Ms. Marvel joins the Avengers as the replacement for Scarlet Witch who is on a leave of absence. Steve Rogers convinces his friend Sam Wilson to join the team as the Falcon to satisfy the government’s minority quota. Wanda, Pietro, and Django Maximoff depart for Europe. Having been shattered while in glass form, Absorbing Man’s scattered pieces reincorporate when dumped close together in a landfill. He robs a clothing store and abducts its female clerk, Sandy Herkowitz, for company, intending to sail to South America to start a new life, but encounters Hawkeye in a dockside coffee shop and they fight. After Beast, Iron Man, Ms. Marvel, Vision, and Wasp arrive on the scene, Absorbing Man absorbs the power of a ship’s turbines and grows to enormous size.