WALKERS
Membership: None identified
Purpose: To serve hatred and spread their
infection to others
Aliases: None
Affiliations: Erida, Hilda von Hate
Enemies: The Avengers (Deadpool/"Wade Wilson,"
Doctor Voodoo/Jericho Drumm, Human Torch/Johnny Storm,
Quicksilver/Pietro Maximoff, Steve Rogers, Rogue/Anna Marie, Synapse/Emily
Guerrero), Captain
America (Jeff Mace), the Department of the Uncanny (Dakor the
Detective Magician/Alan Dakor, Emerald Warlock/Declan Dane, the Ghost
Dancer/Andre Gastrade, Agatha
Harkness), the Whizzer (Bob Frank, Sr.)
Base of Operations: The remote island of Tani
First Appearance: Uncanny Avengers III
Annual#1 (January, 2016)
History:
(Uncanny Avengers III Annual#1 (fb) - BTS) - In 1947, Nazi war criminal
Hilda von Hate returned to Earth from an extradimensional hideout and
sequestered herself on the island of Tani, mystically enrapturing the
locals and transforming them into the entranced, zombie-like Walkers.
(Uncanny Avengers III Annual#1 (fb)) - Having learned
of Hilda von Hate's return and her entrancement of the Tani locals into
Walkers, detective magician Dakor summoned his former mystic allies and
suggested the formation of the heroic Department of the Uncanny in an
effort to bring Hilda to justice. The newly-formed Department of the
Uncanny then met with American heroes Captain America and the Whizzer
as they traveled to Tani to confront Hilda von Hate and her Walkers.
Shortly after touching down, the heroes were attacked by a small army
of Walkers under Hilda's control. Following Hilda's death, the Walkers
were thought cured of their condition and they seemingly returned to
normal, unaware that Hilda's death had only made their transformations
dormant. In the years that followed, those original Walkers lived happy
lives and had children and grandchildren, each of whom were passing the
latent, transformative Walker "virus."
(Uncanny Avengers III Annual#1)
- In the modern era, decades after Hilda von Hate's death, random
people associated with the original Walkers' bloodlines began
transforming into Walkers and infecting others via a bite or scratch,
leading the still-living Ghost Dancer to suspect that the Walkers had
not truly been cured but rather, their infection had only become
dormant upon Hilda's death and they had passed on the Walker infection
to succeeding generations. Summoning his former ally the Emerald
Warlock as well as his successor, Doctor Voodoo and his Avengers allies
Steve Rogers and Quicksilver, the Ghost Dancer informed them of his
theory and suspicion that the root cure for the Walkers was still on
the island of Tani. As the Walker infection grew worldwide, the heroes
flew to Tani, which had since become a resort island, and briefly
battled the Walkers there until Doctor Voodoo mystically enveloped a
large group of Walkers in a force field so they could focus on finding
and stopping Hilda von Hate. The Avengers dealt with the remaining
Walkers while Ghost Dancer and Emerald Warlock entered the main
ballroom of a nearby hotel, only to be confronted by Erida, goddess of
hate, who confirmed that Hilda von Hate had long since died. Revealing
that Hilda had harnessed her power to create the Walkers, Erida
informed the two mystics that Hilda's death had left a portal to the
Earthly plane open that Erida slowly forced more open over the decades
until she was able to fully manifest on Earth and assume control of
Hilda von Hate's Walkers. Eventually, Ghost Dancer and the Emerald
Warlock absorbed Erida's hate energy between them, rendering it inert,
defeating Erida and restoring the Walkers to normal.
Comments: Created by James Robinson, Marc
Laming and Jose Giles.
Profile by Proto-Man.
CLARIFICATIONS:
The Walkers have no known connections to:
images: (without ads)
Uncanny Avengers III Annual#1, p14-15, pan12 (modern Walkers, main
image)
Uncanny Avengers III Annual#1, p20, pan1 (modern
Walkers battling Steve Rogers)
Uncanny Avengers III Annual#1, p10-11, splash page
(Heroes battling Walkers circa 1947)
Appearances:
Uncanny Avengers III Annual#1 (January, 2016) - James Robinson
(writer), Marc Laming, Jose Giles (art), Mark Paniccia (editor)
First Posted: 10/31/2025
Last updated: 10/31/2025
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