Cover of Big Game #4 (October 2023), depicting Mindy McCready on her knees before the throne of King Morax and his T. rex "guard dog". Art by Pepe Larraz.
In 1986, a group of villains known as The Fraternity banded together to defeat the heroes on the Earth, while also brainwashing the entire planet into believing that the heroes never existed and were only fictional characters. In 2023, a new generation of heroes have begun to emerge following the actions of Dave Lizewski, who previously served as the hero Kick-Ass, and this drives Wesley "The Killer II" Gibson, the new leader of the Fraternity, to gather his forces, as well as his protégé Nemesis, to kill this new generation before a new age of heroes can begin again.[5]
"Bobbie Griffin" – Heavily implied to be Barbara Gordon / Batgirl of the DC Universe, Griffin survived the Fraternity's attack and erasure of its heroes in 1986, and seeks to stop Gibson and the Fraternity from eradicating this new generation of heroes.
Dave Lizewski – A 31-year-old security guard and former police officer who was the vigilante Kick-Ass before retiring fifteen years earlier, who now aims to join the Ambassadors as "Codename: America".
Antagonists
Wesley Gibson / The Killer II – Nemesis' mentor, the Secret Lord of Earth and leader of the Fraternity of Super-Criminals, who aims to wipe out the world's new superheroes as his father had once done in 1986.
In August 2014, following the conclusion of Book Four of Kick-Ass – The Dave Lizewski Years, Mark Millar revealed that the majority of his Millarworld work were set in the same sharedfictional universe, with the ending monologue of the series seeing Dave Lizewski make mention of the events of Wanted, Nemesis, Kingsman, and MPH, and Simon Pooni from Superior cameoing, with Millar intended to one day write a crossover between the projects.[8] By March 2015, Millar expressed interest in seeing this concept realised in a Hit-Girl/Kingsman feature film starring Mindy McCready / Hit-Girl and Gary "Eggsy" Unwin (originally London) together "in a big international adventure",[9] by September 2017 revealing that he had discussed this concept with Matthew Vaughn.[10] Following extensive development hell, the crossover, Big Game, was announced in May 2023, written by Millar, illustrated by Pepe Larraz, and serving as a direct sequel to Wanted while pitting that series' protagonist Wesley Gibson and his protégé Nemesis against the heroes of the Millarworld,[11] in particular Hit-Girl and Eggsy,[12] spinning-out of the events of Nemesis Reloaded,[13] and leading into the events of Nemesis: Rogues' Gallery.[3][4]