Year: 2005
Major Events:
- Civil War
- House of M
- Avengers: Disassembled
- Tony Stark forms the Illuminati
- Iron Man character gets significant updates. His origin is changed to have occurred during Operation Desert Storm (instead of Vietnam), and he invents his Extremis armor, which functions better and has a design that will look cool on a movie poster.
- Peter David reboots X-Factor.
- Spider-Man gets armor.
- Major Runs End: Brian Michael Bendis on Daredevil; Mark Waid’s Fantastic Four; Peter David’s record-making run on Hulk.
- Ed Brubaker begins writing Captain America
- Power Pack return with multiple, all-ages miniseries.
- The New Avengers form.
Best New Series: Young Avengers. Runners Up: X-Factor, Invincible Iron Man
Major Series Cancellations: Many, including The Avengers, Excalibur, She-Hulk, and Spectacular Spider-Man.
Important Deaths:
- A schoolbus full of kids and some New Warriors members
- Ant-Man, Vision, Hawkeye, and Agatha Harkness
- Northstar
- Banshee
Top 15 New Characters:
- Layla Miller
- Patriot (Young Avengers)
- Kate Bishop (Young Avengers)
- Maria Hill
- Ronin
- Amadeus Cho
- Sentry
- Shuri
- Hulkling (Young Avengers)
- Iron Lad (Young Avengers)
- Wiccan (Young Avengers)
- Vision (Young Avengers)
- White Tiger (Angela Del Toro)
- Danger
- Vulcan (Gabriel Summers)
Top 15 Stories:
Not Canon: Punisher MAX: Slavers, First to Last, and Mother Russia are two of the best stories of all time. But not canon.
- Young Avengers #1-6
- Captain America #8-14 (Winter Soldier)
- Iron Man #1-6 (Extremis)
- Wolverine #20-26: Enemy of the State
- X-Factor #1-6
- Captain America #1-6: Out of Time
- Spider-Man/Human Torch #1-5
- Avengers #500-503: Disassembled
- Amazing Spider-Man #515-518: Skin Deep
- Marvel Knights: Madrox
- Fantastic Four #524: Disassembled
- Daredevil #76-81 (The Murdoch Papers)
- Fantastic Four/Iron Man: Big in Japan
- Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes Maxi-Series
- Wolverine: Agent of SHIELD