The robot
Ultron, wanting revenge on the superhero team the
Avengers for constant defeats, places a document detailing their downfall in a
time capsule. When the time-travelling villain
Kang the Conqueror finds the document centuries later, and having been thwarted by the Avengers himself, he travels back to their time to kill the team. The old Avengers, however, have disbanded and been replaced by a less dedicated group. Kang kills the entire team by detonating a
nuclear weapon over
Avengers Mansion. With many of the old Avengers such as
Captain America,
Thor,
Iron Man,
Quicksilver, and the
Scarlet Witch either dead or missing,
Hank Pym reluctantly forms another team. The unit consists of his wife the
Wasp;
Hawkeye and his wife
Mockingbird; the mutant
Cannonball; sorcerer
Tommy Maximoff (son of the android
Vision and the Scarlet Witch); Jessie Wingfoot (daughter of
She-Hulk and
Wyatt Wingfoot) and two mercenaries called Hotshot and Bombshell, supposed children of the
Black Knight and
Hercules respectively. In a flashback, it is shown that
Wonder Man and
Tigra died in a fight with
Hulk. After Hulk killed Tigra, Wonder Man sacrificed himself to kill him with radioactive fluid, killing them both and blinding Hawkeye. Together Pym's team confronts Kang—now allied with Ultron, the new
Grim Reaper and a creature called
Oddball—and in a battle to the death, many of the Avengers are murdered before finally killing all the villains. Hawkeye discovers that Captain America, who was formerly
President of the United States and believed assassinated, is still alive and recuperating, and had watched the entire battle. ==Collected editions==