Summary

• The New Champions, unauthorized sidekicks to the Avengers created for a series of variant covers, officially form a team after being brainwashed by Hydra.
• Young heroes Liberty, Cadet Marvel, Moon Squire, and Hellrune as the team's founding after breaking free from Hydra's control.
• With the potential to recruit more legacy heroes and possible ties to the West Coast Avengers, the New Champions are set to shake up Marvel continuity.

Warning: Contains spoilers for Spider-Woman (2024) #10!The Spider-Woman helps the majority of The Assembly from a brainwashing scheme, the characters are unsure where to go next. Created for a variant cover series and now solidly part of Marvel canon, the New Champions could be a major team to watch moving forward.

After taking down the Hydra that hijacked their lives, the remaining Assembly seemingly stick together at the end of Spider-Woman (2024) #10 written by Steve Foxe with art by Ig Guara. Jessica Drew informs the young heroes Liberty, Cadet Marvel, Moon Squire, and Hellrune that the world needs New Champions.

As these New Champions formally ed Marvel continuity in the Spider-Woman series, they’ve leveled up as heroes after breaking free from Hydra control. With other unofficial sidekicks to Marvel’s top superheroes popping up across various series, the fresh group of potential sidekicks is shaking up the multiverse.

The Assembly Officially Disband to Become Marvel’s New Champions

The newest team of young heroes establish themselves as an all-new version of the Champions after being used by Hydra as living weapons with origins they can’t . The group of four acting as founding of the New Champions include the unsanctioned sidekicks for Captain Marvel, Moon Knight, Thor, and Captain America. After a brush with Angar the Screamer, Liberty snaps out of her Hydra programming and finds Jessica Drew to help save herself and her brainwashed teammates. Once they discover that the illegitimate Hulk sidekick Titan is a fraud, they battle him with Spider-Woman and re-emerge as heroes.

First introduced as part of the New Champions variant series that spotlighted hypothetical partners and protégés for Marvel heroes, the of the Assembly are not the only young heroes that have made the leap from variant cover to official canon. Legacy characters for Scarlet Witch and Robbie Reyes’ Ghost Rider are still set to debut in stories unrelated to the events with the Assembly, and Peach Momoko’s Storm-inspired Maystorm appears in Earth-6160’s Ultimate X-Men. With multiple other sidekicks from the variant series still uned for in the Marvel universe, the New Champions could do some recruiting in the future.

Could the New Champions Fight Alongside the West Coast Avengers?

Spider-Woman unravels the mystery of the Assembly after going out west to San Francisco to find her missing son, and it seems she’ll stay in that area for her next big arc as an Avenger. Jessica Drew will be a key member of the new West Coast Avengers relaunching later this year. With the four founding New Champions still based in San Francisco at the end of Spider-Woman #10, they could potentially reconnect with their official hero mentor and her new team as that series unfolds.

It’s still possible for even more legacy heroes to emerge and the team, seeing as there were 22 covers created for the original variant series, including sidekicks for Blade, The Thing, Magneto, and more who have yet to be introduced. Since Spider-Woman connects the four New Champions with Nick Fury at the end of their first arc, the group of powerful young heroes has the potential to become a new Avengers-level team.

Spider-Woman (2024) #10 is available now from Marvel Comics.