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3!Introduced in ComicBook/OldManLogan
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5!!The Howletts
6[[folder:Old Man Logan]]
7[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/old_man_logan_vol_2_24_textless.jpg]]
8-->''I'm sure now. This is why I'm here. I'm here '''to hunt.'''''
9
10Formerly the Wolverine, Logan's anger and bloodlust finally caught up with him. Tricked by Mysterio into killing the X-Men, Logan would eventually marry and have a family... that didn't last, and he'd end up in the mainstream Marvel Universe after ''ComicBook/SecretWars2015'', conveniently shortly after the mainstream Logan had died.
11----
12
13* AccidentalMurder: Confused and disoriented after being blown up and shot full of tranquilizers, Logan mistakes Gabby Haller for the Gabby of ''his'' universe, who may have killed his universe's version of Laura, and impales her on his claws. Fortunately, she has a HealingFactor and although dead, she gets better.
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15* AesopAmnesia: Once he migrates over to the mainstream universe, he will constantly learn and forget that this is not his world and that he can't change his past. It even happens multiple times ''under the same writer''.
16* AlternateSelf: Officially the version of Logan that moved to the mainstream universe was from Earth-21923, while the Logan of the original ''Old Man Logan'' comics was from Earth-807128. This explains several discrepancies that appeared between the new ''Old Man Logan'' and the original.
17* AntiHero: A darker version of Wolverine, who was already an anti-hero. After he pops his claws again, he's more than willing to use them whenever necessary, and maiming is his ''go-to move.'' He's also willing to kill people for things they haven't done yet.
18* ArchEnemy: Due to personal history, Logan wants to hunt Mysterio and various evil incarnations of Bruce Banner.
19* BadassInDistress: By the time Laura finds him he's hanging from the wall of Foom's stomach, up to his waist in acid with ''his legs already digested to the bone''. She manages to pull him out.
20* BreakoutCharacter: He was originally intended to be featured in a one-time self-contained story arc, but his popularity had him brought into the main Marvel continuity to [[spoiler:replace the mainstream Wolverine who had died at that point, up until classic came BackFromTheDead.]]
21* BrokenHero: Mysterio ''really'' did a number on Logan. Logan's more than willing to submit to punishment and abuse from the worst of the worst, if it means his family gets to live. Essentially, this is a Logan who lost ''all'' his heroic traits, and only regained them after his family died.
22* BungledSuicide: After being tricked into killing the rest of the X-Men, he laid down on a railroad and let a train run over him. His indestructible bones and healing factor meant that it only hurt him, but he took as a [[ThatManIsDead symbolic gesture that Wolverine was no more.]]
23* DimensionalTraveler: He travels from his own universe to various others during ''ComicBook/SecretWars2015'', at the end of which he ended up in the mainstream Marvel Universe.
24* CivvieSpandex: Once he retired the Wolverine identity, he buried the costume. He hasn't worn a superhero outfit since -- he just wears jeans and whatever shirt and/or jacket he's wearing at the time.
25* CoolOldGuy: Logan finally looks like something resembling his actual age, but is a nice guy when he's not killing. Even with his slowed aging, this doesn't make him any less deadly, however, in fact, if anything he seems to be ''more'' accurate, since he can't just rush his enemies anymore.
26* DentedIron: By the end of the Old Man Logan series, he's blind in one eye and only has adamantium claws in one hand. His regeneration is on the blink and he's growing ever weaker.
27* DependingOnTheArtist:
28** Exactly how old is he supposed to look? The original story had him looking pretty old, but Andrea Sorrentino draws him as looking about 50 with grey hair. Once Lemire's run finished, he looked basically like the original Logan, but with grey hair in his own series.
29** His hair. It goes from short buzz cut to undercut to Wolverine's classic hair, depending on the artist.
30* DependingOnTheWriter: How effective he truly is in comparison to the original Logan. Millar presented him as just as effective once he's back in the saddle, Lemire showed him to be more accurate and skilled while weaker and Brisson has him weaker than Logan in all areas, even before he begins losing a set of claws, an eye and his healing factor. And that's just in his own series.
31* EasilyForgiven: Averted. Even though Logan stabbing Gabby ''was'' an accident and not his fault (which Laura does admit), she still wants nothing more to do with him afterwards.
32* FishOutOfWater: It's made clear that Logan is ''not'' used to anything except the Wastelands.
33* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: His legs get digested by Foom before Laura can pull him out. His adamantium skeleton remains intact from the waist down, however, and his HealingFactor regenerates the rest once he's rescued.
34* HealingFactor: Naturally. However, it's much slower than the regular Logan's, to the point that bullet wounds take ''days'' to heal, whereas the original Logan heals them pretty much instantly. After using Regenerix, it's pretty much gone.
35* TheHeroDies: [[spoiler:''Dead Man Logan'' ends exactly that way: Logan dies due to his injuries, the Adamantium poisoning, and the use of the Regenerix drug.]]
36* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: After a S.H.I.E.L.D. attack drives him into a feral rage, he confuses Gabby for the Gabby of ''his'' universe, and impales her on his claws.
37* IntergenerationalFriendship: With the time-displaced, younger Jean Grey. Not only was he already a few generations older than the original Jean, but he's from the future, whereas this Jean is from the past, putting even ''more'' years between them. Still, she's the only X-Man in the modern day that he seems close to.
38* LoveTriangle: Storm had feelings for him because of her relationship with the original Logan, while Bishop had feelings for Storm. It didn't last long, however, as Storm rekindled her relationship with Black Panther not long after Logan arrived in the mainstream universe.
39* MakeWrongWhatOnceWentRight: Logan has actually been avoiding contact with Laura for fears of this. In his original timeline, his relationship with her was one of the few things he ''didn't'' screw up. He's afraid that if he becomes a part of her life again it will just give him another opportunity to mess things up between them.
40* NakedOnRevival: He's stripped down after his execution by the Orphans Of X before they shove his corpse in a freezer. He's still naked after waking up when Laura removes the Muramasa Bullet and cuts away the affected tissue so his HealingFactor can work again.
41* OldSuperhero: The main thing that separates this Logan from his mainstream counterpart. He's lived through enough tragedy to become wiser for it, but is also much, much more jaded.
42* OneLastJob: Turns out when he was with Maureen, he wasn't quite done with killing. When the two of them left for Japan, they were caught by a nationalist cult, The Silent Order. He had to slaughter their way out for them to escape. After that they found the farm, and Logan stayed true to his promise from then on, until the murder of his family. Later in the Earth 616 world, once he finds he's dying - he feels a need to do one last mission - kill the Maestro. When he unexpectedly survived that, he now wants Quentin Beck (Mysterio) dead before his remaining year is up.
43* OutlivingOnesOffspring: Scotty and Jade are killed alongside their mother Maureen by the Hulk Gang.
44* PacifismBreakingPoint: Logan reaches this point when he returns home and finds that the Hulks have murdered his family just because they got bored. As a friend counsels him not to seek revenge, he responds that his name isn't Logan anymore:
45-->''*SNIKT*''
46-->'''Logan:''' It's Wolverine.
47* PrecrimeArrest: Ulysses has a vision that Logan will kill Gabby in the future. Maria Hill and [[Comicbook/MsMarvel Captain Marvel]] dispatch Comicbook/CaptainAmerica and a squad of S.H.I.E.L.D. troops to apprehend him before it can happen.
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49* ReplacementGoldfish: The X-Men, but especially Storm, bring him on to replace the original Logan, who had died a while back.
50* RetiredBadass: After he settled down with Maureen, he hung up the claws. After the settling down doesn't work out thanks to the Hulk Gang, he picks them back up.
51* SecretlyDying: Using Regenerix has almost destroyed his remaining healing factor and the adamantium in his bones is breaking down. This is releasing a lot of toxins in his body so he only has a short time left to live.
52* SpotlightStealingSquad: Although he began ''All-New All-Different'' with just his solo book and a roster spot on ''Extraordinary X-Men'', by the time of ''ComicBook/InhumansVsXMen'' his presence became much more ubiquitous, including prominent appearances throughout that event and during ''Civil War II''. Under ''ComicBook/{{Resurrxion}}'' he was now in ''three'' team series (''ComicBook/XMenGold'', ''Weapon X'', and ''ComicBook/AstonishingXMen'') in addition to his solo series. Many fans wryly note that it's as if "Logan Classic" never died.
53* StrongAsTheyNeedToBe: A hallucinating Logan kills the X-Men (literally all of the X-Men), despite the fact that many of the X-Men should be able to mulch Logan without even trying, and have in other stories. It’s explained that they were deliberately holding back to avoid killing him, except: a) between them they should have at least a dozen ways of restraining or incapacitating him non-lethally, and b) Wolverine is effectively immortal, so there’s no reason for anyone to hold back against him.
54* SwallowedWhole: Gets nommed by Fin Fang Foom. Fortunately, his healing factor allowed him to survive long enough for Laura to rescue him.
55* TestosteronePoisoning: Gets called out for this in issue 10. Laura actually ''chews him out'' when he uses a claw to pop the top on a bottle of grape juice, and leaves the cap on the floor.
56* ThatManIsDead: With Old Man Logan in the 616 universe, he always refuses to be called Wolverine. After his killing of the X-Men and his failure to save his family, he feels he's not deserving of the identity.
57* ThereWasADoor: He and Gabby escape Laura's apartment when S.H.I.E.L.D. comes to arrest him by carving an opening through the walls.
58* TogetherInDeath: [[spoiler: Dani and Bruce Jr. bury him alongside his family after he succumbs to his fatal injuries.]]
59* TookALevelInKindness: Wolverine in most of his years, was surly and anti-social. This Logan is a lot nicer to his comrades and allies, grateful that he gets to see them alive again. At the farewell before a slowly dying Logan returned to the Wasteland, Logan tells Captain America how much he admires him and Steve mentions it's good to meet him and he'll be missed. Logan also thanks Hawkeye for everything he's done for him, and Clint tells him he likes this Logan a lot more than the younger version.
60* UnbreakableBones: Averted. Something may have happened to the adamantium in his skeleton, because in the ongoing series he mentions several times that he's had some bones break during tough fights.
61* UnstoppableRage: Logan goes berserk in issue 11 after having his [[ItMakesSenseInContext jetpack shot out of the sky]], and then getting shot full of tranquilizers by S.H.I.E.L.D. operatives on the ground. [lGabby tries to talk him down from it, but gets gutted for her troubles.
62* WhatTheHellHero: Laura delivers one to him after he impales Gabby, and Laura believes she's been killed, utterly tearing him apart over his actions both verbally ''and'' physically. Even after Gabby is revealed to have survived, and stops her from ''killing'' him, Laura lays into him. Of course it's not helped that even ''after'' this Logan tries to warn her that Gabby is dangerous and can't be trusted.
63* WolverineClaws: Of course, though he didn't use them for a long time. He also eventually loses the set of adamantium claws on one of his hands when the Scarlet Samurai cuts through said hand, and they grow back as bone claws along with the rest of his hand.
64* WolverinePublicity: Although initially averted, it eventually came on in full-force around ComicBook/MarvelLegacy: Logan not only had his own solo series, but was also in the main cast of ''X-Men: Gold'', ''Weapon X'', the ''Secret Empire'' crossover/event, and ''Astonishing X-Men''.
65* YoureNotMyFather: Laura's reaction to him is hostile, to say the least. In fact she finds his presence highly upsetting. She adamantly insists he's not ''her'' Logan whenever pressed about it by Gabby, and in one case she even describes him as "twisted." Although she begins warming up to him in issue 10, [[spoiler:their relationship is permanently soured when she believes he killed Gabby in a feral rage. Even after learning Gabby survived because of she does indeed possess a HealingFactor, Laura wants nothing more to do with him]].
66[[/folder]]
67
68[[folder:Maureen]]
69[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/maureen_logan_02.jpg]]
70-->''We got to think of Scotty and Jade. They're all that matters now.''
71
72A former bandit, she married Logan and they raised a family.
73----
74* ActionSurvivor: She's one of the survivors of the Villain Uprising and makes her way to the old Weapon X facility with a bunch of fellow survivors. When that gets destroyed by a Crimson Dynamo warwalker, only Logan and her escape and they sail to Japan. In Japan, they get caught up by a cult called the Silent Order and they manage to fight their way out. Her survival streak ends when she settles down. And sure enough, she, along with her kids, is killed by the Hulks.
75* DarkAndTroubledPast: Logan says she'd been deeply hurt in her past, even before the villain uprising, but never elaborates.
76* FieryRedhead: In her younger days. Having a family's pretty much snuffed out the fiery part.
77* KilledOffForReal: She's killed by the Hulk Gang out of spite.
78* LostLenore: Becomes this for Logan after she and the kids die at the hands of the Hulk Gang.
79* MayDecemberRomance: Met Logan when she was in her 20s while he looked in his late 50s [[Really700YearsOld while being significantly older then that.]]
80* OlderThanTheyLook: Doesn't look it but she's actually around seventy years old, as the comic takes place fifty years after the Uprising and she meet Logan when she was in her twenties.
81* RescueRomance: She rescues Logan from being killed by her gang, and the two become an item.
82* SecondLove: Logan is this for her. In the storyline "The Last Ronin", it's revealed that she had a husband and a daughter that didn't survive the "Villain Uprising".
83[[/folder]]
84
85[[folder:Scotty]]
86[[quoteright:320:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/scotty_logan_03.jpg]]
87-->''But all you '''do''' is walk away, pa. If you really were a super hero, how come you don't fix things?'''
88
89Logan and Maureen's son.
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91* BrokenPedestal: Is less than impressed after seeing his dad take random abuse from an old man with connections.
92* DeadGuyJunior: He's named after Cyclops.
93* KilledOffForReal: Like Maureen, by the Hulk Gang.
94[[/folder]]
95
96[[folder:Jade]]
97[[quoteright:320:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/jade_logan_01.jpg]]
98
99Logan and Maureen's daughter.
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101* DaddysGirl: Flashbacks show she had a much more loving and affectionate bond with Logan than her brother.
102* KilledOffForReal: Another victim of the Hulk Gang.
103[[/folder]]
104
105!!Supporting Characters
106[[folder:Old Man Hawkeye]]
107[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/old_man_logan_hawkeye.jpg]]
108-->''Maybe your kids can see what a hero looks like from their video games.''
109
110Clint Barton, former Avenger and Logan's only friend. Having participated in the great war, he's now blind. Working as a smuggler, he liked to reminisce about the glory days.
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112* AbledInTheAdaptation: His partial deafness is conveniently left out so his hearing can make up for his lack of sight.
113* ADayInTheLimelight: Clint dies in the original "Old Man Logan" arc, but years later, the story received a prequel that starred Clint called ''Old Man Hawkeye''.
114* BrokenPedestal: While he loved Ashley he wasn't oblivious to the fact she wasn't that altruistic and in ''Old Man Hawkeye'' was disappointed to learn that she was a bully with her own protection racket. So he was surprised to learn from Tonya that she and her friends had gone to fight the Kingpin as superheroes, but told Logan that he was [[RebuiltPedestal incredibly proud]] of her even though he knew being a superhero in the Wastelands was essentially a death sentence. Then he learned she simply planned to take over the Kingpin's empire instead of free everyone and has no love for her father, which broke Clint who bitterly acknowledged the fact that he was the first thing she saw when she was born.
115* CoolOldGuy: Old and blind, but still an amazing archer with excellent hearing to compensate for his blindness.
116* CoolShades: Well, he's blind, but yeah. The design also works for his hippy look.
117* DisappearedDad: To his daughter, Ashley. He comes into her life every few years and isn't overly involved in her life. Even before she becomes Spider-Girl, she already hated him.
118* HandicappedBadass: He's blind, but his hearing still lets him pinpoint enemy locations. It's not on par with Daredevil or anything, but it's sharp.
119* IJustWantToBeSpecial: Why he agreed to deliver the super soldier serum -- he wants a dose, so he can lead the charge against the Red Skull.
120* KilledOffForReal: By the Red Skull's men.
121* MayDecemberRomance: He was once married to Tonya Parker, the daughter of Spider-Man who was presumably killed during the villain uprising. Assuming that's true and that her father was roughly the same age as his canon self, she must have been born before or perhaps during the uprising, while Hawkeye was at least in his mid to late thirties at the time. Since Ashley was a teenager in ''Old Man Hawkeye'' that would mean she was born when Tonya was in her late twenties to early thirties while Clint was around seventy years old.
122* NotWorthKilling: How he survived the Villain Uprising. The villains that massacred the Avengers saw him as a useless human with no real special abilities and spare him with a little encouragement from the Thunderbolts.
123* OldSuperhero: Timeline wise he must be over eighty years old by the time of the comic, but he's still able to fight like a young person even while blind.
124* OnlyFriend: He's Logan's only friend in the original storyline, and one of the only survivors of the great war. He assumes it's because the villains thought he wasn't worth killing.
125* {{Revenge}}: His main motivation for taking down the Red Skull is to avenge the fallen heroes, especially Black Widow.
126* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: The Thunderbolts betrayal of the Avengers led to their murder. So Hawkeye intends to reward his former team...with an arrow to the head.
127[[/folder]]
128
129[[folder:Emma Frost]]
130[[quoteright:308:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/emma_frost__earth_90210.jpg]]
131-->''No one has seen me for what I really am for many, many years. A lady has her pride.''
132
133The White Queen, Emma somehow survived the villain uprising. She married Doctor Doom and runs a town.
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135* IDidWhatIHadToDo: She wasn't a part of the villain uprising and only survived it by marrying Doctor Doom. Hawkeye is disgusted with her but Logan doesn't hold it against her as he's done much worse.
136* IWasQuiteALooker: And she's very insecure about it! She's constantly projecting her youthful appearance into the minds of all who see her. She's actually pretty old.
137* OldFriend: How she and Logan come off -- they didn't keep in touch, but they are glad to see each other.
138* {{Telepathy}}: Albeit weakened. It doesn't seem to be because of age or anything; Emma implies she just got sloppy.
139[[/folder]]
140
141[[folder:Danielle Cage]]
142[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/marvel_new_thor_dani_cage.jpg]]
143
144The daughter of Luke Cage and Jessica Jones, all grown up. She's named after Iron Fist.
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146* AffirmativeActionLegacy: The black female Danielle Cage inherits the mantle of Thor from the white Scandinavian Norse god of the same name, who is already dead in this universe.
147* LegacyCharacter: Becomes the new Thor in ''Old Man Logan''.
148* LikeFatherLikeSon: According to Logan, she's just like her parents.
149[[/folder]]
150
151[[folder:Scarlet Samurai]]
152[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/scarlet_5.jpg]]
153-->''I'm '''free.''' What happens next, I don't know...but it will be '''my''' choice.''
154
155Introduced as a high-ranking assassin in the Hand, it's revealed that she's actually a resurrected Mariko Yashida (from the main Marvel universe). She eventually turns on the Hand, and works with Logan to take down Gorgon and his faction of the group.
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157* BadassNormal: No powers to speak of, but Mariko was already skilled in use of a katana, and it shows.
158* BackFromTheDead: Mariko returns after over two decades of being dead.
159* BrainwashedAndCrazy: by Gorgon when she was in the Hand. Her brainwashing is removed by Shingen Harada.
160* CameBackWrong: When the Hand resurrects her, she comes back brainwashed.
161* CoolSword: An energy katana that can slide through ''adamantium!''
162* DefectorFromDecadence: After she sees Logan, already shows inklings of her personality before her brainwashing, and with the help of one of Shingen Harada's drug, she eventually defects completely.
163* FirstLove: Logan says his time with her is, other than with Maureen, the only time everything in is life seemed right.
164[[/folder]]
165
166[[folder:Ultron]]
167[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ultron_eight.jpg]]
168-->''Mister Logan? For luck.''
169
170A super intelligent ArtificialIntelligence hellbent on world domination...or he was. The former super-villain now lives a humble life as a car mechanic, working with Tonya Parker.
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172* BackForTheDead: Returns in ''ComicBook/AvengersOfTheWastelands'', as the first of the former villains to be killed by Doctor Doom.
173* HeelFaceTurn: He's one of the few super-villains alive who has turned away from the life of villainy.
174* InterspeciesRomance: It's implied that he is married to Hawkeye's very human ex-wife.
175* NiceGuy: Overall, he's very pleasant and does his best to mediate disputes between Hawkeye and Tonya. He also gives Logan an old X-Men memento, though this unwittingly triggers Logan's trauma, which wasn't his intention.
176* ParentalSubstitute: He tried to be this to Ashley with Clint away so much.
177* SignificantWardrobeShift: Ultron probably wouldn't wear casual clothes back in the day.
178[[/folder]]
179
180[[folder:Bruce Banner Jr.]]
181[[quoteright:576:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/bj_banner.jpg]]
182-->''Daddy''?
183
184The infant son of Bruce Banner.
185----
186* BadassAdorable: Even as a baby, he has the incredible strength you'd expect from the Hulk
187* BadassAndChildDuo: The child in this dynamic with Logan and later with Danielle [[spoiler: following Logan's death]] though being a Hulk, he's plenty badass in his own right.
188* LegacyCharacter: Becomes the new Hulk in ''Avengers of the Wastelands''.
189* HappilyAdopted: After killing the rest of the Hulk gang besides Bruce Jr and possibly his brother/uncle Billy-Bob, Logan decides to take him and raise him as his own son. As he grows older, he regards Logan as his real father.
190* RedeemingReplacement: He's not the monster his father turned into.
191[[/folder]]
192
193[[folder:Dwight Barrett]]
194[[quoteright:672:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dwight_4.jpg]]
195-->''Eighty cents or the road ends here, man. I got a million little friends to back me up.''
196
197Nephew of Turk Barrett, petty crook and resident ButtMonkey of Daredevil's rogues gallery. Dwight has managed to repair one of Hank Pym's old helmets, granting him the ability command ants.
198----
199* CreepyChild: Dwight, the boy with the Ant-Man helmet who threatens death by ants for those who don't pay his bridge toll. Logan thinks it's a joke, but the bones at the bottom of the chasm prove otherwise.
200* EnfantTerrible: Dwight, who uses the Ant-Man helmet to extort a fare for crossing a bridge. Anyone who doesn't pay gets devoured by ants.
201* LegacyCharacter: Becomes the new Ant-Man in ''Avengers of the Wastelands''.
202* HeelFaceTurn: He's introduced in ''Old Man Logan'' using his helmet to run an extortion toll. He later puts his powers to better use as the new Ant-Man.
203* MyGreatestFailure: Dwight is haunted by his inability to stop Doom from destroying the small community he and the other survivors from Forge's compound had set up.
204[[/folder]]
205
206!!Antagonists
207
208[[folder:Bruce Banner]]
209[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/5288fb4d_998a_4397_af36_850447d674d3.jpeg]]
210
211The former Avenger turned evil landlord. He apparently snapped when the villains rose and became a sadistic warlord, siring an entire family by raping his cousin, She-Hulk.
212----
213* AdaptationalWimp: Most versions of the Hulk have healing factors that rival or surpass Wolverine and have survived worse then what ultimately kills this Banner. Maestro even points this out himself when he shows up in the ''Old Man Logan'' ongoing, in Issue 29.
214-->'''Maestro:''' The Banner from the Wastelands was garbage. He had no imagination. No ''drive''. He wasn't ''half'' the Hulk that I am!
215* AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever: His Hulk form is now the size of a building.
216* BecauseItAmusedMe: Why he sent his family to kill Logan's -- he was bored and wanted someone to fight, and he had fond memories of his fights with Wolverine.
217* CannibalClan:Is the leader of one of these and even eats Wolverine at one point.
218* EvilOldFolks: Banner is now much older, and has become a FallenHero and a corrupt warlord.
219* FaceHeelTurn: He was once a hero like his Earth-616 counterpart, but now he is on the villain’s side. While fighting Logan, Banner explains that the extra radiation (implied to be from nukes going off on the night the heroes fell) messed with his brain, causing him to snap, marry his cousin She-Hulk, and produce a clan of hillbilly Hulks.
220* FallenHero: Big time.
221* HillbillyHorrors: Has slipped into and become this by the time of the story and has passed this on to his children.
222* OneWingedAngel: This Banner is ''already'' super strong in his human form -- his Hulk form just gives him an even bigger boost, but is also ''monstrous''.
223* RadiationImmuneMutants: The Hulk is normally immune to radiation, but he got a heap more than the usual attacks he receives and all those rads cooked his brain making him a disgusting murderer and rapist.
224* SerialRapist: He eventually sired children with She-Hulk, but he implies he raped ''numerous'' women until then.
225[[/folder]]
226
227[[folder:The Hulk Gang]]
228[[quoteright:181:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hulk_gang.jpg]]
229
230The family of Bruce Banner, all possessing the powers of the Hulk.
231----
232* ArchEnemy: Nothing kills Hulks like Logan and the surviving Hulks want payback.
233* CannibalClan: Are seen snacking upon humans flesh and limbs.
234* ChildByRape: At the very least, the first of them were the offspring of Bruce Banner and Jennifer Walters.
235* DumbMuscle: They're essentially hillbilly Hulks.
236* HeelFaceTurn: After getting killed by the Maestro and Logan, the handful of survivors left on Earth-616 that haven't been arrested have opted to live a quiet life that doesn't involve hurting people. Nor do they want Hawkeye's charity.
237* HillbillyHorrors:Embody this trope nicely being Giant Green rednecks living in a rural wasteland who rape and murder as they please.
238* HotSkittyOnWailordAction: Though not that hot given the absence of consent. The men regularly visit local brothels and work every woman into unconsciousness to expand their numbers.
239* PetTheDog: The male members are ''surprisingly'' kind to the old woman in charge of one of the brothels they visited.
240* SerialRapist: The apple doesn't fall far from the tree with the male members of that family, though no incest is involved this time.
241* WouldHurtAChild: They kill both of Logan’s kids, along with their mother.
242[[/folder]]
243
244[[folder:Spider-Girl/Spider-Woman/Spider-[[spoiler:Bitch]]]]
245[[quoteright:201:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/spider_woman.jpg]]
246-->''As far as I'm concerned, I ain't got no daddy...and I sure would never call him anything that polite.''
247
248Ashley Barton, the daughter of Clint Barton. She inherited her powers from her grandfather, Peter Parker. Ashley is out to make a name for herself in the Wastelands
249----
250* {{Bowdlerize}}: For obvious reasons, whenever she appears in any non-''Wastelands'' material, she's referred to as Spider-Girl or Spider-Woman.
251* DaddyIssues: She ''hates'' Clint, and part of it is implied to be because he abandoned her.
252* EvilCounterpart: To Peter Parker. She was even on Doc Ock's team of evil Spider-Men during ''Spider-Verse''.
253* GuestStar: These days, she's been appearing in the Spider-Man universe whenever he goes up against the Inheritors.
254* HeroicLineage: Averted. She's the daughter of Hawkeye and the granddaughter of Spider-Man, but is a horrible person.
255* ItsAllAboutMe: Clint thinks she's trying to overthrow the Kingpin to help people. Nope, she just wants to lead his organisation. It's also shown that, when she was a teenager, she interfered when a fat kid was being beaten up by another... and then she beat them both up, because the fat kid was paying her protection yet still had money.
256* LegacyCharacter: She uses Peter's costume design, although not as a hero. By ''Spider-Verse'', she's started going by Spider-Woman, which would make her the fifth Spider-Woman. It's not clear whether she merely changed her name or if this is a retcon, as she was originally said to have used the Spider-Girl name.
257* MoralityPet: Spider-Kid (Peter "Charlie" Parker) in the ''Spider-Force'' tie-in to ''ComicBook/SpiderGeddon''. Ashley attempts to act like a CoolBigSis towards him, with the implication being that she sees herself in him, and doesn't want him to become as bad as she is.
258* ParentalAbandonment: Clint apparently only sees her every few years.
259-->'''Ashley:''' You here to give me one of your once-every-five-years pieces of fatherly wisdom?
260* SelfMadeOrphan: Well, she tried. She tried ''really'' hard to kill Clint.
261* SuperpowerLottery: She's got all of Peter's powers, after all.
262* TokenEvilTeammate: She's notably the only outright villainous (as opposed to merely anti-heroic) member of the Spider-Army in ''Spider-Verse''.
263* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: She isn't seen or even mentioned in ''Avengers of the Wastelands'', so it's [[UncertainDoom unclear]] if her settlement was among the ones that were razed by Doctor Doom.
264[[/folder]]
265
266[[folder:The Red Skull]]
267[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/red_skull_9.jpg]]
268-->''Even '''now''' I'd beat [[ComicBook/CaptainAmerica you]]. Even as an '''old man''' I'm still strong...''
269
270Johann Schmidt, the former arch-nemesis of Steve Rogers. Red Skull apparently led the villain uprising, and personally killed Captain America (Bucky Barnes) himself. He then, ironically, took up residency in Washington.
271----
272* TheBadGuyWins: By simply organising the countless supervillains of Earth under his leadership, he took over the United States and wiped out almost everyone who could possibly oppose him. At the eve of his victory, he gloated about how he destroyed every optimistic ideology that Captain America stood for by proving that evil ''can'' win after all. In the present, he still wears Cap's bloodstained suit just to rub it in further.
273* BigBad: While Banner has a more personal grudge with Logan, it's Red Skull who's obviously the bigger threat -- he organised the villains and ''he'' drives the plot by [[spoiler: baiting Clint to his death with the super soldier serum]].
274* CreepySouvenir: Wears Bucky's Captain America suit and wields the Captain America shield, seemingly to mock everything they stood for. He's also loaded with various superhero equipment, including a fully functional Iron Man suit.
275* DiabolicalMastermind: He led the supervillain cabal that overthrew the US government and spearheaded the whole operation to neutralise the various superhero groups. He apparently convinced the likes of Magneto and Doctor Doom (who, as members of minority groups persecuted by Nazis[[note]]A Jewish holocaust survivor (''cum'' mutant supremacist) and a Romani respectively[[/note]], probably wouldn't ally with Red Skull under any other circumstances) by sharing out the spoils and allowing them to rule their own quadrants of the country.
276* EvilOldFolks: He’s much older now, but he’s still ''the Red Skull''.
277* OffWithHisHead: He's beheaded by Logan using Cap's shield.
278* PresidentEvil: He rules his section of the United States as "President" from the White House, just so he can spit on Captain America's grave every moment of the day.
279* SuperSoldier: This Red Skull is seemingly a super soldier, which is weird, considering that, at the time the original ''Old Man Logan'' was released (and when Bucky was Captain America), he was residing in the body of a middle-aged Russian man and ''not'' the cloned Steve Rogers body that he used to have.
280* ThoseWackyNazis: Again, this IS the Red Skull here.
281[[/folder]]
282
283[[folder:The Black Butcher]]
284[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/black_butcher_earth_807128_from_old_man_logan_vol_2_1_0001.jpg]]
285
286A no-name criminal before the uprising, he took the opportunity to [[{{Pun}} carve]] out a name for himself as the owner of a market.
287----
288* CListFodder: His purpose is to get mutilated and killed, showing that this Logan is extra fierce
289* DirtyCoward: It's made clear that he's not very brave -- he only got where he is because of timing.
290* EvilIsPetty: Steals Scotty's hat because... he's a dick.
291* StarterVillain: The main universe's version is the first "villain" Logan fights in the main Marvel Universe.
292[[/folder]]
293
294[[folder:Mysterio]]
295[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/oldmanloganmysteriorevealing.png]]
296
297An old foe of Spider-Man, Mysterio is the main reason Wolverine is pushed into his unhappy predicament at the start of the story.
298----
299* AdaptationalBadass: Uses upgraded gas that can fool even Logan's heightened senses. His single-handed extermination of the X-men is also easily the character's most infamous feat.
300* KarmicDeath: Is later on stated to have been killed by Red Skull so he couldn't pull the same trick on the other villains.
301* NotSoHarmlessVillain: You'd expect Magneto, Apocalypse or even just Mister Sinister to be the ones that exterminated the X-men. Nope. Just ol' fishbowl-for-a-head gets that honor.
302* SmallRoleBigImpact: Appears for all of three panels, but it's his actions that traumatize Logan and convince him to become a pacifist.
303* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: After he gets rid of the X-Men, Red Skull disposes of him so he won't betray the other villains later on.
304[[/folder]]
305
306[[folder:Venom]]
307[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/wolverine_vol_3_71_page_5_venom_symbiote_earth_90210.jpg]]
308
309After being left without a host, the Venom symbiote ambushed a duplicate of James Madrox in order to seek revenge on ComicBook/{{Hawkeye}}. Five years later, it resurfaced to stalk the elderly Logan and Hawkeye, bonding itself with a Savage Land ''T. rex'' and attacking the duo.
310----
311* CurbStompBattle: Black Bolt killed it with ''one word'': [[http://i.imgur.com/Zb8TpA1.jpg "Stop"]].
312* MurderWater: The prequel ''Old Man Hawkeye'' has the symbiote acquire a new host (one of Multiple Man's renegade duplicates) by disguising itself as a misty oasis.
313--> '''Venom:''' [[SuddenlyVoiced That's right... drink it ALL in...]]
314* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: The symbiote bonded with a ''T. rex''.
315* MesACrowd: It took over multiple versions of Multiple Man in order to create an army to go after Hawkeye.
316* NotQuiteDead:
317** It was seemingly killed by Black Bolt, but then showed up [[https://abload.de/img/4lgjma.jpg alive and well]] in ''Old Man Quill'' #4.
318** An alternate version of it is revealed to have survived its encounter with Black Bolt in ''Edge of Venomverse'' #4, [[spoiler:eating Spider-Bitch and Logan before the latter takes the symbiote from it and claws his way out from the inside]].
319* TerrifyingTyrannosaur: A tyrannosaur that '''bonded with the Venom Symbiote'''.
320[[/folder]]
321
322[[folder:Maestro]]
323 [[quoteright:256:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/the_maestro___future_imperfect_2.jpg]]
324
325-->''There is '''more''' to battle than blindly running out and smashing your enemy.''
326
327A Hulk from an alternate future which he rules. He has the strength of the Hulk and the intelligence of Bruce Banner.
328----
329* GeniusBruiser: Strong, even by Hulk standards, and extremely intelligent to boot.
330* ManipulativeBastard: He says he wants to help the Hulks find a place where they will be accepted and can live in peace... he really means that he's going to nuke the Earth to create that place, and that was his plan all along.
331* NotQuiteDead: It's revealed in ''Dead Man Logan'' #6 that Logan decapitating the Maestro didn't kill him, it just put him in a regenerative coma. Even though it's a ''[[WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong horrible]]'' idea, Forge is keeping the Maestro alive and comatose so that he can study him and hopefully develop ideas for new anti-Hulk technology(A reference to the Future Imperfect storyline where Maestro debuted, where Maestro had anti-Hulk weapons made by Forge.)
332* OffWithHisHead: Logan decapitates him in the final issue of the ''Old Man Logan'' series. Doesn't kill him.
333* SexSlave: His final days were spent taking over a podunk town, murdering half its inhabitants and turning some of its women into his sex slaves. [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil He earns every bit of what Logan does to him]]
334[[/folder]]
335
336!Introduced in ComicBook/OldManHawkeye
337
338[[folder:The Madrox Gang]]
339[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/madrox_gang_earth_807128_from_old_man_hawkeye_vol_1_1_0001.jpg]]
340
341A gang of Jamie Madrox's duplicates who have all been driven somewhat crazy by the death of their progenitor.
342----
343* AdaptationalVillainy: The original Jamie was heroic and his dupes were usually the same, as they are meant to embody a single of his personality traits to the extreme. Here, they're all evil.
344* FallenHero: Used to be X-Factor's most prominent leader. Now a gang of criminals.
345[[/folder]]
346
347[[folder:Marshall Lester]]
348[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/marshall_lester.jpg]]
349
350Formally known as Bullseye, he is now one of the Red Skull's Marshalls who is hunting Hawkeye
351----
352* AxCrazy: Has been searching for a more challenging kill like Clint Barton for nearly half a century and when he finds out that Clint is going blind he gets pissed.
353* {{Cyborg}}: In the last forty years he's upgraded himself with Deathlok technology.
354* EvilOldFolks: Once more with feeling, he's at least in his 70s and he's FREAKING BULLSEYE!
355* IGaveMyWord: He kills Jebediah Hammer's two sons and fatally wounds Hammer himself, but promises to spare Hammer's wife if Hammer can give him a clue to Hawkeye's whereabouts. Surprising for Bullseye, he actually follows through with letting the wife go after Hammer manages to write "Hammer Falls" in his own blood.
356* PsychoForHire: Hasn't changed in over forty years. What's worse is that being a PsychoForHire is now legal under the New World Order as he is a Marshall.
357* WorthyOpponent: He's been looking for one to kill for forty-three years since he was cheated out of killing Daredevil during the villain take over. And unlike most villains of this world, he sees this in Barton and is overjoyed until he finds out that Hawkeye has glaucoma and is already 50% blind. He loses his shit over this, but gets over it when Clint puts up a good fight anyway (Kate Bishop's presence was also a nice bonus).
358[[/folder]]
359
360[[folder:Atlas]]
361[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/old_man_hawkeye_atlas_1097908.jpeg]]
362
363Size changing Ex-Thunderbolt turned circus-entertainer.
364----
365* AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever: Retains his ability to grow to immense size.
366* DirtyCoward: When Clint confronts him, Atlas explains that he sided with Red Skull to save his own skin.
367* TheFreakShow: He works as a circus freak, being billed as the World's largest man.
368* WeUsedToBeFriends: Just before he and Clint throw down, Atlas proposes a final toast to the good times. He knows that Clint wants to kill him but shows no hostility.
369[[/folder]]
370
371[[folder:Beetle]]
372[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/abner_jenkins_28earth_80712829_from_old_man_hawkeye_vol_1_4_0001.jpg]]
373
374----
375* FormerlyFit: He’s now an out-of-shape older man who struggles to fit into his Beetle costume.
376* LoveMakesYouEvil: Took part in the uprising because he wanted Songbird safe.
377* PoweredArmour: Dons his old Beetle suit one last time for his fatal battle against Hawkeye.
378* WeUsedToBeFriends: When Clint catches up to him, Abe wants to reminisce about fighting the Kree or Skrulls as a team. And he still trusts Clint to help him with his armor despite knowing that one of them will be dead in a few moments.
379[[/folder]]
380
381[[folder:The Winter Soldier]]
382[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/old_man_hawkeye_winter_soldier_bullseye_fight.jpg]]
383
384After he was supposedly killed by the Red Skull as Captain America, Bucky Barnes was reprogrammed to become the Red Skull's personal assassin.
385----
386* AndIMustScream: He was aware of everything he did once he was reprogrammed. In the end, he thanks Bullseye for killing him.
387* BrainwashedAndCrazy: His new programming makes his original Winter Soldier programming look tame.
388* TheDragon: To the Red Skull.
389* FallenHero: Was the Captain America who lead the charge against the uprising. Now he's the villain's Dragon.
390* KilledOffForReal: Impaled through the head by Bullseye.
391[[/folder]]
392
393[[folder:Mayor Kate Bishop]]
394[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/old_man_hawkeye_kate_bishop.jpg]]
395
396The other former Hawkeye. After the uprising, Kate became mayor of a town that managed to avoid getting caught up in the villains' politics... until Clint showed up on her doorstep.
397----
398* ActionGirl: As always. Even in her old age, she’s a dangerous fighter.
399* {{Foil}}: She largely serves as one to Clint. While Clint still wants to be heroic (unlike Logan), a lot of his nobler qualities were beaten out of him. In contrast, the only thing that's changed about Kate is her age.
400* NeverMessWithGranny: Still as badass as ever.
401* NotWorthKilling: She was so insignificant a player to the villains that they didn't even know she was around let alone bother hunting her.
402* ScrewThisImOutOfHere: She's had it with Clint's vengeance quest and what it costed her, so she parts way at the end of the series.
403* TheGoodKing: She's the kind leader (virtually the ruler) of a hidden benevolent settlement.
404[[/folder]]
405
406[[folder:Songbird]]
407[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/melissa_gold_earth_807128_from_old_man_hawkeye_vol_1_9_001.jpg]]
408
409Former Thunderbolt, turned nun, and the most regretful in having any part in the Villain Uprising.
410----
411* TheAtoner: More than any of the other Thunderbolts, she feels terrible for betraying Clint and the Avengers and has taken a vow of silence in the years since, a quite meaningful action since her voice is where her powers come from. She doesn't even try and defend herself when she knows Clint has come to kill her and only uses her powers to defend him from Bullseye.
412* DiedInYourArmsTonight: She dies in Clint’s.
413* ElectiveMute: Hid herself with a group of nuns called the Silent Sisterhood. And given [[MakeMeWannaShout her powers]], when she decides to speak again it's destructive.
414* KilledOffForReal: By Bullseye.
415* MakeMeWannaShout: She still has her powerful destructive voice.
416* RedemptionEqualsDeath: The most guilt-ridden of the Thunderbolts, she protects Hawkeye from being killed by Bullseye. Bullseye rewards her with a sai through the back.
417[[/folder]]
418
419[[folder:Moonstone]]
420[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/karla_sofen_earth_807128_from_old_man_hawkeye_vol_1_10.png]]
421
422Another former Thunderbolt, who Clint eventually tracks to a village in Canada.
423----
424* AgeWithoutYouth: A combination of old age and her moonstone’s energy gradually destroying her body has caused her to resemble a decrepit zombie instead of a normal older woman.
425* BigBadWannabe: She was left out when the villains divided up the territories and still wants to be on top.
426* BodyHorror: See IWasQuiteTheLooker below. Because of both old age and her moonstone’s energy, she now looks like an emaciated husk.
427* IWasQuiteTheLooker: The energy emmited by the moonstone that gives her powers, combined with the passage of time, have not done her any favours.
428* NeverMessWithGranny: She’s now an old woman whose body is decaying as a result of the energy from her moonstone, but she still nearly kills the Hawkeyes with her powers.
429[[/folder]]
430
431[[folder:Zemo]]
432[[quoteright:196:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/zemo_1.jpg]]
433
434----
435* DarkLordOnLifeSupport: His old age caused him to suffer from strokes. By the time Clint finds him, he’s wheelchair-bound and breathing through a tube.
436* EvilCripple: Revealed to have suffered a series of strokes that left him confined to a wheelchair and needing an oxygen tube to stay alive, but he’s still as evil as ever.
437* EvilIsPetty: Arranged to have the Thunderbolts betray Hawkeye because he took the team from Zemo way back in the day. Magneto is thoroughly appalled at Zemo's grudge.
438* KarmicDeath: Despite being an elderly, crippled man who requires an oxygen tube, this is still the man who led the Thunderbolts in killing Clint’s friends, only sparing him because he “wasn’t worth killing”. Sure enough, Clint rewards him for this by filling him with arrows.
439[[/folder]]
440
441[[folder:Stick]]
442[[quoteright:577:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/stick_3.jpg]]
443-->-->''No need to be so formal, Clint. Just call me Matt.''
444
445Matthew Murdock, once the hero Daredevil. After surviving the Villain Uprising, Matt has become the leader of a monastery in the Himalayas.
446----
447* CoolOldGuy: Age has dulled neither his senses nor his wit.
448* HandicappedBadass: As usual per Daredevil, he's blind. Once Hawkeye goes blind, Matt is naturally the person he turns to help him become this trope as well.
449* LegacyCharacter: He's left the Daredevil identity behind and taken up the name of his old mentor.
450* NiceGuy: Despite everything, Matt is still an idealist who believes the world can be fixed. He encourages Clint to leave the path of anger and vengeance behind and focus on rebuilding his life, though Clint doesn't entirely take this to heart.
451* OldMaster: Matt has become this, training others in martial arts and spirituality.
452* {{Retcon}}: A flashback in the ''Old Man Logan'' series established that Daredevil was decapitated by the Enchantress during the Uprising. ''Old Man Hawkeye'' changes this to him going missing after a fight with Bullseye and later revealed to be NotQuiteDead.
453* SlapSlapKiss: To the extreme as Elektra and him are maintaining a relationship while ''also'' being obligated to kill each other if they ever meet in person.
454[[/folder]]
455
456!Introduced in ComicBook/OldManQuill
457
458[[folder:Old Man Quill]]
459[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/omq_2.jpg]]
460
461Peter Quill, formerly Star-Lord, has now taken his father's place as the King of Spartax.
462----
463* ArchEnemy: It was the Universal Church of Truth that destroyed Spartax and killed his family. But the "god" behind the Church, isn't [[ComicBook/Warlock1967 the Magus]] in this timeline. It's Galactus.
464* BerserkButton: Don't threaten children around him, he'll get a flashback to his dead daughter and then he'll gun down the villain who tried.
465* BrokenAce: He is still a talented marksman and fighter but has been depressed since the loss of his family.
466* CoolOldGuy: Despite his older age and his depression over the deaths of his family and friends, he’s still an expert fighter and marksman.
467* DarkerAndEdgier: He's not nearly as prone to jokes, due to the tragedies he’s suffered in life. He also kills in cold blood much to Rocket's delight.
468* DeadAllAlong: Not him, the rest of the Guardians. He's just gone so mad and delusional, he's been hallucinating them as fighting alongside him.
469* DrowningMySorrows: Alcohol has become a big issue for him and everyone gets a bit worried when he's invited to a bar for a celebration after the Guardians defeat the Wrecking Crew.
470* HesBack: After killing Galactus with the Time Stone, he leaves Earth in a much healthier frame of mind and forms a new Guardians team to mop up the Universal Church of Truth.
471* KnightInSourArmor: The other Guardians rouse him from his stupor and he fights the good fight, but any idealism is gone.
472* OutsideContextProblem: Peter Quill is this. The villains of Earth were starting to get worried when they heard that Wolverine was back and took down several barons by himself. The reports of a new saviour from out of nowhere alarmed a lot of villains and once Dr. Doom finds out the hero is from space, it so frightens him that he goes on the warpath.
473* PowerCreepPowerSeep: He's lost his Elemental Guns in fights against cannibal Madroxes and Gladiator's guardsmen thugs. But he's gained himself a Hulkbuster powersuit!
474[[/folder]]
475
476[[folder:Viv]]
477
478----
479[[/folder]]
480
481!Introduced in ComicBook/AvengersOfTheWastelands
482
483[[folder:Grant]]
484[[quoteright:1000:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/img_8624.jpeg]]
485
486The new Captain America.
487----
488* HeelRealization: Grant was a desperate man who underwent a procedure to create new {{Super Soldier}}s for Doom's army because he had no money. After beating up protesters and seeing his comrade about to strike a mother and child, be betrayed Doom and decided to become a hero.
489* LegacyCharacter: Becomes the new Captain America in ''Avengers of the Wastelands''.
490[[/folder]]
491

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