Unity (Valiant)
Unity are a superhero team that features in Valiant Comics.
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History
Unity were a team of superpowered beings that were gathered into a team to protect the Earth. For centuries, heroes and superhumans came to find that working together they could defeat various threats. From Sir Kwain's team of medieval adventurers, to World War I's Unit-Y, numerous similar teams have formed throughout the centuries. While these groups were all formed relatively independent of one another, there are two threads that tie them together–the membership of the Eternal Warrior, and the threat of the War-Monger. Both are immortal warriors, but while the Eternal Warrior is a hero, the War-Monger both fuels and was fueled by human conflict. Each generation found a way to get rid of the War-Monger, but she always resurfaced to antagonize the world again.
After Aric of Dacia escapes from the clutches of the Vine aliens and returns to Earth he seeks to claim a large portion of what was formerly his home nation of Dacia, now modern day Romania. The world however, does not take lightly to the invasion of Romania. Russia in particular who share a border with Romania are primed to attack.
To prevent warfare from breaking out, Toyo Harada noted CEO of the Harbinger Foundation enlisted the help of the Eternal Warrior who had unsuccessfully tried to talk his old friend Aric out of his invasion. Harada planned to use his own team of powerful Psiots to take down Aric but after they failed failed he realized he needed to look outside his own personal allies. Thus, he recruited had assassin-for-hire Ninjak and the immortal Eternal Warrior alongside his own star pupil Livewire with the goal that their combined efforts would defeat X-O Manowar. (Unity v1 #1) Together, the team infiltrated Romania and attacked Aric, managing to steal his alien armor, but Harada's team realized that he was in the wrong. The armor was Aric's, and Harada simply wanted to consolidate power for himself. Stealing the armor back, they returned it to Aric and defeated Harada. Livewire left Harada's custody, and the team agreed to aid each other if the need ever arose. The plan ultimately fails with the Psiots being taken down before a battle can take place and Ninjak getting captured by X-O.
Harada then turns to his former pupil, the currently exiled Livewire and begins to assemble a new team. Meanwhile, Russia launched an attack on Aric's camp in Bucharest however they are annihilated. The team attacks Aric in his spaceship which he then launches into space. Livewire uses her powers to sever the connection between Aric and the Ship, sending the ship plummeting into the ocean. Livewire manages to wear the X-O Manowar armor and rescue everybody aboard the ship leaving Harada in charge of the armor. The team realises however that Harada has ulterior motives and team up with X-O Manowar to defeat Harada.
Making good on their agreement to work together again, Ninjak gathered the team to deal with a quickly advancing threat. Livewire, now operating as an agent of MI-6 in exchange for being kept safe from Harada, went missing on a routine mission in Taiwan. Ninjak, concerned her disappearance is connected to the recent return of his enemy Doctor Silk, brought in the Eternal Warrior and X-O Manowar. Their investigations uncovered a plot by Silk to conquer the world with a mind-controlling virus, and while they were able to rescue Livewire and stop the virus at it's source, it was impossible to guarantee that the virus wouldn't activate again.
A new threat to the world came from the Armor Hunters that were teams of alien beings that sought to destroy the Armors scattered across the universe. The Armor Hunters see the X-O Armor as a plague upon the universe, and seek to exterminate them, and those who wear them. Aric refused to surrender to them, however, so they destroyed Mexico City and unleashed armies of alien hounds across the globe. Unity, leaping into action, sent the technopathic Livewire to destroy the Hunters' orbiting base GIN-GR. While she succeeded, the ship crashlanded in Los Angeles, destroying the city and unleashing the aliens into the city. Meanwhile, Ninjak and Gilad managed to contain the attacks of the Hounds. In the ruins of downtown LA, Unity and their ally Bloodshot managed to kill or detain all of the Hunters, leaving Aric to kill their leader.
After defeating the Armor Hunters the US and UK governments form the Global Agency for Threat Excision or G.A.T.E. and swiftly commandeer all the technology left by the aliens. In an attempt to avoid fear and panic G.A.T.E. takes Unity public, making Livewire the public face. While Aric is unavailable the team searches for a fourth member, ultimately recruiting former Renegade Faith Herbert Zephyr.[14] The unchecked power of Unity however doesn't sit well with some members of the international community. Several ambassadors resort to activating their own rival team of mysterious covert agents - the United. After a violent battle with The United Faith leaves the team.
After the Armor Hunters crisis was averted, Unity became more public, hoping to calm public fears of increasing superhuman activity. Detailing their various missions to the public, with several members even revealing their secret identities, the world began to trust superhumans again after the destruction of Mexico City. However, representatives of numerous countries discovered that Unity had taken genocidal robot GIN-GR into their custody, secretly and illegally. They assembled their own superhuman strike team, named "The United", to confront Unity and force them to turn over GIN-GR. After the team's MI-6 representative Neville Alcott refused to do so, United member Ultimo unleashed a blast of radiation that destroyed the base containing the alien robot. Alongside temporary new member Zephyr, Unity managed to defeat the attack by the United, but GIN-GR was exposed to the outside world.
Unity was called into action once more when a powerful and ancient alien race known as The Torment appeared on Earth. They rampaged across New York killing and absorbing human life, and X-O Manowar and GIN-GR led Unity, G.A.T.E., and even the normally-antagonistic alien army known as The Vine went into battle against them. The titanic monsters were seemingly immune to damage, however, when they absorbed Aric, the Visigoth became exposed to their wide range of knowledge. When he was restored to the world, he revealed that Torment didn't want to kill: they wanted to die, but didn't want their vast knowledge to disappear. With their consciousness uploaded into his armor, they killed themselves, ending their massacre.
When Divinity crash lands in the Australian outback with seemingly godlike power Unity attempts to make contact. Sensing their hostility Divinity warps reality around each of the Unity members and traps them in an endless loop of time. Ultimately as Divinity accepts that the family he could have had is gone Unity takes him into custody.
For centuries the Eternal Warrior had always lost protecting the Geomancers from the Immortal Enemy. In the present Bloodshot retrieves a box from a couple of Project Rising Spirit goons while Kay McHenry discuss her love life with Armstrong. Kay soon goes off to investigates a small town in Colorado when the Immortal Enemy arrives coming to take her life in the guise of Mr. Flay. An old fictional character Kay heard as a child. Soon the Eternal Warrior with the help of Colonel Capshaw and Neville Alcott assembles Unity and the rest of Valiant's heroes to confront the Immortal Enemy.
Armor Hunters always complete their hunt, and they never leave a hunter behind. With Hunters Reebo and Helix believed deceased, Quartz captured, and GIN-GR rehabilitated, the threat of the Armor Hunters was believed to be over. The peace was disrupted Quartz's holding facility in Utah was attacked by rogue technology. Before Unity could respond from their base inside GIN-GR, the alien robot put herself on lockdown. While GIN-GR flew towards Quartz's prison, and the stone alien freed himself from his bonds, Eternal Warrior discovered that GIN-GR wasn't acting on her own will–she was possessed by fellow Armor Hunter Helix, who had escaped death. While X-O Manowar battled Quartz, and Eternal Warrior attempted to guard rehabilitated Hunter Malgam, Livewire purged Helix from GIN-GR's systems. GIN-GR destroyed Helix, and Quartz was returned to prison, ending the threat of the Hunters for good.
After a short break caused by a harsh fight with ex-Armor Hunter Malgam, Unity was reunited by a series of attacks by the ancient evil known as War-Monger. Seeking revenge on Unity for what previous incarnations of the team had done to her, she attacked each of the members of Unity, starting with Ninjak, defeating him in his apartment. War-Monger then attacked Livewire and used her to lure out GIN-GR, before assaulting Eternal Warrior and throwing him into the ocean. Her actions and powers beginning to sew chaos across the globe, Unity regrouped. X-O Manowar assailed War-Monger, his armor allowing him to fight her better than anyone, and lured her out to sea. Unity, alongside a psiot named Anchor who had once been a candidate for Toyo Harada's Unity, joined Aric and the War-Monger. Because War-Monger needed to be near humanity to cause chaos, Anchor used his superhuman power to become immovable to pin her at the bottom of the ocean forever, sacrificing himself in the process.
Unity was called into action once more when a powerful and ancient alien race known as The Torment appeared on Earth. They rampaged across New York killing and absorbing human life, and X-O Manowar and GIN-GR led Unity, G.A.T.E., and even the normally-antagonistic alien army known as The Vine went into battle against them. The titanic monsters were seemingly immune to damage, however, when they absorbed Aric, the Visigoth became exposed to their wide range of knowledge. When he was restored to the world, he revealed that Torment didn't want to kill: they wanted to die, but didn't want their vast knowledge to disappear. With their consciousness uploaded into his armor, they killed themselves, ending their massacre.
One of the team's last documented missions occurred when the villainous Project Rising Spirit unleashed a devastating Bloodshot Virus on New York City. The nanite-based virus transformed it's victims into insane, superhuman monsters, and Unity went into the city to attempt to stop the chaos. Multiple team members like Ninjak became infected with the virus, but they were cured by Bloodshot, whose own nanites could remove the virus from people's systems. While Bloodshot worked on finding a way to cure the city, Unity worked with his allies to stop the horde of infected victims from leaving the city. Livewire became infected as well, and with Bloodshot busy, Ninjak was forced to fight her. Eventually, Bloodshot returned, and he and Deathmate used their abilities to cure the city of the Virus.
Overview
In appearance, Unity were a team of superpowered beings who gathered together to defend the world against threats.
Members
- Toyo Harada :
- Eternal Warrior :
- X-O Manowar :
- Ninjak :
- Bloodshot :
- Live Wire :
- GIN-GR :
- The Captain :
- Anchor :
- Bomb :
- Ether :
- Mirror :
Notes
- Unity was created by Matt Kindt where they made their first appearance in Unity v1 #1 (November, 2013).
In other media
Films
- In Ninjak vs. the Valiant Universe, Unity appeared in the setting of the live-action film.
Appearances
- Unity v1: (2013)
- Divinity v1:
- Bloodshot U.S.A. v1:
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