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3. New Avengers: Everything Dies

When people list off their favourite Avengers runs of all time, they're likely to include Johnathan Hickman's.

The writer, together with artists like Steve Epting, Jim Cheung and Jerome Opena, crafted one of the most inventive story-arcs in recent memory with his series of New Avengers comics, the first of which (Everything Dies) could easily inspire an entire new trilogy of Avengers films on its own.

Hickman's saga has already bore cinematic fruit in Avengers: Infinity War, and will likely inspire some elements in its follow up releasing next year. With that in mind, it's almost certain that Marvel are consulting his material on the regular, and with his most lauded work having revolved around a particularly secretive Avengers group, known as the Illuminati, it's likely that it too is on Marvel's mind.

Titled Everything Dies, this particular series brought together the likes of Captain America, Iron Man, Doctor Strange, Mister Fantastic, Namor and Black Bolt in a grand conspiracy to safeguard the Infinity Stones. The X-Men's very own Beast went on to play a pivotal role in the comic, and with the full roster now at Marvel's disposal, and with the opportunity to switch up the team's line-up available too, there's as good a chance as any that audiences could see the House of Ideas' very own Illuminati light up the big screen in a future phase.