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The Order is the name of two
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teams appearing in
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s published by
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. The first team was a brief offshoot of the team
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, and the second is part of an
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to place a superhero team in each
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of the
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.


Publication history


Defenders offshoot

The original incarnation of The Order starred in the six-issue
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''The Order'' (April-Sept. 2002) intending to conquer the world in order to protect it. The team consisted of the original Defenders:
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,
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,
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and
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.


Initiative version

A second Marvel Comics superhero team called The Order debuted in ''The Order'' vol. 2, #1 (Sept. 2007), created by writer
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and penciler
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. Following the fallout of Marvel Comics'
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crossover event, The Order was dubbed the ''First Super Hero Team of Tomorrow'' being the official superhero team for
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as part of the Fifty States Initiative. The group was originally intended to be named The
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, before it was revealed that the
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was owned by
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, and were first seen during the end of the
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with many of its members going unnamed during their first appearances. However, most would be a part of the new series though the designs of the characters were slightly altered. As the cast of The Order is composed almost entirely of new characters, Fraction looked to a popular TV drama for ideas on how to acquaint readers with his protagonists. Fraction framed each issue around a flashback sequence depicting an interview with each character explaining their past and why they joined the Order to give each character a detailed introduction. In late January 2008, Fraction revealed on
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's podcast "Word Balloon" that ''The Order'' would end at issue 10. Though at first it was believed that Marvel had canceled the series, Fraction later stated on a later Newsarama interview that Though the series was ended several of the book's characters and storylines would continue on in Matt Fraction's next project '' The Invincible Iron Man''. The group also appeared in the 2008 '' Eternals'' series and '' Avengers: The Initiative'' #18.


Fictional team history


Defenders offshoot

The original incarnation of The Order starred in the six-issue
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''The Order'' (April-Sept. 2002) intending to conquer the world in order to protect it. The team consisted of the original Defenders:
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,
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,
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and
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. Their fellow Defenders Hellcat,
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,
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and
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team up with other heroes (including
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, a cosmic-powered woman they mystically create from a portion of the Silver Surfer's energy) to oppose the Order and return them to their senses, just in time to prevent the curse from rendering Yandroth omnipotent.


Initiative version

The team is largely made up of celebrities known for making a difference through charitable work, and through a process involving a viral genomech payload developed by
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each one is given superpowers modeled on the pantheon of
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and trained at a
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base in
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.''Civil War'' #6 However, this process causes great strain on human bodies allowing the users limited time as superhuman (roughly a year).''The Order'' vol. 2, #1 (Sept. 2007). Marvel Comics. The group, then known as the Champions, were first put to use in the final battle of the superhuman
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.''Civil War'' #7. Marvel Comics. Though unnamed, the group that went into the fight consisted of people that closely resembled Hercules, Pierce, Maul, an
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Avona, Bannerman Brown & Green, Corona along with several others displaying a variety of different powers. As the Californian Initiative team, slightly changed versions of many the first seen team face and defeat Infernal Man. After the battle, some members failed to follow the morals clause in their contract by going out drinking, and were subsequently fired and had their powers removed. Their replacements, Milo Fields, Mulholland Black, Magdalena Marie, and Becky Ryan were given different powers. The team would come into conflict with various villains, most with a connection to General Softly''The Order'' vol. 2, #6 (Feb 2008). Marvel Comics. and the mysterious "M.A.N. from S.H.A.D.O.W." military group, including hordes of Zobos (mechanized
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), Cold War supervillains, Gamma monsters,
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, and an all girl gang called the Black Dahlias who have been given superpowers via the same process as The Order by M.A.N. from S.H.A.D.O.W. as well as deal with a murder case involving a former Order member. The team is later evicted from its
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headquarters and the M.A.N. from S.H.A.D.O.W. is revealed to be a collection of General Softly androids first devised by the Super Human Development and Operation (S.H.D.O.), an early attempt at a Fifty State Initiative from fifty years before; around the time of the real General Samuel Softly's death, and now part of a collection of villains (including Black Dahlias and Maul) led by
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, the son of
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enemy
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, who have set out to destroy The Order.''The Order'' vol. 2, #8 (April 2008). Marvel Comics. After Stane reactivates Mulholland Black's powers to the point of them going out of control and depowering the rest of The Order, Henry Hellrung was forced to kill Mulholland. The villains defeated, Tony Stark offers to repower the surviving members of The Order permanently and turn the team into a military operation rather than a public relations showcase. The Order will continue on as the Initiative superhero team of California.''The Order'' vol. 2, #10 (April 2008). Marvel Comics. During the ''
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'', The Order was one of the two Initiative teams that the invading
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s were unable to place a sleeper agent on as the team was chosen by Tony Stark personally rather than Criti Noll, the Skrull impostor of
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.''Avengers: The Initiative'' #18. Marvel Comics. However, suspicions arose also between the members of the Order and almost culminated into a fight. During the '' Fear Itself'' storyline, representatives of the Order are called by
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when the Initiative is restarted and briefed on the hammers that the
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summoned to Earth.


Members


Defenders offshoot

*
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*
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*
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*
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Initiative version


Current members

* Anthem - Henry Hellrung is the team's field leader and representation of
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with the powers of a living
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; able to stimulate and separate positive and negative charges in the air to generate electricity. All-New Iron Manual pg 46-47 "The Order" (May 2008). Marvel Comics. Hellrung was an actor who played Tony Stark on a TV series who eventually became good friends with the billionaire himself. During the peak of his fame, Hellrung and Stark were regular fixtures in the celebrity nightlife scene. However Hellrung's hard partying eventually turned him into an
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and cost him his job and reputation within the industry. Hellrung joined
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(AA), recovered, and eventually became well known for his activism within the organization. When Tony Stark himself also became an alcoholic, he joined AA and was sponsored by Hellrung. During the '' Dark Reign'',
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has Hellrung placed under arrest. * Aralune - Rebecca "Becky" Ryan is a former two-time Little Ms. America, multiple time Teenager of the Year, and platinum selling pop star, Ryan now has the ability to shape-shift. Depicted as a pop-starlet akin to
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or
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, Ryan has faced various troubles in her successful career including
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and a
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scandal, which was successfully covered up by Kate Kildare. Ryan has been portrayed as a dedicated, hard-worker, but also as a people pleaser to her own detriment. Her powers are designed so she "can be whatever she wants''The Order'' vol. 2, #2 (Oct. 2007). Marvel Comics." becoming a metamorph. * Calamity - James Wa was an aspiring
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known for his raw speed, but after a car accident that cost him both his legs he went into an engineering career. Already nicknamed Calamity, Wa designed Calamity-brand Cheetah
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s.''The Order'' vol. 2, #3 (Nov. 2007). Marvel Comics. He is the representation of
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and has the power of super speed, reaching foot speeds of Mach 3. The character changed outfits between ''Civil War'' #7 and ''The Order'' vol. 2, #1. * Supernaut -
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Milo Fields is a former soldier who, along with his platoon, was held hostage for eleven days while serving in the
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; four of his men were killed and the rest were abandoned and later found by some
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officers on leave. A greatly exaggerated version of the capture and rescue was turned into a
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movie by the U. S. government. Fields, not liking how the government had portrayed his life story, became quite active in the
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and was shot in the spine by someone who thought Fields was being unpatriotic, leaving him wheel-chair bound. His neural networks have been hardwired into Stark's satellite network. He now pilots an Omega-level mechanized battle-suit, Supernaut, using his neural networks and is considered the team's artillery. After mixing his blood together with that of the shape-shifter Aralune, Milo regained the ability to walk. * Veda - Magdalena "Maggie" Marie Neuntauben was an actress known for her martial arts background and work with orphans; she has the power to summon humanoid
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soldiers out of organic materials that surround her using multisight to see through their eyes. However, she feels pain anytime one is destroyed.''The Order'' vol. 2, #4 (Dec. 2007). Marvel Comics.


Associates

*
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- The representation of
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, Director of
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, and founder of the team.NYCC '07: FRACTION & KITSON LAUNCH MARVEL's THE CHAMPIONS
by Chris Arrant, newsarama.com
* Kate Kildare of Hestia Public Relations - Kildare is the team's
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agent and responsible for maintaining The Order's reputation in the public eye. Kildare used to date Hellrung during his days as an actor but split up with him when he became an alcoholic, though he eventually returned to her asking for her services to rebuild his career.


Former members

* Aphrodite - A former supermodel. * Avona - representation of
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Avery Allen is a gifted swordswoman, Allen was given a
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with integrated talking AI called "
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" with which Allen had a psychic link. She was fired and later murdered. * Bannerman Brown & Bannerman Green - Two Stark Enterprises
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. They were later destroyed. * Mulholland Black - Mulholland Black is the orphaned
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daughter of two dead
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musicians. Black's mutant power enabled her to share a psycho
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link with historical events allowing her to convert dormant energies lying just below the surface of
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into psychokinetic fuel for a variety of effects but after M-Day she lost this ability. While living on the streets, she joined the all-girl gang ''Black Dahlias'' but was later kicked out after cheating on one of its members. As part of The Order, Mulholland, who opted to not to use a code name, was given a power similar to her former ability, this power gave her a psychokinetic connection to L. A. itself through the people of the city.''The Order'' vol. 2, #5 (Jan 2008). Marvel Comics. She also wields a power mallet, charged by her psychokinetic energy, which grants her flight. The ''Black Dahlias'', who all gained superpowers, inject Black with Stark's S.P.I.N. Tech to remove her powers but somehow allowed her true mutant powers to resurface. Her out of control powers caused destruction on a massive scale and Henry Hellrung was forced to kill Mulholland to save the city. * Corona - Representation of
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. Carlos Araújo Carvalho was a living conduit of the
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. He had an exo-suit providing an amount of control over its energy. Corona was later fired and then murdered. * Heavy -
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Dennis Michael Murray''The Order'' vol 2, #9. Marvel Comics. was a
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who was injured during Tony Stark's V.I.P. visit to the front lines, leaving him paralyzed and in a tube in V.A. hospital. As part of The Order, he was submerged in a kind of super colloidal fluid contained within a suit becoming the team's trainer and tactician, and representation of
Poseidon Poseidon (; grc-gre, Ποσειδῶν) was one of the Twelve Olympians in ancient Greek religion and myth, god of the sea, storms, earthquakes and horses.Burkert 1985pp. 136–139 In pre-Olympian Bronze Age Greece, he was venerated as a ...
with the power of super strength measured on a
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, rating Class 90, and the ability to fly. When his powers were removed by Ezekiel Stane, Murray died. * Hercules - He had super strength and the ability to fly. His fate is unknown. * Maul - The representation of
Hephaestus Hephaestus (; eight spellings; grc-gre, Ἥφαιστος, Hḗphaistos) is the Greek god of blacksmiths, metalworking, carpenters, craftsmen, artisans, sculptors, metallurgy, fire (compare, however, with Hestia), and volcanoes.Walter B ...
. Jamal Peoples used an energy mallet, which provided flight and an energy covering his entire body as well as the ability to reduce any problem down to its component parts. He was later fired and then hired by Ezekiel Stane Peoples was captured and detained by S.H.I.E.L.D. * Pierce - The representation of
Artemis In ancient Greek mythology and religion, Artemis (; grc-gre, Ἄρτεμις) is the goddess of the hunt, the wilderness, wild animals, nature, vegetation, childbirth, care of children, and chastity. She was heavily identified wit ...
. Pamela "Pam" Peirce won an Archery Gold medal in Sydney. As part of the Order, she was given enhanced agility and used a bow with titanium tipped arrows. She also changed outfit and hair color between ''Civil War'' #7 and ''The Order'' vol. 2, #1. She was later fired. *
Pepper Potts Virginia "Pepper" Potts is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. She serves as a supporting character to Iron Man and sometimes a romantic interest of Tony Stark. Created by writers Stan Lee and ...
- The representation of Hera. Pepper uses external technology to tap into Stark technology, including satellites, and acts as the team's logistical coordinator.


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