Avengers Disassembled
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Promotional art for Avengers #503.
Art by David Finch. |
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| Publisher | Marvel Comics | ||
| Publication date | August 2004 – January 2005 | ||
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| Main character(s) | Avengers | ||
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| Avengers Disassembled: Iron Man, Thor & Captain America | ISBN | ||
"Avengers Disassembled" is a crossover event involving the Avengers, Fantastic Four, Captain America, Spider-Man and Thor. "Avengers Disassembled" saw the beginning of Brian Michael Bendis' Avengers run with the destruction of the existing "traditional" roster and exile of several key members of the team. The other crossover stories intersect (or in the case of the Spectacular Spider-Man and Thor crossover issues) or take place prior or after to the main Avengers story-line. In particular, the tie-ins saw other changes to the status quo: Iron Man once again closeting his secret identity, Spider-Man developing organic webshooters (like the Sony Spider-Man movies), and the death of Thor and Asgard in one final Ragnarok.
The main story ("Chaos") ran in Avengers #500-503 and a special epilogue ("Avengers Finale") and drew considerable controversy due to its overt continuity errors related to its main plot and deaths and vilification of classic Avengers members. These continuity errors and fan backlash would lead to retconning of the events in "Avengers: The Children's Crusade" and "AXIS," as well as the "Marquis of Death" story line from Mark Millar's Fantastic Four run and the Kurt Busiek and George Perez "Avengers/JLA" mini-series and J. Michael Straczynski's "Amazing Spider-Man" run.
The series would also see to a massive relaunch of the Avengers family of titles with new ongoing series launched for the Thunderbolts, Captain America, and Iron Man as well as the launching of Young Avengers and Thor going on a three-year hiatus.
Sending Jack of Hearts to the Avengers mansion, the zombified hero explodes damaging the mansion. Ant Man, who approached his former teammate, is seemingly killed in the blast but in truth is teleported away by future versions of his daughter, Cassie Lang, and her teammates, the Young Avengers. With Ant Man presumed dead, Doom orders Wanda to send Vision (piloting an Avengers Quinjet) to crash into the partially damaged Avengers Mansion causing more damage.
Elsewhere, the mind-controlled Wanda arrives at the United Nations where she has a conversation with Captain America who announces that he is ending their fledgling relationship. Furious, Wanda uses her powers to cause Iron Man to suddenly become drunk and belligerent at an important meeting where the Avengers will have their UN security clearance revoked following the events of Secret War. Attempting to pick a fight with the Latverian ambassador, the Avengers UN charter is revoked as Iron Man leaves Hank Pym in the lurch to respond to the "Code White" from the Avengers mansion.
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