List of Avengers: The Initiative characters

Avengers: The Initiative was a comic book series from Marvel Comics than ran from April 2007 to June 2010. The series focused on the training facility located at Camp Hammond in Stamford, Connecticut, where pro-registration heroes were trained for the Fifty State Initiative. Following is a list of characters who were featured in the series.

Camp Hammond staff

Other guest instructors and staff included: Ares, Ms. Marvel, and Wonder Man as part of the Mighty Avengers.^[3] Batroc the Leaper previously worked out of the Virginia training facility, and was set to be moved to Camp Hammond as a Martial arts instructor.^[3] He later returned to his life of crime as a mercenary.^[18] Gargoyle served as an Initiative instructor before retiring.^[14]

Camp Hammond recruits

There were an undetermined number of recruits at Camp Hammond before it closed; according to Henry Peter Gyrich and War Machine, there are over sixty super humans at Camp Hammond including staff.^[5] Recruits shown to be located at the camp include:

Other Initiative trainees

• Stature:^[3]
• Rocket Racer:^[3]
• Alex Power:^[3]
• Puma:^[3] Left to continue activity as a villain
• Challenger: Assigned to the Montana Initiative team, Freedom Force.^[2]
• Think Tank: Assigned to the Montana Initiative team, Freedom Force.^[2]
• Equinox: Assigned to the Montana Initiative team, Freedom Force.^[2] Revealed to be a Skrull infiltrator, and was killed by Cloud 9.^[20]
• Spinner: Assigned to the Montana Initiative team, Freedom Force.^[2] Believed killed trying to destroy a Skrull weapon system.^[7] Revealed to be alive in Fear Itself: Youth in Revolt.
• Shooting Star: Assigned to the Texas Initiative team, the Rangers.^[28]
• Blazing Skull: Assigned to the New Jersey Initiative team, the Defenders.^[15]
• Nonstop: Assigned to the Nevada Initiative team, the Heavy Hitters.
• Telemetry: Assigned to the Nevada Initiative team, the Heavy Hitters.
• Gravity: Assigned to the Nevada Initiative team, the Heavy Hitters. Transferred to the Great Lakes Initiative by Norman Osborn.^[9]
• Earth A Hulkling: Falsely joined The Initiative using his Earth-616 counterpart's identity,^[29] since returned home.
• Earth A Wiccan: Falsely joined The Initiative using his Earth-616 counterpart's identity,^[29] since returned home.

Camp H.A.M.M.E.R. staff

Other staff included Ares and Ms. Marvel (Moonstone) as part of the Dark Avengers.^[9] Baron Von Blitzschlag and Physique also retained the positions they had at Camp Hammond under Osborn's administration.^[31]

Camp H.A.M.M.E.R. recruits

Recruits shown to be part of Norman Osborn's Initiative include:

Other Camp H.A.M.M.E.R. trainees

• Percy Grimes^[9]
• Barton Grimes^[9]
• Cutthroat^[9]
• Mandrill^[26]
• Vampiro: Joined the Initiative to get out of prison. Killed by The Hood.^[26]
• Man-Killer^[34]

Shadow Initiative

The Shadow Initiative was created as a covert ops team, designed to handle unofficial field assignments.^[21] After Norman Osborn took over the Initiative and shut down Camp Hammond, the team was reorganized into a first strike team, containing heroes that were considered expendable.^[30]

Avengers Resistance

After Camp Hammond was shut down,^[22] Tigra and Gauntlet joined the New Warriors who had left the Initiative, and formed the Avengers Resistance, with the specific purpose of exposing the criminal deeds of Norman Osborn.^[9] Following Norman Osborne's arrest in the aftermath of the Siege of Asgard, the team disbanded.

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