The Defenders

The Defendersmay be best known to MCU fans fromthe Netflix Marvel seriesfrom a few years ago , but the team has a longsighted history inMarvel Comicsand has had many different iterations with lots of unlike members , let in major figures from both the Avengers and the X - gentleman’s gentleman .

Across the various incarnations of the Defenders , from the ' 70s to the present , there have been sight of strange and unequaled friendships that developed . give the unusual nature of the team , which was initially specify to be a sort of non - team with a on the loose affiliation of heroes , some of the relationships begin very interesting .

Incredible Hulk And Doctor Strange

Doctor Strange get up the squad , with the constitute members being the Hulk and Namor the Sub - Mariner . All of them were unlikely teammate , but Strange and Hulk made improbable protagonist . unusual is at times very arrogant and headstrong , which clashes pretty heavily with the singular form - minded Hulk .

Despite this , the two became acquaintance . Strange often seek to help Bruce Banner overpower his furor and angry tendency as the Hulk , which at the time were far beyond his ascendancy . This even led to foreign consigning Hulk to an alternate dimension once when he became too unruly .

Doctor Strange & Daimon Hellstrom

Doctor Strange is one ofthe most powerful Marvel magician . He fights against all kind of mystic menace from alternate dimensions . This would seem to make him antagonistic toward Damion Hellstrom , known at the time as the Son Of Satan . But the two became friends .

Despite his less than wholesome origins , Hellstrom became a hero and link up the Defenders . He fight alongside Doctor Strange and the team against numerous mystical threat , like the Sons Of Satannish . Along the way , he earned Strange ’s respect and esteem .

Silver Surfer & Incredible Hulk

The Silver Surfer , the most famed of the Heralds ofthe herculean cosmic supervillain Galactus , is a model of peace . The Incredible Hulk is not . It does n’t make sense the two would be protagonist , but in their time together on the squad , they found some common ground .

As two beingness who often were n’t in ascendancy of themselves , the two find some connective tissue paper . This was despite the Hulk ’s unpredictable nature , which would eventually aim him off the squad , as it did the Avengers in its former mean solar day .

Spider-Man & Wolverine

The Defenders were in event a team composed of submarine sandwich otherwise unclaimed by the magnanimous profile Marvel team . later on versions included some of the openhanded name in the business like Spider - Man and Wolverine . Their unlikely friendshipactually get on another team , the Avengers .

Spidey and Wolverine were both a part of the Secret Defenders epoch of the team from the early ' ninety . Wolverine and Spidey originally miscellaneous like oil and body of water , with the gruff , sometime Logan butting heads with the younger , less serious Peter Parker . They finally became very close .

Namor & Incredible Hulk

Namor is famous for his often surly nature , making it seem like he would n’t have many acquaintance , but he does . Among them is the Incredible Hulk . They distinguish with each other as outsiders . Hulk as a creature and Namor as a half - human , half - Atlantean mutant .

They even team up up together against the Avengers not long after the squad formed , and the two have maintained a close relationship ever since . Namor ’s propensity to side with other outsider has led to other unusual friendships on his part , as well .

Valkyrie & Doctor Strange

Brunnhilde was the loss leader of the Valkyries , the personal guard of King Odin of Asgard . She fall in the Defenders not long after the team formed and was later a co - founder of the Fearless Defenders variation geezerhood later . She became friends with Doctor Strange after helping the squad get the better of the sorceress Casiolena .

The two were booster and colleagues during their long tenure on the squad , despite Strange ’s egotistical nature and Valkyrie ’s self-assertiveness . He even was subservient in bring her back to life after she was killed in the final yield of the first volume of the series .

Hellcat & Damion Hellstrom

Hellcat should be familiar to sports fan   as one ofthe good supporting characters from the Netflix series , Jessica Jones . She was a Defender in the comic and became friend with Damion Hellstrom during their tenure together . They would eventually become husband and married woman .

Patsy Walker and Damion are an unlikely duet , given their very different backgrounds . Patsy start out off as a enquiry supporter for the Beast , Hank McCoy . But she ’s no stranger to the mystical arts , having been attestator to the vicious ofNicholas Scratch , Agatha Harkness ’s Word , in her hometown .

Darkhawk & Spider-Man

Another strange friendship on the Secret Defenders edition of the team involve Spider - Man and Darkhawk . This was the armored ' 90s edition of Darkhawk , Chris Powell . Powell is a vigilance man and a little on the wrong side of Spidey ’s version of valiance , but they apace found common ground .

Both are unseasoned men from New York City commit to push offence , even if they sometimes have different method in going about it . They also have different abilities and Powell was tie to a mystical amulet that gave him ascendance of a superpowerful android body .

Spider-Man & Doctor Strange

Doctor Strange brought Spider - Man into the Secret Defenders , but while they have a longstanding reciprocal respect , they have virtually nothing in common . unusual is self - secure in a way Peter Parker can only dream of , but the two did become friends over the course of their dangerous undertaking .

Strange became a workaday point of reference for Spider - Man , whose adventures brought him up against mystical threats as often as they did regular ones . Strange also became something of a mentor to Parker , as he may do in the upcomingSpider - Man : No Way Home .

Namor & Doctor Doom

Doctor Doom is behind many terrible deed in the Marvel Universe , but he counts himself among the friends of Namor . Like Doom , Namor is the head ofa fabricated Marvel country , Atlantis , and is considered by many to a scoundrel . The two very often discover themselves on the same side .

Namor considers Doom an ally and protagonist , with both seeking the skillful for their people . His friendship with Doom makes Namor a complicated role player in the web of heroes and villains in Marvel Comics , and could also in the MCU when both at long last appear .

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Spider-Man and Doctor Strange fighting Hulk and namor fighting

Hulk talking to ghostly Doctor Strange

Doctor Strange and Daimon Hellstrom in Marvel Comics

Silver Surfer fights Incredible Hulk

Wolverine screaming and charging at Spider-Man who is swinging from a web in Marvel comics

Hulk and Namor vs. Avengers

Valkyrie joins the Defenders in Marvel Comics.

Hellcat & Damion Hellstrom Chasing Each Other

Darkhawk And Spider-Man Flying

Spider-Man Doctor Strange

Namor agrees to help Doctor Doom in panel from Marvel comics.

The Defenders