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The government assigned the team's redevelopment to Norman Osborn (the reputedly reformed super villain the Green Goblin). Whom the government had previously assigned to head the superhero team the Thunderbolts and had become a public hero for his role in repelling the Skrull threat. Osborn, also given leadership of the espionage agency S.H.I.E.L.D., reforms that agency into H.A.M.M.E.R. and creates a new Avengers team under its aegis.

The premiere issue introduces this new version, mixing former Thunderbolts with other characters. The initial line-up consists of the Sentry, Ares, Noh-Varr (now Captain Marvel), as well as disguised super villains Moonstone (portraying Ms. Marvel), Venom (portraying Spider-Man after Norman gives him a medication that resets the symbiote to the size it was when it possesed Spider-Man originally), and Bullseye (portraying Hawkeye). Wolverine's disgruntled son Daken is recruited to dress like his father while Norman Osborn himself becomes an Iron Man-like new persona called the Iron Patriot