SuGarRush
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First off: This may seem a bit long, but its for help with a school project. Skip the first couple of paragraphs if you want to...
At my high school, we do a Senior Project for our English 4 class and that time has come for me. I'm a huge Marvel fan so when it came time to decide what to do, I looked at the guidelines and tried to figure out how to relate comics to the project. The guidelines turned out to be very loose, so I decided that it would be incredibly easy to do something relating to comics.
For my project, I'm doing a kind-of scrapbook of important characters in the Avangers and what makes them relatable to people and why they are so popular (This can relate to our "Meaning of life" unit. And I already wrote my Macbeth paper over Tragic Heroes and how Tony Stark is the Modern-Day Macbeth...)
For one of the requirements, we have to 'move into the community' AKA talk to people, so I need some help.
I have composed a list of Avengers I'm thinking of using (although suggestions of ones I've missed would be welcome) and I would like your feedback.
If you could tell me who your favorite is, why you relate to them, why they are important, and/or why you think they make a good hero, it would be very helpful for my project.
The quotes I collect will be put into the scrapbook along with your screenname on the character's page. You can tell me your thoughts on as many as you like, and suggest others that you think are important that I've missed ('Cause I know I have).
Thank You!!
Here's my list:
Steve Rogers (Captain America)
Bucky Barnes (Captain America)
Luke Cage
Bruce Banner (Hulk)
Tony Stark (Iron Man)
Bobbi Morse (Mockingbird)
Carol Danvers (Ms. Marvel, Warbird, Binary)
Clint Barton (Hawkeye, Ronin)
Wanda Maximoff (Scarlet Witch)
Jessica Drew (Spider-Woman)
Peter Parker (Spider-Man)
The Vision
Henry Pym (Yellowjacket, Ant-Man, Giant-Man, Goliath, Wasp)
James "Logan" Howlett (Wolverine)
Hank McCoy (The Beast)
Natasha Romanova (Black Widow)
Stephen Strange (Doctor Strange)
Maya Lopez (Echo, Ronin)
Sam Wilson (Falcon)
Danny Reed (Iron Fist)
Pietro Maximoff (Quicksilver)
Jennifer Walters (She-Hulk)
Namor McKenzie (Sub-Mariner)
Thor Odinson (Thor)
Greer Nelson (Tigra)
James Rhodes (War Machine)
Janet Van Dyne (Wasp)
Simon Williams (Wonder Man)
Reed Richards (Mr. Fantastic)
Nick Fury (Not really an Avenger, per se, but important to the history)
Hey there. In highschool, I won the advanced physics award for my school with a project on the application and reality of superheroes through physics. (This was before that program on the History channel and the super-hero craze)
So I would like to say congratulations on getting approved for doing this. Now just make sure you don't make comics look stupid in front of your whole class.

On your list, you have Iron Fist listed as Danny Reed, but I believe his name is Danny Rand.
Although I stopped reading Marvel a few years ago, I still have a bunch of older Avengers stuff to draw on, so (other than DP, I just can't handle their characters subjective morality and lack of good vs. bad guys)
Here's the Two Avengers I relate most to:
Captain America (the real one): Steve is a man trapped in a hedonistic and markedly different world then the one he fought and "died" for 60 years ago. He is a man who loves his country, but often has trouble seeing how it still exists. He has morals and values that are solid and centered, which put him outside in today's society of "anything goes, nothing is wrong." Speaking as someone with almost the same set of values, I know how he feels.
Quicksilver: A man who lives faster than everyone else. While our personalities are nowhere near similar, we do have one thing in common. I am ADHD, and I often have to take medication for it. One effect of the disorder is my inability to focus on any one thing to completion. Oftentimes I'll find myself having a conversation with one person, while texting someone else, all while running multiple chat conversations on the classroom server. Staying focused on any one person can bore me quickly, and I am often times quickly annoyed by people who can't keep up with my scattered and almost random chain of thought.
Good luck to you, I'd love for you to post your final project!