Norman Osborn now controls a powerful super-hero team as his "Dark Avengers" to do some good or serve his twisted version?
In a surprising turn of events, Norman Osborn ended up saving Earth during peak of a full-scale "
Skrull Invasion" by killing their Queen. Tony Stark is removed from his position as Director of
S.H.I.E.L.D. and replaced by Osborn. He made a pact with a secretly formed group called
Cabal that has divisive figures like
Doctor Doom as its members.
He hired former
S.H.I.E.L.D. operative Victoria Hand to help him establish his new organization H.A.M.M.E.R. before firing Maria Hill.
Bullseye is called in shortly afterwards to fly with him to New York, Avengers Tower. Norman asks
New Avengers member Carol Danvers to join his new team but she straight out refuses and fled off.
He approached Karla Sofen AKA
Moonstone at Thunderbolts Mountain to become
Ms. Marvel for him. Next up, Osborn goes to see Mac Gargan with a medication that would contain his monstrous form into more presentable state. He then recruited
Daken Akihiro from a diner at New Orleans where he came looking for a job.
Norman convinced Kree warrior Noh-Varr at The Cube into joining his cause as
Captain Marvel. His next employ is
Ghost to unlock a secret stash of armored suits that once belonged to Tony Stark. He builds a suit of armor similar to
Captain America's costume for himself called "
Iron Patriot" and then went to public with his all-new
Avengers.
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Dark sorceress
Morgana le Fay has been looking all over for Victor von Doom after he betrayed him earlier. When Doom was being escorted back to Latveria by Osborn's men, she attacked them with an army of demons at her side. Report of this attack is received by Osborn and he led his new team of
Avengers for their very first mission.
He orders
The Sentry to go all-out and he does so by simply tearing her head off, which shocked his teammates. Morgana reappears in a moment, causing
Sentry to suddenly explode and she confronted
Ares by forcing
Venom to violently attack him. She then turned God of War into stone right before being killed again by new
Hawkeye.
Though unable to move in his armor, Doom responds to Norman as he proceeds to carry his ally out of battlefield. Despite his unwillingness to share, he eventually shares his armor interface with Osborn to access his time machine. Together, they go back to Morgana's time and Victor sent her to 1,000,000 BC using a spell unknown even to her.
Going back to present time, Doom revives Ares from his state with a reverse spell but
Sentry is presumed dead. On their way back to New York, Victoria Hand informs her boss about
Clint Barton going on media to expose him as former
Green Goblin. To which, he tells her to arrange an interview with the network to nicely sort things out.
All of a sudden, a blinding flash of light hits them all and they all astoundingly look at a very-much alive
Sentry coming to them. Norman approaches and asks him about how he is feeling now since they all saw him die in Latveria. Trying to resonate with Bob and calm him down by talking to him, Osborn even removes his helmet to talk.
Later that day, an Atlantean terrorist group leads an attack in Los Angeles and members of
Cabal were called to meet up.
Prince Namor is asked to denounce those extremists publicly and help Ozman to capture them. They had a disagreement on how to approach this situation and it causes a troubled side of Osborn's persona to slip.
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Running in parallel with "
Dark Reign" crossover event,
Marvel Comics launched a new monthly ongoing series
Dark Avengers in 2009 that has spawned from "
Secret Invasion" story arc with writer
Brian Michael Bendis (
Mighty Avengers – Secret Invasion,
Mighty Avengers – The Ultron Initiative) on board to work on its overall plotline.
For its first storyline "
Assemble", Bendis has teamed up with artist
Mike Deodato Jr. (
Amazing Spider-Man – New Avengers,
Amazing Spider-Man – Sins Past) that collects first six-issues of the series and focuses on establishment of a team comprised of former
Mighty Avengers members and a group of former
Thunderbolts operatives.
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Norman Osborn dons his brand-new
Iron Patriot armor that he built using StarkTech to march alongside his teammates
Ares,
Bullseye as
Hawkeye,
Daken as
Wolverine, Marvel Boy Noh-Varr as
Captain Marvel,
Moonstone as
Ms. Marvel,
The Sentry and
Venom as
Spider-Man on public to present his newly assembled group of
Avengers.
Osborn leads his
Dark Avengers team to their first field mission to help
Doctor Doom and entangles with
Morgana le Fay. Then there is a slightly heated meeting with his Dark Illuminati, where
Emma Frost,
Namor and
Loki had guest appearance. Bendis will return in collaboration with Deodato Jr. on next storyline "
Molecule Man".
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