The Avengers (Marvel)

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Name: The Avengers
Abbreviation(s):
Creator: Stan Lee and Jack Kirby
Date(s): September 1963 - present
Medium: comics, film, cartoons, video games
Country of Origin: USA
External Links: Wikipedia
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The Avengers are a superhero team created by Stan Lee for Marvel Comics in 1963. The Avengers team has had various adaptations:

The team also made appearances in The Marvel Super Heroes (1966), Spider-Man (1981 animated series), Fantastic Four: The Animated Series, X-Men: The Animated Series, The Super Hero Squad Show, and Iron Man: Armored Adventures.

Marvel 616 is the main continuity of the Marvel Comics and there are several additional universes and canonical AUs - for example Ultimate Universe and Marvel Adventures: Avengers, that focus on the The Avengers team.

Marvel 616

See Earth-616 for more universe information.

Starting Team (Classic Avengers): Iron Man (Tony Stark), The Wasp (Janet Van Dyne), Giant Man/Ant Man (Hank Pym), Thor (Don Blake/Thor), the Hulk (Bruce Banner). Joined in Issue #4 by Captain America (Steve Rogers), later the Scarlet Witch, Quicksilver and Hawkeye would join him when the original Avengers took a break, this version is usually known as the Cap's Kooky Quartet.

Secondary Team (New Avengers): Iron Man (Tony Stark), Captain America (Steve Rogers), Spider-Man (Peter Parker), Spider-Woman (Jessica Drew), Wolverine (Logan Howlett), Power Man (Luke Cage). Later joined by the Sentry (Bob Reynolds).

See Young Avengers for their canon and fandom information.

Fandom

Most fanworks that aren't all about the Tony/Steve use some version of the team from The New Avengers (formed 2005), often including Wolverine and Spider-Man.

Characters & Pairings

By far the most popular characters are Steve Rogers and Tony Stark, though Peter Parker and Clint Barton have substantial followings as well. The most popular pairings reflect these biases -- Steve/Tony dominates, and most of the other pairings involve at least one of these four characters.

Tropes & Fanon

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Marvel Adventures: Avengers

See Earth-20051 for universe details.

Fandom

There is a also a small fandom surrounding Marvel Adventures: The Avengers.

Characters & Pairings

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Ultimate Marvel

See Earth-1610 for universe details.

In the Marvel Ultimate Universe, The Avengers team is titled The Ultimates. The comic series were written by Mark Millar and Bryan Hitch. The team was formed by Nick Fury.

Fandom

Characters & Pairings

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Archives & Communities

For pairing and character-centric archives see the respective pairing and character pages.

LiveJournal Communities

See Category:The Avengers Communities for more or see the respective pairing and character pages.

Websites

For pairing and character-centric sites and communities see the respective pairing and character pages.
  • AvengersAssemble! - Fansite with message boards, fanfiction, and canon information. Now closed.

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