What the heck? We’ve got a Design your own Justice League thread. Why not do a similar one for the Mighty Avengers?
Captain America is as essential to the Avengers as Martian Manhunter is to the JLA. You simply can’t have the team without him, so he’s automatically in. Thor & Iron-Man would be part-timers, only showing up occasionally (thus cutting down on the headaches involved in trying to keep up with continuity on too many other monthly series.)
The Vision has always been my favorite Avenger. I’d always put him on the team.
Moondragon has basically been written as a one-note bitch for the entirety of her existence, and yet I love her. I’d bet there’s a lot of interesting stuff going on beneath her icy exterior that could come out if she was featured regularly (in a well-written series.) She’s onboard.
Storm - well in reality, the editors at “the X-Men” would never let her go. But since this is only my wishful thinking, she jumps ship for “Earth’s Mightiest.” (The current team has Wolverine - which IMO simply isn’t logical - Storm would work much better.) She can function as team leader in Cap’s absence (which might occur often, given that he has his own series to anchor.) Plus, I’d so get a kick out seeing a lesbian affair between her & Moondragon!
Sasquatch - Every team needs a superstrong guy, and he’s one of my favorites. Since Alpha Flight has apparently been consigned to perpetual limbo, he can trek south. Additionally, he’s a Pym-level genius biologist, which is always a plus.
The original Spider-Woman, Jessica Drew, is a personal favorite character of mine (and the only member of the current “New Avengers” I really like). She makes the cut.
Speedball of the New Warriors could fit the role of the comic relief/ pain-in-the-arse to his team-mates that every team needs.
And for the rookie, here I take grand liberties and insert a character of my own: the Avenger-in-training would be called Black Athena. She is inducted as a Trainee member at the request of her nominal ward - the Black Panther. Black Athena has an innate talent for all forms of physical combat, and an inventing genius geared toward creating weaponry. Unknown to the Avengers or Black Athena herself (at least initially) is the fact that she was not naturally born, but rather biologically engineered by an egomaniacal scientist bent on creating a super-race of warriors to defend Wakanda (thus she is a ‘brain-child’, in a pun on the mythical birth story of Athena.) The Panther of course found out about this questionable experiment (and put a stop to it) only after Black Athena (the prototype) was ‘born.’ T’Challa has taken custody of her, instilled her with a strong sense of ethics & morality, and exposed to her high culture & socal refinement. However, not even he can curb Athena’s innately violent nature.
And thus, my team breaks down as follows -
mentor - Captain America
brains / team leader - Storm
muscle / trooper - Sasquatch
babe - Spider-Woman
trickster - Speedball
rogue - Moondragon
veteran - Vision
rookie - Black Athena
non-powered sidekick - Jarvis (of course)
Waddaya think?
