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Marvel gives The UK their first superteam that isn't full of stereotypes and surface reads of the country..... Psych at least it isn't Shamrock again.

Slayven

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'The Union' Introduces New Superteam to Marvel's Comic Book Universe This May

A five-part series will feature Britain's first line of superhero defense.
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A five-part series will feature Britain's first line of superhero defense.



In the real world, the political fallout of recent political events — Brexit, last year's general election — has put relations between England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Island into some jeopardy, but in the Marvel Universe, the union is apparently stronger than ever — as evidenced in the debut of a new British superhero team, called The Union.


Debuting in a five-part series spinning out of the forthcoming Empyre storyline, The Union teams Union Jack — a hero who first appeared in 1976's The Invaders No. 21 — with four all-new characters, each one representing different countries in the United Kingdom: Snakes from Northern Ireland, Kelpie from Scotland, The Choir from Wales, and team leader Britannia.
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No pete wysdom is a bummer excelsiorlef

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Richiek

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Aren't Scotland and Northern Ireland highly likely to leave the UK due to Brexit?
 
PlanetSmasher

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Brittania's demon lion shield + boob armor combo is certainly...a design choice.
 
Harpoon

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I'll pick it up just because it's got Union Jack, who's always been cooler than Captain Britain.
 
selfnoise

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Ok so wait... There's now a superhero that's just named "Snakes"?

Did Marvel give up or something?
 
Vic_Viper

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Im still excited for the book.

Wonder if Brian Braddock joins the team now that hes not Capt. Britain anymore

EDIT: Im sure they will flesh out these characters more in the actual book. This is just marketing speak introducing the characters.
 
Jintor

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love that there's a dude just called SNAKES

my favourite aussie superteam is the one in Astro City which was a superteam deliberately dreamed up by marketing executives from the 80s for a shitty cartoon
 
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Slayven

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Jintor said:
love that there's a dude just called SNAKES

my favourite aussie superteam is the one in Astro City which was a superteam deliberately dreamed up by marketing executives from the 80s for a shitty cartoon
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Slayven

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whatsinaname said:
Is the villains team gonna be the Commonwealth Syndicate.



My brain is having some trouble parsing that grammar.
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My favorite comic marketing bit ever was for a character called Heavy. His tagline was "His strenght is measured on the sesmic scale", I still don't know what that means.
 
Dalek

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I like how British Superheroes have to have their identity completely tied to some British trait. Like there isn't Sgt. South Carolina.
 
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