Although the premise behind Rage isn't all that bad, it's fair to say that his time on the Avengers was something to forget.
A child left forever changed by a tragic accident, Elvin Daryl Haliday undergoes an accelerated ageing process, irreversibly changing into an adult with the powers of super strength, speed and durability. He obviously forgot to mention that he was only a teenager though, as the Avengers accepted him onto the team only after his second or third appearance as a crimefighter.
When Cap does find out, however, that Rage isn't as old as he purports to be, he boots him off the team and places him on the Avengers' youth equivalent. While he'd take time to adjust, Haliday would eventually mature into a well-rounded superhero, one with a destiny to carve out away from Earth's Mightiest Heroes.
That doesn't detract from the fact that he was a pretty poor Avenger though, and while he's since gone on to pastures new, that period where he was on the team doesn't make for great reading.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
