Avengers

**The Avengers** or **Earth's Mightiest Heroes** are a superhero team from Marvel Comics.

## Description

### Mission

The Avengers are a superhero team. They were originally established as a SHIELD initiative but then went solo with the support of Stark Industries.

### Bases

* **Avengers Campus California**: A training campus located in Orange, California and repurposed from an old Stark Industries facility.
	+ **Avengers Headquarters**:
* **Avengers Campus Paris**:
	+ **QG Avengers**:
* **Avengers Compound**: This was a compound located in New York which was destroyed around the late 2010s.
* **Avengers Tower**: Avengers Tower is a former Stark Industries tower located in New York City.
* **Hangar 12**: An airplane hangar previously used by SHIELD and the US airforce.
* **Mission Station**: A station seemingly used in Shanghai.

## History

### Origins

The Avengers were formed as a program to unite exceptional individuals organized by Nick Fury, director of SHIELD, inspired by his friendship with Carol "Avenger" Danvers AKA Captain Marvel. The team was formed in 2011 when the Norse god Loki stole SHIELD's Tesseract, a Cosmic Cube of Asgardian origin and great power. Fury united Captain America, Iron Man, and Dr. Bruce Banner while Black Widow and Hawkeye were already working for SHIELD. Thor later crossed paths with SHEILD and joined the Avengers in pursuit of his brother.

Conflict escalated when Loki used the Cosmic Cube to open up a portal to space over the Stark Tower in New York City. This portal brought forth the Chitauri, an army of alien soldiers who followed Loki's alien ally, Thanos. The Avengers were able to defeat Loki, and send him along with the Tesseract back to Asgard to be contained. This event in history became known as the *Battle of New York*.

### Battle of Sokovia

In his efforts to protect humanity, Tony Stark engineered a fascist artificial-intelligence called, "Ultron". This robot turned evil almost immediately and made its base in the Eastern European nation of Sokovia. Here, Ultron replicated into an army of robots which tried to save the world by wiping out humanity, lifting Sokovia's capitol into the sky to use as a meteor impactor. The Avengers were able to foil Ultron's plans and defeat the robots though it devastated the country.

### Global Avengers Initiative

By 2016, Tony Stark started the Global Avengers Initiative to create Avengers outposts across the world and train a new generation of hero. This was inspired by an attack on the Stark Expo of Hong Kong where HYDRA scientist Dr, Arnim Zola used a legion of robots to attempt stealing tech from SHIELD and Stark Industries. Amongst these were the, "Super Hero Academy" school for young superheroes based out of a mobile-base of the Atlantic Ocean, repurposed from an old SHIELD base. The school opened the November of 2016 with Iron Man having attented the opening alongside Captain America, Spider-Man, and Black Widow.

#### Avengers Campus California

Starting the late August of 2019, Tony would next transform his father's old Industrial Complex in Orange, California into the first, "Avengers Campus". Tony would found an organization for young engineers called the *Worldwide Engineering Brigade* which made their base here, within an old Stark Motors building previously used by Tony's father. Stark also brought in those from the nation of Wakanda, PYM Tech, and allowed for the fortress of the alien collector Taneleer Tivan to station themselves on the land.

The Campus would be prone to attacks from villains such as the Taskmaster, Death Dealer, and the Tracksuit Mafia whom the Avengers fought off. Thor's brother Loki was also frequently found around the campus, typically alongside Thor or the *Time Variance Authority*. Around Halloween time, the villainous bogeyman, "Oogie Boogie" also summoned the sorceress Agatha Harkness and a zombified Captain America from another reality,

#### Avengers Campus Paris

While the California base was being run, Tony was setting up a new outpost in Paris, France which he asked Wasp for assistance in creating. Leading up to the opening, Stark collaborated with Black Panther's sister, Princess Shuri of Wakanda and the *Wakanda Design Group* to engineer the Vibranium-powered *Avengers Deployment Vehicles*.

## Appearances

### Avengers Campus (DCA)

Avengers Campus is themed around being a base for the Avengers.

#### Avengers Quinjet

This attraction is to revolve around the Avengers.

#### Avengers Stunt Show

This stunt show revolves around Avengers members at an Avengers base.

#### Guardians of the Galaxy - Mission: BREAKOUT!

When this attraction opened, an Avengers bunker was placed by its exit.

#### Shawarma Palace

Various newspapers and pieces of merchandise reference Avengers members and the team's history.

#### Web Slingers: A Spider-Man Adventure

SHARIN makes a failed attempt to call the Avengers for help in fighting the Spider-Bots. There is a sticker for the Avengers decorating WEB's facility.

### Super Hero Headquarters

This SHIELD base has many screens referencing members of the Avengers.

## Trivia

* In *Avengers Assemble: Heroes Unite*, the Avengers are shown to have a, "DO NOT CONTACT" list in their database. This list consists of: Crossbones, Nebula, Sonny Burch, Loki, Kraglin, William Ginter Riva, and Deadpool.

## References

1. ↑ https://disneycruiselineblog.com/2017/04/look-re-imagined-oceaneer-club-lab-aboard-disney-wonder/
2. ↑ https://dlnewstoday.com/2019/08/photos-a-closer-look-at-avengers-campus-projects-coming-to-disney-parks-at-d23-expo-2019/