Seriously, what is it with the nineties and introducing truly terrible Avengers?
Created by Fred Van Lente and Tom Grummet, Deathcry - much like Sentry - had the potential to be a genuinely interesting Avenger. Upon the orders of Lilandra, the Empress of the Shi'ar Empire, Deathcry is sent to join the Avengers as a liaison officer should the Kree - the invading alien force at the time - ever return to Earth.
Ultimately, however, she did little to live up to her origin. Given a dreadful name (that again, could only have been conceptualised in the nineties), as well as an equally dreadful outfit, Deathcry did little on the team apart from confide in Vision and Hercules from time to time, and soon left after her initial introduction.
Lilandra's former warrior would later perish (and then return) in 2011's Chaos War storyline, but is yet to mount a comic book comeback.
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.
