Avengers #10

The adjectiveless Avengers lineup is still all present (apart from Captain America (Bucky)), even more so with Maria Hill. Jessica Jones makes the New Avengers also complete (unless you count Victoria Hand and nanny Squirrel Girl). The addition of Ant-Man and Sharon Carter also rounds out the Secret Avengers basic roster. The purple gem is the Space Gem allowing the user total control of space. (But as I noted in #7, why can't the Reality Gem do that anyway?) Last issue Hood had 1 gem in each glove, rather than all in one as now. The Reality Gem presumably transported him directly here without going through the security checks. Why does Valkyrie's sword Dragonfang get left behind when Hood wishes the Avengers away? Maybe because it's magical? She doesn't have it for the rest of the story arc. There is no Oral History of the Earth's Mightiest Heroes in this issue. Instead there is part of Heroes For Hire #1.

This is part 4 of 6. The orange gem is the Time Gem. This was the 2nd Infinity Gem to be seen in Marvel history (owned by the Elder of the Universe called the Gardener, alongside the Stranger's Reality Gem in Marvel Team-Up #55, and after Warlock's Soul Gem in his own series). As you'd expect it confers total control of time, and combined with the Space Gem it gives omniscience. The X-Men's school was ruined (the last time) during Messiah Complex. My analysis in #8 of when Reed Richards distributed the Infinity Gems in Illuminati #2 means that Prof X put the Gem here before the destruction. But isn't it strange that the protecting program still works? The Danger Room itself was destroyed when its AI became Danger in Astonishing X-Men (2004) #10. It was replaced by the Danger Cave in New X-Men (2004) #21, so this should be what the Avengers are facing. But my positioning of Illuminati #2 is before either of these stories. The Danger Room villains include the original Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, Blob, Sentinels and Brood. Eric O'Grady stole the Ant-Man suit from SHIELD, and has ever since wavered between minor villain and minor hero. He's had his own Irredeemable mini-series, and been in the Initiative and Norman Osborn's Thunderbolts. He mentions that he's now part of the covert ops Avengers team (Secret Avengers). Iron Fist tells him to keep quiet about that, but it's unclear whether he knew such a team exists.