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6	Brian Michael Bendis (born August 18, 1967) is a American comic book writer. He started writing crime/noir independent comics, in Caliber and Creator/ImageComics, and then joined Creator/MarvelComics. Marvel had a project to relaunch its characters in a new universe, the ComicBook/UltimateMarvel universe, and to make it feel fresh they hired new writers with new styles, such as Bendis and Creator/MarkMillar, instead of using the established ones. Bendis started in 2000 with ''ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan2000'', a DecompressedComic starred by a teenager Peter Parker, that started with his OriginStory and reconstructed all the Spider-man mythos from scratch. He also wrote ''ComicBook/UltimateMarvelTeamUp'', making team-ups of Spider-Man and other reimagined characters, to provide further WorldBuilding. Bendis and Millar, who had started ''ComicBook/UltimateXMen'' and ''ComicBook/TheUltimates'' (a remake of ''ComicBook/TheAvengers''), joined forces to relaunch another classic Marvel team in ''ComicBook/UltimateFantasticFour''.
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8	The success of the Ultimate comics led to Marvel using Bendis at comics set in the mainstream universe as well. In 2001 he wrote ''ComicBook/{{Daredevil}}'' for the Creator/MarvelKnights line. He also started the Creator/MarvelMAX line, and his first comic would be a relaunch of ComicBook/SpiderWoman (Jessica Drew, a 1970s characters that got the ChuckCunninghamSyndrome) turned into a private investigator, but Marvel had plans to make a standard relaunch of the character. So Bendis changed some details of his new comic, and introduced it as a completely new character instead: ComicBook/JessicaJones. Jessica Jones started in the comic book ''ComicBook/{{Alias}}'', and then continued in ''ComicBook/ThePulse''.
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10	He also made a complete revamp of ComicBook/TheAvengers, a team with numerous characters at the time. He closed that period of the team with ''ComicBook/AvengersDisassembled'', and then relaunched it as the ''ComicBook/NewAvengers''. This team had a smaller cast, including Marvel's flagship characters Spider-Man (who had only been in the Avengers for small times in the past) and Wolverine (who had never been a member). He also included Spider-Woman, and also Luke Cage, another forgotten character of the 1970s that he also brought back to the spotlight. Shortly after he wrote ''ComicBook/HouseOfM'', a CrisisCrossover that removed the powers of a big number of mutants, a storyline that impacted the ComicBook/XMen comics for years. The New Avengers disbanded in ''ComicBook/{{Civil War\|2006}}'', divided about signing a SuperRegistrationAct or not. From then on, Bendis wrote two comics: "New Avengers" with a new team that did not sign the act, and ''ComicBook/MightyAvengers'' with those that did. He wrote a new crossover, ''ComicBook/{{Secret Invasion\|2008}}'', and Iron Man was removed as head honcho of SHIELD and replaced by the villain Norman Osbourne. "Mighty Avengers" was closed and replaced by ''ComicBook/DarkAvengers'', a team of villains posing as heroes. The whole arc ended in ''ComicBook/{{Siege}}''.
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12	The X-Men arcs started by ''House of M'' concluded in ''ComicBook/AvengersVsXMen'', and Cyclops kills Charles Xavier at the end of that story. This kickstarted the events of ''ComicBook/AllNewXMen'', Bendis' run with the X-Men, where the original team (the teenagers Cyclops, Jean Grey, Beast, Angel and Iceman) are time-displaced to the modern day. He also scripted the X-Men BatFamilyCrossover ComicBook/BattleOfTheAtom. This comic also made crossovers with ''Ultimate Spider-Man'' and ''ComicBook/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'', that he was also writing.
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14	Speaking of that... remember Ultimate Spider-Man? Bendis kept writing it all this time, and even achieved with Mark Bagley the record of the longest writer-artist collaboration in a ComicBookRun, previously held by Creator/StanLee and Creator/JackKirby in ComicBook/FantasticFour. At one point, he made a huge change to the book: [[TheHeroDies Peter Parker died]] and a new guy, [[Characters/MarvelComicsMilesMorales Miles Morales]], became the new Spider-Man. It was not a character from the existing cast but a completely new one, with his own set of secondary characters. The MilestoneCelebration for the 50th year of Spider-Man was celebrated with ''ComicBook/SpiderMen'', a crossover between the regular Spider-Man from the Marvel Universe and Miles Morales. Morales was one of the most popular characters of the whole Ultimate Marvel universe, to the point that ''ComicBook/SecretWars2015'', the crossover that ended it after 15 years, transferred him and his cast to the regular Marvel universe. Bendis wrote a pair of tie-ins for this event, ''ComicBook/UltimateEnd'' and ''ComicBook/OldManLogan2015''. He then continued working with Miles, now in the Marvel universe, in ''ComicBook/SpiderMan2016''. One his last stories in Marvel was ''ComicBook/SpiderMenII'', which revealed that the Ultimate Universe has been brought back to existence at some point off-panel. Bendis would also executive produce Miles’ film debut, ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManIntoTheSpiderVerse'' and its sequel, ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManAcrossTheSpiderVerse''.
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16	After ''Secret Wars'', he worked with Iron Man. His run soon led to another crossover, ''ComicBook/CivilWarII'', where Iron Man died. He introduced a LegacyCharacter, Riri Williams as ComicBook/{{Ironheart}}, and also Dr. Doom of all people took the identity in ''Infamous Iron Man'' (he has a HeelFaceTurn after Secret Wars). Tony Stark eventually returned, and Iron Man #600 was Bendis' last comic for Marvel.
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18	In 2017, he became an exclusive Creator/DCComics creator, leaving Marvel after 17 years, where he would chart the course of the ''ComicBook/SupermanBrianMichaelBendis'' comics for the next three years, as well as develop the ''Creator/WonderComics'' line for DC, which included Bendis having stints on relaunches of ''ComicBook/{{Young Justice\|2019}}'' and a new character called ''ComicBook/{{Naomi\|DCComics}}''. In 2019, Bendis was given a reboot of the ''[[ComicBook/LegionOfSuperheroes2020 Legion of Super-Heroes]]'' which lasted 12 issues before ''ComicBook/DCFutureState'' revealed an overhaul of the book to come. As part of ''ComicBook/DCInfiniteFrontier'', Bendis began writing the main ''Justice League'' series.
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20	!Comics and series written by this author include:
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22	[[index]]
23	!! Creator/MarvelComics
24	* ''ComicBook/AgeOfUltron'' (2013)
25	* ''ComicBook/{{Alias}}'' (2001-2004)
26	* ''ComicBook/TheAvengers''
27	** ''ComicBook/AvengersDisassembled'' (2004)
28	** ''ComicBook/DarkAvengers'' (2009-2010)
29	** ''ComicBook/MightyAvengers'' (2007-2009)
30	** ''Comicbook/NewAvengers'' (2005-2010)
31	* ''ComicBook/AvengersVsXMen'' (2012)
32	* ''ComicBook/CivilWarII'' (2016)
33	* ''ComicBook/{{Daredevil}}'' (2001-2006)
34	* ''ComicBook/TheDefenders2017''
35	* ''ComicBook/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'' (2013-2017)
36	* ''ComicBook/HaloUprising'' (2007)
37	* ''ComicBook/HouseOfM'' (2005)
38	* ''ComicBook/IronMan''
39	** ''Invincible Iron Man'' (2015-2018)
40	** ''International Iron Man'' (2016-2017)
41	** ''ComicBook/InfamousIronMan'' (2016-2017)
42	* ''ComicBook/JessicaJones'' (2016-2018)
43	* ''ComicBook/MoonKnight'' (2011-2012)
44	* ''ComicBook/ThePulse'' (2004-2006)
45	* ''ComicBook/{{Secret Invasion\|2008}}'' (2008)
46	* ''ComicBook/{{Secret War\|2004}}'' (2004-2005)
47	* ''ComicBook/SecretWarriors'' (2009)
48	* ''ComicBook/{{Siege}}'' (2010)
49	* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan2016''
50	* ''ComicBook/SpiderMen'' (2012)
51	* ''ComicBook/SpiderMenII'' (2017)
52	* ''Comicbook/SpiderWoman'' (2009-2010)
53	* ComicBook/UltimateMarvel
54	** ''ComicBook/CataclysmTheUltimatesLastStand'' (2013-2014)
55	** ''Ultimate Comics: Fallout'' (2011)
56	** ''ComicBook/UltimateDoomsday'' (2011)
57	** ''ComicBook/UltimateEnd'' (2015)
58	** ''ComicBook/UltimateFantasticFour'' (2004)
59	** ''ComicBook/UltimateMarvelTeamUp'' (2001-2002)
60	** ''ComicBook/UltimateOrigins'' (2008)
61	** ''Ultimate Power'' (2006-2007)
62	** ''Ultimate Six'' (2003-2004)
63	** ''ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan2000'' (2000-2015)
64	** ''ComicBook/UltimateXMen2001'' (2003-2004)
65	* ''ComicBook/XMen''
66	** ''ComicBook/AllNewXMen'' (2012-2015)
67	** ''ComicBook/BattleOfTheAtom'' (2014)
68	** ''ComicBook/OldManLogan2015''
69	** ''[[ComicBook/UncannyXMen2013 Uncanny X-Men]]'' (2013-2015)
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71	!!Creator/IconComics
72	* ''ComicBook/{{Powers}}'' (2009)
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74	!!Creator/DCComics
75	* ''Batman: Universe''
76	* ''[[ComicBook/DCYearOfTheVillain Event Leviathan]]''
77	* Jinxworld:
78	** ''Cover''
79	** ''ComicBook/{{Scarlet}}''
80	** ''Pearl''
81	** ''United States vs. Murder, Inc.''
82	* ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueInfiniteFrontier''
83	** ''Justice League vs. the Legion of Super-Heroes''
84	* ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes2020''
85	* ''ComicBook/SupermanBrianMichaelBendis''
86	** ''ComicBook/ActionComics''
87	** ''ComicBook/ManOfSteel2018''
88	* Creator/WonderComics
89	** ''ComicBook/{{Naomi\|DCComics}}''
90	** ''[[ComicBook/YoungJustice2019 Young Justice]] (2019-2020)''
91	[[/index]]
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93	!!His works provide examples of:
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98	* ArtShift: He likes experimenting with it. In many of his titles, scenes that happen in [[MediaNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks past]] [[MediaNotes/TheBronzeAgeOfComicBooks eras]] actually imitate the art styles of when those scenes would have taken place. In ''ComicBook/DarkAvengers'', scenes that happens in Norman Osborn's mind are illustrated by Greg Horn, instead of the comic's regular artist, Mike Deodato Jr, and in ''Mighty Avengers'' scenes in the middle ages are painted by Marko Djurdjevic in order to imitate old frescoes. In ''{{ComicBook/Alias}}'', flashbacks to Jessica's initial encounter with the Purple Man are drawn in a clean superhero style by Mark Bagley, contrasting Michael Gaydos' gritty realism in the contemporary art and emphasizing the great loss of innocence the Purple Man has inflicted on Jessica.
99	* AuthorAppeal: ''ComicBook/TheDefenders2017'', a crime comic, had an unexpected character showing up: [[spoiler:Deadpool]]. He did not fit the tone of the comic, but Bendis was about to leave to DC Comics and it was one of the few Marvel characters he had not used so far, so why not?
100	* AuthorAvatar:
101	** He appears at the beginning of a ''Ultimate Spider-Man'' arc, about a FreakyFridayFlip between Spider-Man and Wolverine, to excuse himself because the plot is too weird.
102	** He also appears in one of the last issues of ''The Defenders'', detained at the police station. He was about to leave to DC Comics. While arrested, he said that "A 17-year running gag is not easy to pull off!" (see the RunningGag entry for details). In this scene, he was being pulled off by artist David Marquez and colorist Justin Ponsor.
103	* BreakTheCutie: Jessica Jones, Spider-Woman, Daredevil, and Tigra. And poor poor White Tiger, who [[spoiler:is murdered in cold blood by a police officer after being falsely accused of murder]].
104	* CreatorCameo: Several.
105	** Paul Jenkins, creator of Sentry in ''New Avengers'' story about this character.
106	** Creator/WarrenEllis in one issue of ''Powers''
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111	* DecompressedComic: Bendis is one of the author that popularized this style during the turn of the century.
112	* FollowTheLeader: Bendis's ultra-decompressed WritingForTheTrade writing style was forced upon all Marvel writers in the early '00s, to the point that Creator/GeoffJohns quit writing the Avengers rather than endure being forced to copy Bendis' writing style.
113	* FlipFlopOfGod: Bendis initially claimed that Ronin in his ''New Avengers'' run was ''always'' intended to be Maya Lopez, but later confirmed that the characters was originally going to be [[ComicBook/{{Daredevil}} Matt Murdock]] in [[http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2008/06/12/comic-book-urban-legends-revealed-159/ disguise]].
114	* JackUpWithPhlebotinum: A running plotline in his Marvel stories was regular people taking MGH, a drug that grants super-powers along with a high.
115	* LegacyCharacter: Miles Morales is the best-known example, but also Riri Williams for Iron Man. [[Characters/MilesMoralesSpiderMan Bombshell]] is a special case, as she followed the steps of her mother, but both characters were introduced at the same time.
116	* MametSpeak: Is infamous for rapid-fire, repetitive, casual dialogue reminiscent of the TropeNamer, who Bendis has named as a major influence.
117	* RunningGag: Each time he writes a scene at a police station, there are some cops in the background detaining some nutcase, cosplayed as a superhero and shouting nonsenses, which actually makes a reference to some comic book event elsewhere (for example, a Scarlet Witch shouting "[[ComicBook/HouseOfM No more mutants! No more mutants!]]", or a Carol Danvers shouting "[[ComicBook/CivilWar2006 Choose your side! Choose your side!]]"). In ''Defenders'' #9, the nutcase is modeled after Bendis himself, and shouts "A 17-year running gag is not easy to pull off!"
118	* ShrugOfGod: When solicits announced that Deadpool would show up in ''Defenders'', there was a lot of WMG about his role in the story. [[https://bleedingcool.com/comics/marvel-gets-back-basics-deadpool-guest-appearance-defenders-marvel-legacy/ His answer?]] "His involvement is a big clue to who ends up being the new Kingpin. Don't worry, it's not him :-) Oh wait, maybe it should be. That's not a totally terrible idea. Deadpool is the new kingpin? Hmmmm… :)"
119	* WhatCouldHaveBeen: He intended to relaunch Jessica Drew (a forgotten character at the time) as a private investigator that used to be a superhero. Marvel had plans to relaunch the character the standard way, so Bendis modified some details of his unfinished comic, and she became a new character instead, Jessica Jones.
120	* WriteWhatYouKnow: Bendis based the plot of his last comic of Miles Morales on his own near-death experience (see [[https://www.cbr.com/bendis-miles-morales-near-death-experience/ here]]).

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