Originally posted by ScarletSpider
I didn't mean to deconstruct your entire team, I just don't think the characters would fit and mesh well, nor would they have wholly appropriate motivations to be on the team.I like a lot of the weirder, quintessential but not popular Avengers; Wonder Man, Photon, Warbird, Beast, Black Knight, Vision--hey...that'd be a good team!
But were I to go by this formula:
Power House : Red Norvell--the forgotton Thor Clone
Secondary Power House : Gilgamesh
Robot Cyborg guy : Machine Man
Strong guy : Wonder Man, adding a bit of science to counterbalance the mystic Gilgamesh
Energy Wielder : Songbird
Phsycic : Jean Grey
Can do stuff with their bodies guy : Flex from Alpha Flight
Mechanical gennius : Iron man
Leader : Hawkeye
Badass : Moon Knight--he doesn't fit at all, but he's there as a favor to his friend Hawkeye, and he's trying to use the Avengers as a fulcrum to rebuild his life.
Other guys : Wolverine
Hot chicks : Darkstar, Warbird.Wolverine?! I know, I know, but I would have it so that he and a tritely resurrected Jean Grey leave the X-Men and join the Avengers, no more hyperbolic Claremont tripe.
I think some of you have great teams, they just aren't symbolic of the appellation Avengers. I love the character Abomination, Emil Blonskey's one mean mofo, but he doesn't belong on the Avengers, he's as bad as they come. Is he a high class villian ala Ultron, Red Skull, Mandarin, etc.? No. He's smart, but he's a thug underneath that. He does evil things just because he can. He could never reform, and Cap would never let him on the team.
But then again, I'm not saying my team is any more of an Avengers team than yours, certainly not in some cases. Ah well, it's all open to discussion, that's what's so great about it.
Indeed .... good team 😄 What about venom, could he reform, I don't really know much about him. 🙂