#delroy garrett jr

In short, yes.

(photo from a Triune Understanding pamphlet of Jonathan Tremont, the group's founder and leader)

The Triune Understanding was a cult group founded by Jonathan Tremont. According to the group's own history, as a youth, Tremont grew up in the Indian Himalayas, the youngest of three brothers affected by some mysterious "Triad Energy". As the story goes, while Tremont's elder brothers were wise and strong, Tremont himself was charming, and when his brothers died from illness, Tremont absorbed their souls within himself, gaining their strength and wisdom.

Some time later, Harold Chandler, the adventurer known as 3-D Man, came through Tremont's village, and hired Tremont as a guide through the mountains. Upon learning that Chandler's powers were derived from this same Triad energy, Tremont struck him and took his powers as well.

Possessing this Triad Energy led Tremont to have a vision of a coming threat dubbed the "Triple-Evil", and convinced him to move to the United States and start the Triune Understanding in preparation to fight it. There, he began to gather followers and search for a successor to Chandler under the guise of maximizing human potential.

After a battle between the Avengers and the villains Lord Templar and Pagan (themselves plants by the Understanding), Tremont launched a smear campaign against the team, publicly blaming them for the destruction caused by the battle.

(partial screencap of a local news broadcast, featuring the protests outside Avengers Mansion staged by the Triune Understanding)

Alongside public media criticism, Tremont also orchestrated protests against the Avengers, criticizing supposed religious intolerance and racism while also highlighting their support of the so-called "mutant conspiracy."

This was all a psyop in order to get a Triune Understanding plant onto the team, Tremont's chosen successor for the 3-D Man powers, former Olympian Delroy Garrett Jr., alias Triathlon.

(fan art by @camleecomics of Delroy Garrett as Triathlon)

Imbued with three times the strength, speed, and stamina of a normal Olympic athlete, Triathlon was recruited into the Avengers as a response to the Triune's protests. A devout Triune himself, Triathlon had difficulty fitting into the team at first, but soon became a true-blue Avenger, proving himself on multiple occasions, including against Moses Magnum and the extradimensional alien conqueror called Starro.

The Triune's machinations came to a head in the midst of Kang the Conqueror's assault on Earth. While the Avengers were spread thin dealing with Kang and his lackeys, the Triple Evil appeared on the dark side of the moon in the form of a black pyramid.

The Avengers and Tremont boarded the pyramid, only for Tremont to attempt to seize power for himself rather than destroy the evil, intending to conquer the Earth after defeating Kang. Tremont perished helping the Avengers against Kang, and the Triune Understanding disbanded soon after, listless without their leader.

Avengers #13 - "Hit Back II" (2024)

@ MARVEL: AGENTS OF ATLAS [team-up anthology] (creative team- my dreams!), pt. 1: -Jimmy Woo -Brawn / Amadeus Cho -Giant-Man / Raz Malhotra -Protector -Shang-Chi -Iron Fist / Lin Lie -Silk -White Fox -Karma -Aero -Wave -Luna Snow -Quake

Sam Wilson, Black Panther and Scarlet Witch are standing on the pile of destroyed Stark Sentinels when they hear a distress call from Impossible City. They figured out that someone is Orchis is smart enough to come up with a dirty trick by sending the Stark Sentinels to attack Impossible City the temporary shelter for mutant refugees, instead of attacking the Avengers. Iron Man gets a distress call from a girl called Yuna Yang who tells him that Impossible City is under the attack. Yuna Yang is the girl who obtained the Nega-Bands which allows her to swap places with Carol Danvers by clanging the bands together like the previous wearers used to do on other Captains Marvels (e.g. Rick Jones used the bands to swap places with Mar-Vell a long time ago) and Yuna is from the recent Alyssa Wong's Captain Marvel series.

Anyways, the other Avengers - Iron Man, Thor, Vision and Scarlet Witch go out to destroy the Stark Sentinels in space. Yuna Yang clangs her Nega-Bands to let Carol take her place so that she could join her teammates. Meanwhile, the other two Avengers - Black Panther and Sam Wilson go to Orchis space station to confront Delroy Garrett Jr, a.k.a. 3-D Man the former Avenger. 3-D Man had joined Orchis because he believed that the Avengers were ungrateful for his actions with the Skrull invasion (actually 3-D Man killed Crusader the good Skrull who helped the heroes and this pissed a lot of heroes off), even claiming they threw him out of the Initiative instead of him actually leaving on his own. Sam Wilson and Black Panther fight 3-D Man until the latter (Black Panther) utters his Old Wakandan language to seemingly deprogram him from brainwashing. Black Panther manages to get into 3-D Man's mind and tells him that he's needed to help in shutting down the Stark Sentinels. It turns out that 3-D Man is an undercover agent and the hypnosis was planted into him to keep M.O.D.O.K from probing his mind and getting suspicious. Once 3-D Man regains himself, he manages to shut down the Stark Sentinels.