Thor isn't the only Avenger worthy of lifting Mjolnir. Captain America has successfully wielded the hammer on several occasions, including The Mighty Thor #390 (1988), Fear Itself #7 (2011), and Secret Empire #10 (2017).
The enormous, city block-sized building is located at 890 Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, New York City.
The Squadron Supreme are first encountered by four members of the Avengers--the Vision, Quicksilver, the Scarlet Witch and Goliath--who arrive in the Earth-712 universe by mistake. The Avengers are initially confused, since several members of the Squadron Supreme have identical names and powers to the Squadron Sinister, a group of previously encountered villains.
To animate his bride-to-be, Ultron brainwashed Hank Pym into transferring the Wasp's lifeforce into the feminine robotic shell of Jocasta. However, realizing that Wasp would have to die in order for her to live, Jocasta alerted the Avengers who defeated Ultron and reversed the process, leaving Jocasta a mindless husk.
Gyrich is prejudiced against superhumans and acts in a heavy-handed, obstructive manner, insisting that the Avengers follow government rules and regulations or else lose their priority status with the government. Among Gyrich's demands is that the active roster be trimmed down to only seven members, and that the Falcon, an African American, be admitted to the team to comply with affirmative action laws.
Iron Man carries a tremendous burden of guilt after nearly killing an innocent bystander while piloting the armor drunk, but his drinking continues until he loses control of Stark International, becomes a homeless alcoholic vagrant, and gives up his armored identity to James "Rhodey" Rhodes, who becomes the new Iron Man.
In the "Secret Invasion" storyline, it is revealed that all of Spider-Woman's appearances in New Avengers for four years, dating back to the team's inception, were actually made by a Skrull imposter.
Wanda and the Vision have a long-running romance in the pages of The Avengers. They move to the suburbs, endure the hatred of cul-de-sac bigots who don't want "their kind" as neighbors, and become parents to twin boys, a pregnancy enabled by Wanda's probability-altering hex powers.
The government assigns the team's redevelopment to Norman Osborn (the "reformed" supervillain now calling himself the Iron Patriot) who has become a public hero for his role in repelling the Skrull invasion.
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