Summary

• The Avengers' new member is as powerful as Thor and Captain Marvel, showcasing immense strength and multiverse-class weaponry.
• The Impossible City, a sentient spaceship, s the team with powerful weaponry, including "ultraheavy ship-to-ship particle beams."
• Now, the city is being outfitted with an army of liquid-plastic drone bodies, courtesy of Iron Man.

Warning: contains spoilers for Avengers #11!The Avengers' new member just confirmed their incredible power, putting their strength level in the same range as Thor and Captain Marvel. These days, it's rare that Earth's Mightiest Heroes take on unknown heroes into their ranks - where once this was common, the publisher now tends towards a roster that will be familiar to fans of the MCU. However, the team are breaking this unofficial rule with their latest recruit, bringing onboard a total unknown.

However, it turns out that they more than have the firepower to back up their hip, as Avengers #11 showcases the power of the Impossible City. A sentient, multiverse-traversing spaceship brought to Earth-616 by the villainous Ashen Combine, the Impossible City is the former headquarters of a mysterious hero team, now invited to act as the Avengers' teammate and base. This issue, under attack from the Mad Thinker's Plastoids, the Impossible City gets to show what it can do.

While the Impossible City has no interior weaponry, it can attack those outside with a huge arsenal, including "point defense autocannons" and "ultraheavy ship-to-ship particle beams." It also confirms that it's likely strong enough to move a planet, and the issue ends with it suggesting that Iron Man reprogram the army of Plastoids for the Impossible City to control within its own structure, giving it liquid plastic bodies which can operate separately or into a single giant form.

The Impossible City was originally designed as a prison for the Ashen Combine...

The Impossible City Unleashes a Powerful Particle Cannon

Avengers' New Member Is Getting an Army of Liquid Plastic Drones

The Impossible City was originally designed as a prison for the Ashen Combine, who travel from reality to reality murdering cities with their disturbing powers. However, they eventually escaped their prison aboard the spacestation and took it over, turning it into their own base but leaving the city's consciousness alive to torture it. Thankfully, the Avengers were able to defeat the Ashen Combine, trapping them aboard once again, and inviting the Impossible City to the team. It's a complex arrangement - one of the Ashen Combine is a living prison, which means the Avengers technically have innocent civilians imprisoned aboard - but so far the only answer to the Ashen Combine's incredible power.

The Impossible City ed the Avengers in 2023's Avengers #6, from Jed MacKay and Ivan Fiorelli.

However, the Impossible City isn't just a base or prison - it's a sentient being that ed the team and is committed to helping them protect the universe. Avengers #11 goes a long way to showing how powerful the Impossible City actually is, nailing down both its immense firepower and its limitations. The Ashen Combine did significant damage to the city, both wiping its memory (hence why it's not sure of its exact limits) and removing any interior defenses it could conceivably use against them. Controlling the Plastoids could give the Impossible City a veritable army within its own walls, however the Mad Thinker is shown to be working for the Combine, so these new 'bodies' may actually be a Trojan Horse that will lead to their escape.

Until then, the Avengers now have new member who is armed with some of the most powerful weapons in the multiverse and is strong enough to push a planet out of orbit. What's more, the City has plenty of unexplored features. Not only can it warn the team of impending danger on gigantic, Times Square-style building-mounted screens, but it's a literal city designed to be lived in, and which takes immense joy in looking after its engers/citizens. Hopefully, the Avengers are prepared to use the Impossible City's full power to protect the universe, allowing their incredibly powerful new member to take on some classic villains, and maybe even offer some of those people the team saves a wild new place to live.

Avengers #11 is available now from Marvel Comics.