Time to Assemble: Ranking the 10 Strongest Avengers to Recently Join Marvel’s Top Team

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The Avengers
have been Marvel’s flagship superhero team since their founding in 1963. Over 60 years later, the team’s roster has expanded to over 100 members across the Marvel Universe. Even in the last few years, the Avengers, and its various offshoots and variations, have considerably grown in size and power. While some new additions may be fresh faces to the iconic team, their power is nothing to be trifled with.

From their humble beginnings as Earth’s Mightiest Heroesi, the Avengers have long since blown past their mundane origins to embrace the greater horizon of ancient history and multiversal powers. As the team has faced bolder threats, it has had to rely on superpowers far more complex serums and suits just in the last few years alone. These days, the the Avengers have become pawns in a greater multiversal battle linked to the frequent apocalyptic events that scourge Earth-616. Luckily, 10 recent additions to the Avengers are some of the team’s most powerful yet.

10

Ultron

Joined In: West Coast Avengers #1 (2024) by Gerry Duggan and Danny Kim

Ultron has been, by far, the Avengers’ greatest enemy. First crafted as an asset for the team, the original Ultron-1 perceived humanity to be the greatest threat to global peace, thus launching a decades-long crusade to eradicate the species. However, after merging with Hank Pym in Avengers: Rage of Ultron, the synthezoid faced a new sense of humanity, and with that, sorrow. Isolated in space,
Ultron divided into multiple copies
, each free to pursue a new plan to save the Earth besides blatant extermination.

One of these copies believed that allying with the Avengers was the best path to global peace and now offers himself as a humble tool to
the West Coast Avengers
. Like his predecessors, this Ultron possesses a wide array of techno-based powers that bolsters both his physical strength and his mental prowess. Most impressively, Ultron has the ability to modify and reform all forms of technology as he sees fit, transforming the android into a technological demi-god to synthetic creations.

9

The Impossible City

Joined In: Avengers #6 (2023) by Jed Mackay, Kalinda Vasquez, Ivan Fiorelli, & Alba Glez

One of the Avengers’ newest members, the Impossible City is a sentient multiversal construct capable of traversing through the barriers of space and time which is rather impressive. Originally, the being was created as the headquarters for a team of multiversal heroes but was eventually converted into a colossal prison for a group of world-obliterating monsters
known as the Ashen Combine
. After the original heroes mysteriously disappeared, the Ashen Combine overthrew the Impossible City and reforged the sentient space station into a warship of mass destruction.

However, when the villains appeared in Earth-616, the Avengers valiantly faced the Ashen Combine and freed the Impossible City from their corrupt control. Now, the Impossible City serves as
the Avengers’ new control center
. As of now, the city has yet to display any major offensive capabilities, but its power to open portals throughout the Multiverse harbors incredible cosmic potential if used more creatively. Even so, the Impossible City now grants the Avengers easy access to the entirety of time and multiversal space, instantly solidifying it as the team’s formidable ally.

8

Psylocke (Kwannon)

Joined In: Uncanny Avengers #1 (2023) by Gerry Duggan, Jonathan Hickman, & Javier Garron

Shortly after the 2012 Avengers vs. X-Men storyline, Captain America founded the Avengers Unity Division in an effort to reestablish a line of trust between the Avengers and the mutant community as a whole. Years later, the team was reformed following Orchis’s devastating attack on the third Hellfire Gala in hopes of providing aid to the surviving mutants. Now primarily comprised of mutants or mutant-adjacent heroes, Kwannon was invited as one of the Avengers’ newest recruits.

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Like her fellow Psylocke and predecessor, Betsy Braddock, Kwannon possesses potently impressive psychic abilities that were only further enhanced after she reclaimed her body from Braddock.
Psylocke is both a telepath and an empath
, allowing her to both project her psyche onto others and manipulate others’ emotions. However, Kwannon’s most well-known ability is her power to manifest her psychic energy into semi-physical constructs. Having been trained by the Hand to become a master assassin, Psylocke often manifests her psychic weapons as katanas or kunai.

7

Starbrand (Brandy Selby)

Joined In: Avengers #8 (2022) by Jason Aaron and David Marquez

Brandy Selby is one of Marvel’s most tragic modern characters. Following the death of Kevin Connor, the original Starbrand, the Starbrand power was transferred to Brandy’s mother. However, when Brandy was born, the Starbrand was transferred to her. As a child, Brandy became a living conduit of cosmic energy, just as her predecessors had, but at a terrible cost. The hero’s body simply couldn’t handle the Starbrand’s immense power and rapidly aged every time she called upon its strength.

Following the Multiversal Masters of Evil’s invasion of Earth-616, Brandy, now in the body of a young adult, was swept up in the Avengers’ response to the multiversal threat. In the ensuing war between the Multiverse’s
various Avengers teams
and the Masters of Evil, Brandy continued to use her powers, only further breaking down her body in the long run. In the climactic battle between the opposing forces, Starbrand and the Phoenix summoned their combined cosmic potential to restore the portions of the Multiverse that had fallen under the Masters of Evil’s crusade, sacrificing themselves in the process.

6

Weapon H (Clayton Cortez)

Joined In: War of the Realms #3 (2019) by Jason Aaron and Russell Dauterman

Clayton Cortez is easily one of Marvel’s most threatening heroes. After betraying his fellow Marines in opposition to the team’s Roxxon-led mission, Clayton was captured by the Batch-H division of
the Weapon X Program
. This department specifically focussed on creating Hulk/Wolverine hybrids that were further modified with cybernetic enhancements. After enduring a horrifically painful series of experiments, Clayton was transformed into a Hulk-like beast with retractable adamantium-coated claws the size of grown men. Additionally, Weapon H can consciously modify the gamma energy in his body to mimic the forms and powers of the other Hulks.

During Malekith’s invasion of Midgard in the War of the Realms, Captain Marvel summoned an
emergency response team of Avengers
that she dubbed the “War Avengers.” This strike force of raw, terrifying powers served on the front lines of the war against the waves of invading Dark Elf and Frost Giant forces. Most recently, Weapon H worked alongside a version of the Savage Avengers, although this team isn’t considered an actual branch of the heroic team.

5

Daredevil (Elektra Natchios)

Joined in Astonishing Avengers Infinity Comic #1 (2025) by Steve Orlando and Francesco Archidiacono

While Daredevil is more often a street-level hero, Elektra Natchios is not a person to underestimate. Having excelled at martial arts from a young age,
Elektra was conscripted into the Hand
after her father and former mentor Stick cast her aside. While she has since renounced her ties to the organization, Elektra still possesses lingering powers from her connection with the Beast. Still affected by the demon’s power, Daredevil possesses mild hypnotic and telepathic abilities that both bolster her innate instincts and senses as well as grant her a slew of mild offensive powers.

While Daredevil has briefly worked with the Avengers in the past, she was officially declared a member of Captain America’s Avengers Emergency Response Squad (AvengE.R.S.), which formed in the wake of
the Blood Hunt event
. However, it’s not entirely clear why Elektra joined the team, as she debuted in a Marvel Infinity comic, which rarely interacts with the plot of the ongoing comics. The hero made her Avengers debut as a goalie for the AvengERS’ during a charity soccer match against the primary Avengers team.

4

M (Monet St. Croix)

Joined In: Uncanny Avengers #1 (2023) by Gerry Duggan, Jonathan Hickman, & Javier Garron

Like Psylocke, Monet St. Croix was drafted into the Avengers Unity Division following the Orchis
assault against the Hellfire Gala
. She, alongside the team’s other mutants, only served for a short time before ultimately leaving the team following the complete collapse of Krakoa. Unfortunately, Monet was most recently seen in Uncanny X-Men #9 as a prisoner in Doctor Corina Ellis’s specialized prison for mutants, built from the corpse of the Xavier School.

Despite her current captivity, Monet is a versatile and powerful mutant with a wide and scattered array of powers, including superhuman physiology and senses, a potent healing factor, flight, telepathy and telekinesis, and the particularly unique ability to fuse with her siblings. Once combined, the collective being known as M has access to all of Monet’s powers in addition to the powers of her siblings. Monet also has access to a magically powered secondary form that she calls Penance, granting her red diamond skin and razor-sharp claws.

3

Victor Shade (Ultron-12)

Joined In: Avengers Inc. #1 (2023) by Al Ewing and Leonard Kirk

Another variant of Ultron, Victor Shade is an amalgamated synthetic being created by Hank Pym as a fail-safe mechanism in case the Avenger couldn’t free himself from Ultron’s influence. Victor was first created as an incarnation of Ultron before Pym modified the android with a mechanical ant equipped with code from
the first Human Torch
(Jim Hammond) and Vision. Since being reprogrammed, Victor joined Janet Van Dyne and formed Avengers Inc., an organization that investigates superhuman crime without employing superheroics.

While Victor doesn’t share the same offensive abilities he once had as Ultron-12, his new body is composed entirely of nanites, which has given him a malleable new set of skills. The Avenger can shapeshift at will, often choosing to switch between
his original Ultron form
and a more humanoid-looking one. However, even more haunting, Victor has previously used his nanites to possess a corpse and implant his consciousness inside the organic husk; when fully integrated, Victor has access to any power the deceased had in life.

2

Venom

Joined In: War of the Realms #3 (2019) by Jason Aaron and Russell Dauterman

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Ghost Rider (Robbie Reyes)

Joined In: Avengers #6 (2018) by Jason Aaron, Ed Mcguinness, & Paco Medina

Robbie Reyes may be one of the Avengers’ newer members, but he is certainly the team’s most powerful. As a wielder of the Spirit of Vengeance, Robbie has access to near-limitless mystical powers linked to the tormenting forces of Hell. Like
Marvel’s other Ghost Riders
, Robbie’s powers make him practically immortal to normally lethal blows, and he can harness the fires of Hell to inflict immeasurable pain upon his enemies in the form of the Penance Stare.

After joining the Avengers to make a greater difference with the powers he was given, Robbie consistently proved to be a valuable asset to the team, especially when faced with
the Multiversal Masters of Evil
and the First Firmament. In the final battle against the multiversal forces of evil, the Ghost Rider merged his hellish powers with the latent cosmic power of the Multiverse to transform into the mythic All-Rider. In this form, Robbie can “ride” any object, which he has used to enflame an entire planet under his control.

While Ghost Rider is still trapped outside the confines of the Multiverse, he remains the Avengers’ most powerful ally, especially among those added in the last few years.

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