Avengers: The story arcs that deserve to be adapted into a video game – News

Whoever wants is the Holy Trinity of the comic book. The Avengers (or Avengers in French) have long remained in the shadow of Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman. The lines began to shift in 2008 with the thunderous arrival on the big screen of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (or MCU). 12 years and 23 movies later, almost everyone knows Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, Hulk, Black Widow and Hawkeye. However, video games featuring this team imagined by Stan Lee and designed by Jack Kirby in 1963 are strangely rare. Taking advantage of the parachuting of Marvel’s Avengers on September 4, 2020 on PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, the editors of jeuxvideo.com offers you a selection of the narrative arcs of the Avengers that deserve to be adapted into a video game. Avengers, rally !!!

Breakout

Following the disbandment of the Avengers, Captain America sets up a new team – the New Avengers – and recruits some cult characters from the Marvel universe. Spider-Man, Wolverine as well as the “urban” heroes Jessica Jones and Luke Cage join the ranks of the Avengers. The quill of author Brian Michael Bendis (Ultimate Spider-Man, Secret Invasion, Siege, Age of Ultron) then sends them to Ryker’s Island Prison in order to put an end to a mass prison escape. The New Avengers’ first mission pits them against Sentry, a schizophrenic meta-human possessing the power of a million explosive suns, and The Void, the nemesis of Robert “Bob” Reynolds, who wishes to plunge the world into darkness.

Civil War

Written by Mark Millar (Kick-Ass, The Authority, Wanted) and illustrated by Steve McNiven (Ultimate Secret, New Avengers) between 2006 and 2007, The Civil War crossover depicts a major conflict between members of the Avengers. After the Stamford incident caused by Nitro and responsible for 600 deaths, the US government enacted the Super-Hero Registration Act. This law that requires meta-humans to reveal their secret identities polarizes society as well as heroes around the world. This ideological disagreement represented by Iron man, a supporter of the Super-Hero Registration Act, and Captain America, strongly opposed to it, will ultimately lead to an internal war between the Avengers and the deaths of several of them.

Kree-Skrull War

The Kree-Skrull War is the story of a centuries-old war between two extraterrestrial peoples and involving Earth. Faced with this threat, the Avengers take up arms to defend the blue planet. This tale oscillating between militarism and diplomacy introduces the passionate romance of Vision and the Scarlet Witch (or Scarlet Witch) aka Wanda maximoff and incidentally daughter of the leader of the Brotherhood of Mutants … Magneto. Author Roy Thomas (All-Star Squadron, Justice Society of America, X-Men) gives us an allegory of McCarthyism and therefore of this “Red Fear”, an American ideology born during the Cold War and responsible for the “witch hunt” ”Communists.

Secret Wars

Secret Wars published between 2015 and 2016 focuses on the destruction of the various Marvel universes. Author Jonathan Hickman (The Manhattan Project, The Nightly News) and cartoonist Esad Ribic (Silver Surfer: Requiem, Sub-Mariner: The Depths) plunge heroes, villains and their alternate versions into the heart of a multiverse conflict. This war takes as its framework a single planet, divided into territories thought of as pocket universes with their own continuity, on which the Ultimate Marvel, Marvel 2099, Marvel 1602 universes collide, as well as the narrative arcs “Age of Apocalypse” and “ House of M ”.

The Kang Dynasty

Kang the Conqueror, mortal enemy of the Avengers, proclaims himself the protector of the Earth in the 21st century and sets out to conquer it. The Avengers, determined to thwart the plans of this warlord who came from the 3rd millennium with his son Marcus, try to stand up, but Kang urges the villains to take part in the conflict in exchange for the territories they will be able to. to appropriate. The Avengers, cornered and scattered to the four corners of the globe, struggle to maintain an increasingly precarious peace. The Kang Dynasty saga born from the imagination of Kurt Busiek (Astro City, The Avengers) deals with the fate of the world in the face of an antagonist likely to take control.

World War Hulk

Banished from Earth by the Illuminati – a secret organization of superheroes including Tony Stark, Reed Richards, Stephen Strange, Charles Xavier, etc. – Hulk continues his existence on the planet Sakaar founding a family there. Sadly, a woman and child perish in the explosion of her spaceship. Mad with rage and blaming the Illuminati, Hulk returns to Earth accompanied by his new allies with the sole objective of revenge. World War Hulk by Greg Pak (X-Treme X-Men, Star Wars) and John Romita Jr. (The Amazing Spider-Man, Kick-Ass, Uncanny X-Men) is the climax of a crossover that places the Mighty and angry alter ego of Bruce Banner at the heart of a war capable of consuming the Marvel universe and endangering the existence of the Avengers.

We could have cited Marvel 1602, The Infinity War, Ultimates or even Ultron Unlimited. For you, what are the narrative arcs of the Avengers that deserve to be adapted in video games?