#wingless wizard

One of the best minds on the planet and you waste it for years, doing magic tricks

I realize on some level, every comic is a snapshot of its era, but some are better snapshots than others. Like Acts of Vengeance here.

Magneto and Doom are, of course, absolutely timeless villains. Fisk was at the time a major player with both DD and the Punisher. The Red Skull was THE Captain America villain during this period, responsible for or involved with a majority of his plots. And even the Mandarin was a big presence as an Iron Man villain, and would get heavily involved with the X-Men for this event.

And (spoilers) Loki was behind it all, in his scheming, murderous villain days.

All big names. There’s a couple other villains of significance around then, but they either declined to join or were dead at the time.

These days, Doom remains Doom, eternal.

Magneto is currently dead, scheduled to return, but has pretty much been some kind of face for a good ten years.

Red Skull still shows up to trouble Captain America, was THE villain of Uncanny Avengers, the principle mover of the aXis crossover, but isn’t quite the presence he was.

The Mandarin has been dead for a while, left in the problematic past, his rings more important than he himself is.

Fisk became a mayor of NYC and trouble to all its heroes for several years, staying plot relevant, and has recently jumped into the X-verse as a pseudo ally.

Loki has more or less completed a face turn on account of Hiddleston’s charism and synergy.

And the Wizard?

Don’t ask a question when you already know the answer.

Yeah. The Wizard ain’t wrapped too tight, if you know what I mean.

I beg to differ.