The Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Young Avengers Unite in Star-Studded Fan Art
A new fan poster teams up the MCU‘s young breakout heroes as Young Avengers. The conclusion of the Infinity Saga not only ended a massive narrative arc that had been built out over 10 years but also killed off some beloved heroes. And the surviving heroes are older and no longer have the drive and motivation they once had. This theme was explored extensively by Nick Fury in Secret Invasion. As many of the original Avengers die and reach the end of their story arcs, more holes appear for the young and exciting heroes the MCU built in Phases 4 and 5. A fan poster recently shared by user @iman.vellani on Instagram shows the young heroes banding together to form his MCU Young Avengers team. The Young Avengers in Marvel Comics are a group of teenage heroes with ties to the original Avengers, founded by a younger version of the powerful Conqueror Kang named Nathaniel Richards. The poster features 10 young superheroes as part of the MCU Young Avengers team, including characters who are part of the comic book canon, such as Kate Bishop and Cassie Lang; Also included are characters who are not part of canon but are important to future MCU projects, including Riri Williams and Peter Parker. See the full poster below.
How The MCU Is Setting Up A Young Avengers Project
Many post-Infinity Saga MCU projects have featured new, younger heroes or spiritual successors to the popular Avengers, suggesting that a Young Avengers project is in the works. The first Phase 4 release, WandaVision, featured Wanda’s sons Billy and Tommy, who have powers similar to Wanda and her brother Pietro. In the comics, these boys become Wiccan and Speed, core members of the Young Avengers team. Billy and Tommy die along with Hex in WandaVision, but Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness proves that they actually exist in another world, adding to the MCU’s multiverse. There’s ample opportunity for them to reappear in a crossover.
Beyond Wiccan and Speed, significant figures likely to join a Young Avengers team are Hawkeye’s Kate Bishop, Clint Barton’s arrow-slinging protégé; Ms. Marvel’s Kamala Khan, a mutant obsessed with Captain Marvel who discovers her own latent superpowers; and multiverse hopper America Chavez, who trains to become a Sorcerer after Doctor Strange saves her in Multiverse of Madness. Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania sees Cassie Lang donning an Ant-Man suit like her father Scott, while other young heroes make smaller but notable appearances, including Kid Loki in Loki, T’Challa’s son in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, and Hulk’s son in She-Hulk: Attorney at Law. Cassie and Kid Loki are both connected to Kang the Conqueror, as Cassie helped defeat one of his variants in Quantumania, and Kid Loki was banished to the End of Time by the TVA, working for a Kang variant, in Loki. With America’s ability to traverse the multiverse, these three are most likely to form a Young Avengers team to help defeat Kang and recruit the other young heroes to fight with them. Avengers: The Kang Dynasty would be the perfect opportunity for the MCUto establish an official team with these heroes, as it would parallel the first time the original Avengers teamed up in The Avengers.