Avengers

The **Avengers** is the brainchild of Director Nick Fury of SHIELD, who envisioned a team comprised of heroes that might work together as an emergency response team in the event that a threat would prove to be so strong, no single person could face it alone. The catalysts for this plan were the appearances of people with levels of power that vastly exceeded conventional military capabilities. He named his plan the "Avengers Initiative". The Avengers Initiative team candidates had formed gradually through circumstance and reactive planning. Eventually, the plan was scrapped and Fury refocused his attention on military assets in the hands of SHIELD instead. Circumstance, however, proved to be the guiding force that brought the disparate members of the team together when Loki made a surprise appearance at a SHIELD facility and escaped with the Tesseract. The Avengers initially have difficulty and refusal to obey each other, but when Loki attempts to destroy the team and promote his godlike supremacy to Earth in a public way, the Avengers departed from SHIELD's command and rally in defense of New York as it is attacked by extraterrestrials called the Chitauri. The team worked together to suppress the invasion force for a time until a nuclear bomb was redirected from the city toward the enemy fleet which resulted in the ground troops neural link being destroyed and their forces defeated. They disbanded after their victory against Loki,but agreed to reassemble when another global threat required all their combined efforts.

After the fall of SHIELD and the return of HYDRA, the threat HYDRA posed to the world drew the Avengers to reunite in a worldwide hunt for the terrorist organization. After months of combating HYDRA forces, they took down the cell of the Baron Strucker and captured the specter of Loki. Unfortunately, as a result of science experiments to unlock the secrets of the specter, a rogue artificial intelligence designated Ultron was created as a result product of the team themselves. Ultron started a war against all of humanity with the purpose of destroying the entire population of the Earth so to make way for a peaceful world. However, because of the efforts of the Avengers old and new members, Ultron was defeated and the team reorganized with the membership shifting and relocation to a new facility. The team united had performed numerous successful missions in the coming year, however due to the collateral damage as a result of the r conflicts, the United Nations passed a document called the Sokovia Accords so as to regulate not only their actions but of all the powered individuals. The Avengers were split with different opinions regarding how to proceed as a team under the great change in oversight, which made the team split into two different factions, with the heroic sides facing against each other in the Avengers Civil War, an event that was instigated by Helmut Zemo and left the team divided. In spite of the radical circumstances however, the members of the Avengers remain committed to safeguard ingthe world against powerful threats.

## Members

### **Avengers**

#### ***Original Team***

* Captain America
* Iron Man
* Hulk
* Thor
* Black Widow
* Hawkeye

#### ***Second Team***

* Scarlet Witch
* Quicksilver
* War Machine
* Falcon
* Vision

#### ***Third Team***

* Winter Soldier
* Ant Man
* Wasp
* Sharon Carter
* Black Panther
* Doctor Strange
* Captain Marvel
* Spider Man (Peter Parker)

### **Secret Avengers**

#### ***Original Team***

* Captain America
* Falcon
* Black Widow
* Hawkeye
* Scarlet Witch
* Winter Soldier
* Ant-Man
* Sharon Carter

#### ***Second Team***

* Echo / Ronin (Maya Lopez)
* Mockingbird
* Hawkeye
* Black Widow
* Sharon Carter
* Winter Soldier

#### ***Third Team***

* Echo / Ronin (Maya Lopez)
* Agent Venom
* X-23
* Domino

### **New Avengers**

***Robots***

* Jocasta
* Machine Man
* Mainframe
* Human Torch
* Volton
* Tara
* Doombot

#### ***Highly Skilled***

* White Tiger
* Moon Knight
* Darkhawk
* Killmonger
* Eric O'Grady / Black Ant
* Swordsman
* Dane Whitman / Black Knight
* Demolition Man
* Stingray
* Iron Fist
* Daredevil
* Elektra
* Sif
* Rachel Leighton / Diamondback
* Duc No Tranh / Bengal
* Moon Knight
* Punisher
* Victoria Hand
* Ka-Zar
* Shanna O'Hara / Shanna the She-Devil
* Mariko Yashada
* Kenuichio Harada
* Hawkeye (John Johnson)
* Black Widow (Cara Douglas)
* Nighthawk (Zachary Richmond)
* Hawk Widow

#### ***Magic Users***

* Blade
* Brother Voodoo
* Dr. Druid
* Black Crow
* Mystical One (Alexander Alfredo)

#### ***Mutants***

* Deadpool
* Jean Grey
* Cyclops
* Storm
* Jean Grey
* Havok
* Nightcrawler
* Rogue
* Gambit
* Banshee
* Sunfire
* Colossus
* Professor X
* Negasonic Teenage Warhead
* Iceman
* Capwolf
* James Howlett/Wolverine
* Yuiko

#### ***Inhumans***

* Toro
* Firestar
* Quake
* Kamala Khan/Ms. Marvel

#### ***Gamma Enhanced***

* She-Hulk
* Red-Hulk
* A-Bomb
* Clayton Cortez / Weapon H

#### ***Cosmic Enhanced***

* Quasar
* Starhawk
* Sentry
* Wonder Man
* Blue Marvel
* Spectrum
* Sentry
* Isabel "Izzy" Kane / Messenger
* Abigail Boylen / Cloud 9
* Eternity (Victoria Star)
* Captain Marvel (Cameron Danvers)

#### ***Cross Species***

* Miles Morales
* Ben Reilly
* Arachne
* Fahnbullah Eddy / Gorilla Girl
* Melati Kusuma / Komodo
* Terrance Ward / Trauma
* Ghost-Spider
* Scarlet Spider
* Anya Corazon / Araña
* Webslinger
* Ashley Barton / Spider-B
* Emma Paley
* Leila Goldberg / Spidra
* Heather Noble / Spider-Blonde
* Courtney Duran
* Jennifer Justice
* April Parker / Blue Mayhem
* Claire Parker / Crimson Spider
* William Braddock / Spider-UK
* Yu Komori
* Snowcat (Elizabeth Rodriguez)
* Spider Girl (Ashley Garcia)

#### ***Enhanced***

* Captain Britain
* Psylocke
* U.S. Agent
* Cloak
* Dagger
* 3D-Man
* Dennis Dunphy / Demolition Man
* Irving Forbush / Forbush Man
* Emery Schaub / Butterball
* Brandon Sharpe / Striker
* Dennis Sykes / Matter
* Elvin Haliday / Rage
* Eugene Thompson / Agent Venom
* Luke Cage
* Jessica Jones
* Black Mamba
* Asp
* Maria de Guadalupe Santiago / Silverclaw
* Marissa Darrow / Magdalene
* Barbara Norriss
* Nadia Van Dyne / Giant-Woman
* Mach (Ethan King)
* Phaser (Jeannie Smith)
* Rewind (Rachel Baker)
* Strafe (Laura Wilson)
* Springboard (Kevin McDaniel)
* Dice (Austin Paul)
* Discharge (Maria Gonzalez)
* Cloud (Jafari Munroe)
* Singe (Tyler Douglas)

#### ***Technology Users***

* Antonio Stark
* Iron Spider (Mary-Jane Watson)
* Ironwise (Theodore "Teddy" Stark)

#### ***Aliens***

* Veranke
* Criti Noll
* Sleepwalker
* Va Nee Gast / Voyager

#### ***Rangers***

* Bonita Juarez / Firebird
* Miguel Santos / Living Lightning
* Ramone Watts / Alloy

#### ***Desert Stars***

* Matthew Hawk / Two-Gun Kid
* Edward Black Wolf / Supermax
* John Hashimoto / Johnny Cool
* Melati Kusuma / Komodo

#### ***SHIELD***

* Daisy Johnson / Quake
* Brunnhilde
* Ellis Love
* Phil Coulson
* Maria Hill
* Taskmaster
* Gordon Thomas / Typeface
* James Bourne / Solo
* Eric Savin / Coldblood-7
* Jacqueline Falsworth / Spitfire
* Manifold
* Bobbi Morse / Mockingbird
* Lancelot Hunter / Rifleman
* Jessica Drew / Spider-Woman
* Greer Nelson / Tigra
* Battlestar
* Ava Orlova / Red Widow
* Doreen Green / Squirrel Girl
* Ava Starr / Ghost
* Hobart "Hobie" Brown / Spider-Punk
* Cindy Moon / Silk
* Annie Parker / AMP
* Miguel O'Hara
* Petra Parker / Spidra
* Martha Franklin / Spidera
* Nell Ruggles / Arachnophilia
* Charlotte Witter / Green Widow
* Spider-Byte
* Erin Hasko / White Widow
* Felix Lifson / Bone Spider
* Ron Corbett / Captain Spider
* Anna-May Parker / Spiderling
* Peter Nathan Urich / Spyder-Man
* Aaron Aikman
* Marc Noletti / Spider-Bandit
* Ted Chambers / Spider-Man West
* Ultimate Tarantula
* Ultimate Spider-Woman
* Faiza Hussain / Excalibur
* Kelsey Shorr Leigh / Lionheart
* Brian Braddock / Captain Britain
* Robert Mitchell
* Marie Grant
* Monica Chang

#### ***Honorary***

* Tamara Devoux / Captain Universe
* Starfox
* Sersi
* Gilgamesh
* Moondragon
* Mantis
* Angela
* Valkyrie
* Thunderstrike
* Thordis
* Heracles
* Captain Mar-Vell
* Crystal
* Nova
* Starhawk
* Shuri
* Okoye
* Julia Carpenter / Madame Web
* Inferno
* Nightmask
* Starbrand
* Eros
* Ex Nihilo
* Ami
* Ex Nihila
* Ulik
* Sandman
* Team America
	+ James McDonald/Honcho
	+ Wolf
	+ Winthrop Roan Jr./R. U. Reddy
	+ Luke Merriweather/Cowboy
	+ Leonard Hebb/Wrench
	+ Georgianna Castleberry

### **West Coast Avengers**

* Quintavius Quirinius Quire / Kid Omega
* H'rpra
* Gwendolyn Poole / Gwenpool
* Johnny Watts / Fuse

### **Young Avengers**

#### ***Highly Skilled***

* Elijah Bradley / Patriot (Leader)
* Harley Keener
* Cassie Lang / Stature
* Kate Bishop / Hawkeye II
* Night Thrasher
* Steel Spider
* Hornet
* Prodigy
* Vin
* Ricochet
* Speed
* Lana Baumgartner / Baby Bombshell
* Riri Williams / Ironheart
* America Chavez / Miss America
* Iron Lad

#### ***Enhanced***

* American Son
* Speedball
* Blur
* Whiz Kid
* Miss America
* Dusk
* Ghost Girl
* Prodigy
* Ricochet
* Loki (Ikol)
* Honey Badger

### **Mighty Avengers**

* Wonder Man
* Songbird

* Swordsman

* Demolition Man
* White Tiger
* Tigra
* Goliath (Bill Foster)
* Giant-Man (Raz Malhotra)
* Echo / Ronin (Maya Lopez)
* Stingray
* Rescue

### **Avengers Forever**

* Wonder Man
* Songbird
* Swordsman
* Demolition Man
* 3D-Man / Triathlon
* Doctor Druid
* Black Knight
* Stingray
* Gauntlet
* Thunderstrike