Acts of Vengeance

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Event Name: Acts of Vengeance
Alternate Names: No known alternate names

Synopsis

Event Locations: New York City, The Vault
First Appearance: First appearance unknown

History

The so-called "Prime Movers" (Dr. Doom, Magneto, Kingpin, Wizard, Mandarin, and Red Skull) were originally tricked into thinking that the Acts of Vengeance were each individual's idea by Loki who posed as an unassuming man in a white suit and played at being their personal assistant/lackey, making each believe they were really in charge. The idea was that after years of being constantly beaten by the many super-heroes, it was time that the villains stopped attacking the same targets they always attacked, and focused on ones they had never faced. By doing so, they hoped to take the heroes off-guard and easily defeat them.

Cast of Characters:

Villains

Loki

Prime Movers:

Prime Movers

People Hired, Controlled, or Tricked into assisting the prime movers:

Villains that declined to be one of the Prime Movers:

Notes

The Acts of Vengeance event saw the debut of Psylocke in the body of Kwannon for the first time, and going by the name "Lady Mandarin" (while serving as an ally of the original Mandarin).
This event also saw the last appearance of Avengers Island.
Despite all three being labeled with the Acts of Vengeance cover tag, only the third of the New Mutants issues is really involved in the Acts of Vengeance. The remainder are about the New Mutants continuing adventures on Asgard, a storyline that started before Acts of Vengeance began.
Spider-Man gained the Captain Universe powers during his Acts Of Vengeance arc.
Also The Leader was intented to participate in the acts but he declined the offer to join the Assembly of Evil.

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