#u.s.avengers

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✨Silver Spotlight: Robert Maverick (aka. The Second Red Hulk)

Robert Maverick is an American army general from Marvel Comics, most notable for being a core member of the U.S.Avengers (from the book of the same name). The book only had 12 issues but the team and Maverick were utilized in the Avengers No Surrender event from 2018. His main superpower is that he has a biological button graphed into his arm that allows him to transform into a Hulk-like being for one hour everyday. Additionally, since he is an Army general, he has combat experience with both weapons and his hands.

Sadly, there isn’t much to his character other than being the old army guy that follows orders and likes beating up whatever bad guys the team face off against. The closest thing we get to a stand alone issue for the character is issue #4, where Maverick is sent out on a solo mission to a stop American Kaiju and unexpectedly teams up with Deadpool, but the book makes fun of the flatness of this new Red Hulk rather than try and utilize the situation to flesh him.

Worse, the series takes a major shift in focus half way through due to being affected/related to the massive Secret Empire event, resulting in Maverick being relegated to a background character that gets his powers messed up as a result of being forced into his Hulk-state for longer than his body could handle. After Secret Empire and during Avengers No Surrender, Maverick only gets utilized in one major way: a fight with the real Hulk which results in Maverick losing his ability to transform into the Hulk completely (and basically being killed off since it’s repeatedly stated that his heart can give out at any moment due to the strain becoming the Red Hulk forced on him)

A huge reason why Robert Maverick interests me is because he serves as a perfect representation of both how the members of U.S.Avengers got treated after the All New All Different era of Marvel ended and how older characters in general get treated if they don’t fill the mentor archetype or comedic relief archetype. (That and he’s a hot DILF, which y’all should know by now I’m a sucker for) Focusing specifically on that second form of representation, Maverick doesn’t make any meaningful or enriching connections with his team members over the course of his existence. His fight with the Hulk serves to create tension for other character actions in Avengers No Surrender and make it so he can’t really be used anymore. All things considered, there was a massive missed opportunity to have an older character learn to be a hero in a way that was never possible before in their life. That’s something you just don’t see very much of. Heroes like Captain America and Doctor Strange are technically on the older side but they’ve been heroes for pretty much their entire adult lives. It would have been fascinating to see someone who had never been in the world of superheroes come in at an age when most people become stuck in their ways of living and see how a new set of powers and responsibilities forces them to change into something better. Considering Maverick was an active Army General, it would have been double cool to see him utilize and contrast his history in the military against this new history as both the Red Hulk and a member of a superhero team. Ultimately, imo, Robert Maverick was a cool character that deserved a lot more love and dedication put into him. ❤️

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Danielle Cage in U.S.Avengers #1

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I like the teacher with the jokes.

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adorable

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SQUIRREL GIRL

The Idea A playable Marvel Contest of Champions character in the Mutant or Science class, with improbably high utility, healing, piercing attacks, and humorous, physically-awkward animations (similar to Gwenpool).

Why Summoners Care She is the very well-received symbol of Marvel’s challenge to the typical reductive, cheesecake portrayal of women traditionally seen in comics.

Synergy She should pair up nicely with any Howard, members of the A-Force, New Avengers, New Warriors, the U.S.Avengers, and the Great Lakes Avengers. An “Unbeatable” synergy would work with villains she has famously beaten, like Doctor Doom, Thanos, Mordo, M.O.D.O.K., and the Mandarin. Other characters with animal telepathy include Synapse, vampires like Baron Blood and Dracula, as well as Falcon (Classic), Llyra, and Lizard.

Squirrel Girl in Other Games As depicted above, Doreen Green has been a playable character in the LEGO Marvel series of games, the now defunct recent video games Marvel Heroes, Marvel: Avengers Alliance, and Marvel: War of Heroes, as well as current mobile games Marvel Future Fight, Marvel Battle Lines, Marvel Avengers Academy, and Marvel Puzzle Quest.

Squirrel Girl and Summoners She enjoys at least 60 mentions in the current Wishlist Thread. Doreen is ranked #30 of 550 (as of mid-December 2019) with 139 upvotes.

Write-Ups by Summoners Whalemilker2020′s version is a Science class champ. She would have an Unbeatable Personality metric that increases the % of her bleed, regeneration, and fury abilities.

SQUIRREL GIRL NEWS

January 6, 2020 Squirrel girl has been removed from the poll.

January 4, 2019 we have an abilities breakdown document thanks to Otriux, MCOC Journal and Seatin’s commentary video. 

December 17, 2019, brought us our first image of MCOC Squirrel Girl’s face. Very, very well done. Great work, Kabam. As suspected, it’s her “Unbeatable” costume.

On December 16, 2019, the Marvel Contest of Champions Twitter account posted this Tweet with the following image.

December 8, 2019, RichTheMan overviews Squirrel Girl’s history so far.

November 26, 2019, RichTheMan discusses the implications of Squirrel Girl for the State of the Battlerealm champ map.

On November 23, 2019, a leaked photo from Dorky Diggedy Dave shows a blurry female character dressed like Squirrel Girl, with a partially obscured name that reads “...el Girl.”

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U.S.Avengers #12

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U.S. Avengers #1 (March 2017)

I didn’t have much interest in this series and I only read this issue because I bought it, but I only bought it because of this cover. I did not know of another time that a Marvel Comic featured the Puerto Rican flag and silhouette of the island on the cover. It was part of a more than fifty variant covers for this series, each featuring a different state (or in this case colony). I am also slowly collecting all the early appearances of White Tiger (even though this issue does not feature White Tiger in any way and Ava Ayala is only the most recent White Tiger.

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I was a huge New Avengers/USAvengers fan, but I haven’t read a lot of other marvel stuff. Who is that weird robot that worked with Sunspot? And that rocket-ass dude, Cannonball? Also, what are some other fun comics with Sunspot?

I think what you’re looking for in all three cases is the original run of New Mutants - Chris Claremont and Bob McLeod kicked it off, but my understanding is that the names most associated with it are Louise Simonson, a burgeoning Bill Sienkiewicz, and a fresh-faced Rob Liefeld.

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Daily reading: U.S.Avengers vol 1 #12 - "Maybe We Should All Be Praying For Time" (Ewing, Diaz) - regular cover by Paco Medina

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Y'all have you read U.S.Avengers?

Number 4 is killing me! There's a lot to unpack here ifnanyones interested.

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Aikku Jokinen/Toni Ho in U.S.Avengers vol. 2 2/3 (#8-#10 2017)

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Again, the Hydra stuff feels like a distraction but it’s fun to see Squirrel Girl trash a fascist tank.

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i’m in love