Every Avenger Ever

The Avengers were created in 1963 by Marvel Comics legends Stan Lee and Jack Kirby and consist of characters who had already debuted in their own independent titles. The original lineup included Iron Man, Thor, Hulk, Ant-Man, and the Wasp the team dubbed Earth's Mightiest Heroes first formed. In response to a threat from Loki after defeating the Asgardian villain, the five founding members vowed to combine their special powers and unite for the greater good, unlike the Marvel Cinematic Universe, how

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, neither Shield nor Nick Fury had anything to do with it. to do with the creation of the team. and what would become standard operating procedure for the Avengers, the lineup immediately began to change.

Hulk left for trouble to Ant-Man and became Giant Man and Captain America joined the Avengers number four, first debuting in 1941 before Marvel Comics was called Marvel. Comics Lee and Kirby were reintroducing a popular old favorite in 1965, the first major membership overhaul occurred,

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yone, but Cap quit with new members Hawkeye Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch joining this incarnation dubbed Cap's spooky quartet, it was interesting and the New Avengers had done it before. played the role of villains, Hawkeye's mentor, the swordsman soon joined as well for one problem, his membership turned out to be a ruse by Iron Man's villain the Mandarin, although he would rejoin the team in 1973 as a full member and hero in the late '60s founding members would return to the fold and then leave again, even as new heroes continued to join, including the Olympian Hercules and the first superhero of color, the Black Panther, who had previously debuted in Fantastic Four. .

Writer Roy Thomas also introduced Android. During this period, many of Thomas' stories were drawn by artist John Buscemi and together they brought a great sense of the mythological to the book, as well as a more adult sensibility as the team entered the 1970s, characters such as Black Widow would become long-lasting members, while others, such as a time-traveling cowboy, both Gunkid and Mantis, enjoyed shorter terms of service. The seventies also introduced some very influential stories, such as the cosmic epic, the Kree-Skrull war, and the stories of writer Jim Shooter, such as the bride of all Tron and the corvax saga, the fight against Michael Kovak was another great adventure for the team that used virtually

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Avengers past and present up to that point, as well as the original Guardians of the Galaxy, were later notable additions to the team.

Wonder Man in 1977 and Carol Danvers in 1979, at the time she was still operating with the Miss Marvel boys, were several decades away from becoming Captain Marvel, another character Marvel movie viewers may recognize as the Falcon's sidekick. Captain America from the early '80s. I saw several women join the team, women like Tygra, who started out as a human crime fighter called the Cat, but was eventually transformed with the help of witchcraft. Bruce Banner's cousin Jennifer Walters, who became She-Hulk after a blood transfusion with Bruce's blood and a new Captain Marvel named Monica Rambeau, who later went by the names Photon and Specter in 1984, the first of what would eventually be many branches of the main Avengers team came when the vision suggested the creation of the West Coast Avengers.

Hawkeye led the first iteration. From this team that also recruited new members such as his wife Mockingbird, also known as former SHIELD agent Bobby Morse, and Tony Stark's friend James Rhodes, who was serving Iron Man at the time, Rhodes would become more later into a war machine and even later into an iron patriot. Other characters would also join the team. Different Avengers teams in this era Namor eventually joined the Avengers while joining the West Coast Avengers, both teams would operate simultaneously for a decade, each acquiring new heroes for their respective and sometimes interchangeable lineups, but in the book from the East Coast the team fell.

Hard times during the Siege story that began in 1986 under writer Roger Stern as the main Avengers book approached its 300th issue, the East Coast groups' downward spiral culminated in the dissolution of the entire team in 1988. Of course, the Avengers couldn't stay apart for long. and soon Steve Rogers, known at the time simply as the Captain, built a new team that included Reed and Sue Richards of the Fantastic Four, as well as Gilgamesh, the hero of legend, speaking of the Captain, when Rogers gave up the name of Captain American, the mantle was passed to him. he passed on to John Walker, who eventually became the American president. agent the decade was completed with the additions of both the quasar and the Human Torch, this Human Torch was not Johnny Storm but rather a character who first appeared in 1939 in the year 1990, the eternally called Circe became an Avenger , but the most notable addition was none other than the friendly neighborhood Spider-Man, however his membership was short-lived.

Captain America ultimately decided that Spidey wasn't ready for the team yet and was better suited to fighting crime alone, but of course Spider-Man would eventually become a major player for Earth's Mightiest, other new members in this era were very diverse, like Spidey's former villain, Sandman. The original Avengers comic came to an end in 1996 after the attack storyline temporarily sent the heroes to an alternate dimension created by Reed and Sue Richards' son. Franklin, but it spawned a new line of comics labeled Heroes Reborn. This series featured updated origins for all the heroes and was handled by two former Marvel employees, Rob Liefeld and Jim Lee, within a year;

However, the characters returned to the main Marvel reality known as Earth. -616 continuity and the 90s closed with the release of Avengers vol 3 and only two new heroes joined the team, the former new warriors Justice and Firestar. The early 2000s became a major turning point for the Avengers. The Avengers Takedown crossover event saw the temporary deaths of several characters such as Hawkeye and Vision and the final destruction of Avengers Mansion, two new recruits playing an important role during these events. Jack of Hearts, a character who first appeared in 1976 and had spent many of his previous adventures in outer space and the former thief. becomes superhero Scott Lang, also known as the second Ant-Man, it was revealed that Scarlet Witch was losing control of her reality warping powers, which led to her zombified Jack of Hearts exploding, killing Ant. -Man and destroying the mansion in the process.

Wanda was eventually taken away by her father Magneto, but due to the devastation, the Avengers were forced to disband once again, of course, a new team would rise from the ashes. Writer Brian Michael Bendis, who was a major force behind the disassembled story, released the appropriately titled New Avengers here. and Iron Man recruited new members like Luke Cage and X-man Wolverine. The dismantled story also led to the creation of the Young Avengers, although they did not have full Avengers status, this team of superpowered teenagers still played an important role. Defending the world in the late 2000s, the famous Civil War story saw superheroes fighting each other when Steve Rogers and Tony Stark disagreed over how to respond to the US government's Superhero Registration Act.

New Avengers were formed, now a clandestine team led by Cage for a long time. Marvel hero Doctor Strange finally joined Earth's Mightiest Heroes, meanwhile the star created his own team, the Mighty Avengers, with many long-time members joining him, as well as the Civil War of the Olympian Ares that ended with the arrest and eventual murder of Captain America, part of a larger plot orchestrated by the Red Skull, however, Bucky Barnes decided to honor his old friend by becoming the new Captain America, of course, the cap The original Steve Rogers would later be revived during the final big crossover of this era.

Secret Invasion, numerous characters such as Spider Woman turned out to be shapeshifters. Alien Scrolls, this was a big reveal, especially since Spider-Woman had served an active Avenger in the past, but luckily the real Spider-Woman finally became an Avenger after the scrolls were defeated. The fallout from the secret invasion also led villain Norman Osborn to create the Dark Avengers. Although the general public was unaware that this fake team was made up of several bad guys posing as heroes in 2010, The Secret Avengers debuted depicting a covert organization of heroes led by former Captain America Steve Rogers, this black ops team was created in part to clean up the mess that Norman Osborn caused when he was in power around the same time Marvel also launched Hero Age, an attempt to return the characters to a larger heroic mission after the darker stories of the In recent years, a fourth volume of the original Avengers comic began in 2010 involving a time-travel story about the fight between the villain Ultron and the Avengers' possible future children.

The New Avengers also began a second volume during this time with a new team and a story involving the powerful mystical object called the Eye of Agamotto, more classic Marvel characters would join the growing lineup, including characters like the Daredevil of the Fearless Man and Storm, who was also married to his fellow Avenger, the Black Panther. Of course, things started to escalate during the Avengers vs. X-Men that started. due to a dispute over the to the Avengers and the . Avengers volume 5 was released and Cap led a mission to Mars to confront a being called ex nihilo as part of publishers Marvel Now initiative.

The mission ex nihilo was to create a perfect version of humanity no matter the cost, although the Avengers stopped him, they would eventually recruit his help to face a greater threat later, another great story in time involved the so-called superior spider-man as part of A bigger plot, Doctor Octopus switches his mind with Peter Parker and tries to prove that he is the superior crime fighter without knowing the situation, the Avengers did not approve of this Spider-Man's tougher attitude. methods and ultimately led to him leaving the team. Fortunately, Peter eventually regained control of his body. Also in 2013 was a branch of the Avengers called Avengers AI led by Hank Pym and the vision that this team was formed to stop a corrupt computer virus and consisted of Ultron. son Victor Mancha and a reprogrammed Doombot Knight mask and a star brand where characters were created for the new universe.

Marvel's short-lived 1980s series that featured a universe that was completely separate from the main Marvel continuity but in 2013 they were reinvented for 6-1-6 continuity eventually joined the Avengers during the 1980s event. Cosmic Infinity in which the Avengers united the universe against an ancient race called the Builders, while a new version of the Mighty Avengers debuted during Infinity, this team would fight Thanos and his elite group of fighters. called the black quarter while the main team of the Avengers was in space, this group of villains decided to invade the earth, their goal is to find the infinity stones, even more recently Sun SPOT formed another elite group of Avengers composed of ancient members and new ones these heroes were tasked with. discover why the different universes were colliding with each other, an event that will reshape the entire Marvel Universe and finally, although the Avengers have had several active members in the 6-1-6 continuity, there are also several honorary members, although they do not have the membership complete of the Avengers, these heroes were given special status to honor their acts of great courage or sacrifice, and thus the evolution of Earth's mightiest heroes continues as the team adapts to new challenges.

Marvel is already working on a completely new one. Different Avengers with new onesFan favorites like Miles Morales, Spider-Man of the Ultimate Universe, and Kamala Khan, Miss Marvel among the ranks, hope the team will debut in 2015, when the Jews will gather once again.