Domestic Avengers

Domestic Avengers is the relationship between the Avengers team, often incorporating characters such as Phil Coulson, or even villains like Loki.

The Avengers
The original team, consisting of Iron Man (Tony Stark), Captain America (Steve Rogers), the Hulk (Bruce Banner), and later the god of thunder, Thor Odinson, meets aboard an S.H.I.E.L.D. helicarrier at the request of S.H.I.E.L.D. director Nick Fury and his Avengers Initiative. The four heroes, along with Black Widow (Natasha Romanoff) and Fury, meet in Banner's lab and bicker, argue, and generally dislike each other. Loki Odinson, Thor's adopted brother, attacks the helicarrier with Tesseract-controlled S.H.I.E.L.D. agents, including Hawkeye (Clint Barton). Rogers discovers that S.H.I.E.L.D. has been collecting old HYDRA weapons, and after fighting off the HYDRA agents allied with Loki, he steals a ship with Thor, Stark, Banner, Romanoff, and Barton to go to New York, where Loki has opened a wormhole to let in an alien army called the Chitauri. The Avengers fight the Chitauri in what is later known as the Battle of New York. The Council informs Fury that they are sending a nuclear bomb to New York to destroy the alien invasion, and Fury informs the team. Stark flies through the wormhole to nuke the Chitauri mothership, killing all the Chitauri and ending the battle. The Avengers go their separate ways, with Thor taking Loki back to their home planet of Asgard and the rest of the team returning to their homes.

Avengers: Age of Ultron
The Avengers go on another mission to attack the HYDRA research base. After their victory, they celebrate with a party in the Avengers Tower. During the party, they are mostly busy with different guests, so they are not together. After the guests have left, however, they chat together, including Maria Hill, Helen Cho, and James Rhodes, most of whom try to lift Mjolnir. The attempts are unsuccessful, leading Thor to easily conclude that they are all unworthy, followed by a chorus of disagreement from the others. Suddenly, they are interrupted by Ultron, who labels them as murderers.

The group quickly finds itself in a battle with Ultron, and they eventually manage to destroy the drones. However, Ultron manages to use the Internet as an escape hatch. They are then gathered in the lab to discuss Ultron. This leads to an argument between them, with most of them blaming on Tony, but Tony tries to defend himself, explaining that he was trying to find a solution to the dangers from space. Steve assures Tony that they will face the threat together, and that even if they are defeated, they will still be together.

The Avengers then travel to Ulysses Klaue's location and find Ultron there, along with the Maximoff twins. They try to fight them, and Wanda tries to affect their minds. Clint manages to avoid this by putting an arrow in Wanda's forehead, but Steve, Natasha, and Thor begin to see painful visions. Wanda also manages to turn Bruce into the Hulk, prompting Tony to fight him. As a result, the public's perception of the Avengers worsens.

Hoping to let the Avengers relax a bit, Clint takes them to his home, revealing that he has a wife and family. There, they try to relax, with the exception of Thor, who goes off to learn about the Infinity Stones. Tony and Steve chop wood together, and Bruce and Natasha talk. They are later joined by Nick Fury to discuss the matter of Ultron further.

They later become involved in the Battle of Seoul, which results in Natasha being taken hostage. When they have a brief fight with the Maximoff twins over the issue of Vision's resurrection, Thor reappears to activate Vision. After a few conversations with Vision, Clint receives a signal from Natasha and the team heads to Sokovia. Bruce eventually frees Natasha, and although he plans to run away with her, she rejects the idea by turning him into the Hulk. They battle Ultron and his army of Ultron Sentries alongside the Maximoff twins and Vision, defeating him, but at the cost of Sokovia's destruction. After the battle, the six original Avengers split up, with Thor returning to Asgard to learn more about the Infinity Stones and the Hulk not returning with the Quinjet.

Avengers: Infinity War
During the events of Infinity War, the six Avengers are not together. Clint has retired to live a peaceful life with his family. Thor is in space after the events of Ragnarok. Natasha has teamed up with Steve, and they have separated from Tony due to the events of the Civil War. Tony, on the other hand, is reunited with Bruce after he is sent back to Earth. Afterwards, Bruce also reunites with Natasha and Steve at the New Avengers facility and they later fight in the Battle of Wakanda. Meanwhile, Tony is involved in the Battle of Titan. Thor later joins the Battle of Wakanda. They ultimately lose due to Thanos being able to do the Snap, causing half the universe to disappear. The six of them survive the Snap.

Avengers: Endgame
Some time after the Snap, Tony is finally rescued from space by Captain Marvel. The Avengers are together at the New Avengers Facility and get into a discussion about the Snap. Clint is not there, but the Snap has caused him to lose his entire family. Thor separates himself from everyone else, burdened with anger and guilt. Tony and Steve have a heated conversation, the former giving up his Arc Reactor and later passing out. While Stark rests, the other Avengers, except Clint, go to the Garden in hopes of reversing the effects of the Snap. This proves unsuccessful, however, as Thanos has destroyed the Stones. The mission results in Thanos' death, thanks to Thor, but also further emotional breakdown for the Avengers.

After five years, the Avengers have their own interests and try to move on. Tony settles down to have a family, Thor establishes the New Asgard on Earth, Bruce fuses with the Hulk, Clint becomes Ronin, and Steve works on support group meetings and Natasha leads the Avengers with the new members. Following Scott Lang's idea of Time Heist, they try to bring the team back together. Natasha, Steve, and Scott visit Tony at his home, and later Bruce at a diner, both to discuss the idea of the Time Heist. Natasha reunites with Clint in Tokyo and Bruce reunites with Thor in New Asgard, both to give hope to the two who have fallen into depression.

The six original Avengers, along with the other new Avengers, plan and execute the Time Heist. Steve, Tony, and Bruce go to New York City with Scott in 2012. Thor goes to Asgard with Rocket in 2013, and Clint goes to Vormir with Natasha in 2014, causing her sacrifice to obtain the Soul Stone. The remaining Avengers mourn Natasha's death outside the New Avengers Facility, with Bruce urging the team to make it worthwhile. Bruce successfully performs the Blip to bring everyone back, but they must confront Thanos, who has traveled from the past, in the Battle of Earth. The battle results in Tony's ultimate sacrifice to save the universe, with the remaining Avengers attending his funeral. Thor names Valkyrie King of Asgard and then joins the Guardians of the Galaxy, while Clint continues to live with his family. Steve travels back in time to retrieve Mjolnir and the Infinity Stones, then settles down in the 1940s to marry Peggy. He grows old and gives his mantle and shield to Sam, then retires.

Fanon
The style of fics that the Domestic Avengers would be a part of began to emerge after the release of The Avengers. On AO3, there are over 5000 works written about the Domestic Avengers. Many write that Stark Tower became Avengers Tower, a theory that later became canon, and that all the Avengers lived there. Each Avenger would have their own floor or space but there would also be a gym and a group family/entertainment room where they would spend time together. Many fics in this style would also typically have the author's preferred pairing as the focus, with the Domestic Avengers as a setting or background aspect. The most popular scenario of this is arguably Superfamily in which Steve and Tony are having a relationship with Peter Parker as their son, which often includes other Avengers.

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