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admonition : The following contains spoiler forAvengers # 19
Marvel ’s Universe is in chaos as theWar of The Realmsrages across Earth , andThe Avengersstruggle to fight back on all fronts … making it the worst potential prison term to learn the team has a traitor in their midst . And not only is this betrayer the last recruit anyone will expect , but the scoundrel he ’s serve is one the Avengers think they defeated : Dracula . Yes , thatDracula , King of the Vampires .
WhenBlack Panther became drawing card of the Avengers , his conclusion to recruit a new wave of submarine made stark sense . First theAgents of Wakanda replace SHIELD , who aid admit the furrow while a vampire civic warfare break out ( it ’s been a baseless year ) . And when T’Challa invitedGorilla - ManAKA Kenneth Hale to become an Agent , it seemed the stark prospect for the explorer – anathemise with immortality as a gorilla – to serve a fresh purpose . But after saving the twenty-four hours inAvengers # 19 , Gorilla - Man ’s triumph is revealed to be part of a much dingy plan … because Gorilla - Man has been working for Dracula , and just set him up to grow back to power !
When the issue begins , Black Panther calls on Gorilla - Man , his newly appointed head of security to aid fight Avengers Mountain ( the team ’s raw base , work up inside of a long drained Celestial ) . Ken ’s conversation about the fortune of Dracula – sent to rot in Chernobyl , last we take care – seems to be catching reader up . The truth of that imprisonment is later revealed , but when Ken go far back at Avengers Mountain he ’s immediately put to work by T’Challa . His commission ? employ the stagnant Celestial ’s staff to create a arm , protect theevacuees from theWar of the Realmsthat have been tuck at bottom .
In true Marvel fashion , the mountain precipitate under plan of attack as Gorilla - Man is working to create the ultimate arm . He succeeds just in time , and falls off the batch in the process . His intimate dialogue body politic that he should have die then , " deliver Avengers Mountain . Saving the whole flaming universe . " Even though he lives , Ken does have a near - last experience . TheCelestialitself speaks to him , revealing the mysterious headquarters of Roxxon Energy Corporation ’s villains ( the Marvel pot has been working with Malekith during theWar of the Realms , too ) . Now that the Avengers know where to chance them , they have the first tether since the battle broke out .
All of thisshouldmake Gorilla - Man felicitous than ever , having prove his Charles Frederick Worth , and been give advice from Thor ’s father Odin himself . But as Ken slumps through the pokey cells of Avengers Tower talking to himself about how affair have vary , he stops in front of the cell give Sarge , the demon blackguard , an member of the new vampire humanity order . Sarge cue Ken that he has no choice in the matter … which is when Ken admit it . He ’s been betraying the Avengers for some time , serving Dracula and his Kingdom of the Damned .
He clear is n’t thrilled about it , but it ’s obviously too late to sour back . When did this betrayal happen ? When did he hold his commitment toDracula ? And how unrestrained is his fellow fauna Agent of Wakanda Ursa Major going to to be when he finds out that his good supporter has not only betrayed him and the Avengers , but that Ursa Major was just a putz in his program . Presumably Dracula was go by Ursa Major to Chernobyl , not because it was in reality Black Panther ’s plan , but that of his loyal horde . So what would make Ken sell the very superheroes he admires ?
it ’s propose by Sarge that Dracula may have tempt Ken with the hope of take his curse ( whether he would want to return to being a man , or just being able to fail is anyone ’s dead reckoning ) . Is there any way Gorilla - Man can get out this allegiance ? Either way , this ca n’t terminate well . Dracula will join theWar of the Realmssoon , or perhaps be there to rule over the pieces that are exit behind . Only then will Ken be capable to decide if his betrayal was worth it .
avenger # 19is available now fromMarvel Comics , and at your local comic shop .
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