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The [[Marvel Universe]]'s all-star super-hero team, [[Alternate Company Equivalent|equivalent]] to [[The DCU]]'s [[Justice League of America]]... except with more B-List heroes originally and a name that is based firmly on the concept of [[Rule of Cool]] (literally, Wasp picked the name because it sounded cool; some adaptations provide better explanations, though). The team debuted in The Avengers #1 in 1963. The classic lineup is [[Captain America (comics)]], [[
▲{{quote| ''"And there came a day, a day unlike any other, when Earth's mightiest heroes were united against a common threat! On that day The Avengers were born -- to fight foes no single hero could withstand!"''}}
▲The [[Marvel Universe]]'s all-star super-hero team, [[Alternate Company Equivalent|equivalent]] to [[The DCU]]'s [[Justice League of America]]... except with more B-List heroes originally and a name that is based firmly on the concept of [[Rule of Cool]] (literally, Wasp picked the name because it sounded cool; some adaptations provide better explanations, though). The team debuted in The Avengers #1 in 1963. The classic lineup is [[Captain America]], [[Iron Man (Comic Book)|Iron Man]], [[Ant-Man]], [[The Wasp]], [[The Mighty Thor|Thor]] and [[Incredible Hulk (Comic Book)|The Hulk]]. The team also within the first few issues gained the series trademark of [[Revolving Door Band|shifting lineups]], with the Hulk leaving the group with issue two, and Captain America not actually joining until issue 4, and with the major change of all the originals save Captain America being replaced by issue 16. Over the years, half of the [[Marvel Universe]] has been a member (to the point that every member of the [[Fantastic Four (Comic Book)|Fantastic Four]] except the Human Torch has been a member at some point), with new members being recruited and old members coming back or leaving [[Rotating Arcs|as story dictates]]. Other long-serving members include [[Hawkeye]], the [[Scarlet Witch]], [[Quicksilver]], [[the Vision]], [[The Incredible Hercules|Hercules]], [[Wonder Man]], [[X-Men (Comic Book)|the Beast]], [[Black Widow (comics)|Black Widow]], and many many more.
▲The comic has produced a good number of spin-offs and side team books including:
* ''West Coast Avengers'' (later renamed ''Avengers West Coast''): spin-off book that ran from 1985 through 1993. Was subjected to a reboot/revamp in 1994, becoming the [[Darker and Edgier]] ''Force Works'', lasting two years before being canceled.
* ''Solo Avengers'' (an anthology/companion book for West Coast Avengers; featuring Hawkeye, [[US Agent]], and Mockingbird and a rotating back-up feature involving past members of the Avengers team).
* ''[[New Avengers]]'': Replaced the regular Avengers comic in 2004. With the return of the main Avengers title, it has continued as the adventures of a second official team. Headed by [[Luke Cage, Hero for Hire]], who was explicitly given permission to choose anyone he wanted (except Iron Man and Thor), the roster has rotated somewhat over the years but typically includes [[Wolverine]], [[Ms. Marvel]], Spider-Man, Mockingbird, the Thing, and [[Immortal Iron Fist|Iron Fist]]. Hawkeye, [[Doctor Strange]], and [[Daredevil]] have also featured, along with Strange's assistant Wong and also [[Squirrel Girl]] (as a babysitter for Cage's daughter).
* ''[[Thunderbolts]]'': [[The Psycho Rangers|The Avengers' evil counterpart]], the Masters of Evil, decided to pretend to be heroes when the Avengers are presumed dead after the events of ''Onslaught'', but ended up turning good for good after getting a taste of life as heroes. The group however fell on hard times and after the events of ''[[Civil War (Comic Book)|Civil War]]'', was co-opted by the government and given to [[Norman Osborn]], who corrupted the program (and was later moved into his own book with most of the cast brought in with the reboot into ''Dark Avengers''). With Norman's defeat, the book is back to dealing with redemption with the title [[Boxed Crook|focusing on criminals being offered time off of their sentences in exchange for going on missions.]]
* ''[[Secret Avengers]]'': A black-ops team led by Steve Rogers, who after his resurrection, allowed [[Bucky Barnes]] to continue being Captain America. The book is similar to the current version of ''[[X-Force]]'', except being Avengers the team tries harder to stick to the Avengers [[Thou Shalt Not Kill|No Killing]] policy then X-Force does. Currently it is being lead by [[Hawkeye]].
* ''Avengers: The Initiative'': Following the events of the Civil War, Iron Man opens "Camp Hammond", a military base where heroes old and young are put into bootcamp to train them to be "proper" heroes. Unfortunately everything that can go wrong actually goes almost horribly wrong with young heroes dying, mysterious attacks on faculty, a secret black ops team, alien invasions, numerous betrayals and [[Norman Osborn]]. Ultimately shut down following the events of [[Dark Reign (comics)|Dark Reign]] and The "[[
* ''[[Avengers Academy]]'': Hank Pym (the real one, not the Skrull who ran ''Avengers Initiative'') and a group of experienced heroes (Tigra, Justice, Speedball, Quicksilver, and Jocasta) team up to train young heroes. Originally the book focused upon a group of young teenagers recruited or forcibly turned into super-powered beings by Norman Osborn during his time running the Avengers Initiative, in hopes of ensuring that they don't become super-villains. Following the events of ''[[Fear Itself (Comic Book)|Fear Itself]]'', they have opened the team up to all heroes and have taken on other teen heroes like Spider-Girl (Anya Corazon, formerly Araña), X-23, Power Man (Victor Alvarez), Thunderstrike (Kevin Masterson, son of the original Thunderstrike), and White Tiger to the Academy.
* ''[[Young Avengers]]'': Created by Allan Heinberg [[Teen Titans (Comic Book)|Teen Titans]]-esque group of young heroes who gathered following the events of "Avengers Disassembled" in the wake of the seemingly destruction of the original Avengers. Despite originally patterning themselves after the original core group, most have completely different connections to the Avengers, if any at all. Among the heroes recruited are Vision and Scarlet Witch's long lost children, who would later seek the Avengers' help in finding their missing mother.
* ''[[Dark Avengers]]'': Short-lived book set during the [[Dark Reign (comics)|Dark Reign]] about a Norman Osborn led team of supervillains disguised as the Avengers. Set to return taking over the numbering of the current [[Thunderbolts]] series.
* ''Mighty Avengers'': First a team of Avengers who were on the Pro-Registration side of the ''Civil War'' storyline, then later a team led by Hank Pym that was active outside the United States during the events of ''[[Dark Reign (comics)|Dark Reign]]''.
* ''[[Pet Avengers]]'': A series of mini-series that focuses upon various animal companions of superheroes teaming up to fight evil.
* ''[[The Ultimates]]'': The [[Ultimate Universe]] counterpart, darker and edgier alternate universe version, of the Avengers. This version draws many comparison to [[The Authority]], with taking a "widescreen" action approach along with attempts to take a look at how such actions would come across in a closer to real world setting. After a line wide relaunch it split into two different teams: Ultimate Avengers and [[The Ultimates]], but another relaunch has since reunited under the Ultimates banner again.
In 1999 they had a short-lived animated series, ''[[The Avengers: United They Stand|The Avengers United They Stand]]''. Additionally, the two ''[[Ultimate Avengers]]'' direct-to-dvd animated films were [[Lighter and Softer]] versions of the team, and an origin for [[The Ultimates]]. A more successful animated series, ''[[The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes]]'', came in 2010, and ends in either 2012 or 2013. ''[[The Superhero Squad Show]]'' can be considered a [[Lighter and Softer]] take on the Avengers. Yet another cartoon, ''Avengers Assemble'', will premiere in 2013.
A big-budget [[The Avengers (film)|Avengers film]] was released April 26, 2012, using a mixture of the [[Marvel Universe|616]] Avengers and their [[The Ultimates|Ultimate universe counterparts.]] With [[Joss Whedon]] as writer/director, the roster consists of: [[
The 'Avenger Initiative' was referenced in several preceding Marvel films; both the ''[[Iron Man (film)|Iron Man]]'' films, the ''[[The Incredible Hulk (film)|The Incredible Hulk]]'', and ''[[Captain America: The First Avenger|Captain America the First Avenger]]''.
Not to be confused with the British [[Spy Couple]] series ''[[The Avengers (TV series)|The Avengers]]''.
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* [[The Alcoholic]]: [[Iron Man (Comic Book)|Iron Man]] and [[Ms. Marvel]] both fell [[Off the Wagon]].▼
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▲* [[The Alcoholic]]: [[
* [[Alien Invasion]]: Kree-Skrull War, Operation Galactic Storm, [[Secret Invasion]]
* [[All Your Powers Combined]]: Super-Adaptoid.
** Count Nefaria copied the powers of Power Man, the Living Laser, and Whirlwind; the combination turned him into an evil [[Captain Ersatz]] of [[Superman]].
** Wolverine got this, getting the powers of the whole new Avengers and the two Supreme Sorcerers ([[My Friends and Zoidberg|And Hellfire]]) to fight [[Eldritch Abomination|Agamotto]]
* [[Animal-Themed Superbeing]]: Tons of members: [[Ant-Man]] (three versions), [[The Wasp]] (two versions), Yellowjacket (also two versions), [[
** They have also fought dozens of villains with animal-based themes: Scorpion, Rhino, Porcupine, Armadillo, Dr. Octopus, Cobra, the Serpent Society, the Unicorn, the Gryphon, etc.
* [[Alternate Continuity]]: [[The Ultimates]] is a version of the team that is tilted heavily towards a [[Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism|cynical viewpoint]].
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* [[Army of the Ages]]: The Anachronauts, Kang's elite fighting force.
* [[Avengers Assemble]]: The [[Trope Namer]].
* [[Back From the Dead]]: [[Death Is Cheap|Pretty much the entire roster has died at one point of another during an Avengers storyline]] (most notably "The Korvac Saga", "Onslaught Saga", and ''Avengers Annual'' #17).
** Separately: Hawkeye, Wonder Man, Vision, Mockingbird, Hellcat, Jack of Hearts, Quasar, and Ant Man II have all come back from the dead in various ways and forms.
* [[Badass Normal]]: Team members [[Hawkeye]], [[Black Widow (comics)|Black Widow]], Mantis (until she gained powers), [[Black Panther]], and Mockingbird.
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* [[Big Damn Heroes]]: A famous line: "ULTRON! We would have words with thee!"
* [[Boisterous Bruiser]]: Hercules, Luke Cage.
* [[Butt Monkey]]: Hank Pym, Hank Pym, [[Rule of Three|Hank Pym]]. The latter era runs did a good job trying to lift him from his [[Butt Monkey]] status, but then, [https://web.archive.org/web/20120615095453/http://media.comics.ign.com/articles/106/1061476/img_7463859.html THIS is apparently the cover image of the final issue of ''Mighty Avengers''].
** No worries, that was just [[Covers Always Lie]].
* [[Catgirl]]: Tigra is the team's woman/cat hybrid.
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* [[Civvie Spandex]]: The early 1990s "leather jackets" period.
* [[Conqueror From the Future]]: Kang the Conqueror, an invading warlord and ruler of the world in the distant future, has attempted to conquer the Earth in our modern time period. The Avengers have repeatedly thwarted his ambitions.
* [[Continuity Snarl]]: Kang's backstory.
** Alternatively, pretty much every other [[Brian Bendis]]-written Avengers story, due to his refusal to acknowledge any other story another writer does. Even Bendis can't be bothered to keep his continuity straight, having the Mighty Avengers team running around in the pages of New Avengers even though their first arc makes it impossible for them to be running around in the pages of the New Avengers.
* [[Cool Plane]]: The Quinjet.
* [[Corporate-Sponsored Superhero]]: Tony Stark, aka Iron Man, sponsors the Avengers through Stark Industries.
* [[Deadly Training Area]]
* [[Defector From Commie Land]]: The Black Widow
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**** {{spoiler|MVP is accidentally killed by Armory in the first issue; Armory is then sent to a psychiatric hospital after having the source of her powers removed. When the remaining cadets graduate, they're all sent to different teams.}}
** The ''New Avengers'' lineup from the first arc:
*** [[The Hero]]: [[Captain America (comics)]]
*** [[The Lancer]]: [[
*** [[The Smart Guy]]: Spider-Man
*** [[The Big Guy]]: Luke Cage
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** It's more guaranteed to go the other way: Namor was an Avenger before his current tenure with the X-Men.
** The Human Torch is the ''only'' member of the Fantastic Four never to have been a member of the Avengers (his namesake was a member on the West Coast team). Mr. Fantastic and the Invisible Woman even served together.
** Longtime solo player Daredevil has recently joined the New Avengers. Out of the well-known heroes who don't fit the previous categories (remembering that [[Deadpool]] is more closely associated to the X-Men, being an X-Force member and all), only [[
* [[Look Ma, No Plane]]: A 1970s-era comic has the title heroes engaged in a battle against [[Thanos]]' starfleet. Most of the heroes fly around in small, vaguely ''[[Star Wars]]''-ian ships, but Thor flies around smashing apart enemy ships under his own power!
* [[Master Swordsman]]: The Swordsman
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* [[Mole in Charge]]: In one storyline, the [[Red Skull]] becomes the Secretary of Defense.
** And Norman Osborn as the Director of S.H.I.-- er, H.A.M.M.E.R.
* [[Monster Modesty]]: [[Fantastic Four (Comic Book)|The Thing]], [[Alpha Flight|Marina]], [[
* [[Name's the Same]]: Jessica. [[Alias (Comic Book)|Jones]] or [[Spider-Woman
* [[Never Live It Down]]: [[Never Live It Down/Comic Books|Pym hit his wife]]... only once, while [[Freak-Out|Freaking Out]] and doing far worse, but that's what everybody remembers.
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'''Hank Pym:''' [[The Night Gwen Stacy Died
** In-universe example, ''everyone'' is suspicious of Spider-Woman, because [[Paranoia Fuel|they think she is still the Skrull Queen - even after Norman Osborn vehemently ''shot her in the face to death'']].
*** [[Memetic Mutation|The queen was a skrull!!!]]
* [[Nineties Anti-Hero]]: Force Works.
* [[Omnidisciplinary Scientist]]: Hank Pym is an expert in many scientific disciplines. In fact, the depth of his scientific knowledge has earned him the title of "Scientist Supreme" from Eternity, [[Anthropomorphic Personification|the living embodiment]] of the universe's [[Life Energy]].
* [[Proud Warrior Race Guy]]: Thor.
* [[The Real Remington Steele]]: The "Ronin" identity.
* [[Reed Richards Is Useless]]: Black Panther, whose Avengers tenure featured him basically being utterly useless, even though he's supposed to a super-genius PLUS expert at the Xanatos Gambit/Roulette.
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** And let's not forget that Vision was later brought back but with the mental imprint of Iron Lad aka Kang the Conqueror and is currently dating Ant Man's daughter.
** And actually, if you choose to follow the tree a little further, you'll see that they're actually all part of the former [[Trope Namer]] [[X-Men (Comic Book)|Summers]] Family Tree (Vision -> Vision II -> Iron lad -> Kang -> Richards family -> Franklin Richards -> Hyperstorm -> Rachel Summers -> Cyclops).
*** TWICE. Vision's wife Scarlet Witch is the daughter of [[Magneto]] and half-sister of Polaris, the on-again off-again girlfriend of Havok.
**** Don't forget about Victor Mancha - Ultron's second son.
***** And if we go a bit further still, Quicksilver's ex-wife [[The Inhumans|Crystal, and their daughter Luna. And this could also include Medusa, Crystal's sister, and then Blackbolt, Medusa's husband, and ''then'' Maximus, Black Bolt's nutso brother...]]
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* [[Time Machine]]: Kang the Conqueror uses various machines to travel through time and conquer various periods in time, stopped only in our own due to the efforts of the Avengers.
* [[Time Master]]: Immortus whose motives have always been a mystery to the Avengers. On several occasions he has worked to aid them in crucial times of need; on others he is trying to destroy them. {{spoiler|According to ''Avengers Forever'' he has been engaged in a millennia long [[Gambit Roulette]] at the behest of his masters, the Time-Keepers.}}
* [[Token Minority]]: [[
* [[Trick Arrow]]: Hawkeye, long time resident bowman.
* [[Unlimited Wardrobe]]: The original Wasp, Janet van Dyne, has worn dozens of different costumes over the years. While this was originally just a joke based on her Chick personality, it was later justified as being a side perk of being a fashion designer, since she could make them all herself.
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