Lawful Evil: Badoon

The Badoon had green hides when they originally appeared in the pages of the Defenders. When those stories reprinted in the U.K. magazine Rampage, however, the militaristic extraterrestrials were red instead. No matter how they looked, the Badoon likely prescribed to the alignment of Lawful Evil while conquering the galaxy during the 31st century.

Lawful Good	Neutral Good	Chaotic Good
Lawful Neutral	True Neutral	Chaotic Neutral
Lawful Evil	Neutral Evil	Chaotic Evil

Droom Patrol

Defenders #27 (Sept. 1975) took the non-team to the year 3015 A.D. In that future timeline, Dr. Strange, Hulk, Nighthawk and Valkyrie teamed up with the Guardians of the Galaxy to battle the Badoon, a species of green-skinned extraterrestrials that had conquered the Earth. Leading the Badoon was a despot named Droom.

That character's name caught my attention for historical reasons.

Amazing Adventures #1 (June 1961) introduced Dr. Droom, a physician from the United States who learned magic in Tibet. The magician's amazing adventures continued each month through issue #4 (Sept. 1961), but Dr. Droom did not become part of the extended superhero universe that cemented with Fantastic Four #1 (Nov. 1961).

That changed, in a way, with the publication of Weird Wonder Tales #19 (Dec. 1976), which reprinted that tale from Amazing Adventures #1 with minor revisions.

The original story depicted Dr. Droom as gaining a stereotypical Asian mustache and slanted eyes as a result of learning magic. The reprint, on the other hand, inked over the original artwork and gave the character a beard and consistent facial features throughout the story.

The reprint also changed the hero's surname from Droom to Druid. Revised versions of other Dr. Droom stories appeared with the renamed Dr. Druid each month through Weird Wonder Tales #22 (March 1977). That issue included an introductory paragraph that gave more cohesion to the eclectic character:

My name is Anthony Druid, and in my time I have been many things. I have the skills of a Yogi—the wisdom of a Lama—and the powers of the ancient Britons! I dwell in a dark, shadowy world—destroying evil, protecting the innocent. Danger is my task … Justice, my goal! DR. DRUID. MASTER of the UNKNOWN!

Guardians of the Galaxy

The last survivors of their respective homeworlds, the Guardians of the Galaxy traveled from the 31st century to present-day Earth to obtain records about the Badoon, extraterrestrials intent on invading the planet. But the mission proved more existential than informative.

Charlie-27 (from Earth's Jupiter colony), was particularly taken aback by the current state of human civilization (Giant-Size Defenders #5).

A temporal distortion that coincided with the arrival of the Guardians of the Galaxy attracted the attention of Dr. Strange, Valkyrie, Hulk, and Nighthawk, while calling forth the monstrous Eelar.

An added complication involved a chance meeting between the heroes and young Vance Astrovik (whose adult counterpart would join the Guardians of the Galaxy after taking a thousand-year trek into space).

The adult Vance Astro later tried to persuade his younger self to forego any dreams of becoming an astronaut and thereby avoid the loneliness he would face as a man out of time (Marvel Two-in-One #69). Other original members of the Guardians of the Galaxy were Martinex (from Earth's colony on Pluto) and Yondu (native of Centauri-IV).

The team also made guest appearances in Defenders #26-29.