Avenger

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Avenger, Avengers, The Avenger, or The Avengers may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

In the Marvel Comics universe

  • Avengers (comics), a team of superheroes
    • Avengers (Marvel Cinematic Universe), a central team of protagonist superheroes of "The Infinity Saga"
    • Avengers (comics) in other media
  • The Avengers (comic book), several titles
  • The Avengers: United They Stand, also known as The Avengers, a 1999 animated TV series
  • The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes, a 2010 animated TV series
  • The Avengers (2012 film), or Marvel's The Avengers
    • The Avengers (soundtrack)
  • The Avengers (video game), planned for 2012 but unreleased
  • Marvel's Avengers (video game), 2020

Fictional characters

  • Avenger (comics), a fictional character in Magazine Enterprises comic book The Avenger
  • Avenger (pulp-magazine character), in The Avenger 1939–1942
  • Crimson Avenger, multiple fictional characters in the DC Comics universe
  • Avenger, in visual novel video game Fate/hollow ataraxia
  • Avenger, in 1960s TV series Birdman and the Galaxy Trio and 2000s parody Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law
  • Avenger, in AC Comics' Sentinels of Justice
  • Avenger, in Way of the Tiger series of gamebooks, and the title of the first book

Film and television

  • The Avenger (1931 film), an American Western
  • The Avenger (1933 film), an American drama film
  • The Avenger (1937 film), an Australian film
  • The Avengers (1942 film), American title of The Day Will Dawn
  • The Avengers (1950 film), an American swashbuckler film
  • The Avenger (1960 film), or Der Rächer, a West German film
  • The Avenger (1962 film), or La leggenda di Enea, a 1962 Italian film
  • The Avengers (TV series), a British series, 1961–1969
  • The Avengers (1998 film), an American adaptation of the British TV series
  • Avenger (film), a 2006 adaptation of Frederick Forsyth's novel
  • Avenger (TV series), a Japanese anime series
  • Captain America: The First Avenger, an American superhero film
  • Avengers: Age of Ultron, a 2015 American superhero film
  • Avengers: Infinity War, a 2018 American superhero film
  • Avengers: Endgame, a 2019 American superhero film
  • The Toxic Avenger, a 2023 American superhero film
  • "The Avengers", a 1961 episode of the American TV series Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond

Gaming

  • Avenger (1981 video game)
  • Avengers (1987 video game)
  • Avenger (Dungeons & Dragons), a character class
  • Way of the Tiger II: Avenger, 1986

Literature

  • The Avenger (novel), by Edgar Wallace, 1926
  • Avenger (Shatner novel), a 1997 Star Trek novel by William Shatner
  • Avenger (Forsyth novel), a 2003 novel by Frederick Forsyth
  • The Avengers, a nonfiction 1968 book by Michael Bar-Zohar
  • The Avengers: A Jewish War Story, a 2000 nonfiction book by Rich Cohen

Music

  • Avenger (British band), a heavy metal band
  • Avengers (band), an American punk rock band
    • Avengers (EP), 1979
    • Avengers (album), 1983
  • Dark Avenger, song by American Heavy Metal band Manowar with narration by Orson Welles, 1982
  • The Avengers (New Zealand band), a rock band
  • Rage (German band), formerly named Avenger
  • The Avenger (album), a 1999 album by Amon Amarth
  • Corporate Avenger, an American rap rock band

Radio

  • The Avengers (radio series), a South African spin-off of the TV programme
  • The Avenger (radio program), the name of two American 1940s radio crime dramas

Military

Aircraft

  • Avro Avenger, a British 1920s biplane fighter
  • General Atomics Avenger, an American developmental unmanned combat air vehicle
  • Grumman TBF Avenger, a World War II American torpedo bomber
  • McDonnell Douglas A-12 Avenger II, a proposed American attack aircraft

Ships

  • Avenger-class escort carrier, a class of British and American World War II ships
  • Avenger-class mine countermeasures ship, of the U.S. Navy
  • HMS Avenger, the name of several Royal Navy ships
  • USS Avenger, the name of several U.S. Navy ships

Tanks

  • Avenger (tank), a development of the Cruiser Mk VIII Challenger

Weaponry

  • GAU-8 Avenger, an aircraft cannon
  • AN/TWQ-1 Avenger, an American surface-to-air missile system

Organisations and teams

  • Lesbian Avengers, a direct action group
  • Los Angeles Avengers, an American arena football team
  • White Eagles (paramilitary), or Avengers, a Serbian paramilitary group

Transportation

Air transport

Vehicles

See also

  • All pages with titles beginning with Avenger
  • All pages with titles beginning with The Avenger
  • Avenged (disambiguation)
  • Avengers Assemble (disambiguation)
  • French ship Vengeur ("Avenger'), the name of several ships
  • Goel, a biblical "avenger of blood"
  • Nakam (Hebrew, 'Revenge'), a group of Holocaust survivors seeking revenge for the Holocaust
  • Vendicatori (Italian, 'Avengers'), a 12th-century Sicilian secret society
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