Avengers Disassembled
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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 HC | ISBN 0785138846 |
"Avengers Disassembled" is a 2004
The main story, Chaos, ran in Avengers #500-503 and a special epilogue, Avengers Finale. The series would lead to a massive relaunch of the Avengers family of titles: New Avengers, New Thunderbolts, Captain America, and Iron Man; and the launch of Young Avengers.
Plot summary
Avengers
Jack of Hearts, who had been dead before the storyline, arrives at Avengers Mansion. The zombified hero explodes, damaging the mansion. Scott Lang is killed in the blast. The Vision pilots an Avengers Quinjet into the partially damaged Avengers Mansion, causing more damage.
Elsewhere, Wanda Maximoff arrives at the United Nations, where she speaks with Captain America, who announces that he is ending their fledgling relationship. Tony Stark suddenly becomes drunk and belligerent despite not having imbibed any alcohol at an important UN meeting to decide if the Avengers should have their security clearance revoked following the events of Secret War. After Tony drunkenly attempts to pick a fight with the Latverian ambassador, the Avengers UN charter is revoked; Iron Man leaves Hank Pym in the lurch to respond to the "Code White" from Avengers Mansion.
Leaving the crashed Quinjet, Vision warns the Avengers of a mysterious plan to destroy the team and then vomits up eggs that spawn
She-Hulk is subdued by Iron Man and Captain America and Hank Pym joins them and rushes Wasp to the hospital. Returning, Hank reveals to Cap and the team of Iron Man's drunken outburst at the UN and the UN's decision to revoke their charter. All past members of the Avengers gather at the mansion, fearing that Ultron may be behind the attack. Suddenly an armada of Kree soldiers appear in the sky and attack Manhattan. In the ensuing battle, Hawkeye's arrows are hit, causing their explosives to go off. In his dying moments, Hawkeye takes out a Kree battleship in the blast after taking flight with a commandeered Kree jet pack.
In the wake of Hawkeye's death,
The Avengers visit the home of
In the aftermath, the Avengers disband, but reminisce about their numerous triumphs and memories of one another.
Iron Man
After rescuing Force from the corrupt senators who have been trying to kill Tony Stark since he became U.S. Defense Secretary, Iron Man finds himself targeted by an impostor who murders his longtime love interest Rumiko Fujikawa. Iron Man eventually defeats his impersonator and brings down the ring of corrupt senators who organized the murder and blackmailed Force. Realizing that his loved ones are being targeted by his enemies, Stark gives a press conference where he announces that he is resigning as Defense Secretary and will no longer actively be Iron Man, in favor of returning to "subordinates" filling the role for him.
Thor
A mystic force that is the living embodiment of Ragnarok has begun slaying the Asgardian Gods in rapid succession. Investigating the genocide of his people, Thor discovers that the universe itself is seeking to eliminate the Asgardians for cheating death by surviving countless previous attempts by the universe to fulfill Ragnarok and wipe out the Asgardians. Ultimately Thor allows himself to be destroyed, as all known Asgardians are destroyed.
Captain America and Falcon
Captain America and Falcon are in the midst of an international scandal between a naval intelligence operation (ONI) and a Drug Cartel with ties to A.I.M when Cap starts having hallucinations; some of them involving encounters with his fellow Avenger Wanda Maximoff A.K.A. the Scarlet Witch. Meanwhile, Falcon is gifted a new enhanced costume from Wakanda and uses it to escape the feds. Captain America discusses his past, most notably his guilt from the death of Bucky, with Scarlet Witch and she eases his trouble. While they engage in a romance, Cap cites that he can not give her the normal life she desires due to his own emotional issues. His apparent romance with the Scarlet Witch ceases just prior to the UN meeting to retain their UN Charter. Wanda, oddly tells him she has no recollection of their romance, indicating that Cap hallucinated the whole thing. Cap later believes that due to the events of "Avengers Disassembled", Wanda was responsible for his visions and Falcon's aggressive behavior.[1]
Spectacular Spider-Man
Peter Parker finds himself locked in a desperate battle with Adrianna "Ana" Soria (aka "The Queen"), a mysterious villainess with the ability to control her minions with powerful pheromones. During their first confrontation, a captive Peter is forcefully kissed by the Queen, causing him to mutate into a grotesque human-spider hybrid over the course of many days. As he attempts to return himself to normal, it's ultimately revealed that the Queen's powers are the result of an American military experiment from World War II, and she has returned to seek revenge on the US government for abandoning her after the war.
In his final confrontation with the Queen, Peter stops her from destroying all human life in New York City with a biological bomb. In the course of the battle, he is fully transformed into a monstrous spider, but the transformation has the unintended side-effect of making him pregnant—allowing him to give birth to a perfect replica of his old human self, with all of his memories fully intact. In his new form, Peter possesses the ability to shoot organic webbing from his wrists, eliminating the need for his homemade "web-shooters".
Fantastic Four
While the Avengers face the destruction of their mansion and the invading Kree armada, Wizard and the Frightful Four launch a surprise attack on the Fantastic Four, defeating the heroes and seizing control over the Baxter Building. The Fantastic Four regroup.
Captain America
Following the events of "Disassembled", Captain America is naturally depressed and rekindles a relationship with Diamondback (Rachel Leighton). Meanwhile, the Red Skull conspires with a corrupt SHIELD agent to kill Captain America using Diamondback, but his plan backfires. During these events Steve realizes his love for Rachel.
Aftermath
In the wake of "Avengers Disassembled", two new Avengers series were created. The
The Scarlet Witch's storyline continued in the pages of Excalibur, where Magneto and Professor X tried helping her, to no avail. This in turn led into the House of M mini-series and crossover, also written by Bendis.
The event is now considered by Marvel editors as the first part of a long series of events, which includes House of M, Decimation, Planet Hulk, Civil War, The Initiative, Endangered Species, World War Hulk, Messiah Complex, Divided We Stand, Secret Invasion, Manifest Destiny, Dark Reign, Messiah War, Utopia, Nation X and Necrosha. All these grim events lead up to Siege written by Brian Michael Bendis in 2010, which ushers in a new Heroic Age for Marvel, and X-Men: Second Coming by Christopher Yost and Craig Kyle, which sees the slow rebirth of Earth's Mutant population.
As for the Avengers killed during Disassembled saga, they have all returned to life in separate events. Hawkeye was rematerialized by Wanda during the House of M story. Ant-Man was rescued by the time-traveling Young Avengers during The Children's Crusade, as Stature brings him away from the range of Jack of Hearts' explosion. Ant-Man is thus brought to the present along with the Young Avengers. The Vision is successfully rebuilt by Tony Stark after Fear Itself, and Jack of Hearts is restored by a team of scientists of Project Pegasus: during an assault of a pack of zombified clones of Squadron Supreme, a source of zero-point energy aggregates taking the corporeal form of Jack Hart.
List of crossover issues
- Avengers #500–503 (main story)
- Avengers Finale (epilogue)
- Captain America #29–32 (aftermath)
- Captain America and the Falcon #5–7 (prologue)
- Fantastic Four #517–519 (aftermath)
- Iron Man #84–85 (prologue) and #86–89 (aftermath)
- Spectacular Spider-Man#15–20 (prologue)
- Excalibur #8 (parallel story)
- Thor #80–81 (prologue) and #82–85 (parallel story)
Although not bannered as a part of the crossover, the events of Stormbreaker: The Saga of Beta Ray Bill are a direct sequel to the story in Thor.
Later references to the storyline
New Avengers Disassembled
Although not directly connected with the previous storyline, Bendis's 5th arc on New Avengers is titled "New Avengers: Disassembled", a reference to "Avengers Disassembled". It deals with the events of the Civil War (in which superheroes were forced to register with the government or be arrested) on the New Avengers, and how the team's varying opinions have caused them to break apart. The first three issues featured Captain America, Jessica Drew and Luke Cage's opinions on the matter, all who have heavily weighed against the registration. The next two featured the Sentry and Iron Man, both of whom were for registration. (New Avengers #21-25)
Avengers: The Initiative Disassembled
Like the 5th arc of Bendis's New Avengers, the storyline of
Avengers/New Avengers: End Times
Bendis's last Avengers and New Avengers storylines used a red smashed Avengers symbol and a black text box with white text in same font as the Disassembled logo on the front covers of each issue of those stories. (Avengers #31-34, New Avengers #31-34)
Ultimates Disassembled
The 6th story arc of the 4th series of The Ultimate Comics series The Ultimates used the Disassembled name complete with the black box white text logo.
Other versions
What If?
On November 1, 2006, Marvel released a " and Doctor Strange are left – they were the ones who were directly confronting Cap and Wanda – and a guilt-ridden Beast, learning from Uatu that Cap would have recovered from his illness and abandoned his manipulative relationship with the Witch as he became leader of a new team of Avengers if Beast had done nothing, realizes that he should have left everything alone.
Earth-5012
In an alternate world, the Avengers were never disassembled, but were subsequently captured by an alien race called the Trellions when the Vision detected the arrival of their agent
Parodies
Great Lakes Avengers: Misassembled
The GLA miniseries, GLA: Misassembled (2005), written by
Bongo Comics Free-For-All
A Bongo Comics Free-For-All (Free Comic Book Day Special) has Comic Book Guy reading, Archie Disassembled. The following quotes:
, you've done it again.Cable & Deadpool #12
Collected editions
Title | Material collected | Published date | ISBN |
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Avengers Disassembled | Avengers #500–503 and Avengers Finale | February 2005 | 978-1846533211 |
New Avengers Omnibus Volume 1 | Avengers #500–503, Avengers Finale, New Avengers #1-31, Annual #1; New Avengers Most Wanted Files; New Avengers : Custom 676: Army & Air Force; Giant-Size Spider-Woman #1; New Avengers: Illuminati #1; Civil War: The Confession #1; and Civil War: The Initiative #1 | September 2012 | 978-0785164890 |
New Avengers by Brian Michael Bendis: The Complete Collection Vol. 1 | Avengers #500–503, Avengers Finale, New Avengers #1-10, New Avengers Most Wanted Files | January 2017 | 978-1302903626 |
Avengers Disassembled: Iron Man | Iron Man #84–89 | January 2007 | 978-0785116530 |
Avengers Disassembled: Captain America | Captain America #29–32 and Captain America And The Falcon #5–7 | December 2004 | 978-0785116486 |
Avengers Disassembled: Thor | Thor #80–85 | December 2004 | 978-0785115991 |
Thor: Ragnaroks | Thor #80–85 and Thor: Blood Oath #1-6, Stormbreaker: The Saga of Beta Ray Bill #1-6 | October 2017 | 978-1302907945 |
Avengers Disassembled: Iron Man, Thor & Captain America | Thor #80–85, Iron Man #84–89, Captain America & The Falcon #5–7, and Captain America #29–32 | April 2009 | 978-0785138846 |
Fantastic Four Volume 5: Disassembled | Fantastic Four #514-519 | December 2004 | 978-0785115366 |
Fantastic Four By Mark Waid and Mike Wieringo: Ultimate Collection - Book Four | Fantastic Four #514-524 | December 2011 | 978-0785156611 |
Spectacular Spider-Man Volume 4: Disassembled | Spectacular Spider-Man (vol. 2) #15-20 | December 2004 | 978-0785116264 |
References
- ^ Captain America and the Falcon #10
External links
- Avengers Disassembled at the Comic Book DB (archived from the original)
- Avengers Disassembled at Marvel.com