The so-called "Prime Movers" (Dr. Doom, Magneto, Kingpin, Wizard, Mandarin, and Red Skull) were originally tricked into thinking that the Acts of Vengeance were each individual's idea by Loki who posed as an unassuming man in a white suit and played at being their personal assistant/lackey, making each believe they were really in charge. The idea was that after years of being constantly beaten by the many superheroes, it was time that the villains stopped attacking the same targets they always attacked and focused on ones they had never faced. By doing so, they hoped to take the heroes off-guard and easily defeat them.
