Marvel Movie Predictions: The Dark Avengers

By Jorge Paiz

Now most of us who are fans of Marvel super heroes like spider-man, X-men, Captain America, Thor, Hulk, iron man etc. Have been raving praising the marvel movies of each of these super heroes who tie into the wonder known as the Avengers. Now while the Avengers have broken ground for the marvel universe, along with the follow up of individual sequels for each character. Though with the recent reboot of the spider-man franchise having a sequal coming out next month and the new X-men movie coming out I feel it would be the right time to project some prediction that most di hard marvel comic fans may agree with and marvel movie fans do not know about. I’m talking about The Dark Avengers. Who are The dark Avengers you a? The Dark avengers were a multi-series story arch that was entitled Dark Reign which debuted in January 2009. Which was Written by Brian Micheal Bendis and illustrated by Mike Dedato.

[Spoiler warning for non comic readers]

The story line takes in after math of the Secret invasion in which the U.S. government disbands the federally sanctioned super hero team the Avengers. this was a time in the marvel universe where power was shifted to the newly reformed Norman Osborne who became known as The Iron Patriot who was previously leading a team known as Thunderbolts. Also Norman Osborne was running S.H.I.E. L.D. he then reforms shield into H.A.M.M.E.R. The Dark avengers had a good run of 16 comic book issues. That revealed old and new characters in ways we never thought we would see them. The line of the Dark Avengers consists of Iron Patriot who is Norman Osborne who wears the Iron suit painted red white and blue to pay respect and homage to Iron man and Captain America. then we also Spider-Man however this was n ot Peter Parker it was Mac Gargan who was formally known as Scorpion. Also the suit spider man ears in this is teh venom suit. Until the suit is taken from him by the government in which he went back to being scorpion. then the suit was picked up again by Ai Apeac. who was a sooth american humanoid spider god from south america. Also we have Ms. Marvel who is non other then the reformed villain known as Moon stone who real name is Karla Sofen. She then leaves the team and her role is taken up by Deidre Wenworth formally known as the villain superia. We also have Hawkeye who is non other then the reformed villain Bullseye who is then later killed by Daredevil in shadow land. Then the role of haekeye is taken up again by Barney Barton after his death was revealed fake by Osborne. Then there wolverine who is non other then Wolverines psychopathic son Akihiro formally known as Daken Who is killed in Uncanny X-force. There is also the company of Captain Marvel and Ares.

Current Movie directions.

With the ay the marvel movies are headed with The X-men series the avengers and Spider-man we can almost certainly presume that they will be heading towards the Dark Avengers story line Now a lot of the comic book fans would definitely love this. The 3 main reason why I believe they will do this are as follows

1. Loki takes over Asgard.

Now for those of you who saw Thor 2 Dark World at the end it is revealed that Loki was impersonating Odin in which could indicate that they might go into the siege story arch where Loki manipulates Norman osborn and his evil avengers to inavde Asgard to kill everyone now that he is impersonating Odin. This leaves a big possibility open for the dark reign arc to happen therefore making the Dark Avengers

2. Onslaught

Now some of you are wondering who is Onslaught well Onslaught is mutant made of the Consciousness of professor Xavier and Magnito. Now in 1996 there was a crossover with Onslaught and the avengers in which afterword they were declared dead which introduced the Thunderbolts. Withe the X-mens future past movie set o me released the possibility of the his happening is 1 in 5.Depending on how the movie goes it leaves teh possibility of this happening if Professor Xavier and Magnito join souls together to make this entity. Which can be a hint hidden in plain sight in this movie.

3. Marvels agents of shield.

This could be main key leading up to Dark Avengers for Agents of Shield has been show that has said to introduce heros and story arch’s that may not make it to the big screen but may very well tie in with big screen story lines. This show can come up with so many twists that can lead to this series such as Norman Osborne taking control of shield as reformed villain or introducing the thunderbolts and other marvel characters. the possibility’s are endless

So with that being said e can only hope that the studios pay proper tribute to the origin’s of the Marvel Comic’s and give us the grim dark story lines of The Dark Avengers acknowledging that period of Marvel’s dark reign Arch and then slowly transcending back into Marvels Heroic Age with lighter story-lines it pays good homage and has good contrast