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<\/a><\/div>\nThe Vengeful Four is an example of a phenomenon that I am not sure is common enough that I need to come up with a special name for it: the big-name villain (in this case Dr Sivana<\/a>) teaming up with a selection of nobodies as if they were equals. The Four Cards<\/a> represent one other example of this, and the Penguin is a part of another called the Birds of a Feather that we will cover once we hit the year 1942. Are there more? Will I need to make up a term for this? We shall see.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The non-Sivana members of the Vengeful Four include gang boss Biggy Brix, who crawls away from his busted-up getaway car and straight into an opportunity to get revenge on Captain Marvel for busting it up;<\/p>\n Captain Death, a heavily cloak-based villain who I posited might be the same as the Captain Marvel foe and pirate submariner of the same name<\/a> nearly three and a half years ago and I’m still not sure either way;<\/p>\n And finally Herr Geyer, one of the not-quite Nazis from the end of the Smasher Spy<\/a> saga, who seems to have taken Captain Marvel’s interference much harder than the several beatings he got from Spy Smasher both before and after he recovered his moral compass.<\/p>\n Since Dr Sivana already knows that Captain Marvel is actually Billy Batson, he hits upon a plan that is brilliant in its simplicity: send his three compatriots out into the city to find and kidnap Billy. Honestly, he should be doing this constantly, and frequently is, come to think of it.<\/p>\n (there is a part of me that objects to the concept of Sivana sharing this valuable information with just anyone, but I must acknowledge that this is as a result of decades of poisoning by comic book writing. Of course<\/i> the best thing to do with a super-hero’s secret identity is to spread it far and wide, and jealously guarding it is something that only serves to keep the status quo. Still feels weird to read, though)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n