Synopsis
Champions (2019 series) #1 synopsis by
Rob Johnson
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In between last series and this the Champions have expanded their roster, and at this moment they are split into 3 teams to handle 3 widespread trouble-spots. Snowguard is shepherding Bombshell, Falcon, Locust and Pinpoint in Mexico. Ironheart and Wasp are with Patriot and Power Man in Japan. And the rest of the main team (Brawn, Ms. Marvel, Spider-Man and Viv Vision) are in the Champions Mobile Bunker piloted by the depowered Sam Alexander over Dubai.
Locust leads the charge through a hole blasted by Bombshell into a dilapidated remote building where young girls are being held before being sold on. Falcon and Snowguard fly in behind them. While Pinpoint opens a portal to let the girls escape, the others take down the sex traffickers.
The 2nd team are in Japan to rescue victims of a storm. Patriot and Power Man are riding in a flying platform built by Riri Williams. Ironheart detects 9 life-signs to be rescued, but there isn't enough room in the platform. Wasp has an idea about that. Power Man uses the chi he siphons from ambient cultural energy to help IH shift very large chunks of broken building. Nadia Van Dyne shrinks to get to 6 trapped people. Then she uses a Pym Pod to shrink *them* (and contain them?). When she gets them back to the platform Ironheart and Power Man have retrieved the other 3 full-size people. Patriot has been keeping the platform steady.
Meanwhile the 4 still-powered original members of the Champions leap out of the Bunker in midair to tackle the electrical being Zzzax who is destroying a power plant. But after they land something bad seems to happen to them ...
... but we skip to the end where defeated Zzzax is (presumably) trapped in Amadeus Cho's Battery Containment Field device. Viv says her father Vision will know how to imprison it more permanently.
Back in the Bunker Pinpoint brings back the successful Mexico team, and then heads off and retrieves the other team from Japan.
Sam Alexander tries to congratulate Miles Morales on good work in Dubai but Spidey snubs him and even locks him out of their shared bunk room. Amadeus tells Sam that Miles needs some alone time but won't say why. And Brawn gets angry when Sam won't let it go. (Is this something to do with what happened in Dubai?)
Ms Marvel calls everybody together for a celebratory party. But before it starts she gives a morale-boosting congratulatory speech. She doesn't seem to notice that everybody is chatting rather than listening. Especially synthezoid Viv who wants to talk with Riri about when she kissed her (in the last issue of the previous series). Viv stopped when Riri asked her to and can't understand why Ironheart is now uncomfortable around her. Riri says Viv can't just kiss people without asking. So Viv now asks if she *can* kiss her, and angry Riri walks away.
Meanwhile Kamala Khan has continued her speech and now calls her old friends (dating back to their Avengers days) Spider-Man and Nova to take a bow. But leaves in hurried confusion when she realises they aren't there to support her. She finds Sam still locked out of his room. When Miles doesn't answer her loud knock she uses her elastic power to shrink under the door. But Spidey refuses to tell her what's wrong and insists that she leave him alone. She leaves convinced that her leadership is at fault.
But we see Miles visited by Mephisto who asks hasn't he got what he wanted?
CharactersGood (or All)Plus: Bombshell, Brawn (
Amadeus Cho), Locust (
Fernanda Rodriguez), Patriot (
Shaun Lucas), Pinpoint, Power Man (
Victor Hernan Alvarez), Sam Alexander.