It appears that the new Avengers series launches with either flashbacks or an actual trip to the past.
Perhaps the Kooky Quartet is now under suspicion in the wake of HydraCap being (presumably) found out at the conclusion of Secret Wars II?
It’s probably either that or Kang. Because I really doubt Marvel would do a flashback series if it had no bearing on the present stories. And Cap’s entire history back to his childhood was rewritten. If they learn he is a secret Hydra agent now thanks to reality warping, his ENTIRE career as an Avenger, his motives are now uncertain, and his Kooky Quartet would be a perfect place to start digging into that. But Mark Waid is doing a Kang story, so it could also be tied into that, since Kang is a time traveler and all. But they could also do both at the same time.
Well, Kang is definitely involved in some way, since that’s the first arc. But 1.1 and 2.1 have some sort of Kooky Quartet thing going on.
I had a theory that this particular line-up would be great for possibly facing off against other, more suspect Avengers teams (being suspect themselves and legacies), but the actual line-up is kind of hard to parse out. Also, Herc and Spider-Pete don’t fit into the disillusioned legacy idea.
Waid definitely is doing something big here, and it does seem to all tie together in some way. I’m getting a little bit of an Irredeemable/Incorruptible vibe here. Not nearly to those extremes, of course, no one is going to go Plutonian on the Earth, I don’t think. (though, if anyone did, it would be Doom) I dunno if I’d call the Avengers lineup ‘disillusioned’ I think it’s the Champions who are disillusioned, and every one of them is a legacy of a sort, but they are trying to focus that disillusionment in a positive direction. The Avengers lineup seems to have a much darker edge. Vision is in a dark place right now, Iron Man is freaking Dr Doom. But some others yeah, don’t really fit that. Herc is a lot more…. reserved at the moment, but I wouldn’t say he was ‘dark’, at this moment i would say Thor Odinson is a lot darker than Jane, because he is depressed and angry over losing Mjolnir, not to mention his arm. and yeah, Spider-Man’s always been a pretty good guy. I guess if those characters were defined by anything, I think it’s their desire to prove themselves. But even there, some don’t quite fit. But yeah. Since it is Vision at the core of the Kang story, it would make sense for that particular team to be involved somehow, especially considering Waid is writing both.
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