Nowadays everyone knows who The Avengers are,
but the Young Avengers? Maybe you need to watch this video
Hey guys it's me, Marcus aka the Maddogg, and we're back with another video! Now the first
roster of the Young Avengers was created in 2005 by Alan Heinberg, you might remember him from
writing the O.C. and admittedly I don't really think too many people might remember that now. But
after the Avengers disassembled, four young heroes teamed up as part of Vision's contingency plan in
the event that the Earth's Mightiest Heroes were no longer a team, all of which had powers and some
connection to one of the original members. There is also going to be minor spoilers for some of the
plot points throughout both series. First up we've got Iron Lad, and no awards here for guessing that
he's this team's answer to Iron Man but Nathaniel Richards is the founder of the young avengers who
dons a neural kinetic suit of armor which works based on mental commands and it was given to him
by none other than the long-standing avengers villain, Kang the Conqueror. Speaking of which,
Nathaniel is revealed to be none other than the younger version of Kang the Conqueror who hasn't
fulfilled the evil part of his destiny just yet but does play a bigger role later on in the story
and i'm not going to spoil that part of it because admittedly it was the part that i really liked but
despite this he does still appear headstrong and manages to gain the trust of both the original
members of the avengers and also his own team next up we've got hulkling teddy oakman was chosen by
iron lad to join the team after he read the plans based on vision's contingency and he's the son of
the original scroll male version of captain marvel and the cree princess snl but this wasn't known
until the superscroll forced teddy to try and show his scroll form however under the law of both of
those species he's seen as both being holy skrull and holy creed and due to this unique heritage he
has super strength he can shape-shift and he also has accelerated healing but because his appearance
and powers are similar to that of the hulk that's why he's got the name hulkling then we've got
patriot another one of the original four chosen by iron lad eli bradley is the grandson of isaiah
bradley who took part in the super soldier program which most famously gave was captain america
and well um don't ask about any of the others however initially iron lad was told that he
should be recruiting isaiah's son but as he'd been missing for some time and eli had been displaying
some powers that were reminiscent of captain america he was recruited to the team instead
yet it's later revealed that eli was conceived and if you don't know what that word means ask
your parents before ansari took part in the super soldier program eli then claimed that he got the
powers as a result of a blood transfusion but this isn't the full story at first people thought that
the suit was based on bookies but it was made to resemble that of eli's grandfather and despite not
seeing eye to eye the original triangular captain america shield was gifted to him by hall card
that leaves us with wiccan the last of the four original young avengers that was assembled by iron
lad and is also the reincarnated son of scarlet witch and vision and yeah it's the same character
that appeared in one division his powers are based around magic and he originally called himself the
asgardian because he used his abilities to create lightning-based attacks and for flight but when
the original avengers later reassembled he changed his name to wicken interestingly of his time as
a young avenger he began flirting and developed a relationship with his teammate hulk link both
members were part of the second incarnation of the young avengers and have recently been featured in
company-wide events like empire although we've been referring to those as the four founding
members of other characters that have been there from the beginning like hawkeye kate
bishop was bestowed the mantle of hawkeye after clint bought and had apparently died during the
avengers disassembled event she introduced herself to the young avengers when she saved them from a
rescue mission that went slightly askew but that's one word that definitely can't be used for her aim
she's proven herself more than capable with a bow and arrow which captain america gifted to
her after she'd proven herself and she can also handle a sword prior to joining the team she was
violently attacked in central park the full extent of which wasn't revealed this prompted
her to take intense combat training which made her a valuable addition to the team she has a
somewhat on-again off-again relationship with patriot but also seem to do is fight which is
one of those members that keeps the team together like a family although she don't have superpowers
she possesses qualities similar to captain america a level head a great tactical mind
and the ability to analyze a situation quickly in the map fraction written hawkeye series she
worked alongside clint barton as they worked against street level crime however she's still
being an integral member to the young avengers then we've got statue the daughter of scotland
cassandra is a team's equivalent to ant-man because she possesses her father's ability to
increase her size this is because she'd stolen pin particles from her father's supply over the years
it's only later in her tenure as a young avenger that she realized that she can also shrink as well
as grow but she didn't even realize that she had any powers to begin with until she went to the
avengers manor because she was trying to reclaim some of her father's old equipment and this was
because she was originally planning on joining the other teenage led super team which is the runaways
because her stepfather hated superheroes she's good friends with kate bishop and managed to
convince the rest of the team to continue training when they were forced to disband by
captain america and iron man the late addition into the first iteration of the team's vision
going under the human name jonas he was created from visions original programming and nathaniel's
brain patterns and army this means that he has the same abilities as his predecessors such as flight
superhuman strength technopathy and density manipulation among a few others in heinberg's
rendition of the character he is a new version of vision that doesn't possess the memories of
his predecessor he also grows affectionate towards fellow team member statute and at
one point they are dual memberships in both the mighty avengers and the young avengers
speed another late addition to the original team and i'm not sure if he's named after the kiana
reeves 1994 film it wasn't clear on the wikipedia page that i've copied this information from was
another child of scarlet witch and vision and he's also the twin brother of wiccan real name
tommy shepard is a speedster that can accelerate atomic matter and also destabilize it he joined
the young avengers when he was broken out of prison and he was there because he accidentally
vaporized his school which you know is an honest mistake but he did that so that the team could
save hulkling who at that point had been kidnapped he's not in the team for long but he does try to
start a relationship with kate bishop but she instead decides that she wants to try and pursue
something with patriot so i guess that speed's kind of like the marcus of the young avengers
and that's pretty much it for the first roster but in 2013 the young avengers were given a second
series as part of the marvel now event this is because most of the team was separated as part
of the children's crusade story arc he had wiccan hulkling and hawkeye remaining but to bolster up
the numbers new members were also recruited first edition is kid loki which sounds like the name of
a really bad rapper but yeah this is already the loki that you all know and love he's just
in a kid body and admittedly i could finish this description right here but i'm actually gonna try
and make an effort for once in these videos so loki lefearson lucky lefferson lucky lefearson
god they don't make this easy it's an asgardian prince and the adoptive brother of thor but finds
himself trapped in the body of a teenage boy after his recent reincarnation so he
has his usual mischief for manipulation but he isn't as much of a threat this time the
team doesn't fully trust him mainly because this is the young avengers and not the x-men
who admitted leave letting more villains than rikers island however later on in the series
wiccan uses his magic so that loki can be aged up so that he can summon enough power during
one of the battles then we've got miss america whose real name is america chavez and she's not
based on any previous member of the original avengers she has the ability to fly has super
strength and can even create portals but only with her kicks because you know we have to keep
some level of believability here as a child she saw her mother sacrifice herself to protect the
utopian parallel which is a reality out of time which she grew up in as a result of this she
decided to run away and despite what that sentence may suggest this didn't automatically grant her a
position in the runaways she's of latin american descent and is also a lesbian but is one of the
only members of the team that hasn't tried it on with anyone else also joining the team this time
around was marvel boy a descendant of the queen nova possesses speed strength enhanced stamina
enhanced reflexes alongside access to an alien weaponry that would make ratcheting clank jealous
having previously appeared as an antagonist to the team when he was under mind control during
the civil war era he struggles to assimilate with earth culture only seeming to be able to connect
through music because of the fact that he makes a good dj parties no i'm being serious but he
is still a valuable member of the team and if you were previously worried because when i spoke about
hawkeye it didn't seem that she'd had some kind of relationship with any other member of the team
this is where marvel boy comes in because those two develop a relationship over the course of
their time during the young avengers then we've got the last main member to join prodigy david
is a former member of the x-men and also a previous student at the xavier institute for
higher learning so he's almost overqualified for the young avengers he's got an insanely high level
of intellect and he can also absorb the knowledge of others that are around him so for example
if he was to be near me he would also have the knowledge of how to create the greatest bowl of
super noodles ever he met fellow teammate speed when he was working as a call center operator at
the superhuman crisis helpline the two decide to team up and work together which then led to
him becoming a member of the young avengers whilst there he develops an attraction to hulkling which
makes sense because hulklink is as jacked as i like to pretend i am but as you can imagine this
does cause issues for him and wiccan so those are the main members of the young avengers in
case it was that you weren't sure who they were i can personally recommend both of these series
although i do prefer the original from alan heinberg but comment below who's your favorite
member of the young avengers or what's a team that you'd also like to see get the who's who
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