Because Dark Reign had ton of
villains posing as heroes, here is my top ten not so heroic heroes:
10 Scourge: This dude was the leader
of losers of the third incarnation of the Thunderbolts, and he wore a mask to
hide the fact that he was the overzealous ultra nationalistic homicidal drug addict
Nuke, and I loved when he crossed paths with US Agent during the Siege, because
it made the heroes question some of his vision of the world.
9: Human Robot/M11: Now this character is a
member of the Agents of Atlas that actually are heroes that pose as villains,
but since this robot doesn't talk it seems it has its own agenda, and I love
that it seems to have grudge againts Wolverine trying to blast him with his
death rays ever time it gets.
8: Daken: This character is the totally evil
and messed up son of Wolverine, that joins the Dark Avengers just to tic off his
daddy. I love to hate this Character and I loved to see how he messed with the
heads of his teammates.
7: Iron Patriot: Norman Osborne actually
steals Tony Starks tec and makes a Armor for himself to become the alpha hero
in charge, I enjoyed the dark Reign because how it actually made Osborne act
like a hero at moments but was let down because I didn't see him have a climactic
battle verse Tony or at least Spidy.
6: Dark Beast: Evil Hank is back and is
posing as the original Beast again, in the Dark X-Men Norman's official mutant
team and Dark Beast just seems to have a blast experimenting on Weapon Omega.
5: Mystic: Also a member of the Dark Avengers she actually posed as Xavier
and latter took the appearance of Jean Grey, but turns on Osborn when X-Man was reborn and her
team tries to save him.
4: Hawkeye/Bullseye: This character does all
of Norman's dirty work, but his best moment during Dark Reign arc was when Bullseye
destroys a building in Hell's Kitchen that kills a ton of people pushing Daredevil
over the edge, kicking off the Shadow Land.
3: Ant-man Eric O'Grady: This dude was on the
Thunderbolts and he had a hard time to stomach the evil stuff the team did, he was actually was pooped
by Luke Cage after a mission that can really mess with your head jajaja, but this
pushed Ant-man to actually try to be a real hero.
2: Sentry: This character mind is totally
broken and Norman knew how manipulate him because he actually understood him,
but Osborne was playing with fire because when the Void finally returned it
cost him everything.
1: Ghost: I actually discovered how
interesting this character was during
this story arc, I tend to not care about Iron Man's enemies but I found it facinating how his anti
establishment agenda made him want to screw Norman's plans and ruin most of the
Thunderbolts missions.
Issue Sumarries:
Agents of Atlas 1-6: The 50's era reformed to help Jimmy Woo battle
the Yellow Claw and the evil Atlas corporation, to discover that Yellow Claw
was actually grooming Woo to become the leader of the criminal organization,
because he is the heir to control the Organization. Woo take the job to try to
stop the evilness of Atlas. (Note I know that this title came out before the Dark Reign but since here where most of my Agents of Atlas stuff is I put it here)
The Dark Reign
Secret Invasion: Dark Reign 0
In the aftermath of the Secret Invasion, Norman Osborn astutely takes
Tony Starks place as the head of Shield and creates his own group of Illuminati
that he calls the Cabal. The members are White Queen, Loki (in a female form),
the Hood, Namor, Doctor Doom and himself.
And in this issue Norman kills Andreas Von Strucker the Swords man, an
ex pain in the butt from his former Thunderbolts team.
Rating: 7
Dark Reign: The Cabal
This issue has five stories that are related with each member of the
cabal.
The first one is about Doom and his ambitions in the Cabal; the second
one is about Emma Frost and her origins. The third story is about the Hood and
how far he’s willing to go to be the top dog in the crime world; the fourth
story is about the apparition of a mutant in Namor’s Atlantian community and
the fifth story is about a pack that Loki makes with Doom.
Rating: 6
Dark Reign New Nation 1
We find the Agents of Atlas acting villainously to keep their cover as
heroes, stealing from gold from Fort Knox and just discarding it latter.
Rating: 6
Dark Avengers (DA) 1-4
Norman Osborn establishes a new official Avengers team with mostly super
villains using super heroes identities, and on their first mission they have to
go up against Morgan Le Fey
Characters:
¿Heroes?: Iron Patriot/ Norman Osborne, Spider-man/Venom, Ms
Marvel/Moonstone, Hawkeye/Bulleye, Wolverine/Daken, Captain Marvel/Marvel
Boy, Ares and Sentry.
Villain: Morgan Le Fey
Supporting: Victoria Hand, Ghost, Doom
Issues Summary:
·
1 Morgan Le Fey takes
vengeance on Doom, leveling most of Latveria. Meanwhile Norman presents his
official Avengers team to the World.
·
2 The Dark Avengers are
dispatch to aid Doom. The team arrives and Sentry rips Morgan’s head off and
basically all hell breaks loose. Morgan uses her time travel to elude death
each time and makes Sentry blow up.
·
3 The
battle rages on.
·
4 Osborne and Doom join
forces and defeat Morgan
Repercussions and Lasting effects:
·
Maria Hill abandons Shield
The Good:
·
Osborne uses Iron man’s
armor, that’s freaking cool
·
And Sentry Ripping
Morgan’s head of was pretty shocking.
·
Osborne has an
interesting relationship with Sentry
Rating: 9
Dark Reign Made Men One
Shot
Part 1: Osborne uses Spy
Master to get his revenge on Tony.
Part 2: Doom brings
Attuma back to life, after being beheaded by the Sentry
Part 3: Return of the
Jack O’Lantern
Part 4: Norman engages
the Gamma Corps
Part 5: Return of the
Enforcer
Rating: 2
Rating: 2
Secret
Warriors 2 So we discover Shield has been runned by Hydra for quite some time,
and that Strucker has cleaned Hydra of Skrulls. Now the Baron is gathering the
other heads of Hydra to make a move for total world domination and they bring
back from death Gorgon.
Rating: 9
Secret
Worriers 3 Fury sends his Secret Warrior to stop Hydra from taking over a
Sheild out post. But to the surprise of the team they get their butts kicked by
Gorgon, who hack slingshots arms off
Rating 9
Deadpool (DP) 8-9 Thunderbolts (TB) 130-131
Magnum Opus
Deadpool wants pay back, for how Norman screwed him over during the Secret
Invasion and sending Tiger Shark to kill him, but he plays right into Osborn’s
hands, who wants to eliminate Wade for good.
Characters:
Heroes: Deadpool, Taskmaster
Villain: Norman Osborne, Thunderbolts (Black Widow II, Ant-man III,
Ghost, Paladin and Headsman)
Issues Summary:
·
DP 8 Pool wants revenge
on Osborn for what happened at the climax of the Secret Invasion and pays him a
visit at his new office the Avengers Tower, little does he know that it’s a
trap and the new Thunderbolts are waiting for him.
·
TB 130 Pool gets his
butt kicked and barely escapes, in round II Widow lets him escape.
·
DP 9 Pool asks his bud Taskmaster
if he can also dress up like him and both of them attack the Thunderbolts. Taskmaster
gets captured.
·
TB 131 Pools saves Tasky
and goes head to head against Norman Osborn and the Thunderbolts and gets his
head cut off. But at the end Widow instead of incinerating the body puts Pool
back together.
The Good:
·
Who is Black Widow II?
Rating: 7
Issue 1 Mountain Man Marko (a really obscure Spider-man villain) under
the orders of Norman Osborne penetrates one of Atlas’s investigation facilities;
Woo and company give a swift butt kicking. Later Venus pays a visit to Osborne,
and in through a video conference Woo offers a pact of none aggression with
Hammer.
Agents of Atlas (AoA)
Issue 1 Mountain Man Marko (a really obscure Spider-man villain) under
the orders of Norman Osborne penetrates one of Atlas’s investigation facilities;
Woo and company give a swift butt kicking. Later Venus pays a visit to Osborne,
and in through a video conference Woo offers a pact of none aggression with
Hammer.
Rating: 8
Wolverine Agent of Atlas the issue shows a brief adventure that the
Agents of Atlas had during the revolutionary war in Cuba where they crossed
paths with Wolverine.
Agent of Atlas Issues 2-4
Woo and his Agents pact a sale to Norman Osborn, of high Tec. weapons.
Characters:
Heroes: Agents of Atlas
Villain: Norman Osborne, Sentry, Grizzly
Antagonist: Captain America (Bucky Cap.), New Avengers
Issues Summary:
·
2 Woo meets with Grizzly
to pact the sale of high Tec. weapons to Hammer. Later the Agents meet up with
Osborne to show him the production of his new weapons
·
3 The Agents have a run
in with Bucky Cap. He’s trying to stop this sale, Woo and crew escape, but this
put Cap and the New Avengers hot on their trail.
·
4 Agents of Atlas battle
the New Avenger.
Repercussions and Lasting effects:
·
Battling the New
Avengers helps Woo establish that he and his agents are Villains, even though
they are undercover heroes.
·
All the Weapons that
they sold Osborne where bogus.
·
Grizzly will hold a grudge
against the Agents of Atlas, and will lead a mission with the Thunderbolts
against Woo’s crew.
The Good:
·
Human Robot has issues
with Wolverine.
Rating: 8
Norman wants pay back against the
Agents of Atlas and he has sent his Thunderbolts to do the dirty work.
Thunderbolts 138
Mister X goes on a rogue
mission, and the Bolt’s are sent to find there psycho teammate.
Thunderbolts 139-140
Norman wants pay back against the
Agents of Atlas and he has sent his Thunderbolts to do the dirty work.
Characters:
Heroes: Agents
of Atlas
Villains: Thunderbolts,
Norman Osborne
Supporting:
Issues
Summary:
·
139 Norman sets the Agents of Atlas for a trap,
with the Thunderbolts ready to take them out.
·
140 Teams battle, Woo’s team get away. Marvel
leaves a hypnotic suggestion in Scourge to kill Osborne, but accidently kills
Headman.
Repercussions
and Lasting effects:
·
Death of Headman.
·
Grizzly joins the Thunderbolts.
Rating: 8
Dark Reign: Young Avengers 1-5
A New team of Young Avengers hits the town and they are confronted by
the original team over the use of the name and if they are really heroes in the
first place
Characters:
Heroes: Original Young Avengers
Villain: Dark Avenger
Antagonist: New Evil Young Avengers
Issues Summary:
·
1 New Team of Young
Avengers appears and they have extreme methods at stopping crime.
·
2 Confronted by the
original team over the use of their name and if they are really heroes.
·
3 The two team clash,
new team agrees to go under trail to see if they are up to snuff.
·
4 New team methods are too
dangerous.
·
5-6 Young Avengers clash
with the New Team and with the Dark Avengers to a standstill, Osborn declares a
tie and leaves.
Repercussions and Lasting effects:
·
Some of the evil young
Avenger ends up as minions to Avengers Academy’s villain Jeremy Briggs.
The Bad:
·
Most of these new Characters
never appear again.
The Good:
Rating: 6
Thunderbolts Issue 132 Mr. X is recruited to join the
Thunderbolts.
Rating 6
Marvel Boy
abandons the Dark Avengers, he finds a Kree safe house and communicates with
the Supreme Intelligence that gives him a power upgrade with a pair of Nega-Band
and he becomes the Protector.
Secret
Warriors 6 Fury and his Warriors after battling Hydra, they are able to steal a
few ships from Hammer.
Rating 7
Utopia X
Dark
Avenger/X-men crossover
Norman
Osborn wants to stir thing up in San Francisco and agitate the Mutants so he
can accuse Cyclops that can’t control his own people and giving him the excuse
to put a team of mutants that are loyal to him the Dark X-men.
Characters:
Heroes:
X-men, X-force, New Mutants
Villain: Dark
Avengers, Bio-sentinels
Antagonist:
Dark X-men (Emma Frost, Dark Beast, Namor, Mimic, Cloak, Dagger Daken, Weapon
Omega and Mystic who poses as Xavier)
Supporting:
Hela
Issues
Summary:
·
Dark X-men the Beginning 1-3: Shows how Osborne
recruits each member of the Dark X-men.
·
Dark Avengers/X-men: Utopia USA: Norman Osborn wants
to stir thing up in San Francisco and agitate the Mutants. Mutants start to
riot and Osborne sends in his Dark Avengers to control the situation but they
find themselves countered by the X-men.
·
Uncanny X-men (UXM) 513: Beast was captured in the
initial riots, he discover the man in cell next to his has Charles Xavier
prisoner. Norman forms a team of X-men that serve his interests.
·
X-men Legacy 226-227 Gambit, Rogue and Danger are
teleported by Pixie to San Francisco when the havoc starts to give a hand to
the X-men battling the Dark Avengers and saving mutants. Gambit, Rogue and
Danger go toe to toe against Ares and Moonstone.
·
Dark Avengers (DA) 7 Dark Beast starts
experimenting on Beast while the Dark X-men kick the snot out of a group of
Mutant rioters.
·
UXM 514 Things start to heat up between the Dark
Avengers and the Dark X-Men. The Dark X-men hit the town trying to stop an
attack of Bio-Sentinels.
·
DA 8 Dani Moonstar make a pact with Hela to gain
more powers, X-force infiltrates the Dark X-men’s base take down Dark Beast and
liberate the mutant prisoners, with the help of the Dark X-men that have
changed their loyalties to Cyclops crew.
·
Dark Avengers/X-men: Exodus USA: Cyclops refloats Asteroid
M offering it as a safe place for mutants. Every X-men Team defeats the Dark
Avengers.
Repercussions
and Lasting effects:
·
Utopia island
·
Dani Moonstar is in debt to Hela, this have a
profound effect in the New Mutant series.
·
The Dark X-man will be responsible in bringing
X-man back from the dead.
·
Namor will become an important member to the X-men.
·
The Voids invades White Queens Mind
·
X-men abandon the Grey Malagan Facilities.
The Bad:
·
Didn’t Cable have something very similar to utopia
till very recently?
The Good:
·
Utopia island is made out of the old Asteroid M
These are
actual two separate storyline that overlap, but we see how Osborn traps Nick Fury,
and how Fury screws Norman over, and plants the seed of decent in his subordinates.
Rating: 10
Secret Warriors 10 Phobos is officially accepted to become a deity, after being accepted by the council of god pantheons.
X-Men vs. Agents of Atlas
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Venus has gone missing and Woo and crew
try to use Cererbro without permission from the X-Men, sparking a conflict
betweenthe two teams.
Characters:
Heroes:
X-Men
Antagonist: Agents of Atlas
Issue Summary:
·
XVA 1: X-Men are establishing
themselves on Utopia, while the Agents of Atlas invade their old base
Graymalkin Industries to use Cerebro, sparking a battle with the Mutants, the Agent get away.
·
XVA 2: X-Men find Atlas's hide
out sparking a colosal battle, when Marvel Boy's power interact with Xavier's
reminding the teams that they were allies back in the day and the villain
aspect of their image is just a façade.
We discover that the Greek goddes Aphodity actual has kidnapped Venus
but she's saved by her team mate.
Thunderbolts
(TB) 133-136 and Secret Warriors (SW) 8-10
These are
actual two separate storyline that overlap, but we see how Osborn traps Nick Fury,
and how Fury screws Norman over, and plants the seed of decent in his subordinates.
Characters:
Heroes: Secret
Warrior, Black Widow, Nick Fury
Villains: Norman
Osborn, HAMMER, Dark Avengers, Thunderbolts
Supporting: Mach
IV, Techno
Issues
Summary:
·
TB 135 Osborn start a man hunt to capture Songbird
an ex Thunderbolt that he thought was dead. We discover that Black Widow II is actually
reporting to Nick Fury.
·
TB 136 Norman sends the Thunderbolts to capture
Song Bird, Black Widow II shows to Song Bird that she is really the original Black
Widow and help her escape to one of Fury’s safe houses with the Thunderbolts
hot on their trail.
·
TB 137 Widow and Song Bird accidently allow the
Thunderbolts and The Dark Avengers find them, and they are captured with Nick
Fury. He orders the Thunderbolts to execute Widow and Song Bird. The
Thunderbolts battle amongst themselves over to execute the heroes Widow and
Bird gets away
·
SW 8 Norman executes Nicky Fury, it was really a
LMD with a Phobos in inside who zaps Osborne with his fear powers, while the
Secret Warriors ambush the bad guys.
·
SW 9 All he breaks loose any army of Nick Furys
jump in to give the heroes out to escape.
The Good:
·
Scourge really is Nuke a Z list bady from Wolvies
rogue gallery.
·
It was cool to think that Fury was dead.
Rating: 7
The Dark Reign the List-Daredevil: Bulleye attacks hell Kitchen killing
tons of innocent people, Daredevil tries to stop him but fails, pushing DD over
the edge.
Repercussions and Lasting effects: As the Leader of the Hand,
Daredevil will create shadow land.
Rating: 10
Avenger Vs. Agents of Atlas 1-4
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Some type of temporal phenomena/Entity
that menacing existence throws the Agents of Atlas back in time, so they end up
teaming up with one of the Avengers first lineups. They discover that the entity is actually
Henry Pym that had interacted with Kang's helmet and peaked into the time
stream discovering that Wasp would die in the future, leaving his mind trapped
in the time stream.
The Dark Reign the List Secret Warriors: Nick Fury discovers the
existence of Leviathan.
Repercussions and Lasting effects: Has a colossal impact in the
series.
The Good: its super cool to see another organization that competes
with Shield and Hydra.
Rating: 10
Secret Warriors 10 Phobos is officially accepted to become a deity, after being accepted by the council of god pantheons.
Secret
Warriors 11-12 Leviathan starts to makes its move on Hydra, and we discover the
origin of Hive.
Rating 8
Thunderbolts
136-137
Osborne
kidnaps and brain wash Iron Fist to get back over Luke Cage’s betraying him,
but everything goes south for Norman. Luke punches the snot out every member of
the Thunderbolts and gets his friend back.
Rating: 8
Dark
Avengers Annual 1 (2010)
Marvel Boy
abandons the Dark Avengers, he finds a Kree safe house and communicates with
the Supreme Intelligence that gives him a power upgrade with a pair of Nega-Band
and he becomes the Protector.
Repercussions and Lasting effects:
·
Protector will become a member of the real Avengers
·
He’ll have a relevant role during the Avengers vs.
X-men Cross-over.
The Siege
Characters:
Heroes: New
Avengers, Mighty Avengers, Young Avengers, Asgardians, Thor, Maria Hill, Nick
Fury and his Secret Warriors, Dani Moonstone and Renegade Avengers
Villains: Loki,
Dark Avengers, Thunderbolts, the Hood and his crew, the Initiative, UFOs and
Sentry/Void
Issues
Summary:
·
1 Loki set up Volstagg for the mass murder of a
whole Stadium full of American Football fans. So the US government reaches the conclusion
that it most invade Asgard that has been floating over Oklahoma for some time
now. So Osborne gets all of his assets prepare to attack. Osborne’s men start
the battle and find a strong resistance from the Asgardians being lead by Thor.
But Thor is defeated Osborne and his men.
·
Siege: Loki makes a pack with Mephisto to give him
the Disir, in exchange a small place in Hel for Hela to send her dead.
·
Avengers: The Initiative (AI) 32 We see the battle
from Taskmaster’s point of view.
·
2 Steve Rogers forms a formidable force of Heroes
to help Thor. Now in the battle Ares rebels against Osborne do to the fact that
he considerers the Asgardian his cousins and for this Norman send Sentry to
kill him.
·
AI 33 The Battle
rages on for Taskmaster, meanwhile the Renegade Avengers engage with the
Hood’s forces back in camp Hammond
New Mutants 11: Dani Moonstar ties to save dead asgardians from the Disir that want to eat thier souls.
New Mutants 11: Dani Moonstar ties to save dead asgardians from the Disir that want to eat thier souls.
·
Siege: Spider-man; Spidy battles Venom and defeats
him.
·
AI 34 The Hood abandons his fight with the Renegade
Avengers to join Norman.
·
3 Steve Rogers and his forces attack, but the Hood
enters the battle with his legion of villains, while Thor battles Sentry. But
Sentry does something super crazy he destroys Asgard itself. And Osborne is
finally defeated, but the Void is back. Loki astonished how his plans end up
destroying what he wanted attacks the Sentry and gets killed.
·
AI 35 Fallout from the destruction of Asgard.
·
Siege: Captain America, Both Caps, Steve and Bucky
battle and defeat Crossfire and Razor Fist, two of Hood’s Men.
·
Siege Young Avengers; The kids battle the Wrecking
Crew who are trying steal anything of value from the ruins of Asgard.
·
Siege Secret Warrior Phobos flipsout that his dad
has been killed by Sentry.
Thunderbolts 141 143, Thunderbolts are sent in to Asgard
retrieve Odin’s spear but they find themselves battling Pym’s Mighty Avengers.
The Avengers win but a high cost.
·
4 Heroes ban together, and Thor kills Sentry/Void.
Dark Avenger
16 It’s the end
of Osborne’s Avengers, everything went wrong with the Siege of Asgard, and
Norman is imprisoned like most of the Dark Avengers except for Daken that is
able to escape. The Sentry: Fallen Sun;Sentry’s Funeral
Repercussions
and Lasting effects:
·
Sentry Kill Ares
·
Sentry destroys Asgard.
·
Loki gets killed, but his isn’t as lasting as
Ares’s.
·
Sentry/Void dies.
·
No more Watch Tower.
·
End of the Super Hero Registration and Initiative.
·
Steve Rogers Becomes the head of Shield.
·
Mac Gargan loses the Venom symbiot.
·
The Disir will be very relevant in future New
Mutant titles.
·
US Agent loses a arm and a leg in the battle
against Scourge.
The Bad:
The Good:
·
Wow Ares death is pretty shocking, but destroying
Asgard was brilliant.
Rating: 10
Secret
Warriors 13-16
War rages on
between Hydra and Leviathan, with key player changing their alliances.
Characters:
Heroes: Nick
Fury, Secret Warriors
Villains: Hydra,
Leviathan
Supporting:
Issues
Summary:
·
13 The mystery grows ¿ Who is the Kraken?
·
14 Madam Hydra betrays Hydra and joins Leviathan,
Viper is executed trying to stop her.
·
15 Hive brings Viper back from death; she becomes
the New Madam Hydra.
·
16 The Original Kraken is dead? So who is the guy
that is all chumy with Strucker
Repercussions
and Lasting effects:
·
Viper comes back from the dead thanks to Hive and
becomes Madam Hydra.
·
Sebastian Doctor Druid’s kid is kicked off the
Secret Warriors.
·
Orion Leviathans leader is reborn.
·
J T James betrays the Secret Warriors.
The Good:
·
Madam Hydra was Valentina Allegra de Fontaine, Fury’s
Girl friend
Rating: 9
Heroes: Nick
Fury, Secret Warriors
Secret Warriors 24 Fury
visits his sons grave and Kraken is there to receive him
Secret
Warriors 17-18
Hydra attacks one of
Fury’s Transport ships and everything go from bad to worse.
Secret
Warriors 20-23
War rages on
between Hydra and Leviathan, and the Nick Fury Secret Warriors make their move.
Characters:
Heroes: Nick
Fury, Secret Warriors
Villains: Hydra,
Leviathan
Supporting:
Issues
Summary:
·
20 Fury makes his move on Hydra attacking their
main base Gehena.
·
21 Phobos faces off against Gorgon and to my shock
the kid gets killed.
·
22 The Secret Warriors escape, Kraken turns on
Strucker.
·
23 Sebastian help the Secret Warriors escape Gehena.
Repercussions
and Lasting effects:
·
Gorgon kills Phobos
·
Sebastian is back on the Team
·
Nick Fury lets Hellfire die because he knows he was
a Hydra double agent.
The Bad:
·
Phobos dies that sucks.
The Good:
·
Fury Finally lands a near fatal blow on Hydra
Rating: 9
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