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Avengers C.A.M.P.U.S. (the Centralized Assembly Mobilized to Prepare, Unite, and Safeguard) is a set of lands in Disney Theme Parks based on the Marvel Cinematic Universe (though not officially part of it; the lands are instead an Alternate Timeline that exist elsewhere in the multiverse of the MCU). It opened on June 4, 2021 in Disneyland's Disney California Adventure park and on July 20, 2022 in Walt Disney Studios Park in Paris. An equivalent land, Stark Expo, is also in development in Hong Kong Disneyland, gradually being built up around existing Avengers rides. No lands are currently planned for any of the parks in Walt Disney World or Tokyo Disneyland, due to Universal Studios Orlando and Japan Resorts having the license to Marvel in those regions.
The land is set in an Alternate Universe of the MCU where the Avengers managed to win in Avengers: Infinity War, preventing Thanos from wiping out half of all life in the universe. After their hard-fought victory, the team decided they needed to take a different approach. They started building new training facilities out of old Stark Industries property in Los Angeles and Paris, along with a think tank for young prodigies to develop new technologies called the Worldwide Engineering Brigade (W.E.B.). Together with the ongoing Stark Expo in Hong Kong, the Avengers are now working to train and equip everyday people to become superheroes themselves.
The California C.A.M.P.U.S. includes Guardians of the Galaxy – Mission: BREAKOUT!, which has its own page. While Florida cannot have an Avengers themed land due to the aforementioned legal issues, it instead has the Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind roller coaster in EPCOT (as the Guardians were not included in the properties that Universal is licensed to use). In addition, the "Disney Wish" cruise line includes the Avengers: Quantum Encounter Dinner Theatre, and Disney's California Adventure featured the Captain America stage show Rogers: The Musical during the summer of 2023 in the Hyperion Theater just outside the C.A.M.P.U.S.
Marvel Comics has also released the miniseries W.E.B. of Spider-Man in 2021, set in the C.A.M.P.U.S. universe as a tie-in to the ride W.E.B. Slingers.
Avengers C.A.M.P.U.S contains the following tropes:
- Adaptational Early Appearance:
- Thanks to a Time Skip in Avengers: Endgame, the MCU is set in Next Sunday A.D.; a few years in the future but largely indistinguishable from the present day. Meanwhile, the land is set in real time, so when a character arrives on-C.A.M.P.U.S. to tie into a new release, it's technically generally two to three years ahead of their MCU debut.
- Various comic characters were name-dropped as members of W.E.B., before appearing in the MCU later. This currently includes America Chavez, Bruno Carrelli, and Riri Williams.
- Alternate Continuity: According to Imagineers, despite sharing actors and other elements with the MCU, this land is set in an alternate universe where the Blip never happened.
- Bribing Your Way to Victory: In order to improve your score on W.E.B. Slingers, you can buy "W.E.B. Power Bands" in the land that provide power-ups during the ride. (That said, the scores are marked with the power-ups that were used, so everyone will know when enhancements were involved.)
- Canon Foreigner:
- Rather than try to adapt any of Iron Man's movie armors, Disney's Imagineers created a new "Mk LXXX" (80) design for the parks. For context, his Infinity War armor was Mk L (50) and Endgame was Mk LXXXV (85).
- Spider-Man's suit is also an unique design, as all of the film designs would have to get Sony involved. It eventually became a Canon Immigrant in the MCU itself when What If…? (2021) borrowed the design, as that show too had to work around Sony's ownership of the film versions.
- Canon Immigrant: The W.E.B. student body includes characters from the comics that haven't made appearances in the MCU yet (or at least hadn't yet when the land opened). In addition to previously-established MCU characters Peter Parker/Spider-Man, Harley Keener, and Cassie Lang; the group includes Miles Morales/Spider-Man (II), Gwen Stacy/Ghost Spider, Doreen Green/Squirrel Girl, America Chavez, Riri Williams/Ironheart, Rick Jones, Amadeus Cho, Lunella Lafeyette/Moon Girl, Anya Corazon/Araña/Spider-Girl, Onome, Dante Pertuz/Inferno, Shaun Lucas/Patriot, Takeshi Matsuya/Wiz Kid, and Ms. Marvel's friend Bruno Carrelli. So far, Riri, America, and Bruno have come to the MCU since then.
- Continuity Nod:
- One of the members of W.E.B. is Harley Keener, the (now-teenage) kid that Tony worked with in Iron Man 3 (and yes, his photo is of the same actor).
- The PYM Test Kitchen serves Pingo Doce soda, which appeared in The Incredible Hulk.
- The three Eternals that visit the C.A.M.P.U.S. are the same ones that stayed on Earth at the end of Eternals.
- Continuity Snarl: The C.A.M.P.U.S. isn't always completely consistent with the movies, but in one case it's not even consistent with itself: In California specifically, Groot appears as his grown Vol. 1 appearance as a meet-and-greet character but as "Baby Groot" from Vol. 2 in Mission: BREAKOUT!. In reality, neither would be accurate; his appearance would instead match Vol. 3. (Disney Imagineers have shown off an animatronic Baby Groot walk-around character that they're working on, which could resolve the issue by matching Mission: BREAKOUT! should it replace the current version.)
- Design-It-Yourself Equipment: While the customization isn't to the same extent as their lightsaber and droid counterparts in sister land Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge, the W.E.B. Power Bands and Spider-Bots are featured merchandise that can be personalized with expansion kits.
- Developer's Foresight: A malfunction with the Spider-Man "stuntronic" revealed that the Imagineering team had prepared for such an eventuality — the wall surrounding the landing zone is made of breakaway panels that can absorb the impact (and not bounce Spider-Man into the crowd) and be replaced within hours.
- Fun with Acronyms "C.A.M.P.U.S." stands for the Centralized Assembly Mobilized to Prepare, Unite, and Safeguard. Also, W.E.B. is the Worldwide Engineering Brigade.
- Guest-Star Party Member: While there's a regular roster of Avengers present on the C.A.M.P.U.S., other heroes will sometimes visit for a while; usually when they're starring in a new movie or show.
- In Spite of a Nail: Some things happened like they did in the MCU, even though the events leading up to them must not have:
- Captain Marvel got in contact with Earth and joined the Avengers, but without Thanos' snap there was no reason to call her home.
- While Rescue isn't an active hero who attends the C.A.M.P.U.S., the presence of blue Repulsor merchandise implies that Tony built her armor just like he did in Endgame.
- Sam Wilson took on the title of Captain America, even though Steve Rogers is still around in this continuity. Similarly, Shuri became Black Panther when nothing permanent happened to T'Challa (though it's not clear if they're now sharing the title, or if she just took over temporarily).
- Kate Bishop is now an Avengers-allied heroine. In the MCU, she only met Clint thanks to getting mixed up in the Ronin identity, but that wouldn't have existed in a world without the Blip.
- Wanda's path to becoming the Scarlet Witch involved Thanos killing Vision and Wanda's resulting Sanity Slippage. While Vision might still have died (he hasn't made an appearance to confirm his survival), C.A.M.P.U.S. Wanda appears to have handled things better but became the Scarlet Witch anyway.
- The Hulk is in his merged "Smart Hulk" version and wears his white suit from Endgame, reportedly because he's experimenting with time travel. While it's reasonable that he could have figured out how to become Smart Hulk on his own, the suit and the whole idea of how to enable time travel came about because of Thanos.
- For the record, the Loki that works for the TVA, America Chavez, and Kang the Conqueror might not be examples, since they cross timelines and could in theory actually be the characters from the MCU (especially as another Variant, President Loki, also visited the C.A.M.P.U.S.).
- Incredible Shrinking Man: Ant-Man and the Wasp are among the heroes on the C.A.M.P.U.S., plus the PYM Test Kitchen is themed around this idea with the gimmick that it's the food that's grown thanks to the other effect of the Pym particle (for example, the "chicken sandwich" on offer is a full-size breaded chicken breast on a slider bun). As a Production Throwback in California, they also shrunk "a bug's land" down into an ant-scaled version to preserve it when the C.A.M.P.U.S. replaced it in California Adventure, and the Wasp will sometimes show it off to guests.
- Obscured Special Effects: The Hulk isn't a regular visitor to the C.A.M.P.U.S., and when he does show up he's wearing his white time travel suit from Endgame including a helmet covering his mouth. This is because he's a big guy and the costume to portray someone at that size is more like Powered Armor, so the helmet helps mask the prop face and spare it from needing to be an animatronic that could make facial expressions.
- Series Continuity Error: The land's status as on offshoot of the MCU splitting off during Infinity War means that it doesn't have to match the MCU in every detail, but there are things that still don't make sense in that context:
- Taskmaster is used as a villain in a stunt show; partly to tie in with Black Widow (which was upcoming when the land launched). But then the film released and revealed that Taskmaster was not a villain by choice, and Natasha freed them at the end. And the film was set before the C.A.M.P.U.S. universe's Point of Divergence from the MCU, so Taskmaster's villainy doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
- Thor still carries Mjolnir instead of Stormbreaker, even though Hela had already destroyed it in Ragnarok. This escalates to a full Continuity Snarl when "Mighty Thor" (Jane) shows up for the Thor: Love and Thunder cross-promotion also carrying Mjolnir (though photos indicate that Thor doesn't carry his Mjolnir when Jane is present, so as not to make it too obvious). But things do smooth out a little afterward, since MCU Thor reclaims Mjolnir after Love and Thunder, bringing him more in line with the C.A.M.P.U.S. version.
- America Chavez being singular in the multiverse also complicates things. Keeping in mind that the MCU is set a few years in the future, it's certainly possible that she landed in the C.A.M.P.U.S. universe during her travels before going to the MCU proper; but Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness indicates that she had never heard of Spider-Man, which is rather implausible if she was part of W.E.B. alongside not just him, but potentially three other spider-people.
- Groot appears as he did in Guardians Vol. 1, with his Vol. 2 self also appearing in California as part of Mission: BREAKOUT!. In the movies, the original Groot had died at the end of Vol. 1, while his offspring had already grown to his "teen Groot" form by Infinity War and would match his Vol. 3 appearance by the time the C.A.M.P.U.S. opened.
- Spared by the Adaptation: Loki, Gamora, Black Widow, and Iron Man all avoided their deaths in Infinity War and Endgame. Death Dealer also survived the land's equivalent to the events of Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, appearing in a stunt show. Shuri also become the second Black Panther without T'Challa's death, as he returned after the Wakanda Forever promotion period passed. In some non-death examples, Spider-Man and Scarlet Witch were spared the disasters they suffered during and after the Blip and are still beloved Avengers.
- Team Member in the Adaptation:
- While it's not clear if he's a proper member of the Avengers, Loki is allowed to roam free on the C.A.M.P.U.S. His original MCU incarnation made a Heel–Face Turn in Ragnarok and potentially could have joined the Avengers eventually, but was killed before he could make amends with anyone but Thor and maybe the Hulk.
- Various other heroes debuting in the Multiverse Saga arrived on-C.A.M.P.U.S. when their films and series launched, but haven't become Avengers in the MCU (partly due to the group being defunct after Endgame). Shang-Chi, Kate Bishop, America Chavez, Ms. Marvel,note Mighty Thor, Black Panther II, and Monica Rambeau have met Avengers and most of them could be recruited should the group reunite;note but TVA Loki and O.B., the Eternals, Moon Knight, Werewolf by Night, and Elsa Bloodstone haven't been in contact with Avengers at all.
- Some flat-out villains (President Loki and Kang the Conqueror) have also appeared on the C.A.M.P.U.S. It's difficult to tell whether they're considered part of the Avengers in this continuity, or if they're even there with the Avengers' knowledge or blessing.
