History ComicBook / AvengersStandoff

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[[caption-width-right:280:''Not so pleasant...'']]

* ''ComicBook/HowlingCommandos of ComicBook/{{SHIELD}}'' #6

* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: Ever since he took a stand against S.H.I.E.L.D. and ComicBook/MariaHill's plans, Sam's been dragged through the mud by the media as a traitor. He can't even bring in The Green Skull without a crowd gathering to demand he turn in his shield.

** This story will end with the return of Steve Rogers' youth, allowing him to be Captain America alongside Sam Wilson. [[spoiler:This is marred by the fact it's actually the debut of the HYDRAified Captain America with the real Steve's return not happening until [[ComicBook/SecretEmpire later]].]]

* HesBack: This story will end with the return of Steve Rogers' youth, allowing him to be Captain America alongside Sam Wilson.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:The Avengers are no longer at each other's throats, Steve Rogers is back in action and sharing the name Captain America with Sam Wilson, Pleasant Hill is shut down, Maria Hill is punished for her actions, a new Quasar is being trained and Rick Jones is recruited by Steve Rogers for more altruistic manners. However, Avengers Island has been lost to S.H.I.E.L.D., Kobik is on the run with Bucky and the old members of the Thunderbolts, Baron Zemo and Erik Selvig are MIA and the Red Skull is on the move.]]

* CosmicRetcon: Towards the event's end, [[spoiler:Kobik warps reality to restore Steve Rogers to physical and mental perfection... rewriting his memories so that he believes he was a Hydra sleeper agent in the process, due to her having been brainwashed by the Red Skull into thinking Hydra are good]].

** Thunderbolts artist Jon Malin drew a sing that says [[https://www.bleedingcool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/shell-beach-1-768x431.jpg "Shell Beach"]] on the Thunerbolt's tie-in issue. Eventually, someone on Twitter understood this as a reference to the film ''Film/DarkCity'', which Malin confirmed.

* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler:Maria Hill. Trying to reform supervillains into peaceful members of society and trying to find a solution to the CardboardPrison problem is nice and all, but capturing them and brainwashing them into this? Not so much.]]
** However, this gets a little more worrying with ''Uncanny Avengers'' #7 when [[spoiler:Maria Hill tells Rogue that she has a place for them in there as well - she's not going after supervillains, she's willing to toss super''heroes'' as well, even reformed ones.]]
* WhatTheHellHero: Steve Rogers is ''really'' furious about [[spoiler:knowing Maria Hill lied and kept Pleasant Hill running.]]

* GreaterScopeVillain: [[spoiler:after the event, Captain America: Steve Rogers showed that the Red Dkull ordered Selvig to pitch the idea of Pleasant Hill to Maria Hill causing him to be the true mastermind behind the event.]]

* DependingOnTheWriter: No one writer seems to write Kobik the same. The Kobik who showed up in the beginning as well as the ''Captain America: Sam Wilson'' entry comes off as playful yet frightened, yet the Kobik who appears in the ''Uncanny Avengers'', ''All-New, All-Different Avengers'' and ''Howling Commandos of S.H.I.E.L.D.'' comes off as a CreepyChild who wants everyone to "play"

* BigBad: Two of them: [[spoiler:Maria Hill and Baron Zemo, though Zemo becomes the true BigBad after he frees. All the villains and run havoc on Pleasant Hill.]]

** GreaterScopeVillain: [[spoiler:after the event, Captain America: Steve Rogers showed that the Red Dkull ordered Selvig to pitch the idea of Pleasant Hill to Maria Hill causing him to be the true mastermind behind the event.]]

Though similar in concept, Marvel has claimed ''Avengers Standoff'' is completely unrelated to ''ComicBook/CivilWarII'', which is set to launch immediately after this story concludes.

* BigBad: Two of them: [[spoiler:Maria Hill and Baron Zemo]]

* SurveillanceStationSlacker: A group of SHIELD agents shirk their monitoring duties to watch Football on the screens instead, resulting in them not noticing Bucky launching an attack until it's too late.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:The Avengers are no longer at each other's throats, Steve Rogers is back in action and sharing the name Captain America with Sam Wilson, Pleasant Hill is shut down, Maria Hill is punished for her actions, a new Quasar is being trained and Rick Jones is recruited by Steve Rogers for more altruistic manners. However, Avengers Island has been lost to S.H.I.E.L.D., Kobik is on the run with Bucky and the old members of the Thunderbolts, Baron Zemo and Erik Selvig is MIA and the Red Skull is on the move.]]

Announced at New York Comic Con 2015, this crossover will launch with an alpha issue written by Nick Spencer (''ComicBook/AstonishingAntMan'', ''ComicBook/CaptainAmerica: [[ComicBook/TheFalcon Sam Wilson]]'') and encompass the following titles:

* ''ComicBook/{{New Avengers|2015}}'' #8
* ''ComicBook/AllNewAllDifferentAvengers'' #7

* ''ComicBook/UncannyAvengers'' #7
* ''ComicBook/HowlingCommandos of ComicBook/{{SHIELD}}'' #6
* ''ComicBook/AgentsOfSHIELD'' #3

* ''New Avengers'' #9
* ''New Avengers'' #10
* ''Uncanny Avengers'' #8
* ''All-New, All-Different Avengers'' #8
* ''ComicBook/TheIlluminati'' #6
* ''Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.'' #4

'''''Avengers Standoff''''' is a 2016 BatFamilyCrossover published by Creator/MarvelComics, told across the [[ComicBook/TheAvengers Avengers]] line of comics in the ComicBook/AllNewAllDifferentMarvel universe.

* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: Ever since he took a stand against SHIELD and Maria Hill's plans, Sam's been dragged through the mud by the media as a traitor. He can't even bring in The Green Skull without a crowd gathering to demand he turn in his shield.

* AFateWorseThanDeath: Zemo considers being brainwashed in Pleasant Hill to be this, likening it to torture. The reactions of the villains when they're freed suggests they concur.

* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: Ever since he took a stand against SHIELD and Maria Hill's plans, Sam's been dragged through the mud by the media as a traitor. He can't even bring in The Green Skull without a crowd gathering to demand he turn in his shield.