Avengers: Team Roster Over Time

An Avengers Beast is generally blue. He prob should be posed around Safari Jacket Wonderman. The main Avengers during his time are more or less Vision, Scarlet Witch, Cap, Iron Man, Wasp, Wonderman and Yellowjacket. Give or take.

I believe that Quasar, Sersi, and Gilgamesh/Forgotten One all joined in 89, same it Reed and Sue. Also, possibly US Agent, and Jim Hammond Torch.

I organize my Avengers by team roaster, but I’m behind now. Hasbro recently completed several teams (mostly), which I need to get into displays. 

My teams on display:

Avengers—big catch-all shelf. The original idea was one of each character. 

Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes—sort of counts as a display. The main team and villains featured on the show are theoretically on display in the living room, but they are usually in a state of chaos due to play time with my kids.

Heroic Age Avengers

All-New All-Different Avengers

MCU Avengers 1

Team Iron Man (MCU)

Team Cap (MCU)

Dark Avengers

Illuminati

Teams that I have but still need to find dedicated display space:

New Avengers

Mighty Avengers

West Coast Avengers

I reference this all the time. Obviously it hasn't been updated in almost a decade now, but it's still fun/useful.

These are the team rosters I am building.  Characters in parentheses are missing:

Avengers First Appearance:

Hulk, Thor, Ant-Man, Wasp, Iron Man

Avengers Classic:

Captain America, Thor, Iron Man, Giant-Man, Wasp

Cap's Kooky Quartet:

Cap, Hawkeye, Scarlet Witch, Quicksilver (green Suit)

Return of Goliath Team

Goliath, Wasp, Cap, Hawkeye, Scarlet Witch, Quicksilver, Hercules, Black Knight, (Need FA Black Widow)

Only An Android Can Cry Team

Black Panther, Hawkeye, Goliath/Yellowjacket, Wasp, Vision

Kree-Skrull War Team

Thor, Iron Man, Cap, Vision, Captain Marvel, Quicksilver, Wasp, Goliath II, Ant-Man

70s Era Team ("Michael" Storyline)

Cap, Thor, Iron Man, Yellowjacket, Wasp, Hawkeye, Scarlet Witch, Quicksilver, Moondragon, Wonder Man, Black Panther, Black Widow, Hercules, Captain Marvel, Ms. Marvel, Jocasta, Vance Astro, (Charlie 27), (Yondu), (Martinex), (Starhawk), (Nikki)

Full Pre-Disassembled Roster:

Hulk, Cap, Thor, Iron Man, Yellowjacket/Giant-Man, Wasp, Hawkeye, Scarlet Witch, Quicksilver, Moondragon, Wonder Man, Black Panther, Black Widow, Black Knight, Beast (Blue fur, no X-Belt), Hellcat, Hercules, Captain Marvel, Ms. Marvel/Warbird, Jocasta, Vance Astro, (Whizzer), (Two-Gun Kid), (Mantis), (Swordsman), (Charlie 27), (Yondu), (Martinex), (Starhawk), (Nikki), Falcon, She-Hulk, Spider-Man, Quasar, Scott Lang Ant-Man, Photon, Sub-Mariner,  (Dr. Druid), (Jack of Hearts), (Starfox), Mr. Fantastic, Invisible Woman, Machine Man, Sersi, (Gilgamesh), (Demolition Man), Sandman, Rage, (Crystal), (Deathcry), Justice, Firestar, (Silverclaw), (Triathalon/3D-Man); WCAV: Mockingbird, Tigra, War Machine, Thing, Jim Hammond Human Torch, Moon Knight, Spider-Woman (Julia Carpenter), USAgent, (Firebird), Living Lightning, Darkhawk, Black Goliath

I just have "Classic" and "Modern" Avengers shelves and organize them that way. I'm not as precious about Avengers eras as I am X-Men. 

My main ML shelf display consists of two Bronze Age shelves, one for heroes, one for villains spilling out onto the floor, generally late '60s through '70s rosters. One shelf for '90s, heroes and villains. One shelf for 2000s, one shelf for 2010s. But I have bins where I store stuff that doesn't fit on those shelves, but I still want to build the teams. For Avengers specifically, I've got a first appearance team, the '60s expanded team (Cap's Quartet, etc), the '80s teams when West Coast started and the New York team, then other post 2000 teams like Initiative and Marvel NOW. What bites is that so few of these teams are actually complete. Always one or two members they haven't gotten around to or haven't updated.

I'm not precious about eras at all. I've got my favorite Avengers in my favorite costumes they've worn and the same for the X-Men.

Posted by: @tsi

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I reference this all the time. Obviously it hasn't been updated in almost a decade now, but it's still fun/useful.

I love things like this. I know it's making something nerdy even nerdier, but charts, graphs, spreadsheets to document nerd things gives me joy.

Love seeing all the different Avengers rosters people group their figures into!

Broadly speaking I think of the Avengers in "classic" and "modern" buckets, with Avengers Disassembled being the dividing line. The classic Avengers are the group I'm most interested in completing, but there are still plenty of modern characters I'm happy to be getting and more I'd want.

They've released enough versions of characters from more specific teams that it's fun to see how many different eras of Avengers can be made. Legendsverse has a feature where you can tag figures to custom groups that is a lot of fun. These are all the Avengers groups I've collected various figures into:

90's
All-New, All-Different
Avengers World / Hickman era
Classic
Dark Avengers
Dark Avengers II
Heroes Return
Mighty Avengers
Mighty Avengers (Cage's Team)
Mighty Avengers International
Modern
New Avengers
New Avengers II
Original lineup
Secret Avengers
Uncanny Avengers
West Coast Avengers

The list favors more modern eras as that's when the books have gone through so many various teams and titles, relaunches, and shakeups. You could definitely be more specific with the classic era (Cap's Kooky Quartet, Kree-Skrull War, Secret Wars, etc) but those aren't as clearly defined in my mind as they represent a more continuous team of "The Avengers."

My Avengers shelf is going to look very meager compared to anyone else here.  I don't have/don't want it to get too big.  I basically stick to the six main characters that were in the first Avengers movie and a few other choice members.  I'm more of an X-Men guy so that roster gets a lot deeper.  But for Avengers my big "wow" moment with that team was the first movie, so I build off of that.  This is about as big as I ever want my team to get.

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My current Avengers display is everyone they've made so far pre-Bendis excluding Reed, Sue and Ben since they're in my FF display.

Hopefully this year the ToyBiz Falcon and Hasbro Yellowjacket and Warbird will be retired for new versions.

And we'll get a Mantis/Swordsman 2-pack.

And a Crystal and Lockjaw 2-pack.

And Stingray in the Deadpool wave.

And Jack of Hearts.

And Firebird.

That'll tide me over until 2025 when I'll ask for more classic Avengers 😀  

I have a very small collection of ML figures (literally less than a dozen atm), but the bulk of them are evenly split between two groups: Avengers and X-Men. My group of Avengers currently includes the Alex Ross versions of Captain America, Iron Man, and Thor, and Ultimate Spider-Man (specifically the one from the 2-pack with Vulture). If that Warbird/Ms Marvel rumor turns out to be true, I'll more than likely be adding her to their ranks.

Posted by: @beamish

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My current Avengers display is everyone they've made so far pre-Bendis excluding Reed, Sue and Ben since they're in my FF display.

Hopefully this year the ToyBiz Falcon and Hasbro Yellowjacket and Warbird will be retired for new versions.

And we'll get a Mantis/Swordsman 2-pack.

And Stingray in the Deadpool wave.

And Jack of Hearts.

And Firebird.

That'll tide me over until 2025 when I'll ask for more classic Avengers 😀  

Your keyboard to Hasbro’s ears. Throw in Starfox and Dr. Druid and I’ll be satisfied for some time.