I’m working on an Avengers fanfic, and want to use the Cube, which is one of SHIELD’s secret prisons, but since my fiction is based more in the movie-verse than the comic verse, the only villain who fits so far is Abomination. Weirdly, SHIELD doesn’t seem to exist in the Spiderman and Xmen universe in the movies, but I am thinking maybe I should borrow their villains anyway, just because most of my readers are unlikely to be familiar with the older Avengers baddies.
What bad guys do you think SHIELD has got tucked away, and why?
This is just because of licensing issues. The Avengers and the movies which tie into them are made by Marvel directly, while the X-Men and Spider-Man movies are made by other studios (Sony and Fox, IIRC) who bought the rights from Marvel. Marvel/Disney (their parent company) are trying to buy the rights back, but meanwhile, Marvel can’t use mutants, the X-Men, Spider-Man, etc., and those companies can’t use the Avengers, SHIELD, etc.
I looked at those sources, thanks. Not many of my readers would recognize the Absorbing Man or the Leader, since I am mainly working in the movie-verse. I’m not really familiar enough with them either, or what their abilities are.
Well, Leader is fairly well-known from the comics. And he was in the 2008 Hulk film. His powers were more mental than anything, to provide a counter-balance to Hulk’s mindless brawn.
The New Avengers (also in Spider-Man) storyline “Breakout” featured (naturally) a breakout from The Raft, a superhuman prison. A good place to “recruit” super-maniacs in orange jumpsuits for your story, I should say, especially if you choose the ones who only made background appearances.
For REALLY obscure, Marvel’s actually made a whole slew of (mostly failed) TV movies and pilots, dating back to the 70s. Using a villain or two from them might be a kick, especially if you can actually do more with the character than the original work!
Which Marvel super-prison was it where there were power-suppressors, so that the non-super-powered villains (Batroc was specifically mentioned) were the bad-ass muthas ruling the place?
Batroc! It is to laugh! One of the best “goofy” villains in the Marvelverse.
So much fun to see him in “The Winter Soldier!” But…they took away his beard and moustache! Intolerable!
Minor hijack–Who was running that prison/facility where they were holding Magneto in one of the X-Men movies? The place was all plastic, and Prof. X went in to visit…
Back on topic, maybe some of the Spiderman villains–Doctor Octopus, Venom, Hobgoblin…
If you watch Agents of SHIELD you’ll notice that once or twice they’ve namedropped people that are Marvel villains.
Last week, they mentioned the Griffin, a C-level villain. One character that should return is Graviton.
You can use lots of those B/C level guys of course.
Also, search for anything HYDRA related. In the comics the organisation isn’t just a Nazi offshoot.
But it will give it a movie vibe if you name drop the group for sure.
There’s these guys Serpent Society - Wikipedia
Also, of course you can just go for villains that the members have dealt with individually.
Don’t bother. I mean, by all means see the movie, it’s pretty good. But don’t go out of your way as he’s in it for about 2 seconds basically as sequel fodder.
Aha! Double checking my files—you might also want to scope out the “New Avengers: Most Wanted Files” (2005) and “The Heroic Age: Villains” (2011) guidebook comics, if you can find them, either at your local comics shop, or at a digital source like Marvel.com.
Thank you for the help and info, everyone who answered! The final line-up is going to be: The Leader, The Abomination, The Griffon, Magneto, Frenzy and Avalanche. Anyone who wants to give suggestions about how their powers might be used against the Chitari, or the Avengers, would be a big help too!
