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** Before leaving, Dani reminds Doreen of [[ComicBook/NewAvengers the time]] Doreen was her babysitter.



* KickingAssInAllHerFinery: In issue 3, Toni shows her tuxedo hides Iron Patriot implants. Stylish and practical!



* PatrioticFervor: The (calculated) main gimmick of this new team. They even created a series of videos to drive this home.



* RealityEnsues: Discussed by Squirrel Girl and Cannonball. He could shoot concussive blasts from his arms, but that'd send him flying, unless there's someone around with Squirrel-Strength to stop this happening.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: This seems to be the Gold Skull's MO, believing that those with money has the power. In fact, his New World Order name is called the $kullocracy, complete with the dollar sign instead of an S.
* SheCleansUpNicely: The whole team dressed up fancy to get into a party in issue 2, including the usually unkempt Cannonball.
* SpiritualSuccessor: ''U.S.Avengers'' follows (directly) in the footsteps of Al Ewing's eighteen-issue ''New Avengers'' run, reuniting him with frequent collaborator Paco Medina as the regular artist.



* SpiritualSuccessor: ''U.S.Avengers'' follows (directly) in the footsteps of Al Ewing's eighteen-issue ''New Avengers'' run, reuniting him with frequent collaborator Paco Medina as the regular artist.
* PatrioticFervor: The (calculated) main gimmick of this new team. They even created a series of videos to drive this home.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: This seems to be the Gold Skull's MO, believing that those with money has the power. In fact, his New World Order name is called the $kullocracy, complete with the dollar sign instead of an S.
* SheCleansUpNicely: The whole team dressed up fancy to get into a party in issue 2, including the usually unkempt Cannonball.



* TechnicalPacifist: Toni hates using violence and even admits that she doesn't know how to build a gun. Thus, her Iron Patriot armor is designed to use force fields to fight.

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* TalksLikeAPirate: The Golden Skull's robo-mooks, yar!
* TechnicalPacifist: Toni hates using violence and even admits that she doesn't know how to build a gun. Thus, her Iron Patriot armor is designed to use force fields to fight. Though as ''New Avengers'' shows, piss her off enough, and those forcefields can cut off a person's head.



* WhatMeasureIsAMook: Dani Cage always tries to spare the Golden Skull's mooks, or at least warn them that the guy will betray and kill them the first chance he gets. Even though she has no luck, it doesn't stop her trying.

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* WhatMeasureIsAMook: Dani Cage always tries to spare the Golden Skull's mooks, or at least warn them that the guy will betray and kill them the first chance he gets. Even though she has no luck, it doesn't stop her trying. Now, if they're ''robots'' on the other hand...

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* ItsAllAboutMe: The Golden Skull, to the point where he ''always'' kills off his henchmen whenever he pulls a job just so he doesn't have to share anything.



* NotHelpingYourCase: On finding out the Golden Skull's current goons are robots, Dani asks if he still made them listen to one of his speeches. The Golden Skull denies it, only to immediately add that it was a ''brilliant'' speech, actually.

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* NotHelpingYourCase: On finding out the Golden Skull's current goons are robots, Dani asks if he still made them listen to one of his dumb speeches. The Golden Skull denies it, only to immediately add that it was a ''brilliant'' speech, actually.
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* FunnyBackgroundEvent: At the part in issue 2, as Doreen asks Freddy the butler about the foodstuffs he's serving, the woman behind her is having to deal with Doreen's tail in her face.


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* NotHelpingYourCase: On finding out the Golden Skull's current goons are robots, Dani asks if he still made them listen to one of his speeches. The Golden Skull denies it, only to immediately add that it was a ''brilliant'' speech, actually.
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* DidntThinkThisThrough: When Toni's fighting the Gold Skull in his own PoweredArmor, she's surprised that his armor is actually ''solid gold'' and not gold-plated; solid gold is so soft that it can be molded ''by hand''. She easily tears his armor apart.

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* FromBadToWorse: In Dani's reality, Zero Day began with Thanos breaking into Project P.E.G.A.S.U.S. and stealing the Iso-8 cube to make the Iso Gauntlets. He then proceeded to murder almost every hero who tried stopping him. That was just the first day of his rampage.
* FutureBadass: Danielle Cage. It doesn't really become more badass than becoming ''Captain America''. Not to mention she's also inherited her parents' powers.



* TimeyWimeyBall: Squirrel Girl used to change Dani Cage's diapers, but Dani is now ''older'' than Doreen due to time travel shenanigans.


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* WhatMeasureIsAMook: Dani Cage always tries to spare the Golden Skull's mooks, or at least warn them that the guy will betray and kill them the first chance he gets. Even though she has no luck, it doesn't stop her trying.
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** Toni Ho (an Asian woman) as the new Iron Patriot.

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** Toni Ho (an Asian woman) [[TwoferTokenMinority lesbian]]) as the new Iron Patriot.
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* TakeThat: When asked how a horrible man like Golden Skull could have so many loyal followers, Dani Cage says that the Skull dupes desperate, gullible people into supporting him by making lavish promises that he has no intention of keeping. More than a few have interpreted that as a shot at UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump.
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** Dani Cage as Captain America and Toni Ho as Iron Patriot, as well as the [[ComicBook/RedSkull Gold Skull]].

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** Dani Cage as Captain America and Toni Ho as Iron Patriot, as well as the [[ComicBook/RedSkull Gold Skull]].Though Gold Skull is implied to be a legacy of the eco terrorist called The Green Skull.

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* BadBoss: The Golden Skull gathers crews for heists, then murders them when they're done because he thinks it's clever.



* CallBack: Enigma repeats [=POD=]'s mantra from the previous series of ''New Avengers'', "I see you".

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Enigma repeats [=POD=]'s mantra from the previous series of ''New Avengers'', "I see you".you".
** The "firewall" around time, previously mentioned during ''New Avengers'', is mentioned again in issue 2. The Golden Skull manages to find a way around it.
* CaptainErsatz: Issue 2 introduces talk, dark-haired, lantern jawed billionaire industrialist playboy ''Bryce Wyne''. Oh, and his butler Freddie.



** During the discussion of Zero Day with Dani Cage, she mentions the A.V.E.N.G.E.R.S Initiative, which was mentioned during her team's appearance back in ''New Avengers''. It's revealed here that Black Widow founded it, Nat having been shown as one of the few modern Avengers still a member of the team in the future back in ''Ultron: Forever''.
** In Dani's universe, Thanos' rampage was stopped by Black Knight, Hulkling, Fazia Hussein and Guillotine using their swords to stab him to death.
* CrypticBackgroundReference: Dani mentions that after "Zero Day" came the Eternity Wars (also mentioned by her team the last time they appeared). She doesn't elaborate on it any further, other than it was ''worse'' than Zero Day.



* DumbMuscle: Golden Skull's usual henchmen. Dani frequently tries to point out the man's going to kill them, to no avail.



* HeroOfAnotherStory: Dani Cage has years of heroing under her belt, including several team-ups with other versions of herself. But then, she is ''Captain America''.



* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: This seems to be the Gold Skull's MO, believing that those with money has the power. In fact, his New World Order name is called the $kullocracy, complete with the dollar sign instead of an S

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* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: This seems to be the Gold Skull's MO, believing that those with money has the power. In fact, his New World Order name is called the $kullocracy, complete with the dollar sign instead of an SS.
* SheCleansUpNicely: The whole team dressed up fancy to get into a party in issue 2, including the usually unkempt Cannonball.


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* TuxedoAndMartini: Given the team's mission statement is "Q-Branch meets IMF", yeah. Issue 2 has the whole team dressing up in tuxes to get into a fancy shindig, ladies included.
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* ForWantOfANail: The Dani Cage Captain America tells the team about Zero Day and it turns out that our heroes stopped it... back in the very start of ''ComicBook/CivilWarII''.
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* CallBack: Codename: Enigma repeats [=POD=]'s mantra from the previous series of ''New Avengers'', "I see you".

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* CallBack: Codename: Enigma repeats [=POD=]'s mantra from the previous series of ''New Avengers'', "I see you".

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* BadassMustache: Say what you will about Maverick, but the man has an impressive 'stache. Unlike the previous Red Hulk, he keeps his when he hulks out.
* TheBusCameBack: The Dani Cage Captain America of ''Ultron: Forever'' returns at the end of issue 1, followed quickly by her adversary the Golden Skull.
* CallBack: Codename: Enigma repeats [=POD=]'s mantra from the previous series of ''New Avengers'', "I see you".



* ContinuityNod:
** Roberto's introductory flashback has him watching TV with the original New Mutants team.
** Toni's recording in issue 1 mentions that she has a half-brother from her father out there, and that it's "complicated", a nod to an old ''Iron Man'' storyline.
** Maverick's Red Hulk upgrade seems to be derived from the gamma-enhancement tech S.H.I.E.L.D. was seen using in the second issue of Ewing's New Avengers.



* LegacyCharacter: Dani Cage as Captain America and Toni Ho as Iron Patriot, as well as the [[ComicBook/RedSkull Gold Skull]].

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Dani Cage as Captain America and Toni Ho as Iron Patriot, as well as the [[ComicBook/RedSkull Gold Skull]].
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* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: This seems to be the Gold Skull's MO, believing that those with money has the power. In fact, his New World Order name is called the $kullocracy, complete with the dollar sign instead of an S
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* AwesomeYetImpractical: The Red Hulk. As Squirrel Girl notes, if something is thrown at the Red Hulk and he's taken down easily, what does he do for the remaining 59 minutes? However, it's totally justified as he's considered a GodzillaThreshold for the team.


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* PreAsskickingOneLiner: General Maverick uses the phrase "Red Hulk Plug-in, do your sluggin'!" when he transforms, but he grouses that it needs work.
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* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Because Al Ewing wouldn't let them use the originl Red Hulk, Maverick is pretty much Thunderbolt Ross right down to the [[BadassMoustache stache only matched by Sam Elliot.]] His main difference is that he takes Ross' GeneralRipper traits and ramps them UpToEleven.

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* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Because Al Ewing wouldn't let them use the originl Red Hulk, Maverick is pretty much Thunderbolt Ross right down to the [[BadassMoustache stache only matched by Sam Elliot.]] His main difference is that he takes Ross' GeneralRipper traits and ramps them UpToEleven.
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* TwoferTokenMinority: Toni is a queer Asian-American woman.
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* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Because Al Ewing wouldn't let them use the originl Red Hulk, Maverick is pretty much Thunderbolt Ross right down to the [[BadassMoustache stache only matched by Sam Elliot.]] His main difference is that he takes Ross' GeneralRipper traits and ramps them UpToEleven.
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[[caption-width-right:350:[[{{Tagline}} AMERICA ASSEMBLE.]] [[note]]From left to right: Iron Patriot, Enigma, Sunspot, ComicBook/SquirrelGirl, ComicBook/RedHulk, Cannonball, ComicBook/CaptainAmerica[[/note]]]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:[[{{Tagline}} AMERICA ASSEMBLE.]] [[note]]From left to right: Iron Patriot, Enigma, Sunspot, Sunspot/Citizen V, ComicBook/SquirrelGirl, ComicBook/RedHulk, Cannonball, ComicBook/CaptainAmerica[[/note]]]]

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* HourOfPower: General Maverick's Red Hulk form was a device created by S.H.I.E.L.D that would give its user half-power Hulk abilities. AIM got a hold of it and modified so that, for an hour, it can grant full Hulk power for an hour, but it requires a full day to recharge.



** Sunspot is the latest person to be named Citizen V.



* PatrioticFervor: The (calculated) main gimmick of this new team.

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* PatrioticFervor: The (calculated) main gimmick of this new team. They even created a series of videos to drive this home.
* TechnicalPacifist: Toni hates using violence and even admits that she doesn't know how to build a gun. Thus, her Iron Patriot armor is designed to use force fields to fight.

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'''''U.S.Avengers''''' is a 2016 {{comic book}} published by Creator/MarvelComics, as part of the ComicBook/{{Marvel NOW|2016}}! wave of titles. It's written by Creator/AlEwing and drawn by Paco Medina, serving as a {{spiritual successor}} to the former's 2015 run of ''ComicBook/{{New Avengers|2015}}''.

With the Avengers Idea Mechanics torn after the events of ''ComicBook/AvengersStandoff'' and ''ComicBook/CivilWarII'', billionaire superhero [[ComicBook/NewMutants Sunspot]] takes it upon himself to rebrand A.I.M. as the American Intelligence Mechanics, now working alongside ComicBook/{{SHIELD}} to better serve the interests of a distrusting American people and [[WinBackTheCrowd win back their trust]].

Joining Sunspot on this new endeavor are his best friend [[ComicBook/NewMutants Cannonball]] and A.I.M. members ComicBook/SquirrelGirl, Enigma (formerly [[ComicBook/JonathanHickmansAvengers Pod]]) and Toni Ho (now operating under the [[ComicBook/IronMan Iron]] [[CaptainPatriotic Patriot]] alias), with new ComicBook/RedHulk and Dani Cage (daughter of ComicBook/LukeCage and ComicBook/JessicaJones) as the ComicBook/CaptainAmerica of [[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture 20XX]].

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'''''U.S.Avengers''''' is a 2016 2017 {{comic book}} published by Creator/MarvelComics, as part of the ComicBook/{{Marvel NOW|2016}}! wave of titles. It's written by Creator/AlEwing and drawn by Paco Medina, serving as a {{spiritual successor}} to relaunch of the former's 2015 previous run of ''ComicBook/{{New Avengers|2015}}''.

With the Avengers Idea Mechanics torn after the events of ''ComicBook/AvengersStandoff'' and ''ComicBook/CivilWarII'', billionaire superhero [[ComicBook/NewMutants Sunspot]] --now going by the alias [[ComicBook/{{Thunderbolts}} Citizen V]]-- takes it upon himself to rebrand A.I.M. as the American ''American'' Intelligence Mechanics, now working alongside ComicBook/{{SHIELD}} to better serve the interests of a distrusting American people and [[WinBackTheCrowd win back their trust]].

Joining Sunspot on this new endeavor are his best friend [[ComicBook/NewMutants Cannonball]] and Cannonball]], A.I.M. members ComicBook/SquirrelGirl, Enigma (formerly [[ComicBook/JonathanHickmansAvengers Pod]]) and Toni Ho (now operating under the [[ComicBook/IronMan Iron]] [[CaptainPatriotic Patriot]] alias), with new ComicBook/RedHulk and Dani Cage (daughter of ComicBook/LukeCage and ComicBook/JessicaJones) as the ComicBook/CaptainAmerica of [[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture 20XX]].
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** Sunspot (a black Latino) as the new Citizen V.

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Joining Sunspot on this new endeavor are his best friend [[ComicBook/NewMutants Cannonball]] and A.I.M. members ComicBook/SquirrelGirl, Enigma (formerly [[ComicBook/JonathanHickmansAvengers Pod]]) and Toni Ho (now operating under the [[ComicBook/IronMan Iron]] [[CaptainPatriotic Patriot]] alias), with ComicBook/RedHulk and Dani Cage (daughter of ComicBook/LukeCage and ComicBook/JessicaJones) as the ComicBook/CaptainAmerica of [[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture 20XX]].

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Joining Sunspot on this new endeavor are his best friend [[ComicBook/NewMutants Cannonball]] and A.I.M. members ComicBook/SquirrelGirl, Enigma (formerly [[ComicBook/JonathanHickmansAvengers Pod]]) and Toni Ho (now operating under the [[ComicBook/IronMan Iron]] [[CaptainPatriotic Patriot]] alias), with new ComicBook/RedHulk and Dani Cage (daughter of ComicBook/LukeCage and ComicBook/JessicaJones) as the ComicBook/CaptainAmerica of [[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture 20XX]].


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** General Robert L. Maverick replaces General Thunderbolt Ross as the new Red Hulk.
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* TimeyWimeyBall: Squirrel Girl used to change Dani Cage's diapers, but Dani is now ''older'' than Doreen due to time travel shenanigans.
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* SpiritualSuccessor: ''U.S.Avengers'' follows (directly) in the footsteps of Al Ewing's eighteen-issue ''New Avengers'' run, reuniting him with frequent collaborator Paco Media as the regular artist.

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* SpiritualSuccessor: ''U.S.Avengers'' follows (directly) in the footsteps of Al Ewing's eighteen-issue ''New Avengers'' run, reuniting him with frequent collaborator Paco Media Medina as the regular artist.
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Lets wait until the book comes out before saying it's unexplained.


* UnexplainedRecovery: The Red Hulk being repowered, seeing as General Ross had his powers taken away by Hulk's "Doc Green" persona during "The Omega Hulk" storyline prior to ''ComicBook/SecretWars2015''

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* UnexplainedRecovery: The Red Hulk being repowered, seeing as General Ross had his powers taken away by Hulk's "Doc Green" persona during "The Omega Hulk" storyline prior to ''ComicBook/SecretWars2015''
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Sooo apparently there will be a 18th epilogue issue.


* SpiritualSuccessor: ''U.S.Avengers'' follows (directly) in the footsteps of Al Ewing's seventeen-issue ''New Avengers'' run, reuniting him with frequent collaborator Paco Media as the regular artist.

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* SpiritualSuccessor: ''U.S.Avengers'' follows (directly) in the footsteps of Al Ewing's seventeen-issue eighteen-issue ''New Avengers'' run, reuniting him with frequent collaborator Paco Media as the regular artist.
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* UnexplainedRecovery: The Red Hulk being repowered, seeing as General Ross had his powers taken away by Hulk's "Doc Green" persona during "The Omega Hulk" storyline prior to ''ComicBook/SecretWars2015''
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According to solicits the 17th will be the finale of that series


* SpiritualSuccessor: ''U.S.Avengers'' follows (directly) in the footsteps of Al Ewing's thirteen-issue ''New Avengers'' run, reuniting him with frequent collaborator Paco Media as the regular artist.

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* SpiritualSuccessor: ''U.S.Avengers'' follows (directly) in the footsteps of Al Ewing's thirteen-issue seventeen-issue ''New Avengers'' run, reuniting him with frequent collaborator Paco Media as the regular artist.
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* WearingAFlagOnYourHead:

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* WearingAFlagOnYourHead:
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* SpiritualSuccessor: ''U.S.Avengers'' follows (directly) in the footsteps of Al Ewing's thirteen-issue ''New Avengers'' run, reuniting him with frequent collaborator Paco Media as the regular artist.



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[[caption-width-right:350:[[{{Tagline}} AMERICA ASSEMBLE.]] [[note]]From left to right: Iron Patriot, Enigma, Sunspot, ComicBook/SquirrelGirl, ComicBook/RedHulk, Cannonball, ComicBook/CaptainAmerica[[/note]]]]

'''''U.S.Avengers''''' is a 2016 {{comic book}} published by Creator/MarvelComics, as part of the ComicBook/{{Marvel NOW|2016}}! wave of titles. It's written by Creator/AlEwing and drawn by Paco Medina, serving as a {{spiritual successor}} to the former's 2015 run of ''ComicBook/{{New Avengers|2015}}''.

With the Avengers Idea Mechanics torn after the events of ''ComicBook/AvengersStandoff'' and ''ComicBook/CivilWarII'', billionaire superhero [[ComicBook/NewMutants Sunspot]] takes it upon himself to rebrand A.I.M. as the American Intelligence Mechanics, now working alongside ComicBook/{{SHIELD}} to better serve the interests of a distrusting American people and [[WinBackTheCrowd win back their trust]].

Joining Sunspot on this new endeavor are his best friend [[ComicBook/NewMutants Cannonball]] and A.I.M. members ComicBook/SquirrelGirl, Enigma (formerly [[ComicBook/JonathanHickmansAvengers Pod]]) and Toni Ho (now operating under the [[ComicBook/IronMan Iron]] [[CaptainPatriotic Patriot]] alias), with ComicBook/RedHulk and Dani Cage (daughter of ComicBook/LukeCage and ComicBook/JessicaJones) as the ComicBook/CaptainAmerica of [[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture 20XX]].

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!! ''U.S.Avengers'' provides examples of the following tropes:
* AffirmativeActionLegacy:
** Dani Cage (a black woman) as the Captain America of 20XX.
** Toni Ho (an Asian woman) as the new Iron Patriot.
* CaptainGeographic: As you'd probably expect, much of this team bears the American flag colors and iconography.
* DieselPunk: Squirrel Girl and Cannonball's [[ComicBook/TheRocketeer Rocketeer]]-esque costume designs are very much in this style.
* {{Eagleland}}: Justified metatextually ''and'' in-universe. Al Ewing (who writes this book) is British, and Sunspot (the team leader) is a Brazilian expatriate who loves his adoptive nation, so the gauche perception of American patriotism on display here [[FridgeBrilliance makes sense in hindsight]].
* LegacyCharacter: Dani Cage as Captain America and Toni Ho as Iron Patriot, as well as the [[ComicBook/RedSkull Gold Skull]].
* MiniMecha: Toni's Hulkbuster-esque Iron Patriot armor is quite big --roughly the size of Red Hulk-- but not ''gigantic''.
* PatrioticFervor: The (calculated) main gimmick of this new team.
* WearingAFlagOnYourHead:


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