The MCU may have you convinced that you know who the Avengers are now.
But do you really?
As we head into Phase Two of Marvel superhero movies, it might be time for some fresh blood
to be introduced to the team.
If you haven’t read a lot of Avengers comics and all the Avengers spin-off team comics
besides, you might not know that there have been a lot of superheroes and even some supervillains
or former supervillains that have procured a membership to the iconic team over the years.
As times change often so does the team.
Today we’re going to explore some of these changes in the roster as we count down the
top 10 newest Avengers, where we’ll be taking a look at those who have joined and maybe
also even already left in the past decade.
Be sure to stick around till the end of this list where I will have some bonus content
coming your way.
Alright, let’s get counting.
10 Ava Ayala - Oct 2011
From her introduction in the comics Ava Ayala was pretty much always involved with the Avengers.
She possesses the White Tiger Amulet which grants her her powers.
She enrolled in the Avengers Academy and was later declared an official Avengers member
during her time with Luke Cage’s Mighty Avengers in volume two of the series named
after the team during the Infinity event.
Fun fact, if you exclude Doc Ock’s Superior Spider-Man the Mighty Avengers would be considered
to be an all-black superhero team.
I think that’s pretty neat.
9 Samuel Guthrie - Oct 2012
Young Samuel Guthrie is also known as Nova, though he isn’t the first one to take up
that mantle.
There have been many Novas as Nova is short for Nova Centurion.
And Centurion is a rank in the Nova Corps which is a Xandarian military group who are
mostly used in space exploration missions.
Sam was the son of Jesse Alexander who himself was a Nova Centurion.
He ended up taking up the mantle after his father appeared to go missing.
Sam would later end up crash landing on earth and warning the Avengers of the incoming Phoenix
Force during the Avengers vs X-Men event.
Siding with Avengers and doing his best to help them in their fight would grant Sam the
opportunity to join the team.
In Avengers vs X-Men volume one, issue twelve, Thor offered him a membership to the team.
While Nova admitted he felt he didn’t do much to help, he was honoured and accepted.
Pending his mother’s approval of course.
8 Blue Marvel - Nov 2013
For those who aren’t familiar with Adam Brashear, he is a brilliant engineer and physicist
who ended up getting super powers similar to Carol Danvers, Captain Marvel.
He can absorb energy as well but not in the same way.
He can only absorb anti-matter energy or energy from the Negative Zone, basically energy not
of our world or universe.
So he typically does a lot of space fighting as a result.
Cause it’s where he’s the most useful.
He’s also sometimes known for his romantic relationship with Spectrum, aka Monica Rambeaubeen
He wasn’t acknowledged as an official member until the self-titled Mighty Avengers series
volume 2, out of 2012.
Luke Cage, the team leader, acknowledged him as an Avenger during his time with the team
during the Infinity event.
Though we would later find out that Adam had been part of a team predating Luke’s from
the 1970s also referred to as the Mighty Avengers but this wouldn’t happen till issue 11 of
the series, whereas he was welcomed to the team officially in issue 3 in regards to the
comic book timeline.
7 Jane Foster - May 2015
After Thor found he could no longer lift his hammer, Jane began to hear the call from Mjolner.
She had Heimdell take her to it and claimed the hammer for herself.
She was deemed worthy enough to pick it up and became Thor.
Lady Thor, that is.
Despite being diagnosed with cancer and finding out that her transformation into Thor wiped
away all the progress of her chemo, Jane continued to perform acts of heroism as Thor.
She has joined the Avengers team in a few instances, one being when she joined the reformed
team in the All-New All-Different Avengers series.
6 Miles Morales - May 2015
Miles Morales is the Spider-Man of earth 1610.
He was mentored by Peter Parker of earth 616 and eventually also ended up joining earth
616’s Avengers as well.
He joined the team in the All-New All-Different Avengers series.
Miles found himself tangled up with Iron and Sam Wilson who was Captain America and a ragtag
crew of heroes in an attempt to take down the Chitauri warlord known as Warbringer.
The team wasn’t referring to themselves as the Avengers at the time, but of course
as the series, is named that they would later be referred to as Avengers.
Whether they liked it or not.
5 Kamala Khan - May 2015
I was just going to straight up title her as Ms Marvel cause that’s who she is to
me now.
But Carol Danvers as Ms Marvel was part of the Avengers way before what I would consider
new.
And I didn’t want to cause any unnecessary confusion.
So much respect to Kamala as Ms Marvel but for clarity we can just call her by her civilian
name here.
I really love Kamala Khan as an Avenger.
Kamala also joined up with the Avengers in the All-New All-Different Avengers series.
Also appearing in issue one, where Miles and Nova additionally appeared.
The three heroes would actually later leave the Avengers to start their own superhero
team known as the Champions.
After helping to take down Warbringer, Stark would offer Kamala a place on the Avengers
team.
Which she happily accepted.
4 Nadia Van Dyne - May 2016
Nadia Van Dyne was originally just Nadia.
She was the daughter of Hank Pym and his first wife, Maria Trovaya.
So how did she end up with Janet Van Dyne’s last name?
Well she asked her if she could use it.
She felt she knew and admired Van Dyne more than her parents, whom she had never known.
In fact Nadia was actually kidnapped at a young age and raised in Russia in the Red
Room where she was trained to become a spy.
She eventually escaped her fate as a Red Room agents and decided to seek out her step mother,
Janet and her father’s teammates, the Avengers, after learning that her father had been killed
in the fight against Ultron.
Nadia also took up the codename Wasp.
Following the events of Civil War two, she ended up joining the Avenger team herself.
Janet and the rest of the team ended up warming to her.
And Janet revealed that she approved of Nadia adopting her mantle.
3 Doctor Toni Ho - April 2018 avenger / March
2017 US avengers / Dec 2015 AIM new avengers
After her father died saving Tony Stark’s life, Toni resented Stark and strived to be
better than him.
She studied programming and engineering at Caltech and ended up earning three doctorates
by the age of twenty..
Her time with the Avengers began on Roberto da Costa, aka Sunspots, team of Avengers:
AIM.
Da Costa changed the acronym to stand for Avengers Idea Mechanics.
She has appeared in the New Avengers comics and eventually left AIM to join the US Avengers
and ended up taking the mantle of Iron Patriot.
Toni creates her own armored combat suits similar to Iron Man’s which she refers to
as Rescue Armor.
2 Ghost Rider - Jul 2018
Robbie Reyes is the Ghost Rider we are talking about here.
He was first introduced in the All-New Ghost Rider.
And is a car mechanic by day who street races at night in an effort to get money to help
him and his brother move out of their rough neighbourhood.
He ends up possessed by the vengeful spirit of his evil uncle, Eli and becomes Ghost Rider.
Eventually Robbie joins up with the Avengers.
You can see him fight alongside the team in the new Avengers comic series out of 2018-2019
volume 8.
At one point, he even becomes the heart of an event when he is granted the powers of
the other Avengers so that he can go up against and hopefully take on what appears to be the
Dark Celestials.
I know.
What a story, right?
He’s also just a really sweet older brother.
1 Voyager - March 2018 / Feb 2019
Va Nee Gast is the daughter of the Grandmaster, En Dwi Gast.
She originally used her powers to infiltrate the Avengers, inserting herself into their
memories to make them believe she was a long lost founding member of the team known as
Valerie Vector.
Voyager did this for her dad, En Dwi Gast to help him protect his title of Grandmaster,
basically to help guarantee a winning wager on a contest he had gambled his title on with
her uncle, Challenger, who sought to win the bet and usurp her father.
In the end her true identity was revealed by Jarvis.
After being inspired by the Avengers true heroics, she decided to switch sides, defecting
and seeking to help them and earth instead.
In the end they offered Voyager a membership.
Though she declined, she did agree to return to reclaim her membership.
And in the series Avengers No Road Home is acknowledged as an Avenger on the character
intro page.
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