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After stealing a mystical cloak and pair of boots that endowed him with supernatural abilities from a Hydra recruiter, small-time crook Parker Robbins rose through the ranks to become a skilled sorcerer and feared crime lord. After years of being a part of the Franchise/MarvelUniverse, the Hood became a really lucky villain - Creator/BrianMichaelBendis, then-current writer of ''[[Comicbook/TheAvengers ''[[ComicBook/TheAvengers Avengers]]'' titles, took him under his wing, and turned him into a first-class villain, king of New York's underground. After ''ComicBook/{{Civil War|2006}}'', Hood became a secondary BigBad for the ''ComicBook/NewAvengers'' -- while he's not their only, or even greatest, threat (that title was claimed first by the Skrulls and later by [[VillainWithGoodPublicity Norman]] [[ComicBook/SpiderMan Osborn]]), he's certainly a legitimate menace. Originally his powers came from an unknown demon, later revealed to be none other than the Dread [[DimensionLord Dormammu]] himself; since then he has gone up and down the power scale as he gains and loses "patrons."
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* FromNobodyToNightmare: Parker Robbins was a loser and small-time crook, until he stole a magic cloak and boots. As The Hood, he quickly rose in rank in the criminal world, until turning into the leader of a gang strong enough to butt heads with Franchise/TheAvengers and live to tell the tale, gaining himself a place in the [[ComicBook/DarkReign Cabal]].
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* FromNobodyToNightmare: Parker Robbins was a loser and small-time crook, until he stole a magic cloak and boots. As The Hood, he quickly rose in rank in the criminal world, until turning into the leader of a gang strong enough to butt heads with Franchise/TheAvengers ComicBook/TheAvengers and live to tell the tale, gaining himself a place in the [[ComicBook/DarkReign Cabal]].
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* SaveTheVillain: Comicbook/DoctorStrange has tried several times to show him what he's gotten himself into and offer help. It never works.
* SaveTheVillain: Discussed The Hood, whose [[ClothesMakeTheSuperman hood and shoes gave him superpowers]] through increasing amounts of DemonicPossession. He was sent to murder Comicbook/DoctorStrange, who realized at once what was going on and tried to talk him down. Later, when it was obvious that the demon was more than Hood could handle, his associate tried to send him to Strange for help due to this trope. "I bet he'll help you. Even after everything. He ''has'' to, right?"
* SaveTheVillain: Discussed The Hood, whose [[ClothesMakeTheSuperman hood and shoes gave him superpowers]] through increasing amounts of DemonicPossession. He was sent to murder Comicbook/DoctorStrange, who realized at once what was going on and tried to talk him down. Later, when it was obvious that the demon was more than Hood could handle, his associate tried to send him to Strange for help due to this trope. "I bet he'll help you. Even after everything. He ''has'' to, right?"
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* SaveTheVillain: Discussed The Hood, whose [[ClothesMakeTheSuperman hood and shoes gave him superpowers]] through increasing amounts of DemonicPossession. He was sent to murderComicbook/DoctorStrange, ComicBook/DoctorStrange, who realized at once what was going on and tried to talk him down. Later, when it was obvious that the demon was more than Hood could handle, his associate tried to send him to Strange for help due to this trope. "I bet he'll help you. Even after everything. He ''has'' to, right?"
* SaveTheVillain: Discussed The Hood, whose [[ClothesMakeTheSuperman hood and shoes gave him superpowers]] through increasing amounts of DemonicPossession. He was sent to murder
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* WolverinePublicity: Let's see... Hood regularly appears in ''New Avengers'' and the new ''ComicBook/ThePunisher'' ongoing. Took a part in the ''Beyond'' mini-series and appeared in a few issues of ''ComicBook/{{Daredevil}}''. Thanks to being a member of [[Comicbook/DarkReign The Cabal]], he appears in every comic that shows their meeting and gets a second solo mini. Osborn turned him into the new boss of the Initiative alongside Taskmaster. He has a major role in ''Marvel Zombies 4'' and ''Dark Reign: Mr. Negative''. And the list of his appearances still seem to be going up. People are starting to bet if he's going to appear as often as ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} before or after ComicBook/{{Deadpool}} will. He even showed up in ''Moon Knight''. Let's not forget the ComicBook/HouseOfM tie-in book.
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* WolverinePublicity: Let's see... Hood regularly appears in ''New Avengers'' and the new ''ComicBook/ThePunisher'' ongoing. Took a part in the ''Beyond'' mini-series and appeared in a few issues of ''ComicBook/{{Daredevil}}''. Thanks to being a member of [[Comicbook/DarkReign [[ComicBook/DarkReign The Cabal]], he appears in every comic that shows their meeting and gets a second solo mini. Osborn turned him into the new boss of the Initiative alongside Taskmaster. He has a major role in ''Marvel Zombies 4'' and ''Dark Reign: Mr. Negative''. And the list of his appearances still seem to be going up. People are starting to bet if he's going to appear as often as ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} before or after ComicBook/{{Deadpool}} will. He even showed up in ''Moon Knight''. Let's not forget the ComicBook/HouseOfM tie-in book.
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After stealing a mystical cloak and pair of boots that endowed him with supernatural abilities from a Hydra recruiter, small-time crook Parker Robbins rose through the ranks to become a skilled sorcerer and feared crime lord. After years of being a part of the Franchise/MarvelUniverse, the Hood became a really lucky villain - Creator/BrianMichaelBendis, then-current writer of ''[[Comicbook/TheAvengers Avengers]]'' titles, took him under his wing, and turned him into a first-class villain, king of New York's underground. After ''ComicBook/CivilWar'', ''ComicBook/{{Civil War|2006}}'', Hood became a secondary BigBad for the ''ComicBook/NewAvengers'' -- while he's not their only, or even greatest, threat (that title was claimed first by the Skrulls and later by [[VillainWithGoodPublicity Norman]] [[ComicBook/SpiderMan Osborn]]), he's certainly a legitimate menace. Originally his powers came from an unknown demon, later revealed to be none other than the Dread [[DimensionLord Dormammu]] himself; since then he has gone up and down the power scale as he gains and loses "patrons."
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After stealing a mystical cloak and pair of boots that endowed him with supernatural abilities from a Hydra recruiter, small-time crook Parker Robbins rose through the ranks to become a skilled sorcerer and feared crime lord. After years of being a part of the MarvelUniverse, Franchise/MarvelUniverse, the Hood became a really lucky villain - Creator/BrianMichaelBendis, then-current writer of ''[[Comicbook/TheAvengers Avengers]]'' titles, took him under his wing, and turned him into a first-class villain, king of New York's underground. After ''ComicBook/CivilWar'', Hood became a secondary BigBad for the ''ComicBook/NewAvengers'' -- while he's not their only, or even greatest, threat (that title was claimed first by the Skrulls and later by [[VillainWithGoodPublicity Norman]] [[ComicBook/SpiderMan Osborn]]), he's certainly a legitimate menace. Originally his powers came from an unknown demon, later revealed to be none other than the Dread [[DimensionLord Dormammu]] himself; since then he has gone up and down the power scale as he gains and loses "patrons."
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* TooDumbToLive: A flashback in ''ComicBook/InfamousIronMan'' reveals that during one of the Cabal's meetings, the Hood made the mistake of trying to get chummy with Doctor Doom by bringing up the story of his dead mother. That's already bad enough, but the Hood continued to wear Doom's patience thin by poking holes in Doom's motivations. Fortunately for him, Doom was merciful enough to use a spell to banish him to India instead of killing him on the spot.
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So. You've found a suit of [[ClothesMaketheSuperman clothes that give you superpowers]]. Will you use them for good? Will you become a SuperHero and fight evil, even if it means sacrificing your own life, health, and happiness in the process?
[[SubvertedTrope Hell no!]] You're no [[ComicBook/SpiderMan Peter Parker]]. Your name is Parker Robbins. Your mom is (nearly)brain-dead, your father is dead-dead, your girlfriend is pregnant, your only cousin is an alcoholic and a thief and you have to pay your favourite Russian prostitute. You need money, and you will do anything to get it. And this nice hood and shoes that give you superpowers, stolen from a strange demon, could come in pretty handy.
[[SubvertedTrope Hell no!]] You're no [[ComicBook/SpiderMan Peter Parker]]. Your name is Parker Robbins. Your mom is (nearly)brain-dead, your father is dead-dead, your girlfriend is pregnant, your only cousin is an alcoholic and a thief and you have to pay your favourite Russian prostitute. You need money, and you will do anything to get it. And this nice hood and shoes that give you superpowers, stolen from a strange demon, could come in pretty handy.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Before Parker Robbins become ''The Hood'', he was a thief, liar and supervillain fan who seduced and knocked up a gorgeous girl, and was cheating on her with a Russian prostitute. His cousin, John King, is an alcoholic who never worked a single legal job in his life.
But when an agent of terrorist organization HYDRA offered them a job, they told him about how much they hate terrorists, beat him and stole his shoes.
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The character is set to make his Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse debut in the Creator/DisneyPlus miniseries ''Ironheart'', with Creator/AnthonyRamos [[https://theplaylist.net/ironheart-villain-anthony-ramos-the-hood-20220809/ in the role]].
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* AmbitionIsEvil: The Hood suffers MotiveDecay (he initially just wanted to support his family) because of his ambition to be a big-time supervillain criminal mastermind instead of the street thug he really is. Acquiring the magical hood and boots [[spoiler:empowered by Dormammu]] gave Parker Robbins an appetite for power that has gotten worse with time.
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!!The Hood
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!!! '''Alter Ego:''' Parker Robbins
!!! '''Notable Aliases:''' Demon Boy, Smokey [=McChimney=]
!!! '''First Appearance:''' ''The Hood'' #1 (July, 2002)
So. You've found a suit of [[ClothesMaketheSuperman clothes that give you superpowers]]. Will you use them for good? Will you become a SuperHero and fight evil, even if it means sacrificing your own life, health, and happiness in the process?
[[SubvertedTrope Hell no!]] You're no [[ComicBook/SpiderMan Peter Parker]]. Your name is Parker Robbins. Your mom is (nearly)brain-dead, your father is dead-dead, your girlfriend is pregnant, your only cousin is an alcoholic and a thief and you have to pay your favourite Russian prostitute. You need money, and you will do anything to get it. And this nice hood and shoes that give you superpowers, stolen from a strange demon, could come in pretty handy.
After stealing a mystical cloak and pair of boots that endowed him with supernatural abilities from a Hydra recruiter, small-time crook Parker Robbins rose through the ranks to become a skilled sorcerer and feared crime lord. After years of being a part of the MarvelUniverse, the Hood became a really lucky villain - Creator/BrianMichaelBendis, then-current writer of ''[[Comicbook/TheAvengers Avengers]]'' titles, took him under his wing, and turned him into a first-class villain, king of New York's underground. After ''ComicBook/CivilWar'', Hood became a secondary BigBad for the ''ComicBook/NewAvengers'' -- while he's not their only, or even greatest, threat (that title was claimed first by the Skrulls and later by [[VillainWithGoodPublicity Norman]] [[ComicBook/SpiderMan Osborn]]), he's certainly a legitimate menace. Originally his powers came from an unknown demon, later revealed to be none other than the Dread [[DimensionLord Dormammu]] himself; since then he has gone up and down the power scale as he gains and loses "patrons."
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* AscendedFanboy: Parker was a fan of supervillains since childhood.
* AntiHero: In his first series.
* AntiHeroSubstitute: Norman Osborn tries to turn him and his gang into this for the Initiative.
* BadassNormal: Once or twice he's proven that he can take care of himself, even without his powers. He just needs a gun.
* BetterLivingThroughEvil: Became a supervillain for the money.
* BigBadWannabe: Parker tries so hard to become one of the verse's Big Bads after getting a taste of power from his magical clothes. Problem is, he's still a street thug at heart and doesn't really know how to best use the vast power he has at his disposal. He does accomplish a lot, but he's ultimately a slave to his own hunger for power and to the entities who feed his addiction. The one time he tries to claim power without making any deals with otherworldly entities he attracts the attention of a much worse villain and loses that power in short order. His greatest act of villainy was having a bunch of his thugs beat up a captive superheroine, and said heroine paid him back in spades.
* BodyHorror: Dormammu's possession twisted him into a nightmarish being with MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily.
* ClothesMakeTheSuperman: Magic clothes turned him into a supervillain.
* CruelMercy: At the end of Dark Reign, Tigra corners the Hood and talks at length about how she wants to kill him... and then doesn't. Instead she simply brings in his wife so she'll know who he is and what he's done and never let him near her or his daughter again.
* TheDarkSide: When you see the lengths Parker is willing to go after new power sources whenever the previous one is cut off from him, you can safely say he is addicted to power. He even mentions that he spent ''half a billion dollars'' in an expedition to the now-abandoned Attilan just to recover one of the Infinity Gems. Also, when he turns to Count Nefaria (just after the end of the Siege on Asgard, where he lost the power of the Norn Stones), you can see how much of a wreck he is (though that might have been hesitation because Nefaria wanted every last penny of his in return for empowering him).
* DemonicPossession: His relationship with Dormammu later turned into that.
* DealWithTheDevil: First enters one with Dormammu, which inevitably turns bad, and later entered one with Loki to gain new powers in the Norn Stones, which worked out fine until Loki came and took them back.
* DePower: Several times.
** First in ''ComicBook/MarvelZombies 4'', when Dormammu ditched him for somebody else.
** Secondly [[spoiler:after the new Sorcerer Supreme destroyed his connection with Dormammu.]]
** A ''third time'' when [[spoiler:Loki took the Norn Stones back & used them to grant a power boost to the [[Comicbook/TheAvengers Avengers]] & ComicBook/SecretWarriors to stop Sentry[=/=]The Void from destroying Asgard]].
** And a fourth time when [[spoiler:he lost the Infinity Gems]].
* TheDulcineaEffect: [[spoiler: White Fang told Hood she would abandon her campaign against him after he threatened to kill Force - a superhero she had known less than one day!]]
* EnemyMine: Happened when he has to team up with superheroes against ComicBook/MarvelZombies.
** And when he led his crew into battle alongside the Avengers, ComicBook/{{Thunderbolts}}, and every other superpowered being that happened to be in Central Park to fight the Skrulls in ''ComicBook/SecretInvasion''.
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: Parker cares a great deal about his mother.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Before Parker Robbins become ''The Hood'', he was a thief, liar and supervillain fan who seduced and knocked up a gorgeous girl, and was cheating on her with a Russian prostitute. His cousin, John King, is an alcoholic who never worked a single legal job in his life.
But when an agent of terrorist organization HYDRA offered them a job, they told him about how much they hate terrorists, beat him and stole his shoes.
** Would have stolen the suit but John pissed on him.
* EvilMakesYouMonstrous: Marvel villain The Hood has a red hooded cape that gives him magic powers -- and is warping him into a demon.
* EvilerThanThou: Mr. Negative, a SuperpoweredEvilSide who strongly believes in the BalanceBetweenGoodAndEvil (which he enforces by corrupting all good deeds done by his good side) told Hood that he would fail because he forsook all the good that was in him.
* {{Expy}}: There have been two previous villains empowered by a magic, evil hood; one of them was even named The Robe. They're respectfully very obscure however.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: Parker Robbins was a loser and small-time crook, until he stole a magic cloak and boots. As The Hood, he quickly rose in rank in the criminal world, until turning into the leader of a gang strong enough to butt heads with Franchise/TheAvengers and live to tell the tale, gaining himself a place in the [[ComicBook/DarkReign Cabal]].
** At one point other supervillains wonder why exactly they follow him and his cousin calls this trope - they all started as nobodies before becoming superpowered crooks, but they had normal lives, while Parker was the only one to start from the bottom and knew what to do to crawl his way to the top.
** Unfortunately, this ultimately got Robbins addicted to power for its own sake. When he lost the cloak and boots, he desperately scrambled for new super powers since he can't bear going back to being a nobody.
* GottaCatchThemAll: He nearly obtained all the Infinity Gems.
* HeelRealization: The Hood has a heart-to-heart talk with Titania where he mentions having one. Initially, his motivation was that he didn't want his kid to live a crappy life as he himself did. But when he was offered a way out of crime, he didn't take it. The Hood realized that he ''liked'' being a bad guy, and resolved to be the very best bad guy he could be.
* InTheHood: Mostly, depends on the artist.
* InvisibleJerkass: When possessed by Dormammu he could be this.
* InvisibilityWithDrawbacks: Parker Robins' magical cloak makes him invisible as long as he's holding his breath.
* MotiveDecay: Marvel villain The Hood originally had some sympathetic motives for becoming a supervillain, such as supporting his family. He gradually began to love the power his new hood and boots granted him more than he loved them. When he lost the hood and boots that allowed him to channel the power of Dormammu, he leaped at Loki's offer to repower him with the Nornstones. When he lost those powers almost as soon as he got them, he didn't take it very well. Then he went after the Infinity Gems. He seems to be addicted to power for its own sake.
* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: Happens '''a lot'''. Justified when his backer was Dormammu, who is one of the most powerful demons in the universe and a DimensionLord.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: After ComicBook/DarkReign, The Hood broke out of prison and was about to give up villainy (since he lost his wife and daughter). However, three members of Avengers Academy broke into his apartment because the video of Hood beating up Tigra had gone viral (which wasn't his fault: the villain Slug sold it to a celebrity gossip site without his knowledge). Not only does that almost get them expelled from the Avengers Academy (Tigra wasn't happy that they [[PayEvilUntoEvil paid evil unto evil]]), but this also spurs the Hood to go after the Infinity Gems.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: He gave one to superheroine ComicBook/{{Tigra}} because another villain asked him to do so in exchange for his advice.
* PersonWithTheClothing: The Hood, whose cloak and boots came from a demon and are [[ClothesMakeTheSuperman the source of his magical powers]].
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: He seems to consider himself as the only one allowed to defeat the New Avengers, while
* SaveTheVillain: Comicbook/DoctorStrange has tried several times to show him what he's gotten himself into and offer help. It never works.
* SaveTheVillain: Discussed The Hood, whose [[ClothesMakeTheSuperman hood and shoes gave him superpowers]] through increasing amounts of DemonicPossession. He was sent to murder Comicbook/DoctorStrange, who realized at once what was going on and tried to talk him down. Later, when it was obvious that the demon was more than Hood could handle, his associate tried to send him to Strange for help due to this trope. "I bet he'll help you. Even after everything. He ''has'' to, right?"
* SuperMobBoss: The Hood was an UnluckyEverydude who got magical cape and shoes from certain demon that granted supernatural powers, and with that in hand he fights to became a mob boss, becoming a real menace for groups as the ComicBook/NewAvengers. But even without his magical clothes, he's also a BadassNormal who can fight with his guns and fists.
* ThisIsYourBrainOnEvil: When his relationship with Dormammu got worse.
* TomatoInTheMirror: Dormammu had a bad habit of replacing Parker's reflection in the mirror.
* TookALevelInBadass: {{Deconstructed|Trope}} by Creator/BrianMichaelBendis. He was becoming more powerful and getting NewPowersAsThePlotDemands, but was also making the link between him and the source of his powers, [[DimensionLord Dormammu]], stronger. When it was strong enough, the demon turned him into his slave.
* UnskilledButStrong: He's had access to world-shaking power, but he doesn't know how to fight except as a street thug, so he can never use it to its full advantage.
* UnwittingPawn: To Dormammu when he was his patron.
* VillainProtagonist: In both of his limited series, especially in the second.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Osborn tries to give this status to all his gang members.
* WolverinePublicity: Let's see... Hood regularly appears in ''New Avengers'' and the new ''ComicBook/ThePunisher'' ongoing. Took a part in the ''Beyond'' mini-series and appeared in a few issues of ''ComicBook/{{Daredevil}}''. Thanks to being a member of [[Comicbook/DarkReign The Cabal]], he appears in every comic that shows their meeting and gets a second solo mini. Osborn turned him into the new boss of the Initiative alongside Taskmaster. He has a major role in ''Marvel Zombies 4'' and ''Dark Reign: Mr. Negative''. And the list of his appearances still seem to be going up. People are starting to bet if he's going to appear as often as ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} before or after ComicBook/{{Deadpool}} will. He even showed up in ''Moon Knight''. Let's not forget the ComicBook/HouseOfM tie-in book.
* YouKilledMyFather: White Fang, ActionGirl in PoweredArmor blames him for killing her husband.
** Funny thing is, that was an accident. She also doesn't know her husband was cheating on her.
*** Also it was his cousin.
* YouKillItYouBoughtIt: Dormammu convinced him that he could be Sorcerer Supreme if he killed Doctor Strange. Strange insisted that it doesn't work that way, but Hood was in no mood to listen.
* TheMirrorShowsYourTrueSelf: The way ''The Hood'' found out the source of his powers was [[DimensionLord Dread Dormammu]] was when the demon suddenly replaced his reflection in the mirror. Later Dormammu's preferred way of communication with Parker was to replace half of his reflection in the mirror, as a metaphor of their connection.
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!!The Hood
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!!! '''Alter Ego:''' Parker Robbins
!!! '''Notable Aliases:''' Demon Boy, Smokey [=McChimney=]
!!! '''First Appearance:''' ''The Hood'' #1 (July, 2002)
So. You've found a suit of [[ClothesMaketheSuperman clothes that give you superpowers]]. Will you use them for good? Will you become a SuperHero and fight evil, even if it means sacrificing your own life, health, and happiness in the process?
[[SubvertedTrope Hell no!]] You're no [[ComicBook/SpiderMan Peter Parker]]. Your name is Parker Robbins. Your mom is (nearly)brain-dead, your father is dead-dead, your girlfriend is pregnant, your only cousin is an alcoholic and a thief and you have to pay your favourite Russian prostitute. You need money, and you will do anything to get it. And this nice hood and shoes that give you superpowers, stolen from a strange demon, could come in pretty handy.
After stealing a mystical cloak and pair of boots that endowed him with supernatural abilities from a Hydra recruiter, small-time crook Parker Robbins rose through the ranks to become a skilled sorcerer and feared crime lord. After years of being a part of the MarvelUniverse, the Hood became a really lucky villain - Creator/BrianMichaelBendis, then-current writer of ''[[Comicbook/TheAvengers Avengers]]'' titles, took him under his wing, and turned him into a first-class villain, king of New York's underground. After ''ComicBook/CivilWar'', Hood became a secondary BigBad for the ''ComicBook/NewAvengers'' -- while he's not their only, or even greatest, threat (that title was claimed first by the Skrulls and later by [[VillainWithGoodPublicity Norman]] [[ComicBook/SpiderMan Osborn]]), he's certainly a legitimate menace. Originally his powers came from an unknown demon, later revealed to be none other than the Dread [[DimensionLord Dormammu]] himself; since then he has gone up and down the power scale as he gains and loses "patrons."
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* AscendedFanboy: Parker was a fan of supervillains since childhood.
* AntiHero: In his first series.
* AntiHeroSubstitute: Norman Osborn tries to turn him and his gang into this for the Initiative.
* BadassNormal: Once or twice he's proven that he can take care of himself, even without his powers. He just needs a gun.
* BetterLivingThroughEvil: Became a supervillain for the money.
* BigBadWannabe: Parker tries so hard to become one of the verse's Big Bads after getting a taste of power from his magical clothes. Problem is, he's still a street thug at heart and doesn't really know how to best use the vast power he has at his disposal. He does accomplish a lot, but he's ultimately a slave to his own hunger for power and to the entities who feed his addiction. The one time he tries to claim power without making any deals with otherworldly entities he attracts the attention of a much worse villain and loses that power in short order. His greatest act of villainy was having a bunch of his thugs beat up a captive superheroine, and said heroine paid him back in spades.
* BodyHorror: Dormammu's possession twisted him into a nightmarish being with MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily.
* ClothesMakeTheSuperman: Magic clothes turned him into a supervillain.
* CruelMercy: At the end of Dark Reign, Tigra corners the Hood and talks at length about how she wants to kill him... and then doesn't. Instead she simply brings in his wife so she'll know who he is and what he's done and never let him near her or his daughter again.
* TheDarkSide: When you see the lengths Parker is willing to go after new power sources whenever the previous one is cut off from him, you can safely say he is addicted to power. He even mentions that he spent ''half a billion dollars'' in an expedition to the now-abandoned Attilan just to recover one of the Infinity Gems. Also, when he turns to Count Nefaria (just after the end of the Siege on Asgard, where he lost the power of the Norn Stones), you can see how much of a wreck he is (though that might have been hesitation because Nefaria wanted every last penny of his in return for empowering him).
* DemonicPossession: His relationship with Dormammu later turned into that.
* DealWithTheDevil: First enters one with Dormammu, which inevitably turns bad, and later entered one with Loki to gain new powers in the Norn Stones, which worked out fine until Loki came and took them back.
* DePower: Several times.
** First in ''ComicBook/MarvelZombies 4'', when Dormammu ditched him for somebody else.
** Secondly [[spoiler:after the new Sorcerer Supreme destroyed his connection with Dormammu.]]
** A ''third time'' when [[spoiler:Loki took the Norn Stones back & used them to grant a power boost to the [[Comicbook/TheAvengers Avengers]] & ComicBook/SecretWarriors to stop Sentry[=/=]The Void from destroying Asgard]].
** And a fourth time when [[spoiler:he lost the Infinity Gems]].
* TheDulcineaEffect: [[spoiler: White Fang told Hood she would abandon her campaign against him after he threatened to kill Force - a superhero she had known less than one day!]]
* EnemyMine: Happened when he has to team up with superheroes against ComicBook/MarvelZombies.
** And when he led his crew into battle alongside the Avengers, ComicBook/{{Thunderbolts}}, and every other superpowered being that happened to be in Central Park to fight the Skrulls in ''ComicBook/SecretInvasion''.
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: Parker cares a great deal about his mother.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Before Parker Robbins become ''The Hood'', he was a thief, liar and supervillain fan who seduced and knocked up a gorgeous girl, and was cheating on her with a Russian prostitute. His cousin, John King, is an alcoholic who never worked a single legal job in his life.
But when an agent of terrorist organization HYDRA offered them a job, they told him about how much they hate terrorists, beat him and stole his shoes.
** Would have stolen the suit but John pissed on him.
* EvilMakesYouMonstrous: Marvel villain The Hood has a red hooded cape that gives him magic powers -- and is warping him into a demon.
* EvilerThanThou: Mr. Negative, a SuperpoweredEvilSide who strongly believes in the BalanceBetweenGoodAndEvil (which he enforces by corrupting all good deeds done by his good side) told Hood that he would fail because he forsook all the good that was in him.
* {{Expy}}: There have been two previous villains empowered by a magic, evil hood; one of them was even named The Robe. They're respectfully very obscure however.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: Parker Robbins was a loser and small-time crook, until he stole a magic cloak and boots. As The Hood, he quickly rose in rank in the criminal world, until turning into the leader of a gang strong enough to butt heads with Franchise/TheAvengers and live to tell the tale, gaining himself a place in the [[ComicBook/DarkReign Cabal]].
** At one point other supervillains wonder why exactly they follow him and his cousin calls this trope - they all started as nobodies before becoming superpowered crooks, but they had normal lives, while Parker was the only one to start from the bottom and knew what to do to crawl his way to the top.
** Unfortunately, this ultimately got Robbins addicted to power for its own sake. When he lost the cloak and boots, he desperately scrambled for new super powers since he can't bear going back to being a nobody.
* GottaCatchThemAll: He nearly obtained all the Infinity Gems.
* HeelRealization: The Hood has a heart-to-heart talk with Titania where he mentions having one. Initially, his motivation was that he didn't want his kid to live a crappy life as he himself did. But when he was offered a way out of crime, he didn't take it. The Hood realized that he ''liked'' being a bad guy, and resolved to be the very best bad guy he could be.
* InTheHood: Mostly, depends on the artist.
* InvisibleJerkass: When possessed by Dormammu he could be this.
* InvisibilityWithDrawbacks: Parker Robins' magical cloak makes him invisible as long as he's holding his breath.
* MotiveDecay: Marvel villain The Hood originally had some sympathetic motives for becoming a supervillain, such as supporting his family. He gradually began to love the power his new hood and boots granted him more than he loved them. When he lost the hood and boots that allowed him to channel the power of Dormammu, he leaped at Loki's offer to repower him with the Nornstones. When he lost those powers almost as soon as he got them, he didn't take it very well. Then he went after the Infinity Gems. He seems to be addicted to power for its own sake.
* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: Happens '''a lot'''. Justified when his backer was Dormammu, who is one of the most powerful demons in the universe and a DimensionLord.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: After ComicBook/DarkReign, The Hood broke out of prison and was about to give up villainy (since he lost his wife and daughter). However, three members of Avengers Academy broke into his apartment because the video of Hood beating up Tigra had gone viral (which wasn't his fault: the villain Slug sold it to a celebrity gossip site without his knowledge). Not only does that almost get them expelled from the Avengers Academy (Tigra wasn't happy that they [[PayEvilUntoEvil paid evil unto evil]]), but this also spurs the Hood to go after the Infinity Gems.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: He gave one to superheroine ComicBook/{{Tigra}} because another villain asked him to do so in exchange for his advice.
* PersonWithTheClothing: The Hood, whose cloak and boots came from a demon and are [[ClothesMakeTheSuperman the source of his magical powers]].
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: He seems to consider himself as the only one allowed to defeat the New Avengers, while
* SaveTheVillain: Comicbook/DoctorStrange has tried several times to show him what he's gotten himself into and offer help. It never works.
* SaveTheVillain: Discussed The Hood, whose [[ClothesMakeTheSuperman hood and shoes gave him superpowers]] through increasing amounts of DemonicPossession. He was sent to murder Comicbook/DoctorStrange, who realized at once what was going on and tried to talk him down. Later, when it was obvious that the demon was more than Hood could handle, his associate tried to send him to Strange for help due to this trope. "I bet he'll help you. Even after everything. He ''has'' to, right?"
* SuperMobBoss: The Hood was an UnluckyEverydude who got magical cape and shoes from certain demon that granted supernatural powers, and with that in hand he fights to became a mob boss, becoming a real menace for groups as the ComicBook/NewAvengers. But even without his magical clothes, he's also a BadassNormal who can fight with his guns and fists.
* ThisIsYourBrainOnEvil: When his relationship with Dormammu got worse.
* TomatoInTheMirror: Dormammu had a bad habit of replacing Parker's reflection in the mirror.
* TookALevelInBadass: {{Deconstructed|Trope}} by Creator/BrianMichaelBendis. He was becoming more powerful and getting NewPowersAsThePlotDemands, but was also making the link between him and the source of his powers, [[DimensionLord Dormammu]], stronger. When it was strong enough, the demon turned him into his slave.
* UnskilledButStrong: He's had access to world-shaking power, but he doesn't know how to fight except as a street thug, so he can never use it to its full advantage.
* UnwittingPawn: To Dormammu when he was his patron.
* VillainProtagonist: In both of his limited series, especially in the second.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Osborn tries to give this status to all his gang members.
* WolverinePublicity: Let's see... Hood regularly appears in ''New Avengers'' and the new ''ComicBook/ThePunisher'' ongoing. Took a part in the ''Beyond'' mini-series and appeared in a few issues of ''ComicBook/{{Daredevil}}''. Thanks to being a member of [[Comicbook/DarkReign The Cabal]], he appears in every comic that shows their meeting and gets a second solo mini. Osborn turned him into the new boss of the Initiative alongside Taskmaster. He has a major role in ''Marvel Zombies 4'' and ''Dark Reign: Mr. Negative''. And the list of his appearances still seem to be going up. People are starting to bet if he's going to appear as often as ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} before or after ComicBook/{{Deadpool}} will. He even showed up in ''Moon Knight''. Let's not forget the ComicBook/HouseOfM tie-in book.
* YouKilledMyFather: White Fang, ActionGirl in PoweredArmor blames him for killing her husband.
** Funny thing is, that was an accident. She also doesn't know her husband was cheating on her.
*** Also it was his cousin.
* YouKillItYouBoughtIt: Dormammu convinced him that he could be Sorcerer Supreme if he killed Doctor Strange. Strange insisted that it doesn't work that way, but Hood was in no mood to listen.
* TheMirrorShowsYourTrueSelf: The way ''The Hood'' found out the source of his powers was [[DimensionLord Dread Dormammu]] was when the demon suddenly replaced his reflection in the mirror. Later Dormammu's preferred way of communication with Parker was to replace half of his reflection in the mirror, as a metaphor of their connection.
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