10 Characters Who Could Return In Marvel Legacy
Who's Coming Back to Marvel?
Marvel consistently leads the comic book market in sales, yet despite their overall dominance, they've experienced something of a slump across their titles in recent months. While this certainly isn't the end of comics as we know it, it does mean that Marvel needs to refocus their brand.
This refocus will come in Marvel Legacy - a relaunch designed to pull readers old and new back into the fold. While the past few years have seen numerous new heroes take on the mantle of established icons (often referred to as legacy characters), Marvel plans to incorporate the newer heroes' stories with their original counterparts in an attempt to bring the universe back to something resembling the status quo.
It's been met with a somewhat mixed reaction, but the company are promising a lot for the upcoming relaunch, kicking things off with a one shot releasing next week.
Along with being a jumping on point for readers, Marvel editorial has said that Jason Aaron's initial issue will influence stories for years to come. While details on the issue's contents have been vague, what has been promised is the return of an essential character that has been missing for some time.
So just who, exactly, returns? There hasn't exactly been a shortage of deaths in recent years, and with Legacy promising a return to a classic Marvel library, there are plenty of exciting options to consider.
10. Hank Pym
Hank Pym, the original Ant-Man and one of the founding members of the Avengers, is still technically in the Marvel Universe, but he hasn't exactly been himself for the past few years. Since early 2015 in the Rage of Ultron graphic novel, Pym has been fused with Ultron, creating an entirely new character.
With Marvel seemingly returning the majority of its characters to their original roles, this merged Avenger should, ideally, make his way back to his heroic ways. Best known for being the insane scientist that hit his wife that one time and creating Ultron, Hank has a longer path than most other characters to redemption.
With a potential future event teased at the end of Civil War II, Ultron is shown to be fighting the Avengers. What's noticeable is that the Avengers villain appears to have become separate from Hank before this fight occurs. With Ultron reverting to his purely villainous self, it could reunite all of Earth's Mightiest Heroes and kick off a new age of comics - hopefully with Hank in tow.