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I agree, they seem better suited to a Netflix series. In my dream world Netflix would take advantage of the 'Defenders' name since the obvious one with all those characters would be 'Heroes for Hire' as opposed to a constantly changing "not-team." Every... "Netflix Phase" I guess you could call it, would have different people coming together for a Defenders series, so, for example, "Netflix Phase One" with Daredevil, Luke Cage, Iron Fist and Jessica Jones and then the Defenders. If they do well, Netflix Phase Two could have Daredevil, Heroes for Hire, Cloak & Dagger and then someone else who come together again for Defenders 2.

Then next one could mix things up a bit. We'd be quite a few years in advance by now. Perhaps in the last Avengers film Banner gets a massive dose of gamma rays and loses control of Hulk, gets sent into space and we get a Planet Hulk film. We don't get a World War Hulk film. Instead his Warband acts as reinforcements in the following Avengers film. He ends up on Earth as a result, but is on the run as a result of whatever he did to get sent to space and Hulk is once again a bit of a liability.

Hence, we get Hulk, Cloak and Dagger, Ghost Rider and Blade as the stars of Defenders 3, with each having an appropriate miniseries leading up to it. By this point, Daredevil and Heroes for Hire are successful enough that they don't need to be linked so explicitly to Defenders and can do their own thing without showing up in it.

Also, Doctor Strange. I want Doctor Strange to be a Defender at some point.

The rogues gallery thing isn't really a problem. There's loads of minor villains from across all of Marvel that aren't big enough to really be famously linked to one hero in particular and that's if you even want them to have full on superhero fights, which traditionally wasn't their thing. Sure, you could have Stilt Man, but maybe he was hired by one of the more typical organised crime types that you could imagine showing up in these things. Fisk or the Maggia or the Hood. They'd be more in the background of stuff, also appearing in the other series too.

Oh! What's his face, who did the Mutant Growth Hormone stuff. Owlman? Or was it someone else? He's using street kids in all the terrible ways that you can think of. In addition, he's experimenting with some power-giving drug and gets more success than he bargained for when he tries it on Cloak and Dagger, who then bust out and try and take him down. Owlman gets into a superpowered street gang war thing with Power Broker, a Heroes for Hire antagonist. Defenders 2 is the resolution to this plot. Boom, done. Easy.

What was the topic again?