Avengers Vol 5 5

Part of the 'Marvel NOW! (2012)' event

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Avengers Vol 5 #5
Published
Released
April, 2013
2-6-2013

 Editor-in-Chief
Axel Alonso

 Cover Artists
Dustin Weaver

 Writers
Jonathan Hickman

 Pencilers
Adam Kubert

 Colourists
Frank Martin

 Letterers
Cory Petit

 Editors
Tom Brevoort Lauren Sankovitch

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  *Would you look at that... You're the first human **member** of the Imperial Guard, Izzy.*
-- **Steven Rogers (Earth-616)**
## Appearing in "Superguardian"Edit

**Featured Characters:**

* Avengers
	+ Smasher (Izzy Kane) ***(Appears in flashback and main story)*** Template:1st Real Name ***(Origin revealed)***
	+ Captain America (Steve Rogers)
	+ Iron Man (Tony Stark)
	+ Hulk (Bruce Banner)
	+ Wolverine (Logan)
	+ Falcon (Sam Wilson)
	+ Cannonball (Sam Guthrie)
	+ Sunspot (Bobby da Costa)
	+ Manifold (Eden Fesi)

**Supporting Characters:**

* Lilandra ***(Only in flashback)***
* Emperor Gladiator (Kallark) ***(Appears in flashback and main story)***
* Imperial Guard ***(Appears in flashback and main story)***
	+ Oracle (Sybil) ***(Appears in flashback and main story)***
	+ Smasher (Vril-Rokk) ***(Only in flashback)***
	+ Warstar ***(Appears in flashback and main story)***
	+ Starbolt ***(Appears in flashback and main story)***
	+ Mentor ***(First appearance)*** Template:Flash
	+ G-Type ***(Appears in flashback and main story)***
	+ Manta
	+ Flashfire (Grannz)
	+ Neutron
	+ Titan ***(First appearance)***
	+ Smasher (Galin) ***(Death)***

**Antagonists:**

* Unnamed Alien Armada

**Other Characters:**

* Blackveil ("Adam")
* Dan Kane ***(Only in flashback)*** ***(Death)***
* Izzy Kane's father ***(First appearance)*** ***(Only in flashback)***
* Shi'ar crewmen ***(Only in flashback)***
	+ Steersman Immundra ***(Only in flashback)*** ***(Death)***

**Locations:**

* Earth
	+ United States of America
		- New York City
			* Manhattan
				+ Avengers Tower
		- Iowa
* The Shi'ar Galactic Rim
* Chandilar

**Items:**

* Falcon's Wings
* Exospex

## Synopsis for "Superguardian"Edit

In a flashback, Lilandra sends Smasher of the Imperial Guard to warn about the destruction of one of their border planets. But Smasher’s ship is destroyed en route and he crashes to the Earth in Iowa, where a piece of his living costume is discovered by a farm girl, Izzy Kane. Izzy chats with father and grandfather, the latter of whom has been freeing animals from their pens. That night, Izzy, who previously studied astronomy in Colorado, is looking through a telescope, when Smasher’s goggles begin talking to her and instruct her to put them on. They manifest an entire Smasher costume, bestowing her with the strength, speed, flight, and other powers of Smasher. She flies into the night sky, through a hidden Shi’Ar stargate to the Shiar homeworld of Chandilar. She is guided into the presence of the other Imperial Guard as a kind of Smasher-in-training.

In the present, Tony Stark has begun communicating with the human grown by Ex Nihilo whose name is Blackveil. Cannonball and Sunspot ask where Smasher and Manifold are; Tony says they are in another galaxy. In the Shi’Ar galactic rim, the Imperial Guard are assaulted by sentient drones, and (the Shi’Ar) Smasher is killed in combat. Their distress call was answered by (the human) Smasher who arrives with many other Avengers as back-up to join the battle.

In the past, Smasher returns to Earth after a month, and happily re-unites with her father but also learns her grandfather has gotten sicker.

In the present, Smasher and Hulk decimate the enemy forces besieging the Shi’Ar Guardsmen. The Imperial Guard led by Gladiator arrives and victory is soon assured. Gladiator designates Izzy Dare as the new superguardian-class Smasher, the first ever human member of the Shi’Ar Imperial Guard.

In the past, Izzy speaks with her dying grandfather who gives her a message that he received from Captain America. He is in fact Dan Kane, the WWII-era hero called Captain Terror, and says that Izzy Kane has inherited a superhero’s birthright. In the present, Captain America smiles at her promotion and says, “The old man would be proud.”

Back on Chandilar, Oracle interrogates one of their captured enemies, and learns they were not actually invading Shi’Ar space, but rather running for their lives from another unknown entity.

## Solicit Synopsis

“SUPERGUARDIAN”

• Meet Smasher, the first human member of the IMPERIAL GUARD and an Avenger.

• Watch as the Avengers travel across the galaxy to fight off an invading force.

• Watch as the Imperial Guard are broken on a dead moon.

## Trivia

* The scene showing the origin of the Shi'ar scrap that Izzy finds is from an issue of Grant Morrison's ***New X-Men*  #122**.

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