Avengers: Standoff!
| Avengers: Standoff! | |
|---|---|
 |
|
| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| Format | Limited series |
| Genre | |
| Publication date | March – April 2016 |
| Main character(s) |
Captain America Avengers Howling Commandos Illuminati New Avengers S.H.I.E.L.D. Uncanny Avengers |
Avengers: Standoff! is a 2016 comic book storyline in Marvel Comics that was created by Nick Spencer, Mark Bagley, and Jesus Saiz.
This storyline will depict the Avengers investigating the mysterious gated community of Pleasant Hill and try to figure out its darkest secret where it has some sort of involvement with S.H.I.E.L.D.
Upon being alerted of a catastrophic event, Winter Soldier returns to Earth. Winter Soldier traces the source of the catastrophic event to a S.H.I.E.L.D. Facility where he ends up fighting off the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents there. In the middle of the woods, a young man awakens with amnesia. Upon being brought to the gated community of Pleasant Hill, he is examined by Dr. Erik Selvig and the other doctors. Upon overhearing some suspicious conversations, the young man starts to run away only to be knocked out. When he woke up again, he was told by a resident named Dorothy Bixby to accommodate the town. The young man discovered that Pleasant Hill is surrounded by a forcefield that is visible through touch. 19 days later, the young man named Jim had become a member of the Pleasant Hill community. While walking through the park, Jim encountered an eerie girl who was taken away when she brought a bird back to life. 36 days later, Jim encountered an arsonist in the house he entered who told him that Pleasant Hill is a lie and requested a meet-up in case Jim wants to learn the truth. On Day 40, Jim met the mysterious mechanic named Phil who created a device that enabled people to return to their true selves. Phil also stole a training video where Mayor Maria Hill gave a video tour of Pleasant Hill describing to the S.H.I.E.L.D. cadets watching this to be the future of supervillain incarceration, where they are turned into mild-mannered civilians using reality-warping technology derived from the Cosmic Cube called "Kobik". A demonstration was shown when Graviton was turned into a Pleasant Hill chef named Howie Howardson. As Phil uses the device on himself and Jim to restore their true selves, it is revealed that Phil is actually Fixer and Jim is actually Baron Helmut Zemo. Both of them vow to use the device on the other brainwashed supervillain prisoners and reduce Pleasant Hill to dust.
...
Wikipedia