'I am of my time, and my time has passed'

[flemmings]

Say 'Avengers' to me and I think Steed and Mrs. Peel.

Wikipedia tells me the comic book Avengers began when I was still, if desultorily, reading comic books. I remember Spider Man and the Fantastic Four and more dreary Superman reboot schticks than I can list, but I don't recall the Avengers at all. From the LJ response it seems they were an integral part of everyone else's childhood; maybe your childhood had to be in the 80s or 90s?

Comments

[mvrdrk.livejournal.com]

All the members of the avengers were around for a long time. I don't have any association with them as a team ...

I think steed and peel, too. Spouse was disappointed to get there and find out it wasn't steed and peel. But I can't think of any current actress that I think could do peel properly.

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

Nor can I, but I'm not up on my screen actresses. The British may have some gem hidden away that I, in my TV-less existence, will never hear about. OTOH I'm quite happy to think of Diana Rigg as being irreplaceable sui generis.

[incandescens]

I remember reading Avengers comics when I was at school in the eighties. Them and the X-Men. Then I discovered Steed and Mrs Peel (and Cathy Gale, and Tara King, and Purdey too) when I was at university.

So both groups come up in my mind when I think of the Avengers. But I know which group I love more. And much as I enjoy certain Marvel superheroes . . . I still know that Steed and Mrs Peel save the world better.

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

Steed and Mrs. Peel have classiness to them, but it feels a certain 'of their time' as well. A younger, happier, more innocent, pre-Thatcher era, and do not look at the class assumptions too closely...

[incandescens]

Well, it's as much a fantasy as superhero fantasies. And they change with the times as well.

[avalonjones.livejournal.com]

"The Avengers" will *always* mean John Steed and Mrs. Peel to me. I have the biggest girlcrush on Mrs. Peel. I wish I looked like her--she's so gorgeous.

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

I have too, and have for 40 years!

[i-am-zan.livejournal.com]

late here to everything ... but me too!

I was disappointed too, but like you I cannot think of any actress that can BE Mrs Peel (and I actually do know a few actresses, but none come to mind) ^_^

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

I think Mrs Peel was of her time too. Is it necessary to tell your replacement that your partner likes his tea stirred anti-clockwise? Let him stir his own tea, for heaven's sake.

[nekonexus.livejournal.com]

My childhood did not include comics, except a scattered few non-continuous issues of the Fantastic Four, and X-Men. A friend of the brother collected comics-related trading cards - I occasionally tried to talk him out of doubles. :p

So I am somewhat baffled by the overall "Avengers is AWESOME!" without context of what *makes* it awesome.

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

I have to assume that the awesomeness of the film is that it reflects the series exactly as the fans wish to see it. I gather that other similar films did not do this.

[nekonexus.livejournal.com]

So it would seem.

I think X-Men: First Class was maybe a little that for me, even if it lacked Gambit.

[summer-queen.livejournal.com]

You're not the only one.....

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

I'm feeling a bit reassured by these responses. Evidently I'm not quite the dodo I'd envisioned myself as being.

[petronia.livejournal.com]

All the Avengers characters had/have their own series going, and if I heard of them it was as their own series. I didn't read comics as a kid, but once Marvel started cranking their movie continuity many of the geeky guys I knew got very excited, and that was when I found out that the Avengers were a Team(tm).

It seems to be a fairly large and fluid team in its comics incarnation, to be honest -- like one of those Japanese idol groups where members join and leave. XD; Spider-Man was in it for a while. Not like the Fantastic Four who are always four by definition (I guess?).

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

So maybe I know the Avengers better as their individual avatars? I thought Hulk was part of the Fantastic Four, but he may have had a split-off in the (cough) nearly five decades since I knew him well.

[tammylee.livejournal.com]

I was never interested in The Avengers. I was more into X-Men and Groo and The Savage Sword of Conan.

My younger days were all about Archie and Katy Keene!

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

I'm a little shocked to learn that Katy Keene survived to the 80s. Archie we still have with us, of course.