Teams & Organizations (Earth-61)

### Law Enforcement Agencies & Task Forces

* **Cerberus Squad:** Black ops unit for the CIA to capture, interrogate & kill high-value targets. Defunct.
* **H.A.M.M.E.R.**‏‎: Replacement government agency of S.H.I.E.L.D. under Norman Osborn. Defunct.
* **S.H.I.E.L.D.:** International peacekeeping, law enforcement & counter-terrorism agency sanctioned by the United Nations
* **S.W.O.R.D.**: Counter terrorism & intelligence agency which deals with extraterrestrial threats to world security
* **Team X:** Military black-ops unit division of U.S. Government's CIA in the 1960s. Defunct.
* **X-Factor:** Government-sponsored mutant superhero group. Formerly mutant-Activism group. Defunct.

### Superhero Teams

* **Avengers:** Team of extraordinary individuals with special abilities & the will to do good in the world
* **Champions:** Group of young heroes who banded together to rectify the public's distrust.
* **Daughters of Liberty:** Young women with shared beliefs of universal freedom to pass this down through the generations.
* **Defenders**: Group of New York City-based street-level heroes.
* **Excalibur**: Government sponsored team fighting for the people of the United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland
* **Fantastic Four**: Group of scientific explorers lead by Dr. Reed Richards
* **Guardians of the Galaxy**: Intergalactic outlaws who protect the galaxy from planetary threats.
* **Heroes for Hire:** Business offering professional investigation & protection services. Defunct.
* **New Mutants:** The second class of students trained & taught by Professor X. Now operating as an official team.
* **New Warriors**: Group of disparate superheroes formed together by Dwayne Taylor.
* **Runaways**: Group of teenagers going against their villainous parents
* **Secret Avengers:** *Unknown*. Defunct.
* **Spider Army:** Superhero team of Spiderman & his allies.
* **Valkyrior (Midgard):** *Unknown*.
* **X-Factor Investigations:** Investigative force tasked with solving mysterious mutant disappearances and/or deaths.
* **X-Men**: Team of mutants who work to bring peace between mutants & baseline humans.

### Criminal Organizations

#### Organized Crime

* **Assassins Guild**: Secret organizations of superhuman assassins.
* **PRIDE**: Group of couples who sacrifice in exchange for wealth, power, eternal life & rulers of the Los Angeles criminal underworld.
* **Thieves Guild**: Secret global organization of criminals & thieves.

#### Terrorist Groups & Other Criminal Groups

* **Brotherhood of Mutants:** Group founded by Magneto that is dedicated to the cause of mutant superiority over humans.
* **Dark Avengers**: Formed in the wake of the Secret Invasion, created by Norman Osborn under H.A.M.M.E.R. Defunct.
* **Hellfire Club:** A shady social club for the social elite & wealthy
	+ **Hellfire's Hellions**: Team of teenaged mutants who were recruited by the powerful telepath Emma Frost
* **HYDRA**: Terrorist organization formed from the Axis powers
	+ **A.I.M.**: Group of scientists wanting to supply arms & technology to radicals in order to foster a violent technological revolution & make a profit.
	+ **Typhon Group:** Large pharmaceutical company. Publicly known as a provider of vaccines to third world countries but secretly the global leader in chemical weapons.
	+ **Echidna Capital Management:** Venture capital firm committed to funding businesses in the cutting edge science.
	+ **Merovech Investment Group:** Business used to cover to Hydra's activities in New York.
	+ **Department of Occult Armaments:** *Unknown*
* **Reavers:** *Unknown*
* **Weapon Plus Program**: *Unknown*

### Businesses & Companies

* **Daily Bugle:** An American tabloid newspaper based in New York City.
* **G.I.R.L.:** Organization dedicated to finding the brilliant girls & women who will change & save the world.
* **Knightwing Restorations Inc:** Private investigation firm.
* **Pym Labs:** Scientific research & development firm founded by Hank Pym
* **Silver Sable International:** Security company that recovered stolen property & apprehended felons for companies & countries
* **Stark Industries**: Multinational industrial company & the largest tech conglomerate in the world

### Other Groups

* **Avengers Academy**: Training program/school where veterans taught youngsters to become heroes.
* **Future Foundation:** Specialist school created by Reed Richards to a group of free-thinking individuals to plan for a better future for all humanity
* **Illuminati:** Covert think-tank consisting of members of Earth's superhuman community that has great personal power & influence
* **The Initiative:** Superheroes that supported registration & tried to enforce the SRA. Defunct.
* **Morlocks:** Community of mutants living beneath New York, for various reasons related to their mutantcy.
* **Power Pack**: *Unknown*
* **The Resistance:** Superheroes that opposed to the SRA resisting registration. Defunct.
* **Valkyrior (Asgard):** Female demigoddesses who conducted the souls of Asgardian warriors slain in battle to Valhalla.
* **X-Force:** Group of proactive mutants geared towards protecting their own from mutant terrorists.
* **X-Men Training Squads**: An educational & training program at the Xavier Institute.
	+ Advocates
	+ Chevaliers
	+ Corsairs
	+ Excelsiors
	+ Exemplars
	+ Hellions
	+ Paladins