List of Marvel Family Enemies - Four Horsemen

Four Horsemen

Based on the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Four spirits of destruction that the Marvel Family are warned about by Shazam. They cause evil around the world, consisting of Famine, Fire, Plague, and War. They act through the actions of humans. Famine makes Famine by Corpo using a formula that give people incrdible hunger so he can sell food for huge prices, which Jr. is tricked into drinking, though Cap gets the antidote. Fire causes Verndt (see below), an Oil Baron, to set fire to his dried up wells for insurance, which nearly leads to Mary Marvel's death by fire, though Captain Marvel rescues her. Plague is caused in an Eastern Province which makes people swell up by a strange gas, but Cap finds an antidote and defeats the one behind it. They realise they didn't defeat War, but Shazam reveals War thrives on the action of the other Horsemen. The Horsemen are finally defeated and that night the Marvels see them riding away from Earth.

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