List of Defenders members

The Defenders are a loosely organized team of fictional characters mostly, but not solely, superheroes in the Marvel Universe. For much of their history, there was no official membership. Thus, the Defenders had a reputation as being a non-team, a term which was coined in the pages of the comic.^{[volume & issue needed]} All could be considered Defenders. The following list attempts to make sense of their membership but may not be complete.