Counter Force (Marvel Comics)

New Warriors (second team)
Publication information
Publisher	Marvel Comics
First appearance	Avengers: The Initiative #12
In-story information
Member(s)	Debrii Gauntlet Justice Komodo Night Thrasher Rage Scarlet Spider Slapstick Tigra Ultra Girl

This second team of New Warriors is a fictional superhero team appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The team is composed mostly of former members of the original team of New Warriors.

The purpose of the team is to monitor the Initiative to ensure they stay true to their goal of training new and undeveloped superhumans.

In Avengers: The Initiative #12 after the defeat of KIA, the surviving Scarlet Spiders, along with the MVP clone and the real MVP's father, join with Justice and some former New Warriors that are Initiative trainees as a Counter Force of underground registered heroes.

Counter Force appears in a Secret Invasion tie-in story "Secrets and Skrulls" where they would team up with the current team of New Warriors, on a mission to recover the bodies of the original Night Thrasher, Microbe and Namorita.

During the Dark Reign storyline, a cyborg clone of Thor (created during the Civil War in the true Thor's absence) goes on a rampage at Camp Hammond; Counter Force resurfaces to assist in stopping the clone. Among the team is a person costumed as Night Thrasher, later revealed to be Donyell Taylor. In battle the group refer to themselves as "the New Warriors". They help to drive off the clone, but at the cost of one of the Scarlet Spiders. This drives Justice to retrieve MVP's body from under the Initiative, so that he may have a proper burial.

The team then absorbs Tigra and Gauntlet, who were on the run from Norman Osborn. Tigra suggests the team's name change to the Avengers Resistance, as a symbolic attempt to "take back" the name being corrupted by Osborn's "Dark Avengers". Together, they vow to take down Osborn.

...
Wikipedia