ForcedPrizeFight: In issue #6 of her solo series, America is forced to box against her former girlfriend Magdalena.
* FriendlyEnemy: She described her relationship with Loki like this. It's truly based on mutual mistrust and snarking with occasional bouts of violence, but she is also one of the few people Loki shared his SuperCellReception spell with.
* GratuitousSpanish: Granted, America is a Latina character, but the Spanish in her solo book is actually pretty bad at times, with serious grammar or spelling errors.
* HairTriggerTemper: Played with. Though she is quick to use violence as an option, she goes about it in a very calm and deliberate manner. For instance, she carefully puts down her chopsticks and tells the waitress she's "Good for the damages" before punching Loki through a wall.
* HasTwoMommies: She does, and they have the same powerset that she does [[spoiler: and they're both dead, having apparently 'scattered themselves across dimensions' to give her paradise, which she rejected because of their deaths.]]
* HereditaryHomosexuality: America is a lesbian, much like her mothers. Her grandmother is also AmbiguouslyGay.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: She's been on her own, hero-ing, across a dozen different dimensions without a complaint and no desire to join any big super hero team. As she put it "You couldn't pay me to join the Avengers."
* HomelessHero: WordOfGod has said that she started her hero-ing career right there on the streets and spent much of that time in various states of poverty.
* HomosexualReproduction: Given that she comes from an entire world populated exclusively by lesbian women, it should be no surprise that Chavez is a product of this.
* ItsAllAboutMe: A quality derided in her 2017 series which has taken her from a HomelessHero and self-sacrificing orphan to someone who has no interest in active superheroing. Among her various actions in the first six issues are pausing during a fight to think about her parents as her teammates get beaten up, giving up heroism because it's gotten boring, punching Hitler but not capturing or stopping him, and cheating on her girlfriend before dumping her for not moving in with her. At least some of this comes back to bite her in the ass, as if she didn't think it's too easy so she must be awesome, or was answering her ex-girlfriend's calls, ''the whole first arc'' of her solo could have been avoided.
* LastHetRomance: Ultimate Nullifier (the character, not the superweapon that scares Galactus). She'd really rather not talk about it.
* LegacyCharacter:
** She is at least the 3rd superhero using the Miss or Ms. America alias in Marvel comics. Miss America, Madeline Joyce, was a golden-silver age character; and a Ms. America, real name unknown, also graced the Fifty States Initiative in 2008.
** In the [[TheFutureWillBeBetter good future]] shown in the "Old Woman Laura" arc of '' ComicBook/AllNewWolverine'', it's shown that she's actually taken up the mantle of Captain America.
* LightningBruiser: She's ''very'' fast and ''very'' strong. How fast? When Monica Rambeau observes America while moving at light-speed, America is moving in slow-motion while everyone else looks frozen in place.
* LittleMissBadass: She'd been superheroing since the age of ten.
* MurderIsTheBestSolution: She's willing to kill Loki when the guy's acting suspicious.
--> I know what killing means and I'm pretty down with that.
* MysteriousPast:
** She clearly knows something is up with Billy and his fate, but when Teddy tries to ask her for more details, he receives a DeathGlare in response. And in the horde of AlternateUniverse versions of the gang, she doesn't have any counterparts.
** Hell, Loki's description of her in the Comicbook/MarvelNOW short is this: "One mysterious interdimensional superhero with mysterious background and mysterious anger issues."
** [[spoiler: It's revealed that America's homeworld exists outside the Multiverse and she's a RebelliousPrincess who ran away from her utopian homeworld because she couldn't stand by to see her world do nothing after her mothers sacrificed themselves and left her orphaned.]]
* TheNicknamer: She has the tendency to nickname people she has especially strong emotions towards. So for example Loki became "chico", Kate "princess", and Carol "soldier girl", which lead to:
-->'''Captain Marvel''': Did you just give me a ''cute nickname'', Chavez?
-->'''Ms. America''': You wish.
* NotWearingTights: She doesn't really have a costume, just themed clothing.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Things must be really bad if the normally stoic and serious America starts showing tears in her eyes. [[spoiler: And in a heartwarming example, she's seen with tears down her face when Billy and Teddy make up.]]
* PrecisionFStrike: She tries to prevent Loki from reciting a spell because she doesn't trust him, but then her two mothers show up. She immediately releases him with "%!@# that".
* PrimaryColorChampion: WordOfGod says one of the reasons she was chosen is because she fills in this visual niche.
* ProperlyParanoid:
** She sticks with the team specifically to keep an eye on Loki.
** Later on, she joins [[ComicBook/TheUltimates2015 the Ultimates]] to prevent them from "going too far". [[spoiler:When Carol Danvers starts becoming increasingly aggressive in trying to predict the future using the Inhuman Ulysses, America acts.]]
* PsychicNosebleed: If she pushes her teleporting too far, this starts to happen.
* RealNameAsAnAlias: Her real name is America Chavez.
* RippleEffectProofMemory: Most everyone barely remembers the events of ''Secret Wars''. America, meanwhile, remembers all of it, though she doesn't explain how. Possibly related to the ScrewThisImOuttaHere example later (not dying, either in an Incursion, or with Battleworld, would mean she wasn't recreated at the end of the event like most other characters).
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: She was a princess who decided to strike out and hero on her own.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: America chose to leave Battleworld via her portals, rather than stay and face the combined Annihilation Wave, Ultron army and zombie swarms when the Shield got up and left.
* ShesGotLegs: Her [[WhoWearsShortShorts short shorts]] seem designed to show off her muscular legs.
* SmugSuper: America's biggest flaw in-universe is the fact she's not really all that humble about her powers, which include FlyingBrick as well as teleportation powers. The new series also has her enter semi-retirement as a superhero with annoyance that people seem to want her to save them. This includes telling off a female soldier when she tries to point out America could have ''stopped Hitler.''
* SpicyLatina: Subverted; despite being prone to violence she is very calm and collected. She just has little tolerance for indirect methods.
-->'''Kieron Gillen:''' But she hasn’t a temper. Or, at least, none that we’ve seen on the page. She’s just terribly direct and believes that appropriate levels of violence are acceptable. She has little tolerance for games. [...] That's not a temper. That's control.
* StevenUlyssesPerhero: As stated, her real name is actually America.
* TheStoic: She is calm and pragmatic. Gillen described her rigid control over her emotions as one of her fundamental character traits.
-->"She plays her cards close to her chest. She's probably swallowed her cards."
* SuperStrength: It was once stated she could throw a tank to the moon, a feat very few probably could pull off.
* TalkToTheFist: A woman of action rather than words in most instances.
* ThinkingUpPortals: [[RuleOfCool And kicking them open]]. It's her mode of dimensional travel.
* TotallyRadical: America's speech in her 2017 series is definitely the product of someone trying to talk like a millennial without actually knowing how millennials talk.
--> "Need a little vivaporu for that burn?"
* UnlimitedWardrobe: She's worn dozens of different outfits with a stars and stripes theme. While she has "official" costumes, it's pretty common that she fights in whatever she just happens to be wearing that day.
* UnrequitedLove: It's implied in some of her stories that she has a crush on ComicBook/KateBishop, but Kate is usually either dating someone else or doesn't notice America's flirting. For instance, in ''ComicBook/CivilWarII: Choosing Sides'', America implies that [[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DrXeXWyWsAA7DaY.jpg Kate is her primary reason for staying in the 616-verse]] the most, and [[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DrXeXWwWsAArNT9.jpg tries to convince herself]] that Lisa (her then-current girlfriend) wouldn't mind the two of them interacting so much. An unused story from ''[[ComicBook/SecretWars2015 Secret Wars: Secret Love]]'' had America and Kate (an alternate universe version of her) [[RelationshipUpgrade officially start dating]], [[https://twitter.com/jrome58/status/1059905288508239872 but it was cut from publication]].
* WarriorPrincess: She hails from a world removed from the multiverse where her mothers were queens, she was addressed as "Princess America", and she's been doing this before she was even ''ten''.
* WhenSheSmiles: As Creator/KieronGillen puts it, a smile from Miss America is a rare and beautiful thing.
* WonderWomanWannabe: America takes a lot of cues from ComicBook/WonderWoman; she's a super-powered princess who hails from an all-female utopia and leaves it for the "outside" world. Visually, her motif is a five point star, something Wonder Woman too has.
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'''America Chavez''' is a Creator/MarvelComics character created by Joe Casey and Nick Dragotta, first appearing in ''Vengeance'' #1 (dated July 2011).

* LightningBruiser: She's ''very'' fast and ''very'' strong. How fast? When Monica Rambeau observes America while moving at light-speed, America still looks like she's moving fast.