The Defenders
TheDefendersin Marvel Comics was very different from those in the Netflix serial publication . Instead of being a team of street - level heroes , the group in the comics were hero called together to terminate a complicated threat , usually at the behest of the first Defender extremity , Doctor Strange . The comic book itself referred to the Defenders as Marvel ’s " non - team . "
That changed old age subsequently when penis like Nighthawk join and took on a leadership character , organizing an existent squad to struggle crime . However , through their entire existence , the Defenders were never like the Avengers and rather remained a team only cry together when there was a conflict they needed to fight , and rarely with the same member .
Yandroth (Marvel Feature 1)
Thefirst phallus of the Defendersin Marvel Comics was Doctor Strange , and he remains the most important member in the team ’s account . This is because it is Strange who mostly had to figure out which paladin to call together for any certain scourge . The first scoundrel they face was Yandroth inMarvel Feature#1 by Roy Thomas and Ross Andru .
Yandroh was an alien scientist that Doctor Strange had defeated in the past tense . However , when the man turn back , Strange require supporter and shape the Defenders for the first time . Yandroth became a major foe of the team for age to make out , even surviving death to torment them .
Dormammu
Doctor Strange was theDefenders ' most knock-down extremity , but his main enemy was more powerful — the demon Dormammu . While he rules the Dark Dimension , he has always thirsted for more and want to inhibit other realms as well . However , he has less power when he leaves his kingdom . To attempt to make a foothold , he had his follower capture Doctor Strange .
He had no idea that Strange had new allies in the Defenders . Wong and Clean found Hulk and Namor and they write Strange in the struggle from Dormammu , although they could n’t beat him . However , this was not the end and the demon was back after that class to cause even more problems for the integral Defenders team .
Xemnu
InMarvel Feature#3 , the Defenders go into engagement with an alien scoundrel know as Xemnu . The animal looked exchangeable to a Yeti with the power of projecting hypnotic shaft of light from his eyes . Xemnu in the beginning crash - shoot down on Earth and he decided to suppress the planet , but a even human valet avail banish him .
Xemnu refund to Earth as a venial villain when he confront the Defenders for the first sentence . The squad stopped him quite easy and he did n’t appear too much in the futurity , although he did stick around to fight heroes like Hulk , The Thing , and She - Hulk , getting beaten thoroughly every prison term .
The Undying Ones
After three issues inMarvel Featureto test the squad , the Defenders got their own book in 1972 and the first villains they fight were , once again Doctor Strange regretful guys . The Undying Ones were the villains here and the story started after they captured Namor and planned to give him .
The Undying Ones were demon from another dimension who made it to Earth and planned to capture it . They did so many years before , but in modern time , heroes like Doctor Strange and the Defenders were always there to stop them .
Executioner
InDefenders#4 by Steve Englehart and Sal Buscema , the team joined forces to hold open one of Hulk ’s friends , Barbara Norriss . To do so , the three terminate up transported to a mystic realm where they ended up in a battle with the Asgardian known as The Executioner .
Another Asgardian baddie was captured as well in The Enchantress as was the heroic Black Knight . The Executioner betrayed Enchantress and by the prison term she took control of him again , she made one last move and turn Barbara into the Valkyrie . The Executioner moved on to fight the Avengers , while this battle was a room to introduce the newest Defender .
Omegatron
The Defenders first villain Yandroh returned inDefenders#5 and this time he had help . The scientist take in knowledge and power since his last defeat and create the giant brute have it away as Omegatron . This left Yandroth to match wits with Strange while Hulk , Namor , and Valkyrie need on the golem .
Yandroth used science and magic to create Omegatron so one or the other could not discontinue it alone . While designed to start a atomic war upon Yandroh ’s death , the Defenders found a way to bar it , and then Valkrie finally put down the brute and it was never seen again .
Cyrus Black
Much of the early Defenders books understand them face several creature and villain that all ended up sent by one man — Cyrus Black , known in the start as the Devil Incarnate . He was a man who spent his entire life training so he could one twenty-four hour period defeat Doctor Strange , but he happen himself fighting the defender when he did attack .
He at last found a way where he learned he could make his every wish come straight in his dreams . However , he was not mentally substantial enough and fell to the Defenders in conflict . He never had a fortune to shell Strange again and soon disappeared .
Attuma and Red Ghost
InDefenders#7 , the Defenders fight a pair of major villain . They faced Namor ’s curse from the sea , Attuma , and theformer Fantastic Four villain , Red Ghost . In this offspring , former Avengers member Hawkeye get together the squad for one escapade .
This was also the start of a major crossover upshot titledAvengers Vs . Defenders . While the Koran saw the two superteams struggle each other , it was actually just a temporary fight as they take on the villain here , leading to their struggle with the honest mankind to pick .
Loki
Just likeLoki manipulated Hulk and caused the constitution of The Avengers , inDefenders#8 , Loki manipulate the two teams ' missions to match them against each other . This would create one of the former crossover series , where two heroes combat and flip out between the team ' unlike issues .
By the end , they all learned Loki was the villain and faced him together . This crossed over villains as well , since Loki was an Avengers villain and it was let on he teamed with Defenders bad guy Dormammu . In the end , Loki betrayed Dormammu but then lost to the two superteams .
Mordred
After the Avengers and Defenders amaze Loki and Dormammu , they went their separate ways and it was time for the non - team to seek to find and economize Black Knight , who Enchantress sooner turned into stone . This , once again , send them to a mystic realm , this one in the 12 Century .
Here , the team battled Mordred the Evil . He was the illegitimate son of King Arthur and was prophesized to destroy Camelot . They find Black Knight in the eubstance of one of his ancestors and the Defenders help oneself him beat Mordred . After this , the Defenders broke up alfresco of Doctor Strange and Valkyrie .
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