Avengers titles differ chiefly in their mission. The "Uncanny Avengers" for example is a team lead by Havok with one of their chief goals being to unite the human and mutant populations and remove prejudice and fear. They are a direct answer to the fallout of AvX. "Secret Avengers" is more of a black ops group, going on secret missions for SHIELD, almost more of a Spy story than the traditional Superhero team. "Young Avengers" carries an entirely separate roster of superpowered youth doing their own thing without nessesarily taking orders from the actual Avengers bosses.
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Similar deal with the differant X-Men titles. "All New X-Men" is the story of the X-Men First Class Mutants being brought out of the past and into the present, and how they react to all the changes they find in the world. "Cable & X-Force" is, not surprisingly, the story of Cable leading a group of more militant mutants and some specific missions of his direction without being nessesarily under orders from the X-Men leaders. In fact, Cable and Collossus are both considered to be somewhat on-the-run right now and are generally considered fugitives. "Uncanny X-Force" is a black ops mutant squad being lead by (I believe) Psylocke now to go and do the sort of dirty, nasty jobs that most of the mutants don't want to. Rather than allow someone to rebuild Sentinels, for example, X-Force would just go and assassinate the man behind the operation before the factories were even up and running. Their actions remain hidden from most of the other X-Men because it would not be approved of. "Wolverine & the X-Men" is the story of Wolverine as the headmaster of the new School, and is mostly about the students, teachers, and school, rather than an actual field team fighting against supervillains. "Uncanny X-Men" is basically a fancy way 'Brotherhood'; it's Cyclops' team with Magneto, Magick, and Emma Frost, hated by the other X-Men, outlawed by the nation, and doing things to help mutants rather than worrying about humans. Basically they are following Magneto's dream instead of Xavier's. "X-Men Legacy" is the story of Legion, Xavier's son, and all his crazy all-powerful schitzophrenic stuff. "X-Men" is probably the classic X-Men title that you recall, just a team of mutant superheroes off to save the world.
"Wolverine" is the traditional Wolverine book you are accustomed to. "Savage Wolverine" is the story of Wolverine living in the Savage Land with Ka-Zar and dinosaurs and whatnot.
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