History ComicBook / YoungAvengers

* IncrediblyLamePun:
-->[[SpiritAdvisor Ghost of]] '''[[spoiler:Kid Loki]]''': Well, can't make a {{Theatre/Hamlet}} without breaking a few eggs.
-->'''[[spoiler:Loki]]''': That pun makes me glad I killed you.

* ''ComicBook/SecretInvasion: Runaways/Young Avengers:'' During the Skrull attack on Earth, the two teams of teenage superheroes have to join forces again, when Xavin's old mentor is sent to find and kill Hulkling.

!!Contains examples of:

** America Chavez is also the third person to use the Miss America identity, and both of her predecessors were white women.

* AlternateUniverse: In vol. 2, the Young Avengers travel through many dimensions and worlds to chase after the entity that kidnaps [[spoiler: Tommy]]. Miss America herself is described as an inter-dimensional street superhero.

* BackFromTheDead: in the new series, [[spoiler: the dead parents of several Young Avengers: including Loki's father Laufey, Marvel Boy's and Ms. America's Parents]].
* BadFuture: Vol. 2 issue 8 is dedicated to showing the many ways the Young Avengers can destroy the world.

* BecomingTheMask: [[spoiler:Loki grew to genuinely like the Young Avengers]] during his time on the team.
-->"I stepped into your part. And now that part steps into me."

* BettyAndVeronica: Kate (Archie) with Eli (dependable, sensible Betty) and Tommy (delinquent, hotheaded Veronica). She eventually drops them both for Noh-Varr, although that particular relationship ends as well.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Wiccan and Hulkling are the sweetest, most unassuming gay couple you could ever hope to meet...until you threaten one of them, in which case the other will be ''very'' put out. Hulkling never hesitates to lay the physical smack down; Wiccan is less easily provoked but has magic, so he hits harder. Case in point: he once put twenty people into comas for threatening Hulkling.
* BigApplesauce: WordOfGod is that Earth-212, the place where Loki first meets America (the person), is a platonic ideal of America where Manhattan has [[ExaggeratedTrope expanded across the entire globe with mountains]] of Art/LadyLiberty in every bay. EiffelTowerEffect, indeed.
* BigBadEnsemble: Volume 2 has "Mother", some creepy dimension-hopper in Patriot's costume, and [[spoiler: a team of homicidal exes who turn out to be manifestations of Loki's pathological self-loathing.]]
* BigDamnHeroes:
** Loki, Billy, and Teddy are soundly outclassed by Laufey and he's about to strike until Miss America shows up and stomps Laufey into the ground.
-->'''Billy''': "That was...very cool."
** Billy, Teddy, Loki, and America are captured by the parasite when Noh-Varr bursts into the club and frees them.
** Teddy and David are about to be devoured by Mother when the rest of the team [[spoiler: and as many alternate versions of the team members as they could find]] bust in and save them.

* BodyHorror: Teddy's shapeshifting when [[spoiler: forced into a ''chair shape'' by Mother]].
* BornOfMagic: Wiccan (Billy Kaplan) inherited the ComicBook/ScarletWitch's [[RealityWarper power set]]. Kid Loki tormented his boyfriend, Teddy Altman aka Hulkling, with the idea that Billy may have magic(k)ed Teddy himself into existence. As Teddy was a blond, buff, green-skinned shapeshifting alien heir and son of one of Earth's Greatest Heroes and a Skrull princess, Loki mused how unlikely his very existence was, even if he was ''"a very lovely daydream"''. Without having a way to truly determine if Wiccan had inadvertently wished Hulkling to exist and be his perfect boyfriend, Hulkling decided that it didn't matter, because he loved Wiccan either way.
* BreatherEpisode: Played with in vol.2 issue 6. Having just ended the introductory story arc, which included some very fraught scenes for our heroes, the issue instead focuses on re-introducing Tommy Shepherd (an old member of the team) and David Alleyne (an ex X-Man who hadn't been featured in a long time). They're introduced working in a shitty job together, they befriend each other, and the first half of the issue is relaxed and fun - very typical of a breather episode. Then a mystery is introduced, but on the surface, it seems like one that can be solved by the end of the issue. [[spoiler: And then there's a sudden GenreShift and the ending is a CosmicHorrorStory.]]
* ButNotTooGay:
** While straight characters in love (also teenagers) have been shown kissing and sleeping naked, implying some off-panel nookie, gay couple Hulkling and Wiccan are seen doing little more than holding hands and sleeping together...clothed. [[BigDamnKiss Finally averted]] in ''Children's Crudade 9''.
** In the relaunched series, Billy leaves Teddy's room because he doesn't want to be found in there after midnight. They're both fully clothed and didn't do anything more than a chaste kiss.

* CameBackWrong: A weird variant. [[spoiler:It turns out that grabbing your boyfriend's dead mom from an alternate universe isn't a good idea when you don't carefully choose said alternate universe.]]
* CaptainGeographic: Miss America, despite not actually being American. Or from this Earth.
* CastFullOfGay: In Gillen's run. Besides Billy and Teddy from the previous run, the second run establishes America Chavez as lesbian, David Alleyne and Noh-Var as bisexual. Meanwhile, Loki is nonbinary, and hit on almost every team member (not mentioning the [[spoiler:League of the Evil Exes]]), and is the patron god of queer people. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in this bit of dialogue when Noh-Varr's bisexuality rounds out the team:
-->'''Kate''': Wait-- Hold up! Am I the only person on the team who's straight?
-->'''America''': Princess. I've seen the way you look at me. You're not that straight.

** PlayedWith with Miss America, who is a young woman named America Chavez.
* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: Billy's magic is blue, Loki's is green and Wanda's is red. Best demonstrated in issue 5 where [[spoiler: Loki runs away with Billy's power and is about to do some magic on the cloud. The pentagram is blue as it's powered by Billy's magic but lined with green as Loki is the one who's manipulated it]]. Based on the covers, the 2013 run also seems to associate America with blue, Billy with red, Kate with purple, Noh-var with yellow and Teddy with green.
* ComingOutStory:
** Spoofed. Wiccan is reluctantly trying to tell his parents he became a superhero, but they misunderstand and assume he's coming out with his boyfriend. They're supportive of his sexuality; however, he didn't get a chance to say anything to them about being a superhero until '"Family Matters".
** Played straight in volume two with [[spoiler: Prodigy, who came out to Teddy as bisexual (having "never said that out loud before") after expressing an attraction to him.]]

* CorruptedCharacterCopy: ''America Chavez'' in concept is Franchise/WonderWoman if {{spoiled|brat}} by her mothers in paradise, who left her home not to return a stranded soldier and bring peace to his warring world but out of a desire to find [[GlorySeeker fame and glory]], and is motivated more by boredom than love, to the point she briefly stops helping people altogether until their problems become interesting enough, becoming a homeless RummageSaleReject until something motivates her enough to care again. Chavez does become more altruistic over time, [[CharacterDevelopment however]].

* DancePartyEnding: Volume 2 ends with the team partying it up at New Year's alongside other young superheroes before moving on to [[AndTheAdventureContinues new adventures]].
* ADayInTheLimelight: In the new run, issue #6 focuses solely on Prodigy and Speed, as well as being drawn by guest artist Kate Brown.

* FourthWallPsych: In vol. 2, Kid Loki appears to be delivering an AudienceMonologue in an amber void, elaborating on his character. On the next page, he is revealed to be...[[spoiler:[[TheReveal in a field of clouds in the sky at dusk, haranguing the ]]''[[TheReveal real]]'' [[TheReveal Loki.]]]]
* FrameBreak: In Gillen's run, an instance of being trapped in a sort of outside dimension is represented as being trapped in comic panels on a blank page, which characters have to crawl around and break apart the lines to liberate each other.

* GodzillaThreshold: Mother proves to be such a threat to not just Earth, but the entire universe, that Wiccan breaks the team's ThouShaltNotKill rule and obliterates her with his [[PhysicalGod Demiurge]] powers.
* GondorCallsForAid: Vol.2, issue 11. When going against combined forces of [[spoiler: Mother, Leah's team and army of their evil alternate selves]] David decides to call for backup - [[spoiler: other teenage superheroes. '''All of them''']].

* GratuitousSpanish: Miss America. Loki attempts this in vol 2 #4 but is shut down by America.
* HairContrastDuo: Billy (brunet) and Teddy (blond). In the old line up, Cassie (blond) and Kate (brunette).

* IdentityBreakdown: In the 2014 run of the series, Kid Loki suggests to Hulkling that his boyfriend Wiccan, who is a reality warper, subconsciously willed him in to existence as a perfect fantasy. The idea shakes him so badly that he takes a break from the relationship, the team, and began seeing a therapist.
* IncrediblyLamePun:
-->[[SpiritAdvisor Ghost of]] '''[[spoiler:Kid Loki]]''': Well, can't make a {{Theatre/Hamlet}} without breaking a few eggs.
-->'''[[spoiler:Loki]]''': That pun makes me glad I killed you.

** Kate (human) and Noh-Varr (Kree)
* InterruptedSuicide: v2 had ''two'' of these. Both were Loki interrupting Wiccan (who thought, thanks to [[ManipulativeBastard Loki]], that if [[NoOntologicalInertia he died the monster he summoned would go away]]), first with "Plan A before plan B, Billy", second time with "ILied" (he did not, but meanwhile [[ConscienceMakesYouGoBack found his conscience]]).

* KlingonsLoveShakespeare: Noh-Varr allegedly left his dimension for close harmony girl groups.

** The second series plays with this all over the place - Noh-Varr ''tried'' to be the new ComicBook/{{Captain Marvel|MarvelComics}}, but it didn't work. Creator/KieronGillen noted he would be surprised if Miss America even heard of [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks the Golden Age Miss America]], and Kid Loki actually is ComicBook/TheMightyThor's ArchEnemy reborn as a kid [[spoiler: who then got his body hijacked by his old self]]. Gillen says one of the series' main themes is found in Tommy's rant about how much he hates the concept, saying that heroes should find their own style and not copy someone else, revealing in the process that he turned down the idea of calling himself "Quickersilver". In Gillen's words, the positions of Hulk, Thor, Cap and Iron Man are taken, and [[StatusQuoIsGod the current occupants are going nowhere]]. So he tried to have the characters grow beyond their legacy, and also tried to give them new storytelling engines that were uniquely their own, like Billy [[spoiler: becoming the Demiurge, god-figure of another universe.]]
* LegionOfDoom: Created by [[spoiler: Leah]] in vol.2, includes [[spoiler: ex boyfriends and girlfriends of team members, Fake Patriot and Mother]].

* MoodWhiplash: Issue 6 of vol.2 starts lighthearted with Tommy befriending David over their shitty jobs and turns into horror [[spoiler: when some creature shows up in Eli[=/=]Patriot's costume stealing from their work place. Tommy tries to investigate it, only to undergo a MindRape scene when he tries to confront it. The costume makes him disappear without a trace before taunting the powerless David to put it (the hollow Patriot costume) on and disappears itself after he refuses]].
* MoreDiverseSequel: The original run had only one character of color, Patriot, although it was also one of the only mainstream series to have a canonically gay couple in the main cast. The sequel series added Latina lesbian ComicBook/AmericaChavez and bisexual black Prodigy; genderfluid alien ComicBook/{{Loki}} also tags along.
* MrFanservice: Noh-Varr spends entire first issue of the second series only in his underwear, and mostly dancing.
* MythologyGag:
** In the second series, Kid!Loki is manipulating the formation of this new team for reasons known only to himself - he specifically notes that getting ComicBook/TheAvengers together is a classic Loki thing to do. (This is at least the third time that he's done it, and the second time on purpose.)
** The Stature/Iron Lad/Vision love triangle replicated the Scarlet Witch/Wonder Man/Vision love triangle. The Visions keep having this problem.

** Billy again in new series [[spoiler: after ressurecting Teddy's mother]], Miss America for stopping Loki from preventing it and Loki himself for making her think he wants to kill Billy, which is why she interrupted him in the first place.
* NotWearingTights: As creators noted, Miss America doesn't have a costume, just a theme of clothing.
* NowOrNeverKiss: [[spoiler: David plants a big one on Hulking, just to find out what it was like, and to have a taste of what Billy and Teddy has. He was quite embarrassed by it.]]
* OnlySixFaces: Prevalent in Kieron Gillen's run on the series. Same for the original run.

* ThePowerOfLove: Billy and Teddy making up gives Billy enough power to [[spoiler: destroy Mother and her spell once and for all.]] Lampshaded by Loki:
-->'''Loki''': Oh, ''ugh''. Is love really going to save us all?\\
'''America''': Of course it is. Anyone who thinks otherwise is going to be stomped into paste.

* PutOnABus: Speed in new series had moved out, because the Kaplans were driving him nuts. Creator/KieronGillen noted that it's because having him on the team would make the cast too big and the plot too Billy-centered, which he wanted to avoid after ''Children's Crusade'', and because he shares so many bits of personality with either Noh-Varr, Miss America or Kid Loki, that he would probably end up [[DemotedToExtra becoming a wallpaper]]. He [[TheBusCameBack returns briefly]] [[spoiler: only to be kidnapped by an EldritchAbomination]]; fortunately he comes back properly at the end of the run and reunites with Kate.
** Eli doesn't appear in the Gillen, due to him leaving to live with his mom elsewhere. Gillen wanted to use him but was told he couldn't as editors had different plans for him, which ultimately never came to anything.
* PuttingTheBandBackTogether: What Loki is apparently trying to do.
** RecycledPremise: As Loki himself puts it, putting on the Avengers together is one of his greatest hits.

* RepressionNeverEndsWell: Loki is guilt-ridden over having manipulated events so he could take advantage of his young, previous self and kill him. It causes him to hallucinate his previous self taunting him before things take a turn for the worse and his guilt causes him to unconsciously use his magic to create constructs of the Young Avengers' exes which attack everyone until Loki finally fesses up.

* RuleOfSymbolism: In vol. 2, Noh-Varr's ship engine (which is named ''[[ShoutOut Kirby]]'') is sparked by belief and runs on imagination. Thus, [[spoiler: the moment Billy is encouraged by Teddy and becomes confident that the mess he caused can be solved, the ship starts and the gang escape]].
** Lampshaded when Kate shouts "METAPHOR!"

* SeanConneryIsAboutToShootYou: ''Everybody'' on the cover of [[http://marvel.wikia.com/Young_Avengers_Vol_2_13 volume 2 issue 13]], wherein Kate and Noh-Varr are about to shoot you, Billy is about to zap you, and Hulking and Prodigy stand behind in the ready position, but most intimidating of all is that Miss America has grabbed the front of your shirt and is about to punch you.

* ShoutOut: Oodles. [[ShoutOut/YoungAvengers Check out the page.]]

* SlutShaming: Kate mentally discusses it with herself in the beginning of the first issue of the second series, thinking she should be ashamed of herself for having a one-night-stand with Marvel Boy. She then decides that such thoughts are idiotic.
** Played straight out of universe though. Issue number three's letter page has a very critical letter attached concerning this, believing that the two sleeping together makes them both 'instantly dislikable,' as it's not the kind of behavior superheroes should be partaking in. While Kieron Gillen disagrees and had to respond in the most withdrawn manner he could, he vents his frustration at this sentiment on his tumblr page, while mentioning that it's not the only letter like this he got (he chose the one that was actually printable), with most putting focus on Kate doing the act. Evidently, Mr Gillen does ''not'' like the idea that there's anything wrong with a woman sleeping with a guy she likes on the first date.

** Somebody asked Kieron Gillen, the writer of the new series, about it. He answered by yelling that every time somebody tries to force Franchise/MarvelUniverse's timeline to make sense, a character in ComicBook/AvengersArena gets their wings.

* TelecomTree: In #11, Prodigy texts a couple of friends to run interference for the team while they get close to the BigBad. They texted some friends and... The next pages shows a telecom tree of young heroes that has expanded to fill a full page.
* TenMinuteRetirement: At the end of ''Children's Crusade'' most of the team quits superheroing. Everybody who quit except for Eli is back in the game by issue five of volume two. And [[ExecutiveMeddling who knows]] what Eli's going to be getting up to.
* ThereAreNoTherapists: Averted. Ironically, Billy's mother is a psychiatrist. Nobody seems to want to talk to her about anything, just the opposite, keeping her in the dark as much as possible seems to be major goal of the team. In the backstory, Kate seeks help after being assaulted. In vol. 2, Teddy mentions seeing a therapist to deal with the fact that [[spoiler: Billy may or may not have manipulated reality to get together with him. However, it should also be noted that Teddy's therapist is [[ComicBook/JourneyIntoMystery Leah]], who has a grudge against Loki and is stated to be antagonistic]].

* TwoGirlsToATeam: Both incarnations of the team.

** [[spoiler: Issue #10 of the new series - Teddy's new friend-therapist is ''Leah''. And she's collaborating with Mother.]]
** [[spoiler: Issue #12 - Leah isn't Leah. She is personification of Loki's self-hate.]]

* WhamShot: [[spoiler: Issue #8 of the new series concludes with Prodigy and Hulking separated from the group by the parasite when Prodigy suddenly pulls Hulkling into a ''kiss''.]]

* YouKilledMyFather: Cassie tries to do this with Scarlet Witch when they end up on the Mighty Avengers; ironically, Cassie is right that Wanda shouldn't be trusted, but not for the reason she thinks ([[spoiler:Wanda is actually Loki, God of Mischief, in disguise]]).

* MeaningfulName: This might not be intentional, but Wiccan and Hulkling's names are Billy and Teddy, which is reminiscent of [[Film/BillAndTed another pair of very close friends]]. However, those two were nowhere near as close as Wiccan and Hulkling.

[[caption-width-right:350: Are you Young? Wild? Free?[[note]]Pictured, clockwise from left: [[ComicBook/AmericaChavez Miss America]], [[ComicBook/{{Loki}} Kid Loki]], Wiccan, Hulkling, [[Characters/HawkeyeKateBishop Hawkeye II]], and ComicBook/MarvelBoy. Not pictured: Prodigy, Patriot, Speed, [[ComicBook/AntMan Stature]], [[ComicBook/TheVision Vision II]], and [[ComicBook/KangTheConqueror Iron Lad]].]][[/note]]

Comicbook/TheAvengers' main young heroes team, equivalent to Franchise/TheDCU's Comicbook/YoungJustice or Comicbook/TeenTitans. Created by Allan Heinberg and Jim Cheung, the team debuted in Young Avengers #1 in 2005 and aimed for young adult readers, but still contained enough DarkerAndEdgier material for older readers as well.

After [[Comicbook/AvengersDisassembled The Avengers disassembled]], a young time-traveler decided to assemble a team with people related to the Avengers history. The initial lineup consisted of Patriot (Elijah "Eli" Bradley), Asgardian (William "Billy" Kaplan, who would later change his codename to "Wiccan"), Hulkling (Theodore "Teddy" Altman) and Iron Lad (Nathaniel "Nate" Richards), all of whom intentionally patterned their costumes and aliases after the Avengers' Big Four[[note]]Comicbook/IronMan, Comicbook/CaptainAmerica, [[Comicbook/TheIncredibleHulk Hulk]] and [[Comicbook/TheMightyThor Thor]][[/note]]. Later, another four members joined: Stature ([[Characters/AntManHeroes Cassandra "Cassie" Lang]]), [[LegacyCharacter Hawkeye II]] ([[Characters/HawkeyeKateBishop Katherine "Kate" Bishop]]), Speed (Thomas "Tommy" Shepherd) and a younger version of The Vision.

Following the first volume, the team starred in a bunch of minis before appearing in Heinberg's promised "season two", ''ComicBook/AvengersTheChildrensCrusade''. Volume 2 was released as a part of the Comicbook/MarvelNOW relaunch, this time in the hands of acclaimed ComicBook/{{Phonogram}} and ''ComicBook/JourneyIntoMysteryGillen'' writer, Creator/KieronGillen, and his long time collaborator Creator/JamieMcKelvie. The story is set a year after ''The Children's Crusade'' and introduced three new members: ComicBook/MarvelBoy (Noh-Varr), Miss America (ComicBook/AmericaChavez) and ComicBook/{{Loki}}. The run lasted 15 issues, ending when the creators wanted it to rather than being cancelled.

* ''Comicbook/{{Civil War|2006}}: Young Avengers/ComicBook/{{Runaways}}:'' During the Civil War storyline, the Young Avengers team up with Marvel's other group of teenage superheroes to fight a government branch who had sent a brainwashed Noh-Varr after them.

See also Comicbook/AvengersTheInitiative and ComicBook/AvengersAcademy for other Avengers young teams. For X-Men equivalents, see ComicBook/NewMutants, [[Comicbook/NewXMenAcademyX Young X-Men, New X-Men,]] ComicBook/GenerationX, ComicBook/WolverineAndTheXMenMarvelComics or [[Comicbook/XMen The original X-Men team]]. For a team of young people related neither to The Avengers nor to The X-Men see [[ComicBook/{{Runaways}} The Runaways]]. Also, see ComicBook/AvengersArena for the other comic about super powered teenagers ([[DarkerAndEdgier and complete opposite to this series]]) in the ComicBook/MarvelNOW relaunch.

** The original Patriot (decades before Eli took up the mantle) was a white guy named Jeffery Mace. Eli is also a legacy character to his grandfather Isaiah Bradley, the legendary black Captain America of WWII, and his uncle Josiah X, [[Comicbook/TheCrew aka Justice.]]

** Taken to the logical extreme in the ''Children's Crusade'' one-shot. Iron Lad visits a BadFuture where Eli is the new ComicBook/CaptainAmerica, Kate is now the ''only'' Hawkeye, Teddy is the new ComicBook/{{Captain Marvel|MarvelComics}}, Billy is the new [[Comicbook/DoctorStrange Sorcerer Supreme]], Eli's son Steve is the new [[ComicBook/BuckyBarnes Bucky]], and Eli's wife Samantha is the new [[ComicBook/TheFalcon Falcon]].

** In the second series, Kid!Loki is manipulating the formation of this new team for reasons known only to himself - he specifically notes that getting Comicbook/TheAvengers together is a classic Loki thing to do. (This is at least the third time that he's done it, and the second time on purpose.)

* SoapOperaRapidAgingSyndrome: Hulkling, Wiccan and Speed by their origin stories. Especially ironic when one considers that ComicBookTime is very much in force in the Marvel Universe. Most notably, [[Comicbook/FantasticFour Franklin Richards]] was born in 1968. He has yet to reach puberty in the main timeline, whereas Speed and Wiccan had to have been born sometime during the late-1990's in order for their backstory to work. Of course, Franklin has a StoryBreakerPower that makes ever allowing him to grow up a [[AGodAmI problem]], whereas Wiccan and Speed do not. Hulking, however, is like Franklin in that he really ought to be much older than he is considering that both of his parents died in the early-1980's and their actual affair had to have taken place in 1971.

* ''Comicbook/CivilWar: Young Avengers/ComicBook/{{Runaways}}:'' During the Civil War storyline, the Young Avengers team up with Marvel's other group of teenage superheroes to fight a government branch who had sent a brainwashed Noh-Varr after them.

* RunningGag: Not so much a ''gag'', but a frequent occurence when Clint Barton was using the Ronin identity between ''ComicBook/CivilWar'' and ''ComicBook/{{Siege}}''; whenever he teamed up with the Young Avengers, Kate would be incapacitated at some point in the battle purely so the writer (Yes, more than one did it) could have Clint take up the bow & arrow again.

After [[Comicbook/AvengersDisassembled The Avengers disassembled]], a young time-traveler decided to assemble a team with people related to the Avengers history. The initial lineup consisted of Patriot (Elijah "Eli" Bradley), Asgardian (William "Billy" Kaplan, who would later change his codename to "Wiccan"), Hulkling (Theodore "Teddy" Altman) and Iron Lad (Nathaniel "Nate" Richards), all of whom intentionally patterned their costumes and aliases after the Avengers' Big Four[[note]]Comicbook/IronMan, Comicbook/CaptainAmerica, [[Comicbook/TheIncredibleHulk Hulk]] and [[Comicbook/TheMightyThor Thor]][[/note]]. Later, another four members joined: Stature ([[Characters/AntManHeroes Cassandra "Cassie" Lang]]), [[LegacyCharacter Hawkeye II]] ([[ComicBook/KateBishop Katherine "Kate" Bishop]]), Speed (Thomas "Tommy" Shepherd) and a younger version of The Vision.

* HereditaryTwinhood: A complex example. ComicBook/ScarletWitch is the fraternal twin of ComicBook/{{Quicksilver}}, and Speed is the reincarnation of one of her magically-conceived identical twin sons. In one BadFuture, ComicBook/KateBishop is pregnant with Speed's twins.

[[caption-width-right:350: Are you Young? Wild? Free?[[note]]Pictured, clockwise from left: [[ComicBook/AmericaChavez Miss America]], [[ComicBook/{{Loki}} Kid Loki]], Wiccan, Hulkling, [[ComicBook/KateBishop Hawkeye II]], and ComicBook/MarvelBoy. Not pictured: Prodigy, Patriot, Speed, [[ComicBook/AntMan Stature]], [[ComicBook/TheVision Vision II]], and [[ComicBook/KangTheConqueror Iron Lad]].]][[/note]]

* ''ComicBook/{{Hawkeye}} Vol 4.:'' Kate co-stars alongside the older Hawkeye. (2012-2015)

* ''ComicBook/HawkeyeKateBishop:'' Kate headlines her own series. (2016-2018)

** Somebody asked Kieron Gillen, the writer of the new series, about it. He answered by yelling that every time somebody tries to force MarvelUniverse's timeline to make sense, a character in ComicBook/AvengersArena gets their wings.

* TeensAreShort: The Young Avengers are significantly shorter than the adults.

* BareYourMidriff: Kate Bishop's second Hawkeye costume.

* BigApplesauce: WordOfGod is that Earth-212, the place where Loki first meets America (the person), is a platonic ideal of America where Manhattan has [[ExaggeratedTrope expanded across the entire globe with mountains]] of [[EiffelTowerEffect Lady Liberty]] in every bay.

%%In 2019, it was reported that a ''Young Avengers'' movie is in development for the expansive Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse, focused mainly on the classic Heinberg/Cheung-era of the team. Beforehand, Cassie Lang appears as a civilian, played by Abby Ryder-Fortson in the first two movies, and later by Emma Fuhrmann in ''Avengers: Endgame''.

'''Film'''
* Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse:
** ''Film/AntMan1:'' Cassie appears in her civilian identity, played by Abby-Ryder Fortson.
** ''Film/AntManAndTheWasp:'' Cassie returns, reprised by Fortson.
** ''Film/AvengersEndgame:'' Cassie appears, [[TimeShiftedActor time-shifted]] to Emma Fuhrmann.
** ''Film/DoctorStrangeInTheMultiverseOfMadness'': America Chavez appears, portrayed by Xochitl Gomez.
** ''Film/AntManAndTheWaspQuantumania'': Cassie is confirmed to appear, [[TheOtherDarrin this time]] portrayed by Creator/KathrynNewton.

'''Television'''
* Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse:
** ''Series/WandaVision'': Wanda gives birth to Tommy and Billy in the third episode, and undergo RapidAging in the fifth to be portrayed in the rest of the series by Jett Klyne and Julian Hilliard.
** ''Series/TheFalconAndTheWinterSoldier'': Eli has a small recurring role alongside his grandfather Isaiah Bradley, played by Elijah Richardson.
** ''Series/{{Hawkeye|2021}}'': Kate makes her debut as Clint's protege and successor to the Hawkeye mantle, portrayed by Creator/HaileeSteinfeld.

* TomatoInTheMirror: Hulkling, when he finds out [[ItWasHisSled he is a Skrull (and the prince of them, at that)]].

%%** Vol. 3 (2019-)

* ''ComicBook/{{Strikeforce}}:'' Wiccan appears as a member of the covert ops teams (2019-)
* ''ComicBook/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy2020:'' Noh-Varr appears as a new member of the space team (2020-)

* LikeAnOldMarriedCouple: [[YouShouldKnowThisAlready Wiccan and Hulkling]], in ''Children's Crusade.'' Half the trouble Billy gets into is because of ignoring Teddy's common-sense warnings, and Teddy's not shy about making his displeasure known when he finds out about it.

** Billy changed his codename from Asgardian to Wiccan, because of the obvious jokes that would occur once the press got wind of his homosexuality (even Eli got a chuckle out of this). It should be noted that despite the codename, Billy is ''not'' of Asgardian descent; on that same note, Hulkling is of no relation to [[ComicBook/IncredibleHulk The Hulk]], [[spoiler:he's actually the half-Kree/half-Skrull son of ComicBook/{{Captain Marvel|MarvelComics}} & Princess Anelle]].

* RedGreenContrast: One visual hint that ComicBook/{{Wiccan}} and Speed are PolarOppositeTwins is their opposing color schemes -- Billy is dark-haired and always has a red mantle complemented by cooler tones, while Tommy is white-haired and has a white-and-green costume.

[[caption-width-right:350: Are you Young? Wild? Free?[[note]]Pictured, clockwise from left: [[ComicBook/AmericaChavez Miss America]], [[ComicBook/{{Loki}} Kid Loki]], ComicBook/{{Wiccan}}, ComicBook/{{Hulkling}}, [[ComicBook/KateBishop Hawkeye II]], and ComicBook/MarvelBoy. Not pictured: Prodigy, Patriot, Speed, [[Characters/AntManHeroes Stature]], [[ComicBook/TheVision Vision II]], and [[ComicBook/KangTheConqueror Iron Lad]].]][[/note]]

After [[Comicbook/AvengersDisassembled The Avengers disassembled]], a young time-traveler decided to assemble a team with people related to the Avengers history. The initial lineup consisted of Patriot (Elijah "Eli" Bradley), Asgardian (William "Billy" Kaplan, who would later change his codename to "ComicBook/{{Wiccan}}"), ComicBook/{{Hulkling}} (Theodore "Teddy" Altman) and Iron Lad (Nathaniel "Nate" Richards), all of whom intentionally patterned their costumes and aliases after the Avengers' Big Four[[note]]Comicbook/IronMan, Comicbook/CaptainAmerica, [[Comicbook/IncredibleHulk Hulk]] and [[Comicbook/TheMightyThor Thor]][[/note]]. Later, another four members joined: Stature ([[Characters/AntManHeroes Cassandra "Cassie" Lang]]), [[LegacyCharacter Hawkeye II]] ([[ComicBook/KateBishop Katherine "Kate" Bishop]]), Speed (Thomas "Tommy" Shepherd) and a younger version of The Vision.

Following the first volume, the team starred in a bunch of minis before appearing in Heinberg's promised "season two", ''[[ComicBook/TheChildrensCrusade Avengers: The Children's Crusade]]''. Volume 2 was released as a part of the Comicbook/MarvelNOW relaunch, this time in the hands of acclaimed ComicBook/{{Phonogram}} and ''ComicBook/JourneyIntoMysteryGillen'' writer, Creator/KieronGillen, and his long time collaborator Creator/JamieMcKelvie. The story is set a year after ''The Children's Crusade'' and introduced three new members: ComicBook/MarvelBoy (Noh-Varr), Miss America (ComicBook/AmericaChavez) and ComicBook/{{Loki}}. The run lasted 15 issues, ending when the creators wanted it to rather than being cancelled.

** ''Avengers: ComicBook/TheChildrensCrusade:'' (2010-2012)

** ''Film/AntmanAndTheWaspQuantumania'': Cassie is confirmed to appear, [[TheOtherDarrin this time]] portrayed by Creator/KathrynNewton.

** ''Film/DoctorStrangeInTheMultiverseOfMadness'': America Chavez is confirmed to appear, portrayed by Xochitl Gomez.

** ''Series/{{Hawkeye}}'': Kate makes her debut as Clint's protege and successor to the Hawkeye mantle, portrayed by Creator/HaileeSteinfeld.

* BaldBlackLeaderGuy: Patriot, though his status as team leader came and went in favor of Kate.

* WhoWearsShortShorts: Miss America does.