Comics Official CAPTAIN BRITAIN AND MI:13 Discussion Thread

Chambers had some pretty big changes, hes not even chamber anymore. I dont see him joining the team at least not for a long while
 
The Englishman said:
Can anyone list all the British Heroes in the marvel universe, mutant and non-mutant heroes??
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Well anyone?? I know most of the British mutants but when it comes to non-mutant super heroes i can only think of Captain Britain, Union Jack, Spitfire and Spider-Woman.........
 
The Englishman said:
Well anyone?? I know most of the British mutants but when it comes to non-mutant super heroes i can only think of Captain Britain, Union Jack, Spitfire and Spider-Woman.........
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Anyone???

I hope the team consists of Captain Britain, Wisdom, Union Jack, Spitfire, Black Knight, Lionheart, Chamber, John Skrull, ....er i cant think of anymore British heroes?? :huh:
 
Micromax, Meggan (she maybe a faerie or something, but I'm pretty sure she's also a British citizen)
 
Wasn't Kylun scottish???

And Chamber is in X-New Warriors, he's not joining this team...

Another cool character I'd love to see here would be Shamrock, though she is irish not british
 
The Englishman said:
Can someone post a picture of Captain Midlands??
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Whats his deal then? I saw an interview that said he's a supersoldier and has the strength of Captain America. But he never got forzen so he's basically an 80 year old with the strength and speed etc of Cap. That sounds daft to me given the importance of never having been able to reproduce the SSS. Though given how easy it is to get superstrength is the MU just by going to the Powerbroker, it does make you wonder why there was such a fuss for so long about reproducing Project: Rebirth
 
England has weathered many invasions over the centuries, but if the proud island nation is to survive the onslaught of the shapeshifting Skrulls in the upcoming “Secret Invasion” event, she’s going to need more than an individual hero, she’ss going to need an entire team of champions. Such a band comes together this May in Marvel Comics’ new ongoing series “Captain Britain and MI:13” by Paul Cornell and Leonard Kirk.


Throughout this weekend, CBR News and series writer Cornell will bring you profiles on the individual heroes who comprise the ranks of the UK’s newest squad of protectors. We begin SUPER SPY WEEKEND by turning the spotlight on Brian Braddock, the hero better known as Captain Britain.

Brian Braddock became Captain Britain when the legendary sorcerer Merlyn and his daughter Roma bestowed upon Braddock the Amulet of Right and the Star Sceptre. These mystical artifacts, which Merlyn later fused together and turned into Captain Britain's costume, gave Braddock a number of superhuman powers -- most notably vast strength and endurance as well as the ability fly.
When Braddock began his career as Captain Britain, he thought he was a one-of-a-kind hero, but months later he discovered he was wrong. Across the myriad alternate realities of the Marvel Universe, there exists a number of Captain Britains, each one tasked with defending their reality's version of Britain. But in times of great interdimensional peril, Merlyn's daughter Roma gathered these champions together into an army called the Captain Britain Corps.

When “Captain Britain and MI: 13” begins, Brian Braddock has been cut off from the extra-dimensional Captain Britain Corps but is ready to resume his role as a national symbol. “He's got a war to fight, so he doesn't go on about it,” Paul Cornell told CBR News. “And he's missing his wife; longs to know where she is. But he doesn't think now would be the time to mention that. I do want to show more of Brian having a wry sense of humor, actually, one apt for his brand of heroism. We'll get to that, but in the first few issues--hey, it's war!”


Cornell sees Captain Britain as the British equivalent of another national champion, the late Captain America, Steve Rogers. “[Brian’s] a normal guy who's been given great power, and does his best to symbolize his country,” Paul Cornell told CBR News. “I think both countries see our strengths the same way: solid in the face of adversity and all that.

“But we British like to go one up on that by doing the heroic thing and then--not mentioning it. Call it post traumatic stress syndrome if you like, but when I asked the elderly Commando Major who used to live downstairs from me what he got those medals for, that he was wearing in the oil painting, he said he'd prefer not to talk about it. And then didn't. We call it the stiff upper lip, the ability to carry on as normal and make dry, witty, comments while the bombs are going off. Captain Britain is that.
“'Wheni> we've won...' is how he starts one sentence about the Skrull attack,” Cornell continued. “Captain Britain can make grown men weep at the sight of him. The air around him is warm like a summer meadow. He smells of honey. If he had a theme, it'd be by Vaughan Williams. He is not an amiable buffoon. He is not an alcoholic -- he drinks normally for a European and not often to excess. He will fight them on the beaches. He will never surrender.”

Their country’s state of war means Captain Britain and MI-13 leader Pete Wisdom’s working relationship won’t be as volatile as it’s been in the past. “He's the icon Peter looks to and secretly feels a bit in awe of,” Cornel stated. “That's been at the root of all the anger between them, and Pete acknowledges that in the first issue, makes things right between them in the face of war.”


However, Cornell revealed, a new source of tension will arise between the two men as the series progresses.
Taking England means the Skrulls will have to take on Captain Britain, which can’t be something the shapeshifters are looking forward to, as “Secret Invasion” editor Tom Brevoort agreed in a recent edition of CBR’s EARTH’S MOST WANTED. “He's Captain bloody Britain!” Cornell stated. “They'd better be afraid of him.”

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Yesterday, in Part I of SUPER SPY WEEKEND, CBR News and "Captain Britain and MI:13" writer Paul Cornell looked at looked at England's archetype for the extraordinary man, Captain Britain. Now, in Part II, Cornell joins us once again for a profile of John the Skrull, an alien shape shifter who could be anyone, but is strangely most comfortable as a deceased rock n' roll star.


John debuted in Paul Cornell's MAX miniseries "Wisdom" (now available in trade paperback), in which he worked along side MI-13 team leader Pete Wisdom as part of a squad of government agents tasked with eliminating alien and supernatural threats. Years earlier, John the Skrull left his home world as part of "Operation British Invasion," which saw him assume the role of John Lennon in the Skrull Beatles, a group tasked with replacing the Fab Four and using their unmatched influence to reshape the world. But years later, with the Skrull Beatles broken up and their invasion plans scrapped, John still wears the human form he first adopted all those decades ago.

"At various times, the Skrull Beatles made a living as entertainers, together or apart, or freeloaded around the world, pretending to be the real thing, while they could," Paul Cornell told CBR News. "John wears the form now as a convenience, because he likes it, and as a badge, a statement. His own personality is like the real John's, but maybe a bit less extrovert, maybe he's hiding a little in this role. It's a comfort, too. A familiarity. When we see John in his real form, which we never have, it'll be a moment of tremendous vulnerability, maybe even of sheer despair.

"He's not the person he's been impersonating, and indeed, in issue #1, he's moved to say something his characterization of John probably wouldn't, but he's been playing him such a long time that the role's inhabited him," Cornell continued. "He's therefore pointed, confrontational with any kind of authority, kind to innocent bystanders, too cynical for his own good, witty and deliberately awkward. He's also, after his fellow Skrulls come after him, furious at his own people and lost in his adopted world. He's going to be our voice of hard truths, our ranting prophet."
John's anger stems from the fact the fanatical Skrulls' designs on Earth have forced him to choose a side and thusly alienate him from his home and his people. "He walked out on the Skrull civilization when he decided to go off mission and stay on Earth for the fun of it," Cornell explained. "But he never thought he was gone forever, there was probably a town or a street on the Skrull homeworld he thought he'd get back to one day, maybe after a change of government. But now the zealots have come after the exiles, and he's forced to fight for his adopted world. It's not a big choice: his adopted persona indicates he wouldn't have been mates with these guys back home.

Nevertheless, John's choice to fight his own people is still a difficult one. "It's very hard on him, he hates it, but he'd also say there was once a Skrull civilization that wasn't like how the Skrull invaders portray it," Cornell remarked. "As he says in issue #1: 'Hasn't it ever occurred to you lot that, the way we are, we're meant to *fit in*?' He knows he picked the right side."


John's shape shifting abilities will be an asset to MI-13 operations, but he has other qualities that will make him a valuable member of the new team. "He's most useful as a sane, sensible, domestic voice with the experience to back up what he says," Cornell stated. "He's always thinking of the little guy, which is a notch different to where Pete and Cap are."

In Cornell's "Wisdom," John of course worked closely with Pete Wisdom as part of his team of operatives. As such, when "Captain Britain and MI:13" begins, it's Pete who John is closest to. "John is fond of Pete, respects the way he does things and understands him better than a lot of the others do," Cornell explained. "John was originally a soldier, after all. Pete'll get snarky comments from John, but never actual rebellion. After all, of all Pete's intelligence unit, John was the one who was most there by choice, because it was interesting."
John's relationship with Captain Britain and his other teammates will be similarly faceted. "John takes the piss out of Cap when he can because he's a big archetype and John likes to knock the edges off those," Cornell said. "But he's been British long enough to have a real respect for Cap, and will support him when it matters. All these guys may be associates and comrades in arms at the start, but they're going to end up as great friends."

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Earlier today, in Part II of SUPER SPY WEEKEND, our extended look at the cast of Marvel Comics' new series "Captain Britain and MI:13," writer Paul Cornell joined CBR News to profile the team's resident shape shifter, John the Skrull. Now, Cornell is back for Part IV to help us examine England's fastest woman, Lady Jacqueline Falsworth-Crichton, better known as Spitfire.


The daughter of the original Union Jack, Spitfire has been a costumed hero off and on since World War II, having acquired super speed thanks to a blood transfusion from the original Human Torch. In her time, she's endured some terrible things; experiences that have shaped her into a highly capable hero but also affected her personality; experiences like the murder of her husband by their own son. "She's professional, hard, direct, a little emotionally brittle. She's the female version of British grace under pressure," Cornell told CBR News. "Which means she's very dangerous. She'll carefully and thoughtfully do whatever she needs to do to get the job done, because she's seen her family and friends ripped apart by everything from Nazis to vampires."
A decidedly senior citizen, Lady Falsworth-Crichton retired from the superhero scene after the war, but regained her youth after a second blood transfusion courtesy of the Human Torch, giving her something in common with a similarly temporally displaced American icon. "She's hugely informed by her wartime experience, a newly young veteran like Steve Rogers was," Cornell said. "Her formative years were about dancehalls and swing bands. A 1940s tone of voice sometimes surfaces, but she's also lived through time since then, and has enjoyed being young now, too. She's a brilliantly deep character, full of opposites. When her duty is done, then we'll start seeing all sorts of sides she's going to have difficulty coping with. And there's a big, terrifying romance coming up, of course."

Having lived through World War II means Spitfire saw her country endure the devastating aerial bombardment of the Nazi Blitz on England. When the Skrull launch their assault on England, they inadvertently stir up a hornet's nest of bad memories for Spitfire. "She's made some hard choices in order to face the Skrull invasion, because an invasion of British soil is her worst nightmare, in a way those born in the generations after World War II can't really grasp," Cornell explained. "Those choices have put her somewhere difficult, and we'll explore that in future issues."


Her ability to make difficult choices immediately wins Spitfire the respect of MI-13 leader Pete Wisdom. "She and Pete are right on the same page when it comes to duty. She's his good soldier, the other intelligence professional in the group," Cornell said. "They can be as thick as thieves sometimes. When he discovers what she's done to herself for the sake of the nation, Pete won't even blink: he'd do the same himself."

Spitfire has seen a lot of things over the course of her heroic career but most recently it seems to be death. She recently lost her good friend, the original Human Torch, Jim Hammond, and the murder of her former comrade and friend Steve Rogers also deeply affected her. "They've chipped away at her warmer side," Cornell said. "The world seems very dangerous to Jac right now.
"I really liked the offhandedly modern version of Jac that Ed Brubaker developed in ‘Captain America.' I liked her emotional distance too." Cornell continued. "After all she's been through, all the different times and people she's been tangled up with, Jac's bound to be complicated. Duty and service can get you through that, to a point. But she's also started to need other things now. Horrifying things."

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In the first parts of SUPER SPY WEEKEND, CBR News and Marvel Comics’ “Captain Britain and MI:13” writer Paul Cornell took a look at England’s archetype for the extraordinary man, Captain Britain along with teammates John the Skrull and Spitfire. Today, Cornell rejoins us for a profile on another cast member, British everyman and team leader Pete Wisdom.


Created by Warren Ellis in the 1990s, rogue mutant secret agent Pete Wisdom is notorious for the tough and often dubious decisions he makes, but Paul Cornell doesn’t think those qualities make Wisdom a bad guy. “His saving grace is his sense of duty,” the writer told CBR News. “He's just one of those guys who always seems to have to be the one to make hard choices, with no better option. He stumbles into those, and does his best.

“Of course, he also stumbled into the Queen's bed in ancient Camelot and stumbled into making a peace treaty between Avalon and Britain through applied shaggery, so not all of the stumbling is bad,” Cornell added, referring to some of Wisdom’s past adventures. “And he has a wryness about his own bad luck. I think he actively takes on doing the bad stuff himself sometimes, rather than have other people suffer, that he's still trying to make up for what happened to his Mum. He's quietly a very good guy. But very bad with relationships. And he not only would have no idea about any of the above, he wouldn't recognize it when he reads it. He's a kind of mutant British everyman, my absolute favorite lead character, my messed-up Mary Sue.”

Able to throw “hot knives” of energy from his hands, Wisdom’s experience operating as both the leader and part of a number of teams -- including X-Force and Excalibur-- and his credentials as both a superhero and government agent means Wisdom is uniquely qualified for the roles he plays in this latest incarnation of MI-13, whose mission is to protect Britain from so-called “weird happenings” involving superpowers and occasionally the supernatural. “He's starting to learn how to lead through consensus, rather than by simply expecting everyone else on the team to have the same sense of duty he does,” Cornell explained. “He’s not afraid of using his hot knives to say, rip a Skrull agent in half. When it's clear the bad stuff has to be done, he'll do it and he won't worry about it afterwards. He'll do stuff Cap wouldn't.”

Not only is Wisdom willing to do the dirty deeds that must be done, he wants to make sure he’s the one who does them. “He wants to bring hero back, too,” Cornell remarked. “These aren't a black ops team. He'll try and do the bad stuff himself. Although Spitfire, with her wartime background, and with a certain long-buried facet to her life re-emerging, will also be willing to make hard choices, so Pete's got some options about who he can ask.”

Female MI-13 teammates Spitfire and Faisa Hussain, a new character, will have infamous ladies’ man Pete Wisdom considering other options as well. “Even when he's in a war, he's Pete Wisdom,” Cornell laughed. “A big romantic interest for [Spitfire] is going to show up at the start of the second arc, with the new character that's coming in.

“Faisa's a complicated matter. She's quite chaste, in a modern way, and if Pete showed an interest would want to go on a number of very conventional dates with him, have him meet her family and all that. I'm not sure Pete could deal with that obstacle course. I think the witty, tortured nobility of Dane Whitman, the Black Knight, might end up more to Faisa's liking. Pete will have to find some random outings elsewhere. Mind you, an old flame he feels complicated about is back in issue #2.”
Pete Wisdom has the abilities and skill set to wage war against a treacherous enemy like the Skrulls. Unfortunately for him, that’s not always enough. “It's war,” Cornell explained. “He knows what he's doing, but reality conspires to not always let him do it.”

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With the help of writer Paul Cornell, CBR News has profiled Captain Britain, John the Skrull, Spitfire and Pete Wisdom, each one a cast member in Marvel Comics’ newest ongoing series “Captain Britain and MI-13,” formed to protect the United Kingdom from supernatural and superpowered threats – including a not-so-secret invasion by certain green-skinned, shape shifting aliens. SUPER SPY WEEKEND continues now with a look another teammate, Faisa Hussain.


If you’re longtime Marvel fan but can’t seem to remember Faisa Hussain on the British superhero scene, don’t worry, you’re memory isn’t failing you. “She was one of a few new characters I pitched to my editor Nick Lowe early on, some others of whom might show up as we go,” Paul Cornell told CBR News. “She's our Kitty Pryde, our way in as an audience. She's new to the group, and to being a superhero, and we stumble along with her.

“She's a highly competent young doctor who'll raise an eyebrow and make a joke as she's taking your appendix out,” Cornell continued. “She's very into mainstream British young woman culture. She's on Facebook, she reads celebrity gossip magazines, but her biggest fan rush is for British superheroes, who also pop up in those magazines. She knows about them all, she had Knights of Pendragon wallpaper when she was a kid (Or insert apt reference for Marvel time). When she meets [teammate] The Black Knight, she keeps doing her job as a doctor, doing battlefield triage, while simultaneously freaking out. And ends up ordering him around. She pulls made up words out of the air to describe stuff, because she often talks at a million miles an hour.”

Faisa is the only daughter of a family of Pakistani heritage who live in Chelmsford in Essex. “They're thoroughly middle class Britons and they're incredibly proud of their daughter,” Cornell said. “We'll meet them all after the first arc.”

A Muslim, Faisa’s faith is very important to her. “I have two aims here: to make her a real person and not someone who has to represent the entire British Muslim world all the time -- I think superheroes are too prone to being standard bearers for whole communities -- and to make her an everyday religious person who you won't hear anything religious from until it would naturally come up. Which is hardly ever. She's not going to be letting anyone down, though. She's the young hero who will win through. And we'll play out some of these pressures and fault lines in the comic itself. I want people to adore her, not to be pleased she's there as part of a quota system.”

When readers first meet Faisa in “Captain Britain and MI-13” #1, she’s a normal human doctor who treats wounded during a Skrull attack on London. “She gains her superhuman abilities in the first couple of issues, a new power which she doesn't initially see much of a heroic use for, but quickly turns into something vital,” Cornell explained. “She's bowled over so much at the idea she could be a hero, too, that she can't quite grab the chance with both hands, and gets all humble about it at the last minute. If only she could come up with a codename for herself. That would really make it work. But she can't! Her family are going to be freaked out by the whole thing too, until it becomes clear just how brave she was, how much she impressed a certain hero her Mum is impressed by. Then they get right behind her and cheer her on.”
She may be a relatively inexperienced superhero, but Faisa’s personality and determination will earn her an important role in MI-13. “She's so obviously what this team is about that she's very quickly given a huge responsibility by someone who knows what he's talking about. And that responsibility is something she takes very seriously in turn. She's the heart and soul. Actually, they all are, in their different ways, but after the others all fall, she'd still be the last one on the battlements, fighting to the end for what this lot stand for. And she will.”

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Pete Wisdom, Captain Britain and a Skrull John Lennon.... *Sigh* England REALLY needs some better superheros.
 
Wow....Peter Wisdom, Captain Britain, Skrull Lenon, some Hussein chick, and old lady Spitfire....wow. This book just may prove interesting, if not short lived...
 
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