Portland Avengers (Marvel Comics We Never Made)

THE PORTLAND AVENGERS
(Reality-46421)

Membership: Grahh-Nola, the Hippie, Madame Vegan, the Protester, the Scarlet Cyclist, This Guy, Voodonut

Purpose: To defend Portland, Oregon

Aliases: None

Affiliations: Unrevealed; likely the Avengers, maybe the Initiative (see comments)

Enemies: Unrevealed

Base of Operations: Portland, Oregon (Earth-46421) (see comments)

First Appearance: Marvel 75th Anniversary Celebration#1 (October 2014)

History:
(Marvel 75th Anniversary Celebration#1/9/The Portland Avengers#323) - A new group of Avengers assembled to protect America's West Coast, this time based out of Portland, Oregon, each with powers representing different aspects of the region.

Comments: Created by Brian Michael Bendis, Kevin Maguire and Marte Gracia.

The Portland Avengers appeared as one of a series of "Marvel Comics We Never Made" spoof covers in the Marvel 75th Anniversary Celebration. They are listed as coming from Earth-46421, but I can't see any reason why the same characters and group couldn't have identical counterparts on Earth-616 (except, perhaps, for This Guy) - they're not really weirder than, for example, the Harvesters or Great Lakes Avengers. Heck, Grahh-Nola and Grain Belt have virtually identical powers! Frankly, they'd make a better option for the local Initiative team, given that Oregon got lumbered with the (not-so) reformed villains the Forces of Nature by Norman Osborn, and the Brazilian-born, don't-think-he's-ever-even-visited-the-state Sunspot for the state's representative Avenger in the variant covers for U.S.Avengers#1.

Since the cover, reproduced here as the profile's main image, is literally all we have to go on, the sub-profiles for the individual team members below have a lot of speculation.
Each issue may have featured 21 pages of the same images, with some text that varied between "Woah" and "Dude."--Snood

Profile by Loki.

CLARIFICATIONS:
The Portland Avengers has no known connections to:

any other Avengers - seriously, the real Avengers have probably taken out an injunction, like they did with the GLA
or any other "Portland" characters

Grahh-Nola, The Crunch That Walks Like A Man

From the looks of him, Grahh-Nola has powers similar to the Sandman or Quicksand; a body made of tiny particles that he is able to control independently of one another. In his case though, rather than sand, his body is composed of toasted rolled oats, nuts and honey. His origins are utterly unrevealed, but based on Marvel Universe precedents, he might have once have been:

an unlucky worker in a granola-production factory or criminal on the run who hid in same, only to be exposed to atomic radiation and merged with the product;
an alien lifeform that just happens to resemble granola;
a scientist trying to reproduce the super-soldier serum, who was shot by enemy agents trying to steal his work, swallowed the serum to prevent it being taken, then fell into a giant vat of granola, and emerged a granola-thing!;
a health freak with a passion for granola at every meal who proved that the adage "you are what you eat" is all too tragically and literally true;
the latest recipient of an ancient curse that turns the killer of each Grahh-Nola into the curse's next victim;
a Nazi scientist hiding out in the wilds of rural Oregon while working on developing super-intelligent strains of granola, only to have his flesh devoured by same before he managed to take control of the granola-hive mind;
a golem created using the mystic Kabbalah and a rather unusual choice of material.

The options are endless, and only get more ridiculous!