Make a new DEFENDERS team!

[Brian Adkins]

or doing much defending, for that matter. defenestrating, maybe. lol

Figure they could be defending their own goals or maybe their own territory. Maybe even from one another!

[Riv86672]

Figure they could be defending their own goals or maybe their own territory. Maybe even from one another!

^^^While I agree w. Aarkus, I do like your idea of a villainous Defenders team. Being dysfunctional is a huge part of the team’s M.O. and this team would be that in spades!

[Photon Torme]

Doc Strange
Sif
Crystal and Ronan The Accuser
Beast
Iceman
Namorita
Doc Samson
Dina Soar

[Dermie]

could also try a gender-flip:

MAGIK as the ringleader
ANGELA a Hevenly warrior for the Atlantean monarch? why not. they're practically polar opposites lol
PHYLA-VELL (Earth-18897 version) cosmic powerhouse committed to protecting this reality from the fate of her home universe
XENITH cousin to the Strontian Kal'ark (aka Gladiator), whose strength likewise knows no upper limit
BETA RAY BILL Korbinite warrior, wielder of the Twilight Sword
IRON FIST (Lin Lie) the latest champion of K'un L'un
NOCTURNE (Talia Wagner, Earth-2182) reality-hopping, demonic-looking mystic mutant; whose "Brimstone Hexes" have recently begun to alter not just probability, but reality itself, in some cases...
SATANA everyone's favourite succubus, here for her own reasons... suffice to say, she and Angela do NOT get along. at all.

Interesting that you say Angela and Satana won't get along. When the two of them last met, they got along VERY well with a whole lot of kissing!

[Riv86672]

QUESTION:
What do you get when you put together three C-listers, an ex-Avenger, a talking duck, his gorgeous girlfriend, and a misunderstood muck monster?

ANSWER:
The Key West Defenders.

After a particularly heinous adventure, Doc Strange and the rest of the Defenders big guns take off, leaving only Nighthawk, Hellcat, and Valkyrie as the core members.

The trio decide they need a change of scenery, some new members, and a new mission, and wind up relocating to the Sunshine State (Nighthawk owns several Florida properties they can use as an HQ) and building an odd new team, the main purpose of which is to safeguard the Nexus of All Realities.

[the illustrious mr. kenway]

QUESTION:
What do you get when you put together three C-listers, an ex-Avenger, a talking duck, his gorgeous girlfriend, and a misunderstood muck monster?

ANSWER:
The Key West Defenders.

After a particularly heinous adventure, Doc Strange and the rest of the Defenders big guns take off, leaving only Nighthawk, Hellcat, and Valkyrie as the core members.

The trio decide they need a change of scenery, some new members, and a new mission, and wind up relocating to the Sunshine State (Nighthawk owns several Florida properties they can use as an HQ) and building an odd new team, the main purpose of which is to safeguard the Nexus of All Realities.

That pitch would be fun to read.

[Aarkus]

Interesting that you say Angela and Satana won't get along. When the two of them last met, they got along VERY well with a whole lot of kissing!

I must have missed that one lol... what do I need to read?

[Aarkus]

QUESTION:
What do you get when you put together three C-listers, an ex-Avenger, a talking duck, his gorgeous girlfriend, and a misunderstood muck monster?

ANSWER:
The Key West Defenders.

After a particularly heinous adventure, Doc Strange and the rest of the Defenders big guns take off, leaving only Nighthawk, Hellcat, and Valkyrie as the core members.

The trio decide they need a change of scenery, some new members, and a new mission, and wind up relocating to the Sunshine State (Nighthawk owns several Florida properties they can use as an HQ) and building an odd new team, the main purpose of which is to safeguard the Nexus of All Realities.

this sounds like the perfect team to have running into other characters of that era... like Omega the Unknown!

and of course, if they're guarding the Nexus of Realities, you'd almost be obligated to do a Machine Man story with some subtle nods to the recent claims from the other side of the aisle lol

[Riv86672]

this sounds like the perfect team to have running into other characters of that era... like Omega the Unknown!

and of course, if they're guarding the Nexus of Realities, you'd almost be obligated to do a Machine Man story with some subtle nods to the recent claims from the other side of the aisle lol

^^^Omega, definitely! Him and all those other groovy seventies characters. Aquarian, Woodgod, Mindworm…!

Poor Machine Man, he wouldn’t want ppl fighting over him.

[Aarkus]

^^^Omega, definitely! Him and all those other groovy seventies characters. Aquarian, Woodgod, Mindworm…!.

Don't forget Will O' The Wisp!

Poor Machine Man, he wouldn’t want ppl fighting over him.

nah, no fighting, just a wink and nod type thing... like, he's partially stuck in a "previously unseen" section of reality (hinted but not outright confirmed to be the DCU) and the others are just helping him get back. no inter-portal tugs o war or anything lol

[Hypestyle]

In the years that Spider-Man was unofficially/editorially ineligible for the Avengers, I wonder why he never had a stint in the Defenders.

I'd like to see that change.

He's got a decent enough history with Dr. Strange, in particular.

Strange
Nightcrawler
Spider-Man
Valkyrie (Foster)
Tigra
Blue Marvel

[Dermie]

I must have missed that one lol... what do I need to read?

STRIKEFORCE #2. There is also a fantasy sequence in a later issue that shows them together, but issue #2 is where they meet and the majority of their interaction happens.

[Riv86672]

Don't forget Will O' The Wisp!

^^^Oh that’s a good one, I love it!

nah, no fighting, just a wink and nod type thing... like, he's partially stuck in a "previously unseen" section of reality (hinted but not outright confirmed to be the DCU) and the others are just helping him get back. no inter-portal tugs o war or anything lol

^^^This sounds like a job for…Access!

[Riv86672]

In the years that Spider-Man was unofficially/editorially ineligible for the Avengers, I wonder why he never had a stint in the Defenders.

I'd like to see that change.

He's got a decent enough history with Dr. Strange, in particular.

^^^Thats a great point.
Spidey and Doc Strange have always had chemistry, and the Defenders non-team agenda fit Spidey’s (pre-Avengers) loosey-goosey friendly neighborhood style.

[Aarkus]

^^^Oh that’s a good one, I love it!

Will O' was pretty powerful too, as I recall - had more or less the same abilities as Moonstone, if I remember correctly

^^^This sounds like a job for…Access!

oh there we go... he could even be somehow "merged" with Aaron, so we can put all this silliness behind us lol