Told as a flashback story, Defenders #119 read like an issue between issues, situated between #68 and #69.
With the groundwork for the New Defenders underway, this "forgotten" tale gave a last hurrah to early members of the team. The story showed how much the series had evolved over the past 50 issues, while revisiting the group's inception.
The magician Yandroth had physically died in Marvel Feature #1, when the Defenders first stopped his Omegatron machine (only to defeat it again in Defenders #5). Now bent on revenge, the spirit of Yandroth merged with the mind and body of a scientist who felt unrecognized for her genius and honored by the opportunity to acquire power (Defenders #119).
Now equipped with mind-control implants, this revamped Yandroth subdued most of the Defenders, then pitted them against one another. The conflict reached a climax with Valkyrie, Hulk and Dr. Strange facing Clea, Hellcat, Nighthawk, and Prince Namor, under this new Yandroth's influence. But having the evil magician's astral spirit inside her mind overwhelmed the villain. As tensios rose, she collapsed.
- Dr. Strange: She thought she was fighting against seven minds when, in fact, eight were raised against her! Had she moved more slowly and consolidated her power, she might have won all our minds! Instead, she lost the single one that mattered most … her own!
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I do believe that was the first issue of Defenders I ever read! Faceless nurses? An elf? Yandroth? I must confess I was a little lost, but not bad for what was probably a shoehorned fill-in.
interesting to see that marvel went with yardroth since yadroth was the one who caused the so called defenders curse that stated the orginal defenders of doctor strange . hulk. namor and silver surfer could not ever be a team again or the world is doomed. plus the elf thing was totaly nuts.
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