With the happening of the X-Men and Spider-Man franchises, it seems that every 2d Marvel Comics superhero has a picture in preparation stages. However, Marvel's other than superhero teams have a insignificant hurdle: they measure their obloquy near different best-selling Hollywood subject: fondly-remembered TV shows. Let's report them apart...
THE AVENGERS
On television: Quirky chain from the sixties, in which the terribly British John Steed (Patrick Macnee) and miscellaneous offsiders, together with Cathy Gale (Honore Blackman) and Emma Peel (Diana Rigg), battled many sci-fi goofballs. Best villains: the Cybernauts, a garland of bloody robots.
In the comics: Superhero group, published since the sixties, furthermost normally led by the in a self-aggrandizing way American Captain America. Every Marvel superhero accumulate the X-Men seems to have been an Avenger at a few circumstance. Best villain: Ultron, a homicidal robot.
Prospects: The slapstick comedian story was spun off into a favorite animated TV series, but since the down 1998 moving picture (based on the TV express), the designation "Avengers" is in all probability box-office contaminant.
THE DEFENDERS
On television: Riveting 1960s court drama, featuring a father-son defence squad.
In the comics: Riveting 1970s and 1980s superhero comic, featuring a mass of guys who would dangle out together, aggression as a rule phantasmal bad guys.
Prospects: Some of the comic-book Defenders (including the Hulk and, upcoming soon, the Sub-Mariner and the Silver Surfer) are once pic heroes. If they are successful, a team-up is the analytical adjacent tread.
THE INVADERS
On television: Maximum paranoia, '60s elegance. David Vincent (Roy Thinnes) had to run away from aliens who welcome to rob complete the world, covert as humans, while wearisome to inform a doubtful Earth people.
In the comics: Marvel's greatest heroes of World War II - viz. Captain America, the Sub-Mariner and the unproved Human Torch. While they were all best-selling back in the 1940s, they sole worked in cooperation in a homesick series, eldest published in the decennary.
Prospects: How in the region of a crossover? Aliens assail Earth and dispute superheroes during World War II? Hey, it could work!
THE CHAMPIONS
On television: Silly (but fun) British superhero rotation of the sixties.
In the comics: Los Angeles-based superhero train of the decade. One of the eldest teams to be led by a female (the Black Widow, a defected Russian spy), on with Ghost Rider, Iceman and others.
Prospects: Neither of them lasted drawn-out. If a sure-fire TV phase (like The Avengers) or amusing photograph album (like Captain America) can open fire on at the movies, who'd poorness to show one of these also-rans?
ALIAS
On television: The adventures of Sydney Bristow, high-school learner cum superspy. First shown in 2001; cancelled 2006.
In the comics: The adventures of Jessica Jones, superhero cum investigator. First published in 2000; she inactive in 2005.
Prospects: Either would variety a well behaved major function for Jennifer Garner. Time to get started!
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