10 Marvel Super Teams That Should Be In The MCU

Super teams are like avalanches: untold mayhem caused by a few flakes working together.

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When superhero comics came back into fashion in the late 1950s, DC Comics ruled the roost. They had the Big Three, and the Justice League of America, not to mention all the revamped Silver Age versions of older characters like Green Lantern and Hawkman.

Marvel, on the other hand, had failed to revive the superhero with the original Human Torch, the Sub-Mariner and the return of Captain America some years earlier. It took them a while to catch up, but when they did, they did it in spades.

Compared to the square-jawed heroes promoted by other companies, the Fantastic Four, Spider-Man, the Hulk and more all lived in the real world and had real problems. They weren’t perfect - some of them were even misfits, or monsters - but that was the appeal of the characters.

Because of its embrace of the weird and the freaky, Marvel has always done super teams better than DC. The idea of groups of disparate people flung together by circumstance or fate, trying to become greater than the sum of their parts, is by nature going to appeal more to the outcast and the fish-out-of-water.

These are ten of Marvel’s more outré super teams, any of which would be a fascinating addition to the continuity of the expanding Marvel Cinematic Universe.

10. Wolfpack

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Please Tell Me They're Not Actually Teenage Werewolves

No, thank god. They're a group of inner city teenagers living in the ghettos of the South Bronx who all find that they’ve been trained since childhood by the same mysterious benefactor to form the Wolfpack: a tribe that’s existed for two thousand years to act as a kind of cosmic balance to a sinister cabal of mortal sociopaths known as the Nine.

The gang - because the Wolfpack was intended to be a multi-racial street gang of urban ninjas rather than a super team in the strictest sense - consisted of street fighter Rafael and his acrobat girlfriend Sharon, the massive ‘Slag’, tactical genius ‘Wheels’, and ‘Slippery’ Sam, the group’s true ninja. When Sam is killed, pre-teen survivor of abuse Malcolm takes his place in the gang.

Teenage Ninjas, Then? Isn't That... Worse?

Well, the original twelve-issue mini-series was fouled by a revolving door of artists and writers, and the last few issues are literally some of the lamest bullsh*t ever committed to print by a major publishing house. However, the idea and at least some of the initial execution was sound: more to the point, Wolfpack as a property meshes perfectly with the vibe of Marvel’s Netflix shows so far.

Clearly intended to be a cross between Frank Miller’s Daredevil and The Breakfast Club, the Wolfpack series was fairly revolutionary back in 1988 for depicting realistic issues of sex, racism, drug use and urban decay. Think The Karate Kid crossed with The Wire, and you’ve got some idea of the potential of Wolfpack on the small screen.

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