Iron Man was a terrible leader on a large scale — there’s a reason his corporations are always taken from him — and his very presence at the top of the S.H.I.E.L.D. made people hate him more.

Osborn adopts the Iron Patriot persona, an Iron Man-like hero who leads the team of disguised villains and evildoers. While there have been other iterations of the Cabal to follow Osborn's ...