Anyhoo, Marvel's "Dark Reign" event is wrapping-up shortly, and with it The Avengers, presumably all three team line-ups, will be drastically changed if they don't outright vanish. There's a lot of speculation going on right now as to what the team rosters are going to look like, but here's my own personal vision of the future...
MIGHTY AVENGERS
CAPTAIN AMERICA (James "Bucky" Barnes)
THOR, GOD OF FUCKING THUNDER!!!
WASP (Hank Pym)
LUKE CAGE
THE VISION
GIANT GIRL (Cassie Lang)
HAWKEYE (Clint Barton)
SHE-HULK (Jennifer Walters)
SONGBIRD
This would be the main, public team after "Dark Reign" is all said-and-done. The new "Trinity" of Cap, Thor, and Pym would be the forefront; Bucky has done too good a job as Cap to be ousted just because Rogers came back from the dead so damn soon (see below for what I've done with him), and I really loved the exchange between he and Thor during "Secret Invasion". The Odinson himself would be wary to join with Pym, but it would be an uneasy understanding after it was agreed the REAL Hank Pym would never help clone a Thunder God. The oddcouple of Cassie & Vision would move-up from being Young Avengers, Clint finally reclaims his identity and true place in the Marvel U while his wife Mockingbird goes back to her secret agent job, Cage and Songbird realize their destinies as real Superheroes, and She-Hulk rejoins her comrades and returns to the public eye she enjoys so much. Recurring characters would be Edwin Jarvis, Butler of Champions, Cage's wife Jessica Jones & their daughter, Danny Rand AKA Iron Fist, and of course Jocasta, Hank's android "companion" with the personality imprint of his deceased ex-wife who he obsessed over. Because creepy robot-love is a great read, always! The Young Avengers would stop-by often to check on their buddies, Cassie and Vision, while I'm sure romance would often be in the air as Black Widow visits BuckyCap, and the aforementioned Mockingbird teams-up with her hubby Hawkeye. And how could I forget Abe Jenkins, AKA Mach VI, the former Beetle and Songbird's boyfriend? Good times were had by all!
DARK AVENGERS
JUSTICE (Vance Astro)
TIGRA
SLAPSTICK
ANTI-VENOM (Eddie Brock)
ULTRA GIRL (w/70's Ms. Marvel Costume)
KOMODO
CONSTRICTOR
KIA (Killed-In-Action)
NOMAD (Rikki Barnes)
Former New Warriors and Initiative members hook-up with Eddie Brock and Rikki Barnes; the universe-displaced Nomad becomes a part-time "junior member", while Anti-Venom joins as the final addition to the team, becoming an "underground/proactive" group that hunts-down the remnants of Osborn's reign of terror. Constrictor and Komodo form a classic snake/lizard, teacher/student relationship, Komodo begining her super-career as a bit of a criminal, while Constrictor works on redeeming his own villainous past. Team-leader Justice deals with his own awkward romance with Ultra Girl, and Tigra brings some serious drama to the table in the form of her being impregnated by a Skrull (which is a very long story), and also some Avengers credibility...but that's stretching things a tad. KIA returns thanks to Slapstick's manipulations (for anyone that read the second arc of "The Initiative", you'll know what I'm referring to), but whose body he's using is anyone's guess, his identity also hidden behind a Scarlet Spider mask. These heroes operate outside the law, often going to extreme lengths to get the job done, but S.H.I.E.L.D. more-or-less ignores their activities so long as they do the RIGHT job.
NICK FURY'S NEW AVENGERS
IRON MAN
WAR MACHINE
MS. MARVEL (Carol Danvers)
WONDER MAN
BLACK WIDOW (Natasha Romanova)
COLONEL AMERICA (Steve Rogers)
ANT-MAN (Eric O'Grady)
ARES, GOD OF GODDAMN WAR!!!
CAPTAIN MARVEL (Noh-Varr)
After being re-instated as Director of S.H.I.E.L.D., General Nick Fury assembles his own squadron of fast-acting, global-responding Avengers comprised of those he could trust, whose skills he could use or otherwise manipulate, and a couple of guys just looking to prove themselves. Steve Rogers, freshly back from the grave, gets promoted and becomes Colonel America, as much an ambassador for his home country as he is an active Superhero. Stark and Rhodes reunite and bring with them the usual suspects of Danvers, Williams, Widow, and Ares...who also joins with Fury to keep better watch over his son, Phobos, member of the Secret Warriors. Carol and Simon have an on-again/off-again romance, and Widow could provide an often-needed bridge to Bucky's Avengers team, considering her past with both he and Clint Barton. Iron Man and Steve Rogers bury the hatchet, agreeing to disagree on some issues but also admitting to wrongs on both sides, comitting to allow Nick Fury to run the show once again. Ant-Man gets signed-up so he can be watched as well, his skills more useful working for the Avengers rather than against. Noh-Varr still believes his destiny is as a Protector of Earth, so he takes this chance to wash the stink of Osborn off him for good and becomes the newest man to take-up the mantle of Captain Marvel.
BONUS!!! What About...?
THE SENTRY
Bobby-boy gets tired of the wacky world Marvel's Earth has become, where nobody remembers he first appeared at the same time as the Fantastic Four, he doesn't know whether to trust Tony Stark or Norman Osborn, and he may-or-may-not be a schizophrenic, all-powerful godling who's also the Supervillain known as The Void. So, he ventures into outerspace, joining-up with the likes of The Guardians Of The Galaxy, The Inhumans, and The Imperial Guard, where there are characters who can match Sentry's power and strength such as Gladiator. The dude could possibly even become the new King of The Inhumans, since he has a past with Crystal and Black Bolt is kinda dead, at the moment anyway.
HERCULES, PRINCE OF MUTHAF'N POWER!!!
Herc and his sidekick Amadeus Cho were serious contenders for one of my teams, but I feel they belong on their own wandering the Marvel Universe alongside Kid Zeus and the gang. I'm sure he'd pop his head in from time-to-time, especially to say "Hello" to She-Hulk and get on the nerves of a certain God Of Thunder.
SCARLET WITCH
Wanda is, as far as I'm concerned, bat-shit crazy and should be carefully observed while she remains blassfully unaware of what she did during "House Of M". Brother Voodoo should assign one of his pals to constantly monitor Ms. Maximoff, and should her memory return, all magic-based Superheroes should assemble and make sure she can handle it, or banish her to some unescapable dimension somewhere. Don't get me wrong, I'm a fan of Scarlet Witch, but there's no way I could see any rational person, especially one with an Avengers past, being OK with having Wanda around after she systematically murdered Hawkeye, Vision, Jack Of Hearts, and Scott Lang. Then, she made something like 98% of every mutant alive go powerless, making The X-Men's people an endangered species. Yes, I'm sure they'd all be so forgiving after that.
QUICKSILVER
Back to X-Factor for Pietro, where he belongs to be the thorn in Gudio's side he so desperately needs. The rivalry between he and Longshot could be legendary, too.
U.S.AGENT
An Open Letter To John "U.S.Agent" Walker:
Nobody likes you, John Walker. Nobody at all. The only reason you were ever an Avenger in the first place is because Rogers felt sorry for you, and then you go and shove it in his face first by stealing his identity (again) WHILE HE WAS STILL ALIVE, and then after Steve "dies", all you can say is that Norman Osborn's a true patriot and thank god for him. Fuck you, Walker. You're not making the cut on my watch, you goddamned crummy wannabe!
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