That 70's Avengers (Older Generation)

[M-2]

I was just thinking wouldn't it be cool if the Avengers initiative was originally a 1970's programme that was Launched by SHIELD but ultimately founded by Ant-Man aka Hank Pym and Janet Van Dayne.

Since Michael Douglas is playing Pym I just started to think more about the idea of certain characters actually being older then we know them to be and operated at an earlier time...

I would love to see Marvel just toy with the idea that the Avengers Initiative was actually a successful project back in the 70's or 60's or whatever, but ultimately failed and the Avengers Disassembled. Fury would then kickstart the programme once again decades later.

The Avengers of the 70's would be more in line with the Secret Avengers, like a super powered spy team during the Cold War. Highly classified with only a handful of people knowing about it. Peggy and Howard Stark incl.

Essentially you could bring in characters that be redundant or maybe who are just a little too bizarre, for instance, like Hellcat, Tigra, Hercules, Black Knight, Swordsman, Demolition Man, Doctor Druid, Jack of Hearts, etc...

With that being said, I'd like to see a team that would consist of,

Ant-Man and Wasp (founders of Avengers Initiative)
Namor (the first superpowered human discovered)
Valkyrie (the first Asgardian discovered)
Wonder-Man (a global sensation and superhero)
Tigra (first human/hybrid discovered)
US Agent (first successful super soldier since Captain America, questionable methods used)
Starfox (first alien life discovered, an Eternal)

SHIELD AGENTS
Mockingbird
Quatermain (because his badass and needs to be introduced)

The world wouldn't know they exist, except for Wonder-Man Ofcourse... They would work from a secluded base with Starks money funding them, and SHIELD providing all supplies. Janet would be the one to find most of the members as she would be intrigued with super humans...

Yeah so anyway what do you guys think? Should we have an older generation of Avengers??

 

[Randy Savage]

Oh dude that would definitely blow my skirt up. I'm down for that. Michael Douglas is such a bad-ass, it'd be awesome to think that he was an OG Avenger as it were.

Ever since Ant-Man was brought up, I've had this burning question. In The Ultimates, Pym was a wife beating scumbag. I wonder if that particular trait of his character will be included in the MCU.

 

[DrCosmic]

I think it shouldn't be so big as to rival the Avengers as they came to be. I'd actually keep it really small, and sort of make it the inspiration for the Avengers initiative.

Hank Pym
Valkyrie
US Agent

I think that would be really solid, and kinda cool, and low key.

 

[chamber-music]

Marvel don't have the rights for Namor.

A 70's Avengers isn't a bad idea but they can't be well known because they would of been mentioned by now in the various Marvel film/TV shows.

 

[M-2]

I think it shouldn't be so big as to rival the Avengers as they came to be. I'd actually keep it really small, and sort of make it the inspiration for the Avengers initiative.

Hank Pym
Valkyrie
US Agent

I think that would be really solid, and kinda cool, and low key.

Yeah I think you right... It would be cool if they just had one picture in Pym's office with him standing with his team or something...

 

[M-2]

Marvel don't have the rights for Namor.

A 70's Avengers isn't a bad idea but they can't be well known because they would of been mentioned by now in the various Marvel film/TV shows.

Yeah I get that, but I was thinking they would be more underground... Not really fighting aliens in the middle of New York type thing. They would basically be taking on Hydra and miscellaneous villains, who use the Cold War to their advantage. Maybe the team wouldn't be called Avengers right off the bat, and the world would never know there names...

But basically this team got along, and was a success when the world really needed them, which is why Fury hopes to do it again.

 

[Randy Savage]

I like the espionage vibe of this idea. James Bond + superpowers.

 

[KDM1986]

Marvel don't have the rights for Namor.

A 70's Avengers isn't a bad idea but they can't be well known because they would of been mentioned by now in the various Marvel film/TV shows.

Marvel better get Namor back. I need some Atlantis in my MCU.

 

[Randy Savage]

Namor is a bad-ass. I've seen him smash the <bleep> out of many tough superheroes for besmirching his kingdom.

 

[Quasimod0]

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[Morg]

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