Origin The Champions were formed following the departure of
Ms. Marvel (Kamala Khan),
Spider-Man (Miles Morales) and
Nova (Sam Alexander) from the Avengers, when they became disillusioned by the behavior of their elders, especially in regards to the second superhuman
Civil War. The young heroes desired to rectify the state of distrust by the people towards superheroes in general, and soon recruited other teenagers with similar ideals,
Hulk (Amadeus Cho), and
Viv Vision, daughter of the
Vision. After their first joint mission rescuing a group of girls being trafficked by Pagliacci, the young heroes revealed themselves to the public and Ms. Marvel proclaimed the team's mission to foster a better tomorrow through hope and wisdom rather than unjust force. Her speech became viral on the Internet, and the team was dubbed the "Champions" in social media. One of the superheroes encouraged by Ms. Marvel's speech was the time-displaced
Cyclops (Scott Summers), who was admitted into the Champions' ranks after requesting membership.
Early missions In their further early adventures, the Champions traveled to Sharzhad and helped a young girl named Amal stop militant fundamentalists from enforcing a gender apartheid. They were confronted by an Atlantean colony while cruising over their waters. Champions were joined by
Gwenpool in fighting the xenophobic head of Daly County's police, Sheriff Studdard. During the "
Monsters Unleashed" storyline, the Champions crossed paths with the Freelancers, a group of teenage mercenaries, who were at the time working for
Roxxon to silence protesters. The Freelancers' employers would make efforts to discredit the Champions, framing the young heroes for attacking homeless people, and later trademarking the Champions' logo. The Champions managed to clean the name, and Nova started a countermovement to reject the Champions-branded merchandise.
Secret Empire When
Hydra assumed control of the United States of America in the "
Secret Empire" storyline, the Champions responded to Iron Man's distress call to protect Washington, D.C. alongside other American superheroes, all of whom were soundly defeated when
Captain America wielded Mjolnir. The Champions retreated, ultimately regrouping at Olympus Group Secret HQ ATX001 after becoming separated from Ms. Marvel, who worked with the
Secret Warriors to fight off Inhuman internment camps; and Scott was displaced to New Tian with America's mutants; and Nova was trapped beyond the Planetary Defense Shield in Earth Orbit. Hulk, Viv, and Spider-Man eventually joined the Underground, where they associated with
Ironheart (Riri Williams),
Wasp (Nadia van Dyne),
Falcon (Joaquin Torres), and
Patriot (Rayshaun Lucas). After Hydra leveled Las Vegas,
Black Widow set out to assassinate Captain America. Spider-Man joined her, having decided to stop running away from his supposed destiny to kill Captain America, as prophesied by the precognitive Inhuman
Ulysses Cain. The remaining Champions, alongside Falcon, Wasp and Ironheart followed him to offer their support, thus joining Black Widow's
Red Room and got training from Black Widow. The teenagers were eventually captured by Hydra after Widow's assassination attempt failed and resulted in her death. Spider-Man almost killed Captain America, but Wasp convinced him not to, since they had learned Black Widow tried to kill Rogers herself to prevent Miles from becoming a killer. The teenagers were subsequently arrested. When a contingent of America's remaining superheroes launched a desperate attack on Hydra, Hydra allies
Taskmaster and
Black Ant decided to switch sides in light of Hydra's eventual defeat, and freed the teenagers from their cell to be in the heroes' good graces. The Champions were reunited during the final battle, which saw the return of the real Captain America and fall of Hydra.
Post-Secret Empire A short time following Hydra's fall, the Champions saw themselves forced into an uneasy alliance with the
Avengers to stop the
High Evolutionary from causing a collision between Earth and
Counter-Earth. After being turned into an ordinary human by the High Evolutionary. Viv became trapped in another plane of existence while operating a device to foil the villain's plans. The Vision built a Viv 2.0 to cope with Viv's apparent death before Viv found her way home. Taking into account Viv's feelings, the Champions refrained from welcoming Viv's twin into the team. Viv rejoined the Champions' rank after her twin sister went haywire and Viv was forced to kill Viv 2.0 in self-defense. The Vision and Wasp managed to repair Viv 2.0's body, and since they couldn't bring back her mind, Viv transferred her consciousness to the synthetic body as a way to both regain her powers and ensure her sister lived on through herself. Following Viv's return to the team, Cyclops is forced to leave the Champions due to a call to arms from his fellow time-displaced X-Men. After joining the ranks of the Champions full-time, Ironheart and Wasp helped Amadeus Cho create the Champions Mobile Bunker (C.M.B.), a new moving headquarters. Each of the Champions had a private room in the bunker, with the exception of Spider-Man and Nova. During an investigation in Nunavut, Canada, the Champions stumbled into the machinations of
Master of the World,
Infinity Countdown During the "
Infinity Countdown" storyline, Champions, gained knowledge of an assault on the
Nova Corps. Discovering it was the
Chitauri Empire, led by Warbringer, Nova's old foe, they took the Bunker into space, where they found that the Warbringer's goal was to attack
Thanos, Nova eventually realized that Thanos' army never moved, not even to defend themselves, and the team knocked out Warbringer, leaving the Chitauri without a leader and subsequently stopping the massacre. Thanos then annexed Warbringer's army into his own, and thanked the Champions for the show. Furious, Ironheart ignored the others, and charged at him, before being caught by the throat, and her armor was swiftly destroyed. Thanos let her be, and the team took Warbringer back to the Nova Corps; however, Commander Scott Adsit took Sam's helmet, as he was not officially recognized as a Nova, then teleported the team back to Earth, much to Sam's horror. During this period, Amadeus gained a new transformed state that is less powerful, but easier for him to control, and assumed the codename Brawn. Riri, after her run in with Thanos, revealed her Mk 3 Armor, with a new design and color scheme; however, now depowered, Sam could not feel anything but rage at everything and is depressed. While helping a Tanzanian village suffering of water poisoning, the Champions discovered the
Man-Thing inhabiting their swamp. The creature instinctively opened the portal, sending Sam and the Wasp to
Weirdworld. The two were later tracked down by the Master of the World, who had been keeping an eye on the Champions since his defeat in Canada. He found Sam and Wasp amnesiac and mutated by Weirdworld's magic. He took them under his wing to use their new powers to conquer land. When the rest of the Champions travelled to Weirdworld with the help of Inua spirit Sila. The Champions were scattered and transformed, though only Ironheart retained the memories of her past life due to her traumatic experience when fighting Thanos, and managed to reunite the team. Champions again defeated Master of the World and returned to their home.
Operating globally Champions started operating globally after giving full membership to
Falcon,
Patriot, The Locust (Fernanda Rodriguez),
Bombshell (Lana Baumgartner), Pinpoint (Qureshi Gupta) and
Power Man (Victor Alvarez). When the Champions were fighting
Zzzax, Ms. Marvel and Viv Vision were killed in the process.
Mephisto arrived and offered to rewind back time in to save their teammates. Miles accepted Mephisto's offer and the demon reversed time resurrecting their dead teammates but unwittingly allowing a girl he saved previously die. This led to Spider-Man quitting the team. Sam also left the team to retrieve his helmet with his nemesis, Kaldera, who desired true fight with him as Nova. While Brawn and the Wasp started working simultaneously with
Agents of Atlas and
G.I.R.L. respectively. During "
The War of the Realms", the Champions fought with Rock Trolls in Australia. Meanwhile, Power Man and Pinpoint meet
Cyclops who later took charge in leading the Champions against the Rock Trolls. Cyclops revealed Ms. Marvel that his younger self's memories are merged with his own and gave her the inspiration to control of the team. Ms. Marvel asked
Dust (Sooraya Qadir), who had allied herself with the Champions to join them after Cyclops vouched for her. The Champions then went to São Paulo to defend it from Dísir, who have taken control over South America. Meanwhile, Sam and Kaldera found Commander Scott Adsit and learned the helmet had been stolen by the
Thieves Guild of New York and returned to Earth. Sam managed to find the helmet and rejoined the Champions before imprisoning Kaldera to Nova Corps. Being held by Mephisto,
Blackheart became privy to his father's latest scheme and begun corrupting members of the Champions, starting with Ironheart, who had been pushing away Viv due to the synthezoid apparently having feelings for her. Spider-Man was rejoined the team to help his friends. He, along with Ms. Marvel, also revealed their identities to Nova in order to free him from Blackheart's corruption. Blackheart, tried to use the deal that Miles made with Mephisto but Riri snapped out of his control due to Viv's affection. The Champions freed their teammates united to defeat Blackheart, who was taken down by his father since he ruined his plans.
Outlawed Champions picks up six months after the Coles Disaster and the passage of the Underage Superhuman Welfare Act, also known as "Kamala's Law". Over the course of the Outlawed event, the Champions take responsibility for their actions and expose that Roxxon is using their government contract to place young individuals with super abilities into brutal reeducation camps. This leads to Roxxon losing their contract and the government pauses enforcement of Kamala's Law.
Killer App While the Champions are now free to return to their crime-fighting careers, Kamala's Law is still intact while still at a minimum level, and Roxxon attempt to launch an app called "Roxx-On" to cover their dubious activities, under the direction of Miriam Blakemoore. Meanwhile, a Champion member Snowguard leads a group of protestors on Roxxon. Much to Riri's dismay, Roxxon hires her worst rival, André Sims, and Ms. Marvel learns that Roxxon uses their app to secretly gather data to ensure Kamala's Law is fully amended, revealing that André is creating Roxxon's
Sentinel-like robots, Champerones to capture under-aged lawbreakers. Eventually, the Champions decide to send Miles and Sam to go undercover as interns, before they have no choice to put Kamala in this mission. During a rally speech by both Snowguard, Bombshell, and Falcon to their fellow protestors, the Champions arrive on time to save them from being ambushed by undercover Roxxon and C.R.A.D.L.E., at the same time they discover that Roxxon hired Fizzle's group, the super-powered criminal group who Champions fought yesterday night. During Kamala's first undercover mission with Miles and Sam, Viv infiltrates Roxxon's secret lab where Champerones are created and sends the data of Roxxon's next plots to Riri. Thankfully, Kamala pretends to have a word with Miriam in private for the upcoming Roxx-On festival to ensure Viv escapes undetected. During the Roxx-On festival, the Champions secretly apprehend Fizzle group to ensure Kamala's public speech to expose Roxxon's true motive is a success. Finally, Kamala's Law is repealed and C.R.A.D.L.E. is disbanded for their attempt at brute force on Kamala earlier. While all of the younger superheroes celebrate their victory at the Champions' bunker, André secretly unleashes his Champerones unauthorized to hunt younger people who broke a now-repealed law. While the Champions evacuate civilians from the Champerones, Miriam stops André from damaging the company's reputation further and arrests him. ==Team roster==