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26 unusual facts about Avengers


Alex Power

With the end of that miniseries, Alex was not seen again until he appeared on the cover of Avengers: The Initiative #1 (in his Zero-G costume) as one of 150 Marvel superheroes either involved with, or being considered as potential recruits by the Fifty State Initiative.

Colleen Wing

Colleen has been identified as one of the 142 registered superheroes who have registered as part of the Initiative.

Debrii

Deborah has been identified as one of the 142 registered superheroes who are a part of the Initiative program.

Dragon Man

In Avengers: The Initiative #8, Dragon Man had been captured by the trainee heroes, having been attracted to Komodo.

When the Shadow Initiative was sent in to liberate the prison, Blastaar sent Dragon Man against them.

Folding Circle

After that the three villains have been identified as members of the 142 registered superheroes who appear on the cover of the comic book Avengers: The Initiative #1.

Frog-Man

Eugene Patillo as Frog-Man was later recruited by the US government as part of the Fifty-State-Initiative program, as a member of the Kentucky based team, Action Pack.

Great Lakes Avengers

The team also makes cameo appearances in issues #19 and #25 of Avengers: The Initiative.

H.A.M.M.E.R.

During the Siege of Asgard, Norman Osborn takes H.A.M.M.E.R. alongside the Dark Avengers and the Initiative members who are on his side to partake in the attack on Asgard.

JLA/Avengers

In a joint panel at WonderCon 2000, Busiek (then writer of the Avengers title) and Mark Waid (then writer of the JLA title) stated they had nearly come to an agreement to begin the crossover within the regular issues of the respective titles but the two companies could not come to a business arrangement.

When summoning the players to participate in this game, Krona decides to swap champions, so the Grandmaster’s longtime adversaries, the Avengers, will represent Krona, and the Justice League, from Krona's home universe, will fight for the Grandmaster.

Machine Teen

Adam was considered as a "potential recruit" for the Initiative program, according to Civil War: Battle Damage Report.

O-Force

Obituary is being considered as a "potential recruit" for the Initiative program.

Savage Steel

Jimmy Zafar is being considered as a "potential recruit" for the Initiative program, according to Civil War: Battle Damage Report.

Scarlet Spider

The identity of the Scarlet Spider has been used by several characters: Ben Reilly, Peter Parker (while Ben posed as him in prison), Joe Wade (a villain), a group of three Michael Van Patrick clones working with the Initiative, and Kaine.

Post-Civil War, the Scarlet Spiders are a group of three unknown people of the Initiative who identify themselves as "Red Team" on the field, first appearing in Avengers: The Initiative #3.

Silver Sorceress

Silver Sorceress makes a brief cameo appearance in issue #4 of the JLA/Avengers crossover miniseries.

Sinister Syndicate

In Avengers: The Initiative half of the Syndicate (Hydro-Man, Shocker, and Boomerang) reunite and fight Spider-Man.

Skrull Kill Krew

They then made an appearance in Avengers: The Initiative #16 as part of the Secret Invasion tie-in and writer Dan Slott announced at the 2008 Baltimore Comic-Con that they would be getting a new mini-series featuring the new line-up.

The Skrull Kill Crew thought they would not be able to track Skrulls through all the states on time, but then former Avenger Jocasta appeared with Devil-Slayer, who is a member of the Hawaiian Initiative team, the Point Men.

Slingers

At the end of Avengers: The Initiative, Prodigy was released from 42 Prison, in which he was detained for having resisted Osborn's regime, and is depicted as working on the motivational speaker circuit while trying to reunite the Slingers.

Smiling Tiger

Smiling Tiger has been identified as one of the 142 registered superheroes who appear on the cover of the comic book Avengers: The Initiative #1.

Spaceknights

The name Spaceknights is currently being used by a government-sponsored superteam in Chicago in the series Avengers: The Initiative.

Tatiana Caban

Tatiana is being considered as a "potential recruit" for the Initiative program, according to Civil War: Battle Damage Report.

Texas Twister

Texas Twister has been identified as one of the 142 registered superheroes who appear on the cover of the comic book Avengers: The Initiative #1 (June 2007).

Wundarr the Aquarian

After joining the Initiative program he is assigned a position on the Florida Initiative Team, The Command with Jennifer Kale and Siege.


A-Next

A five issue miniseries entitled Avengers Next ran from November 2006 to January 2007, written by Tom DeFalco and with artwork by Ron Lim, that followed on from the events of Last Hero Standing and Last Planet Standing.

Alternative versions of the Punisher

In the X-Men crossover Age of X, another universe's General Frank Castle commands a mutant-hunting version of the Avengers.

Awesome Android

The Android reappeared as part of a supervillain team in The Avengers #286-289 (Feb.-May 1988); featured in the Acts of Vengeance storyline in Avengers Spotlight #27 (Mid-Dec. 1989); battled several Marvel heroes in Thunderbolts #2 (June 1997) and Heroes for Hire #1 (July 1997) and had two further encounters with the Fantastic Four in Fantastic Four vol.

The Android reappears during the "Acts of Vengeance" storyline, being repaired by the robot Machinesmith and used to distract the Avengers while several villains escape confinement in the prison facility the Vault.

Chemistro

He joins with the Hood's gang in an attack on the New Avengers, who were expecting the Dark Avengers instead.

Chuck Allie

He is one of the first StarStruck 3 Avengers who got a role through Now and Forever where he was paired to his co-alumna, Jana Roxas.

Deathcry

When the Earth hero team Avengers defeated the Kree, the Empress Lilandra Neramani feared for the team's safety should the Kree attempt revenge.

Disney Magic

The ship's cabins, lounges, restaurants and spa were to be completely updated in addition to new features including; "Marvel's Avengers Academy", a play area based on Marvel's Avengers characters, the AquaDunk and the AquaLab, consisting of a pool and waterslide that will replace the ship's Mickey Pool.

Doombot

When the Fantastic Four and the Avengers cannot be reached to deal with the situation, Code: Blue manages to take it down with help from the Yancy Street Gang.

Fantastic Four: The End

Susan's brother Johnny Storm (the Human Torch) is a strike-force leader for the Avengers, while Ben Grimm (the Thing) lives with his wife Alicia Masters and their three children on Mars.

George Olshevsky

While compiling the Marvel Indices, he "produced some 60 fully illustrated books, totaling more than a million and a quarter words," producing indices to all the major Marvel Superheroes (including Avengers, The Amazing Spider-Man, Fantastic Four, Marvel Team-Up, etc.

Ghastly Ones

They infused their love of Halloween records, late night monster movies and Screaming Lord Sutch with inspiration from early sixties surf and hot rod acts like The Lively Ones, Avengers VI, and The Del-Aires to create the first "spooky surf" band.

H.A.M.M.E.R.

In an effort to make H.A.M.M.E.R.'s image more palatable to the general public, Osborn reorganized the Avengers, filling their ranks with members of the Thunderbolts.

Hulkling

Hulkling was created by writer Allan Heinberg and artist Jim Cheung and first was in Young Avengers #1 (April 2005) along with other teenage heroes patterned after founding Avengers members.

Infinite Comics

Infinite Comics is an imprint of comic books published by Marvel Comics, featuring original, made-for-digital stories about the company's superhero characters, including Spider-Man, Wolverine, the Guardians of the Galaxy, the Silver Surfer, the X-Men and the Avengers.

Iron Lad

He seeks the Avengers for assistance, but finds the Avengers disbanded.

Jeff Matsuda

Matsuda moved on to work for Marvel Comics beginning with some pages for X-Men Prime, which eventually led to runs on X-Factor and Wolverine in addition to work on individual issues of X-Men, Generation X, Avengers and some pinup drawings in X-Men Unlimited.

Julian Wadham

Currently, he is re-creating the role of John Steed in Big Finish's new audio series The Avengers - The Lost Episodes.

Kang the Conqueror

The Centurion transports the Avengers from Earth-616 to his timeline, hoping that they will defeat their Earth-689 equivalents, and can then be disposed of.

Larcenous Three

Badd Axe, Firearms, and Vampiro appear as members of Norman Osborn's new Initiative at Camp H.A.M.M.E.R..

Legion of the Unliving

The second version of the Legion is featured in an Avengers annual, in which the Elder of the Universe the Grandmaster, usurps the power of the entity Death.

Los Angeles Avengers

However, L.A. managed to recover an onside kick and on the very last play of the game, Quarterback Tony Graziani threw a 32-yard touchdown pass that flinged off the rebound net and was caught by WR/LB Greg Hopkins, giving the Avengers a 64-63 win.

Mike Lilly

Lilly’s original art sketch cards can also be seen for the Revenge of the Sith trading card line, The Lord of the Rings Evolution and Masterpieces series, Frankenstein from Universal, The Vintage Poster Collection sketch cards from Breygent, The Complete Avengers from Marvel Comics/Rittenhouse Archives and DC Legacy archive editions from DC Comics.

Nick Fury, Jr.

As part of the Marvel NOW! event, Nick Fury Jr., Phil Coulson, and Maria Hill form the S.H.I.E.L.D. version of the Secret Avengers with Hawkeye and Black Widow.

Phineas and Ferb: Mission Marvel

"Phineas and Ferb: Mission Marvel is an exciting animated special for everyone at Disney and Marvel. Bringing together the worlds of Phineas and Ferb and Marvel's The Avengers is a ton of fun for fans of both properties", said Dan Buckley, publisher and president of the print, animation and digital divisions, Marvel Worldwide, Inc.

Rebellion in Patagonia

It was written by Olivera with Osvaldo Bayer and Fernando Ayala, based on Osvaldo Bayer's renowned novel Los Vengadores de la Patagonia Trágica ("The Avengers of Tragic Patagonia"), which was based upon the military suppression of anarchist union movements in Santa Cruz Province in the early 1920s.

Secret Invasion: Runaways/Young Avengers

Secret Invasion: Runaways/Young Avengers bridged the gap between the first and second volumes of the Young Avengers series, which went on hiatus due to writer Allan Heinberg's busy schedule with various television projects and his run on DC's Wonder Woman.

Spider-Man Comics Weekly

In addition to Spider-Man, the title featured five backup strips, starring the Fantastic Four, the Avengers, Thor, the Sub-Mariner, and Nova.

The Assembly of Evil

During the Acts of Vengeance storyine where villains of all types tried to defeat heroes that they don't usually fight, the second Jester was contacted by a Doctor Doom robot to create a team to defeat the Avengers.

The Mighty Avengers

IGN reviewer Richard George said Brian Michael Bendis' writing for The Mighty Avengers #1 "manages to move through the roster selection, convey their basic information and personality, marshal them against a huge threat and leave us with a solid cliffhanger".

Tony Locke

He recently appeared in the movie Invincible starring Mark Wahlberg as a football player along with WR/DB Kevin Ingram who played with Locke when he was with the Los Angeles Avengers.

Uncanny Avengers

Uncanny Avengers is an ongoing comic book series published by Marvel Comics that debuted in October 2012, with the launch of Marvel NOW!.