Resistance is a minifranchise inside the MCU that follows a number of young powered individuals thrust into the world of heroism. With the help from a couple of familiar and friendly faces, our new heroes work together to not just save the world, but to fight for what is right and good in the world.
Phase One[]
Ultragirl[]
Tsu-Zana is the half-Kree, half-human daughter of Mar-Vell, left in the care of refugee Skrulls on Mar-Vell's Lab for her own protection, and ultimately orphaned after her mother’s death. Having difficulty fitting in, though, the Skrulls decide maybe it is better for Tsu-Zana to live on Earth, as a human, and so she is sent down (with a disguised Skrull, Ahmbra, to watch and raise her), as Suzy Sherman - her true identity hidden even from herself. Even on Earth though, Suzy failed to fit in, often rejected for being too "buff", her extra weight and muscle from being Kree. Trying to make it in LA's tough entertainment business, Suzy ends up unravelling a plot of a disgruntled and terroristic Effex and sets to take him down, while also discovering the truth about herself. Stinger: Suzy is approached by Maria Hill LMD, Stark-Fury style.
Virango: Home Invasion[]
The mysterious AGK Inc. creates a nano-virus capable of enhancing and controlling mutant abilities and clandestinely tests the virus on the small Bangladeshi village of Malpura, killing four thousand people. Tara Virango mangaged to survive the invasive virus, but became infected - an infection that unlocked her superhuman abilities. Tara travels to New York City to seek out AGK, though after being rebuffed and deciding to user her powers to steal the fifty-million-dollar Star of Persia diamond from AGK's vaults to help the survivors of Malpura, a familiar face responds to her crime to stop her: Spider-Man. She is able to escape from Spider-Man by telekinetically barraging him with images of the Malpura disaster, but ultimately feels he is an ally who may be able to help him. The two end up confronting AGK and their director, Corman, only to discover he has virus-related powers of his own.
Solarman[]
High-schooler and computer whiz Ben Tucker witnesses the crash of an alien spacecraft and is gifted the Circlet of Power by a dying Sha-Han, after going to investigate. Unfortunately for Tucker, Gormagga Kraal too wanted the Circlet in order to harness the power of the Sun, the being Sha-Han was fleeing from when his ship crashed on Earth. That night, Ben is visited by a vision of Sha-Han that explains to Ben Kraal's threat, but also that the Circlet will grant him superhuman strength from direct sunlight. The next day though, Ben is ambushed by two of Kraal's robot minions and is unable to fight them off, and is kidnapped to Kraal's ship to be dismembered (as the Circlet would not come off freely). Ben is rescued by Sha-Han's daughter Altarra and companion Beepie, to prevent Kraal from superheating the Earth and ultimately destroying the Sun.
Sun Girl[]
Working alongside Dr. William Allen, Selah Burke is exposed to a dangerous virus. The two of them lose control and begin wreaking havoc, before Spider-Man shows up, and is able to subdue them. Selah is left with residual powers and decides to become a hero, inspired by Spider-Man after he saved her, and so becomes Sun Girl. Sun Girl steals information from Detective Trina Sharp and tries to go break-up a meeting of former Dogs of Hell members Rooster and Jimmy the Bear, and former Diablos members, but gets overwhelmed and beaten up due to her inexperience. Saving her at the last second, Spider-Man shows up to take out the gang member. Now with the advantage, they fight until the gang flees and Sun Girl is unconscious. When she wakes up she finds herself in Spider-Man's hideaway and he begins questioning her identity and origin, before she reveals herself to be Selah, the girl he saved. Spider-Man and Sun Girl track down the escaped gang members to a villain named Lightmaster, who is planning to use a device to create giant spheres of chaos using his light based powers. During the ensuing fight, Selah learns that Lightmaster is her father, Edward... and that the lab accident was not an accident but was set up by Edward to test his device and give Selah her powers. Selah, now torn between siding with Spider-Man, her idol, and her dad, in the end she chooses Spider-Man and deals the finishing blow to Lightmaster's plan, destroying his device in an attempt to save himself from his own corruption, turning him into Detective Sharp.
Rage[]
While hiding from a group of bullies, 13 year-old Elvin Haliday is exposed to toxic waste. The chemicals cause Elvin to grow in strength and invulnerability, until he appeared to be a muscular man in his mid-30's. After using his new appearance and powers to scare away his bullies for good, Elvin is encouraged by his grandmother to use his new found abilities for good. And so, after his idol, Bill Foster, is attacked by the racial hate group, Sons of the Serpent, and his grandmother is killed, Elvin, and his new persona, Rage, set out to take down the Sons and challenge the system.
Resistance[]
Our first ensemble film, Maria Hill and Leslie Lim recruit Solarman and Rage, while Spider-Man inducts Virango and Solar Girl, into a new wave of young heroes, joining the already initiated Debrii, Locust, Pinpoint, Blur, and the Inhuman Synapse. Together they band together to take down Hate-Monger, a puppet master behind the Sons of the Serpent, who is causing riots, to feed off their energy. An an after credits scene, Serpent sypathizer Beatrix Keener is revealed to be the mother of Harley Keener.
Phase Two[]
Ultragirl 2[]
Suzy has a run in with and defeats Nuclear Man, and in the process meets and befriends Ripley Ryan (Star), who reveals she is also half-Kree, but has not unlocked her powers like Suzy and wants to learn. Suzy tries to convince Hill to take on Star in the Resistance, but Maria denies it (mentioning similarities to a previous 'failed candidate'). It is eventually revealed that Star is Minn-Nerva’s “daughter”. Minn-Nerva survived her crash on Earth, and has been living undercover (using nitrogen-cloaking), and figured out Suzy’s true identity. She used her own blood to turn Star (actually a human) into a half-Kree, but secretly is just using Star to get to Suzy, wanting to “befriend” Suzy to learn where the Skrulls are. Star finds out though and thinks Minn-Nerva actually wants to befriend Suzy to replace her, and she turns on Minn-Nerva and kills her, and then hunts down Suzy. In the end, it’s revealed Minn-Nerva had been working for a person called the “The Superior” in her time on Earth.
Virango: A New Home[]
Now with the Resistance, Tara decides to move to NYC full time, and start university. She ends up answering an ad for powered students (under the alias Enigma) to meet up and hangout, where she meets and gets close to Toro. Toro - Benito Serrano - was a poor child living with his sister, Marera. He was kidnapped from his home and forced into service as a child soldier in the Colombian civil war, where he had no choice but to become a “badass” killer. His superiors decided to use him as a human test subject for a "super-soldier" program. However, as the serum took effect, it caused him to remember Marera and the trauma of being taken from those he loved, and he ended up fleeing to NYC. At the meetup, Tara also meets (a blipped) Greg Willis (Gravity ([1])) and Greg’s (unpowered) friend Alisher Sham. Sham ends up getting mixed up in crime, working with Morg (“son” of Morbius ([1]) for the Superior. Sham ends up breaking the friendship after he takes down local vigilante hero Greenwich Guardian ([1]) and setting up Greg. Enigma, Toro, and Gravity must stop and save their friend, from the Superior's remote influence. (As a credit scene Greg catches a cameoing Rage sneaking into Tara’s dorm window, just for a visit, but mistakes him due to his adult appearance as a burglar and attacks him.)
Solar Powered[]
Selah and Ben have become quite close, in part to their similar powers, and after their participation in taking down Hate-Monger are approached by Max Shiffman to take part in his television series, "It's Amazing" about young heroes and powered individuals, alongside Human Fly, Supercharger, and Quicksand. With only the resistance knowing Solarman and Sun Girl's true identities, Ben comes to trust the other two heroes as well revealing who he is, but while he and Sun Girl want to use their platform to discuss the ozone layer and climate change, it slowly unravels that Supercharger and Quicksand intend to use it to show the public why they should fear superhumans, and kill Max on live TV, for using them. In the end, the two heroes are able to stop the plan, by draining Supercharger's power by tapping him into the studio's electrical equipment, but Quicksand ultimately gets away.
Vance Astrovik – Marvel Boy[]
As a kid Vance Astrovik’s powers manifested after being visited by a mysterious man. Not sure what was wrong with him, Vance ran away and joined a circus. Eventually, Vance was recruited by a vigilante named Night Thrasher, who was young, brash, and extreme, but didn’t treat Vance as a freak. Once with Night Thrasher, Vance met Angelica Jones, and the two became quite close. One day, Night Thrasher is killed by an Extremis explosion. Investigating leads them to the “Brides”, 12 Extremis experiments, with only one surviving trial left. Also looking for the last Bride, though, is the Dark Elf Terrana of the Smoke, “daughter” of Malekith. Stopping Terrana, and saving the Bride, Vance and Angelica discover Terrana was actually just a Dark Elf who survived Greenwich and was working for the Superior, who brainwashed her to believe she was Malekith’s daughter. Maria Hill shows up to take the Bride and introduces herself to the two.
Snowguard[]
Amka Aliyak is an Inuk teenager living in Pangnirtung, Nunavut. Recently, her town has received an influx of new guests and residents, including the young Jake Oh and the Roxxon industrialist Joshua Lord. After Lord arrives on the S. S. Superia and establishes a facility in that territory with the objective to repair the damage caused to the glaciers by global warming, Amka becomes suspicious after coming across a group of youth going by the name the Freelancers, protesting the facility but led by Lord's daughter; Amka breaks into the base to investigate its origins. Once infiltrated, Amka encounters the Inua spirit, Sila, in containment. She tries to free Sila, but is attacked by the Freelancers, and their defense drones. She manages to shove some of the drones into the containment field surrounding Sila, causing an explosion. While Amka is fatally injured, the explosion frees Sila, and the spirit heals her injuries in a flash of light. Imparted with Sila's energy, Amka is trapped inside the factory until her rescue by Maria Hill and S.H.I.E.L.D., alerted to the explosion in town by their inside agent, Oh. The battle is interrupted when Spider-Man brings to them the newfound information that the Lord is using Amka as a battery, leeching off the supposedly limitless energy of the Soul of the North.
Rage: Civil Unrest[]
After heroic action in the line of duty from a powered police officer named Bartholomew Gallows, the company Keane Industries, alongside the United States Government, roles out a new policing initiative, the Americops. The initiative ends up taken mounting criticism for their violent methods, however, and Elvin speaks out against the force, and fronts an anti-Americop rally as Rage. Shortly after, while stopping a petty villain, Michael Marko, Rage is cornered by the newly introduced police, "mistaken" for one of the villains, beaten and arrested. The incident goes public and Falcon is shocked when he learns from Maria Hill that Rage is actually just a kid. He reaches out tells Elvin to admit the court that he’s just a kid, but Elvin explains that as a fighter of the African American community, he shouldn't accept what he considered to be an easy way out, and wants to do things the right way. The judge however still finds Elvin guilty of vigilantism and sentences him to serve 6 months time. Back on the outside, Elvin steps away from being a hero, and from the Resistance. But when outspoken political opponent of refugees and immigration, Ariella Conner comes to town for a rally, dragging the likes of Enigma and Toro’s names through the mud, Elvin decides to go to the rally to once again protest. There though he ends up finding himself having to protect Conner from a group of extremist students going under the name of the Bombshells, though they themselves end up being a false flag, setup by the Superior to create unrest.
Resistance: Young Allies[]
Our larger Resistance team take on the Bastards of Evil (Quicksand, Singularity, Aftershock, Mortar, Ember, Warhead, Stonewall, Deathmage, Raze) - alleged, discarded, and disavowed sons and daughters of supervillains, out to cause death and destruction to prove they are superior. Their leader, Superior, Phil Sterns Jr., is the abused child of Madman, Sam Sterns’ brother Phil Sterns, who was always second class to Sam and went insane trying to replicate Bruce Banner’s experiments, going so far as to experiment on Phil Jr. After a successful trial saw Phil Jr. gain extreme intelligence and telekinesis, Phil killed his father, and too went insane with megalomania. The Resistance piece together his lies, and cause infighting among the Bastards. After a run in with Sun Girl where she explains that her father also lost control and turned villain but that doesn't mean they have to too, Singularity, the alleged son of Graviton, goes to anonymously meet his alleged half-brother George Talbot to try and learn the truth, and when he finds out everything the Superior told him about Glenn Talbot is a lie, he confronts Superior. The truth of Stonewall's estranged father, Absorbing Man's demise (at the hands of Graviton) pits Stonewall against Singularity. Superior tears Singularity in half with telekinesis, and in turn, Stonewall tries to quit for having the truth withheld, but Superior has Raze kill him too. Losing the faith of the other Bastards, the Resistance are able to overpower and defeat Superior. Throughout, S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Carolina Washington becomes concerned with the clean-ups of various super-hero battles, and the need to police and control the super-powered community, and begins to initiate a law to ban under-ages from being super-heroes.
Phase Three[]
Ultragirl 3[]
Suzy, always sensitive to the outcasts and loners, befriends waitress Sofia Mantega, aka Wind Dancer. When Marvel Boy comes calling after a mysterious message is left for him by the previously-assumed dead Night Thrasher (which turns out to be his brother) the three find themselves going head-to-head with the super-villain group Alphaclan.
Vance Astrovik 2[]
When Morgan Le Fay escapes from the Dark Dimension, Vance and Rage must fight their way through her demons to infiltrate the Triune Understanding, a cult-like organization whose true secret intentions included their leader, Jonathon Tremont, using the energy of his followers to power a spacecraft to protect the Earth from the prophecy of a mysterious alien threat, Trion. Little did Tremont know, but, Le Fay, pulling the strings from the shadows, wanted to lure Trion in to harness it's power herself.
Virango: Home Away from Home[]
When Toro takes on a job working security for the band Short Circus, Tara becomes fast friends with band member Lila Cheney. But when a Short Circus concert is attacked by anti-mutant Marie D'Ancanto, Cheney's own mutant powers are inadvertently triggered, she teleports herself, Toro, and Tara to a place she hasn't been since she was a child, Aladna, where she stumbles back into a long arranged marriage with the alien prince, Yan.
Snowguard Vol. 2: The Winter Guard[]
After an investigation into the mayhem of the Faceless Man leads Amka and Jake to Russian scientist and former Soviet Spy Igor Drenkov, the pair find themselves entangled with Sasha Roerich and Nikolai Krylenko of Russia's own Winter Guard, after Drenkov killed one of their members.
Geiger[]
Delilah "Dee Dee" Dearborn was a student at Goodman University. While monitoring a surge in the University's new experimental Particle Accelerator, she was stuck by a power surge from the machine. Time passes and she begins to have nightmares of changing into a huge monster-like green creature, killing and tearing women apart; meanwhile, in the same area where she lives, women have turned up dead, all killed late at night. When the women's bodies are examined traces of gamma radiation are found. Detective Trina Sharp calls in Jennifer Walters as a consultant. Following a reported sighting of the monster, Jenn tracks it down, leading her to a monster-like Dee Dee. Monster now detained, Jenn watches as the monster slowly copies her gamma power, changing not back to her original human form but instead mimicking Jenn's She-Hulk form. With Sharp's help, they are able to deduce that due to her accident Dee Dee has the ability to mimic the powers of any gamma-powered beings in her proximity - and that she must've been mimicking the killer monster. Jenn and Dee Dee team up, using Dee Dee as bait, to capture the real killer, Patchwork, but it turns out Patchwork, caught in the same accident Dee Dee, was can absorb gamma powers, and nearly kills Jenn. Detective Sharp calls on her old contact Sun Girl who is able to put up a magnetic field to block Patchwork's powers, allowing Dee Dee to save the day.
Solar Powered: The Three-Body Problem[]
Reiko Kurokaki's story is one of tragedy. The sole survivor of a Yakuza housefire, as an infant, and years later the sole survivor in a university lab fire, Reiko is picked out by Dr. Niles Van Roekel as a prime candidate for his experiments. Seeing her mythical resistance to fire, Van Roekel seduced her with science and lined her insides with alien crystals and turned her into a human kiln, allowing her body to store high concentrations of energy and release towards at targets. But with the power of the sun contained within her body, questions start piling up for Seleh and Ben as to what her intentions truly are. The three are put to the test when Oort, the Living Comet, arrives with otherworldly tales and threats.
Rage: Shadow Initiative[]
Jimmy Santini was with his father exploring Carlsbad Caverns National Park where his father fell to his death in the deep caverns. Alone, Jimmy was lost in the caverns and drank water that "tasted like metal." He was eventually rescued and returned to his mother. Soon the chemicals began to take effect, and Jimmy sprouted wings. His mother proclaimed him a demon and cast him out. He continued to mutate and ended up stealing food to survive. Thus, the people began to dub him "Batwing". Elvin, while fighting his own fight against the right-wing extremist Watchdogs, stumbles across Jimmy in the midst of stealing from the former senator Randolph Cherryh, and tries to intervene. Elvin finally discovers that Jimmy is just a scared kid trying to survive, living in the shadows, but it's too late, as Cherryh has put a bounty on Batwing's head, leaving Elvin and Jimmy caught between the mercenary Scythe and the Watchdogs. At the end of the film, Elvin is approached by a mysterious black ops organization, the Shadow Initiative.
Resistance: Rise of the Imperfects[]
Reiko was not Van Roekel's only experiment. Johnny Ohm, a criminal sentenced to the Electric Chair; Maria Petrova, a Russian former ballerina who lost the motion of her legs due to a car accident caused by an Earthquake; Keith Kilham, a former Pentagon scientist who became infected from the virus whose cure he was working on; Benedetta Gaetani, the daughter of magicians whose face was damaged by criminals; [1], an Amazonian warrior; and a group of U.S. Marines who were killed in battle; Van Roeckel's experiments gave these subjects new "life", becoming the Imperfects. But as Van Roekel starts to train his Imperfects to fight an alien threat back on his home planet, by attacking Earth, the Resistance must form once again (with a little help from Spider-Man).
Phase Four[]
Escapade[]
Shela Sexton first discovered her powers after she accidentally swapped places with the principal when she was in the ninth grade. She came out to her parents as a mutant with their support, yet, when she came out as transgender she was ostracized by them. Estranged, Shela, her longtime classmates Morgan Red and Nora Kuang, and a genetically engineered flying turtle move in together. Shela becomes a thief targeting corrupt organizations and individuals, with Morgan providing technical support. After a premonition warns Shela that her work will get Morgan killed, Shela begins to seek out trouble on her own, eventually meeting Rahne Sinclair and Leo Eng - but all of Shela's decisions are put to the test when the newly found group are ambushed by the U-Men.
Solar Powered: Photovoltaic[]
Maria Hill, along with Seleh, Ben, and Reiko, confront Starr Labs - a newly formed initiative of Ava Starr - taken control of the Starr's factory by order of S.H.I.E.L.D. When Ava refuses to surrender his facility, claiming she is righting wrongs, Hill shows her a video of a Starr factory in China with a burning school next to it. The Chinese Government blames Starr Labs, even though a splinter cell of the Ten Rings claimed that they were behind the explosion. With Ghost's help, Seleh, Ben, and Reiko follow Ten Rings' Agent Khan, uncovering a plot involving a secret satellite space station. The solar trio is sent up to investigate. Making their way onto the space station the trio narrowly avoid an encounter with Sunturion. Sneaking past the super-powered guardian, the trio finds Arthur Dearborn on the space station and is welcomed and shown around the 'Star Well', which powers the station. Ben accuses Dearborn of using the Star Well to attack the Chinese school but he insists that it was the Ten Rings, interfering with a test he was running; knowing that the supply of fossil fuels was dwindling, and believing that a future worldwide war would be fought over fuel, he came up with a plan to harness the sun's radiation, the Star Well, but after mistakenly accepting funding from the Ten Rings, they held him hostage and stole his work. When a Ten Rings ship approaches the station, Seleh tells Dearborn to shut down but he refuses, revealing that he is Sunturion. The trio tries to shut down the Star Well before the Ten Rings arrive but Sunturion confronts them, explaining that his research started after he was diagnosed with a terminal disease, and that he used the high levels of microwave energy from the Star Well to cure himself, but was transformed into Sunturion. When the ships arrive, the trio and Sunturion fight against them until the space station begins to fall towards the Earth. Sunturion sacrifices himself to destroy the station.
Geiger: A Half-Life at a Time[]
Settling into her new life, Dee Dee has started to embrace and learn how to control her powered self - Geiger. Things are well, even finding her own powered friend, Melee. Things come crashing down again, however, as Dee Dee begins to have ghoulish nightmares again of a new gamma beast. Meanwhile, Tony Masterson, a professor of English accidentally caught in an errant Gamma Bomb explosion is apparently killed, alongside his colleagues Diane Davids and Geoffrey Crawford - but Masterson's green-skinned husk of a body resurrected every night to feed on the life forces of nearby beings as Half-Life. Half-Life begins a rampage trying to absorb enough energy to restore his previous appearance and return to his human life, but with the dawn, the gamma radiation in his body stops working and he is left in a death-like state, leading to him being buried several times. The incarcerated Superior recruits Half-Life as one of his operatives, planning on using Half-Life's energy-draining abilities to break him free. With Melee's help, Dee Dee is able to track down and confront Half-Life and through questioning him, she discovers that neither human life nor gamma beings are his or Superior's end goal, but the secret government stockpile of Gamma Bombs, and begins a quest to stop them - but not without leaving Half-Life in the desert to his apparent death. Half-Life manages to escape and at his insistence, the Superior agrees to send Half-Life again on a mission to kill the Geiger. Now outfitted with a titanium armor provided by the Superior, Half-Life murders several people enroute to kill Geiger, and manages to get the upper hand - but Melee intervenes and the weakened Geiger convinces Half-Life that the stolen energy would eventually wear out and Half-Life would return to his previous state as a corpse-like being, never truly being alive or himself. Half-Life commits suicide by bursting away all of his absorbed energy, leaving only a skeleton behind.
Vibraxas[]
Caught in an explosion at the Vibrasurge Project in Wakanda that killed his mother A'Kane, N'Kano is exposed to energized Vibranium granting him the ability to create and control vibrations. Struggling to control his new abilities and accept his new life, his father encourages him to go to America to study under Quake at S.H.I.E.L.D. There N'Kano meets the Inhumans Flint and Devlor, and the orphaned mutate Tara Richards (Huntara). Huntara unfortunately struggles with her memory of growing up and wants to learn more, so the foursome set out to find her home of Haven. There they find that Huntara is actually Zarathustra, an assassin for Lord Moses trained for birth, but memories locked away until needed (Tara Richards being a stolen identity), and she turns on her friends.