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  • Hotspur (First appearance)

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Synopsis for "Fun!"

New Defenders Vol 1 146 001

Still blinded from the battle with Moondragon,[1] Angel goes for a flight with Cloud as his guide. He returns to Defenders Mansion as Johnny Blaze and Roxanne Simpson depart.

Days later in New York, Tony and Andrea go dancing at a club when a mysterious young man shows up and starts slashing people with a razor-tipped glove, including her date. The people dancing seem to take no notice of this, but Andrea attacks him. The man tries slashing Andrea with his glove, but the blades break on her skin. When the man rides away on a horse, Andrea is unable to pursue him and returns home with Tony.

Back at the Defenders’ infirmary, Angel's ophthalmologist is baffled as to why his vision hasn’t returned and claims there is nothing more that he can do. So, the Defenders decide to travel to New York and seek help from Dr. Strange. General Argyle Fist sends Specialist Nancy Turpin — the woman who previously claimed to have met Beast at a party and has some mysterious connection to Cloud — along as an escort.

The Defenders are welcomed at Strange’s Sanctum Sanctorum by Wong and Sara Wolfe, but Strange is away. As the Defenders settle in, Turpin reveals herself to Cloud as Seraph, her former partner from the Secret Empire who turned out to be a Soviet spy. Valkyrie senses danger and assembles the Defenders — all except for Gargoyle, who mysteriously cannot be found. In Central Park, they find a group of people celebrating around an open flame, as the man from the dance club rides his horse and whips them. The man, calling himself Hotspur, easily takes out Valkyrie and Beast with soul-fire emerging from his eyes and mouth. As Iceman and Cloud prepare to confront him, “Andrea” appears—wearing armor and wielding a trident—now calling herself Andromeda.

Notes

  • Sara Wolfe's name is mistakenly spelled as 'Sarah' at one point in the issue.

Trivia

  • During downtime at the Sanctum Sanctorum, the Beast remarks to Iceman about how fascinated he is by Doctor Strange's book collection, going as far as briefly contemplating trading in the hero life for a focus on reading and knowledge. This is an interesting revelation given that his time displaced self would do exactly that upon seeing how Hank had turned out.

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