History ComicBook / NewAvengers

* WorkoutFanservice: Spider-Woman is in the middle of a workout when Steve recruits her for the New Avengers, and the artist draws in a gratuitous MaleGaze shot where she has an AmazonianBeauty physique and is wearing a [[FormFittingWardrobe form-fitting tank top]] with BareYourMidriff.

* CasualDangerDialog: Naturally, [[YouFightLikeACow Spider-Man]] is the chief offender, but they all have their moments.

* BedTrick: The Wanda Maximoff that Hawkeye met and slept with in Transia is [[ActuallyADoombot retroactively made into a Doombot]] in ''ComicBook/TheChildrensCrusade'', meaning poor Clint actually slept with a Doombot without knowing.

* IdentityAmnesia: In Issue #26, Hawkeye tracks down Wanda to a mountain village in Transia, where she's living a normal life with no memory of her previous life. ''ComicBook/TheChildrensCrusade'' would later RetCon this Wanda as ActuallyADoombot that Doctor Doom made to throw people off Wanda's real trail.

* DoubleReverseQuadrupleAgent: A complicated double agent situation is created due in regard to [[spoiler:Spider-Woman. First, she's contacted by HYDRA, who offer to get her powers back in exchange for her to become TheMole for them in S.H.I.E.L.D., however she eventually got caught by Nick Fury and they both arranged for her to be a DoubleAgent that would actually only [[FeedTheMole feed them intel Fury approved of]]. But unbeknown to Jessica or Fury, theHYDRA agents that gave her powers back turned out to actually be an alien Skrull cell that infiltrated HYDRA, and after giving Jessica her powers back, Queen Veranke used Jessica's DNA to enable her to [[MoleInCharge perfectly impersonate Jessica as Spider-Woman]]. She stayed as a mole in S.H.I.E.L.D., but jumped at the chance to join the New Avengers so she could keep an eyes on them and could get a chance to personally examine Tony's Stark tech. She only got found out during the ''ComicBook/SecretInvasion'' event.]]

For the 2012 ''New Avengers'', please see ComicBook/JonathanHickmansAvengers. For the [[ComicBook/AllNewAllDifferentMarvel All-New, All-Different]] 2015 ''New Avengers'', please see ComicBook/NewAvengers2015.

After ''ComicBook/AvengersDisassembled'', Tony Stark disbanded the Avengers. [[TimeSkip Six months later]], a prison riot at the Raft proved that the world needed an Avengers team, so Comicbook/CaptainAmerica recruited the other heroes who helped stop the riot - Comicbook/IronMan, Comicbook/SpiderMan, ComicBook/LukeCage, and [[Comicbook/{{SpiderWoman}} Spider-Woman]] - to form the New Avengers. As the first few arcs went on, the team was joined by Comicbook/{{Wolverine}}, Comicbook/TheSentry and Ronin (a disguised [[Characters/{{Daredevil}} Echo]], sent by Comicbook/{{Daredevil}} in his place, later replaced by a resurrected Comicbook/{{Hawkeye}}). Following ''ComicBook/CivilWar'' through to the end of ''ComicBook/DarkReign'', the team was forced underground, but with the beginning of the Heroic Age they were free to operate openly. The series lasted for 64 issues (January, 2005-June, 2010).

In other media, the team (consisting of Spider-Man, Luke Cage, Comicbook/WarMachine, Iron Fist, Wolverine, and the Thing) appeared in a self-titled episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheAvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes''. Most of the members also are playable heroes in the Website/{{Facebook}} game ''VideoGame/MarvelAvengersAlliance''. Also, in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse, the New Avengers are referenced at the end of ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron''[[note]]The immediate follow-up, ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'', doesn't pick up on this[[/note]] in which, with [[Comicbook/TheMightyThor Thor]] leaving for Asgard, [[Comicbook/TheIncredibleHulk the Hulk]] for parts unknown, and Iron Man and Hawkeye leaving the team, Cap and Comicbook/BlackWidow decide to rebrand the team with War Machine, Comicbook/TheFalcon, Comicbook/ScarletWitch and Comicbook/TheVision as its new formation.

* TheAtoner: Comicbook/DoctorStrange during his stay with the team post ''ComicBook/CivilWar'', since he feels incredibly guilty for staying neutral during the war, which is why he lends them the Sanctum Sanctorum as their HomeBase for a while, allowing them to hide for Iron Man and the government forces.

* DramaPreservingHandicap: When Doctor Strange joined the team post-''Comicbook/CivilWar'', he was quickly stripped of his Sorcerer Supreme status, which greatly weakened him and limited what he could do with his powers. He would not be restored to full power until the final issue of Creator/BrianBendis' run.

* HeroismWontPayTheBills: PlayedWith in one of the final issues where [[Comicbook/CaptainAmerica Steve Rogers]], newly-instated as Director of S.H.I.E.L.D., offers each member of the team a stipend for their heroics. Luke Cage, however initially refuses because he is extremely anti-establishment and was adamant that the team remains autonomous. His wife immediately snatches the check and loudly reminds him that thanks to their last battle, they have nowhere to live, no food, no diapers, and no other necessities to take care of their infant child. Luke promptly shuts up and accepts the check.

* AndThenWhat: The Wrecker grabs a crowbar and starts to toss around Spider-Man, Wolverine and Luke Cage. Then, Spider-Woman walks up and asks "why?". She wonders why despite having the power of a god, [[Comicbook/{{Runaways}} a bunch of kids in Los Angeles]] managed to beat up him and his whole team. She very nearly converts him to the side of good, until it's revealed she wasn't even trying, just lulling him into a false sense of security. [[JustifiedTrope It helps]] that she is both an experienced spy and exudes {{pheromones}} that [[LivingAphrodisiac make men fall in love with her]].

** In Bendis' ''Comicbook/MoonKnight'', Ms. Marvel is unable to remember Maya's name and Spider-Man flat out ''forgets'' she ever left the team in the first place.

* PoorlyDisguisedPilot: ''Comicbook/{{Secret War|2004}}'' featured a team-up between many of the characters who would go on to form the core cast of ''New Avengers'', and also set up several plot threads for that series.

** A ''ComicBook/JMSSpiderMan'' tie-in featured a team of evil Avenger doppelgangers working for HYDRA. Their costumes were basically green and yellow palette-swaps of the originals with the HYDRA octopus logo added on. "Militant" for Captain America, "Tactical Force" (though he prefers Karl) for Iron Man, "the Hammer" for Thor and "the Bowman" for Hawkeye. Spidey, of course, pointed out how done-to-death the evil twin thing was, and none of them ever faced their "originals" (albeit Hammer and Bowman had the justified excuse that Thor and Hawkeye were technically dead at this point). None of them were captured, but they haven't shown up since then (except for the Facebook game, ''VideoGame/MarvelAvengersAlliance'').
** The ''ComicBook/DarkReign'' arc introduced the ComicBook/DarkAvengers, a [[EvilHero supposed hero team]] who are actually ''posing'' as their counterparts. This interaction is mostly based on Norman Osborn's Thunderbolts: [[Characters/MarvelComicsNormanOsborn Norman Osborn]] leads the team as the Comicbook/IronMan-Comicbook/CaptainAmerica mashup called '[[AmericanRobot Iron Patriot]]'; ComicBook/{{Ares|Marvel}} is a mashup of [[Characters/TheMightyThorThorOdinson Thor]] and [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHercules Hercules]]; Venom ([[Characters/MarvelComicsMacGargan MacGargan, previously known as Scorpion]]) as Franchise/SpiderMan; Moonstone as [[Comicbook/CarolDanvers Ms. Marvel]]; Noh-Varr as ComicBook/{{Captain Marvel|MarvelComics}}; [[Characters/DaredevilCentralRoguesGallery Bullseye]] as Comicbook/{{Hawkeye}} and ComicBook/{{Daken}} as ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}. Only ComicBook/TheSentry doesn't pose as anyone, because he's just that plain nuts to join an ObviouslyEvil team. Though the Dark Avengers didn't match up well with the actual Avengers they faced, for instance, there was no counterpart for Luke Cage or Spider-Woman.

** The "Ronin" arc introduces a mysterious masked vigilante called Ronin. A sequence of Ronin beating up Yakuza goons in Japan is intercut with flashbacks of Comicbook/CaptainAmerica asking Comicbook/{{Daredevil}} to join the team, with the latter declining due to recently having been outed to the public as Matt Murdock in his own series. Cap then brings up the period where he briefly adopted the superheroic alias of Nomad, suggesting that Matt could similarly take on a new costumed identity to join the Avengers without arousing suspicion. This, coupled with Ronin's penchant for using nunchaku (similar to Daredevil's trademark billy clubs), is clearly meant to fool the reader into thinking Ronin is indeed Matt Murdock, but Matt instead tells Cap that he has a friend who might be able to do the job. Subsequent issues continue the mystery, with Spider-Man guessing that it might be Daredevil's old allies Iron Fist or Comicbook/ShangChi under the mask, only for it to ultimately be revealed that [[SamusIsAGirl Ronin is actually Maya Lopez, a.k.a. Echo]].

* RetroactiveLegacy: The tie-in to ''ComicBook/AvengersVsXMen'' revolved around Fongji Wu, a female, [[SignificantGreenEyedRedHead mixed-race]] Iron Fist that had managed to harness the [[ComicBook/TheDarkPhoenixSaga Phoenix Force]] long before Comicbook/JeanGrey was even born.

* ShowerOfAwkward

* UnresolvedSexualTension: There's a bit of awkward sexual tension between Echo and Hawkeye, mostly on her part with her feeling awkward whenever he does something nice for her or gets close. It [[TheyDo gets resolved]] in Issue #40. But their romance [[AbortedArc was completely dropped]] once Clint's ex-wife Comicbook/{{Mockingbird}} returned "from the dead" (it's complicated) at the close of ''Comicbook/SecretInvasion'' and Echo was PutOnABus.

* ThePsychoRangers: Norman Osborn revives the Dark Avengers concept with a new team featuring Skaar, Son of Hulk (The Hulk/Red Hulk); Hawkeye's brother Trickshot (Comicbook/{{Hawkeye}}, duh); The Gorgon, Wolverine's deadliest enemy (ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}); Ragnarok, a robotic clone of Thor infamously created by Tony Stark's side during ''ComicBook/CivilWar'' ([[Characters/TheMightyThorThorOdinson Thor]]); Ai Apaec, a sinister sort of arachnid god (Franchise/SpiderMan); June Covington, a deranged geneticist Osborn met in prison (ComicBook/ScarletWitch); and Superia, a StrawFeminist MadScientist with super strength (Comicbook/MsMarvel). Norman himself becomes the new [[AllYourPowersCombined Super-Adaptoid]], making him the only Dark Avenger without any real analogue. [[spoiler:Skaar turns out to subvert his role, being Captain America's [[TheMole Mole]] in the team.]] Just like the previous iteration, they don't match up well with the actual Avengers they face, as they still have no Luke Cage counterpart and there's no Hulk, Thor, or Scarlet Witch on the team.

* RunTheGauntlet: A variant on this happened in the conclusion, where Comicbook/DoctorStrange had to fight the assembled Avengers and New Avengers one-on-one, without hurting them, because a spirit-form enemy who wanted him dead was body-surfing from one to another.

* PoorlyDisguisedPilot: ''Comicbook/{{SecretWar|2004}}'' featured a team-up between many of the characters who would go on to form the core cast of ''New Avengers'', and also set up several plot threads for that series.

* SpiritualSuccessor: Most of the original line-up of the New Avengers had fought in the ''ComicBook/{{SecretWar|2004}}'' (also by Bendis). Too bad [[VictoryGuidedAmnesia they don't remember the details]].

* PoorlyDisguisedPilot: ''Comicbook/SecretWar'' featured a team-up between many of the characters who would go on to form the core cast of ''New Avengers'', and also set up several plot threads for that series.

* SpiritualSuccessor: Most of the original line-up of the New Avengers had fought in the ''ComicBook/SecretWar'' (also by Bendis). Too bad [[VictoryGuidedAmnesia they don't remember the details]].

* AlmightyJanitor: ComicBook/SquirrelGirl as a nanny. Although she is [[HyperCompetentSidekick demonstrably more capable]] than anyone else on the team, she sometimes has trouble [[RefugeInAudacity being taken seriously]], and everyone agrees that she's really the only one [[NiceGirl of an appropriate mindset]] to take care of a baby.

* BackForTheFinale: Wolverine, at the end of volume 1, after being unavailable for the last few arcs due to events in ''ComicBook/XMen''.

* TerribleIntervieweesMontage: Luke and Jessica trying to find a superpowered nanny for their daughter. Some candidates are horrible, some are offended, and some take the opportunity to get in a few zings at the team. But the [[ComicBook/SquirrelGirl last one]] is perfect.

* AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs: Any place they use as a headquarters typically has a hard time. Avengers Mansion has probably had it worst.
* [[AlmightyJanitor Almighty Nanny]]: ComicBook/SquirrelGirl. Although [[ComicBook/SquirrelGirl she]] is [[HyperCompetentSidekick demonstrably more capable]] than anyone else on the team, she sometimes has trouble [[RefugeInAudacity being taken seriously]], and everyone agrees that she's really the only one [[NiceGuy of an appropriate mindset]] to take care of a baby.
* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent:
** During ''ComicBook/SecretInvasion'', both this title and ''Mighty Avengers'' didn't feature the titular Avengers, but instead revealed backstory for several of the Skrull replacements. Justified, in that both teams were trapped in the Savage Land for a large portion of the story, and the story was originally going to be a BatFamilyCrossover taking place in the two Avengers titles before ExecutiveMeddling decided to make the story a CrisisCrossover limited series instead.
** One storyline during vol 2 focuses on Nick Fury gathering his own version of the Avengers in the fifties, which has nothing to do with the present-day segments.
* ArchEnemy: ComicBook/TheHood, the ComicBook/DarkAvengers
* TheAtoner: Daredevil, due to the events of ''ComicBook/{{Shadowland}}'', and Comicbook/DoctorStrange to some extent.
* BackForTheFinale: Wolverine, at the end of volume 1, after being unavailable for the last few arcs due to events in X-Men.

* BadassLongcoat: Doctor Strange.

* BigNo: Happens during the ComicBook/FearItself crossover, when Squirrel Girl sets her squirrels on a Nazi.
* BookEnds:
** Vol. 2 #16 (The final ''ComicBook/FearItself'' tie-in) opened with Hawkeye questioning what makes someone "Avengers material" and several Avengers arguing that certain people don't belong on the team; the issue ends with the same Avengers pointing out that applying AlternateCharacterInterpretation means that same person ''is'' very much the type of person who should be an Avenger.
** In a wider sense, Vol. 2 started and ended with arcs heavily based around magic, possession, Doctor Strange, and the title of Sorcerer Supreme.
* BorrowedCatchphrase: Norman Osborn escapes from prison and organizes a new team of Dark Avengers. One of his recruits is Skaar, son of Hulk. He lists all the reasons why this new team will succeed, and finally points out that "[[Film/TheAvengers2012 besides, we got a Hulk]]".
* BrickJoke: In the first issue of Vol. 2, Iron Fist gives Luke Cage a dollar to purchase Avengers Mansion from Tony Stark. When Luke leaves the team in the final issue of the volume, he sells it back to Stark for ''5'' dollars and Iron Fist complains that it was his money in the first place, whilst Stark notes that he sold the mansion to Cage for a fifth of that.
* BuryYourGays: [[spoiler:Victoria Hand [[DroppedABridgeOnHer gets a bridge dropped on her]] in the last story of vol 2.]]

---> '''Ronin''' ''(mid-battle)'' ''':''' Yo, Cage, do they always talk this much during a fight?
---> '''Luke Cage:''' Uh, yes, actually.
---> '''Iron Fist:''' Yeah, I didn't know there was banter involved. I don't do banter.
---> '''Luke Cage:''' You're doing banter now, Fist.
---> '''Iron Fist:''' No, I'm not.
---> '''Luke Cage:''' I didn't say it was ''good'' banter.

* ContrivedCoincidence: The 1950s Avengers has Nick Fury recruiting people with super powers for "The Avengers Initiative". But that doesn't explain the use of the name, as the Avengers were named that way by the Wasp simply for RuleOfCool.

* CrossThrough: The post-''Civil War'' issues occur with the opening arc of ''ComicBook/MightyAvengers'', when the team's plane is downed by Ultron's EMP. After recovering, they watch her message to the world.

** Echo is a deaf woman who posses [[PhotographicMemory "photographic reflexes"]] that allow her to mimic the feats of those around her.

* DroppedABridgeOnHim: The entirety of Alpha Flight is apparently killed, off-panel no less, by The Collective / Michael Pointer / [[spoiler:Xorn]]. This was eventually undone.
* EmpoweredBadassNormal: [[spoiler:Mockingbird, once she receives a dosage of the Infinity Formula.]]

* EveryoneWentToSchoolTogether: Spider-Man and Jessica Jones, complete with the embarrassing revelations that ''she'' had a crush on ''him''; and that Peter ''didn't even realise'' that Jessica Jones, superhero and former Bugle co-worker, went to the same school as him as he only knew her as "Coma Girl".

* FantasticVoyagePlot: In one story arc, Hank Pym and Doctor Strange enter Luke Cage's body to remove an explosive device from his heart.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: When everyone's scared about who might be a Skrull, Doctor Strange casts a spell to make sure everyone is who they say they are, and if they're lying it hurts them. The only one to react negatively is Spider-Woman, who spends several panels having difficulty standing up. [[FailedASpotCheck Which no-one notices.]]
** Spider-Woman's Civil War tie in focus issue is completely lacking in any inner monologue or narration from her or anything that gets into her head and shows what she's thinking unlike nearly every other focus issue.[[spoiler: Because of course, it's not her but Veranke and her inner motives are not at all what "Spider-Woman" appears to be doing.]]

** The Hood to Wolverine. With bullets.
** Luke Cage to Elektra[[spoiler:'s Skrull replacement.]]

* HeadTurningBeauty: Spider-Woman ([[spoiler:or better, the skrull Queen Veranke posing as her]]) gets this reaction from Iron Man and Luke Cage when she appears in her sexy red and yellow costume

* HeroDoesPublicService: Between adventures with cosmic level threats, the Avengers take time to stand on street corners in bad neighborhoods to help make people feel more secure and let small-time crooks know they're not below them.

* HiddenInPlainSight: When the team were hiding out at the Sanctum Sanctorum, Doctor Strange cast a spell on the building that it made it appear as if it had been long been deserted. He even went so far as to use a codeword which also hid any inhabitants that used it. Subverted, as Iron Man suspected the team were doing this, but couldn't find a magic user (or at least, a magic user willing to work with S.H.I.E.L.D.) able to overcome Strange's spell.
* HistoryRepeats: Implied to be happening during the ComicBook/AvengersVsXMen tie-in, in regards to Hope Summers and Fongji.

** "Avengers Apartment" until ''ComicBook/SecretInvasion'', which they use for all of two issues.

* KillerRabbit: Squirrel Girl can summon an army of squirrels to kill you. Avengers Mansion is right by Central Park. She can summon a ''lot'' of squirrels.

** Discussed by Iron Fist and Doctor Strange following ''ComicBook/CivilWar'', with the two of of them bearing mantles (Sorcerer Supreme and the Iron Fist) that had been previously passed down to them, and they will later pass on in their lives. Capped off with this:

* MaleGaze: Luke Cage makes several remarks about Suspiria when he sees her, even when his wife is standing right next to him.
* MametSpeak: As expected of a Bendis comic, but ''especially'' whenever Luke and Jessica Jones are having a conversation - they get ''[[WallOfText entire pages]]'' worth of back-and-forth.

** [[spoiler:Spider-Woman is really the Skrull Queen Veranke until after ''ComicBook/SecretInvasion'']].

* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: The Hood is granted the Norn Stones by Loki after his connection with Dormammus is severed. After [[spoiler:[[ComicBook/{{Siege}} Loki takes them back]]]], he seeks out Count Nefaria to try and invoke this again, but [[spoiler:the New Avengers track him down and arrest him before he could get new powers again]].
* NeverFoundTheBody: The Collective arc ends with a plane that has Magneto onboard exploding, with all hands lost. Everyone treats it like it's a serious possibility Magneto is actually, totally dead for reals. He showed up in an X-Men comic a few months later.

* NukeEm: The American government's plan to deal with the Collective is to nuke what's left of Genosha while the Avengers are on it. Maria Hill refuses to do it.

* OffWithHisHead: In the flashback to Fury's Avengers, Sabretooth does this to a Red Skull.
* OnceDoneNeverForgotten: The Sentry throwing the Void into the sun.
** Similarily, Spider-Man reminds everyone that Victoria Hand was Norman Osborn's right hand during ''ComicBook/DarkReign'' at every opportunity.
* OneOfTheBoys: Within the team dynamic, Mockingbird tends to be this. She's not part of the PseudoRomanticFriendship between Carol and the two Jessicas (ComicBook/SpiderWoman and ComicBook/JessicaJones), and instead whenever she's getting chummy with a teammember, it's with one of the boys. She also has the most tomboyish personality, probably helped by her tomboyish name.
* OneSteveLimit: Averted between Jessica Jones and Spider-Woman (Jessica Drew).

** Jessica Drew[=/=]Spider Woman was revealed to be recruited by HYDRA to infiltrate S.H.I.E.L.D. as TheMole in exchange for her powers being restored, except Nick Fury had her feeding HYDRA limited intel whilst S.H.I.E.L.D. analysed the HYDRA cell and planned to use the intel to take them down; when the Captain America recruited her to the New Avengers, HYDRA amended her role to also spy on the Avengers. When the team found out about her role as a double agent, it was decided to do the same thing she was doing for S.H.I.E.L.D. and have her feed HYDRA limited intel. [[spoiler:And ''then'' it turns out that she was replaced by [[ComicBook/SecretInvasion Veranke]] during the proceedure to restore her powers, and she was playing the New Avengers, HYDRA and S.H.I.E.L.D. as part of the Skrull's plans to take Earth.]]
** [[spoiler:Victoria Hand, formerly Norman Osborn's right hand during ''ComicBook/DarkReign'', serves as the team's S.H.I.E.L.D liaison at [[ComicBook/CaptainAmerica Steve Rogers]]'s request, but provides info on the team to Osborn's new H.A.M.M.E.R organisation. However, this is ''also'' at Rogers's request, as she provides info on H.A.M.M.E.R to him, with the New Avengers' distrust of her providing the ideal cover]].
* PopCulturalOsmosisFailure: Ms. Marvel doesn't recognise a quote from ''Film/{{Ghostbusters|1984}}'', much to Spider-Man and the Thing's consternation.
* ThePowerOfFriendship[=/=]TrueCompanions: The team has a "family" vibe, complete with nearly-[[OnceAnEpisode once-a-book]] scenes of them sitting around a table eating and talking.
* PowerOutagePlot: The comic opens with Electro causing a blackout in New York City, which knocks out power to the Raft, the prison for supervillains, leading to a massive jailbreak. The new Avengers team is formed from heroes who happened to be there to respond to the crisis.

** Echo, who was written out and eventually joined the cast of ''ComicBook/MoonKnight''. And then died.
* TheQuietOne: Fongji, former Iron Fist, hardly ever said a word, so much so everyone assumed she was mute. Eventually, however, she does start speaking.
* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: By vol. 2 under Luke Cage, the team consists of anyone he has managed to recruit, yielding a mismatched bag of heroes, some of whom are on their second (or third, or fourth) chance. Wong called them a "second-rate pile of Avengers" and Kyle Richmond, aka Nighthawk, said "clearly you guys are ComicBook/TheDefenders."
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Daimon Hellstrom delivers an amazing one to the picketers in front of Avengers Mansion (and indirectly to the Marvel Universe civilian populace in general) after they defeat Agamotto in the first arc of Volume 2:
--> ''I hope you dregs and slackers appreciate what these people just did for you today. They saved your lives! They saved the world! Not metaphorically. Actually! And they're not even going to come out and take a bow. You get me? The world gets to turn one more day and it's because of them. So you better go do something a hell of a lot more meaningful than watching reality TV and fighting over your seat on the bus. You'd better ''appreciate'' it.''
* RidingIntoTheSunset: [[spoiler:Luke Cage and Jessica Jones at the end of Volume 2, electing to call time on their tenure with the Avengers following [[ComicBook/AvengersVsXMen the latest events with the Phoenix]] in order to raise daughter Danielle.]]
* RunningGag: Whenever the Avengers are getting their asses handed to them, Spider-Man suggesting that Senty [[OnceDoneNeverForgotten throws whatever is kicking the team's ass into the sun]].

* SignificantGreenEyedRedhead: Hope Summers and Fongji, both of whom wield the power of the Phoenix. Fongji takes this even further by being an Iron Fist as well. They even look very similar.
* SpiritualSuccessor: Most of the original line-up of the New Avengers had fought in the ComicBook/SecretWar (also by Bendis). Too bad [[VictoryGuidedAmnesia they don't remember the details]].

* TimeSkip: The comic book began with a six month time skip from the events of ComicBook/AvengersDisassembled.
* TokenEvilTeammate: Wolverine, of the NecessarilyEvil kind. ComicBook/IronMan notes to ComicBook/CaptainAmerica that, aside from strengthening human[=/=]mutant relations, this would be an important reason to have Logan around - He'd be able (and willing) to do [[ThouShallNotKill things that none of the other team members would]] (though Wolvie's considerably more mellow these days).
-->'''Wolverine''': [''to Brother Voodoo''] Bub, I can do what needs to be done in a way you can't.
-->'''The Thing''': I think that's a compliment, by the way.
* TooMuchInformation: After everyone wakes up naked in the Savage Land, Spider-Woman notes Peter is the only one without underwear. He explains he never wears any in his Spidey outfit (it chafes). Spider-Woman's reaction?
-->''I want off the team.''
* TookALevelInJerkass: Wong, who spends a lot of his appearances in vol 2 insulting and swearing at everyone.

* UnstoppableForceMeetsImmovableObject: "I've always wondered what would happened if I [[BuffySpeak Iron]] [[DoubleEntendre Fisted]] a Hulk..."[[note]]Let's just say the object moves.[[/note]]

* WhamEpisode: Issue 31 - [[spoiler:TheReveal that the Skrulls were covertly replacing high powered figures on Earth [[ComicBook/SecretInvasion in preparation of an invasion]].]]

** During the post-''Civil War'' arc, Silver Samurai notes that the Hand, under Elektra's leadership, are violently seizing control over the Japanese underworld. Once Elektra gets a sword through the chest, [[spoiler:and turns out to be a skrull]], the Avengers go home, and never mention the Hand again.
** The first time Earth has no Sorcerer Supreme, it's an immediate crisis that must be dealt with at once. The second time, it appears that two years of real time can pass without any particular badness occurring.
** When Iron Fist is abducted by [[spoiler:Agamotto]] pretending to be the Ancient One, he hears two voices, one that speaks in green and one in yellow. While the yellow one turns out to be [[spoiler:Agamotto]] the other one remains unrevealed.
* WhoWantsToLiveForever: Nick Fury warns against immortality, calling it "a ticket to every friend's funeral", when discussing whether to [[spoiler:give Mockingbird the Infinity Formula.]]

* OneOfTheBoys: Within the team dynamic, Mockingbird tends to be this. She's not part of the [[RomanticTwoGirlFriendship Romantic Three Girl Friendship]] between Carol and the two Jessicas (ComicBook/SpiderWoman and ComicBook/JessicaJones), and instead whenever she's getting chummy with a teammember, it's with one of the boys. She also has the most tomboyish personality, probably helped by her tomboyish name.

** Echo, who was written out and eventually joined the cast of ''ComicBook/MoonKnight''. [[StuffedIntoTheFridge And then died]].

[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/f4022d43ad7b222146451ead902f5132.jpg]][[caption-width-right:350: Avengers, Assemble![[note]]Clockwise from middle top: ComicBook/TheSentry, ComicBook/SpiderMan, ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}, ComicBook/CaptainAmerica, ComicBook/IronMan, [[Characters/{{Daredevil}} Ronin]], ComicBook/LukeCage, and ComicBook/SpiderWoman.[[/note]].]]

In other media, the team (consisting of Spider-Man, Luke Cage, Comicbook/WarMachine, Iron Fist, Wolverine, and the Thing) appeared in a self-titled episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheAvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes''. Most of the members also are playable heroes in the Website/{{Facebook}} game ''VideoGame/MarvelAvengersAlliance''. Also, in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse, the New Avengers are referenced at the end of ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron''[[note]]The immediate follow-up, ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'', doesn't pick up on this[[/note]] in which, with [[Comicbook/TheMightyThor Thor]] leaving for Asgard, [[Comicbook/TheIncredibleHulk the Hulk]] for parts unknown, and Iron Man and Hawkeye calling time on their tenure in the team, Cap and Comicbook/BlackWidow decide to rebrand the team with War Machine, Comicbook/TheFalcon, Comicbook/ScarletWitch and Comicbook/TheVision as its new formation.

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After ''ComicBook/AvengersDisassembled'', Tony Stark disbanded the Avengers. [[TimeSkip Six months later]], a prison riot at the Raft proved that the world needed an Avengers team, so Comicbook/CaptainAmerica recruited the other heroes who helped stop the riot - Comicbook/IronMan, Comicbook/SpiderMan, [[Comicbook/LukeCageHeroForHire Luke Cage]], and [[Comicbook/{{SpiderWoman}} Spider-Woman]] - to form the New Avengers. As the first few arcs went on, the team was joined by Comicbook/{{Wolverine}}, Comicbook/TheSentry and Ronin (a disguised [[Characters/{{Daredevil}} Echo]], sent by Comicbook/{{Daredevil}} in his place, later replaced by a resurrected Comicbook/{{Hawkeye}}). Following ''ComicBook/CivilWar'' through to the end of ''ComicBook/DarkReign'', the team was forced underground, but with the beginning of the Heroic Age they were free to operate openly. The series lasted for 64 issues (January, 2005-June, 2010).

After ''ComicBook/AvengersDisassembled'', Tony Stark disbanded the Avengers. [[TimeSkip Six months later]], a prison riot at the Raft proved that the world needed an Avengers team, so Comicbook/CaptainAmerica recruited the other heroes who helped stop the riot - Comicbook/IronMan, Comicbook/SpiderMan, [[Comicbook/LukeCageHeroForHire Luke Cage]], and [[Comicbook/{{SpiderWoman}} Spider-Woman]] - to form the New Avengers. As the first few arcs went on, the team was joined by Comicbook/{{Wolverine}}, Comicbook/TheSentry and Ronin (a disguised [[Characters/{{Daredevil)) Echo]], sent by Comicbook/{{Daredevil}} in his place, later replaced by a resurrected Comicbook/{{Hawkeye}}). Following ''ComicBook/CivilWar'' through to the end of ''ComicBook/DarkReign'', the team was forced underground, but with the beginning of the Heroic Age they were free to operate openly. The series lasted for 64 issues (January, 2005-June, 2010).

After ''ComicBook/AvengersDisassembled'', Tony Stark disbanded the Avengers. [[TimeSkip Six months later]], a prison riot at the Raft proved that the world needed an Avengers team, so Comicbook/CaptainAmerica recruited the other heroes who helped stop the riot - Comicbook/IronMan, Comicbook/SpiderMan, [[Comicbook/LukeCageHeroForHire Luke Cage]], and [[Comicbook/{{SpiderWoman}} Spider-Woman]] - to form the New Avengers. As the first few arcs went on, the team was joined by Comicbook/{{Wolverine}}, Comicbook/TheSentry and Ronin (a disguised ComicBook/{{Echo|MarvelComics}}, sent by Comicbook/{{Daredevil}} in his place, later replaced by a ressurrected Comicbook/{{Hawkeye}}). Following ''ComicBook/CivilWar'' through to the end of ''ComicBook/DarkReign'', the team was forced underground, but with the beginning of the Heroic Age they were free to operate openly. The series lasted for 64 issues (January, 2005-June, 2010).

* SweetPollyOliver: Echo as Ronin. A bit of FridgeBrilliance with this, since given the [[CaptainEthnic VERY Japanese]] nature of the identity (plus the fact that the costume does a great job of hiding the fact there's a woman in it), nobody would ever suspect that Ronin was actually a Latina woman from America, not a male from Japan.

* UnstoppableForceMeetsImmovableObject: "I've always wondered what would happened if I [[BuffySpeak Iron ]][[DoubleEntendre Fisted]] a Hulk..."[[note]]Let's just say the object moves.[[/note]]

After ''ComicBook/AvengersDisassembled'', Tony Stark disbanded the Avengers. [[TimeSkip Six months later]], a prison riot at the Raft proved that the world needed an Avengers team, so Comicbook/CaptainAmerica recruited the other heroes who helped stop the riot - Comicbook/IronMan, Comicbook/SpiderMan, [[Comicbook/LukeCageHeroForHire Luke Cage]], and [[Comicbook/{{SpiderWoman}} Spider-Woman]] - to form the New Avengers. As the first few arcs went on, the team was joined by Comicbook/{{Wolverine}}, Comicbook/TheSentry and Ronin (a disguised Echo, sent by Comicbook/{{Daredevil}} in his place, later replaced by a ressurrected Comicbook/{{Hawkeye}}). Following ''ComicBook/CivilWar'' through to the end of ''ComicBook/DarkReign'', the team was forced underground, but with the beginning of the Heroic Age they were free to operate openly. The series lasted for 64 issues (January, 2005-June, 2010).

* PlayingBothSides[=/=]ReverseMole: