Worldwide, followers of Marvel are gaining a newfound infatuation with The Avengers‘ spin-off superteam, the New Avengers. The 2-decade-old namesake garnered renewed curiosity due to the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Thunderbolts* movement image, because the asterisk reveals the staff being rechristened with the title ‘New Avengers’ within the closing credit. This has impressed moviegoers to wish to study extra concerning the staff as they seem within the comics.
By discovering the comics they seem in, audiences are usually not solely beginning to study the strongest members of the New Avengers but additionally their strongest villains. A protagonist is just as important as their antagonist, and the enemies of the New Avengers helped elevate the staff right into a family title. The supervillains tied to the group rank among the many most dastardly and vile ever to step foot within the Marvel Universe. To finest perceive these villains, it is useful to interrupt down their connections to the New Avengers.
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Iron Man Created the New Avengers (& Then Tried to Destroy Them)
First Look: Tales of Suspense #39 by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber, Don Heck, Stan Goldberg, and Artwork Simek
Your entire cause why a New Avengers staff exists is because of Tony Stark. Not solely is he one of many key founders of the unique Avengers, however Iron Man additionally based New Avengers. It is ironic to suppose that the person who created the staff would additionally search their downfall, however he turns into an enormous downside for the New Avengers within the aftermath of Civil Battle. Even throughout Civil Battle, on the onset of the Superhuman Registration Act, the paranoia Stark instilled compelled different superheroes to register, not out of conviction, however out of worry.
In New Avengers Annual #2, Jessica Jones is nearly assassinated along with her child in hand, compelling her to achieve Stark Towers begging to register to guard her little one.
The turmoil Stark creates to hawk his political narrative straight impacts the superhero neighborhood, together with the very staff he based himself. He sought to create New Avengers to carry the superhero neighborhood collectively, after which sought to tear all of it aside with out realizing he had turn into what he hated.
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Norman Osborn Tried to Change the New Avengers with Lies
First Look: The Wonderful Spider-Man #23 by Stan Lee, Steve Ditko, and Artie Simek
In fashionable Spider-Man comics, the place Peter Parker sees him as a friend, Norman Osborn is framed as a good man as soon as burdened by the Inexperienced Goblin’s villainy. Present comics deal with the Inexperienced Goblin because the Mr. Hyde to Norman’s Jekyll, however the Marvel of yesteryear made it clear that Norman was at all times an issue, with or with out his Goblin sins. When he is seemingly utterly rid himself of the Inexperienced Goblin, Osborn stays evil, going so far as to takeover S.H.I.E.L.D. after being personally appointed as Director by the President of america.
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In the course of the Skrull invasion, Norman killed Queen Veranke on reside tv, inexplicably saving the world the place the New Avengers failed. This endeared him to the general public, permitting him to govern the media from his true colours and rebrand S.H.I.E.L.D. as H.A.M.M.E.R. Nevertheless, he is not only a risk to the New Avengers, however actively tries to interchange them together with his Darkish Avengers.
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A number of Iterations of Darkish Avengers Fought the New Avengers
First Look: Darkish Avengers #1 by Brian Michael Bendis, Mike Deodato Jr., Rain Beredo, and Cory Petit
In crafting a extra mainstream different to the New Avengers, Norman Osborn recruits his most villainous buddies. He rechristens them into the extra family-friendly costumes that the world has come to acknowledge fondly. This contains molding former Scorpion Mac Gargen into his Spider-Man, adopting Logan’s son Daken as Wolverine, and Bullseye as his pinpoint-accurate Hawkeye. With Norman on the helm as Iron Patriot, he creates the Darkish Avengers.
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Nevertheless, it isn’t simply the media that Norman manipulates for his agenda; he additionally manipulates the Darkish Avengers to do his bidding. Underneath the tutelage (or, reasonably, gaslighting) of Norman Osborn, the Darkish Avengers turn into formidable adversaries to the New Avengers, not solely by way of power but additionally within the energy they wield over the general public. With the media on their facet, the Darkish Avengers simply counter the New Avengers’ makes an attempt to persuade residents that Osborn and his staff are literally evil.
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The Hood and His Union of Supervillains Antagonized the New Avengers Recurrently
First Look: New Avengers #35 by Brian Michael Bendis, Leinil Yu, Dave McCaig, Richard Starkngs, and Albert Deschesne
Earlier than changing into the new Ghost Rider, Parker Robbins was the diabolical Hood, and, as such, constructed a community of supervillains to select heroes off one after the other. This superteam of hoodlums included the Chemistro, The Wrecker, Jigsaw, Vermin, Bulldozer, Blackout, Reply, the Wizard, Madame Masque, Cutthroat, the Residing Laser, Purple Man, and Brother Drumm. That hardly scratches the floor of how giant Hood’s gang actually is, or how a lot of a recurring downside they proved to be for the New Avengers.
By himself, Robbins is a two-bit participant within the wider New York felony underworld. He is a B-villain, and that could be beneficiant to say. Honestly, most of these in his group are B-villains, however collectively, they make an A-level risk to the New Avengers utilizing their mixed assets. One B-villain cannot beat the New Avengers, however a horde of them can stand an opportunity.
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Daniel Drumm Targets the New Avengers to Avenge His Brother’s Demise
First Look: Unusual Tales #169 by Len Wein, Gene Colan, Dan Adkins, John Romita, Glynis Wein, and John Costanza
Daniel Drumm is the brother of Jericho Drumm, a.ok.a. Brother Voodoo, who, through the New Avengers run, turns into the brand new Sorcerer Supreme. Satirically sufficient, earlier than Jericho took the mantle, Daniel was the one destined to turn into the undisputed dark arts master and regularly practiced mysticism rising up. On the identical time, Jericho appeared down upon his household’s faith. It wasn’t till dying that he’d make his brother vow to hold the humanities in his title as Brother Voodoo, albeit whereas Daniel haunted him as a spirit.
As a rule, Daniel meant effectively by being the catty ghost on his brother’s shoulder, however he turns into extra inimical within the wake of Jericho’s dying. Blaming Physician Unusual, Daniel assaults the New Avengers, displaying simply how highly effective spirits could be by possessing Unusual’s pals to work towards him. His capacity to submerge himself into corporeal beings showcases his mastery of the supernatural past the grave.
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Moridun Was the First Sorcerer Supreme and Final New Avengers Villain
First Look: New Avengers #2 by Al Ewing, Gerardo Sandoval, Dono Sánchez-Almara, and Joe Caramagna
When Sunspot purchased out A.I.M., he determined to make use of the group’s assets for good by forming a New Avengers unit to fight the pending incursions towards the multiverse. One of many fixed threats to the Multiversal Avengers is Moridun. Because the Sorcerer Supreme of the Fifth Cosmos, the title immediately appoints Moridun as one of many strongest threats that any Avengers staff has been unfortunate sufficient to face. He is the primary occasion of primordial magic throughout the total multiverse.
Moridun is so highly effective that he was in a position to survive the Fifth Cosmos’ transition into the Sixth. On this transition, he regenerates into Omnimax, the Devourer of Worlds. No matter whether or not he is referred to as Omnimax or Moridun, he is thought-about one of many strongest Marvel characters to emerge up to now decade or so.
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New Avengers vs. The Void, Sentry’s Darkish Half
First Look: Sentry #1 by Paul Jenkins, Jae Lee, José Villarrubia, Richard Starkings, and Wes Abbott
On his personal deserves, Robert “Bob” Reynolds’ Sentry persona is among the noblest heroes ever to put on a pair of tights within the Marvel Universe. When he’s consumed by the Void, nevertheless, he turns into the precise reverse. Vindictive and harsh, the Void casts a shadow over Marvel each time it seems on panel or is even talked about. Throughout “The Sentry” arc that begins in New Avengers #7, the staff is compelled to confront Sentry’s darker half.
Reality be instructed, calling the Void merely a Dark Sentry is an oversimplification. The Void is an historical entity relationship again so far as 1600 BCE. It doesn’t simply possess godlike energy; it’s implied that its power is linked on to God itself.
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Yelena Belova’s Tremendous-Adaptoid Transformation Was a Nightmare for the New Avengers
First Look: Inhumans #5 by Paul Jenkins, Jae Lee, Avalon Studios, Richard Starkings, and Wes Abbott
Yelena Belova is finest recognized now by MCU followers as the latest Avenger with ties to Black Widow, as each have been skilled to be assassins within the Pink Room. Whereas Yelena’s comedian historical past runs the same trajectory, there’s a time limit the place she turns into a pawn in a a lot larger recreation when A.I.M. and Hydra experiment on her physique, turning her into the Tremendous-Adaptoid, a creature who can soak up and mimic anybody’s powers by way of contact.
This transforms Yelena into the last word last boss towards the New Avengers. Her finest efforts are seen in New Avengers Annual #1, the place she almost dismantles your entire staff, including Marvel’s Superman, in a single flailing swoop. If not for a military of Iron Man fits and an amazing Void presence, the New Avengers would have been toast.
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The Hand Cannot Be Stopped, Not Even by the New Avengers
First Look: Daredevil #174 by Frank Miller, Klaus Janson, Glynis Wein, and Joe Rosen
Whereas The Hand is most deeply related to combating Daredevil, they’re really recurring villains for your entire Marvel Universe, permitting them to function antagonists for any hero in any comedian. Starting in New Avengers #11, when Maya Lopez is first launched as Ronin, The Hand resurfaces as they work with Viper (a.ok.a. Madame Hydra) to recruit Silver Samurai. Later within the sequence, Elektra Natchios, at her most violent, targets Maya after changing into the chief of the Hand, preventing the New Avengers in an try and drive Echo into the group.
The Hand stays a continuing presence in Marvel lore. A number of the finest Avengers, like Daredevil, have tried numerous occasions to place an finish to the clan of ninjas, however it doesn’t matter what, the Hand at all times prevails. They’re like cockroaches in that their power lies in numbers, destined to return stronger and bigger each time they appear to be defeated.
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Agamotto, The New Avengers’ Final Boss Battle
First Look: Marvel Premiere #5 by Gardner Fox, Irv Wesley, Don Perlin, and Sam Rosen
The Eye of Agamotto is a recurring artifact in Physician Unusual’s lore. It turns into a focus in New Avengers after Stephen Unusual loses his standing as Sorcerer Supreme, prompting him and the Avengers to observe the Eye looking for the subsequent potential Sorcerer Supreme. The machine has turn into so pivotal to Avengers historical past that it is easy to neglect how necessary Agamotto himself is to Marvel lore. Agamotto served within the Stone Age Avengers and was Earth’s first Sorcerer Supreme, to not be confused with the primary Sorcerer Supreme of the multiverse.
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Agamotto later returns from the spirit realm because the mastermind behind a demonic invasion of Earth, believing Physician Unusual and Physician Voodoo have didn’t uphold his legacy. He possesses the New Avengers in an try and defeat Physician Unusual, displaying that even after eons within the afterlife, this historical being has solely grown extra highly effective.
