10 Marvel Super Teams That Should Be In The MCU
9. Power Pack
A family of kiddie superheroes who were given marvellous powers by aliens, back in the 1980s Power Pack were the pre-teen Fantastic Four.
Hang On. If They Can't Make The Real FF Work, Why Would A Pre-Teen Version Be A Good Idea?
Well, instead of adults in bright blue jumpsuits having cartoonish adventures, these are actually children placed into more grown-up situations. In the comics, Power Pack's adventures often dealt with real-world themes darker than kids of that age would normally be privy to.
That included child abuse, guns in high schools and, infamously, ethnic cleansing when the team were made witness to the genocide of the homeless mutants living beneath New York in the X-Men’s Mutant Massacre crossover event.
Okay, Okay. So Who Are We Talking About?
At twelve, Alex was the oldest - he called himself Gee and could control gravity. Julie was ten, could fly at astonishing velocity and called herself Lightspeed, while Jack was eight, could increase or decrease his own density at will and nicknamed himself Mass Master. Energizer was the name taken by five-year-old Katie, who could transmute matter into energy and fling it at people.
Oddly, they were known to be able to transfer their powers between one another as well, adding a peculiar wrinkle to the usual superteam dynamic.
Five Years Old?! That's A Bit Young To Have Laser-Fingers! She'll Have Someone's Eye Out!
Yeah, just as the producers of Game Of Thrones found, the ages of the children will probably need to be upped slightly: Alex and Julie to fifteen and thirteen respectively, and Jack and Katie can play the bolshy eleven and nine year old roles in the family.
A television adaptation would work well in the same lightweight corner of the Marvel Cinematic Universe co-opted by Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. Remember, these are ordinary kids who've seen the Avengers on telly, and suddenly find that they have superpowers themselves: it's network television catnip.
Of course, Marvel could always venture far into left field for them, and have the property adapted as a half-hour family sitcom. Stranger things have happened...