New Men (Marvel)

The New Men in Wolverine: First Class v1 #4.

The New Men are a species that feature in Marvel Comics.

History

At some point, Counter Earth was recreated with the New Men living on this duplicate world that existed on the opposite side of Sol. Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver would travel there leading to a confrontation with the New Men after they learnt that Magneto was not their father. After their disappearance, a new Avengers Unity Squad was assembled by Rogue in search for the pair. (Uncanny Avengers v2 #1)

Members

• Bova :
• Man-Beast :
• Sir Ram :
• White Tiger :

Notes

• The New Men were created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby where they made their first appearance in Thor v1 #133 (October 1966).

In other media

Television

• In X-Men: The Animated Series, the New Men appeared in he episode "Family Ties" where they were creations of the High Evolutionary with them residing at Mount Wundagore. Alongside Bova, other New Men included a goat, lion, rhinoceros, deer, panda, zebra, musk oxen, snow leopard and a warthog. The wounded Magda came to Mount Wundagore where she left her two newborn children Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver in the care of Lady Bova who would later pass them to a man named Djanjo who looked after them with his wife. Many years later, the now adult Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver returned to Wundagore to find more about their mother. The High Evolutionary would take them in his care and confirmed their identities through a DNA match where he revealed that Magneto was their father who had killed their mother in a rage. He would send some of his finest New Men warriors to accompany the twins as they sought revenge against the Master of Magnetism but after succeeding they were betrayed by the animal hybrids who brought all three to their master. With their genetic material, the High Evolutionary intended to create a superior breed of New Men through a refinement of the process where he succeeded in turning Wolverine into a wolf hybrid. The X-Men would arrive to save their comrades with the New Men being defeated though they would be teleported into their master's citadel that turned into a craft where it departed from the area.
• In the animated Spider-Man Unlimited series, the New Men were created on Counter Earth by the High Evolutionary after he arrived on that world from Earth to find a utopia free from human violence and darker nature. However, on Counter Earth he found the native humans were engaged in war and violence leading to the High Evolutionary beginning his own experiments around 50 years ago to bring about his utopia. His experiments led to the creation of a race of 'new men' that he called Beastials consisting of a wide variety of animal hybrids that became the dominant race on the planet whilst mankind was relegated to second class citizens. The elite in this society were the Knights of Wundagore that served the High Evolutionary whilst the Machine Men served as enforcers of this new world order.
• In Hulk and the Agents of S.M.A.S.H., the New Men made an appearance in the episode "Future Shock" where they were called the Animal Men. They developed in a parallel timeline where the Agents of S.M.A.S.H. were trapped in space and unable to stop a gamma meteor from hitting Earth. The resultant damage from the meteor devastated human civilization that resorted to savagery until the High Evolutionary transformed mankind into animal hybrids that he called his Animal Men. This new species became the inheritors of the planet and transformed it into a primitive yet idyllic paradise in the course of a thousand years. A temporal distortion led to the Agents of S.M.A.S.H. crashing onto this future Earth where the Hulk's battled the Animal Men until the intervention of the High Evolutionary who conducted evolutionary experiments on the gamma mutated heroes. Ultimately, the High Evolutionary was defeated when his devolution ray in his staff was damaged causing it to feedback on himself turning him into a baby which the Animal Men took in his care.

Appearances

• Quicksilver:
• Heroes for Hire:
• New Warriors:

External Links

• Marvel Database Entry
• Comicvine Entry
• Wikipedia Entry

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