# Design your own Marvel super-team! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 2, 2010, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/design-your-own-marvel-super-team/559177 "2010-11-02T04:24:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2010, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/design-your-own-marvel-super-team/559177/1 "2010-11-02T04:24:58Z")
I don’t think we’ve done one of these for awhile—like it says in the title, your assignment is to form your own Marvel comics super-team! It can be a new lineup for an existing (or revival) team—Avengers, Thunderbolts, Defenders, Alpha Flight, whatever—or, if you want, figure out an entirely _new_ team to form for your own theme or specifications. Your pick…an All-Cybernetic Avengers? Mexico’s “Alfa Escuadrón”? All insect-powered heroines? The team of heroes Screwed by the Editors? Your choice, your pick. As per the rules of one of the earlier threads like this, anyone who’s not completely dead or completely evil will join up. So…anyone want to start? ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2010, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/design-your-own-marvel-super-team/559177/2 "2010-11-02T04:40:47Z")
I figure any team is going to win their fights and defeat their enemies - that’s part of the code - so actual abilities don’t really matter much. So I created a team by looks: Black Widow Elektra Emma Frost Ms. Marvel Mystique Psylocke Selene Spider Woman Valkyrie ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2010, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/design-your-own-marvel-super-team/559177/3 "2010-11-02T04:42:57Z")
The all-modified-clone Exiles. X-23, Ultimate Jessica Drew, ‘April Parker’, Lyra…and I’ll stop there, since it’s building to an all-female team, and I kind of like that… ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2010, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/design-your-own-marvel-super-team/559177/4 "2010-11-02T05:16:14Z")
Let’s see, my idea for a new team of Avengers: Keep the big three heavies - **Thor** , **Iron-Man** , **Captain America** - in the background. They’d make appearances, but be more like elder statesmen. **Hawkeye** would be the team leader. His team would consist of: **Sasquatch** (a personal favorite of mine), **Storm** , **Valkyrie** , **Nova** , **Shang-Chi** (he’d be the “Batman” character - everybody’d be all "What’s this no-powered dude doing with all these super-powered folk, but he’d always surprise people by duking it out with, and winning against, the most powerful opponents by stamina, fighting know-how and sheer determination.) and **Moonstone** as the (perhaps) reformed villain turned unpredictable wild card. **Dr. Strange** would be an unofficial, part-time member - coming to the team’s aid when they are attacked by mystical menaces (kind of like the Phantom Stranger used to be a provisional member on-call for magical emergencies.) ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2010, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/design-your-own-marvel-super-team/559177/5 "2010-11-02T23:56:11Z")
So long as Wolverine isn’t on the team, I’m good. ---
**Author:** ![drastic\_quench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e36b37/32.png) [@drastic\_quench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drastic_quench)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2010, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/design-your-own-marvel-super-team/559177/6 "2010-11-03T14:21:52Z")
Leadership, brains, muscle, strategy, and magic cover most bases, I think. I hate psychics, but enough of these guys are resistant. Cyclops: leader/tactical expert Dr. Strange: magic/psychic protection Iron Fist: martial arts fighter/ street-level guy Bruce Banner/Hulk: brains & best emergency-only tank ever Namor: tank/royalty/sea-based/flyer/brooding jerk Nova: flight/space guy Ms. Marvel: token female/flight/tank Amadeus Cho: strategist/brains/wildcard ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2010, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/design-your-own-marvel-super-team/559177/7 "2010-11-03T15:16:51Z")
A team has to be well-rounded, unlike the period when The Avengers (Earth’s Mightiest Heroes) were really The Avengers (Earth’s Mightiest Martial Artists). The Tank: Beta Ray Bill The Martial Artist/Tactician: Rocket Raccoon (leader) The Brain: Amadeus Cho The Blaster: Ms. Marvel The Cosmic: Adam Warlock The Competent Comic Relief: Deadpool ETA: I guess I should read the thread before answering. Lots of overlap with **drastic quench**. I almost chose Namor as my tank, too.