[2] He limits the Avengers' active membership to seven members, forces the Falcon to join unwillingly to fill an affirmative action quota Gyrich sets, and installs various security measures for the team.
Gyrich also takes part as a special consultant in a covert government designed to deal with the problems concerning mutants in the United States.
Gyrich takes Forge's specially designed superhuman power-neutralizing gun to capture Rogue for breaking into a government facility.
[6] After Onslaught's events, Gyrich's involved in hunting the Hulk and harasses Rick Jones, Betty Banner, Thunderbolt Ross and Doc Samson while doing so.
His lack of gratitude for being rescued is part of what led the mutant Feral to defect from X-Force to the MLF to which Gyrich's punched by Cable.
Gyrich uses Commission resources and remolds the vigilante Jack Monroe into the assassin Scourge and attempts to live out his "fantasy" of killing all the world's superhumans, before being stopped by the Thunderbolts.
[17] During this time, he redeems himself in the eyes of the Avengers when he refuses to deliver information to the Red Skull (disguised as Dell Rusk); he never breaks under severe torture which impressed the others.
[19] Gyrich gives orders to cover up MVP's death, and secretly conspires with Baron Von Blitzschlag involving illegal cloning despite Hank Pym's objections.
[24] Following the Secret Invasion storyline involving the Skrulls, Gyrich is the main antagonist for Kieron Gillen's and Steven Sander's series S.W.O.R.D.
[29] During the Civil War II storyline, Gyrich represented the United States as a member of the Alpha Flight Space Program's Board of Governors.
[34][35] He recruited Wiz Kid as a mole for ORCHIS and the Guardian as support with an assassination attempt on the Shi'ar empress Xandra as a distraction, to which he's able to arrange the Peak crashing to Earth.
[36] However, Cable and Manifold redirected the satellite towards Australia and back into orbit respectively to which Gyrich learned Wiz Kid's true allegiance before being confronted by Brand who shot him out of an airlock, sending him to die in space and made to look like a suicide.