Musings of a Hard Light Hologram

brevoortformspring:

Here’s the thing Cap’n Anonymous, the Avengers are about….whatever the creative team at the time from editor to writer deems they are about. The original Avengers are different to Cap’s Kooky Quartet in style and mission statement. Busiek’s Avengers is completely different to Bendis’ Avengers, which were different to Slott’s Mighty Avengers that was done around the same time, And Hickman’s Avengers is different to that.

What the Avengers are is Marvel’s premiere team. And that’s the form of it. The content you put into that form is destined to be different depending on who you put on it due to the very nature of what the Avengers are. They aren’t a concept like say, the Fantastic Four or X-Men where’s it’s more than being a super-team from the ground up.

The same can be said for the Justice League to other DC groups like the Teen Titans or Outsiders. 

Both the Avengers and JL are unique in the sense that what they’re “all about” is something that’s constantly in flux. They aren’t any one thing save for being THE team of heroes in the Marvel U, the cream of the crop united from all the corners, from cosmic to street level.

You don’t have to like what any given group of Avengers is about at a given time. Not at all. But don’t confuse your personal taste with what a group that’s that much in flux is all about.