The Watchdogs are a terrorist organization based in the United States. They are a hate group whose activities target people with enhanced abilities, including the Avengers and Inhumans. Their leader, the former S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Felix Blake, developed the Watchdogs' ideology after he was paralyzed from the waist down by Deathlok, a cybernetic assassin working for Hydra. Blake used his previous experience with Nitramene to equip the Watchdogs weapons that fired a Nitramene-based gel.