The way I see the social strata of the Avengers (and tangential associates of the Avengers – superheroes, really), it’s broken into three layers: newer heroes, established heroes, and Iron Man. Tony Stark’s so far removed from the day-to-day concerns that everybody he knows has – and, let’s face it, a lot of those concerns, he never had to begin with – that his definition of “heroism” is different from other people. It’s a good source of tension, and obviously, a class conflict that I enjoy returning to over, and over, and over, and over, and over again.
Now, about Beast. It took me a long time to think of a good way to use a mutant team in the Phil Wrede Marvel Action Figure Comic Universe (see the reference to X-Force above), but I was lucky that my all-time favorite X-Man has a history of involvement with the Avengers in the comics. In an attempt to, again, weave a little bit of contemporaneous life into the comic, I thought it’d be funny (and depressing) if the brilliant Dr. Hank McCoy was forced to take a job in HR with Stark Industries, because it was the only way he could get good health coverage. Given the way his mutation has treated him over the years, he probably needs great health insurance.
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