List of Avengers members

The Avengers are various teams of superheroes that have headlined in The Avengers and related comic books series published by Marvel Comics. Over the decades, the Avengers are featured as a rotating line up of a large number of characters.



According to various handbooks, members of main team of Avengers, first iteration of West Coast Avengers, New Avengers, Mighty Avengers, Captain America / Hawkeye led black ops Secret Avengers, Avengers Unity Squad and Avengers A.I. are considered official Avengers.

Notations:
 * A slash (/) between codenames, indicates the character having multiple names during their tenure as an Avenger in chronological order.
 * Characters listed in bold are the current members of the teams.
 * In case of multiple codenames, the currently used name is bolded.
 * Characters listed are set in the Earth-616 continuity except when noted.

Founding members
The founding members formed the main team of Avengers in response to a threat of Loki in 1963.

1980s
In 1984, first division of Avengers led to the creation of West Coast Avengers.

2000s
In 2005, New Avengers were formed due to mass break-out at supervillain prison, the Raft. New Avengers chose not to comply with superhuman registration as opposed to the government formed/sanctioned team the Mighty Avengers in 2007.

2010s
In 2010, the black ops team of Secret Avengers was created. After the events of Avengers vs. X-Men in 2012, Captain America created Avengers Unity Division by recruiting members from both Avengers and X-Men. In 2013, Hank Pym led the team of Avengers A.I.

Honorary members
Characters that have been granted honorary status for acts of great courage, sacrifice and affiliation with Avengers.

Removal from list
Many characters that were previously included in the list were members of these teams that are declared by handbooks as not officially sanctioned Avengers even if they had affiliated with them or used their name: A-Force, Avengers Idea Mechanics, Occupy Avengers, Savage Avengers, S.H.I.E.L.D. led Secret Avengers, Ultimates, U.S. Avengers and the second iteration of West Coast Avengers.