During the Avengers vs. X-Men storyline, Professor X and his son Legion are sensing the Phoenix Force was emergencing by transforming Cyclops, Emma Frost, Namor, Colossus and Magik into the Phoenix Five.

After realizing that he was just keeping her busy to give the Avengers an advantage, Rachel engages him in a psychic battle knocking everyone out except Spider-Woman and Professor X himself.

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

In New Avengers # 19-20 it was stated that energy cannot be created nor destroyed, and the same held true for the energies of the numerous depowered mutants.

The Avengers and Fantastic Four tell her of what happened and that she was believed dead until now.

Ferrigno's voice was once again utilized ( in composite ) for the Hulk in the 2012 film The Avengers.

In Secret Avengers # 6-10, writer Ed Brubaker officially sidestepped the entire issue via a storyline where a rogue group of S. H. I. E. L. D agents resurrect a zombified version of Fu Manchu only to discover that " Fu Manch " was only an alias ; that Shang-Chi's father was really an ancient Chinese sorcerer who discovered the secret to immortality.

The character was revived more than twenty years later, explained as having been frozen in a block of ice though believed to be dead, to lead Marvel's latest team of superheroes the Avengers.

is operating in the Savage Land, mining vibranium while using the indigenous population as slave labor, but these operations have been classified, and the operation was apparently decimated by a missile strike from the Helicarrier during an attack by the New Avengers.

The New Avengers and the Mighty Avengers head toward the Savage Land where a downed Skrull ship was sighted.

A popular use of a tracking shot was in The Avengers when the camera follows each member of the team for a short while during the final battle in New York.

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.

By 1969 The Avengers was shown in more than 90 countries.

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

The Avengers was marked by different eras as co-stars came and went.

As was standard practice at the time, videotapes of early episodes of The Avengers were reused.

In 2012 for the first time in Marvel Comics a new team was composed of Avengers and X-Men members called Uncanny Avengers.

In order to return Jean to the fold several years later, this storyline was retconned to reveal the existence of the cosmic Phoenix Force entity, which had created a duplicate body of Jean, believed itself to be Jean, and acted in her place while the real Jean lay in a coma in the ocean, where the Avengers and Fantastic Four would later discover her.

* Namor: During the Avengers vs. X-Men storyline, he became possessed by the Phoenix after Iron Man and Giant-Man try to destroy it, however the fragment left him after Namor was defeated by the Avengers.

During World War II, when Denmark was occupied by the Germans, Blixen started her only full-length novel, the introspective tale The Angelic Avengers, under another pseudonym, Pierre Andrezel ; it was published in 1944.

Popular examples include the allegory Orwellian series The Prisoner, The Avengers and Randall and Hopkirk ( Deceased ), all produced for ITV.

ITV produced a sequel series The New Avengers ( 1976 – 1977 ) with Patrick Macnee returning as John Steed, and two new partners.

The Avengers continued to be produced in black and white.

Some early episodes are also believed to be damaged or in poor quality, whereas much of the output of other broadcasters – such as many early episodes of The Avengers ( shot in the electronic studio rather than on film ) produced by Associated British Corporation – have been destroyed.

) Though the team failed to save the title, which ended its initial run with # 66 ( March 1970 ), the collaboration here and on the " Kree-Skrull War " arc of The Avengers # 93-97 ( Nov. 1971-May 1972 ) produced what comics historians regard as some of Marvel's creative highlights of the era.

In the absence of television in South Africa, a radio version of the British television series The Avengers was produced by Sonovision for SABC's commercial network, Springbok Radio, in 1972.

An EP, titled Avengers, was released on White Noise Records a few months after the band broke up, which included songs from the Steve Jones produced session.

Since 2008, the studio has released six produced films — Iron Man ( 2008 ), The Incredible Hulk ( 2008 ), Iron Man 2 ( 2010 ), Thor ( 2011 ), Captain America: The First Avenger ( 2011 ), and Marvel's The Avengers ( 2012 ) — with shared timeline, cast and characters, making up the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Although The Mentor Conspiracy was not produced, Boucher reused the character of Leela for The Day God Went Mad ( later renamed to The Face of Evil ), seeing her as a mixture of Emma Peel from The Avengers and Leila Khaled.

Of the 41 episodes produced by ABC, only five are currently known to exist in television-broadcastable format ( and of these two were found by accident by researchers checking the archive status of fellow ABC series The Avengers in the early 1990s )— the rest being victims of the common television company policy of wiping.

With almost 120 episodes, the programme is exceeded only by The Avengers as the most productive show of its genre produced in the UK.

Various British Leyland vehicles were driven by the lead characters in the British secret agent television series The New Avengers, produced between 1976 and 1977.

Professor X returned to help the Avengers who are being held prisoner in a volcano in Siberia by the Phoenix Five, who were under the dark influence.

The spill-over into mainstream culture, occurred with catsuits being worn by strong female protagonists in popular 1960s TV programs like The Avengers, and in the comic super-heroines such as Catwoman, in which the catsuit represented the independent woman capable of " kick-ass " moves and antics, enabling complete freedom of movement.

Dubbed " the Collective " by the Avengers, against whom he then fought, the Collective traveled to Genosha and reached out to the startled Magneto.

Meanwhile, the cocoon is discovered and retrieved by the Avengers and the Fantastic Four.

The Dragons and the Wolfpack were freed by Luke Cage, in which Shang-Chi's gang join the Avengers in their battle against the Brotherhood.

The Marvel Universe is the shared fictional universe where stories in most comic book titles and other media published by Marvel Entertainment take place, including those featuring Marvel's most familiar characters, such as Spider-Man, the Hulk, the X-Men, and the Avengers.

*" A New Way to Bleed performed by Evanescence ( Photek Remix )" ( 2012, The Avengers )

Animal Avengers, a non-profit animal rescue organization founded by Elizabeth and her then-husband Reitman, is dedicated to rescuing and finding a home for homeless pets, reducing pet overpopulation, promoting responsible pet guardianship and preventing animal cruelty.

The New Avengers ' Spider-Man is knocked away by a Tyrannosaurus and ends up confronting Ka-Zar, Shanna, Zabu, and Sauron as well as some of the other locals.

** Avengers ( album ), an album by the Avengers

** Avengers ( EP ), an EP by the Avengers

* Avengers in Galactic Storm, a 1995 arcade game by Data East

* Captain America and the Avengers, a 1991 arcade game by Data East

The Avengers began in the episode Hot Snow, with medical doctor, Dr David Keel ( Ian Hendry ), investigating the murder by a drug ring of his fiancée and office receptionist Peggy.

It opened with the caption The Avengers In Color ( required by ABC for colour series at that time ).

* In Ultimate Avengers: The Movie, vibranium is shown as a metal used by the Chitauri ( the Ultimate Universe's versions of the Skrulls or rather a renegade group of the Skrulls ).