This is how The New Avengers are different from the old ones and in a good way

Red Guardian, Bucky, U.S. Agent, and Ghost looking at Yelena
The title Thunderbolts* was changed to The New Avengers as the movie ends. (Image via Marvel Entertainment)

If you have watched The New Avengers already, it is hard to escape the notice that life hasn't been kind to our new bunch of heroes, plus Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie) is now suing them for picking up the original team's title. But it is something that also makes them a better team than the originals with tattoos.

You see, the originals had major ego problems between the leaders, or we should just point out the trinity. That would be Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.), Steve Rogers (Chris Evans), and Thor Odinson (Chris Hemsworth). For the fresh batch, Bucky (Sebastian Stan), John Walker (Wyatt Russell), and Yelena (Florence Pugh). Well, it may have escaped your notice, but we have two rad versions of Captain America here.

They seem to be coming along just fine. It hasn't really been the case for the original trinity for a long time. If you remember that first standoff that Loki watched from above the mountain in the first film, it was a show of 'who's better.' Cap won that one.

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The New Avengers' leaders don't really care about being better

Bob isn't exactly a part of the New Avengers. (Image via Marvel Entertainment)
Bob isn't exactly a part of the New Avengers. (Image via Marvel Entertainment)

This group doesn't really care about anything but being the team they are, enjoying their new status, with a politician (Valentina) they can use at their own will (they still are evil, but that's good in this case). If there was a feud, it burnt there in that larger-than-life incinerator Valentina (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) sent them to die in.

This makes the New Avengers already better than the original ones, as they don't have to prove themselves better than their bunch. In fact, all three are like the original Black Widow, Natasha Romanoff (Scarlett Johansson). You may have noticed she doesn't worry about anything other than what her mission is. We have a Black Widow and two soldiers with super serum here who also share the same attitude.

Interestingly, Ava Starr (Hannah John-Kamen), aka Ghost, comes with the same attitude. If her mission is a go, she's executing it (or her, if you know, you know). That's all there is. We'll leave Bob out of this. He himself wants to stay away from all of this. But we must not. He's stronger than all the original Avengers pulled together and still doesn't have that ego problem. Well, he kind of developed it briefly after Val manipulated him. But that was it.


This is the coolest team in the Marvel Cinematic Universe by far

Taskmaster isn't a part of The New Avengers. (Image via Marvel Entertainment)
Taskmaster isn't a part of The New Avengers. (Image via Marvel Entertainment)

The original Avengers were cool too, but they didn't have a dark past like the New Avengers. Sad maybe, but not dark really. They didn't really have anything that required them to pull themselves together. Hell, there weren't even emotions until Natasha died and the other five represented the five stages of grief in Avengers: Endgame (2019).

This is a bunch of ragtags where every single one of them pulled themselves together and then became a team. The ending, when they all come together, is also when they truly become the New Avengers. That shame room was like their official 'Avengers Assemble' moment.

If they can be compared in terms of 'coolness,' of course, there's Guardians of the Galaxy. They kind of resemble this bunch of ragtags, only they are from space, that's all. We have heard of some Young Avengers too, but standing up to the cool New Avengers is a task for any team now.


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Edited by Sangeeta Mathew