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Originally Posted by Jason Abbadon

Depends- all the Avengers know the basics of the Gatherer versions, but Gatherers are not just some "Crime Syndicate" knock off- they usually feel justified in their actions- killing their counterparts being the small price of saving a world...but they're really not close to their 616 versions in character- more bitter and ruthless after jumping from reality to reality, gathering members and replacing ones that have been killed.
And to answer your question, it could be that Ares (newly returned from the dead) might accept a loan of 616 Hercules' magical weapons if it meant being able to take down SOME version of his jackass brother! LOL!

Basicly this Gatherer team would be like the Exiles, only instead of having a Quantum Leap premise, they would be intentionally jumping to worlds where the Avengers or X-Men or Defenders had screwed the pooch and the world paid the price for it. They recruit who they can and kill off the rest as the price of failure.
In the story, they'd be suprised that, while pretty damaged from various crossover events and major civilian casualty events (like in Secret Warriors, Genosha, House of M, etc.) the world has barely scraped by...

It would all start with the Gatherers coming through the Nexus of Realities and finding the Defenders there to make them go back....which leads to a very one-sided beatdown (hospitalization) of that crew.

Portal (remember him from Darkhawk?) from A.R.M.O.R. alerts the Avengers and gives them a general breakdown on this Gatherer team (maybe four pages of images with text boxes) leaving the first issue with Vision recruiting the new team.
hmm...definitely want to see an Avengers team led by Vision for a change!

sounds like a great miniseries in makings but marvel would try to capitalize until they ran why it would be popular into the ground by making it a regular series