New Avengers

The New Avengers are a fictional team of superheroes made up of canon Marvel characters, though the roster and team history deviates strongly from canon material.

Team History
Following the expansion of the Superhuman Registration Act to include the effective outlawing of mutants, the Avengers sought to expand their ranks in order to make up for their extra duties doubling as the New York Initiative team.

The Young Avengers were natural candidates, but disagreements over the SRA led to a scism within their ranks. In the end, Wiccan, Hulkling, Speed, and Vision left the team, refusing to support or even comply with the SRA.

Only Hawkeye, Patriot, and Stature remained. To pad out their ranks, they recruited from among their long-time allies, the Runaways. Predictably, this led to infighting within that team, too, but Chase Stein and Victor Mancha eventually emerged as volunteers. An Initiative-trained recruit, the Scarlet Spider, was selected as a sixth and final member.

Though technically fully-fledged Avengers, this new unit operated largely independently of the core Avengers team, and even established their own headquarters in the old Avengers Mansion in Manhattan. To distinguish them from the veteran roster, the media soon settled on calling them the "New Avengers" - a name that seems to have stuck, even after the better part of a decade.

The New Avengers primarily concern themselves with their Initiative duties, tackling assignments related to locating and processing mutants and other unregistered super powered beings in the New York State area.

Resources
Owing to their connections to both the Avengers and the Initiative, the New Avengers are very well funded and have access to a wide assortment of high tech equipment. The Avengers Mansion serves as their primary base of operations, and is known to include state of the art training and medical facilities, a fully stocked armory, a super maximum security detention facility, a shuttle bay (with quinjets), and luxury accomodations for the team's members and guests.