Legion of Monsters

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The Legion of Monsters are a team that feature in Marvel Comics.

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History

The Legion of Monsters were various monsters that banded together to become heroes to protect their kind on Earth.

Originally, the group formed when Ghost Rider Johnny Wolf, Morbius, the Living Vampire, Werewolf by Night and the Man-Thing all separately investigated an incident at Los Angeles. This involved a strange entity known as the Starseed who was a benevolent being looking to live in peace with mankind. However, both the Werewolf by Night and Morbius came to be overcome by their monstrous hungers leading to them attacking the alien being. Ghost Rider and Man-Thing attempted to intervene but Starseed was unable to overcome his fear of Man-Thing resulting in him suffering severe burns at its touch. The dying Starseed attempted to cure the Legion of their monstrous forms but was too weak and died a short time later. (Marvel Premiere v1 #28)

Afterwards, the Legion of Monsters responded to an incident involving the Dimensional Man. The villain had taken shelter at the Monster Metropolis but had been secretly stealing the life force of humans to feed himself. This led to Werewolf by Night, N'Kantu the Living Mummy and Morbius capturing him. (Legion of Monsters v2 #1)

The Red Hulk sought out Monster Metropolis for a means of curing him from an unseen spectral force that was haunting him. He was guided there by Doctor Strange where he encountered the Legion of Monsters. They were prepared for the Red Hulk's arrival with N'Kantu made as a means of containing the dark spirit. It was revealed that this was actually the dark shade of Doc Samson desperately trying to survive by feeding on Red Hulk's gamma energy. The Legion prepared a device to contain him but being pulled between Red Hulk's innate energy absorption powers and the device the spirit of Dark Samson was destroyed in the process. Doctor Strange consoled everyone that the entity was simply the essence of the darker nature of the true Doc Samson who resided elsewhere in the afterlife where he lived peacefully. (Hulk v2 #52)

Overview

In time, they came to become protectors of other monsters of the world. Monsters claimed that their persecution was different from Mutants as they did not desire to be martyrs or invite conflict or be heroes to a world that hated and feared them. They claimed that they would fight for the good of man when necessary but that they primarily wanted to be left alone. (Punisher v8 #12) They were the protectors of over a four hundred thousand monsters. (Legion of Monsters v2 #1)

They later established Monster Metropolis as a beacon and safe haven from hunters of monsters. It eventually grew at an incredible rate until all the monsters from around the world came to reside there. (Punisher v8 #12)

Members

  • Ghost Rider :
  • Man-Thing :
  • Morbius, the Living Vampire :
  • Werewolf by Night :
  • FrankenCastle :
  • Manphibian :
  • Man-Thing :
  • N'Kantu, the Living Mummy :
  • Satana :

Notes

  • The Legion of Monsters was created by Bill Mantlo, Frank Robbins and Steve Gan where they made their first appearance in Marvel Premiere v1 #28 (February, 1976).

In other media

Video games

  • In Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds, the Legion of Monsters made a cameo appearance in the setting of the fighting video game during Jill Valentine's ending.

Appearances

  • Marvel Premiere v1:
  • Punisher v8:
  • Deadpool Team-Up v2:
  • Legion of Monsters v2:
  • Daredevil v3:
  • Hulk v2:

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