The Avengers receive more media attention when anti-mutant bigots join equal opportunity advocates in picketing Avengers Mansion. In town on business, Quicksilver discovers many of the protestors and reporters are wearing Triune Understanding lapel pins. This revelation reinforces the Avengers’ suspicions that the spiritual organization is orchestrating a smear campaign, but it shocks the team’s government liaison, Duane Freeman, who is a Triune member himself. The heroes rush to investigate a flying stone plaza’s appearance above Manhattan. As the Avengers save bystanders from the construct’s path of destruction, the plaza’s occupants, the Exemplars, quarrel among themselves. The Juggernaut appears before the heroes, claiming that the Exemplars are trying to kill him for thwarting their recent attempt at world conquest. Suddenly, the mystic beings assault and capture Juggernaut, warning the Avengers not to interfere as they depart.
Magneto and his Genoshan Cabinet look out over their nation. Juggernaut fights the Exemplars and destroys their God- Machine as Iron Man, Professor X, Spider-Man, Thor and Dr. Mann flee from the explosion (Jug:Ed #1, ’99).
Justice loses his cast and adopts a new costume, designed by Janet Van Dyne, which he wears through Av #55, ’02. Greg Schigiel’s role is credited as “boychik.” Kestrel Key is misspelled “Kestral.”
