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Best Avengers stories in Volume 1 (+ SteveTony bonus) - Part 2: #222 - 402 + Onslaught (END)
This is a summary of what happens in Avengers volume 1, with what, in my opinion, are the best storylines. I’ll add the bonus SteveTony elements if there are any (indicated with * to *** for the amount of SteveTony-ess)! Between the issues to read I will put a brief summary of what happened to understand the story better (they are between parenthesis and in italics).
PART 1: 001 - 221 is here
A quick recap from the past issues: the current Avengers are She-Hulk, Hawkeye, Captain America, Iron Man, Thor and Wasp who is the leader. Of the main past Avengers, Wanda and Vision are married and living happily ever after somewhere, Pietro is with Crystal and their daughter, Yellowjacket is in prison because of a misunderstanding, and in general he has been discharged from the Avengers because he hit Janet and he tried to attack the Avengers. Janet and Hank divorced. Scott Lang, now Ant-Man, is working for Tony Stark. Only Cap, Thor and Tigra know Tony is Iron Man.
#224** : Tony and Janet start dating (Jan doesn’t know he is Iron Man). Cap is mad at Tony because Janet is their friend’s Hank’s ex wife, and also because Jan doesn’t know Iron Man and Tony are the same person. Janet and Tony break up when Tony tells her the truth, as Jan doesn’t want to date one of the Avengers, someone who knew Hank.
(The Black Knight comes back to life)
#227**: This is a sequel of Amazing Spiderman Annual #16, but still understandable as the only thing to know is that the Avengers met Monica Rabeau (Captain Marvel) and in this issue she joins the Avengers. Hawkeye is doubtful about Janet’s lead, Cap and Tony have a moment where Tony admits Cap was right about his involvement with Janet. A psychiatrist meet Hank, recap of Hank’s backstory and the story of his first marriage and what happened when he was arrested.
#228**: Cap and Monica train, Hank has the trial. Steve is worried about Tony and the fact that they haven’t talked in a bit and find out that Tony had been awake for about 40 hours, working on a machine that will prove once for all if Hank was telling the truth about being manipulated. Steve is not happy. Wanda and Vision have a couple of panels as well! The Masters of Evil ‘rescue’ Henry Pym against his on wishes, making him a criminal.
#229 - 230*: Jennifer can’t turn back into She-Hulk until Clint makes her mad, Steve is very concerned because Tony (and Iron Man) disappeared. Scott Lang brings to the Avengers the project Tony was working with: a way to see if Hank’s actions have been caused by mindcontrol (they hadn’t). Hank joins the Masters of Evil so that he can defeat them from inside. He is later proven innocent and freed. Hank leaves his Yellowjacket uniform with the Avengers, leaving the Avengers and the mansion.
#231*: Jocasta is dead and there’s a funeral, Iron Man calls the Avengers to tell them that he is leaving. Cap immediately takes the phone, telling Iron Man that if there is something wrong they can help and that he doesn’t have to leave the Avengers. Of course, the man in the armor is Rhodey as Tony is having a lot of troubles at the moment. Eros (Starfox) decides to join the Avengers.
#232*: Eros joins the Avengers and gets the name Starfox because the President of USA thinks Eros is too provocative - at this point the Avengers still need the government approval for new members. Cap and Janet start looking for Tony and they find him half drunk in one of his apartments.
#233 - 234*: The Avengers deal with a mysterious force field around the Baxter Building. Steve worries about Tony. Thor, the Vision and Wanda are back to help but Vision is wounded. Starfox and She-Hulk flirt and end up in bed together. Cap tells Thor about Tony and asks for his help, as Thor has known Tony longer. Thor is doubtful, believing that no one can help Tony if not even Steve had managed to (the famous issue Iron Man #172 happens here!). Janet and Monica help Wanda feel better, Wanda and Monica bond over the French language. This issue has a recap of Wanda’s story with the part where she finds out that Magneto is her father.
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#235*: Steve is grumpy with everyone, literally tormented about what happened to Tony, about how Tony lost himself in alcohol. Spiderman makes an appearance.
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(Spiderman joins the Avengers… at least until the government says no, because Spiderman is too much of a risk. Vision can finally speak with the other Avengers, through holograms, even if is body is still repairing. We find out that Hawkeye got married with Mockingbird. Captain America is away from the Avengers for some time. Later, the Avengers help Spider-Woman against Morgan le Fay, helped by Hank Pym and Stephen Strange)
#242-243: A surprise party in Avengers tower! Vision is back in his physical form and he tells the Avengers that something evil is coming. Thor and Cap are back. Some of the Avengers mysteriously disappear, thanks to the evil energy Vision was feeling… which basically is Secret Wars. Vision takes the lead while Cap, Jan, Thor and Hawkeye are away in Secret Wars. When the Avengers come back, Janet steps down from the role of chairwoman and Vision is nominated as chairman of the Avengers. She-Hulk leaves the Avengers to go to the Fantastic Four, but both her and Thor are declared ‘detached membership’ status Avengers. Plus, Vision decides that it’s time to start a new team on the West Coast. Mr Raymond Sikorski replaces Mr Gyrich as the government’s connection with the Avengers. Hawkeye is named leader of the West Coast Avengers.
Vision, Captain America, Captain Marvel, Starfox, Wanda and the Wasp are, instead, the remaining Avengers.
(The Avengers have various adventures)
#246 - 248: Monica tells her parents that she is Captain Marvel, Janet and Starfox have some fun to fight boredom and crash a party, Wanda and Vision meet with the president and Vision pretends to be more human than he is. Jan and Starfox end up with the Eternals… and Starfox finds out he is an Eternal as well. Pietro has a moment where he declares that he will never forgive Magneto, as the man attacked and wounded Bova. Vision is being weird.
(Hercules calls the Avengers to fight Surtur. Hercules is back with the Avengers, then they team up with the West Coast Avengers to save the Earth. Janet takes a holiday from the Avengers and has a nice fling, Vision has a nightmare full of self-hatred, where is a real human being hating on his robot self, as he has this encphalatron command chair - with a programm called ISAAC - that would bring peace to humanity controlling all the computers, in exchange for the Vision’s life itself.)
#252 - 254: Ultimate Vision arc. Vision offers Avengers membership to Leonard Samson but he refuses. Vision and Wanda’s house is burnt to the ground but mutants haters and Vision decides to use the chair and sends the Avengers to some mission, saying goodbye to Wanda, because he knows that taking control of all computers will end up in his sacrifice. Dane Withman (Black Knight) comes back and Vision has to incapacitate him, before starting using the chair and takes control of the networks in the world. When the Avengers come back they join Black Knight and Wonder Man and convinces Vision that he can’t do it. But what happened put the Avengers at odds with the government.
(After what happened and after clearing things with the government, Vision and Wanda decide to leave. Jan comes back to the team, Monica has adventures on space, Janet confronts Starfox about his power which basically makes people 'feel good’ and it’s too close to mental manipulation to her. Janet is again the chairwoman of the Avengers, the government restricts the Avengers’ privileges, Monica and the Avengers end up saving Skrulls and helping them against a common enemy: Nebula. The Avengers meet the Beyonder and Starfox leaves)
#262: The Avengers need a new quinjets base as the government doesn’t want to let them fly around the city like before. They accept the offer of Diane Newells and her husband, to use their hydrobase as a quinjets base. Hercules and Namor have a bonding moment, Cap asks Namor to become an Avenger (now that he had to abdicate his throne) and he accepts.
#264: The Black Knight helps Janet finds more about her own powers. Mr Fantastic is visiting with his family, Monica feels uncomfortable about sharing her true identity because she doesn’t trust Namor enough. Janet arrests a woman dressed as Yellowjacket, who was trying to rob her: it’s Rita Demara.
(Secret Wars II, where the Avengers battle the Beyonder, happens here)
#267 - 269: The Avengers face bad press because Namor is on the team. Monica tells Steve her real name. Black Knight, Jan and Hercules are making an underground passage to make it easier reaching Hydrobase, where their quinjets are… but they vanish. Kang kidnapped them to make the fight one of the other timelines Kang, so that that this Kang can remain as the only Kang. Kang manages to trap all the Avengers and the Double!Kang. Immortus appears to reveal that he, himself, is a divergent Kang, and saves the situation.
(Moonstone is railing the people against the Avengers because of Namor. The Avengers arrest her, but Titania and the Absorbing Man get her out of the police van and she ends up with Zemo and the Masters of Evil. Namor leaves the Avengers to go save his country and his people. Rita Demara - now Yellowjacket - escapes from prison and joins the Masters of Evil. The Avengers help Namor save Atlantis. The Masters of Evil attack the Mansion)
#274 - 277: Zemo and the Masters of Evil take over the Avengers mansion, trapping the Avengers inside it, but the Wasp and Hercules, who is injured and taken to a hospital. Yellowjacket (Rita) is uncomfortable with the cruelty of the Masters of Evil. Monica is trapped into darkness, not able to get out. Scott Lang (Ant-Man) meets Janet at the hospital, when the Absorbing Man and Titania attack them. After defeating them, Janet calls Thor for help, and Monica gets to them, escaping the dimension of darkness. The Avengers storm in the mansion, Black Knight manages to reach for his sword, Jarvis is severly wounded. Yellowjacket surrenders and the Avengers defeats Zemo and the villain slips from the roof, ending up apparently dead. Unfortunately, the mansion is destroyed and Cap is devasted.
#278: The Avengers are rebuilding the mansion. Janet, who really needs a holiday, visits the Avengers at the hospital. Black Knight is on hydrobase to train with Doctor Druid. She-Hulk is back with the Avengers and Janet invites Doctor Druid to complete the team, because she wants to leave the Avengers and her role as chairwoman.
#279: Cap names Monica as leader of the Avengers and the Avengers vote her, but she is not ready. Later, she goes to meet her parents, asking them advice. She-Hulk, Dane and Druid have a day on the beach and Doctor Druid starts thinking that he would want to be leader. Monica’s story recap, before she decides to accepts the job and she becomes leader of the Avengers. Hercules starts waking from the coma but a mysterious figure kidnaps him.
#280: Tony visits Jarvis at the hospital and he reminds Jarvis that he has funds to take care of him and doesn’t need to work anymore. Jarvis thinks of his story with Tony and the Avengers, meeting them and becoming their friends. (At this point Jarvis lets us known that Wanda had two twins, in West Coast Avengers). At the end, Jarvis decides to stay as butler of the Avengers.
(The Avengers finds out that Hermes was the one to kidnap Hercules. Ares and other Greek gods, fight the Avengers and get them to Olympus. Namor comes back to help them. Janet is kidnapped to Olympus as well, Hercules wakes up and saves the Avengers but is gravely wounded again. The Avengers go back to Earth, Namor returns to Atlantis, Cap takes a leave of absence. The Avengers fight the Adaptoid. Marrina, Namor’s wife, starts living with the Avengers. Marrina turns into a monster called The Leviathan, Doctor Druid keeps wanting to be leader and is being haunted by mysterious a blond woman. The Avengers kill Leviathan, an so Marrina, but she gives birth to three children and Namor leaves the Avengers to go find the children.)
#293 - 297: The mysterious blond woman in Druid’s dreams is Nebula, trying to get control of the Avengers to get a powerful weapon. Monica is so gravely ill that she can’t lead the Avengers anymore. Doctor Druid, helped by Nebula, mentally controls the Avengers to elect him as leader. The Avengers snap out of it, Nebula is lost in some tme bubble and Druid falls after her, trying to save her. The Avengers (the three remaning ones: Black Knight, Thor and She-Hulk) are disbanded, mostly because of how guilt they felt after the mental manipulation.
#298: Jarvis is the only Avenger left. He tries his best to help people in the city and savs a woman named Glory Garsen (they latergo on a date as well). When confronted with a killer robot, luckily, Steve jumps in and helps Jarvi. At this point Steve is using the codename ‘Captain’ and his black uniform.
(The Inferno crossover event happens here, which means that there are demons in New York. Steve fights the demons and helps Susan Storm and Reed Richards save their son Franklin. Gilgamesh is sent to Earth to fight monsters. Susan, Richard, Steve, Gilgamesh and Thor decide to reform the Avengers)
#301 - 303: The Super-Nova saga. The Avengers receive ufficial permission to moor their base (hydrobase) in the New York’s port, renaming the base Avengers Island. Cap returns to his old costume (also: he is leader of the Avengers now). Starfox ends up at the base,warning the Avengers of the presence of a new villain named Super-Nova, last survivor of Xandar. Firelord has been taken by this Super-Nova and the Avengers go into space to save him. The Avengers free Firelord, Super-Nova wants revenge (Nebula destroyed his planet and he thinks she is still on Earth) and attacks Earth. Peggy Carter tells the West Coast Avengers that the Avengers are in space, so Hawkeye leads his team to confront Super-Nova. Quasar and the Fantastic Four also arrive on the scene. Mr Fantastic manages to convince Super-Nova that Nebula is in another timestream and gives him a time machine to follow her. Cap is gloomy because Mr Fantastic did not share the plan with him.
#305: Cap calls all the past Avengers (even if Iron Man doesn’t seem to be there) to Avengers Island. Mr Fantastic and Invisible Woman, now back to the FF, are there as well. Cap suggests the idea that once an Avenger always an Avenger, and to return to only one team of Avengers instead of multiple ones. While everyone accepts to be called if needed and to be considered an Avenger, the ones that remain on Avengers Island are Black Panther, Cap, She-Hulk, Thor, Gilgamesh and Quasar.
(The Avengers, Namor as well, defeat the Lava men and Gilgamesh is wounded. The Avengers have an adventure with the Eternals. Quasar, helped by Peggy Carter and the rest of the Hydrobase staff, tries to stop robots from attacking Avengers Island… but the base is destroyed)
#312: Sam Wilson, Hank Pym, Janet, Wanda and Vision are monitoring possible dangers in their base: the basement of Avengers park. Some members of a group of villains called Freedom Force attacks the Avengers. Nebula is back on Earth.
#313: After the recent attacks, the population is not happy to have the Avengers back in New York. We also find out that Hawkeye has a new Avengers team: Great Lake Avengers. While Mandarin attacks the city and fight the Avengers (Natasha, Wonder Man and Hellcat are there to help as well). Agatha Harkness visits Wanda who seems quite shocked, in a catatonic state, because of what happened to her (in West Coast Avengers, presumably, Vision was kidnapped and reprogrammed and Wanda’s children were found to be just fragments of her imaginations).
#314 - 318*: Cap is working to rebuild the Mansions. Iron Man is back… but apparently no one knows he is the original Iron Man (and Tony Stark is apparently dead, as he faked his own death) and they think someone else is piloting Iron Man. Steve is suspicious about Iron Man, especially because it looks like he acts as if he has been with the Avengers for a while. Cap asks Sersi to join the Avengers. Spiderman joins as well. Starfox asks the Avengers’ help against Nebula and they manage to capture her. But a powerful being named The Stranger arrives to get her as she stole from him the infinity union, a powerful device that is able to destroy the entire world. Cap and Iron Man agree that they need to find that device first and destroy it themselves. But Nebula manages to get the power before them and becomes an angry god-like entity. Nebula chases the Avengers on the ship, playing with them, and Cap has to abandon some of his team to save the rest (Iron Man gets abandoned after he is squeezed by mechanical tentacles). The Stranger temporally stops Nebula and Sersi disables the implant that lets Nebula control the power, the Stranger decides to destroy the infinity union, Nebula is captured but her servant manages to escape with her, Starfox is hurt, Iron Man recovers. Back on Earth, Cap tells Spiderman that maybe being an Avenger is not the right path for him, Spiderman, relieved, leaves.
(The Avengers have different adventures, Mother Night, a villain hypnothist, manipulates and brainwashes the Avengers Crew - a group of people working at Avengers mansion among which there are Jarvis and Peggy Carter - and manages to install surveillance at the Avengers HQ)
#325: Mother Night and her villain companions follow the Avengers’ movements and find out that they are all at Sersi’s party. The Avengers defeat Mother Night.
#326 - 328*: The Avengers keep rebuilding the mansion. She-Hulk doesn’t seem convinced by the idea that Iron Man is not the original Iron Man. Rage arrives at the Avengers to become one of them, but Sersi thinks he is a danger so she ends up nearly attacking him and Rage decides to leave. Cap and Iron Man fight side by side. Rage’s backstory.
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#329: The UN offers the Avengers the position of special peace keeping force to call in case of danger. Cap and the Avengers accept. Th Avengers have a new line up: Cap, Thor, Vision, Sersi, Quasar, Black Widow, Sher-Hulk. They also vote the reserve substitutes in case some main Avenger can’t make it: Spider-Man, Black night, Captain Marvel (Monica), Hercules, Falcon, Rage, Sandman.
#332 : The Avengers hold a party for their new finished headquarters (rebuild Mansion) and Doctor Doom manages to sneak in. Nat and She-Hulk definitely knows that Tony Stark is still Iron Man. Iron Man arrives at the party… but it’s just Doom in disguise
#334 - 339**: Pietro is taken prisoner by Thane Ector, a villain who escaped from the Collector. The Avengers help Pietro. Thane Ector and Sybil Dorne, both escaped from the Collector, are attacking Earth. Sersi is taken hostage, Steve is wounded, Iron Man asks about his health. The Collector tells to Black Panther, Beast and Quasar the story of Thane and how he conquers worlds. Crystal asks to join the Avengers. Sybil can’t stand Sersi anymore, but Thane defends her and he seems to care for Sersi. Thane reveals to Sersi that his species (the Brethren) infects new world, because they are the desease of the universe, created by the Celestials. Of course, at the end, it was the Collector’s plan and Thane Ector was just a puppet in it. The Collector kills Sybil, Sersi wants to save Thane and she asks him to fight against the Collector with them. Thane dies defeating the Collector. Cap tries to comfort Sersi, telling her that at the end the Brethren became the heroes they never were.
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#340*: The Avengers open a medical facility for the city. Cap teases Tony a bit. A mysterious woman wants to ask their help and is hit by a car. Before passing out, she asks Cap to help the children. Jarvis and Wasp find out that the woman is married to Itzhak Berditchev, a weapon manufacturer who is now raising their five children. The children are basically raised as little soldiers in a nuclear facility. Janet, Jarvis and Steve go to save them.
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(Rage doesn’t agree with the fact that the Avengers are not solving the probems of the city with the police, but are more focused on other issues. Sam and Steve go to meet Rage’s grandmother and ask her advice. The Avengers fight the Sons of the Serpent, helped by the New Warriors. Rage decides to focus his work on the more down to Earth problems.)
#343: Crystal arrives at the mansion with her daughter Luna and her nanny Marilla, Thor is away so a Thor replacement is with the Avengers, Vision has some trouble with his emotional memory even if technically no emotion should be connected with his old memories of his lost children, and later on Crystal talks to Vision about her - now ended - marriage with Pietro. Cap is worried about the team: Rage has left, Sandman has left, Sersi has not been around for some time. Black Widow is leader of the Avengers. The Swordman is back.
(Swordman attacks the Avengers, particularly angry with Vision still because of that old attraction Mantis had for Vision, back when Swordman died during the Celestial Madonna saga. Marilla (Luna’s nanny) and Jarvis don’t really get along. Sersi comes back but there seems to be something tormenting her. Magdalene and Swordman attack the Avengers and it appears they both work for Proctor. A war between the Kree and the Shi'ar is about to start. The Avengers have to fight both the Kree and the Shi'ar. They fight the Intelligence Supreme as well)
#347*: When the Avengers need to decide what to do with the Supreme Intelligence, Steve is against killing it, Black Knight instead wants to destroy it as it is only a machine and Iron Man agrees. Sersi, Wonder Man, Vision, Thor and Hercules agree with Tony, while Wanda, Clint, Quasar, Monica, Crystal and Eros agree with Cap. After the Supreme Intelligence is destroyed, Cap and Iron Man have a moment. At the end, the Supreme Intelligence actually survive, but the Avengers don’t know it. After what happened, after the Avengers killed, Cap believes things will never be the same.
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(Cap takes a leave of absence, after what happened with the Supreme Intelligence. Hera wants revenge against Hercules and attacks him. Black Knight seems to have feelings for Crystal even if she wants to repair things with Pietro. Sersi kisses Dane, to make him forget about Crystal. The Avengers fight the Grim Reaper. Natasha plays matchmaker and throws Hercules into a date with a woman named Taylor. Magdalene, Swordman and Proctor come back against the Avengers. The enemies escape but the Avengers capture the Swordman.)
#357: The Avengers find out that the Swordman’s memories seem to be different. They find out this Swordman comes from another universe (Earth-921). Hercules has his date with Taylor (and Hera watches them, apparently happy of this development) at Nat’s elegant dinner, Dane and Crystal are about to dance, when Sersi arrives and kisses Dane (gosh, this love triangle). Natasha proposes a toast to celebrate the Avengers, but they are interruped by the Watched who is there to warn them about imminent danger.
(The Avengers have an adventure which ends up in Sersi killing one of their enemies. The Avengers are, of course, shocked.)
#360: Proctor summons Vision from another universe (Anti-Vision) to join his group called the Gatherers. He sends Anti-Vision to kill the Swordman. Sersi and Dane talk, Sersi reveals that she killed because she felt this terrible force inside her, and as it happens again she attacks the Avengers. Anti-Vision attacks Sersi, and of course no one knows he is not the real Vision. Natasha, worried about the Watcher, asks Steve to come back and he accepts.
#361: The Eternals want to take Sersi back. At this point we find out what is happening to Sersi: The Celestials, who created the Eternals, gave to the first of them the ability to manifest a group consciousness, called a uni-mind, to ease the human minds of the Eternals and not let them go mad in their too much power. This is what’s happening to Sersi and tradition wants that the one who goes mad is killed. The Avengers protect Sersi, the Eternals leave but decide to permanently bond Sersi and Dane as soulbonds so that he can keep an eye on her. Dane is not happy about it. Proctor reveals that he is the soulbound of another universe Sersi and he is the only one who knows what Sersi is about to become. Dane kisses Crystal, he is in love with her, but Sersi sees them.
#363: Anti-Vision apparently kills the AU!Swordman. When he also attacks Crystal, they understand that Anti-Vision is not the real Vision. Hank Pym and Bill Foster manage to save Swordman. With Anti-Vision prisoner, the Avengers decide to take the fight to Proctor. Proctor tells them that soon Sersi’s madness will spread to Dane and she will end up destroying the world. After warning them, Proctor escapes. Magdalene,one of the Gatherers who had feelings for Swordman, finds out Swordman has been killed, so she decides to help the Avengers. In the meanwhile, Sersi kills two policemen who were investigating her following a trail of murders.
(Vision has been saved. Sersi has trouble holding on and not falling into a murdering rage. The Avengers fight the Kree, Dane and Crystal are kidnapped. Hank Pym helpes the Avengers as Giant Man. Deathcry joins the Avengers to help in case the Kree want revenge)
#367: This issue is just about Vision looking at people having feelngs and wondering what it is like. Vision is envious of the friendship between Natasha and Steve, and the emotions between Crystal and Dane. Taylor breaks up with Hercules, Magdalene is waiting by the Swordman’s bed, in the medical room, when Swordman wakes up. Deathcry and Vision kiss, but Vision can’t really reciprocate so Deathcry leaves, accusing him of just being afraid to feel. Vision feels anger.
(X-Men crossover. Avengers and X-Men work to save Luna who has been kidnapped. Pietro and Wanda make an appearance as well)
#372 - 375 : Steve asks Pietro back to the Avengers and everything is awkward because Crystal and Dane have a thing. Nat is amused by how clumsy Steve is. Sersi wishes to be with Dane and Dane can’t stop himself, and has to go to her, angry that the bond between them is forcing him to do this. The police tries to arrest Sersi for the murder of the two policemen. Sersi destroys the mansion to escape from the police. Dane thinks she is innocent so he follows her. The Avengers get to Sersi, but she attacks them, helped by Dane. When she hits Crystal, Dane turns against Sersi. Proctor appears and takes Sersi. The Eternals and Thunderstrike are back and they explain that Sersi’s madness is very sudden, as if someone had pushed her into it. Proctor’s backstory: Proctor was Dane from another universe, leader of the Avengers, he fell in love with Sersi, they got married but then their love ended and Sersi left. Proctor is now pushing this reality’s Sersi into madness to get his revenge for the other Sersi leaving him. This because the 616 reality is the template for all the others, so technically this Sersi was the template for the alternative Sersi. The Avengers fight Proctor, Pietro hesitates in saving his rival Dane but then he helps him, Sersi frees herself from Proctor, she takes Black Knight’s sword and she kills Proctor. Sersi knows she is still going towards her madness, but the Watcher (from another reality, he was also a prisoner of Proctor) reveals them that there is another way. AU!Watcher restores everything as it was before (the mansion is back!) and opens a rift where Sersi can go and be free of madness. Dane wants to go with her, to not leave her alone. Dane and Sersi step into the rift, disappearing from the world.
(Crystal is not ready to patch things up with Pietro.)
#380 - 382: Pietro and Crystal go to see Bova, who is diying. Pietro decides to look for the High Evolutionary to save Bova’s life. The High Evolutionary goes to Bova and finds out that she was poisoned as a mean to get him out in the open, to be attacked by Exodus. They defeat him, and Bova is saved. In the meanwhile, Black Knight appears in a mirror from the other dimension (but no one sees him). Cap seems to be losing his stamina and Nat worries, Taylor and Hercules are still broken up, and Taylor meets her new roommate: Augustine Jones. Augustine (who is actually Hera) answers to the phone and lies to Hercules, telling him that Taylor can’t wait to meet him that night. Hera changes into Taylor and goes on a date with Herc.
(Pietro asks Crystal for another chance, but it seems like Crystal believes things are over between them. The Avengers find a mysterious sealed chamber underneath the Mansion but they can’t open it)
#384: Hera traps the Avengers (arriving at the mansion disguised as Augustine). When Hercules comes back, Hera reveals that she is going to kill Taylor in front of him, but suddenly Zeus appears to stop her. Zeus tells Hercules that Ares and Hera made a bet to find who would be able to hurt Hercules the most, so Zeus created Taylor to trap Hera, knowing she would use her. The spell which created Taylor is supposed to end with Hera’s confession. Hercules pleads his father but Taylor disappears between his arms. Hercules, angry, attacks Zeus who decides to take back his immortality.
(In a crossover with Captain America, the Avengers fight both the Red Skull and Modok’s A.I.M. After surviving this adventures, Gyrich is back at the mansion wanting to get Deathcry into custody because she is dangerous and an alien, and because she never told them of these aliens coming down to Earth to fight her. The Avengers ask Gyrich to leave, refusing to give him Deathcry.)
#390: Prelude to The Crossing. The Avengers are having a holiday at one of Tony Stark’s mansions, where now Swordman and Magdalene live while they adjust to their new lives. In the meantime, Janet meets with Hank again and she soon finds she will soon be pennyless.
(The whole story is ridiculously complex. The Avengers fight Mantis and Kang, Janet is wounded but ends up in a cocoon and is soon reborn with a different look. Tony Stark is suddenly a traitor because Immortus controlled him. Mindcontrolled, Tony kills Marilla, Rita (Yellowjacket) and causes Janet's misfotunes, but at the end he dies to save the Avengers from Kang (he dies in Cap’s arms). With Tony death, the new teenage Tony from another universe is Iron Man now. The Avengers have various adventures, Madame Masque is working with them. Wanda comes back)
#400: A man from the future arrives at the mansion and tells Jarvis that this is the day the Avengers die… the man is actually Loki in disguise. Various villains attack the city and the Avengers fight them, but Jarvis calls the Avengers back as Loki is at the mansion. The Avengers defeat Loki, and Nate Grey suddenly appears to warn them that Charles Xavier has lost control of his powers.
(The Avengers fight Onslaught, a creature created as a mix of Charles Xavier’s powers and Magneto’s anger. During the “Onslaught: Marvel Universe” the Avengers, the Fantastic Four and Bruce Banner sacrifice themselves to stop Onslaught. Franklin Richards - who has the powers to change reality - creates a secondary universe which is basically the event Heroes Reborn that has Avengers volume 2 and other various volume 2. Later, the Avengers and all 616 is restored from the pocket universe)
From here on, continue with Avengers voume 3.
PART 1: 001 - 221 is here
A quick recap from the past issues: the current Avengers are She-Hulk, Hawkeye, Captain America, Iron Man, Thor and Wasp who is the leader. Of the main past Avengers, Wanda and Vision are married and living happily ever after somewhere, Pietro is with Crystal and their daughter, Yellowjacket is in prison because of a misunderstanding, and in general he has been discharged from the Avengers because he hit Janet and he tried to attack the Avengers. Janet and Hank divorced. Scott Lang, now Ant-Man, is working for Tony Stark. Only Cap, Thor and Tigra know Tony is Iron Man.
#224** : Tony and Janet start dating (Jan doesn’t know he is Iron Man). Cap is mad at Tony because Janet is their friend’s Hank’s ex wife, and also because Jan doesn’t know Iron Man and Tony are the same person. Janet and Tony break up when Tony tells her the truth, as Jan doesn’t want to date one of the Avengers, someone who knew Hank.
(The Black Knight comes back to life)
#227**: This is a sequel of Amazing Spiderman Annual #16, but still understandable as the only thing to know is that the Avengers met Monica Rabeau (Captain Marvel) and in this issue she joins the Avengers. Hawkeye is doubtful about Janet’s lead, Cap and Tony have a moment where Tony admits Cap was right about his involvement with Janet. A psychiatrist meet Hank, recap of Hank’s backstory and the story of his first marriage and what happened when he was arrested.
#228**: Cap and Monica train, Hank has the trial. Steve is worried about Tony and the fact that they haven’t talked in a bit and find out that Tony had been awake for about 40 hours, working on a machine that will prove once for all if Hank was telling the truth about being manipulated. Steve is not happy. Wanda and Vision have a couple of panels as well! The Masters of Evil ‘rescue’ Henry Pym against his on wishes, making him a criminal.
#229 - 230*: Jennifer can’t turn back into She-Hulk until Clint makes her mad, Steve is very concerned because Tony (and Iron Man) disappeared. Scott Lang brings to the Avengers the project Tony was working with: a way to see if Hank’s actions have been caused by mindcontrol (they hadn’t). Hank joins the Masters of Evil so that he can defeat them from inside. He is later proven innocent and freed. Hank leaves his Yellowjacket uniform with the Avengers, leaving the Avengers and the mansion.
#231*: Jocasta is dead and there’s a funeral, Iron Man calls the Avengers to tell them that he is leaving. Cap immediately takes the phone, telling Iron Man that if there is something wrong they can help and that he doesn’t have to leave the Avengers. Of course, the man in the armor is Rhodey as Tony is having a lot of troubles at the moment. Eros (Starfox) decides to join the Avengers.
#232*: Eros joins the Avengers and gets the name Starfox because the President of USA thinks Eros is too provocative - at this point the Avengers still need the government approval for new members. Cap and Janet start looking for Tony and they find him half drunk in one of his apartments.
#233 - 234*: The Avengers deal with a mysterious force field around the Baxter Building. Steve worries about Tony. Thor, the Vision and Wanda are back to help but Vision is wounded. Starfox and She-Hulk flirt and end up in bed together. Cap tells Thor about Tony and asks for his help, as Thor has known Tony longer. Thor is doubtful, believing that no one can help Tony if not even Steve had managed to (the famous issue Iron Man #172 happens here!). Janet and Monica help Wanda feel better, Wanda and Monica bond over the French language. This issue has a recap of Wanda’s story with the part where she finds out that Magneto is her father.
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#235*: Steve is grumpy with everyone, literally tormented about what happened to Tony, about how Tony lost himself in alcohol. Spiderman makes an appearance.
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(Spiderman joins the Avengers… at least until the government says no, because Spiderman is too much of a risk. Vision can finally speak with the other Avengers, through holograms, even if is body is still repairing. We find out that Hawkeye got married with Mockingbird. Captain America is away from the Avengers for some time. Later, the Avengers help Spider-Woman against Morgan le Fay, helped by Hank Pym and Stephen Strange)
#242-243: A surprise party in Avengers tower! Vision is back in his physical form and he tells the Avengers that something evil is coming. Thor and Cap are back. Some of the Avengers mysteriously disappear, thanks to the evil energy Vision was feeling… which basically is Secret Wars. Vision takes the lead while Cap, Jan, Thor and Hawkeye are away in Secret Wars. When the Avengers come back, Janet steps down from the role of chairwoman and Vision is nominated as chairman of the Avengers. She-Hulk leaves the Avengers to go to the Fantastic Four, but both her and Thor are declared ‘detached membership’ status Avengers. Plus, Vision decides that it’s time to start a new team on the West Coast. Mr Raymond Sikorski replaces Mr Gyrich as the government’s connection with the Avengers. Hawkeye is named leader of the West Coast Avengers.
Vision, Captain America, Captain Marvel, Starfox, Wanda and the Wasp are, instead, the remaining Avengers.
(The Avengers have various adventures)
#246 - 248: Monica tells her parents that she is Captain Marvel, Janet and Starfox have some fun to fight boredom and crash a party, Wanda and Vision meet with the president and Vision pretends to be more human than he is. Jan and Starfox end up with the Eternals… and Starfox finds out he is an Eternal as well. Pietro has a moment where he declares that he will never forgive Magneto, as the man attacked and wounded Bova. Vision is being weird.
(Hercules calls the Avengers to fight Surtur. Hercules is back with the Avengers, then they team up with the West Coast Avengers to save the Earth. Janet takes a holiday from the Avengers and has a nice fling, Vision has a nightmare full of self-hatred, where is a real human being hating on his robot self, as he has this encphalatron command chair - with a programm called ISAAC - that would bring peace to humanity controlling all the computers, in exchange for the Vision’s life itself.)
#252 - 254: Ultimate Vision arc. Vision offers Avengers membership to Leonard Samson but he refuses. Vision and Wanda’s house is burnt to the ground but mutants haters and Vision decides to use the chair and sends the Avengers to some mission, saying goodbye to Wanda, because he knows that taking control of all computers will end up in his sacrifice. Dane Withman (Black Knight) comes back and Vision has to incapacitate him, before starting using the chair and takes control of the networks in the world. When the Avengers come back they join Black Knight and Wonder Man and convinces Vision that he can’t do it. But what happened put the Avengers at odds with the government.
(After what happened and after clearing things with the government, Vision and Wanda decide to leave. Jan comes back to the team, Monica has adventures on space, Janet confronts Starfox about his power which basically makes people 'feel good’ and it’s too close to mental manipulation to her. Janet is again the chairwoman of the Avengers, the government restricts the Avengers’ privileges, Monica and the Avengers end up saving Skrulls and helping them against a common enemy: Nebula. The Avengers meet the Beyonder and Starfox leaves)
#262: The Avengers need a new quinjets base as the government doesn’t want to let them fly around the city like before. They accept the offer of Diane Newells and her husband, to use their hydrobase as a quinjets base. Hercules and Namor have a bonding moment, Cap asks Namor to become an Avenger (now that he had to abdicate his throne) and he accepts.
#264: The Black Knight helps Janet finds more about her own powers. Mr Fantastic is visiting with his family, Monica feels uncomfortable about sharing her true identity because she doesn’t trust Namor enough. Janet arrests a woman dressed as Yellowjacket, who was trying to rob her: it’s Rita Demara.
(Secret Wars II, where the Avengers battle the Beyonder, happens here)
#267 - 269: The Avengers face bad press because Namor is on the team. Monica tells Steve her real name. Black Knight, Jan and Hercules are making an underground passage to make it easier reaching Hydrobase, where their quinjets are… but they vanish. Kang kidnapped them to make the fight one of the other timelines Kang, so that that this Kang can remain as the only Kang. Kang manages to trap all the Avengers and the Double!Kang. Immortus appears to reveal that he, himself, is a divergent Kang, and saves the situation.
(Moonstone is railing the people against the Avengers because of Namor. The Avengers arrest her, but Titania and the Absorbing Man get her out of the police van and she ends up with Zemo and the Masters of Evil. Namor leaves the Avengers to go save his country and his people. Rita Demara - now Yellowjacket - escapes from prison and joins the Masters of Evil. The Avengers help Namor save Atlantis. The Masters of Evil attack the Mansion)
#274 - 277: Zemo and the Masters of Evil take over the Avengers mansion, trapping the Avengers inside it, but the Wasp and Hercules, who is injured and taken to a hospital. Yellowjacket (Rita) is uncomfortable with the cruelty of the Masters of Evil. Monica is trapped into darkness, not able to get out. Scott Lang (Ant-Man) meets Janet at the hospital, when the Absorbing Man and Titania attack them. After defeating them, Janet calls Thor for help, and Monica gets to them, escaping the dimension of darkness. The Avengers storm in the mansion, Black Knight manages to reach for his sword, Jarvis is severly wounded. Yellowjacket surrenders and the Avengers defeats Zemo and the villain slips from the roof, ending up apparently dead. Unfortunately, the mansion is destroyed and Cap is devasted.
#278: The Avengers are rebuilding the mansion. Janet, who really needs a holiday, visits the Avengers at the hospital. Black Knight is on hydrobase to train with Doctor Druid. She-Hulk is back with the Avengers and Janet invites Doctor Druid to complete the team, because she wants to leave the Avengers and her role as chairwoman.
#279: Cap names Monica as leader of the Avengers and the Avengers vote her, but she is not ready. Later, she goes to meet her parents, asking them advice. She-Hulk, Dane and Druid have a day on the beach and Doctor Druid starts thinking that he would want to be leader. Monica’s story recap, before she decides to accepts the job and she becomes leader of the Avengers. Hercules starts waking from the coma but a mysterious figure kidnaps him.
#280: Tony visits Jarvis at the hospital and he reminds Jarvis that he has funds to take care of him and doesn’t need to work anymore. Jarvis thinks of his story with Tony and the Avengers, meeting them and becoming their friends. (At this point Jarvis lets us known that Wanda had two twins, in West Coast Avengers). At the end, Jarvis decides to stay as butler of the Avengers.
(The Avengers finds out that Hermes was the one to kidnap Hercules. Ares and other Greek gods, fight the Avengers and get them to Olympus. Namor comes back to help them. Janet is kidnapped to Olympus as well, Hercules wakes up and saves the Avengers but is gravely wounded again. The Avengers go back to Earth, Namor returns to Atlantis, Cap takes a leave of absence. The Avengers fight the Adaptoid. Marrina, Namor’s wife, starts living with the Avengers. Marrina turns into a monster called The Leviathan, Doctor Druid keeps wanting to be leader and is being haunted by mysterious a blond woman. The Avengers kill Leviathan, an so Marrina, but she gives birth to three children and Namor leaves the Avengers to go find the children.)
#293 - 297: The mysterious blond woman in Druid’s dreams is Nebula, trying to get control of the Avengers to get a powerful weapon. Monica is so gravely ill that she can’t lead the Avengers anymore. Doctor Druid, helped by Nebula, mentally controls the Avengers to elect him as leader. The Avengers snap out of it, Nebula is lost in some tme bubble and Druid falls after her, trying to save her. The Avengers (the three remaning ones: Black Knight, Thor and She-Hulk) are disbanded, mostly because of how guilt they felt after the mental manipulation.
#298: Jarvis is the only Avenger left. He tries his best to help people in the city and savs a woman named Glory Garsen (they latergo on a date as well). When confronted with a killer robot, luckily, Steve jumps in and helps Jarvi. At this point Steve is using the codename ‘Captain’ and his black uniform.
(The Inferno crossover event happens here, which means that there are demons in New York. Steve fights the demons and helps Susan Storm and Reed Richards save their son Franklin. Gilgamesh is sent to Earth to fight monsters. Susan, Richard, Steve, Gilgamesh and Thor decide to reform the Avengers)
#301 - 303: The Super-Nova saga. The Avengers receive ufficial permission to moor their base (hydrobase) in the New York’s port, renaming the base Avengers Island. Cap returns to his old costume (also: he is leader of the Avengers now). Starfox ends up at the base,warning the Avengers of the presence of a new villain named Super-Nova, last survivor of Xandar. Firelord has been taken by this Super-Nova and the Avengers go into space to save him. The Avengers free Firelord, Super-Nova wants revenge (Nebula destroyed his planet and he thinks she is still on Earth) and attacks Earth. Peggy Carter tells the West Coast Avengers that the Avengers are in space, so Hawkeye leads his team to confront Super-Nova. Quasar and the Fantastic Four also arrive on the scene. Mr Fantastic manages to convince Super-Nova that Nebula is in another timestream and gives him a time machine to follow her. Cap is gloomy because Mr Fantastic did not share the plan with him.
#305: Cap calls all the past Avengers (even if Iron Man doesn’t seem to be there) to Avengers Island. Mr Fantastic and Invisible Woman, now back to the FF, are there as well. Cap suggests the idea that once an Avenger always an Avenger, and to return to only one team of Avengers instead of multiple ones. While everyone accepts to be called if needed and to be considered an Avenger, the ones that remain on Avengers Island are Black Panther, Cap, She-Hulk, Thor, Gilgamesh and Quasar.
(The Avengers, Namor as well, defeat the Lava men and Gilgamesh is wounded. The Avengers have an adventure with the Eternals. Quasar, helped by Peggy Carter and the rest of the Hydrobase staff, tries to stop robots from attacking Avengers Island… but the base is destroyed)
#312: Sam Wilson, Hank Pym, Janet, Wanda and Vision are monitoring possible dangers in their base: the basement of Avengers park. Some members of a group of villains called Freedom Force attacks the Avengers. Nebula is back on Earth.
#313: After the recent attacks, the population is not happy to have the Avengers back in New York. We also find out that Hawkeye has a new Avengers team: Great Lake Avengers. While Mandarin attacks the city and fight the Avengers (Natasha, Wonder Man and Hellcat are there to help as well). Agatha Harkness visits Wanda who seems quite shocked, in a catatonic state, because of what happened to her (in West Coast Avengers, presumably, Vision was kidnapped and reprogrammed and Wanda’s children were found to be just fragments of her imaginations).
#314 - 318*: Cap is working to rebuild the Mansions. Iron Man is back… but apparently no one knows he is the original Iron Man (and Tony Stark is apparently dead, as he faked his own death) and they think someone else is piloting Iron Man. Steve is suspicious about Iron Man, especially because it looks like he acts as if he has been with the Avengers for a while. Cap asks Sersi to join the Avengers. Spiderman joins as well. Starfox asks the Avengers’ help against Nebula and they manage to capture her. But a powerful being named The Stranger arrives to get her as she stole from him the infinity union, a powerful device that is able to destroy the entire world. Cap and Iron Man agree that they need to find that device first and destroy it themselves. But Nebula manages to get the power before them and becomes an angry god-like entity. Nebula chases the Avengers on the ship, playing with them, and Cap has to abandon some of his team to save the rest (Iron Man gets abandoned after he is squeezed by mechanical tentacles). The Stranger temporally stops Nebula and Sersi disables the implant that lets Nebula control the power, the Stranger decides to destroy the infinity union, Nebula is captured but her servant manages to escape with her, Starfox is hurt, Iron Man recovers. Back on Earth, Cap tells Spiderman that maybe being an Avenger is not the right path for him, Spiderman, relieved, leaves.
(The Avengers have different adventures, Mother Night, a villain hypnothist, manipulates and brainwashes the Avengers Crew - a group of people working at Avengers mansion among which there are Jarvis and Peggy Carter - and manages to install surveillance at the Avengers HQ)
#325: Mother Night and her villain companions follow the Avengers’ movements and find out that they are all at Sersi’s party. The Avengers defeat Mother Night.
#326 - 328*: The Avengers keep rebuilding the mansion. She-Hulk doesn’t seem convinced by the idea that Iron Man is not the original Iron Man. Rage arrives at the Avengers to become one of them, but Sersi thinks he is a danger so she ends up nearly attacking him and Rage decides to leave. Cap and Iron Man fight side by side. Rage’s backstory.
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#329: The UN offers the Avengers the position of special peace keeping force to call in case of danger. Cap and the Avengers accept. Th Avengers have a new line up: Cap, Thor, Vision, Sersi, Quasar, Black Widow, Sher-Hulk. They also vote the reserve substitutes in case some main Avenger can’t make it: Spider-Man, Black night, Captain Marvel (Monica), Hercules, Falcon, Rage, Sandman.
#332 : The Avengers hold a party for their new finished headquarters (rebuild Mansion) and Doctor Doom manages to sneak in. Nat and She-Hulk definitely knows that Tony Stark is still Iron Man. Iron Man arrives at the party… but it’s just Doom in disguise
#334 - 339**: Pietro is taken prisoner by Thane Ector, a villain who escaped from the Collector. The Avengers help Pietro. Thane Ector and Sybil Dorne, both escaped from the Collector, are attacking Earth. Sersi is taken hostage, Steve is wounded, Iron Man asks about his health. The Collector tells to Black Panther, Beast and Quasar the story of Thane and how he conquers worlds. Crystal asks to join the Avengers. Sybil can’t stand Sersi anymore, but Thane defends her and he seems to care for Sersi. Thane reveals to Sersi that his species (the Brethren) infects new world, because they are the desease of the universe, created by the Celestials. Of course, at the end, it was the Collector’s plan and Thane Ector was just a puppet in it. The Collector kills Sybil, Sersi wants to save Thane and she asks him to fight against the Collector with them. Thane dies defeating the Collector. Cap tries to comfort Sersi, telling her that at the end the Brethren became the heroes they never were.
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#340*: The Avengers open a medical facility for the city. Cap teases Tony a bit. A mysterious woman wants to ask their help and is hit by a car. Before passing out, she asks Cap to help the children. Jarvis and Wasp find out that the woman is married to Itzhak Berditchev, a weapon manufacturer who is now raising their five children. The children are basically raised as little soldiers in a nuclear facility. Janet, Jarvis and Steve go to save them.
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(Rage doesn’t agree with the fact that the Avengers are not solving the probems of the city with the police, but are more focused on other issues. Sam and Steve go to meet Rage’s grandmother and ask her advice. The Avengers fight the Sons of the Serpent, helped by the New Warriors. Rage decides to focus his work on the more down to Earth problems.)
#343: Crystal arrives at the mansion with her daughter Luna and her nanny Marilla, Thor is away so a Thor replacement is with the Avengers, Vision has some trouble with his emotional memory even if technically no emotion should be connected with his old memories of his lost children, and later on Crystal talks to Vision about her - now ended - marriage with Pietro. Cap is worried about the team: Rage has left, Sandman has left, Sersi has not been around for some time. Black Widow is leader of the Avengers. The Swordman is back.
(Swordman attacks the Avengers, particularly angry with Vision still because of that old attraction Mantis had for Vision, back when Swordman died during the Celestial Madonna saga. Marilla (Luna’s nanny) and Jarvis don’t really get along. Sersi comes back but there seems to be something tormenting her. Magdalene and Swordman attack the Avengers and it appears they both work for Proctor. A war between the Kree and the Shi'ar is about to start. The Avengers have to fight both the Kree and the Shi'ar. They fight the Intelligence Supreme as well)
#347*: When the Avengers need to decide what to do with the Supreme Intelligence, Steve is against killing it, Black Knight instead wants to destroy it as it is only a machine and Iron Man agrees. Sersi, Wonder Man, Vision, Thor and Hercules agree with Tony, while Wanda, Clint, Quasar, Monica, Crystal and Eros agree with Cap. After the Supreme Intelligence is destroyed, Cap and Iron Man have a moment. At the end, the Supreme Intelligence actually survive, but the Avengers don’t know it. After what happened, after the Avengers killed, Cap believes things will never be the same.
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(Cap takes a leave of absence, after what happened with the Supreme Intelligence. Hera wants revenge against Hercules and attacks him. Black Knight seems to have feelings for Crystal even if she wants to repair things with Pietro. Sersi kisses Dane, to make him forget about Crystal. The Avengers fight the Grim Reaper. Natasha plays matchmaker and throws Hercules into a date with a woman named Taylor. Magdalene, Swordman and Proctor come back against the Avengers. The enemies escape but the Avengers capture the Swordman.)
#357: The Avengers find out that the Swordman’s memories seem to be different. They find out this Swordman comes from another universe (Earth-921). Hercules has his date with Taylor (and Hera watches them, apparently happy of this development) at Nat’s elegant dinner, Dane and Crystal are about to dance, when Sersi arrives and kisses Dane (gosh, this love triangle). Natasha proposes a toast to celebrate the Avengers, but they are interruped by the Watched who is there to warn them about imminent danger.
(The Avengers have an adventure which ends up in Sersi killing one of their enemies. The Avengers are, of course, shocked.)
#360: Proctor summons Vision from another universe (Anti-Vision) to join his group called the Gatherers. He sends Anti-Vision to kill the Swordman. Sersi and Dane talk, Sersi reveals that she killed because she felt this terrible force inside her, and as it happens again she attacks the Avengers. Anti-Vision attacks Sersi, and of course no one knows he is not the real Vision. Natasha, worried about the Watcher, asks Steve to come back and he accepts.
#361: The Eternals want to take Sersi back. At this point we find out what is happening to Sersi: The Celestials, who created the Eternals, gave to the first of them the ability to manifest a group consciousness, called a uni-mind, to ease the human minds of the Eternals and not let them go mad in their too much power. This is what’s happening to Sersi and tradition wants that the one who goes mad is killed. The Avengers protect Sersi, the Eternals leave but decide to permanently bond Sersi and Dane as soulbonds so that he can keep an eye on her. Dane is not happy about it. Proctor reveals that he is the soulbound of another universe Sersi and he is the only one who knows what Sersi is about to become. Dane kisses Crystal, he is in love with her, but Sersi sees them.
#363: Anti-Vision apparently kills the AU!Swordman. When he also attacks Crystal, they understand that Anti-Vision is not the real Vision. Hank Pym and Bill Foster manage to save Swordman. With Anti-Vision prisoner, the Avengers decide to take the fight to Proctor. Proctor tells them that soon Sersi’s madness will spread to Dane and she will end up destroying the world. After warning them, Proctor escapes. Magdalene,one of the Gatherers who had feelings for Swordman, finds out Swordman has been killed, so she decides to help the Avengers. In the meanwhile, Sersi kills two policemen who were investigating her following a trail of murders.
(Vision has been saved. Sersi has trouble holding on and not falling into a murdering rage. The Avengers fight the Kree, Dane and Crystal are kidnapped. Hank Pym helpes the Avengers as Giant Man. Deathcry joins the Avengers to help in case the Kree want revenge)
#367: This issue is just about Vision looking at people having feelngs and wondering what it is like. Vision is envious of the friendship between Natasha and Steve, and the emotions between Crystal and Dane. Taylor breaks up with Hercules, Magdalene is waiting by the Swordman’s bed, in the medical room, when Swordman wakes up. Deathcry and Vision kiss, but Vision can’t really reciprocate so Deathcry leaves, accusing him of just being afraid to feel. Vision feels anger.
(X-Men crossover. Avengers and X-Men work to save Luna who has been kidnapped. Pietro and Wanda make an appearance as well)
#372 - 375 : Steve asks Pietro back to the Avengers and everything is awkward because Crystal and Dane have a thing. Nat is amused by how clumsy Steve is. Sersi wishes to be with Dane and Dane can’t stop himself, and has to go to her, angry that the bond between them is forcing him to do this. The police tries to arrest Sersi for the murder of the two policemen. Sersi destroys the mansion to escape from the police. Dane thinks she is innocent so he follows her. The Avengers get to Sersi, but she attacks them, helped by Dane. When she hits Crystal, Dane turns against Sersi. Proctor appears and takes Sersi. The Eternals and Thunderstrike are back and they explain that Sersi’s madness is very sudden, as if someone had pushed her into it. Proctor’s backstory: Proctor was Dane from another universe, leader of the Avengers, he fell in love with Sersi, they got married but then their love ended and Sersi left. Proctor is now pushing this reality’s Sersi into madness to get his revenge for the other Sersi leaving him. This because the 616 reality is the template for all the others, so technically this Sersi was the template for the alternative Sersi. The Avengers fight Proctor, Pietro hesitates in saving his rival Dane but then he helps him, Sersi frees herself from Proctor, she takes Black Knight’s sword and she kills Proctor. Sersi knows she is still going towards her madness, but the Watcher (from another reality, he was also a prisoner of Proctor) reveals them that there is another way. AU!Watcher restores everything as it was before (the mansion is back!) and opens a rift where Sersi can go and be free of madness. Dane wants to go with her, to not leave her alone. Dane and Sersi step into the rift, disappearing from the world.
(Crystal is not ready to patch things up with Pietro.)
#380 - 382: Pietro and Crystal go to see Bova, who is diying. Pietro decides to look for the High Evolutionary to save Bova’s life. The High Evolutionary goes to Bova and finds out that she was poisoned as a mean to get him out in the open, to be attacked by Exodus. They defeat him, and Bova is saved. In the meanwhile, Black Knight appears in a mirror from the other dimension (but no one sees him). Cap seems to be losing his stamina and Nat worries, Taylor and Hercules are still broken up, and Taylor meets her new roommate: Augustine Jones. Augustine (who is actually Hera) answers to the phone and lies to Hercules, telling him that Taylor can’t wait to meet him that night. Hera changes into Taylor and goes on a date with Herc.
(Pietro asks Crystal for another chance, but it seems like Crystal believes things are over between them. The Avengers find a mysterious sealed chamber underneath the Mansion but they can’t open it)
#384: Hera traps the Avengers (arriving at the mansion disguised as Augustine). When Hercules comes back, Hera reveals that she is going to kill Taylor in front of him, but suddenly Zeus appears to stop her. Zeus tells Hercules that Ares and Hera made a bet to find who would be able to hurt Hercules the most, so Zeus created Taylor to trap Hera, knowing she would use her. The spell which created Taylor is supposed to end with Hera’s confession. Hercules pleads his father but Taylor disappears between his arms. Hercules, angry, attacks Zeus who decides to take back his immortality.
(In a crossover with Captain America, the Avengers fight both the Red Skull and Modok’s A.I.M. After surviving this adventures, Gyrich is back at the mansion wanting to get Deathcry into custody because she is dangerous and an alien, and because she never told them of these aliens coming down to Earth to fight her. The Avengers ask Gyrich to leave, refusing to give him Deathcry.)
#390: Prelude to The Crossing. The Avengers are having a holiday at one of Tony Stark’s mansions, where now Swordman and Magdalene live while they adjust to their new lives. In the meantime, Janet meets with Hank again and she soon finds she will soon be pennyless.
(The whole story is ridiculously complex. The Avengers fight Mantis and Kang, Janet is wounded but ends up in a cocoon and is soon reborn with a different look. Tony Stark is suddenly a traitor because Immortus controlled him. Mindcontrolled, Tony kills Marilla, Rita (Yellowjacket) and causes Janet's misfotunes, but at the end he dies to save the Avengers from Kang (he dies in Cap’s arms). With Tony death, the new teenage Tony from another universe is Iron Man now. The Avengers have various adventures, Madame Masque is working with them. Wanda comes back)
#400: A man from the future arrives at the mansion and tells Jarvis that this is the day the Avengers die… the man is actually Loki in disguise. Various villains attack the city and the Avengers fight them, but Jarvis calls the Avengers back as Loki is at the mansion. The Avengers defeat Loki, and Nate Grey suddenly appears to warn them that Charles Xavier has lost control of his powers.
(The Avengers fight Onslaught, a creature created as a mix of Charles Xavier’s powers and Magneto’s anger. During the “Onslaught: Marvel Universe” the Avengers, the Fantastic Four and Bruce Banner sacrifice themselves to stop Onslaught. Franklin Richards - who has the powers to change reality - creates a secondary universe which is basically the event Heroes Reborn that has Avengers volume 2 and other various volume 2. Later, the Avengers and all 616 is restored from the pocket universe)
From here on, continue with Avengers voume 3.