History ComicBook / MightyAvengers

* TrainingFromHell: Black Widow's idea of training recruits is to beat them into the ground. Then she hits them some more. ComicBook/IronMan thinks it's her means of venting anger at being ReAssignedToAntarctica.

** While in disguise, Nick Fury disguises him as Nick Fury. That is, [[ComicBook/UltimateMarvel Ultimate Nick Fury]].

The comic book began in the aftermath of ''Comicbook/CivilWar'', and it was composed of the Avengers that supported the Registration act. They fought against ComicBook/{{Ultron}}, an army of ComicBook/{{Venom}}s, Doctor Doom, and on occasion, their fellow Avengers. This team was disbanded after the ''ComicBook/SecretInvasion'' and the beginning of the ''ComicBook/DarkReign''. The Comicbook/NewAvengers were around as well, running away from the law.

* AmicableExes: Wasp and Hank Pym are [[DefiedTrope not]] this, after several years of getting along just fine. Justified [[spoiler: by how it's a Skrull posing as Hank who naturally doesn't want Janet getting closer and maybe figuring out the truth.]]
* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: The ComicBook/SecretInvasion tie-in issues focus on the [[spoiler:Skrulls infiltration efforts, along with Nick Fury gathering the ComicBook/SecretWarriors]], along with how Elektra was captured by the Skrulls.

* WhatTheHellHero: [[ComicBook/AntMan Hank Pym]] has this to say to Tony after ComicBook/SecretInvasion, and [[spoiler: Janet's death.]]

-->'''Iron Man''': I'd hate to be wrong and we get back home and the apes have taken over because of something we said or did here.\\

'''Iron Man''': ''(thinking)'' Doctor Doom has seen "Franchise/PlanetOfTheApes"? That is hard to picture.

* ArtShift: The scenes of Dr. Doom in the middle ages with Morgan Lefay were intended to resemble paintings. The scenes set in the time-travel to UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks resemble the coloration by points used at that time.

* GenderBender: Ultron "hacks" Tony Stark's body, via the Extremis in his system, and uses it as his own body... and turns it into a female body in the process. The body of the Wasp, to be precise. So, for the same price we have: a male human turned into a female cyborg, a male robot in a female body, and a female woman (the wasp) having to fight against a naked woman that looks exactly like her.

* RatedMForManly: The Colective Man, with the strength of all the Chinese people combined, breaks [=U.S. Agent=]'s shield with a single punch. That's [[BadassCrew the strength of a united nation]], so different to the US, where everyone minds his own business! The [=U.S. Agent=] strikes back: in America [[TheHero a single man, the right man, can make the difference]]! One of the women present asks them to stop fighting, or she'll drown under so much testosterone.

* AnAxeToGrind: One of Ares' favourite weapons is his massive axe.

* IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight: An interesting twist. Quicksilver is attacked by the [=U.S. Agent=], a jerkass UpToEleven, who has been turned into a savage subhuman. He tells him something that gets to him through the devolution process: that, if they don't attack the giant man, "[[DirtyCommunists the reds]] will win!".

** The first lineup is a reference to the ComicBook/FirstAvengersTeam. Iron Man, Hulk and Pym, are included. Iron Man and Hulk only stick around for their first fight, because the former was on the run from Norman Osborn at the time and the latter just wanted to be alone, mirroring how the Hulk left the team early on. Pym does not become a giant for fights anymore, but [[ComicBook/YoungAvengers Stature]] fills that role. The Wasp is dead, but we have Jocasta, a robot with her mind. Captain America is dead, but we have his Guy Gardner version. Thor has his own problems, but we have another god, Hercules. And even a teenage sidekick, Amadeus Cho. And Jarvis, who shall never be absent from the Avengers. [[spoiler:And the team was united by Loki.]] Iron Man even notes the similarities when he gets Hercules and U.S. Agent to help him with Chthon:

* ArtisticLicenseLaw / ArtisticLicenseMilitary: The Avengers invade Latveria and arrest Doctor Doom, using SHIELD resources and personel, on the basis that a weapon he made infected people with symbiotes, which is admittedly illegal, and it is Doctor Doom, but they still launch an attack on an entire nation just to capture one man.

* BecauseISaidSo: Ms. Marvel, leader of the Avengers, doesn't want Spider-Woman on the team, or at least have a vote. But no. Spider-Woman is incorporated into the Avengers because Tony Stark, head honcho of SHIELD, says so.

* TyrantTakesTheHelm: The Black Widow's reaction when she realizes that, in the absence of Tony Stark and Maria Hill, ''she'' is in change of SHIELD's hellicarrier.

* {{Hypocrite}}: Citri Noll, the Skrull that abducts Hank Pym, lambasts him as arrogant for believing the Skrulls will loose their next invasion attempt. This despite the Skrulls being arrogant enough to think that ''this time'' they'll definitely conquer Earth. [[spoiler:Which they don't.]]

* MildlyMilitary: SHIELD is an intelligence / law-enforcement agency run by a man with little to no experience with either, save the time he was the American Secretary of Defense.
* TheMole: [[spoiler:Jarvis and Spider-Woman]]

'''Doctor Doom:''' [[{{Touche}} Well observed]].

* IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight: An interesting twist. Quicksilver is attacked by the [=USAgent=], a jerkass UpToEleven, who has been turned into a savage subhuman. He tells him something that gets to him through the devolution process: that, if they don't attack the giant man, "[[DirtyCommunists the reds]] will win!"
* KarmicJackpot: Henry Pym creates flesh arms and legs for Jocasta, so she can feel things like humans do. Jocasta gets very angry with Pym later, and gives him a megaton punch, with her flesh arms. If she still had mechanical arms, she would have broken his head.
* LegacyCharacter Henry Pym with his new identity, the Wasp.
* LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain: The Scarlet Witch is not really the Scarlet Witch. Henry Pym is Earth's scientist supreme, and couldn't be fooled for long. Ronin also [[http://evil-inc.com/images/blogart/Avengers_liplock.html discovered it]]. How? Let's keep that a secret. He points out that if Mockingbird ever finds out that detail, she would stuff her combat staffs into his parts where the sun does not shine.
* MissedTheCall: Captain America (Bucky) couldn't be used for the team because [[DeathIsCheap he was killed during the initial crisis]]. So, the role is given to the closest thing available: [=USAgent=].
* MundaneUtility: The Avengers use the infinite mansion and their portals to fight evil anywhere on Earth. Jarvis uses it to buy the most refined food from each country.
* NotSoStoic: The Vision is pure logic, he sees a "wave" turn people into stone, and is simply intrigued by the phenomenon. It takes much more than that to get an emotional response or a BigNo from him. Something like the return of the ComicBook/ScarletWitch, perhaps? Yep. That'll do it.
* OneSteveLimit: There are three groups around claiming to be the Avengers: this group, the New Avengers and the Dark Avengers. Pym point out to the press that, according to the internal statutes of the Avengers, the "real" Avengers are his group, as he's the only founding member in any of them.
* PortalNetwork: The new Avengers mansion, located in another dimension, has [[PortalDoor Portal doors]] to anywhere on Earth.
* RatedMForManly: The Colective Man, with the strength of all the Chinese people combined, breaks [=USAgent=]'s shield with a single punch. That's [[BadassCrew the strength of a united nation]], so different to the US, where everyone minds his own business! The [=USAgent=] strikes back: in America [[TheHero a single man, the right man, can make the difference]]! One of the women present asks them to stop fighting, or she'll drown under so much testosterone.

[[ComicBook/MightyAvengers2013 The second volume]], written by Creator/AlEwing, revolved around an entirely new team formed during ''ComicBook/{{Infinity}}'', and lead by [[ComicBook/LukeCageHeroForHire Luke Cage]] and it included among its cast ComicBook/MonicaRambeau, ComicBook/WhiteTiger (Ava Ayala), Power Man (Victor Alvarez), ComicBook/TheFalcon, and ComicBook/SheHulk. During ''ComicBook/{{Axis}}'' it was relaunched and rebranded into ''Captain America and the Mighty Avengers'', though it still contained the same characters and plot as before. The title lasted only ten issues before being softly cancelled in the build-up to ''[[ComicBook/SecretWars2015 Secret Wars]]''. During ''Secret Wars'', Ewing wrote a two issue mini-series, ''Captain Britain and the Mighty Defenders'', which had similar characters and themes. Ewing has since brought Blue Marvel and Monica Rambeau over to the ''[[ComicBook/TheUltimates2015 Ultimates]]'' series, while White Tiger and Power Man reappeared in ''[[ComicBook/NewAvengers2015 New Avengers]]''.

* JerkassGods: Ares is a loud-mouthed, obnoxious [[StayInTheKitchen sexist]] ass. He is also CrazyAwesome.