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| “ | I'm starting a new crew. "The Howling Commandos." Hydra hunters. We show the militants a better way.
— Nick Fury
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Designed by Nick Fury as a black-ops counterpart to the Ultimates, the Avengers was a team of amoral superheroes (and villains) put together initially through a mix of coercion and personal investment to pursue Captain America as he tracked the Red Skull through Europe. Unbeknownst to everyone involved, Fury orchestrated the Skull's rampage as a means of reinstating the team. The team would later be put together to hunt down Ghost Rider as he hunted the men who nearly killed his wife, culminating with a battle between the Rider and Vice-President Robert Blackthorne where Blackthorne was killed and Blaze was allowed to escape by the Punisher, and would later battle a vampire invasion of the Triskelion that led to the death of several members, including Nerd Hulk, Perun, and Raymond Conner, the new Daredevil.
The team's final missions would come as Fury investigated the trafficking of illegal superhumans to hostile nations such as North Korea and Iran, coming to conclusion that SHIELD director Carol Danvers was behind it. Confronting her in her office, Fury was surprised to discover that Danvers had been told that he was doing the trafficking. A battle ensued between the New Ultimates and the Avengers through the streets of New York, in which Spider-Man was wounded taking a bullet for Cap and the Avengers were arrested. Taken onto the deck of the Helicarrier, Fury was informed by Gregory Stark that he had played both teams against each other to distract from his efforts to overthrow the dictatorships in both nations. Taking an experimental Hulk drug, Fury and the Avengers battled Stark, but were overpowered. Out of options, the Ultimates and Avengers teamed up to put down Stark's uprising in North Korea and kill Gregory, only to realize that the uprising in Iran was his real plan all along. Reinstated as Director after the death of Spider-Man, Fury dissolved the Avengers, though several of it's members would later join his Howling Commandoes.
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