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4. Avengers: The Crossing
Included Titles: *deep breath* Avengers # 390-395, Avengers: The Crossing # 1, Avengers, Timeslide # 1, Iron Man # 319-325, Force Works # 16-22, War Machine # 20-25, and Age of Innocence: The Rebirth of Iron Man # 1
Oh boy, this is a lot of comic books. And it’s also famously pretty bad. In The Crossing, Kang shows up again to menace the Avengers, but this time he has a trick up his sleeve. Turns out, Iron Man has been working for Kang since the 60s. Not mind controlled, not an activated sleeper agent, no.
Iron man has been a bad guy since practically the beginning of his career. And he kicks all the Avengers’s asses. So to stop him, they go back in time and recruit Tony Stark as a teenager to defeat his older self. And this somehow works (sorta). So Teen Tony replaces original Iron Man for good.
Long-term effects: None. I know, everything I just described sounds like it would be a permanent change, but this was so broken and so hated that less than a year later, Heroes Reborn and Heroes Return happened and totally erased this from continuity.
