Who do you want as The Avengers after the Aaron run is over?

[Riv86672]

There’s a good thread in the DC forum asking this question in regards to the JLA’s inevitable return.

Been reading through the Avengers appreciation thread w. PPL celebrating the current run wrapping up soon, and figured I’d pose the question.

Good or bad this run has been huge in scope. I’d like to see things scaled down. A smaller team and more grounded adventures.

[Riv86672]

CAPTAIN AMERICA
There’s no one I’d rather have rebuild the team after Aaron’s run. Let Tony and Thor take a hiatus and handle their business in their solo books. The Avengers IS Cap’s business, always has been, ever since joined.

SPECTRUM and BLUE MARVEL
Cap knows how formidable Monica is in terms of both power and intellect. She’ll be his second in command/field leader.
He hasn’t worked w. B.M. often, but Cap knows he can more than handle being the team powerhouse. A powerhouse that also brings a genius intellect to table.

AMADEUS CHO
Cho’s Hulk like physique is def. impressive, and he’s also the seventh-smartest person on Earth. That’s a winning combo in Cap’s book.

ANT-MAN and STINGER
The father-daughter duo may not be powerhouses, but they bring versatility, dependability, outside the box thinking, and can see the big picture, no pun intended, when others might not.

JOYSTICK
She has a checkered past, but Cap is all about realizing potential, and Joystick has plenty of that. Cap’s confident that when it sinks in that she’s really an Avenger, the young woman will step up to the plate.

[gurkle]

I might say "Scarlet Witch and Vision" 55 times over, but I'd like to see a split between the "classic Avengers" and the "modern Avengers" that reflects the division among the fans about what the Avengers should be.

So, going with a seven-member team:

Old-School: Captain America, Vision, Scarlet Witch. Three characters who are the most identified with traditional Avengers. Cap came back to life because of the Avengers; Wanda was redeemed by the Avengers; Vision literally only exists because of the Avengers.

New-School: Captain Marvel (she was on the old-school team but was treated badly by them, and has good reason to prefer the modern era), Wolverine (his joining the Avengers was the biggest break with the old way of doing things), Songbird (because I have to get Songbird in there and think of an excuse for her to prefer the new way of doing things).

Tie-Breaker: Spectrum/Photon (basically an old-school member, but joined late enough that she can see the flaws with the old ways)

Instead of hero vs. hero fights, or arguments about what the Avengers should be, I'd like to see them bring conflict within the team, just like among the fans.

[Thor-Ul]

If you think about, the Aaron line up was pretty "classic".
So I think now they are going to go with a team similar to whatever is incoming in the next phase of the MCU.

SO... maybe Falcon, Riri Williams, Carol, Monica and Kamala, Ant-Man and Wasp, Blade, Echo. Something like that.

[CaptainUniverse]

Captain America, Genis-Vell, Songbird, Wasp (Janet), Jack of Hearts and Thor. It's time to finally see the version of the Avengers from Songbird and Genis-Vell's timeline that we saw brief glimpses of in the original Avengers Forever and then in Spider-Verse oddly enough go to action in the 616! I want to see some Genis/Songbird romance! Thor with a different kind of beard! Maybe have Spider-Man 2099 drop in for an adventure or two.

[K7P5V]

Captain America, Genis-Vell, Songbird, Wasp (Janet), Jack of Hearts and Thor. It's time to finally see the version of the Avengers from Songbird and Genis-Vell's timeline that we saw brief glimpses of in the original Avengers Forever and then in Spider-Verse oddly enough go to action in the 616! I want to see some Genis/Songbird romance! Thor with a different kind of beard! Maybe have Spider-Man 2099 drop in for an adventure or two.

To the utmost, I agree! Definitely, would be at the top of my list...

[CaptainUniverse]

To the utmost, I agree! Definitely, would be at the top of my list...

That's what I am talking about! This is what we NEED in our lives, the best timeline! The timeline that was promised to us and then...was turned into another universe. It is the only logical next step! Plus, it would be nice to have them put this scene in the comic after the mission involving Oort, the Living Comet.

[Riv86672]

I might say "Scarlet Witch and Vision" 55 times over, but I'd like to see a split between the "classic Avengers" and the "modern Avengers" that reflects the division among the fans about what the Avengers should be.

So, going with a seven-member team:

Old-School: Captain America, Vision, Scarlet Witch. Three characters who are the most identified with traditional Avengers. Cap came back to life because of the Avengers; Wanda was redeemed by the Avengers; Vision literally only exists because of the Avengers.

New-School: Captain Marvel (she was on the old-school team but was treated badly by them, and has good reason to prefer the modern era), Wolverine (his joining the Avengers was the biggest break with the old way of doing things), Songbird (because I have to get Songbird in there and think of an excuse for her to prefer the new way of doing things).

Tie-Breaker: Spectrum/Photon (basically an old-school member, but joined late enough that she can see the flaws with the old ways)

Instead of hero vs. hero fights, or arguments about what the Avengers should be, I'd like to see them bring conflict within the team, just like among the fans.

^^^I like your take on this; really compelling reason(s) behind each pick!

Captain America, Genis-Vell, Songbird, Wasp (Janet), Jack of Hearts and Thor. It's time to finally see the version of the Avengers from Songbird and Genis-Vell's timeline that we saw brief glimpses of in the original Avengers Forever and then in Spider-Verse oddly enough go to action in the 616! I want to see some Genis/Songbird romance! Thor with a different kind of beard! Maybe have Spider-Man 2099 drop in for an adventure or two.

To the utmost, I agree! Definitely, would be at the top of my list...

^^^Man, how great would THIS be???
I'm a huge fan of the original Avengers Forever, and always wanted to see this teaser followed up on.

[davetvs]

Captain America (Rogers)
Monica Rambeau
Scarlet Witch
Hercules
Captain Marvel
Ironheart
Sunfire

[Triniking1234]

Less movie people.

Captain America (Steve)
Jean Grey
Spectrum
Nova (Rider)
Thing
Spider-Man (Miles)
America Chavez

[KC]

I would want a classic lineup:

Captain America
Iron Man
Thor
Wasp
Vision
Hawkeye
Scarlet Witch
Black Panther

[LAWtoyoto 432]

I would love to see mix of classic, old and new.

Captain America
Thor
Nighthawk
Hawkeye
Photon
Wonder Man
Wasp
Spider-Woman

[protege]

Captain America (Rogers)
Monica Rambeau
Scarlet Witch
Hercules
Captain Marvel
Ironheart
Sunfire

I’d buy the heck out of this one.

[CaptainUniverse]

^^^Man, how great would THIS be??? I'm a huge fan of the original Avengers Forever, and always wanted to see this teaser followed up on.

Yeah, we only got to see bits and pieces of this reality afterwards like in Captain Marvel #19 where Genis-Vell wakes up next to Songbird and she's going into labor with their son (who was later smothered in his crib by a future version of Genis-Vell from an alternate timeline), it showed up again in Timestorm: 2009-2099 where Spider-Man 2099 ended up becoming a member of their Avengers and then one more time in Spider-Verse where Genis got screwed over by Morlun before he killed Spider-Man 2099.

[Alan2099]

One thing I've wanted to see for a long time is the cast of A-Next return. We could have Spider-girl, J2, American Dream, and maybe one or two others stuck in the past and the rest of the Avengers giving them a place to stay and a spot on the team until they're able to figure out how to get home.