The People's Defense Force is a team of Eastern European superbeings who are linked by the fact that they have individually fought Hank Pym during his earliest exploits as Ant-Man and Giant-Man.
They operate as the People's Defense Force out of the Bratislava Prison Superhuman Research Complex in the latter days of European communism.
With Quicksilver, who is being manipulated by Maximus the Mad, the People's Defense Force attack the West Coast Avengers to get at Pym.
The People's Defense Force engaged Unspoken and are defeated where most of its members are killed in action.
[2] The People's Defense Force later appeared when they tried to apprehend the Royal Inhuman Diplomatic Mission when they come to China to investigate a Skyspear there.