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    Sunspot 

Sunspot

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Alter Ego: Roberto da Costa

Notable Aliases: Lord Imperial, Black Rook, Black King, Citizen V

Team Affiliations: The Avengers, New Avengers, Avengers Idea Mechanics (leader), American Intelligence Mechanics

First Appearance: Marvel Graphic Novel #4 (September, 1982)

Roberto Da Costa is a mutant with the ability to harness the sun's power, which grants him superhuman strength, speed, and durability. Born in Brazil, Roberto comes from a wealthy family and has been described as brash and quick tempered. Initially a member of the New Mutants, Roberto has since developed a long history with various teams affiliated with both the X-Men and the Avengers. Currently, he is the owner and head of A.I.M..


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    Cannonball 

Cannonball

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Alter Ego: Samuel Zachary "Sam" Guthrie

Notable Aliases: Samson Guthry

Team Affiliations: The Avengers, Avengers Idea Mechanics, American Intelligence Mechanics

First Appearance: Marvel Graphic Novel #4 (September, 1982)

Cannonball is a mutant with the ability to propel himself through the air like a human rocket. Over the years, Sam Guthrie has grown from a New Mutant, to the leader of the original X-Force, to a full-fledged member of the X-Men. He's currently a U.S. Avenger.


    Squirrel Girl 

Squirrel Girl

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Alter Ego: Doreen Allene Green

Team Affiliations: Avengers Idea Mechanics, New Avengers, American Intelligence Mechanics

First Appearance: Marvel Super-Heroes #8 (December, 1981)

A hero with squirrel-like abilities and features, Squirrel Girl is not always taken seriously, but she has nonetheless defeated many of the Marvel universe's greatest villains. She is a longtime member of the Great Lakes Avengers, and briefly served as a nanny for Luke Cage and Jessica Jones.


    Iron Patriot II 

Iron Patriot II

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Alter Ego: Dr. Toni Ho

Notable Aliases: Hekate-4, Rescue

Team Affiliations: Avengers Ideas Mechanics, American Intelligence Mechanics

First Appearance: New Avengers (Vol. 4) #1 (December, 2015)note ; U.S.Avengers Vol. 1 #1 (March, 2017)note 

The daughter of Ho Yinsen, Toni Ho worked as the director of engineering of Avengers Ideas Mechanics before taking up the role of the new Iron Patriot in American Intelligence Mechanics.


  • Affirmative-Action Legacy: As the new Iron Patriot, an Asian lesbian.
  • Alternate Self: Had one in an undesignated universe where she was the girlfriend of Rikki Barnes, who she was nothing but loving and kind to. This came to a tragic end when she was murdered by the Maker AKA the Reed Richards of Earth-1610, with Rikki being killed only after she had died.
  • Asian and Nerdy: Just like her dad.
  • Battle Couple: With Aikku Jokinen, a.k.a. Enigma.
  • The Cameo: Like Aikku above, she appears in the wedding crowd shot at the end of Empyre.
  • Gadgeteer Genius: Capable of building a device to prevent Roberto Da Costa's powers from killing him using just some materials she found in the holding center they are trapped in. Like father like daughter.
  • Legacy Character: First she became the second Rescue, and later she became the third Iron Patriot.
  • Mini-Mecha: Toni's Hulkbuster-esque heavy weapons Iron Patriot armor is quite big —roughly the size of Red Hulk— but not gigantic.
  • Powered Armor: Her main focus. She starts with a custom built Rescue armor, but then graduates to the Iron Patriot.
  • Rescue Romance: Pun aside, she fell in love with Aikku, and vice versa, while trying to figure out how to get her out of the Pod armored suit.
  • Technical Pacifist: Toni hates using violence and even admits that she doesn't know how to build a gun. Thus, her Iron Patriot armor is designed to use force fields to fight. Though as New Avengers shows, piss her off enough, and those forcefields can cut off a person's head. As the series goes on, Aikku points out the "technical" is becoming more and more suspect, and that those weapons Toni's developing sure look a hell of a lot like guns. Aikku has to actually correct her usage of "nonlethal" to "less-than-lethal". It's heavily implied, if not outright stated, that her reasons for this insistence is to distance herself from Tony Stark.
  • Technological Pacifist: Allegedly, she's this. However, her use of her shields is clearly that of a weapon, not to mention her variety of other weapons like concussive shots.
  • Teen Genius: Has three simultaneous doctorates at Caltech by the age of twenty.
  • Twofer Token Minority: An Asian lesbian.
  • Workaholic: According to Aikku, she eats only once a day, twice if Aikku insists, and is nearly constantly focusing on improving her armor to the point of decreased emphasis on limiting lethality. Before that, her work focus was on saving Aikku from the Pod armor.

    Pod 

Pod

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Alter Ego: Aikku Jokinen

Notable Aliases: Pod-2, Enigma

Team Affiliations: New Avengers, Avengers Idea Mechanics, American Intelligence Mechanics

First Appearance: Avengers (Vol. 5) #15 (September, 2013)

Aikku Jokinen was bonded to a power suit at an origin site.


  • Battle Couple: With her girlfriend Toni Ho.
  • But Not Too Foreign: A Norwegian born to Finnish parents.
  • The Cameo: She appears in the wedding crowd shot at the end of Empyre.
  • Curb-Stomp Battle: Pod defeated all of the Avengers single handedly the first time she faced them.
  • Flying Brick
  • Heroic Sacrifice: The Pod A.I. sacrifices itself to save Aikku's life.
  • Powered Armor: Was granted one of these by Ex Nihilo's origin bomb, as she was meant to become the planet's self defense mechanism.
  • The Quiet One: Pod very rarely speaks. Aikku, during her time with Avengers Intelligence Mechanics, tends to speak very little herself, beyond the occasional "okay". It later turns out the reason is because Aikku is not okay.
  • Void Between the Worlds: How A.I.M. captured her after she defeated the Avengers, they placed her in the empty space where two universes were destroyed.
  • You No Take Candle: English is not her first language, and it shows.

    Red Hulk II 

Red Hulk II

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Alter Ego: Robert L. Maverick

Notable Aliases: "Tom Selleck Hulk," "Diet Rulk", Iron Hulk

Team Affiliations: American Intelligence Mechanics

First Appearance: Avengers Vol. 6 #0 (December, 2015)note ; U.S.Avengers #1 (March, 2017)note 

After the events of Civil War 2 and the alliance formed between A.I.M. and the U.S.A. goverment, he is the new Red Hulk for the U.S.Avengers.


  • By the Power of Grayskull!: "Hulk Plug-In, do your sluggin'!"
  • Cool Shades: He's also usually seen with sunglasses.
  • De-power: During Avengers: No Surrender, the Immortal Hulk drains all the gamma radiation out of him.
  • Expy: This guy exists solely because Marvel didn't let Al Ewing use Ross and make him Red Hulk again and the biggest difference is that he is even more of a General Ripper than Ross.
  • General Ripper: How much so? General Ross thinks this guy goes too far. For example, his response to A.I.M. operating on American soil was to immediately and angrily shoot down any possibility of talking to them in favour of letting loose the Amerikaiju.
  • Hour of Power: His power-up only works for an hour, then takes a day to recharge. In the first issue he hulks out, his teammates watch him demolish a flying airbase within seconds of hulking out, and wonder what he's going to do with the remaining fifty-something minutes. The HYDRA moles within AIM manage to trick him by offering a work-around, which he accepts.
  • Seen It All: He's apparently had his own career dealing with mad science long before he shows up in New Avengers, and as a result is not remotely threatened by the Maker's monologues.
  • Shout-Out: His Catchphrase seems to be an incredibly tongue-in-cheek one to the infamous The Thing segments of Fred and Barney Meet the Thing.
  • Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Look at this guy. Old Soldier and General Ripper Rulk with a handlebar of sheer, unadulterated MAN! Oh, It's Thunderbolt Ross? Nope. Meet Robert Maverick, everybody.

    Captain America 20XX 

Captain America 20XX

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Alter Ego: Danielle "Dani" Cage

Team Affiliations: A.V.E.N.G.E.R.S., American Intelligence Mechanics

First Appearance: The Pulse #13 (March, 2006)note ; Avengers: Ultron Forever #1 (April, 2015)note 

The daughter of Luke Cage and Jessica Jones named after Daniel Rand.


  • Affirmative-Action Legacy: A mixed-race woman as Captain America.
  • Catchphrase: Likes to remind people that she "is the shield".
  • Future Badass: It doesn't really get more badass than becoming Captain America when you grow up.
  • Hero of Another Story: As the leader of an Avengers squad in her own time, Dani's had some adventures to her name, including team-ups with multiple versions of herself, and witnessing the death of Doctor Doom.
  • Like Father, Unlike Son: Personality wise, she's nothing like her parents, having none of Luke's bellicosity or Jessica's truck worth of issues (or her potty-mouth).
  • Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me: Captain America, remember? It's slightly more advanced than Steve's, coming with a thought-controlled projector, though she can also go traditional.
  • Nigh-Invulnerability: She's inherited her father's nigh-unbreakable skin.
  • Point of Divergence: As she reveals in U.S.Avengers, her timeline's already split from the main one, back in Civil War II.
  • Save the Villain: Always tries to warn Green Skull's goons he'll kill them when he thinks it's funny, but they never listen.
  • Sleeves Are for Wimps: Her outfits tend to eschew everything between the shoulders and elbows, though thanks to the bulletproof skin it's not as impractical as it could be.
  • Year X: 20XX, where the double xs standing for around twenty to thirty years from "now".

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