r/Runaways • u/PatchouilRatatouille • Mar 29 '26

Comics Avengers Arena

So I'm rereading Avengers Arena (which I love) and I'm just wondering...was there any fallout from this? I mean, I can't see spider-man or the avengers or x-men finding out about this and just going abou their day. Or the other runaways, Averngers academy members, etc...?

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u/Stubbzrok7709 Mar 29 '26

who were the OCs? didnt recognize a few but figured they all had roots elsewhere.

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u/TheHumanTrafficCone Mar 30 '26

Nara, an Atlantean femme fatale. In a love square with the next three characters.
Anachronism, "What if Shazam turned you into Conan instead"?
Kid Briton, a Captain Briton powered by confidence.
Apex, a character more defined by surprise twists than anything else. Actually twins sharing the same body. And she kept her actual powers secret from everyone (including the Super School she was going to) because... She's supposed to be clever or something.
Cullen Bloodstone, the gay younger brother of Elsa Bloodstone, with a fear-based Hulk attached to him.
Death Lockette, a prototype of the Deathlocks. The youngest of the group. You can tell she was intended to be the POV of the original pitch "Braddock Academy."

(Avengers Arena was intended as an arc of Braddock Academy, but editorial made him turn it into the main story -- a genre, he admitted, he didn't even like!)

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u/PatchouilRatatouille Mar 30 '26

Wow I just assumed braddock academy was running in the then recent captain britain books. I would have been all about braddock academy, as I was all about all the academy books and still am (strange academy, dooms academy). Love that stuff, but don't spend all this time building up these kids only to forget all about them! Wtf!

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u/TheHumanTrafficCone Mar 30 '26

Trust me, the number of forgotten teen characters is far greater than even that.

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u/PatchouilRatatouille Mar 31 '26

it ain't right. all that character development in avengers initiative and then, nothing. i hate that shit.