#Legions of the unliving android

The mute fur-vested monster proved more than a match for Thor in the ensuing battles, but would later befriend the thunder god. The creature had actually first appeared in this form back in the Atlas Comics days, revived in Stan Lee’s Silver Surfer series, then spun into his own title. Marvel had only just recently begun a horror line of comics, and this was writer Steve Englehart’s way of making the Marvel Universe more cohesive by showing the Avengers and Frankenstein’s monster co-existing in the same continuity. Kang was very specific in his choices.įrom 1898, Kang pulled the Frankenstein Monster, hoping the creature’s superhuman size, strength, and endurance would be a match for Avengers heavyweights Thor, Vision, and Iron Man.

The moniker Legion of the Unliving came from the fact that all of these characters were dead at the time, because comics. He would target her, and especially the Vision, as well as remaining Avengers Iron Man, Hawkeye, and Thor. With his future selves Rama-Tut and Immortus imprisoned, this was an endgame for Kang, he used the latter’s Limbo machinery to summon a force from the mists of time who would be perfectly chosen to accomplish the taking of Mantis.

#Legions of the unliving android

Kang surmised correctly that the android Avenger would battle for her fiercely. And taking into account the wonderful soap opera tapestry that was the 1970s Avengers, there was affection between Mantis and the Vision.

Alone, she was already a dangerous opponent with her martial arts skills, but her fellow Avengers would protect her of course, especially after the loss of the Swordsman, their comrade, and her beloved. This was a prize Kang wanted more than anything. Yeah, the seventies were cosmic for the Avengers, but the fact remained – whoever controlled the Celestial Madonna, controlled the fate of all existence. She had been pronounced as the Celestial Madonna, who would someday give birth to the Celestial Messiah, who would someday be the savior of the universe. Kang had won, but as the Avengers wandered lost through the catacombs beneath Castle Kang in Limbo, the mad time traveling villain wanted more.Īnd more was very specific. And he had murdered one of their own, the Swordsman. He’d beaten, kidnapped, enslaved, and pitted them against each other. The truth of the matter back at the beginning of epic Celestial Madonna story by Steve Englehart in late 1974 is that the Avengers had already been defeated. Meet me after the jump and watch out for the original Legion of the Unliving! There have been at least five versions of the Legion of the Unliving, but I’m going to be talking about the most purposeful, the most devious, and my favorite – those creatures pulled from time itself by Kang the Conqueror to not just destroy the Avengers but to help him rule the universe.