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It's a crueler world out there than it used to be!

—Tigra (Greer Nelson)

Appearing in "Dead Run!"

Reprint of the 1st story from
West Coast Avengers (Vol. 2) #29

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Synopsis for "Dead Run!"

Reprint of the 1st story from
West Coast Avengers (Vol. 2) #29

In a warehouse in Los Angeles, Taurus tries to recruit The Shroud as his new Pisces, but for various reasons, Shroud isn't interested. Besides that, the meeting is interrupted by the arrival of Moon Knight, who has been hunting Van Lunt down in vengeance for breaking his vow to the Moon. As Moon Knight fights and chases Taurus through the streets of Los Angeles, he occasionally hears an encouraging voice in his head purporting to be Khonshu, speaking to him directly for the first time. This has a discomforting effect on Moon Knight, who has been trying to get over his multiple personality disorder and he can't be sure if this is actually the voice of a god or just another new product of his own splintered mind. The fleeing Taurus eventually reaches an airfield and commandeers a small plane, but once it's in the air, the pilot reveals himself as Moon Knight and they begin their final battle. Moon Knight doesn't expect Taurus to act recklessly while they're precariously flying in a fairly fragile plane, but Taurus is desperate and in his attempts to kill his pursuer at any cost lead the plane to spin out of control and crash. The last thing Taurus sees out the window of the plane is Moon Knight's gliding silhouette against the Full Moon.

Though victorious, Moon Knight's cape doesn't allow him to glide for long at such a high altitude. Before he can fall, he's caught from the air by Iron Man, the rest of the Avengers having been informed of his location by Shroud. The Avengers are mostly livid at Moon Knight for going off on his own and his actions leading to the death of Van Lunt. The issue of breaching the Avengers's no-killing rule leads to Mockingbird sticking up for him. Tigra chimes in that the crueler modern world could stand for a more relaxed approach to that policy, leading to a debate between them and the more hardline older Avengers. They plan to discuss it more at length later, but Moon Knight wonders why Mockingbird of all people would be on his side. As their Quinjet flies away, the spectre of Phantom Rider watches from atop a desert bluff.

Appearing in "Three Women"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Defenders #138

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Synopsis for "Three Women"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Defenders #138

Following their previous battle against Gargoyle and his temporary master, the New Defenders rally together before confronting their remaining adversary. Driven mad by the true sight visions of Moondragon and Valkyrie, Shafik Wazzan cowers behind the wheels of Angel's plane as he is left without his magical translation abilities. Despite Bobby's wishes to leave the man to die, Angel informs the local wilderness rangers of 'a guy in rags running around in a clearing'.

As the Defenders return to headquarters with a wounded Gargoyle, Beast confronts Moondragon about Gargoyle’s warning that they should “beware” her, but she feigns ignorance. Cloud stands up for Moondragon, believing she is not evil, but Beast remains suspicious.

When the Defenders arrive home, they are confronted by a hologram of the Hulk with a shotgun, warning them that they are on the Defenders’ private property and to identify themselves within 30 seconds or be blown away. It turns out that the hologram is part of a new security system that Angel’s girlfriend, Candy Southern, had installed while they were gone. The hologram can also be programmed to assume different forms, including Sub-Mariner, Silver Surfer, Captain America, the Thing, and even Galactus riding a giant image of the Beast’s dog, Sassafras.

Fortunately for Gargoyle, Southern has also installed a medical facility with a camera hook-up to one of the hospitals Angel owns. When Beast asks Gargoyle what he meant when he said to “beware Moondragon,” Gargoyle claims that he doesn’t remember. Later, Beast and Angel discuss the team’s performance, noting that each Defender seems capable of taking the initiative when necessary and that there may be no need for a leader in the field, but they definitely still need someone to manage their operations.

Meanwhile, Iceman is surprised and somewhat relieved to find that Cloud has returned to being a girl, but she suddenly becomes a boy again and doesn’t know how to control it. Iceman finds that he cannot offer Cloud any comfort despite the fact that his own treatment as a mutant leaves him feeling rightly hypocritical. Later in the evening, a recovering Gargoyle goes to see Cloud, who is now a girl again. He confides in her that he did see something when his mind was linked to Moondragon’s, but he felt he could not tell the other Defenders because they might jump to the wrong conclusion.

Gargoyle says that he saw young Heather Douglas training to perfect her mind and body with the priests of Shao-Lom on the Titan moon. While meditating, she encountered the malevolent presence of an ancient being called the Dragon of the Moon, which existed on Titan long before the Eternals and was responsible for killing Titan’s previous inhabitants. The Dragon sought to possess Heather, but she was able to fight it off and close her mind to it. Defeating such an entity made Heather prideful, so she never told any of the priests about the encounter and chose to call herself Moondragon in commemoration of her victory.

Over the years, the Dragon has still attempted to possess her and she has continually fought it off, but it has slowly been corrupting her. If she should lose control and release the Dragon, the consequences could be terrible. Moondragon continues to fight off the Dragon, lamenting the fact that her fellow Defenders do not realize that she is fighting to protect them and that the evil they sense in her is actually the Dragon’s presence. While Moondragon continues to meditate, the team has a meeting where Beast and Angel announce Candy Southern as the new leader of the Defenders. As the team celebrates this news, Moondragon is suddenly sent flying through the doorway by former Avenger and Celestial Madonna, Mantis.

Appearing in "Superioribus 36"

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  • Several gambling games:
    • Superloto gigante
    • Lotería primitiva
    • Quinielas hípicas

Synopsis for "Superioribus 36"

Superioribus's super-hearing senses a man saying he'd be the Master of the whole country. He expects him to be a supervillain - but that man has simply won the lottery.

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