Line #157 ComicBook/AvengersAcademy


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:And you thought your PE teacher was a dick.]]
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5	''Avengers Academy'' is a spinoff of Marvel's highly popular ''[[ComicBook/TheAvengers Avengers]]'' franchise. ''Avengers Academy'' is exactly what it says on the tin, a school for young and up coming super humans. Started during the 'Heroic Age' it stood out from the other Avengers titles by featuring largely new characters (the students) and some less prominent existing characters (the staff). The first story arc features Hank Pym (Ant-Man, Giant Man and many more) starting up the school to teach the first class how to be heroes and how to live with their various physical and emotional scars. Starting in issue #21 a brand new story arc begins featuring most of the original students, joined by a number of existing Marvel teens, some joining the main cast, the others being in the background as part timers. The school was also moved to Los Angeles to the West Coast Avengers compound and several members of the staff changed.
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7	Created by Christos Gage the series acts as a SpiritualSuccessor to the similarly themed, though quite different ''[[ComicBook/AvengersTheInitiative Avengers: The Initiative]]'', also co-written by Gage. One of the students 'Reptil' coming from that series, Hank Pym and Tigra were also central figures in that book. Though that Pym was a Skrull. The presence of Hank, Jocasta and Quicksilver means it also continues some plot threads from ComicBook/DarkReign-era ''Mighty Avengers''.
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9	While any issue can be picked up and enjoyed, especially new reader friendly issues are #1, #14.1 and #21.
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11	The title lasted for 39 issues (August, 2010- January, 2013) and some of the cast appeared in the DarkerAndEdgier ''ComicBook/AvengersArena'' series as part of the ''Marvel NOW!'' relaunch. Also see ''ComicBook/YoungAvengers'' for another Avengers-affiliated young team.
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13	Unrelated to the free-to-play mobile village simulator game [[VideoGame/MarvelAvengersAcademy with the same name]].
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16	!!''Avengers Acedemy'' provides examples of:
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18	* ActionGirl: All of the female students count and Tigra for the teachers.
19	* AssholeVictim: Even though Tigra lambastes the participants for their actions, it's hard for the reader not to take some satisfaction when several of the Academy's students respond to learning how the Hood invaded Tigra's home, beat her viciously, made her beg for her life and threatened her mother, by deciding to PayEvilUntoEvil and do the same thing to him, putting up a video of the Hood pleading for his life on WebSite/YouTube.
20	* AmbiguousSituation: Of the six original students, only Reptil and Finesse get a solid explanation on where their powers might have come from (the former has his amulet, the latter might be Taskmaster's daughter). Hazmat just says she's not a mutant (with her parents blaming Roxxon, their workplace, for potentially exposing her to something that changed her), Striker's mother seems to know where his powers came from but lies that she doesn't, and Veil and Mettle don't get any sort of explanation for theirs.
21	* AnimalThemeNaming:
22	** Reptil, sort of.
23	** Hank Pym started the series as The Wasp. His original superhero identity was ComicBook/AntMan. He also used Yellowjacket.
24	** White Tiger
25	* AnimalThemedSuperbeing:
26	** Reptil who can turn into any Dinosaur. At first, it was only in parts, later he could change into a whole animal. [[spoiler:his adult self can change into any animal from the dimension that Moon-boy and Devil Dinosaur came from.]]
27	** Tigra, an orange and black furred cat-woman.
28	* ArchEnemy: [[spoiler:Jeremy Briggs is everything they fear becoming wrapped up in a package of being everything they also want.]]
29	* AvengersAssemble: Used in the original sense a few times.
30	* AwesomenessByAnalysis: Finesse. Considering [[spoiler:she's heavily implied to be Taskmaster's daughter, this is a given.]]
31	* BadassCape: Averted as is common with Marvel Comics.
32	** Only [[ComicBook/NewWarriors Justice]] the instructor is a BadassCape.
33	* BadassNormal: Finesse counts, though her ability to learn and analyze data borders on SuperIntelligence.
34	* BadPowersBadPeople: The reason the kids were gathered for this 'school'. They either have bad powers or budding sociopathy, and are being trained to specifically prevent them from turning into supervillains. The series sees how successful or not they are.
35	-->'''Mettle:''' ''"Look at us. Big monster guy, the human electric chair, poison gas girl, assassin chick, t-rex boy, and Chernobyl in Abercrombie and Fitch. One wrong move and any one of us could be a murderer."''
36	* BigDamnHeroes: Happens several times, most recently when students are going to sacrifice themselves to stop "The Worthy" and prevent the destruction of a city when [[spoiler:Giant-Man burst through the walls of the Infinite Mansion, attacking "The Worthy" while the rest of the staff (all of which are Avengers) show up to rescue the students!]]
37	* TheBigGuy: Mettle. Being a giant of iridium, it's sort of the default.
38	* BitingTheHandHumor: Hazmat in #10: "Today's gonna suck as much as all the others... but just a little bit ''harder''. Because it's ''ComicBook/OneMoreDay''... with ''no end in sight''."
39	** She does it again in #34. "I thought they'd reopen the Academy in a day. Maybe two. But this ComicBook/AvengersVsXMen thing just keeps dragging on."
40	* BittersweetEnding: And not because of ComicBook/AvengersArena either. That's just salt in the wound. This series ends with:
41	** [[spoiler:Veil permanently depowered and even losing the health boost that she got when her mutation manifested, as well as being forced to go back to normal school... but where she is able to forcibly move up in the pecking order thanks to the confidence and fighting skills she learned at Avengers Academy.]]
42	** [[spoiler:Hazmat and Mettle being told they can't take more of Jeremy Briggs's cure, because ItOnlyWorksOnce, but deciding they can still have a relationship with each other at least.]]
43	** [[spoiler:Striker's face is seemingly permanently scarred by Jeremy Briggs... but he matures enough to realize that looks aren't everything, and he can still have a life with them.]]
44	** [[spoiler:Finesse losing her friendship with X-23 over the fact she used Laura's claws to kill Jeremy Briggs and let everybody think it was Laura who struck the killing blow, and seemingly loses Reptil to White Tiger.]]
45	** [[spoiler:The whole Avengers Academy team being told that they have officially graduated to rookie Avengers, and are on their way to becoming full-fledged Avengers in time.]]
46	** [[spoiler:Hank Pym and Tigra actually seem to be forming a healthy, stable relationship.]]
47	** [[spoiler:A new Avengers-based humanitarian program to better support superhumans to places where their powers can help in ways other than just beating bad guys is launched.]]
48	* BlackDudeDiesFirst: When the mansion is under attack Hazmat snarks that she "feel(s) like the black guy in a disaster movie".
49	* BlessedWithSuck: The original cast is pretty much ''built'' on this. We have Veil who can turn into mist... yet her power is slowly killing her. Then we have Hazmat whose body produces deadly radiation, and has to be confined to a suit to protect others (think Captain Atom meets Rogue). Then there's Finesse, who is a super fighter but her brain can't handle all the information, causing her to discard social skills as "extraneous data", with the similarly empowered [[spoiler:Taskmaster]] stating that his own short-term memory suffers similarly, as his brain constantly dumps "useless" data to imprint more combat skills. [[spoiler:Sure enough, a future version of Finesse shows she has awful short-term memory, to the point that she's continually forgetting her daughter's name.]] And then there's Mettle, who was a champion surfer before his powers awakened granting him SuperStrength and NighInvulnerability...but making him look like a metal version of ComicBook/RedSkull (he even yells once 'I'm not related to Red Skull, I'm Jewish'). Striker and Reptil are the safest of them, but they've got issues of their own to work around (and Striker's aren't even related to his powers).
50	* BookEnds: [[spoiler:The series starts off with Veil being picked on in school and ends that way. Except in the end, Veil has picked up more self confidence and ass-kicking skills.]]
51	* BoxingLessonsForSuperman: Part of the point of this series. Finesse uses her training with the actual Captain America and Iron Fist to hold her own against Taskmaster, as an example.
52	* BrickJoke: In the first issue of ''Wolverine and the ComicBook/XMen'', there's the promise of the "inaugural flag football game vs. the Avengers Academy". Sure enough, in the crossover between the two series, they have a flag football match.
53	* BreatherEpisode: The prom issue (#13) and a Flag Football Match against the [[ComicBook/XMen Jean Grey School]] (#38) and the grand finale. The last two become even more relevant with [[ComicBook/AvengersArena what follows it]].
54	* BrokenBird: All of the original students and staff. They are all in their own way damaged. There’s a reason Tigra refers to the staff as the black sheep of the Avengers.
55	* TheBusCameBack: [[spoiler:Veil returns, along with Jeremy Briggs and Jocasta, in an attempt to close the Academy.]]
56	* CanonImmigrant:
57	** Reptil, originally a character created just for ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperheroSquadShow'' toyline, was introduced in the comics in an Initiative special in early 2009, and became a student at Avengers Academy the following year.
58	** And Ava Ayala, the New White Tiger, who was created for the new ''[[WesternAnimation/UltimateSpiderMan2012 Ultimate Spider-Man]]'' animated series as confirmed by Gage on Twitter.
59	** X-23, while fully established at the time of her debut in the comic, originated in the ''WesternAnimation/XMenEvolution'' animated series.
60	* CatGirl: Tigra and White Tiger, in different ways. Tigra is an ''actual'' catgirl, being half woman and half tiger -- which manifests as her looking like a human with clawed fingers and toes, cat-like eyes, a cat's tail, and a body covered in fur, with her son sticking to the same theme. White Tiger's costume and gender combine give her a vaguely cat-like trait, with horns on her mask symbolic of cat's ears and clawed fingers, but she's much more symbolic than Tigra.
61	* CentralTheme: There's two major themes that run through the entire series. The first and biggest is the defiance of expectations. But the other one is a bit subtler, but is nonetheless important: dealing with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
62	** There's a third one, too - trying to do something for someone's own good without consulting them is not a good idea. Most of the problems start with something like this - the kids not being told they're potential villains, the kids going after the Hood intending to get revenge for Tigra, Veil releasing Karina (who she thinks is Wasp) since she thinks that Hank will appreciate it...the list goes on.
63	* ChromeChampion: A metallic red variant in Mettle.
64	* CivvieSpandex: Again, Mettle.
65	* ClothesMakeTheLegend: Hank Pym returning to his Giant-Man look and name just in time to rescue the students from the Absorbing Man.
66	* CodeName:
67	** Striker, Hazmat, Mettle (it's like a double entendre he says), Veil, Reptil and Finesse in the first class. When the roster expands we get White Tiger and [[ComicBook/PowerPack Lightspeed]]. Well they are training to be Avengers after all.
68	** Hank Pym who started the series out as The Wasp in honor of his late wife finally returns to his older CodeName Giant-Man
69	* ClingyJealousGirl Hazmat gets pretty jealous of X-23 when Mettle was trying to befriend her.
70	** On the otherhand, Hardball gets jealous of Reptil when it looks like he's flirting with Komodo, Hardball's girlfriend
71	* CoveredWithScars: Robbie Baldwin (a.k.a Speedball and formerly as Penance) the instructor is covered with scars from his Penance stint. However, his scars are mostly hidden inside his skintight Speedball costume and he cuts himself in private without any notice from other instructors until his act was only discovered by Veil.
72	* DePower: [[spoiler:Jeremy Briggs' evil plan involves depowering every genetic-based superhuman in the world, and then selectively restoring only those individuals willing to work for him.]]
73	* DysfunctionJunction: Both the teachers and the students are ''severely'' messed up.
74	** For the teachers, we have: Hank Pym, who has undergone ''multiple'' psychotic breaks over his adult life, been divorced several times, and most recently spent a prolonged period as captive of the Skrulls. Tigra, whose mind has consistently been overwhelmed by her feral feline urges at several points (including an extended period where she had to be kept miniaturized in a cat enclosure to keep her from endangering people), and who was raped-by-proxy by a Skrull playing on her affection for Hank Pym, which got her pregnant. Robert Baldwin, who was the only survivor of an incident that killed 600 people, which broke him to the point he became obsessed with self-mutilation -- a practice he's ''still'' engaging in during the earliest issues. Vance Astrovik, who accidentally killed his dad with his powers. Quicksilver, who has been through the HeelFaceRevolvingDoor more times than one can count.
75	** For the students, we have: Veil, who was a bullied and humiliated girl at high school who was given the ability to assume the form of ''any'' gas, including poisonous ones, and who is doomed to discorporate into nothing if she is not cured. Finesse, who seems to be a budding sociopath[[note]]although, when given her first "focus comic", she notes has never felt any desire to hurt anyone or enjoyed hurting animals; it's later implied that, like her in-all-probability father Taskmaster, her brain simply "dumps" social knowledge to have room for her photographic reflexes[[/note]]. Striker was bought up by an abusive StageMom and sexually molested by the manager she got for him, and whom she wouldn't believe was molesting him. Mettle's mutation trapped him in the form of a deformed monster with muted tactile senses. Even Reptil, the least-baggaged member of the initial students, had his parents kidnapped and is desperately looking for them.
76	* EnfantTerrible: [[spoiler:[[ComicBook/RomSpaceKnight The Horror Men Call Hybrid]]. This marks the first return of Jimmy Marks, a HalfHumanHybrid of human (mutant) and [[FaceStealer Dire Wraith]], since he was killed in the original ''ComicBook/XMan'' comic, and he is still up to his own form. He manipulates events to get himself taken to the Academy, and then starts trying to siphon the life out of the male students, whilst planning to brainwash the female students into a harem with which he can breed a new generation of super-powered Dire Wraith hybrids to conquer the world with.]]
77	* FakingTheDead: [[spoiler:Jocasta faked her own death at some point.]]
78	* FifteenMinutesOfFame: Striker's mother had an affair with a prominent politician. After her fame ran out, she began pushing her son to become famous as well.
79	* [[FirstEpisodeSpoiler First-Issue Spoiler]]: The first issue ends with the reveal that the Avengers Academy program isn't to train them as heroes so much as to prevent them from becoming supervillains, as they were determined to be the most at-risk of Osborn's test subjects.
80	* FiveTokenBand: Goes very, very close to this trope with the original lineup. Reptil is Latino, Mettle is half-Jewish and half either Black or Polynesian, Hazmat is a Japanese-American girl, Veil is also a girl and Striker is [[spoiler:gay.]] Later additions to the core team (White Tiger, Julie Power and X-23) are Latino, bisexual and a clone, respectively and are all girls.
81	* FogFeet: Veil looks like this when she flies, since it relies on converting her lower body into mist.
82	* FrozenFace: Mettle. Because he does not have skin and is left with metallic armor on every part of his body, his face looked more skull-like.
83	* FutureMeScaresMe: Subverted and played straight in the Korvac arc. Some of the students were disappointed that at least in those particular futures, described as their most powerful incarnations in the multiverse, they were still CursedWithAwesome. Reptil actually refused to let his future body change back at first because it granted him better control of his powers.
84	** [[spoiler:And it was later revealed that Reptil would become possessed by the same and potentially evil alternate future version of himself in a later arc.]]
85	* GenkiGirl: Julie is incredibly excitable during a basketball game, including yelling "Go Team Girls!", something that did not escape Hazmat.
86	* HairTriggerTemper: Surprisingly, of the student Mettle seems the most volatile. This surprises him too.
87	** Hazmat is no slouch in that category either.
88	* HeroWithBadPublicity: Played with at one point; Mettle is distressed to discover people assume he is the Red Skull's son. He's half-Jewish.
89	* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:one averted, one played with. During ''Fear Itself'', Hazmat, Mettle, and Finesse agree to stay behind to hold off two of the Worthy (Titania and Absorbing Man) and self-destruct the Infinite Mansion. This is averted thanks to the timely intervention of Hank Pym, Jocasta and Quicksilver. Later, Hazmat and Mettle sacrifice their recently regained humanity and normalcy as well as the possibility of a normal life in order to save their friends (and the world) from Jeremy Briggs' plans.]]
90	* HowDidYouKnowIDidnt: Played with. Hazmat blasts X-23 in #25, Mettle asks her if she knew X would be okay. She said yes, but added that even if she wouldn't be, she'd have done it anyway.
91	* HurtFootHop: Hazmat once attempts to kick Rockslide in the groin. Rockslide is a mutant whose body built out of solid rock. Hazmat is a mere human girl in a suit. Hazmat ends up hopping up and down while clutching her foot in pain.
92	* IHaveManyNames: In addition to everyone having a {{Code Name}}, Hank Pym has several. Often referred to simply as Hank Pym, he was The Wasp when the series started, before becoming (again) Giant-Man. And in his past he has also been Ant-Man, Yellowjacket, and Goliath.
93	* IAmNotAGun: In a moment of desperation Finesse uses Laura's claws to kill [[spoiler:Jeremy Briggs]] while she was unconscious, allowing Laura to believe ''she'' did it herself before passing out. When Finesse later reveals the truth Laura is deeply upset at being used in such a manner, and it destroys the friendship they'd built.
94	* IJustWantToBeNormal: Veil and Hazmat have quite a few gripes about their conditions. While Veil manages to keep things in stride until ''Fear Itself'' (she is only afraid of literally vanishing into thin air), Hazmat is ''very'' {{wangst}}y about it. [[spoiler:Jeremy Briggs cures them both at different points of the story, and while Maddy manages to stay normal for the rest of the series, Jenny has to get her powers back and forsake a normal life when Briggs launches his masterplan.]]
95	* InformedAttribute: Veil initially [[ACupAngst complains about not having the chest]] [[MostCommonSuperpower for wearing a superheroine costume]], but she appears just as curvy as every other superheroine.
96	* IronicEcho: Issue #37: [[spoiler:As Jeremy lays dying, Finesse repeats the same phrase he said when he attacked the group, reminding him of the Avengers Academy's ultimate goal: "[[Film/{{Scarface 1983}} Say hello to the bad guy.]]"]]
97	* JumpingOnPoint: Issue #1 obviously. However both 14.1 (a standalone story between #14 and #15) and #21 (start of a new arc) were billed as these.
98	* TheKidWithTheRemoteControl: Juston Seyfert from the earlier Marvel comic series ''Sentinel''.
99	* LamarckWasRight: Finesse has the same powers as ComicBook/{{Taskmaster}}, who gained them by special serum, and it's implied she might be his daughter. When the two of them meet, she directly asks him about it, only for it to turn out that a drawback of his powers is loss of his non-combat related memories, so he has no damn idea.
100	* TheLeader: Reptil. He's above all else really wants to be a hero. Elected Class President.
101	* LeaningOnTheFourthWall:
102	** When the students are told that they can stop Korvac, Mettle says that the Avengers are already fighting him and [[WhoWouldWantToWatchUs "we're not even in the cartoons"]]. Striker points out that Reptil ''is'', because kids love dinosaurs. This is a reference to ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperHeroSquadShow'' cartoon, which features Reptil as a rookie alongside the more famous classic Avengers.
103	** [[spoiler:Future Reptil's]] inner monologue reveals that he doesn't remember Ava Ayala existing in his timeline, not even knowing that the original White Tiger had a living sister. On a meta level, Ava never appeared in the Marvel Universe before that particular arc (she's a CanonForeigner from ''WesternAnimation/UltimateSpiderMan2012''); as such, this can come off as commentary on how she was suddenly retconned in.
104	* LegacyCharacter: White Tiger, Ava Ayala. The mantle is one that has been in her family. It was first used by her older Brother Hector Ayala and her niece Angela Del Toro (who's older than Ava).
105	* LetsYouAndHimFight: Happens between the Avengers Academy Students and ComicBook/TheAvengers in Issue #21 then again between the students and the ComicBook/XMen in the next issue!
106	** Later subverted with the ComicBook/{{Runaways}} as midway through, they talk things out and join forces.
107	* LongLastingLastWords: PlayedForLaughs when Hercules pretends to be vanquished in a fight, but his pre-passing-out monologue goes on ''forever''.
108	* LukeIMightBeYourFather: [[spoiler:Finesse and Taskmaster think they might be related]] because of their similar special abilities. [[spoiler:Taskmaster]] doesn't deny the possibility [[spoiler:but states that he's been with quite a few women and he couldn't possibly narrow down Finesse's mother even if he didn't have memory problems. He also refuses to take a Daddy DNA Test because he doesn't want the government to get a sample of his DNA. Taskmaster still spars with Finesse once to memorize her movements, since it's the only surefire way he will remember her, only to realize that, like him, she has copied all her maneuvers from others so she had nothing to impart on him.]]
109	** Later on, a future version of [[spoiler:Finesse]] is shown suffering from similar memory problems as [[spoiler:Taskmaster]], a further proof of them being related. What makes the whole thing sadder/a moment of DoomedByCanon is that [[spoiler:she is shown to have a daughter with Reptil, meaning she possibly passed this defect on. Although her daughter's powers seem totally unrelated to either of her parents so there is hope.]]
110	* MarriedInTheFuture: A version of Reptil travels back from a future where he and Finesse are married and have a daughter.
111	* MoralPragmatist: This is how the veteran Avengers try to reform the teenage would-be supervillains. They try to show the kids that doing evil and supervillainy will only hurt themselves and their goals in the long run, while heroism or playing within the law can be lucrative. It sticks with some, but not so much for others.
112	* MsFanservice: For a teacher Tigra wears very little! {{Lampshaded}} several times by the students, but especially when she meets Emma Frost in issue #22.
113	-->'''Emma Frost''': By the way, darling, I love your outfit. Don't let anyone tell you it's inappropriate for a teacher.
114	** When the Runaways call her on it, she finally has a retort:
115	-->'''Tigra''': Ya know, before you judge, why don't you try wearing clothes over a heavy coat of fur in California.
116	** X-23's original outfit in this series before getting a proper shirt.
117	-->'''Rockslide''': That chick's hardcore. I miss the sports bra, though.
118	* MonsterModesty: Mettle is always clothed from the waist down, even after his shirts have been shot or burned off. Justified in that, unlike some mutants with similarly deformed bodies, Mettle is still fully anatomically correct below the waist.
119	* {{Mutants}}: The students (except Finesse and Reptil) are believed to be mutants in their origin stories but WordOfGod confirmed that they are not mutants, just vaguely mutates.
120	** The Instructors Quicksilver and Justice are mutants. Also, the new recruits X-23, Ricochet and Wiz Kid.
121	* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Giant-Man and Tigra are hit with this when the kids are called into action during the Fear Itself arc, especially when [[spoiler:Mettle kills a {{Mook}} and Tigra asks if he's prepared to do it again to protect civilians.]]
122	** Also, Veil and Jocasta when they realize [[spoiler:Briggs is going to take away the superpowers of everyone on Earth and only give them to the ones ''he'' deems "worthy".]]
123	* NighInvulnerability:
124	** Mettle again, the {{Made of Iron}} type.
125	** Veil of the Made of Air type.
126	* NoHuggingNoKissing: Averted, the series handles the sexual overtones well and realistically for a group of teenagers spending a lot of time with each other. Reptil and Finesse engage in casual sex, and a huge part of Hazmat's storyline was her fear of intimacy, not just related to her BlessedWithSuck powers.
127	* NotSoDifferentRemark: In Jennifer's hunt for Red She-Hulk, the Leader says that even though she has control of her emotions, she has just as much rage as Bruce.
128	* OddFriendship: Quicksilver and Finesse form one, with Pietro even comforting her when she gets upset, and being furious when Magneto tries to attack Finesse when Finesse defends Pietro.
129	* TheOneThatGotAway: [[spoiler:Finesse possibly loses Reptil forever because she waited too long to reciprocate any feelings towards him.]]
130	* OutOfFocus - Compared to everyone else, Julie Powers didn't get a lot of focus in the series, outside [[spoiler:helping Striker figure out his sexuality]]. But during ''Final Exam'', she takes the lead and kicks a lot of ass to make up for it.
131	* PairTheSpares: The end of the series ends with Hazmat and Mettle cementing their relationship, Julie Power on a date with Karolina, Striker going on a date/prom, Reptil and White Tiger hooking up and [[spoiler:Finesse left alone as her friendship with X-23 disintegrates completely and she loses her partial boyfriend Reptil because she waited too long.]]
132	* PersonOfMassDestruction: While the limits of her power have not been revealed the radioactive Hazmat is dangerous to just be around outside of her suit or special room, and claims to be able to take out a city by herself (one way or another). During ''Fear Itself'', she created a localized explosion strong enough to stagger two of the Worthy. It created a MushroomCloud.
133	* PoisonousPerson: Again, Hazmat.
134	* PromotionToParent: After her parents were killed when she was a child, Ava Ayala went to live with her older sister Awilda (Angela del Toro's mother). Though unlike most cases of this trope, Awilda is an adult and married with children.
135	* PrisonRiot: What they ''accidentally'' cause while visiting [[ComicBook/{{Thunderbolts}} The Raft]] and use it to cover an attempt to [[spoiler:kill Norman Osborn. He manages to talk his way out of it, though.]]
136	* PutOnABus: [[spoiler:Veil after the ''Fear Itself'' event. She does come back on occasion, but never rejoins the Academy.]]
137	** [[spoiler:Also after ''Fear Itself'', the instructors Justice and Speedball leave the academy to cope with their problems by [[WalkingTheEarth travelling around America on a roadtrip]].]]
138	** ComicBook/{{Machine Teen}} and Rocket Racer leave the Academy and join with [[spoiler:Jeremy Briggs]] although for different reasons.
139	* ReedRichardsIsUseless: Actually a plot point that Hank Pym, as well as Reed Richards himself are unable to help [[spoiler:Veil, Mettle, and Hazmat.]]
140	** In their appearance in ''The Amazing Spider-Man'', Spidey explains to the students in class how [[AmbitionIsEvil he was wrong for trying at first to use his powers for financial gain as a wrestler]] instead of [[ComesGreatResponsibility helping people]] and the students ask why he didn't just patent his webbing and make millions that he could donate to needy charities. Spidey counters that he'd have to give up his secret identity to patent it, but one of them points out he could have used proxies in the form of shell companies to hide the source of the webbing, and point by point take apart Mr. Parker's lesson plan as being illogical and overall, useless.
141	* RewindReplayRepeat: [[spoiler:The more anti-heroic of the students decide to find the Hood, beat him up, and put him begging for mercy on Website/YouTube, in revenge for his attack on Tigra. While Tigra believes this was a totally inappropriate action and chews them out for it, [[NotSoAboveItAll she can't resist watching the scene, again and again...]]]]
142	* ScareEmStraight: In a (minor) crossover with the ''ComicBook/{{Thunderbolts}}''. Striker even cites the idea directly, the title of the issue is "Scared Straight".
143	* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: [[spoiler:Essentially, this is Veil's immediate reaction after all that the kids have been through in ''ComicBook/FearItself''. She is so traumatized that they were essentially dropped in the middle of a war (no thanks to Absorbing Man's irrational grudge against Hank Pym) that she jumps ship to work with Jeremy Briggs the day after everything's over.]]
144	* SensibleHeroesSkimpyVillains: The problematic aspects of this trope are lampshaded where the Avengers confront Cyclops' post-''Schism X''-Men team. Hawkeye (IIRC) says of Emma Frost, "I knew someone who dresses like that couldn't stay a good guy!", to which Tigra responds, "What does that make me? Doctor Doom?".
145	** Later, Mettle makes a joke along those lines, suggesting that if Finesse goes evil, she should wear stiletto heels and get a "boob window".
146	* SheIsAllGrownUp: Julie Powers sure as hell isn't the same as in her ComicBook/PowerPack days.
147	* ShellShockedVeteran: To a degree, pretty much everyone as they all deal with post traumatic stress disorder in various ways. Teachers and Students included. This is especially true after ''ComicBook/FearItself.''
148	* ShockAndAwe: Striker has the ability to create and manipulate electricity.
149	* ShootTheShaggyDog: [[spoiler:Veil gets one of these during the ComicBook/FearItself event, where she finds and rescues a mother from a collapsed building, only for the mother to be gunned down in front of her daughter just after being saved.]]
150	* ShoutOut: Mettle's costume, a black T-shirt and jeans, refers back to Mike [=McKone=]'s stint on ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'', where he designed that same costume for ComicBook/{{Superboy}}.
151	** In the issue that Striker narrates it seems that Pym takes the students to see ''Theatre/{{Wicked}}.
152	** In #3, we see Hazmat's room at her home in San Francisco which is filled with merchandise from Franchise/{{Digimon}} and Franchise/MegaMan.
153	* StageMom: Striker's mother. She actually [[spoiler:hires Whirlwind to attack the students so that her son will gain publicity.]]
154	* StraightGay: [[spoiler:Striker.]]
155	* {{Stripperiffic}}:
156	** Averted in the original students. And the new students avoid it, too, unless you count Lightspeed showing off her midriff.
157	** But not by original teacher Tigra, who runs around in a bikini. She even defends this in some issues where the students and the Runaways meet up. Running around california while covered in fur is hot enough, thank you.
158	* SuperheroSchool: Avengers Academy, which trains future superheroes.
159	* SuperStrength:
160	** Mettle.
161	** Reptil, presumably, in the right dinosaur form.
162	* SurferDude: Mettle before his recruitment into the Initiative/Avengers Academy, also making him one of the few ethnically Hawaiian superheroes.
163	* ThatThingIsNotMyChild: Invoked. [[spoiler:Ant Man was [[ComicBook/SecretInvasion replaced by a Skrull]] which copied him "to the genetic level" and, during an affair with Tigra, impregnated her. As such, the child is genetically Ant Man's. Later, the real Ant Man returns, and Tigra insists that he has no parental claim to the baby. He agrees, but she then asks him to be the child's ''godfather'' instead.]]
164	* ThereAreNoTherapists: Therapists would be really, really useful in Avengers Academy. The central concept is that the kids are in the Academy because they're all traumatized or otherwise disturbed, and the Avengers want to mold them into superheroes before they turn into supervillains. The only psychologist they see is Moonstone - whom they visit in prison because she's an evil psychopath. The students do seem to be encouraged to confide in their instructors, with the conceit being that since their instructors are all especially troubled Avengers and associated, they are better able to guide them.
165	** Highlighted in #6, after Reptil's trauma causes him to attack a criminal as a feral raptor, Hank sends him to speak with Jessica Jones. After the session, Jessica reminds Hank while she can relate to Reptil she's not a therapist herself and he needs professional help.
166	** This also applies just as much to the adults. When Tigra realizes that her brutal beating at the hands of the Hood and the public humiliation it caused her are still affecting her, she doesn't see a professional about it, but instead goes on a talk show to get if off her chest.
167	* ThisIsGonnaSuck: {{Crisis Crossover}} ''ComicBook/FearItself'' has the students trapped in another dimension being pursued by two of the "Worthy", villains who through magic {{Took a Level in Badass}} and are now at [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Thor]]'s power level and intent on killing the students to get back at Giant-Man.
168	* {{Tsundere}}: Hazmat and her interactions with Meetle, at least at first.
169	* TroubledTeen: The initial six kids vary in regards to their troubled nature, but they all singled out for being part of the program because they [[spoiler:have the potential to become villians.]] Hazmat (has to live her life in a suit to avoid killing anyone with her powers), Finesse (criminal parents and possibly dealing with autism), Veil (bullied severely), and Striker (molested as a child and coming to terms with his sexuality) fit this trope the most.
170	* TwistEnding: At the end of the first issue the students are led to believe they were chosen because they have the potential to become great heroes. [[spoiler:They were actually chosen because they have the greatest potential to be great villains and the Avengers want to steer them down a different path.]]
171	* VillainHasAPoint: Whilst Jeremy Briggs is ultimately revealed to be a bad guy, even the Avengers Academy students give him the credit that he does have some valid points about using superpowers for humanitarian effects instead of just being glorified vigilantes.
172	* WarIsHell: [[ComicBook/FearItself The Serpent War]] was not kind to these kids.
173	* WellIntentionedExtremist: Jeremy Briggs in spades. He rejects the whole idea of becoming a superhero, but is dedicated, in his way, to helping people, founding a multi-million corporation with the aid of similar super-powered teens to begin enacting real social changes. [[spoiler:Even his plans for world domination are rooted in the idea that the "older generation" are too caught up in their pointless super-powered brawls to do something useful.]]
174	* WouldntHurtAChild: Spider-Man villain Rhino, when the kids try to take on the Sinister Six and fail horribly, refuses to kill the kids on Electro's orders.
175	* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: In the final issue, just as the teachers are about to give the students their Level 3 Clearance as a graduation gift, Hazmat starts to lash out at the teachers by telling them the kids have always known they were enrolled out of fear they'd go off the deep end and turn to villainy. Giant-Man immediately responds that while that ''was'' the case at first, the students managed to rise to the occasion and prove themselves, time and again, as the heroes they are supposed to be, while Hawkeye points out that he himself was a "danger case" like them.[[note]]When he joined the Avengers, people thought of him as a bad guy due to his first run-in with Iron Man, when the Black Widow (who was herself a villain at the time) manipulated him into fighting the ol' Shellhead.[[/note]]
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