Mother's Day...Avengers Style

I thought it would bee kinda cool to dig into the Avengers roster a bit and look at those who have joined the ranks of Motherhood over the years.

Because let's face it - May is Avengers Month.

Note that this list isn't meant to be all-inclusive and there's no ranking of any kind, so there should be no hard feelings about anyone I've missed or forgotten.

1) Susan Storm

For those of you born after 1990, both Sue and Reed joined the Avengers in Avengers #299 (Jan, 1989) during the Inferno storyline that ran throughout the Marvel Universe. Children were disappearing, and a being named the Orphan-Maker was after another one...Franklin Richards. Sue's "Mommy-ness" kicked into high gear and fought the villain off along with Reed, Thor, Steve Rogers and Gilgamesh. She became an official member by issue's end.

2) Julia Carpenter

Julia is a single mother who wound up getting involved in the Beyonder's Secret War when her Denver suburb became part of Battleworld. She started appearing in Avengers West Coast starting in issue #70, but became a full member of the team in #74 (Sept, 1991).

3) Jessica Jones

I admit, Jessica Jones was introduced long after I stopped reading so I don't know much about her, but I can tell you that she joined the New Avengers in New Avengers #27 (April, 2007), is married to Luke Cage, and they have a daughter - Danielle.

4) Crystal

A member of the Royal Family of Inhumans, Crystal was also a member of the Fantastic Four for a while. She's had a very rocky relationship with her husband Quicksilver but together they had a daughter named Luna. During one of low points of her marriage, Crystal moved into Avengers Mansion with her daughter and joined the team in Avengers #343 (Jan, 1992).

5) Mantis

Okay - sit back for this one. Mantis was a human who was given to a religious group of the Kree race to be raised as the Celestial Madonna who was destined to give birth to the Celestial Messiah. After she finished her alien training, she was returned to Earth to gain "life experience", and it was then that she joined the team in Avengers #114 (August, 1973). She eventually did give birth to a boy named...Sequoia.

6) Wanda Maximoff

When I was reading Avengers and Avengers West Coast back in the day, she was simply a mutant happily married to an android with twin sons Thomas and William. I'd like to think that after all the S#!T that's happened to her since, she's still a mutant...married to an android...with twin sons.

AND THERE'S NOTHING YOU CAN SAY THAT WILL CHANGE THAT...EVER!!!

7) Carol Danvers

Marvel really messed up, because this is a fantastic character both before and since that storyline.

In fact, it wouldn't surprise me that she shows up in Avengers 2 or 3 to face Thanos...ARE YOU LISTENING WHEDON?

8) Lionheart

I know nothing about this character except that Kelsey Leigh is a British single mother of two, and at one point became the next Captain Britain.

9) Madeline Joyce

Who's that you ask? She was a member of the Invaders, the Liberty Legion and the All-Winner's Squad during WWII under the name Miss America. She married fellow teammate The Whizzer and they had a son - future Avengers villain Nuklo. She became an honorary Avenger post-humously.

Happy Mother's Day!