Dani Cage managed to raise the Mjolnir in Dead Man Logan, and became the new Thor. After the death of Logan she united forces with Hulk (the baby that Logan took in the first miniseries, now a bit grown up) and Dwight, owner of the remaining Ant-Man technology. They are joined later by a new Captain America and by Viv Vision, and make their final stand against the ruler of the wastelands: Dr. Doom.
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- Action Girl: Danielle Cage, the now grown-up daughter of Luke Cage and Jessica Jones, is the leader of the new Avengers team, and she’s inherited the mantle and powers of Thor.
- Affirmative-Action Legacy: The black female Danielle Cage inherits the mantle of Thor from the white Scandinavian Norse god of the same name, who is already dead in this universe.
- The Ageless: Being an Asgardian, Enchantress is the only supervillain to not have visibly aged in the decades since the uprising. She looks just as stunning as she did back in her days of fighting the original Avengers.
- Back for the Dead: Ultron (yes, the same version who is married to Hawkeye’s ex-wife and works as a mechanic) returns in the first issue, only to shortly afterwards become the first ex-villain to be hunted down and terminated by Doctor Doom.
- Big Bad: Doctor Doom is the final big enemy the new Avengers have to face.
- Bittersweet Ending: Most of the world's heroes are still dead, but the evil overlords who conquered the planet have all been defeated or killed, and now the people of Earth can begin rebuilding.
- The Cape: Of the new Avengers, Dannielle Cage is the closest fit, being the most traditionally heroic member of the team and the one with the strongest aversion to killing enemies.
- The Chessmaster: Doom's entire plan throughout the course of the series was ultimately to set up a situation where a new group of Avengers were forged so that they could grant him the glorious death in battle he craves.
- Cruel Mercy: Dwight ultimately chooses to spare Doom's life, denying him the death in battle that he worked so hard for and forcing him to live out his last days as a feeble old man.
- Dead All Along: Doom confronts Doctor Octopus with the intention of killing him, only to discover that he's been reduced to a skeleton attached to his trademark metal arms, which are now being operated by an A.I. program.
- Didn't Think This Through: Nefaria laments this in regards to the supervillains and their ultimate victory. Without heroes to pit themselves against or put them in check humanity resorted to nukes to stop them. Without heroes to curb their ambitions they fell to infighting and plotting against one another, unable to rebuild the nuked world and left to rule ruins. Without heroes to fight and challenge them they became listless and aimless, obsessed with the past and its former glories.
- End of an Age: The end of the Villain World that the Wastelands has been for decades, as the old villains are dying one by one. Even Doctor Doom, who has killed the remaining masterminds of the uprising, is slowly dying himself from cancer.
- Five-Second Foreshadowing: During the final battle with the Avengers, Doom can be heard coughing and wheezing inside his armor. It's revealed shortly after this that he's dying of cancer.
- Heel Realization: Grant was a desperate man who underwent a procedure to create new Super Soldiers for Doom's army because he had no money. After beating up protesters and seeing his comrade about to strike a mother and child, he betrayed Doom and decided to become a hero.
- How the Mighty Have Fallen: Count Nefaria is now a washed up old man getting hammered in a local tavern, bragging about how he used to be one of the most feared and respected villains of his day.
- Legacy Character: Danielle Cage is the new Thor, Bruce Banner Jr. is the new Hulk and Dwight, the Creepy Child from the original Old Man Logan story arc, is now the new Ant-Man. Later in the series, they're joined by Grant, the new Captain America.
- The Mole: The penultimate issue reveals that Doom had spared the lives of a few of the civilians from Dwight's community and subsequently used them to blackmail the boy into bringing the Avengers to him.
- My Greatest Failure: Dwight is haunted by his inability to stop Doom from destroying the small community he and the other survivors from Forge's compound had set up.
- Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Intentional example. Doom murdered his former comrades so that his own death at the hands of the new Avengers would be seen as the major historical event that brought about the end of the Age of Villains.
- Stripped to the Bone: Dwight summons a swarm of locusts to attack Enchantress, Green Goblin, Wild Child and Shocker, leaving behind nothing but their skeletons.
- Suicide by Cop: Doom's plan. Realizing that he's dying of incurable cancer, he tries to set up one last battle against the new Avengers, believing that being killed by them will allow him to go out in a blaze of glory.
- Victory Is Boring: Count Nefaria muses that after finally killing all the world's heroes, the villains lost their sense of purpose. This is why he ended up becoming an alcoholic and why he actually THANKS Doom for finally ending his life.
- A World Half Full: Sure, this is a world where the villains won and killed most of the heroes. However, thanks to the efforts of Old Man Logan, a new team of Avengers has emerged to take on the bad guys. In the end, most of the villains that took over the world have been killed and the state of society while not perfect is gradually moving towards a bright future with a new age of heroes.
- Your Days Are Numbered: Doctor Doom, as it turns out, has terminal cancer.
