10 Iconic Comic Book Characters (Without Legendary Comics)

4. The Defenders

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Marvel Comics

The Defenders are an interesting bunch here, because they're pretty obscure outside of mainstream hardcore comic fandom, despite a lot of effort by Marvel to bring them to the mainstream.

Besides the Netflix show being a complete flop, writers like Brian Michael Bendis have tried working away at this superhero team to get people to care about it, but besides some decent runs here and there, there really hasn't been anything that matches the individual runs of each of its members.

Sure there are some great stories in there scattered throughout, but nothing that matches Daredevil's Born Again, the Matt Fraction run on Iron Fist, and pretty much everything Jessica and Luke get up to in Alias.

If there's any justice in this world, this small scale superhero team will get the truly legendary run that their members usually experience when they fly solo.

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John Tibbetts is a novelist in theory, a Whatculture contributor in practice, and a nerd all around who loves talking about movies, TV, anime, and video games more than he loves breathing. Which might be a problem in the long term, but eh, who can think that far ahead?