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Collecting information from Marvel’s : Age of (2015) and Marvel’s Avengers: Prelude – This Scepter’d Isle Infi nite Comic #1 (2015).

HEAD WRITER/COORDINATOR: MIKE O’SULLIVAN COORDINATION: DARON JENSEN WRITERS: TROY BENJAMIN, ROB BOCK, ANTHONY COTILLETTA, PAT DUKE, MIKE FICHERA, DARON JENSEN, ROB LONDON, CHRIS McCARVER, JACOB ROUGEMONT, AND STUART VANDAL ARTISTS: DANIEL ACUÑA, ELIOT R. BROWN, , , BOB CHESHIRE, VANESA DEL INREY, BOB HALLPROGRESS, JOSH HERMAN, , KEVIN HOPGOOD, , FABIAN LACEY, DAVID MARQUEZ, JON McCOY, RYAN MEINERDING, JOSH NIZZI, RYAN ODAGAWA, JEROME OPEÑA, CARLO PAGULAYAN, GEORGE PÉREZ, CHRIS ROSEWARNE, MICHAEL RYAN, PHIL SAUNDERS, RYAN STEGMAN, DAVID WILLIAMS, STEPHEN , AND MIKE ZECK COVER ARTIST: MIKE DEL MUNDO BACK COVER ARTISTS: RYAN MEINERDING, CHARLIE WEN, AND ANDY PARK BOOK DESIGN: JAY BOWEN EDITOR: SARAH BRUNSTAD SVP PRINT, SALES & MARKETING: DAVID GABRIEL VP PRODUCTION & SPECIAL PROJECTS: JEFF YOUNGQUIST EDITOR IN CHIEF: AXEL ALONSO MANAGER, SPECIAL PROJECTS: BRIAN OVERTON CHIEF CREATIVE OFFICER: SENIOR EDITOR, SPECIAL PROJECTS: JENNIFER GRÜNWALD PUBLISHER: DAN BUCKLEY EDITOR, SPECIAL PROJECTS: MARK D. BEAZLEY EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: ALAN FINE FOR CREATIVE DIRECTOR, RESEARCH: WILL CORONA PILGRIM VP PRODUCTION & DEVELOPMENT: JEREMY LATCHAM PRESIDENT: KEVIN FEIGE

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AVENGERS UPDATE : (concept) (2008); (actual) Marvel’s The Avengers (2012)

ollowing S.H.I.E.L.D.’s ap- Wanda and Pietro Maximoff— swiftly concluded that to protect parent dissolution, the into . During the Earth, humanity should be elim- Avengers reassembled to raid, Wanda’s mental manipula- inated. He apparently destroyed retrieve ’s scepter, tion abilities showed Stark a the disagreeing JARVIS, then at- Fstolen by . Under Captain of his greatest fear: the other tacked the Avengers with the Iron America’s leadership, they de- Avengers slain by the in Legion to cover his escape with IN PROGRESS stroyed several hidden Hydra another attack on Earth. Examin- the scepter. bases and became close friends. ing the scepter back at Avengers To protect bystanders during their Tower, Stark discovered an appar- Tracking Ultron, the Avengers battles, Tony Stark created the ent intelligence that he hoped learned he had allied with the Iron Legion, drones controlled by could complete his Ultron project, Maximoffs and was seeking the his artificial intelligence (A.I.) aide a secret plan to create a defense exceptionally rare metal Vibrani- JARVIS. Eventually, the team re- against any future extraterrestrial um. Suspecting that Ultron would captured the scepter during an incursions. A few days later, while pursue illegal arms dealer Ulysses assault on ’s Soko- the Avengers threw a party to Klaue to obtain it, the Avengers vian base, but he had already used celebrate locating the scepter, traveled to Klaue’s freighter it to turn two locals—twins Ultron achieved sentience; he salvage yard off the coast of Africa, where they came into con- flict with Ultron and the Maxi- moffs. Wanda incapacitated most of the heroes with visions dredged from their darkest memories, and sent an enraged rampaging

FACT SHEET

THOUGH OFFICIALLY LED THE AVENGERS, STARK WAS HAPPY TO REMIND HIM WHO PAID THE BILLS AND DESIGNED THEIR EQUIPMENT. THE NEW AVENGERS FACILITY HOUSES A LARGE SUPPORT STAFF, INCLUDING CHO AND ’S SCIENTIST ALLY DR. .

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BELOW: , QUICKSILVER, WITCH, VISION, Active: Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)

towards nearby Johannesburg. “evolve” by using Avengers’ asso- of Ultron’s true plans, and stole Iron Man subdued his maddened ciate Dr. Helen Cho’s synthetic the finished android before Ultron teammate, but not before their tissue research to create an en- could upload his consciousness battle demolished a large swath hanced android body, the team into it. Believing Ultron feared of the city. With world authorities split up. While Stark discovered JARVIS, Stark downloaded his A.I. looking for them, the team hid at Ultron’s internet nemesis was a into the android, creating the ’s secret farm. Advised surviving JARVIS, Cap, Black Vision, who agreed to help stop by Nick that someone was Widow, and Hawkeye checked on his genocidal progenitor. Using a blocking Ultron’s attempts to hack Cho in Seoul, South Korea. Finding engine and a magnet- the U.S.’s nuclear launch codes, Ultron, the trio were assisted by ic field, Ultron launched a huge and realizing Ultron intended to the Maximoffs, who had learned portion of Sokovia skyward, intending to drop it as a meteor AT BARTON’S FARM and trigger an extinction event. While battling an Ultron drone army, the Avengers evacuated the flying conurbation with assis- tance from Iron Man’s ally War Machine and a S.H.I.E.L.D. Heli- carrier Fury had procured. Though Pietro Maximoff died saving Hawkeye and a local boy, the heroes ultimately prevailed, de- stroying Ultron. Bruce Banner, afraid his alter ego would contin- ue to endanger others, departed in a Quinjet; Thor returned to ; and Hawkeye retired. The remaining team relocated to upstate New York and recruited new members: War Machine, Vision, Falcon, and Wanda, the .

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AVENGERS HEADQUARTERS FIRST APPEARANCE: (As ) Marvel’s The Avengers (2012); (Avengers Tower) Marvel’s Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015); (Upstate New York facility) Marvel’s Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)

ollowing the Battle of the Avengers. Still run by Stark’s and a stylish living area where New York, Tony Stark and computer systems, the artificial the team could congregate for immediately intelligence JARVIS, and Aveng- rest, recreation, and social began work repairing ers ally , the rede- events. Stark provided custom- FStark Tower, damaged during signed Tower now housed ad- ized facilities for each Avenger, the clash with Loki and his Chi- vanced laboratories for Stark and such as an archery equipment tauri allies. Sometime later, Stark Bruce Banner, storage docks for practice and storage area for converted the building into Stark’s Iron Legion drones and Hawkeye. The Tower’s extended Avengers Tower, which served their automated repair systems, platform was changed to a so- as a high-tech headquarters for a state-of-the-art medical bay, phisticated landing pad for the

AVENGERS TOWER AVENGERS TOWER LABS IN THE COMICS

AVENGERS MANSION

THE AVENGERS HAVE OPERATED OUT of various headquarters over the years, including the long-serving and Avengers Tower in , California’s Avengers Compound, Hydrobase, a floating island off the New York coast, and the sub-atomic Infi nite Avengers Mansion. In modern times, the team’s various squads maintain individual bases, with Avengers Avengers’ Quinjet aircraft , and of the information the team Idea Mechanics active on Avengers Island, the the center of the Tower’s needed to locate him, they uti- Unity Squad within the Schaefer Theater, massive, stylized Avengers "A" lized the backup paper fi les and another squad using an old Stark hangar. FIRST APPEARANCE: logo served as the entry and exit stored in the Tower. Following AVENGERS MANSION AVENGERS #2 1963; portal for the Iron Legion. Ultron’s defeat, the Avengers AVENGERS COMPOUND AVENGERS #246 1984; HYDROBASE, AS AVENGERS ISLAND: AVENGERS relocated to a multi-level head- #262 1985; STARK/AVENGERS TOWER Aft er defeating Hydra’s Baron quarters in upstate New York. NEW AVENGERS #3 2005; INFINITE AVENGERS MANSION MIGHTY AVENGERS #27 2009; Strucker and reclaiming Loki’s This facility, partially below CURRENT AVENGERS ISLAND NEW AVENGERS #1 scepter, Stark and Banner’s ground, was converted from a 2015; SCHAEFER THEATER UNCANNY AVENGERS #1 2015; STARK HANGAR artifi cial intelligence, Ultron, warehouse and ALLNEW, ALLDIFFERENT AVENGERS #4 2016 created a body from spare Legion off ered much of the same fea- parts and attacked the team tures and functionality as Aveng- during a celebratory gathering. ers Tower, but also now included The battle between the heroes a spacious grass fi eld surround- and the Ultron-controlled Legion ing the facility and dozens of left the interior of the building employees and support staff , and the Legion destroyed. Aft er among them Avengers allies Dr. Ultron fl ed the building via the Helen Cho, Dr. Erik Selvig, and internet and later erased much Maria Hill.

AVENGERS TOWER LIVING SPACE

FACT SHEET

THE CELEBRATORY PARTY IN AVENGERS TOWER INCLUDED GUESTS WAR MACHINE, FALCON, AND SEVERAL ELDERLY VETERANS— PRESUMABLY ACQUAINTANCES OF THE TIME-LOST CAPTAIN AMERICA. THOR’S DEPARTURE FROM THE AVENGERS’ UPSTATE FACILITY LEFT A RUNE-SHAPED PATTERN ON THE FACILITY’S LAWN.

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IN THE 1930S, BARON WOLFGANG von Strucker joined the Nazi party, becoming infamous as one of Hitler’s top commanders. A er clashing with Sgt. and his several times, Baron BARON STRUCKER Strucker fell out of favor with Hitler and fl ed FIRST APPEARANCE: Germany to Japan, where he joined forces Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) with both a subversive group and Hand ninjas to found Hydra. Baron Strucker survived into the current day with an age-retarding aron Wolfgang von . After serum his scientists developed, overseeing Strucker, a S.H.I.E.L.D. Captain America exposed Hydra’s Hydra’s growth for decades. Baron Strucker orchestrated Hydra’s infi ltration of S.H.I.E.L.D. agent and secret Hydra corruption of S.H.I.E.L.D., the but was eventually discovered by Fury, who operative, obtained Loki’s Avengers hunted down Hydra started an extended war with Hydra and scepter following the New York facilities. When they found the ultimately defeated their forces. B FIRST APPEARANCE: Chitauri invasion and took it to Sokovia facility, Baron Strucker SGT. FURY AND HIS HOWLING his Sokovian Hydra facility. ordered all the research data COMMANDOS #5 1964 There, he supervised human deleted. As the Maximo twins experiments using the scepter battled the Avengers, Iron Man to empower humans, but only a breached the base’s energy set of twins, Pietro and Wanda defense fi eld and stopped the Maximo , survived and gained deletion, saving most of the data. FACT SHEET Baron Strucker was arrested, and the twins escaped. BARON STRUCKER SHAVED HIS HEAD AND WORE A MONOCLE ON HIS RIGHT EYE. When Tony Stark and Bruce IN ADDITION TO LOKI’S SCEPTER, Banner created an artifi cial intel- BARON STRUCKER’S HYDRA CELL ligence, Ultron, in the hopes of WAS ALSO RESEARCHING CHITAURI ushering in world peace, it WEAPONS AND ARMOR, AS WELL AS quickly became genocidal and A LEVIATHAN CORPSE. constructed a body for itself. BARON STRUCKER OFTEN EMPLOYED Ultron allied with the Maximo DECEPTION AS A STRATEGIC TACTIC: twins, planning to use them to WHEN CAPTAIN AMERICA EXPOSED HYDRA’S CORRUPTION OF S.H.I.E.L.D., distract the Avengers while he prison; Baron Strucker told Ultron STRUCKER EXPOSED SOME OF HIS engineered an extinction-level he could get Vibranium from FACILITIES TO DRAW ATTENTION event, believing doing so would black-market arms dealer Ulysses AWAY FROM SOKOVIA; WHEN THE complete his programming to Klaue. Ultron then murdered AVENGERS FOUND HIS SOKOVIA FACILITY, HE OFFERED THEM HIS create peace. Seeking Vibranium Baron Strucker and le a taunting HYDRA WEAPONS, HOPING THEY to construct a stronger body, message for the Avengers written WOULDN’T SEARCH FURTHER AND Ultron visited Baron Strucker in in his blood: “peace.” FIND LOKI’S SCEPTER.