Big Game
Cover ofBig Game #4 (October 2023), depictingMindy McCready on her knees before the throne of King Morax and hisT. rex "guard dog". Art by Pepe Larraz.
Publication information
Publisher	Image Comics Dark Horse Comics (omnibus)
Format	Limited series
Publication date	July – November 2023
No. of issues	5
Main characters	Protagonists: Mindy McCready / Hit-Girl Gary "Eggsy" Unwin / Agent Galahad Edison Crane / Prodigy The Chrononauts Bobbie Griffin Dave Lizewski / Kick-Ass / Codename: America The Ambassadors The Magic Order Antagonists: Wesley Gibson / The Killer II Matthew Anderson / Nemesis
Creative team
Written by	Mark Millar
Artist	Pepe Larraz
Letterer	Clem Robins
Colorist	Giovanna Niro
Editor(s)	Melina Mikulic Sarah Unwin
Collected editions
Big Game	ISBN 978-153439-9112

Big Game is anAmericansuperherocomic booklimited series written byMark Millar and drawn by Pepe Larraz. Published byImage Comics,^[1] the series is acrossover event between the various properties of theMillarworldmultimedia franchise created by Millar, a direct sequel toWanted by Millar andJ. G. Jones, and a prequel toEmpress by Millar andStuart Immonen. The series chronicles Wesley Gibson and his protégéMatthew Anderson / Nemesis' campaign to assassinate the world's new superheroes, asAgent Galahad ofKingsman andMindy McCready / Hit-Girl take on the forces of Gibson's Fraternity of Super-Criminals.^[2] The series, originally published between July and November 2023, was subsequently collected intrade paperback former by Image Comics in December 2023, and as anomnibus withWanted byDark Horse Comics in 2024.^[3] It was followed by a sequel,Nemesis: Rogues' Gallery, later that year.^[4]

In 1986, a group of villains known as The Fraternity banded together to defeat the heroes on the Earth, while alsobrainwashing the entire planet into believing that the heroes never existed and were only fictional characters. In 2023, a new generation of heroes have begun to emerge following the actions ofDave Lizewski, who previously served as the heroKick-Ass, which drivesWesley "The Killer II" Gibson, the new leader of the Fraternity, to gather his forces, as well as his protégéNemesis, to kill this new generation before a new age of heroes can begin again.^[5]

AsEdison Crane and thetime-travellingChrononauts are recruited by former hero"Bobbie Griffin" to face off against Wesley (while Crane is excavating the remnants of aprehistoricgalactic empire),Agent Gary "Eggsy" Unwin of theKingsman rescues vigilanteMindy "Hit-Girl" McCready from Fraternity assassins, and former vigilante Lizewski attempts to join thesuperhero teamthe Ambassadors.^[6]

Protagonists

• Mindy McCready / Hit-Girl – A 27-year-old vigilante and assassin who has been waging war on crime since she was 10-years-old, inKick-Ass – The Dave Lizewski Years,Hit-Girl, andKick-Ass vs. Hit-Girl.
• Gary "Eggsy" Unwin / Agent Galahad – Asecret agent of theMI6 offshoot Kingsman.
• Dr. Edison Crane – A billionaire and the smartest man alive, who often apathetically saves the world.
• The Chrononauts – Dr. Corbin Quinn and Dr. Danny Reilly, the modern inventors oftime travel.
• "Bobbie Griffin" – Heavily implied to beBarbara Gordon /Batgirl of theDC Universe, Griffin survived the Fraternity's attack and erasure of its heroes in 1986, and seeks to stop Gibson and the Fraternity from eradicating this new generation of heroes.
• Dave Lizewski – A 31-year-oldsecurity guard and formerpolice officer who was the vigilante Kick-Ass before retiring fifteen years earlier, who now aims to join the Ambassadors as "Codename: America".

Antagonists

• Wesley Gibson / The Killer II – Nemesis' mentor, the Secret Lord of Earth and leader of the Fraternity of Super-Criminals, who aims to wipe out the world's new superheroes as his father had once done in 1986.
• Matthew Anderson / Nemesis – Wesley's protégé and intended successor, an orphangroomed to become a supervillain.
• The Fox – An assassin and Wesley's wife, who was also his father's lover.
• King Morax – Theemperor of thegalactic empire rulingprehistoric Earth, who aims to invade the future on learning of his empire's eventual end.
• Diabolos the Sorcerer – A techno-sorcerer and the newest chieflieutenant of the royal empire of King Morax, who invades the future on his behalf.

Other

• The Ambassadors – A superhero team who recruit one person from each country as their "ambassadors", granting them artificial superpowers.
• The Magic Order – A secret group of five families ofwizards entrusted to keep the world safe from supernatural and magical threats.^[7]
  • Cordelia Moonstone – The heir to the Magic Order, frustrated by her inability to stop the Fraternity due to them not being a magical threat.
• The Night Club – A superhero team consisting of teenagevampires who wear masks to fight crime during the day.
• Huck – A kind-hearted superpowered countryman with anIQ of 75 who is able to "track down anything".
• Captain Duke McQueen – An elderly former space hero who once saved the universe.
• Simon Pooni – A teenager withmultiple sclerosis who uses a wheelchair and previouslysold his soul to transform into the superhero Superior.
• Valerie "Val" Lizewski – Dave's wife, who is deaf in one ear as a result of childhoodpolio.
• Bonnie Black – The white-clad saviour of Adystria and protector of theafterlife.

In August 2014, following the conclusion ofBook Four ofKick-Ass – The Dave Lizewski Years,Mark Millar revealed that the majority of hisMillarworld work were set in the samesharedfictional universe, with the endingmonologue of the series seeingDave Lizewski make mention of the events ofWanted,Nemesis,Kingsman, andMPH, andSimon Pooni fromSuperior cameoing, with Millar intended to one day write a crossover between the projects.^[8] By March 2015, Millar expressed interest in seeing this concept realised in aHit-Girl/Kingsman feature film starringMindy McCready / Hit-Girl andGary "Eggsy" Unwin (originally London) together "in a big international adventure",^[9] by September 2017 revealing that he had discussed this concept withMatthew Vaughn.^[10] Following extensivedevelopment hell, the crossover,Big Game, was announced in May 2023, written by Millar, illustrated by Pepe Larraz, and serving as a direct sequel toWanted. The story pits that series' protagonist, Wesley Gibson and his protégéNemesis against the heroes of the Millarworld,^[11] in particular Hit-Girl and Eggsy,^[12] spinning-out of the events ofNemesis: Reloaded,^[13] and leading into the events ofNemesis: Rogues' Gallery.^[3][4]

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