Midnight Sons (Earth-616)

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Midnight Sons
Name	Midnight Sons
Aliases	Midnight Suns, Children of Midnight, Children of the Midnight Sun, Old Order of the Midnight Sons, Monster Squad, Order of the Midnight Sons, The Demonic and the Dead, The Mystic Nine, Drac Pack
Members
Leader(s)	Blade; formerly Doctor Strange, Morbius, Wong
Current Member(s)	Blade, Kushala, Magik, Nico Minoru, Wolverine
Former Member(s)	Baron Skullfire, Bats, Doctor Strange, Doctor Voodoo, Elsa Bloodstone, Frank Drake, Ghost Rider (Blaze), Ghost Rider (Ketch), Hannibal King, Hellstrom, Iron Fist, Jennifer Kale, Louise Hastings, Man-Thing, Molek, Morbius, Mr. Knight, Samson Buchanan, Scarlet Spider, Strange, Vengeance, Victoria Montesi, Werewolf by Night, Wong
Affiliation and Identity
Identity	Secret
Allies	Agatha Harkness, Caretaker, Clea, Embyrre, The Hood, Jinx, Modred the Mystic, Raydar, Scarlet Witch, Seer, Tony Stark, Sorcerer Supreme, Wildpride, Yuvraj Singh
Enemies	Chthon, Korrosion, The Fallen, The Lilin, Lilith, Mephisto, Switchblade, Zarathos
Origin and Status
Status	Active
Reality	Earth-616
Base of Operations	Cypress Hills Cemetery, New York City; Sanctum Sanctorum, New York City; The Haven
Place of Formation	Greenland
Creators and Appearances
Creators	Howard Mackie, Andy Kubert
First	Ghost Rider (Vol. 3) #31 (September, 1992)
First	Ghost Rider (Vol. 3) #31 (September, 1992)

History

Nine beings with ties to the occult were drawn together by Doctor Strange to battle Lilith and her demonic children, the Lilin. The various individuals that comprised the initial group had already had their own brushes with the Lilin, but most were unaware of the full magnitude of their predicament until Strange magically drew them together to halt an incursion of Lilin in Greenland. The disparate warriors were not formally grouped at the time, and some of their number were openly hostile to certain others, only working together out of a need to deal with the more imminent threat posed by the demons. Despite this, Strange still named them collectively as the Nine after sending most of them away in the aftermath of the battle.

The Nine battled Lilith and her Lilin on multiple occasions. They were forced to battle fellow member Blade when he was transformed into 'Switchblade' by the Darkhold. They also investigated Spider-X.

After the final battle with Zarathos the remaining members were branded as the Order of the Midnight Sons.

A new Midnight Sons team was briefly formed by Morbius to hunt zombies that had infiltrated their Earth from another reality to try and spread their Hunger Virus.

When Doctor Strange used magic to rebuild Las Vegas, Hotel Inferno emerged with it. The tower's influence began to change the citizens of Las Vegas, making them act on their very base instinct and impulse. In turn, for even the lesser of sins, their souls were taken by Mephisto. It also engulfed the heroes present at the scene, namely Falcon, Captain Marvel, Thor, Hawkeye and Black Panther, who were turned into Ghost Riders. Bats, the ghost of Stephen's talking dog, sought Wong's help to assist Stephen. Wong decided to summon to Strange's aid a new Midnight Sons: Blade, Mr. Knight, Elsa Bloodstone, Doctor Voodoo, Man-Thing, Iron Fist, and finally Ghost Rider to lead them all.

The most recent iteration of the team was brought together when Strange Academy student Zoe Laveau accidentally projected a vision to supernatural characters across the Marvel Universe. Featuring Blade, Kushala, Magik, Nico Minoru, and Wolverine, the new team has been rebranded as the "Midnight Suns."

Paraphernalia

Equipment

The "Brand" of the Midnight Sons is a small cross with a sharp downward point. It was seared into the arms of an earlier Order of the Midnight Sons in ancient times, and began to appear on some of the modern-era Midnight Sons as they battled Zarathos. The purpose of the brand is to summon its wearers back together in times of great need, and is said to "hurt like the Devil himself" until the summons is answered. The brand otherwise remains invisible until it is needed. Frank Drake was turned away from being branded as he was deemed to be too human at the time.

Weapons

Various personal armaments.

Transportation

• Mystical teleportation - A common means of transporting the group instantaneously when needed, and sometimes for moving them between dimensions.
• Hellcycles - The hellfire-empowered motorcycles used by the various Spirits of Vengeance.

Notes

• The Midnight Sons are typically a loose alliance of heroes, reputed to have had "a taste of damnation" that they draw on in order to fight it or who are compelled to fight against it to prevent the same from happening to others.
• Victoria Montesi and Yuvraj Singh indicated that the Sons of Midnight had been active for at least four decades and was a larger organization than previously indicated.

See Also

• 54 appearance(s) of Midnight Sons (Earth-616)
• 3 appearance(s) in handbook(s) of Midnight Sons (Earth-616)
• 4 minor appearance(s) of Midnight Sons (Earth-616)
• 12 mention(s) of Midnight Sons (Earth-616)
• 6 mention(s) in handbook(s) of Midnight Sons (Earth-616)
• 21 image(s) of Midnight Sons (Earth-616)
• 24 member(s) of Midnight Sons (Earth-616)