The Wasp was quickly killed, Hank Pym-apparently another Hulk in this reality-was announced missing in action, and Captain America was executed to break their spirit, the reserve Avengers taking five years to rescue them and another five to beat back the Trellions sufficiently to stop them trying to re-conquer Earth.

With some animosity on both sides, Triathlon was made a member of the Avengers when their new line-up was announced to the public.

Marvel Comics in 2011 announced Chaykin would write and draw a five-part miniseries, Avengers 1959, a spinoff of a storyline first introduced in The New Avengers.

Acura and Marvel Entertainment, LLC, announced a join promotional campaign with Marvel's The Avengers movie.

During the " Dark Reign " storyline, Eli was outraged when Norman Osborn formed his " official " team of Avengers and even more so when he announced a new team of Young Avengers.

Carter has mentioned that the relationship between Mulder and Scully — platonic but with sexual tension — was influenced by the chemistry between John Steed ( Patrick Macnee ) and Emma Peel ( Diana Rigg ) in the 1960s British spy TV program The Avengers.

In the 1960s the popular British TV program, The Avengers incorporated much fetish costuming for their lead female performers including Diana Rigg's famous leather catsuits and leotards as well as Tara King's continual thigh-length boots and shoulder length leather gloves.

Networked programmes from ABC included the drama series Police Surgeon, The Human Jungle, Redcap, The Avengers, the Armchair Theatre anthology series, the cartoon epic Habatales, the popular shows Thank Your Lucky Stars and Oh Boy !, the children's science fiction program Emerald Soup, plus the gritty dramas Callan and Public Eye ( both of which continued as Thames productions after 1968 ).

The Avengers discovered that every creation of Ultron ( Vision, Jocasta, Alkhema ) has a secret program included-they are subconsciously compelled to rebuild Ultron.

In the end, it is revealed by Doctor Strange that the Scarlet Witch was behind these seemingly random attacks ( Although how Jack of Hearts was resurrected by her is still a mystery, and the Avengers continue to debate whether the Vision's actions were the Witch's fault or the result of a contingency program inserted by Ultron that would activate when a situation like this took place ).

The program, a " fiction " within that universe, played out the events where Darkhawk had been a member of the West Coast Avengers within normal Marvel continuity.

* Borzoi can also been seen in cameo roles in the films Love at First Bite, Legends of the Fall (" Notchee Boy "), Excalibur, All Dogs Go to Heaven ( 1989 ), Bride of Frankenstein, Easter Parade, Wolfen, Ziegfeld Follies, Onegin ( 1999 ), Gangs of New York ( 2002 ), Chaplin, The Avengers ( TV series ), JAG, Maverick ( 1994 ), Sleepy Hollow, Last Action Hero, and A Knights Tale ( on the DVD deleted scenes ).

During their attack, the Avengers encountered intense anti-aircraft fire ; Bush's aircraft was hit by flak and his engine caught on fire.

S. H. I. E. L. D., under the leadership of Iron Man and his team of U. S. sanctioned Avengers invaded Latveria after discovering Doom's involvement in the release of a symbiote virus on New York.

This first Avengers team featured several characters that would go on to be some of the company's most famous and most popular.

Among the many fundraising events, Team Bodog raised over $ 50, 000 for Animal Avengers in a celebrity poker night on October 8, 2005.

** The Avengers: United They Stand, a 1999 animated series based on the Marvel superheroes

** The Avengers ( 1998 film ), a film based on the characters of the television series

The Avengers initially focused on Dr. David Keel ( Ian Hendry ) and his assistant John Steed ( Patrick Macnee ).

In 2007 The Avengers was ranked # 20 on TV Guide's Top Cult Shows Ever.

The Avengers became one of the first British series to be aired on prime time U. S. television.

Previously The Avengers had been shot on 405-line videotape using a multicamera setup, with very little provision for editing and virtually no location footage.

According to Macnee in his book The Avengers and Me, Rigg disliked wearing leather and insisted on a new line of fabric athletic wear for the 5th series.

* In Ultimate Avengers 2: Rise of the Panther, vibranium serves as a bigger plot device than the previous movie as the reason for the invasion on Wakanda is their large mound of vibranium.

Notable story arcs of this decade include the 2010 storyline " Second Coming ", which is based on plot threads from " Messiah Complex " and " House of M ", " Age of X ", and " Schism " ( 2011 ), as well as the 2012 event " Avengers vs. X-Men ".

Scenes from Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends were re-cut, edited, and re-dubbed into comical shorts as part of Disney XD's Marvel Mash-Up shorts for their " Marvel Universe on Disney XD " block of programming that includes Ultimate Spider-Man and The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes.

The character went on to be a founding member of the New Warriors, and later a member of the Avengers.

Through the 1950s and 1960s he established himself as a respected actor in theatre and film, and began to make his presence felt on television, with a semi-regular role as Det-Insp Bamber in the police series Z-Cars, as well as guest roles in series as diverse as Steptoe and Son (" The Lead Man Cometh ", 1964 ; " The Desperate Hours ", 1972 ) and The Avengers episode " Dressed to Kill " ( 1963 ).

During the Avengers vs. X-Men storyline, the event has the Phoenix Force returning to Earth, presumably to reclaim Hope Summers, the " Mutant Messiah ", which will lead to a confrontation between the Avengers and the X-Men on how to deal with its arrival, with the Avengers anticipating the destruction that the Phoenix could bring while Cyclops hopes to use the Phoenix Force to restart the mutant population.

Also, during the game's third Special Operation ( inspired in the Avengers vs. X-Men storyline ), the Phoenix Force is hosted by Colossus, Cyclops, Emma Frost, Magik and Jean Grey herself ( as the Dark Phoenix ); the game's Phoenix Five ( which has Jean as their fifth member, while the original storyline has Namor as the fifth host ) can either be the player's allies or enemies depending on which side s / he chooses in the conflict.

Marvel enjoyed some of its best successes during Shooter's nine-year tenure as Editor-in-Chief, most notably Chris Claremont and John Byrne's run on the Uncanny X-Men, Frank Miller's run on Daredevil, Walt Simonson's run on The Mighty Thor, John Byrne's run on the Fantastic Four and Roger Stern's run on the Avengers.

Los Angeles Avengers player Al Lucas died, from a spinal cord injury, on April 10, 2005 in a game against the New York Dragons.

On April 10, 2005, Avengers defensive lineman Al Lucas was injured attempting to make a tackle and later died at a nearby hospital.

# 32 ( April 1982 ); Marvel: The End # 1-6 ( May 2003-Aug. 2003 ); and JLA / Avengers # 1-4 ( Sept. 2003-May 2004 ).

The miniseries will serve as a lead-in to the upcoming Avengers vs. X-Men storyline beginning in April 2012.

Nighthawk appeared on a regular basis in The Defenders and a number of other Marvel titles, including Giant-Size Defenders 2-5 ( Oct. 1974-July 1975 ); Marvel Team-Up # 33-34 and 101 ( May – June 1975, Jan. 1981 ); The Incredible Hulk # 206-207 ( Dec. 1976-Jan. 1977 ); Marvel Two-In-One # 34 ( Dec. 1977 ); The Avengers # 167 and 182 ( Jan. 1978, April 1979 ); Doctor Strange vol.

No. 32 ( Marvel Comics, April 1982 ) – ( Avengers story )

* The Avengers No. 290 ( Marvel Comics, April 1988 ) – ( co-writer )

No. 32 ( Marvel Comics, April 1982 ) – ( Avengers story ; co-penciller ; inks also )

* The Avengers # 223 – 242 ( Marvel Comics, September 1982 – April 1984 )

The Avengers # 1 – 4 ( Marvel Comics, April 1987 – July 1987 )

Windsor-Smith also provided the art for a number of other Marvel Comics titles, including the Ka-Zar stories in Astonishing Tales # 3 -# 5 ( December 1970-April 1971 ) and # 10 ( February 1972 ), three further issues of The Avengers (# 98-100, April – June 1972 )-about which he would later remember the nightmare of drawing " all those bloody characters that I didn't give tuppence about ", Iron Man # 42 ( June 1972 ), and Marvel Premiere # 3-4 ( July – September 1972 ), which featured Doctor Strange, both of which were apparently re-scripted by Stan Lee after being drawn to Lee ’ s original scripts.

Shortly afterwards, in Avengers # 170 – 171 ( April – May 1978 ), the Avengers, with the aid of Ms. Marvel battle and defeat Ultron-8.

The character made latter-day appearances in Marvel Zombies 5 # 2 ( April 2010 ) where the war against the Martians is concluded, and in The Avengers vol.

Arkon first appeared in Avengers # 75 ( April 1970 ), and was created by Roy Thomas and John Buscema.

* Avengers Disassembled: Iron Man, Thor & Captain America ( collects Thor # 80 – 85, Iron Man # 84 – 89, Captain America & The Falcon # 5 – 7, and Captain America # 29 – 32, 448 pages, hardcover, April 2009, ISBN 0-7851-3884-6 ) collected separately as softcovers:

In contrast to her dynamic, karate-chopping contemporaries Honey West and Emma Peel ( The Avengers ), the demure, " ladylike " conception of April Dancer weakened the character and often turned her into a helpless damsel-in-distress.

The character first appears in Avengers # 158 ( April 1977 ) and was created by Jim Shooter and Sal Buscema.

# 47 ( March 1993 ), The New Warriors # 44 ( February 1994 ), Avengers: Forever # 4-5 ( March – April 1999 ), and Marvel: The Lost Generation # 3-2 ( December 2000-January 2001 ).

Albert Lucas ( September 1, 1978 – April 10, 2005 ) was an American football player in the National Football League and Arena Football League who died during a game while playing for the Los Angeles Avengers.

The character subsequently appears in Phoenix: The Untold Story # 1 ( April 1984 ), Rom Annual # 4 ( December 1985 ), Classic X-Men # 43 ( January 1990 ), X-Men: Spotlight on Starjammers # 2 ( June 1990 ), Quasar # 32-33 ( March-April 1992 ), Starblast # 2 ( February 1994 ), Quasar # 55 ( February 1994 ), New X-Men # 124-126 ( May-July 2002 ), Marvel Universe: The End # 5-6 ( August-September 2003 ), JLA / Avengers # 1 ( September 2003 ), and Uncanny X-Men # 477 ( October 2006 ), and # 480 ( January 2007 ), and X-Men: Emperor Vulcan # 2-5 ( December 2007-March 2008 ).

The character subsequently appears in Rom Annual # 4 ( December 1985 ), X-Men: Spotlight on Starjammers # 2 ( June 1990 ), Uncanny X-Men # 275 ( April 1991 ), Captain America # 398 ( March 1992 ), Avengers West Coast # 80 ( March 1992 ), Quasar # 32-33 ( March-April 1992 ), Avengers # 347 ( May 1992 ) Silver Surfer Vol.

The character subsequently appears in X-Men: Spotlight on Starjammers # 2 ( June 1990 ), Avengers West Coast # 81 ( April 1992 ), Quasar # 33 ( April 1992 ), Thor # 446 ( April 1992 ), Starblast # 2 ( February 1994 ), Quasar # 55 ( February 1994 ), Starjammers # 4 ( January 1996 ), Imperial Guard # 1-3 ( January-March 1997 ), Inhumans Vol.