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Avengers Academy (Earth-616)

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History

Avengers Reformatory[]

Following the Skrull Invasion, Norman Osborn took control over the legalized super-hero community, including the Superhuman Registration Act and the Initiative. Secretly, Osborn used his newly acquired resources in the Initiative to locate, torture and experiment on a group of young people with superpowers for his nefarious interests.[3] His reign was eventually overthrown, leading to the Registration Act being revoked and the Initiative being dismantled.[4][5] Having access to Osborn's files, the Avengers recruited the most volatile and dangerous of his former subjects. Most of them had undergone irreparable physical alterations. In order to subvert the corruption, the Avengers decided to train the teenagers to prevent them from becoming dangerous supervillains as Osborn had intended. As such, the Avengers Academy was inaugurated, in which veteran Avengers taught youngsters the essence of heroism.[3]

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First class

In the Infinite Avengers Mansion, the founding Avenger Hank Pym assumed the role of the director of the Academy. Other trainers included former Initiative members Tigra and Justice, as well as the dark and mysterious heroes in search for redemption Speedball and Quicksilver.[3] Among the students were the mystically empowered Reptil, the radioactively toxic Hazmat, the iridescently invulnerable Mettle, the electrifying and frivolous Striker, the humorlessly pragmatic Finesse, and the naïve and ethereal Veil.[3]

The tutors concealed the fact that they wished to prevent the students from going rogue, fearing that the students might have internalized such precaution if they found out. Finesse immediately identified the ruse and convinced Striker and Veil to hack into the Academy's systems to learn the truth. In disappointment, the first class of the Avengers Academy realized they were problematic youths.[3] In one of their field trips, the students were taken to the Raft, a maximum security for super-villains in which Osborn was kept captive. During the visit, Hazmat orchestrated a blackout to hunt Osborn alongside Mettle and Veil. Osborn manipulated them into believing he could restore their damaged health. Several inmates were able to escape their cells due to the intervention, but the Avengers were able to stop a riot. The students who were involved in the killing attempt against Osborn were reprimanded for their actions.[6] Meanwhile, due to his good performance, Reptil became the class leader of the Avengers Academy.[7]

The class was unwittingly exposed to the public when Whirlwind attacked Pym. Striker's mother secretly set up a scheme to photograph the incident and explore the potential of her son becoming a celebrity.[8]

Fear Itself[]

When the Serpent invaded Midgard, the students of Avengers Academy were deployed to the front lines in Washington, D.C. Later, they found themselves under attack by two of the Worthy. The Infinite Mansion became their battleground and was destroyed.[9]

In the aftermath, Veil left the student body while Justice and Speedball resigned their positions as teachers.[2]

Shattered Heroes[]

The Academy opened up the student body to a wider crowd.[2] The Academy reopened its doors at the Avengers West Coast former base Avengers Compound. When the school reopened, most of the original students felt they were going to be kicked out, which caused a fight to between the original class and Luke Cage, Captain America, and Hawkeye. The fight ended after Jocasta temporarily stunned everyone and explained what was really going on. The students took a break calm down. Meanwhile, Hawkeye decided to ask Dr. Pym if he could join as a staff member. The original students then met the two new regular students White Tiger and Lightspeed. The meeting was cut short after Quicksilver showed up and told everyone that someone has "murdered" Jocasta. Upon hearing everyone gathered around her destroyed body in shock. While everyone gathered Reptil sent a message to an alternate future where the future versions of the original Avengers Academy class resided. At this point it was revealed that Reptil's body was being possessed by his future self. After Giant Man called the X-Men in hopes of finding out who attacked Jocasta the future Reptil helped Hybrid infiltrate the student body, posing as a mutant boy.[10]

He helped him to make sure the events that creates his future happened. Hybrid fed on the Academy's superhuman minds, but the future Reptil had a change of heart and activated the alarm. Together students and faculty managed to banish Hybrid to another dimension. Jocasta was revealed to be alive. She appeared with Veil to shut down the Academy.[11]

Jocasta began removing her technology from the complex when Quicksilver attacked her. After a brief battle Briggs Chemicals LLC arrived. Giant Man told Jocasta that if she let Juston's Sentinel analyze her, he would let her retire her technology. While Pym searched for the Sentinel's head, Briggs offered the students a place in his company. While many rejected it, Machine Teen and Rocket Racer agreed.[12]

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New headquarters

Avengers Vs. X-Men[]

After the Avengers invaded Utopia and the X-Men escape, they left behind their students. Hercules tried to organize little Olympic games to calm down things between the kids, but it ultimately failed. Then, Sebastian Shaw, former X-Men villain whose memories had been erased, apparently regained his memories and escaped his cell to kill the X-Men's kids. While the faculty battled Shaw, a battle erupted between the numerous students. Shaw made his way to the students and revealed that he came to free them. The faculty let the X-Men go fight in a fake battle except for Loa, who decided to stay.[13]

Five Phoenix empowered X-Men began using their powers for good but slowly became corrupted. Emma Frost started destroying Sentinels and eventually she went to the Academy to destroy Juston's. She offered to spare it if he erased its programming, a request which he refused. After a short battle, Frost destroyed the Sentinel and seemingly obliterated its CPU too before leaving. However, Quicksilver swapped out the Sentinel's real CPU with a duplicate before Frost destroyed it, allowing Juston's Sentinel to be repaired.[14]

The next day Pym and Tigra told the students the school would be temporary closed until the war with the X-Men ended. After a conflict with the members and Briggs' organization, both Jocasta and Veil rejoined the academy. Briggs was killed by Finesse with unconscious X-23's claws. When the school reopened, many of the students graduated and Veil again left the school to return to normal life.[15]

Avengers Arena[]

The Avengers Academy was one of the many hubs for Arcade's abduction of heroes to fight in his "games." He kidnapped X-23, Hazmat, Reptil, Juston and his Sentinel, and Mettle. The casualties from the school were Mettle, Juston, and Reptil.[16][17][18] Following their liberation, Hazmat left to join with other survivors[19] and X-23 left to join the Past X-Men.[20]

Infinity and Inhumanity[]

The other students participated in a contest of champions with other super powered schools. It was interrupted by Thanos' invasion.

After the liberation of Terrigen Mists to the atmosphere by Black Bolt, Avengers Academy students were seen along Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters students cleaning debris. After Pixie heard about a newly manifested Inhuman, Fiona, who was going to commit suicide, she stopped her. Eventually, Fiona joined the Academy.[21]

Closure[]

According to Reptil, as of Knull's invasion of Earth, Avengers Academy had been closed down for years.[22]

Reopening[]

Wiccan and Hulkling went to visit Hulkling's father's grave on an asteroid orbiting Saturn's moon, Titan. They found a shard of the M'kraan Crystal building what seemed to be a school.[23] The heroes of earth recruited a new class and reopened the Avengers Academy, headed by Captain Marvel.[24] With the school existing in many places at once due to the M'Kraan-powered Parallax Configuration, students could regularly access New York, Emplate's Nowhere dimension, and the Savage Land.[25] On their first day, Avengers Academy's new student body vanquished Swarm after he attacked the campus.[26]

Rosters[]

  • Recruits:
    • Blackheart - A demon transformed into a human and sent to live among them as punishment for disobeying his father.

Paraphernalia

Transportation

Notes

  • Steve Rogers thought that Night Thrasher would be a perfect candidate for the Avengers Academy, but didn't expect him to agree on joining to be trained.[28]
  • Thing was approached to become a substitute teacher at the academy.[29]
  • Spider-Man convinced Pym to allow him to also be a sub,[29] but after a "practice session," Spidey and the students agreed the school didn't need to be complicated by his "Parker Luck."[30]

Trivia

See Also

Links and References

References

  1. ↑ Avengers Academy #39
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Avengers Academy #20
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Avengers Academy #1
  4. ↑ Siege #4
  5. ↑ Enter the Heroic Age #1
  6. ↑ Avengers Academy #3–4
  7. ↑ Avengers Academy #6
  8. ↑ Avengers Academy #5
  9. ↑ Avengers Academy #15–19
  10. ↑ Avengers Academy #23
  11. ↑ Avengers Academy #25
  12. ↑ Avengers Academy #26
  13. ↑ Avengers Academy #29–31
  14. ↑ Avengers Academy #32–33
  15. ↑ Avengers Academy #34–39
  16. ↑ Avengers Arena #1
  17. ↑ Avengers Arena #9
  18. ↑ Avengers Arena #18
  19. ↑ Avengers Undercover #1
  20. ↑ All-New X-Men #19–20
  21. ↑ Inhumanity #1–2
  22. ↑ King in Black: Spider-Man #1
  23. ↑ Avengers Academy: Marvel's Voices Infinity Comic #31
  24. ↑ Marvel's Voices Infinity Comic #95–100
  25. ↑ Avengers Academy: Marvel's Voices Infinity Comic #1
  26. ↑ Avengers Academy: Marvel's Voices Infinity Comic #2
  27. ↑ Marvel's Voices Infinity Comic #100
  28. ↑ Heroic Age: Heroes #1
  29. ↑ 29.0 29.1 Amazing Spider-Man #662
  30. ↑ Amazing Spider-Man #663
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