Craving more of Marvel’s Avengers? Peek at these addictive fanfictions

The Marvel Cinematic Universe is one of the biggest franchises out there. Naturally, with every big franchise comes a big fanbase with an equally big archive of fanfiction. Currently, the tag for The Avengers (2012) on Archive of Our Own has 164,241 works of fanfiction ready for you to read. The larger label on Ao3 for the MCU has 391,866 fanfics. Needless to say, there’s plenty of Avengers fanfiction for you to read. 

We’re not even getting into the fanfics based on the comics or the animated shows. We’re giving you a selection of some of the best Avengers fanfiction out there. Do you want the team to be a found family after the 2012 movie where nothing hurt? We got you covered. Want a post-Winter Soldier one where Bucky is found and part of the team? Got you covered.

These recs are some of our favorites out there. You’ll laugh. You’ll cry. You’ll wish things were a little bit found family in the MCU. But hey that’s what fanfiction is for.

https://archiveofourown.org/series/18228

In Which Tony Stark Built His Friends (But His Family Was Assigned by Nick Fury)  by scifigrl47

Colloquially known as “The Toasterverse”, scifigrl47’s epic masterpiece of a series came out prior to The Avengers. The series largely takes place in the POV of Tony Stark, human disaster, who is trying to get used to having people who actually care about him mixed with some confusing feelings toward Steve Rogers. The series is hilarious and heartwarming with major “Avengers as a found family” vibes.

The series pairings are Steve Rogers/Tony Stark, Clint Barton/Phil Coulson, Thor/Jane Foster with numerous other side pairings. It also folds in both the MCU and other Marvel properties such as the X-Men, Andrew Garfield Spider-Man movies, and more. It’s a great rich world, and a major bummer that the series hasn’t been updated since 2015. But what’s there is amazing and you need to check it out. 

https://archiveofourown.org/works/442795 

Culture and Other Balls of Twine by LithiumDoll

Following the events of the 2012 Avengers movie, Tony “kidnaps” Bruce to go on a road trip before having to deliver to a special lab to work. During the trip, Nick Fury sends the other members of The Avengers to come get the erstwhile heroes except that they are brought along for the ride as well. It’s definitely sweet to see them all coming together and at five chapters with 17,000 words, it packs a lot into the story.

Seriously, though, this is relatively underrated fic. It’s great for if you’re looking for a nice post-The Avengers fic.

https://archiveofourown.org/series/275805

Magazineverse by copperbadge

Copperbadge is a prolific fanfic author across several fandoms. Seriously, their work is some of the best out there. If we have to choose one Avengers fanfiction by Copperbadge, then we’re going with the Magazineverse. Written as an outsider POV, a writer follows the Avengers for a couple days so people, at large, can get to know the mysterious superheroes.

Done in the style of a magazine article, the first two fics in the series are great, taking place post Avengers and post Winter Soldier respectively. The reveal of who the author is at the end of the first fic is too great not to spoil here. Basically, this is an excellent series showcasing some great character dynamics while keeping in tone with a feature magazine article. 

https://archiveofourown.org/works/17356949

let’s keep our eyes on the cracks by napricot

You remember how people really wanted Thanos to be defeated by Scott Lang going up his butt and then expanding, blowing him up? Yeah. That was a theory. This fanfic imagines it along with the aftermath in the most hilarious way possible. It’s so glorious. If you don’t like how Avengers: Endgame ended things, then go for the most hilarious way possible. 

Seriously, we almost died laughing several times during the fic. “Dont say buttsplosion,” indeed. 

https://archiveofourown.org/series/325838

Wear Your Heart on Your Skin by theredbook

This AU series follows piercist Bucky returning home for service with a traumatic brain injury and working at tattoo artist Steve Rogers’ shop. The other Avengers appear as well with various friends and connections growing with time. The first fic in the series finishes out at about 40 chapters of an excellent slow burn and explores a lot of the relationships between the group.

Unfortunately, the second fic stopped updating in 2018, but the 18 chapters that are there are pretty great. Seriously, the first fic is absolutely riveting to read.