Freedom Force (comics)

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Freedom Force is the name of two fictional teams appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.

Publication history

The original version first appeared in

Mystique's version of Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. They mostly interacted with the X-Men, X-Factor, and New Mutants, but also repeatedly met the Avengers
.

The second team first appeared in Avengers: The Initiative #12 (June 2007) and were created by

Fifty State Initiative
superteam.

Fictional team biography

Mystique's Freedom Force

Freedom Force
Publication information
Super Sabre

When

Spiral added to the team. They attack Magneto at a remembrance ceremony for the Holocaust. Though they meet a decisive defeat at the hands of the X-Men, Magneto decides to surrender himself to Freedom Force.[2]

On their next mission,

Super Sabre, all World War II veterans who decided to take justice in their own hands and hunt down and execute criminals. When they targeted Storm
, they were defeated and turned themselves in. It was thought that the former heroes could be redeemed and they were offered a position on Freedom Force.

Over the next few months, they are given many unpopular tasks, such as enforcing the

attack by an evil god. Freedom Force clashes with X-Factor and the New Mutants when they learn that Freedom Force is helping the U.S. government forcibly recruit young mutants and potential mutants for training and eventual government service.[3] Freedom Force also assists in apprehending the mutant terrorists Resistants.[4]

Freedom Force also participates in other missions of a more general nature, including the rescue of Senator

Truman Marsh was warden.[6]

The team begin to fall apart after the mutant

Muir Island against the Reavers. During this mission, Stonewall and Destiny are killed, and Avalanche is severely injured. The death of Destiny especially hits Mystique hard and the team fights the Avengers without her leadership. Shortly after the battle at Muir Island, Cooper is possessed by the Shadow King
and ordered to kill Mystique, however, Cooper resists the Shadow King's influence and seriously injures herself rather than commit murder. Mystique then assumes Val's identity, passing Cooper's injured body as her own corpse, and later aids the X-Men and X-Factor as a "mole" among the Shadow King's servants.

Without Mystique, the remaining Freedom Force members are sent on a disastrous mission in Kuwait during the first Gulf War, in which Super Sabre is killed and Crimson Commando severely injured. To save Crimson Commando's life, Avalanche leaves Pyro and Blob stranded in enemy territory. Avalanche and Crimson Commando, now a cyborg, continue to work for the US government, apparently as covert operations agents. The team is soon replaced by the government team X-Factor, also under Val Cooper's supervision.

Initiative Freedom Force

Freedom Force
Publication information
Cloud 9
Equinox

Spinner
Think Tank

After the

Fifty State Initiative
team is Freedom Force.

This Freedom Force team consists of

Challenger.[7]

During the Secret Invasion storyline, Equinox was revealed to be a Skrull infiltrator who is killed by Cloud 9.[8] Spinner dies soon after while trying to destroy a Skrull weapon system.[9]

During the

Prodigy.[10]

During the

Asgard.[11]

During the Fear Itself storyline, the Freedom Force members appear at a meeting held by Prodigy regarding magical hammers that have crashed into the Earth. Among them is also Spinner, who is inexplicably shown alive.[12]

Members

Mystique's Freedom Force members

Initiative Freedom Force members

  • Challenger
    - Leader.
  • Cloud 9
    - A superhero who can manipulate a cloud-like gas form.
  • Equinox - Was revealed to be a Skrull infiltrator who had Equinox's powers. Killed by Cloud 9.
  • Spinner - A superheroine whose powers rotate every 24 hours. Some of her known powers have included invulnerability, super-strength, super-speed, and flight.
  • Think Tank - A superhero with telekinesis. His brain is in a liquid-filled globe that is in place of his head.

Freedom Force trademark

Marvel Comics abandoned the Freedom Force trademark in the 1990s and it was eventually re-registered by computer game developer Irrational Games, which used it as the name for their own team of comic book heroes (with no connection to Marvel or its characters). These all-new characters were featured in two games and one comic book miniseries (through Image Comics).

Alternate versions

An undead version of Freedom Force appears in the Marvel Zombies universe consisting of Mystique, Pyro, and Avalanche. They are seen in pursuit of the still-living Blob, whom they apprehend and convert into a zombie like themselves. United as a foursome, they then attack the X-Men who defeat and destroy them all.[13]

In other media

Freedom Force is alluded in the

Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch) as well as Pyro standing in front of a S.H.I.E.L.D.
sign which foreshadows Freedom Force.

References

  1. ISBN 978-1-4654-7890-0
    .
  2. ^ Uncanny X-Men #199 (November 1985)
  3. ^ New Mutants #78 (August 1989)
  4. ^ Captain America #346 (October 1988)
  5. ^ Marvel Comics Presents #41 (January 1990)
  6. ^ Avengers: Deathtrap, the Vault (July 1991)
  7. ^ Avengers: The Initiative #12
  8. ^ Avengers: The Initiative #18
  9. ^ Avengers: The Initiative #19
  10. ^ Avengers: The Initiative #28
  11. ^ Heroic Age: Heroes
  12. ^ Fear Itself: Youth in Revolt #1
  13. ^ Marvel Zombies - Dead Days #1

External links

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