Loki commits one last act of villainy and fuses three Sentinels to form the robot Tri-Sentinel, so that it can destroy New York City. The Avengers track the group and defeat the villains, with Thor forcing Loki to flee back to their native home of Asgard.

Meanwhile, Doctor Doom is revealed to have been using a Doombot, the Kingpin makes a timely exit and Magneto is not present. A frustrated Loki reveals himself and imprisons the Red Skull, the Mandarin and the Wizard. The supervillain pawns are defeated by the heroes.

An example of this is where Magneto, a mutant and a Jewish Holocaust survivor, attacks the Red Skull, whose Nazi beliefs include a prejudice against mutants, and imprisons him in a buried crypt. While they did manage to give many of the heroes unusual fights, the plan eventually fails as the master villains fail to cooperate and bicker with each other. The lesser villains are then directed against heroes (mainly the Avengers and Spider-Man) who have never fought them before, the theory being that the unfamiliarity will act in the villains' favor. To assist the master villains, Loki engineers a jailbreak at the Vault. Loki also approaches Namor, but he rejects the offer stating he is not a villain anymore. Loki also attempts to recruit Apocalypse, Cobra, and the Mad Thinker, but they all decline. The supervillain team consists of Doctor Doom, the Kingpin, Magneto, the Mandarin, the Red Skull, and the Wizard. Loki does this to strike back at his adopted brother Thor, and due to his bitterness that he inadvertently caused the formation of the Avengers. Ī thematic sequel, Acts of Evil, was published in 2019, the 30th anniversary of Acts of Vengeance.Ī mysterious stranger (the Asgardian god Loki in disguise) coerces a group of master supervillains to join forces in a conspiracy to destroy the superhero team the Avengers. A humorous parody with the character the Impossible Man features in the title Silver Surfer. An epilogue features in Cloak and Dagger Web of Spider-Man and in an Avengers Annual. Major tie-ins included The Amazing Spider-Man Īmong other Spider-Man titles, Uncanny X-Men and the second Damage Control limited series. The core titles of the crossover include Avengers Avengers Spotlight Avengers West Coast Captain America Iron Man Quasar Thor and Fantastic Four. Promotional materials teased the idea of a wide array of super-villains facing heroes they had never met, or were not part of the heroes' regular rogues gallery. This company-wide fall crossover was centered on the Avengers and Fantastic Four after three consecutive fall crossovers were built around the X-Men and related mutant teams. ' Acts of Vengeance' is a comic book crossover storyline that ran through several titles published by Marvel Comics from December 1989 to February 1990.

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