My pitch for a West Coast Avengers series in the MCU
The Season 1 lineup of the West Coast Avengers would include:
1. Kate Bishop – the scrappy, charismatic heart of the team
2. Vision – the philosophical center, rebuilding his identity post-reset
3. America Chavez – powerful, dimension-punching rookie still learning her place
4. Shang-Chi – the grounded fighter who becomes the team’s moral compass
5. She-Hulk – balancing superhero work with her legal career and personal life
6. Wonder Man – the charming wildcard with a chaotic Hollywood past
7. War Machine (tentative) – depending on if he sticks around post reboot and his relationship with Tony Stark.
Scott Land and Hope Van Dyne would make sense to be on a team like this, but I wouldn't want them around post Secret Wars. I'd want a younger and recast Hank and Janet on the NY Avengers. Hank could join the West Coast Avengers in a third season of the show following his story in the mid 80's where he almost killed himself and serve as a story of mental health.
**Setting & Tone**
The series takes place after Secret Wars, as part of the reset MCU timeline, arriving in Year 2 of this new continuity. Its tone leans youthful, vibrant, and fun — closer to Ms. Marvel or Hawkeye than the traditional Avengers films. This is the MCU stepping back from world-ending stakes and embracing a more comic-booky, colorful identity.
This isn’t a world where the Avengers are saving the universe.
This is the world where they’re saving regular people.
**Series Format**
The show adopts a villain-of-the-week structure, following the newly assembled West Coast Avengers as they repeatedly cross paths with criminals, experimental disasters, and rogue scientists all tied to A.I.M. Many antagonists are small-time, weird, or deeply niche — the exact sort of oddballs who thrive in a more playful corner of the MCU.
Throughout the season, the team slowly uncovers a pattern: A.I.M. isn’t just resurfacing — it’s reorganizing. And the man orchestrating everything behind the scenes is MODOK, who steps forward as the major Season 1 villain.
**Themes & Character Arcs**
These heroes aren’t the icons of the mainline Avengers. They’re the misfits and “rejects” of this universe — powerful but directionless. Each is on a journey of:
* self-discovery
* understanding their place in a rebooted world
* learning to trust one another
The show focuses on the team slowly evolving into a found family, with an emotional throughline centered on belonging. By the finale, every member has grown into their role and realizes they’re stronger together than apart.
**Smaller-Scale Stakes & Style**
This is the smallest Avengers-branded project the MCU has ever done. Instead of alien invasions and Infinity Stones, the series leans into street-level adventures, quirky tech, and oddball sci-fi threats. The aesthetic openly embraces the colorful, sometimes bizarre charm of Marvel’s comics — grappling hooks, ray guns, biotech mishaps, neon A.I.M. armor, and plenty of stylized action. It’s superhero television that isn’t afraid to be fun, think like Legends of Tomorrow on the CW.
**Recurring Side Characters**
Howard the Duck appears in two episodes, not as a hero but as a snarky, trench-coat-wearing private detective who crosses paths with the team during cases involving A.I.M. tech in the criminal underworld. His cameo adds flavor, humor, and that weirder side of Marvel lore.
**Season Finale & Meta Stinger**
By the end of Season 1, the team finally comes together, defeating MODOK and shutting down A.I.M.’s West Coast operations. Their bond is solidified: they’re no longer strangers or misfits — they’re the West Coast Avengers.
Then the final credit scene hits:
Gwendolyn Poole is shown in her bedroom, watching this exact show on Disney+, popcorn in hand. She's surrounded by MCU DVD's and posters. She laughs at the finale, makes an offhand comment about pacing, and then — a portal tears open behind her, sucking her and her plush shark into the MCU.
Season 2 begins the moment she lands.
https://preview.redd.it/iu5cpxztuh6g1.jpg?width=650&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b93b35b2c64673dfe87581daff808d5d79bcb10e
1. Kate Bishop – the scrappy, charismatic heart of the team
2. Vision – the philosophical center, rebuilding his identity post-reset
3. America Chavez – powerful, dimension-punching rookie still learning her place
4. Shang-Chi – the grounded fighter who becomes the team’s moral compass
5. She-Hulk – balancing superhero work with her legal career and personal life
6. Wonder Man – the charming wildcard with a chaotic Hollywood past
7. War Machine (tentative) – depending on if he sticks around post reboot and his relationship with Tony Stark.
Scott Land and Hope Van Dyne would make sense to be on a team like this, but I wouldn't want them around post Secret Wars. I'd want a younger and recast Hank and Janet on the NY Avengers. Hank could join the West Coast Avengers in a third season of the show following his story in the mid 80's where he almost killed himself and serve as a story of mental health.
**Setting & Tone**
The series takes place after Secret Wars, as part of the reset MCU timeline, arriving in Year 2 of this new continuity. Its tone leans youthful, vibrant, and fun — closer to Ms. Marvel or Hawkeye than the traditional Avengers films. This is the MCU stepping back from world-ending stakes and embracing a more comic-booky, colorful identity.
This isn’t a world where the Avengers are saving the universe.
This is the world where they’re saving regular people.
**Series Format**
The show adopts a villain-of-the-week structure, following the newly assembled West Coast Avengers as they repeatedly cross paths with criminals, experimental disasters, and rogue scientists all tied to A.I.M. Many antagonists are small-time, weird, or deeply niche — the exact sort of oddballs who thrive in a more playful corner of the MCU.
Throughout the season, the team slowly uncovers a pattern: A.I.M. isn’t just resurfacing — it’s reorganizing. And the man orchestrating everything behind the scenes is MODOK, who steps forward as the major Season 1 villain.
**Themes & Character Arcs**
These heroes aren’t the icons of the mainline Avengers. They’re the misfits and “rejects” of this universe — powerful but directionless. Each is on a journey of:
* self-discovery
* understanding their place in a rebooted world
* learning to trust one another
The show focuses on the team slowly evolving into a found family, with an emotional throughline centered on belonging. By the finale, every member has grown into their role and realizes they’re stronger together than apart.
**Smaller-Scale Stakes & Style**
This is the smallest Avengers-branded project the MCU has ever done. Instead of alien invasions and Infinity Stones, the series leans into street-level adventures, quirky tech, and oddball sci-fi threats. The aesthetic openly embraces the colorful, sometimes bizarre charm of Marvel’s comics — grappling hooks, ray guns, biotech mishaps, neon A.I.M. armor, and plenty of stylized action. It’s superhero television that isn’t afraid to be fun, think like Legends of Tomorrow on the CW.
**Recurring Side Characters**
Howard the Duck appears in two episodes, not as a hero but as a snarky, trench-coat-wearing private detective who crosses paths with the team during cases involving A.I.M. tech in the criminal underworld. His cameo adds flavor, humor, and that weirder side of Marvel lore.
**Season Finale & Meta Stinger**
By the end of Season 1, the team finally comes together, defeating MODOK and shutting down A.I.M.’s West Coast operations. Their bond is solidified: they’re no longer strangers or misfits — they’re the West Coast Avengers.
Then the final credit scene hits:
Gwendolyn Poole is shown in her bedroom, watching this exact show on Disney+, popcorn in hand. She's surrounded by MCU DVD's and posters. She laughs at the finale, makes an offhand comment about pacing, and then — a portal tears open behind her, sucking her and her plush shark into the MCU.
Season 2 begins the moment she lands.
https://preview.redd.it/iu5cpxztuh6g1.jpg?width=650&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b93b35b2c64673dfe87581daff808d5d79bcb10e
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