We're about to get multiple hero teams in the MCU, including New Avengers, Young Avengers, and the Thunderbolts/Dark Avengers. And the comics actually have a wealth of Avengers teams for the Marvel Cinematic Universe to adapt. In this video we're breaking down the Great Lakes Avengers, West Coast Avengers and many more--and talk about how they could work in the MCU.

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Written by Jack Piccone @jackienobrakes
Hosted by Ryan Arey (  / ryanarey  )
Edited by Harriet Lengel-Enright, Randolf Nombrado, Brianna McLarty, and Lee Mazzio

It’s been 11 years since the Avengers first teamed up to protect the MCU, and a LOT has happened since. The team got a new headquarters, added some new members, broke up, reunited, and saved the world a few times in between. But today I want to talk about OTHER Avengers teams, and I don’t mean alternate versions from the multiverse.

Doug: Oh, you mean the other Avengers with Uma Thurman and Ralph Fiennes fighting Sean Connery with umbrellas?

Ryan: No, I definitely DON’T mean that, either. And I also don’t mean other Marvel superteams like the Guardians of the Galaxy, the Defenders, the Midnight Sons, or the Revengers. [CLIP: The Revengers]

I’m talking about Avengers offshoots, various spinoff versions of the team that exist in the comics. If you watch this channel, you’ve probably heard me mention a few before, like the Dark Avengers and the Young Avengers.

But today I want to FOCUS on these other Avengers teams and their members. I’m going to go through which ones we’ve sort of seen on screen already, which ones are unlikely to but COULD show up, and which ones are almost DEFINITELY being set up to join the MCU – and soon.

Doug: Oooh, you mean the Great Lakes Avengers.

Ryan: What? No, Doug, I definitely don’t mean Doorman, Big Bertha, or the rest of the Great Lakes Avengers.

Doug: But the signs are all but obvious. Do you even WATCH these movies, Person?

Ryan: Okay if there’s time, we’ll get to the Great Lakes Avengers. But first, I want to talk about slightly more prominent teams, like the New Avengers. The New Avengers was a Marvel comics series that began in 2004 and was written by Brian Michael Bendis.


The New Avengers, like some other “offshoots,” are technically a direct continuation of the main Avengers. Part of the Civil War arc, members of the Avengers who don’t comply with the Superhuman Registration Act make up the New Avengers — still performing their world-saving duties, even though they’re wanted by the government. [CLIP: War Criminal]

In the comics, members of the New Avengers include Cap, Bucky, Luke Cage, Spider-Man, Spider-Woman, Echo, and Wolverine. Even though they’re never explicitly called this, we’ve pretty much seen the New Avengers in the MCU already. Actually, you could interpret two separate groups as the New Avengers.

There’s the NEW lineup we saw at the end of Age of Ultron, when Iron Man, Hawkeye, Hulk, and Thor are succeeded by Rhodey, Vision, Falcon, Scarlet Witch, and your Mom. At the time, many fans considered them the MCU version of the New Avengers, even though they had nothing to do with the Superhuman Registration Act or being outlaws. (The rationale being that the MCU will often take pretty wide liberties with some comic storylines.) [CLIP: Trevor Slattery.]

The “real” New Avengers would be the team that DOES go on the lam after refusing to sign the Sokovia Accords — the MCU version of the Superhuman Registration Act.​ This includes Cap, Bucky, Falcon, and Black Widow. They basically remain as vigilante fugitives for two years until the Snap, and besides a solo adventure with Black Widow, we never really got to see what this crew was up to during this time period.

While the MCU has moved waaaaay on, it would be really cool if we got a flashback movie or series that takes place in the period between Civil War and when we see them show up in Scotland. It would be a great way to bring Chris Evans back without convoluting continuity, and we could see more of how Vision and Wanda’s relationship blossomed. It could even serve as a prequel series to the Falcon and the Winter Soldier, and be titled “The New Avengers.”

OR it could be titled the “Secret Avengers,” another name that some fans gave this group during Phase 3. Again, this would be a loose MCU interpretation of the comics’ Secret Avengers, which was a black-ops team led by Cap in the post-Civil War era. Unlike the New Avengers, the comic book Secret Avengers WERE sanctioned by the government, but faced off with Nick Fury of all people. [CLIP: “Want to see my lease?”]