- "They call themselves the Needle. As in... needle in a haystack? Anyway. They come from various countries and have varying backgrounds. But they all share a single goal: to destabilize the Middle East, and all for a buck."
- ―Natasha Romanoff[src]
The Needle was an international arms dealing organization which sold Chitauri weapons hoping to destabilize the Middle East.
History[]
The Needle were formed by people from varying countries and backgrounds to sell weapons, hoping to profit off of destabilizing the Middle East. They bought Chitauri weapons from their base in Parkhar and were active enough to get noticed by both the Joint Counter Terrorist Centre and Steve Rogers' team of Avengers. They developed a plan to drop a large bomb they made from Chitauri technology. Rogers joined Natasha Romanoff and Sam Wilson as they flew to Parkhar in hopes of ending their operations. They blew up a fuel cylinder from their Quinjet to draw the Needle's forces out and started fighting them while Romanoff followed one into the base. She came across their B-52 bomber and deactivated it before exploring their base further.
Romanoff successfully maneuvered the Needle's laser grid and came across their Chitauri-enhanced bomb, so she asked Rogers and Wilson for back-up. The three of them figured out that the Needle planned to detonate the bomb form their base and accomplish their goal, but they froze and destroyed the bomb before it could go off.[1]