Revengers
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- For the Matt Helm spy novel by Donald Hamilton, see The Revengers (novel).
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The Revengers are a fictional team of supervillains who were formed to fight A-Next in Marvel Comics' MC2 series A-Next. It is also the name of a comical parody of the Avengers in Earth-665, the seeting of Marvel's parody comic Not Brand Ecch.
[edit] Fictional team history
After a tragic mission that claimed the life of several Avengers, including Henry Pym and the Wasp, their daughter and son were furious to see A-Next, a team of heroes refered to by people as the "next generation of Avengers". The children of Henry Pym and Wasp used their parents' technology to replicate their powers. The daughter, Hope Pym, duplicated her mother's powers as the Red Queen, while her brother, Henry Pym Jr., copied his fathers' powers as Big Man.
Red Queen also helped create an energetic villain called Ion Man, who she sent to kill Mainframe. Although he failed (unknowingly, since Mainframe was later rebuilt), he passed her test. Red Queen soon added more villains to her fold (Spider-Girl's nemesis, Killerwatt, and Wild Thing's homicidal half-brother Sabreclaw). She waited until the members of the Avengers were at their most vulnerable, before sending her team, the Revengers, to destroy them. Red Queen herself wanted to personally torture Stinger, as she felt that Stinger dishonored her parents' memories. But the reserve members of A-Next defeated the Revengers, and Big Man turned himself in, even stopping his crazed sister, as Big Man did not want to be a killer.
However, in Last Planet Standing, the Revengers returned with the aid of Magneta; a former hero; to fight A-Next again. The fight was halted when Galactus came to destroy Earth. A-Next teamed up with a number of other heroes while the Revengers got away, minus Sabreclaw, who stayed behind to help fight and later joined A-Next to help fill out their roster.
[edit] Roster
- Big Man - Brother to Red Queen, Henry Pym Jr. copied his father's growing abilities. Big Man joined the team to watch over his sister.
- Ion Man - Ionically powered villain, created by Red Queen. Ion Man has the power to fly and fire blasts of desctructive energy.
- Killerwatt - Electrically powered enemy of Spider-Girl, Killerwatt's wicked sense of humor is made less funny by his tendency to fire lightining bolts at the people he tells his jokes to.
- Magneta - Obsessed fan of Magneto who abandoned her dreams of being a hero and uses her own magnetic powers to help the Red Queen fight A-Next.
- Red Queen - Daughter of Henry Pym and the Wasp, Hope Pym copied her mother's electric sting blasts and insect-wings, and donned a sinister version of her mother's Wasp costume. She is the team leader, and has a pathological hatred of Stinger.
- Sabreclaw - Hudson Logan, son of Wolverine and half-brother to Wild Thing. His healing factor and deadly claws are made more frightening by his sociopathic nature.
