History ComicBook / AvengersTheInitiative

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* VillainProtagonist: {{Taskmaster}} and several other villains during several of the Comicbook/DarkReign arcs.

* ADayInTheSpotLight: The Series in general. Special mention goes to #27, the short story "Even the Losers" focusing on a one off {{Dazzler}} villain names Johnny Guitar, and manages to make it one of the most poignant [[spoiler: [[HeroicSacrifice character deaths]] for a C-Lister in within the Millennial decade]].

SuperHero Bootcamp

With the events of ComicBook/{{Siege}} over, Camp Hammond was shut down along with the [[SuperRegistrationAct Super Human Registration Act]]. In its wake, only the most troubled of young heroes were brought in for study in ComicBook/AvengersAcademy.

All in all, the series served as a look at the wider Marvel Universe from the perspective of C and D list characters. Some new, some classic, but only a few normally major leading characters.

Following the events of the Civil War, IronMan opens "Camp Hammond", a military base where heroes old and young are put into boot camp to train them to be "proper" heroes. But as they say, the road to hell is paved with good intentions.

Following the events of the Civil War, IronMan opens "Camp Hammond", a military base where heroes old and young are put into bootcamp to train them to be "proper" heroes. But as they say, the road to hell is paved with good intentions.

* KilledOffForReal: Quite a few. [[spoiler: the original MVP and two of his four active clones, Johnny Guitar, Spinner, Whiz Kid, Proton and possibly Freedom Ring]]. Despite this, none really feels like a waste of the character nor done for cheap drama.

** MVP technically is a descendent of one of the scientists that worked on the original CaptainAmerica super soldier program. That took their work and created a actual diet and workout program that naturally made MVP into one over the course of his life.

* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler: Hardball, one of the first recruits in the series becomes a high ranking member of Hydra. ]]

The boot camp has many secrets behind it, with many agendas working not to make better heroes at all. Each state is stocked with its own super hero team, but that itself ends up being a villainous plan as part of the Skrull's SecretInvasion -- placing a Super Skrull in every state. Once the lies, deaths and many of the agendas are revealed, Norman Osborn movves in and turns stocks the camp and state with super villains, leaving the old graduates to fight against them as the very thing they aspired not to be -- renegade heroes.

* [[spoiler:CloningBlues: MVP]]

* KilledOffForReal: Quite a few. [[spoiler: the original MVP and two of his four active clones, Johnny Guitar, Spinner, Whiz Kid, Proton and possibly Freedom Ring]]. Despite this, none really feels like a waste of the character nor done for cheap drama.

The boot camp has many secrets behind it, with many agendas working not to make better heroes at all. Each state is stocked with its own super hero team, but that itself ends up being a villainous plan as part of the Skrull's Secret Invasion -- placing a Super Skrull in every state. Once the lies, deaths and many of the agendas are revealed, Norman Osborn movves in and turns stocks the camp and state with super villains, leaving the old graduates to fight against them as the very thing they aspired not to be -- renegade heroes.

With the events of Siege over, Camp Hammond was shut down along with the Super Human Registration Act. In its wake, only the most troubled of young heroes were brought in for study in ComicBook/AvengersAcademy.

SuperHero BootCamp

* DrillSeargentNasty: Gauntlet [[spoiler: so much so that SLAPSTICK ambushes him and beats him into a coma for using "NewWarriors" as an insult, and mocking Slapstick's dead friends.]]

* ADayInTheSpotLight: The Series in general. Special mention goes to #27, the short story "Even the Losers" focusing on a one off {{Dazzler}} villain names Johnny Guitar, and manages to make it one of the most poignant [[spoiler: [[HeroicSacrifice chaaracter deaths]] for a C-Lister in within the Millennial decade]].

SuperHero Bootcamp

Many of the characters in its re-appear in the FearItself tie in "Youth In Revolt".

* CuteMonsterGirl: Komodo, who is also a ReptilianHumanoid.

* ADayInTheSpotLight: The Series in general. Special mention goes to #27, the short story "Even the Losers" focusing on a one off {{Dazzler}} villain names Johnny Guitar, and manages to make it one of the most poignant [[spoiler: [[HeroicSacrifice chaaracter deaths]] for a C-Lister in within the Millennial decade]]

* KilledOffForReal: Quite a few. [[spoiler: the original MVP and two of his four known clones, Johnny Guitar, Spinner, Whiz Kid, Proton and possibly Freedom Ring]]. Despite this, none really feels like a waste of the character nor done for cheap drama.

* KilledOffForReal: Quite a few. [[spoiler: the original MVP, Johnny Guitar, Spinner, Whiz Kid, Proton and possibly Freedom Ring]]. Despite this, none really feels like a waste of the character nor done for cheap drama.

* KilledOffForReal: Quite a few. [[Spoiler: the original MVP, Johnny Guitar, Spinner, Whiz Kid, Proton and possibly Freedom Ring]]. Despite this, none really feels like a waste of the character nor done for cheap drama.

All in all, the series served as a look at the wider Marvel Universe from the perspective of C and D list characters. Some new, some classic, but only a few normally major leading characters.