History ComicBook / WestCoastAvengers

Twenty-four years later, the team was relaunched with a new lineup consisting of [[Characters/HawkeyeKateBishop Kate Bishop]], ComicBook/{{Gwenpool}}, ComicBook/AmericaChavez, Quentin Quire, and a new character named Fuse, along with Hawkeye joining as the lone carryover. For tropes focusing on that series, see ''ComicBook/WestCoastAvengers2018''.

ComicBook/TheVision proposed to make this new group in ''Avengers'' #243 to expand the Avengers' influence over the country, and made ComicBook/{{Hawkeye}} the leader. The other initial members were ComicBook/{{Mockingbird}}, ComicBook/WonderMan, ComicBook/{{Tigra}}, and the second Iron Man ([[ComicBook/WarMachine James Rhodes]]).

Twenty-four years later, the team was relaunched with a new lineup consisting of ComicBook/KateBishop, ComicBook/{{Gwenpool}}, ComicBook/AmericaChavez, Quentin Quire, and a new character named Fuse, along with Hawkeye joining as the lone carryover. For tropes focusing on that series, see ''ComicBook/WestCoastAvengers2018''.

* GoodTwin: Ultron Mark 12, or "Mark" as he called himself, was the only version of ComicBook/{{Ultron}} who grew past his OedipusComplex, [[HeelFaceTurn gave up being a villain]], and actually tried to get closer to Hank. Unfortunately, [[spoiler: a recently restored Ultron-11 found and killed him in front of Hank]].

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: This is Hawkeye's reaction to the government's decision of making U.S.Agent the new leader of the team. Mockingbird follows him.

* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: When Hawkeye became Goliath, he had to fight Erik Josten, who went by Power Man at the time. He later takes the Goliath name. When he fights Clint again in this series, he can become bigger than him, and is still way stronger than him (he was already super-powerful at normal size).
** After this series ended, the two would eventually become teammates as part of the ComicBook/{{Thunderbolts}}.

* MirroredConfrontationShot: [[http://www.puffchrissy.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/West-Coast-Avengers-96.jpg West Coast Avengers 96]].

* TraumaCongaLine: Poor Wanda. As soon as John Byrne's run starts, her synthezoid husband the Vision is dismantled and his personality erased, effectively ending her marriage. All while she was kidnapped by a secret society trying to use her to create a race of super-mutants. Then [[spoiler:her children are revealed to be nothing more than pieces of Mephisto's soul.]] Her mentor Agatha Harkness erases her memories in an attempt to lessen the trauma. Then the Deviant priest Ghaur tries to make her a bride of Set. No wonder she eventually goes catatonic [[spoiler:then insane]] for a while. And Byrne managed to do it all in little more than a year.

The team debuted in a four-issue 1984 miniseries by Creator/RogerStern and Bob Hall. The original plan was for the West Coast team to appear from time to time in the main Avengers book so Stern could keep the characters close when he needed them. They were also part of the supporting cast in ''ComicBook/IronMan'' issues of this period. But one year later, Marvel decided to give the team its own unlimited series. It debuted in 1985 with Steve Englehart and Al Milgrom as the first creative team, and lasted until 1994. With issue 47, the title was changed to ''Avengers West Coast''. After Englehart and Milgrom, the book was written and drawn by Creator/JohnByrne, and when he abruptly quit, veteran Avengers writer Roy Thomas took over and stayed with the book until its cancellation, when it was replaced by the DarkerAndEdgier ''Force Works''.

** Mockingbird received a lot of crap for letting the Phantom Rider die.