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.
500px|thumb|Textless and wraparound cover of Avengers, vol. 3 #1 by [[George Pérez.]]
According to various handbooks, members of the main team of Avengers, the first iteration of the West Coast Avengers, the New Avengers, Mighty Avengers, Secret Avengers, Avengers Unity Squad and Avengers A.I. are considered official Avengers.
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Notations:
- A slash (/) between names signifies that the character has used multiple codenames as an Avenger, listed in chronological order from left to right, with the most recent name appearing last.
- Characters listed in bold are the current members of the teams.
- If a character has multiple codenames, the name currently in use 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.
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:95%;"
! style="width:20%;"| Character
! style="width:20%;"| Name
! style="width:30%;"| Joined in
! style="width:25%;"| Avengers team
|-
| Ant-Man / Giant-Man / Goliath / Yellowjacket / Wasp
| Henry "Hank" Jonathan Pym
| rowspan=2| Avengers #1 (September 1963)
| Avengers, West Coast Avengers, Mighty Avengers, Secret Avengers, Avengers A.I.
| Avengers, West Coast Avengers, Mighty Avengers
|-
| Wasp
| Janet van Dyne
| | Avengers #1 (September 1963)
| Avengers, West Coast Avengers,
|}
Recruits
1960s
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:95%;"
! style="width:20%;"| Character
! style="width:20%;"| Name
! style="width:30%;"| Joined in
! style="width:25%;"| Avengers team
|-
| Captain America / the Captain
| Steven "Steve" Grant Rogers
| Avengers #4 (March 1964)
| Avengers
|-
| Human Torch
| Jim Hammond (legal name)
| West Coast Avengers #50 (November 1989) West Coast Avengers
|-
| Captain America / Winter Soldier
| James Buchanan "Bucky" Barnes
| Avengers, New Avengers
|-
| colspan=2| Amadeus Cho
| rowspan=2| Mighty Avengers #21 (February 2009)
|-
| Sunspot
| Roberto "Bobby" da Costa
|-
| colspan=2|Zheng Shang-Chi
| Avengers, Avengers Emergency Response Squad
| rowspan=4| Avengers
|-
| colspan=2| Ex Nihilo
|-
| Nightmask
| Adam Blackveil
|-
| Starbrand
| Kevin Connor
|-
| colspan=2|Alexis the Protector
| Avengers A.I. #3 (September 2013)
| rowspan=3| Avengers
|-
| Avenger X
| Cressida
| Avengers, vol. 7 #2.1 (December 2016)
| rowspan=2| Avengers
|-
| Starbrand
| Brandy Selby
|-
| colspan=2| Impossible City
| Avengers, vol. 9 #6 (October 2023)
| Avengers
|-
| Penance
| Monet Yvette Clarisse Maria Therese St. Croix
| rowspan=2|Uncanny Avengers, vol. 4 #1 (August 2023)
| rowspan=2| Avengers Unity Division
|-
| Psylocke
| Kwannon
|-
| Hawkeye
| Katherine "Kate" Bishop
| rowspan=2|Avengers, vol. 9 #14 (May 2024)
| rowspan=2| Avengers
|-
| Hazmat
| Jennifer Takeda
|-
| Lightspeed
| Julie Power
| rowspan=2| Avengers Assemble, vol. 2 #1 (September 2024)
| rowspan=2| Avengers Emergency Response Squad
| Honorary member of Avengers.
|}
Infiltrators
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%;"
! style="width:20%;"| Character
! style="width:20%;"| Name
! style="width:30%;"| Joined in
! style="width:30%;"| Notes
|-
| colspan=2| Sagittarius
| rowspan=2| West Coast Avengers #27 (December 1987)
| A Life Model Decoy who infiltrated the West Coast Avengers by replacing Hawkeye.
|-
| colspan=2| Leo
| A Life Model Decoy who infiltrated the West Coast Avengers by replacing Tigra.
|-
| colspan=2| Ravonna Lexus Renslayer
| Avengers #297 (November 1988)
| Infiltrated the East Coast Avengers by posing as Nebula.
|-
| colspan=2| H'rpra
| West Coast Avengers #91 (February 1993)
| A Skrull who infiltrated the West Coast Avengers by replacing Mockingbird.
|-
| colspan=2| Anti-Vision
| Avengers #360 (March 1993)
| Infiltrated the Avengers by impersonating Vision.
|-
| colspan=2| Veranke
| New Avengers #3 (February 2005)
| A Skrull who infiltrated the New Avengers and Mighty Avengers by posing as Spider-Woman.
|-
| colspan=2| Eric O'Grady (Life Model Decoy)
| Secret Avengers #24 (March 2012)
| Infiltrated the Secret Avengers as by posing as Ant-Man.
|-
| Superior Spider-Man
| Otto Gunther Octavius
| Amazing Spider-Man #698 (November 2012)
| Infiltrated the Avengers and Mighty Avengers by impersonating Spider-Man.
| Sam Wilson: Captain America #7 (March 2016)
| Alternate version of Captain America created by Kobik; who infiltrated the Avengers by posing as him.
|-
| Voyager
| Va Nee Gast
| Avengers #675 (January 2018)
| Infiltrated the Avengers under disguise of a forgotten founding member.
|}
In other media
Members of various iterations of Avengers in Marvel Cinematic Universe.
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Character codenames
! Short real name
! Portrayed by
! Joined in
! Avengers team
|-
! colspan="5" | First movie
|-
| Captain America
| Steve Rogers
| Chris Evans
| rowspan="6" | The Avengers (2012)
| rowspan="6" | Avengers
|-
| Iron Man
| Tony Stark
| Robert Downey Jr.
|-
| The Hulk
| Bruce Banner
| Mark Ruffalo
|-
| colspan="2" | Thor Odinson
| Chris Hemsworth
|-
| Black Widow
| Natasha Romanoff
| Scarlett Johansson
|-
| Hawkeye
| Clint Barton
| Jeremy Renner
|-
! colspan="5" | Later additions
|-
| Quicksilver
| Pietro Maximoff
| Aaron Taylor-Johnson
| rowspan="5" | Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)
| rowspan="10" | Avengers
|-
| Scarlet Witch
| Wanda Maximoff
| Elizabeth Olsen
|-
| colspan="2" | Vision
| Paul Bettany
|-
| War Machine
| James Rhodes
| Don Cheadle
|-
| Falcon / Captain America<br>
| Sam Wilson
| Anthony Mackie
|-
| Spider-Man
| Peter Parker
| Tom Holland
| Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
|-
| Ant-Man
| Scott Lang
| Paul Rudd
| rowspan="5" | Avengers: Endgame (2019)
|-
| colspan="2" | Nebula
| Karen Gillan
|-
| colspan="2" | Rocket
| Bradley Cooper (voice)<hr />
|-
| Captain Marvel
| Carol Danvers
| Brie Larson
|-
| colspan="2" | Okoye
| Danai Gurira
|-
! colspan="5" | 2020s recruits
|-
| Falcon
| Joaquin Torres
| Danny Ramirez
| Captain America: Brave New World (2025)
| Avengers
|-
|}
Notes
Removal from list
Many characters were removed from the list that were previously included because their respective teams (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) were declared as not officially sanctioned Avengers by handbooks even if they had affiliation or used their name.