Uncanny Avengers Kills Two Heroes Today, Each Starring in a Movie Soon

In a move that will shake up the team dynamic in Marvel NOW!’s flagship title significantly, two members of the Uncanny Avengers will die in today’s issue.This wasn’t entirely unforeseen; the image at right began circulating at San Diego Comic Con International this summer, where series writer Rick Remender told the audience at the Infinity panel in no uncertain terms that there would be a  number of casualties among the team’s lineup by year’s end.”In the story right now, we’ve seen a lot of in-fighting among the superhero community in the Marvel Universe going back to Civil War when that fuse was lit and leading up to AvX,” Remender said. “The mutants and the humans–the Avengers and the X-Men–have found it very difficult to work together, cohabitate and find commonality to get over their differences and work together as heroes. The consequences of that are what Uncanny Avengers is all about so as we build the story you’re going to see more and more of the consequences of these heroes’ inabilities to work together as a unit–and it’s going to be large in scope, the things that are happening to them.”