Contains spoilers for A.X.E.: Judgment Day #2!
Marvel Comics' big crossover event Judgment Day can fix the Avengers by making them pay for one of their biggest mistakes. Since they took the decision to leave New York and move their base to the North Pole, transforming the corpse of a Celestial into Avengers Mountain, Earth's Mightiest Heroes have grown detached from the people they are supposed to protect. Now, as the Progenitor comes back to life and is ready to end all life on Earth, the Avengers will have to face the cost of their hubris.
One of the biggest changes introduced during Jason Aaron's tenure on Avengers has been the relocation of the team from their usual New York base of operations (Avengers Mansion, then Avengers Tower) to the North Pole, where they built an impressive facility inside the corpse of the Progenitor, the first Celestial to arrive on Earth. Since then, the Avengers have used salvaged Celestial technology to expand their capacities and operations like never before, to the point that they can now easily travel through time and dimensions. However, the Avengers also received criticism (both in-universe and from readers) for having "detached" themselves from the common people by moving away from New York. This decision proved to be symbolic of the Avengers' expanded vision and ambitions, which has led them to tinker with technology and powers beyond their comprehension.
Judgment Day is the result of a conflict between the Eternals and the X-Men, after the former accused the latter of being just another form of Deviants, which they are genetically encoded to eradicate. In A.X.E.: Judgment Day #2 (by Kieron Gillen, Valerio Schiti, Marte Gracia, and Clayton Cowles), a rogue faction of Eternals enlist Iron Man's help to create a new Celestial, a god that the Eternals will be forced to listen to. They reanimate the Progenitor using remnants of the Celestials' age on Earth, and are successful in stopping the Eternals. However, this new god immediately proclaims his intention of judging all the people on the planet. If this judgment goes against them, there will be no tomorrow, and it's all the Avengers' fault.
From the beginning, the idea of living inside a god's corpse and using its technology despite not completely understanding it was controversial. However, it tied into the direction taken by the Avengers since their relaunch in 2018: to make Earth's Mightiest Heroes bigger and more powerful than ever. The group has been dealing with cosmic-scale threats, from a host of rogue Celestials to Mephisto's plan to reshape the Multiverse in his image. However, the bigger the Avengers got, the more they lost sight of the consequences of their actions, and now Earth will pay the price. At the same time, this could be the chance to bring the Avengers back to their roots. Now that the Celestial Base is (likely) gone forever, once this crisis is over the team can return to their more relatable status quo, perhaps by focusing on the characters in the team rather than on the big-scale action.
The fact that Avengers Mountain became a threat to humankind is a symbol of the Avengers' current direction and of the criticism against it. Part of the team's appeal was that they lived among the common people (contrary to the Justice League), making them relatable heroes despite their status. Moving away from New York to live inside a god was a symbol of the team's growing hubris. The rise of the Progenitor in Judgment Day is - though probably not on purpose - the best possible critique of the direction taken by the Avengers over the past few years, but also the best chance to fix the team.
