The original Avengers were destroyed by a threat from within when an insane Scarlet Witch turned against the team. Hawkeye, Vision, Jack of Hearts and Ant-Man (Lang) were all apparently slain, Avengers Mansion was destroyed, Tony Stark's fortune was too depleted to rebuild, and the remaining members disbanded; however, this was not the end. Months later, after teaming with Iron Man, Spider-Man, Luke Cage, Spider-Woman (Drew), Daredevil and Sentry to contain a mass breakout at the super-criminal prison known as the Raft, Captain America invited his six allies to join him in rebuilding the Avengers. Most of them accepted, though Daredevil declined and the unstable Sentry had gone into seclusion. Leading intelligence agency S.H.I.E.L.D. was reluctant to sanction a new Avengers team, but Captain America reminded them that his "full champion license" status with the government gives him the authority to assemble any team he requires for any given mission, so he required no approval from the authorities to reassemble the Avengers. Iron Man offered the top floors of his new Stark Tower skyscraper to serve as the team's high-tech headquarters (staffed by ever-faithful Jarvis), and the group resolved to capture the forty-odd Raft escapees-starting with Sauron, the prisoner whose liberation by Electro had touched off the jailbreak.
Capturing Electro and tracking Sauron to the Savage Land, the new Avengers teamed with Wolverine to oppose an illegal Vibranium mining operation run by Sauron's Savage Land Mutates and an apparently rogue S.H.I.E.L.D. faction. In the end, a retaliatory strike by the mainstream S.H.I.E.L.D. organization wiped out the entire mining operation except for a recaptured Sauron, conveniently eliminating almost all evidence and witnesses apart from the Avengers. Shaken by this, and by their discovery along the way that the Raft had been stockpiling supposedly deceased super-criminals held in reserve for unknown purposes, the Avengers have secretly dedicated themselves to rooting out the institutional corruption behind these events and have recruited Wolverine, whose espionage background and ruthless attitude are seen as assets for this mission. Whether the new team will continue to grow remains to be seen.
Members:
Captain America
Iron Man
Spider-Man
Wolverine
Spider-Woman I
Luke Cage
The Sentry
Supporting Cast:
Edwin Jarvis
Mary Jane Parker
May Parker
Jessica Jones
S.H.I.E.L.D.
Other Members and Associates:
Ronin
Ms. Marvel
The Vision
Equipment:
Stark Tower
The Quinjet
Villains:
Electro
The Villains contained on the Raft
Sauron
The Wrecker
The Void
Silver Samurai
Viper
Super-Adaptoid II/Black Widow II
The Collective
Villainous Teams:
The Savage Land Mutates
Hydra
The Hand
Apocalypse and his Four Horseman
