In this series, Iron Man and War Machine assemble a new West Coast Avengers roster which includes Spider-Woman, Firestar, Ultron and Blue Bolt.

[19] The team would later take on Hank Pym as a scientific advisor and compound manager[20] and battle a range of both old foes – including the Grim Reaper,[20][21] Ultron,[20][21][22] Graviton,[23] and Zodiac[24] – and new opponents such as Master Pandemonium.

Henry Pym, who is saved by Firebird from a suicide attempt,[27][28] and the adventurer Moon Knight formally join,[29] while Iron Man is expelled for his actions during the Armor Wars.

[27][31] The marriage of Hawkeye and Mockingbird is placed in jeopardy when, during this arc, she allows the Old West hero the Phantom Rider to die in a fall for deceiving and raping her.

[32] After a trip to Hungary to investigate a report on Pym's second wife, the Wasp, the Scarlet Witch, and the Vision assist the team.

Wonder Man, however, does not allow his brain patterns to be used again to provide a matrix for the Vision's emotions, explaining that the original process, done without his consent, had "ripped out his soul".

This, along with damage to the Vision's synthetic skin when he was dismantled, results in the synthezoid's resurrection as a colorless and emotionless artificial human.

Iron Man rejoins, and the mutant Quicksilver assists the team when the Scarlet Witch aligns herself with their father Magneto during a period in which she suffers from a mental breakdown.

Hank Pym, the Wasp and Quicksilver then leave the team, with Machine Man becoming reservists and Spider-Woman and the Living Lightning joining as full-time members.

[40] The team battle Ultron and his new creation Alkhema several times, and Hawkeye assumes his old identity of Goliath, during the Avengers crossover Operation: Galactic Storm, and reconciles with Mockingbird.

Several members of the West Coast team—including a returned Iron Man—are unhappy about the decision and leave to form another team, called Force Works.

[43] During the Fresh Start relaunch, both Hawkeyes – team founder Clint Barton and his successor Kate Bishop – decided to revive the West Coast Avengers following an attack by land sharks in Santa Monica.

Out of the rejected candidates like Bread-Boy (a man dressed as bread with bread-based catchphrases), Broken Watch (who claims to have the ability to be correct twice in a day), Dark Paladin (who was too dark), Dee-Va (who tried to seduce Clint), Doctor Mole (a humanoid mole who thought he was auditioning for the television show The Mole Men of Los Angeles), Dutch Oven (who was wrapped in a blanket), Scorp (a man in a scorpion suit), Silver Snowboarder (whose powers only work in the snow), Spider-King (a man covered in spiders who claims that he is a mutate), Surf Doctor (a doctor/surfer character), and Wolver-Mean (whose steak knives are strapped to his hands by rubber bands), Clint and Kate recruited America Chavez and Kate's boyfriend Johnny "Fuse" Watts, who helped in the mission, and were eventually joined by Gwen Poole and Quentin Quire.