10 Marvel Super Teams That Should Be In The MCU

You're Just Being Silly Now.

Absolutely. From the esoteric and uncomfortable to the bleedin’ ridiculous: the Great Lakes Avengers were comedy wannabes that aspired to be third-tier superheroes.

Ah, You Mean Like The Avengers Roster At The End Of Age Of Ultron, Aha, Ahahaha.

SHUT UP SHUT UP FALCON IS THE BEST.

No, but really: the Great Lakes Avengers were a different animal entirely. Specialising in defending the Mid-West from superpowered threats, the core team included their leader Mr. Immortal, who could not die (at least, not permanently - which doesn’t stop him being killed with frightening regularity) and his girlfriend Dinah Soar, a strange, pink reptilian alien with the power of flight and empathy.

There was also Big Bertha, a former fashion model able to become super strong and durable by making herself massively obese; Flatman, a mutant (ie, Inhuman in the MCU) with the power of elasticity whose powers and costume, with an ‘F’ on his chest, keeps causing people to mistake him for Mister Fantastic; Squirrel Girl, a were-squirrel with an uncanny knack of defeating people far more powerful than she is; and Doorman, who can teleport people to the next room by allowing them to step through him.

Squirrel Girl. Flatman. I'm Getting A Ben Stiller Vibe Here.

You should be. Absolutely refusing to take the team or the world about them seriously, the GLA comics were a godsend to Marvel readers who worried that the whole ‘with great power comes great responsibility’ thing was making their heroes too po-faced.

Well, nothing deflates accusations of pomposity faster than offering to burst your own balloon. As a parodic addition to the MCU, the Great Lakes Avengers could incorporate any level of third-rate hero with a dumb name and dumber costume, in the grand and glorious tradition of superhero pastiches like (yes!) Mystery Men and The Tick.