10 Worst Ever Avengers

Jacques Duquesne was the son of a rich Frenchman and an avid fan of swashbuckling heroes like Errol Flynn. When he grew older he decided to join a carnival and show off his amazing sword skills.

While there, he took a young Clint Barton under his wing and taught him the art of using an even more obsolete weapon than the bow and arrow. However, one day, Clint found him trying to rob the Carnival.

Years later, Clint and Jacques would meet again when he tried to join The Avengers as Swordsman. Hawkeye initially refused to let him join due to his criminal past, but the rest of the team decided to overlook his obviously evil moustache and accept him after getting a call from "Iron Man".

The call was fake though, part of a plan by the Mandarin. Swordsman infiltrated the Avengers and planted a bomb in their mansion. However, he then realised villainy wasn't really for him and disarmed the bomb. Having proved himself a hero, the Avengers kicked him off the team anyway for trying to kill them.

Swordsman later got a chance to prove himself as a proper hero when he joined the team for real after falling in love with fellow Avenger Mantis.

Jacques was about as good a hero as he was a villain though and wasn't on the team long before an alien disintegrated him.