Who are the Valiant trinity of the Valiant universe?

old Valiant- Solar, Magnus, X-O Manowar

new Valiant- X-O Manowar, Bloodshot, Armstrong

For the new Valiant I think it would be X-O Manowar, Bloodshot, and Ninjak.

They are definitely pushing Archer and Armstrong big time. It seems to me like they would have to be on the list as would X-O Manowar. Not sure about the last one though, maybe Ninjak depending on what they do with him.

Abram, Myshka, and Kazmir if you're looking for the most powerful.

Toyo, Amanda, and Peter if you're looking for a the-smart-one-surrounded-by-the-powerful-ones team.

Faith, Amanda, and Neela if you're looking for unobtrusively diverse.

Ivar, Aram, and Gilad if you're looking for... uh... I don't know. They're just another trinity.

I kind of think so to for now.

The question was posted at the end of 2011 shortly before VEI announced the Summer of Valiant. I believe magicman620 only wanted to know which were the most iconic/popular Valiant heroes that would likely be the first to be published during the Summer of Valiant (in 2012).

There is no Trinity as in who are the Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman in the Valiant Universe and right now there is only one flagship title and character and that is X-O Manowar and in VEI's publication history it has always been X-O Manowar.

In terms of popularity I'd say the current Trinity would be X-O, Faith, and Shadowman. X-O because he simply "is" the most popular. Faith, because Valiant has been pushing her for more than a year now and she's likely Valiant's most popular character among non-Valiant fans. Shadowman, because almost every Valiant fan wants another Shadowman series.

I think going off of what @donfelipe said...

The current Trinity to me, looking at popularity would Ninjak (Batman; non-powered character), X-O Manowar (Superman; Sci-Fi character), and Shadowman (Wonder Woman; magic based character). I say this because, if you look at it everyone loves Ninja-k and they call him Valiant's Batman, X-O Manowar is considered to be very similar to Captain America (being a man/soldier out of time and all) along with being the most popular in the new wave of Valiant comics, and Shadowman because he was the first comic to jump start this new era for Valiant and a lot of the old and new fans of Valiant love Shadowman.

He, some threads never die.

What about the big elephant in the room? Simply based on Vin Diesel's posts about the upcoming Bloodshot movie on social media I dare to say Bloodshot easily is the best known (=popular) superhero of the Valiant Universe among non-Valiant fans right now and their numbers easily outnumber the diehard Valiant fans from the 90s and 2012. Diesel's posts have been viewed more than a million times, each. Valiant is currently selling ~ 50k per month. Diesel's got more than 50 million followers on his Instagram account. His name alone will sell plenty of movie tickets. Long story short, among the wider audience Bloodshot may even be the only popular Valiant hero as of now. Some may know other characters but are they really popular?

Among Valiant fans who still keep reading the books these days it may certainly be X-O Manowar, Ninjak, and Shadowman. But it's really hard to think of them as some sort of Trinity. As someone who isn't really following any of the Big-2's comics anymore I still know who the Trinity are. They've been featured in their own series, they've always been part of the Justice League. Valiant doesn't have such a rich history when it comes to team books. There really isn't anything similar to DC's Trinity. Another problem is Valiant's strategy of only publishing a handful of books per months meaning some characters are constantly put on hiatus. As a reader you'll never know when they will return again; for instance, Shadowman. One of the best series in recent months....eleven issues and he's gone again.