10 Coolest Pieces Of Avengers Lore Marvel Needs To Revisit

The Avengers took DC’s Justice Society/Justice League formula – combining all of their top heroes in one team book – and knocked it out of the park. There have been over sixty years of Avengers comics, and while they haven’t all been good, they’ve built up impressive lore for fans, with all manner of heroes, villains, associates, and events passing in and out of these brilliant stories.

Marvel has often depended on the Avengers to anchor their entire line of comics, so sometimes, these bits of lore are left behind to make the book more homogeneous and easy to pick up for new fans. However, bringing back some of these pieces of lore would make for some great stories. The Avengers have a rich history and some forgotten portions should definitely return.

Mantis is now a Guardian of the Galaxy, but when she first appeared in Marvel comics, she was associated with the Avengers. Mantis joined Earth’s Mightiest Heroes alongside former villain Swordsman, helping him regain his self-confidence. Mantis made a pretty good Avenger, but her life was forever changed when it was revealed that she was the Celestial Madonna.

The Celestial Madonna was considered the perfect human being The Celestial Madonna’s purpose was to mate with the perfect Cotati and birth the Celestial Messiah Kang targeted Mantis for death when he found out she was the Celestial Madonna

The Celestial Madonna Saga is an extremely complex story that has been revisited several times over the years. However, since Mantis became popular and joined the Guardians, it has dropped to the wayside. This is a shame since a new Celestial Madonna Saga could pay homage to the old while telling an entirely new story.

9 HAMMER Has Always Been Cooler Than It Gets Credit For

HAMMER first appeared during the Dark Reign era of Marvel. Norman Osborn created it after the defeat of the Skrull invasion and took SHIELD’s place. Osborn ran the superhero national security apparatus through HAMMER, his Dark Avengers forming the tip of the spear, and used the organization to cement his power base.

HAMMER had complete control over StarkTech, allowing Osborn to use all of Iron Man’s technology HAMMER had its own helicarriers and uniforms HAMMER used the same naming conventions as SHIELD, except that no one came up with what each letter meant

HAMMER was disbanded after the Dark Avengers were defeated at the Siege Of Asgard, but Superia would resurrect it. Osborn was broken out of prison to lead it, but the Avengers and New Avengers were able to defeat them again. This second iteration of HAMMER brought together the Hand, AIM, Hydra, and other evil secret organizations. HAMMER acting as an alliance of Avengers foes is a great idea, and it would be cool to see it return.

8 The Destiny Force Has The Potential To Make Humanity The Most Powerful Force In The Multiverse

The Kree-Skrull War was the first major Avengers cosmic story. It saw the team embroiled in the ancient war between the two races, trying to protect Earth from their powerful armies. However, even with all the team’s power, they wouldn’t have been able to defeat the two alien empires. They won only because Rick Jones manifested the Destiny Force, a near-omnipotent source of power.

The Destiny Force is accessible to all humans but only in circumstances of extreme duress The Destiny Force gives its user a variety of energy powers, teleportation, matter manipulation, mental powers, sef-healing, and much more Rick Jones tapped into the Destiny Force at the end of the Kree-Skrull conflict, saving the day for humanity

Humanity’s connection to the Destiny Force made it a powerful force of conquest in some alternate futures, spurring Immortus and the TVA to try and destroy humans. The Destiny Force hasn’t been a factor in Avengers stories in a long time, despite many of the biggest cosmic Avengers stories of all time taking place in the 21st century. It would be interesting to see it make a return.

The enmity between Ultron and the Avengers is born of their familial relationship. Ultron was created by Hank Pym and he learned his hatred of humanity when Pym rejected him. Ultron is the Avengers’ greatest foe and has tried to destroy the team – and humanity – multiple times. Ultron has tried multiple schemes on the team, including creating other androids. The first and most well-known is Vision, but there would be others.

Ultron created Jocasta to act as a mate, basing her off Hank Pym’s lover the Wasp Jocasta rejected Ultron and joined the Avengers, so he created another android mate, Alkhema Ultron created a second son for him, Victor Mancha, who joined the Runaways and the AI Avengers

Ultron hasn’t appeared in too many stories in the 21st century, and the ones he has appeared in have been kind of generic – Ultron and drones trying to destroy mankind. However, Ultron has always been rather fruitful when it comes to creating a family, so it would be great if Avengers writers remembered that. Ultron is an amazing villain, and his relationship with his “family” has always been a source of drama.

6 Kang’s Wars With Himself Always Make For Epic Stories

Kang the Conqueror is a rather complicated villain to explain to new readers. The warrior from the 31st century is straightforward at first glance, bringing powerful technology from the future to destroy the Avengers. Still, his time travel tech means that multiple versions of Kang the Conqueror exist in the timestream, each with a different goal and each hating the older and younger versions.

Kang’s first Marvel appearance was as Rama-Tut, a time traveler who went back in time and made himself into a pharaoh Immortus is the oldest version of Kang and has abandoned the lust for conquest, instead trying to cement a power base for himself by working with more powerful beings Iron Lad and Kid Immortus are the youngest versions of Kang, and then there’s Scarlet Centurion, who traveled to the Squadron Supreme’s Earth, and Victor Timely

Kang has appeared multiple times and plays a key role in The Avengers (Vol. 9), but there haven’t been too many stories about Kang’s conflicts with his cross-time selves lately. Kang is always a fun villain, and it was even better when several versions of Kang got together and feuded. Kang’s stories are good; stories with multiple Kangs are great.

5 The Various Branches Of The Avengers Deserve A Comeback

The Avengers are Earth’s Mightiest Heroes, whose main job is protecting the universe from the greatest threats. Avengers teams usually follow the formula of the most powerful heroes working together against evil. While this has worked for fighting the most powerful threats, it limits the team in other ways. The Avengers aren’t designed to handle more covert threats or purely technological or even lower-level events. He changed this when Steve Rogers was made Director of SHIELD for the first time.

Rogers formed two main teams – the Avengers for big threats and the New Avengers for street-level and more “normal” villains The Secret Avengers became the covert team, and the Mighty Avengers transitioned into Avengers AI, with Hank Pym running a team of robotic Avengers Later, the Avengers Unity Squad was formed to help fix relations between the Avengers and X-Men

The Avengers Unity Squad came back together to fight Orchis, but there has only been one Avengers team for a long time. It would be great to see the return of the various Avengers groups. The superhero world has gotten more complex, and the Avengers need to as well.

4 The Avengers Of The 1950s Are An Interesting Group

The Avengers began in the early days of what is known as the Age of Marvels, when the Earth’s greatest heroes began appearing for various reasons. There have been many eras of Avengers history since then, but most don’t know that there was a generation of Avengers before Iron Man, Thor, Hulk, Ant-Man, and Wasp. This group came together during the 1950s.

President Eisenhower ordered Nick Fury to bring together a group to fight threats to the United States secretly Fury recruited Sabretooth, Kraven the Hunter, Namora, Silver Sable, Ulysses Bloodstone, Dominic Fortune, Blonde Phantom, and Dum-Dum Dugan The team went on multiple adventures together, fighting against attempts by Nazis to stage attacks on the US, the occult group ICON, who was trying to open a portal for Dormmamu, and saved Wakanda alongside T’Chaka

Fury’s Avengers team was a covert team that combined future villains, the parents of heroes, and classic legends. It’s a very eclectic group, and readers didn’t really get too many stories about them together. Seeing more of their adventures and maybe having the Avengers of today learn about their existence would be a great thing for Avengers fans.

3 The Hood’s Supervillain Union Is Marvel’s Best Villain Alliance

The Avengers have faced off against many powerful evil superteams, from the Masters of Evil to the Legion of the Unliving. Supervillain teams seem formidable, but they usually share the same weakness—that villains don’t work well together. The Avengers’ superior teamwork has always allowed them to win in even the worst situations. Eventually, a villain named Hood realized that unity was the way to go and started what amounted to a supervillain union.

The Hood gathered the B and C-list villains of New York City who had been broken out of the Raft months before He gave them a set of rules, many of which were based on teamwork and sharing the spoils, and then gave them each a wad of seed money This built camaraderie between the villains for the first time, and they became a much more efficient unit, with Norman Osborn bringing them into the Superhero Initiative

Hood’s group had everything—numbers, power, and brains. Most importantly, it gave the villains focus and clarity of leadership and rewarded them for working together and looking out for each other. The Hood’s group lasted until Osborn’s defeat at the Siege of Asgard, but there’s no reason something like this couldn’t happen again. They proved extremely formidable and were the best Marvel villain team ever.

2 Mount Wundagore Hasn’t Been Visited In Ages

Very few locations outside the Avengers’ various headquarters are as important as Mount Wundagore. This Transian mountain was long thought to be haunted for years, with the elder god Chthon writing the Darkhold on the mountain in the dim past. Since then, it’s been a site of dark magic and science, with the High Evolutionary eventually making his home there. The mountain was very important to the history of Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver, as they spent years living in its shadow with Bova, a cow woman created by the High Evolutionary.

The Avengers have battled Scarlet Witch on Mount Wundagore and have stopped Chthon from returning there numerous times The High Evolutionary used the mountain’s reputation to create genetic monstrosities there, and everyone just blamed the mountain’s haunted reputation After depowering the mutant race, Scarlet Witch returned to Mount Wundagore, hiding herself in a village at the foot of the mountain

Mount Wundagore is an extremely important place to Marvel lore, but it hasn’t really been showcased in a long time. It’s about time to change that. The great thing about Wundagore is that while it has been used as a setting for Scarlet Witch stories, it doesn’t just have to be used to tell those tales. Because of its history with the High Evolutionary, there are loads of story potential in Wundagore’s return.

1 The Builders May Be Gone But Their Gardeners Remain

Jonathan Hickman’s run on Avengers and New Avengers was amazing for various reasons. Hickman excels at worldbuilding, and he took that literally in this case, creating the Builders, an ancient race that created structures for space and time, who in turn created the Gardeners. The Gardeners, working with the Abyssi, seeded the universe with life, their failures dealt with by the Builders’ great destroyers, the Alephs.

At some point in the past, the Abyssi all but disappeared, with the only one surviving working with Ex Nihilo Ex Nihilo and his Abyss would launch an attack on Earth meant to jumpstart evolution for the coming cataclysms but were stopped by the Avengers During the Builders War, Ex Nihilo and Abyss were able to convince the other Gardeners to join the battle against the Builders

Ex Nihilo and Abyss would sacrifice themselves in the battle against the Beyonders, but many other Gardeners survive, still out there influencing evolution and creating life. There is still a lot of story potential with the Gardeners, and bringing them back would open all of that up. Hickman ideas aren’t always used well by those who come after him, but the Gardeners are too good to pass up.