Where Are They ‘NOW!’? 10 Marvel Characters MIA Since SECRET WARS

And that's not a new tactic - they did the same thing for "All-New, All-Different Marvel.". But some of their top characters - and a few minor ones that they teased - still haven't shown up since the end of Secret Wars.

Here are ten characters still M.I.A. in the new Marvel Universe.

Sorry Ka-Zar fans, you'll have to scour the Savage Land for him on your own time.

Considering Captain Britain’s magical origins and Marvel’s focus on that side of its universe, as well as his Multiversal pedigree, Captain Britain seems like a no-brainer to bring back into the spotlight – perhaps when the time is right for Marvel to start exploring other worlds again.

Maybe her absence has something to do with her ally and off-and-on paramour Cyclops’s death after an attack on the Inhumans. With her fate still a mystery, could Emma stay gone for long?

Marvel has repeatedly answered questions about Rider’s return with vague teases, promising nothing but refusing to rule out a comeback. However, considering Sam is still in the helmet as of "Marvel NOW!," Rich’s return may not be in the cards for a while.

The former alter ego of the villainous Baron Zemo was shown in one of the teasers, but he has yet to pop up anywhere. Now, to be fair, Zemo is currently appearing in the Captain America titles, but in his classic guise. Likewise, there is a new Thunderbolts team, the group in which Zemo first used his Citizen V identity, though neither he nor a new Citizen V are part of it. Perhaps plans for his identity changed – or maybe someone else was supposed to take on the Citizen V name, like the new leader of the Thunderbolts, Bucky Barnes.

Like Citizen V, a series of character images shown at Comic-Con International: San Diego in 2015 signaled a return for the intergalactic bounty hunter Death’s Head, who had previously appeared in Iron Man. He never showed up either, so he’s presumably still lost in space.

But that series was to focus on the original Blade’s daughter, leaving the Daywalker himself as a mentor figure. Neither Blade, nor his offspring have shown up at all since the relaunch, leaving a vampire-slayer-sized hole in Marvel’s magical wing.

You’d think some version of the Watcher would have wanted to observe the collapse of the Multiverse, or at least the aftermath, but Uatu and his ilk have remained out of the spotlight. Maybe Marvel has something even bigger in the works to draw out the eternal observers of its timeline.

Sure, there’s a new Nick Fury in the form of Sr.’s son, Nick Fury, Jr. running around, but with the amount of legacy heroes on Marvel’s roster, surely there’s room for both of them in the world of espionage. Maybe Steve Rogers’s turn to Hydra, Fury’s old enemies, will draw him back into the fold.

It’s odd that Robbie hasn’t appeared, as he’s a favorite of Marvel Editor-in-Chief Axel Alonso. But more odd is that no version of Ghost Rider has appeared at all, especially considering Marvel now has the movie rights to the character back in house.

Marvel may have technically doubled down on the IP, but the absence of the genuine article of Marvel’s arguably most popular character is a glaring omission. Knowing how death works in the Marvel Universe, and the built-in out of Logan simply being encased in Adamantium, how long can it be before he’s 'The Best There Is At What He Does' again?

Of course, there’s another relaunch on the horizon – one that divides the heroes of the Marvel Universe. Who better to bring them back together (you know, in time for the next next relaunch) than the team that launched the Marvel Age back in the 60’s?