[1] The series shows 16 young heroes from the Marvel Universe and pit them against each other in a kill-or-be-killed, reality-show-like scenario in Murderworld run by Arcade.

[2] The series ended with issue 18[3] and was followed by a sequel titled Avengers Undercover that dealt with the survivors infiltrating the Shadow Council's Masters of Evil.

[4] In September 2012, Marvel Comics announced that Avengers Arena would debut, with a December 2012 cover date, by the creative team of Dennis Hopeless and Kev Walker.

As the games begin, Red Raven tries to escape from the area only for her to be killed when an invisible force field breaks her neck and causes her to crash to the ground.

The trio is then teleported by Arcade to the supply cache at Quadrant 2 just as Apex, Death Locket, and Kid Briton arrive.

Juston Seyfert is revealed to have survived the attack from the cybernetic creature, but is now paralyzed below the waist due to the injuries sustained when the Sentinel crashed.

Distraught at the loss of his best friend, Juston salvages the remains of the Sentinel and creates a suit of battle armor which he uses to attack Death Locket.

*characters were featured as part-time students in Avengers Academy later in that series Death Locket and the students from the Braddock Academy were created by Hopeless and Walker just for Avengers Arena In September 2021, Variety reported that the character of Katy (portrayed by Awkwafina) in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) film Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings was considered a loose adaptation of Katy / Apex, a character created for Avengers Arena.