The Defenders
A newfangled team ofDefendersis being assemble byDoctor Strange , and they may be Marvel ’s most knock-down team yet . First suggest at inMarvel Comics # 1000 , this unexampled squad will debut inDefenders # 1 , on sales event August 11 in mark and digital . The new Defenders team will take on some of Marvel ’s enceinte threats , including Galactus ' familyand the oldest villain in Marvel history !
While not experience quite the name acknowledgement of the Avengers , the Defenders have a prospicient history at Marvel . Doctor Strange brought the first embodiment of the team together in 1971’sMarvel Feature # 1 , and ever since then , Strange has usually been at the center of sequential defender teams . First consisting of Strange , Namor , the Hulk and the Silver Surfer , the Defenderswere billed as a"non - team,“consisting of hoagie who be given to work alone and saw themselves as a impermanent alliance at best . Over time , more zep joined , and the Defenders became more of a traditional superhero squad , but the original idea of individualistic heroes reluctantly go together is an irresistible one , and author Al Ewing and creative person Javier Rodriguez are now uniting to bring reader a new Defenders team which may be the most sinewy Marvel story .
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What give this new Defenders squad its border is the diversity of its members ' powerfulness sets . Doctor Strange ’s presence gives the team Marvel ’s most skilled magic substance abuser , but that ’s something the Defenders have had in the past . The same is reliable for the Silver Surfer , who exert the wildly various Power Cosmic . Next is Cloud , a hold up nebula with ties to older Defenders teams ; Cloud ’s powers are Brobdingnagian , capable of manipulating matter and vigour as well as interstellar travel . Red Harpy , the former Betsy Ross , gives this young Defenders team up a massive encouragement in raw strong-arm intensity - a Hulk - level hero who has evenout - muscled Captain Marvel . Rounding out the team is the mysterious Masked Raider , whose Eternity Mask ( made from a fragment of the cosmic entity Eternity ) gives its user power adequate to their opposition - in centre raze the performing field againstanyenemy , from the Green Goblin to Thanos .
It is a good thing this newfangled Defenders squad is as well - rounded as it is , since they will be taking on some truly cosmic - storey threats . Galactus alone is a big enough trouble , and no doubt his female parent will do massive head ache for the existence . Likewise , Marvel ’s oldest villain , whose identity is still unrevealed but who may be an entire former reality given form , will most surely be a universal threat as well , with the issue ’s summary describe the Defenders as a team meet for when"existence itself face up sinful scourge . "
job like this require powerfulness far beyond the reach of most Marvel teams , but this newfangled incarnation of the Defenders seems fit out to deal with them . The team has a brute strength power plant in Red Harpy , unprecedented energy output in Silver Surfer and Cloud , the power to bend the rule of reality in Doctor Strange , and a wildcard with seemingly no upper power demarcation line in theMasked Raider . Doctor Strange’snewDefendersteam seems set to be the most powerful in Marvel history , with characters capable of manipulating space and meter and leveling metropolis block - regrettably , it seems the famous ' non - team ' will also receive plenteousness of threat who bluster the same incredible office .
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