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Pet Avengers

Pet Avengers

First Appearance
Lockjaw and the Pet Avengers #1 (May, 2009)
Creators
Chris Eliopoulos, Ig Guara
HQ
None
Members
Lockjaw, Throg, Lockheed, Redwing, Zabu, Hairball, Ms. Lion
Rallying Cry
None
Alias
None
Vehicles and Gadgets
None

The Pet Avengers is a superhero team made up of animal characters from the Marvel Universe, though the Pet Avengers exploits happen outside of the main continuity. Eventually a canonical Pet Avengers team was brought into existence in the Marvel Universe.

Origin[]

When Reed Richards arrived in Attilan to acquire one of the Infinity Gems, the mind gem, Lockjaw found it first, increasing his intelligence.  Deciding to use his teleporting powers to find them for Reed, Lockjaw recruits the greatest animal superheroes to find the gems and save the world.

History[]

When Reed Richards, the superhero and super-scientist known as Mister Fantastic, learned there was an Infinity Gem (a gem the bestows upon it's holder great power) on the Blue Area of the Moon, he decided to get aid from the Inhumans, a superhuman race who resided on the moon, to find it.  Lockjaw, the royal pet and escort of the Inhuman royal family, finds the mind gem and soon finds his intelligence enhanced greatly.  Wanting to help his masters and safeguard the Earth, Lockjaw decided to form a team in order to find the Infinity Gems.

To this end he recruited a team of other super-powered animals including Throg (a frog with the power of the god Thor), Hairball (pet cat of the superhero Speedball), Ms. Lion (dog of the superhero Spider-Man's Aunt May) and Redwing (the falcon belonging to superhero The Falcon). Their first quest sent them to the Savage Land where they encountered Zabu, the sabre-toothed tiger who belonged to the hero Ka-Zar, and he joined the team.

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