Avengers (Earth-1600)

Avengers, assemble!

Avengers' battle cry

The Avengers are a group of heroes who were the brainchild of S.H.I.E.L.D. Director Nick Fury, who envisioned a team working together against threats that no single hero could face alone.

Members

Current Members

Captain America

• Name: Steve Rogers
• Activity: 2010
• Status: Alive
• Description: Steve Rogers is a World War II veteran and the team's leader. After Abraham Erskine's Super Soldier Serum transformed the frail Steve Rogers into the powerful and heroic Captain America, his amazing World War II exploits made him a living legend. He is considered to be the world's first superhero. Rogers destroyed multiple HYDRA bases, slowly crippling the organization. During his final battle with the leader of HYDRA, the infamous Red Skull, Rogers crashed a plane into the Arctic and was frozen in ice for nearly seventy years. He was eventually found by S.H.I.E.L.D. and resuscitated. Shortly after his revival, Rogers found himself alone in a modern world that he hardly recognizes. When Nick Fury, director of S.H.I.E.L.D., called on Rogers to help save the world again, he quickly suited up as Captain America, taking up his iconic shield and bringing his strength, leadership and no-nonsense attitude to the Avengers in the Chitauri Invasion.

Iron Man

• Name: Tony Stark
• Activity: 2010
• Status: Alive
• Description: Tony Stark was a self-proclaimed eccentric genius, billionaire, playboy, and philanthropist. After being abducted by the Ten Rings terrorist organization, who desired his company's weapons technology, Stark constructed a high-tech suit of armor that aided him in his escape. Shaken from the experience, Stark seeks to bring about world peace using other suits, each one more advanced than the last. His heroic adventures have brought him into contact with enemies, including Obadiah Stane, Ivan Vanko, Justin Hammer, and Aldrich Killian. However, his self-destructive nature and love for fame made his actions less than discrete and attracted the attention of Nick Fury. Stark reluctantly agreed to serve as a consultant to Nick Fury's peacekeeping intelligence agency S.H.I.E.L.D., and later teamed up with them and the Avengers to take down Loki during the Chitauri Invasion.

Thor

• Name: Thor Odinson
• Activity: 2010
• Status: Alive
• Description: Thor is the heir of Odin, the former King of Asgard. When Thor's headstrong ways nearly plunged his realm into war, Odin banished Thor to Earth as punishment, where his otherworldly antics drew the attention of S.H.I.E.L.D. While in exile on Earth, Thor learned humility and helped to save his new friends from a destructive threat sent by his jealous adoptive brother Loki. In the process, Thor redeemed himself in the eyes of his father, and attempted to confront Loki over his actions; the ensuing confrontation resulted in Loki's own exile. After being welcomed back to Asgard as a hero, Thor must now return to Earth once again to prevent a cosmic-level catastrophe. With Mjølnir, a legendary hammer with immense power, in his hand, the mighty warrior soon finds himself drawn into an unlikely alliance with Nick Fury's secret initiative, the Avengers, lending his power to their cause against Loki and his army.

Hulk

• Name: Bruce Banner
• Activity: 2010
• Status: Alive
• Description: Bruce Banner is a graduate from Culver University who was hired by the military general Thaddeus Ross to develop a new variation of the Super Soldier Serum that brought Captain America into being. Using gamma radiation, Banner succeeded in his experiments, but the results were more disastrous than he thought as he involuntarily transformed into a monster known as Hulk. Now, fearful of the damage that Hulk could inflict, Banner chose to live a discreet life in remote parts of the world, working to cure the sick and help the poor while trying to elude those who would take advantage of his ability to change into the enormous, green menace. Unknown to Banner, Nick Fury of S.H.I.E.L.D. watched over him and kept hostile forces off his back, as Fury saw Banner's transformation as being a valuable asset to the agency's Avengers Initiative. Despite his chagrin, Banner aided the Avengers greatly in the Chitauri Invasion, and later became good friends with Tony Stark and worked with him numerous times.

Wasp

• Name: Janet Van Dyne
• Activity: 2010
• Status: Alive
• Description: Janet van Dyne was a friend of Dr. Henry Pym. She is a mutant and a vigilante with wasp-like traits, hence her codename. The two then met Nick Fury who offered Wasp a role in S.H.I.E.L.D., which she was interested initially despite Hank's misgivings. She then aided the Avengers in the Chitauri Invasion, excited at being a superhero and proud to call herself an Avenger.

Ant-Man

• Name: Henry Pym
• Activity: 2010
• Status: Alive
• Description: Dr. Hank Pym was an affable absent-minded professor, pacifist and scientist for S.H.I.E.L.D. and a friend of Janet van Dyne. He could use his Pym Particles to alter his size and use his helmet to communicate with and command insects. Despite their abilities, he insisted that him and Janet should leave crime fighting to the proper authorities. He then aided the Avengers in the Chitauri Invasion.

Trivia

• The formation of the Avengers is based on both the Avengers of the Prime universe and the Ultimates of the Ultimate universe.
• The year in which the team was founded, 2010, homages the year that Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes was released.

See Also

• New Avengers
• Young Avengers
• Uncanny Avengers
• Gallery