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| 3 | !!'''WARNING:''' There are unmarked spoilers on these sheets for all but the most recent comics. |
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| 8 | !Thunderbolts |
| 9 | |
| 10 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 11 | |
| 12 | [[folder:Members On Other Pages]] |
| 13 | * Founding Members |
| 14 | ** [[Characters/CaptainAmericaCentralRoguesGallery Baron Zemo/Citizen V]] |
| 15 | * Original Series Members |
| 16 | ** [[Characters/MarvelComicsClintBarton Hawkeye]] |
| 17 | * New Thunderbolts Members |
| 18 | ** [[Characters/IronManCentralRoguesGallery Blizzard II]] |
| 19 | ** [[Characters/MarvelComicsMarvels Genis-Vell]] |
| 20 | ** [[Characters/SpiderManRoguesGalleryIToZ Joystick]] |
| 21 | ** [[Characters/MarvelComicsSquadronSinister Speed Demon]] |
| 22 | ** [[Characters/MarvelComicsMastersOfEvil Radioactive Man]] |
| 23 | ** [[Characters/Defenders1970sMembers Nighthawk]] |
| 24 | ** [[Characters/NovaEnemies Blackout]] |
| 25 | ** [[Characters/XMenRoguesGalleryAToI Swordsman III]] |
| 26 | * Norman Osborn's Thunderbolts |
| 27 | ** [[Characters/MarvelComicsNormanOsborn Green Goblin / Iron Patriot]] |
| 28 | ** [[Characters/DaredevilCentralRoguesGallery Bullseye / Hawkeye]] |
| 29 | ** [[Characters/MarvelComicsMacGargan Venom III / Scorpion I]] |
| 30 | ** [[Characters/NewWarriors Speedball / Penance]] |
| 31 | * HAMMER's Thunderbolts |
| 32 | ** [[Characters/AntManHeroes Ant-Man III / Black Ant]] |
| 33 | ** [[Characters/BlackWidowTitleCharacter Black Widow]] |
| 34 | ** [[Characters/IronManCentralRoguesGallery Ghost]] |
| 35 | ** [[Characters/DaredevilCentralRoguesGallery Nuke / Scourge]] |
| 36 | ** [[Characters/SpiderManRoguesGalleryAToH Grizzly]] |
| 37 | * Luke Cage's Thunderbolts |
| 38 | ** Characters/LukeCage |
| 39 | ** [[Characters/CaptainAmericaCentralRoguesGallery Crossbones]] |
| 40 | ** Characters/{{Juggernaut|MarvelComics}} |
| 41 | ** Characters/ManThing |
| 42 | ** [[Characters/CaptainAmericaHeroes U.S. Agent]] |
| 43 | ** [[Characters/{{Exiles}} Hyperion]] |
| 44 | ** [[Characters/TheMightyThorEnemies Mr. Hyde]] |
| 45 | ** [[Characters/MarvelComicsDemons Satana]] |
| 46 | ** [[Characters/SpiderManCentralRoguesGallery Boomerang]] |
| 47 | ** [[Characters/SpiderManCentralRoguesGallery Shocker]] |
| 48 | * Red Hulk's Thunderbolts |
| 49 | ** [[Characters/MarvelComicsFlashThompson Agent Venom]] |
| 50 | ** [[Characters/MarvelComicsDeadpool Deadpool]] |
| 51 | ** Characters/{{Elektra}} |
| 52 | ** [[Characters/GhostRiderTitleCharacter Ghost Rider]] |
| 53 | ** [[Characters/IncredibleHulkCentralRoguesGallery Leader]] |
| 54 | ** [[Characters/IncredibleHulkCentralRoguesGallery Mercy]] |
| 55 | ** [[Characters/MarvelComicsFrankCastle Punisher]] |
| 56 | ** [[Characters/IncredibleHulkCentralRoguesGallery Red Hulk]] |
| 57 | * Anti-Punisher Thunderbolts |
| 58 | ** [[Characters/ThePunisherEnemies Jigsaw]] |
| 59 | * Kingpins Thunderbolts |
| 60 | ** [[Characters/MarvelComicsTheKingpin Kingpin]] |
| 61 | ** [[Characters/SpiderManCentralRoguesGallery Rhino]] |
| 62 | ** [[Characters/CaptainAmericaCentralRoguesGallery Batroc the Leaper]] |
| 63 | ** [[Characters/MarvelComicsTaskmaster Taskmaster]] |
| 64 | ** [[Characters/DaredevilCentralRoguesGallery Mr. Fear]] |
| 65 | ** [[Characters/MarvelComicsCaptainMarvelEnemies Star]] |
| 66 | ** [[Characters/MarvelComicsSymbioteHosts Agony]] |
| 67 | ** [[Characters/IronManCentralRoguesGallery Whiplash]] |
| 68 | ** [[Characters/SpiderManRoguesGalleryAToH Electro II]] |
| 69 | ** [[Characters/IncredibleHulkCentralRoguesGallery Abomination]] |
| 70 | * Mayor Cage's Thunderbolts |
| 71 | ** [[Characters/YoungAvengersTitleTeam Miss America]] |
| 72 | ** [[Characters/ChampionsMarvelComics Power Man II]] |
| 73 | ** [[Characters/BetaFlight Persuasion]] |
| 74 | ** [[Characters/MarvelComicsMarvels Spectrum]] |
| 75 | * Revolutions Thunderbolts |
| 76 | ** [[Characters/MarvelComicsHydra Contessa Valentina Allegra de Fontaine]] |
| 77 | ** [[Characters/CaptainAmericaSupportingCharacters The Destroyer]] |
| 78 | ** [[Characters/WinterGuard Red Guardian]] |
| 79 | ** [[Characters/BlackWidowTitleCharacter White Widow]] |
| 80 | ** [[Characters/BlackWidowTitleCharacter Black Widow]] |
| 81 | ** Characters/ShangChi |
| 82 | [[/folder]] |
| 83 | |
| 84 | !!Founding Members |
| 85 | |
| 86 | [[folder:Atlas / Goliath]] |
| 87 | !!Atlas / Goliath |
| 88 | [[quoteright:280:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/7533969_img_8451.jpg]] |
| 89 | [[caption-width-right:280:Atlas]] |
| 90 | [[caption-width-right:280:[[labelnote:Click here to see as Goliath]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/284full_atlas_power_man_slash_goliath.jpg[[/labelnote]]]] |
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| 92 | !!! '''Alter Ego:''' Erik Josten |
| 93 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''The Avengers'' #21 (October 1965) [[note]]As Power Man[[/note]]; ''Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man'' #49 (December 1980) [[note]]As Smuggler[[/note]]; ''Iron Man Annual'' #7 (October 1984) [[note]]As Goliath[[/note]]; ''The Incredible Hulk'' #449 (January 1997) [[note]]As Atlas[[/note]] |
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| 95 | Starting his super-criminal life as Power Man and then reinventing himself as the size-altering Goliath, Erik Josten has served as a member of several incarnations of the Masters of Evil and the Lethal Legion. It wasn't until he became Atlas and a founding Thunderbolts member that he truly "discovered" himself. |
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| 97 | * TheBigGuy: His main role at both the Thunderbolts and Masters of Evil. |
| 98 | * DeadLittleSister: In his backstory, Erik had a little sister who wanted to hang out with her delinquent big brother, who brushed her off. Determined, she tried riding after him and his friends on a bike. At night, after it had been raining. She got hit by a car and died in hospital, leaving Erik to [[PartingWordsRegret forever regret how mean his last interaction with her had been]]. It's one of the reasons he becomes so protective of Jolt. |
| 99 | * {{Depower}}: Once, he worked for Count Nefaria, who betrayed him and stole his powers. |
| 100 | * DiscardAndDraw: His powers used to be derived from Pym Particles, same as the various Ant-Men and Wasps, but when Zemo and Fixer yanked him out of the dimension he'd been sucked into, they found the particles had been drained out of him, causing a shift in Erik's powers. |
| 101 | * HeelFaceTurn: While he's had relapses in villainy throughout the years, he has mostly remained a Face since. |
| 102 | * {{Hunk}}: In order to make him unrecognizable, Techno altered his face to look like this. He liked it so much he asked Techno to make it permanent. |
| 103 | * HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace: Back when he was called Goliath, he received his abilities from photon energy, which he gained by stealing it from what he thought was the same source as [[ComicBook/WonderMan Wonder Man's]] powers. To his horror, it turned out that his physiology had been changed so as to syphon energy from a hostile micro verse-dimension; and [[OhCrap his body served as a beacon to those dimension's inhabitants]], and he can hear them talking in his head. While said invaders are repelled by the Earth's heroes, poor Erik is dragged into their dimension against his will. He is so thankful to Baron Zemo for freeing him from the Microverse several years later, that he swears his undying loyalty to him right then and there. |
| 104 | * IHaveManyNames: Power Man, Smuggler, Atlas, and Goliath. |
| 105 | * MookPromotion: Started off in life as one of Heinrich Zemo's goons, before he got superpowers. |
| 106 | * OneSteveLimit: Erik has no relation to that ''other'' Power Man, ComicBook/LukeCage. In fact, Erik once attacked Luke for taking the moniker, and it didn't go well for him. |
| 107 | * PrimaryColorChampion: His new costume as Atlas is mostly red, blue and yellow. |
| 108 | * SecondaryColorNemesis: His costume as Goliath was orange. |
| 109 | * SizeShifter: Though usually only to make himself bigger. |
| 110 | * SuperStrength: Even at normal size he's pretty strong. |
| 111 | * UndyingLoyalty: To Baron Zemo. Serves as the basis for his character arc in the early issues as, being a soldier, he cannot betray his commanding officer (Zemo), but is constantly tempted to do so, as [[GoodFeelsGood he discovers a new side of himself after playing at being a hero and falling in love.]] Ultimately subverted in issue 12 of the original run, where he helps the badly wounded Zemo escape the space station, but refuses to go with him, deeming their debts to be square. |
| 112 | * TheWorfEffect: Suffers from this more than any other Thunderbolts member. Almost every new enemy the team faces gets a turn to beat Atlas into unconsciousness in order to establish them as a significant threat. However, this usually leads to... |
| 113 | * WorfHadTheFlu: ...this trope. Once the VillainOfTheWeek's plan has been thwarted, they will usually turn around to come face-to-face with a recently revived Atlas. Cue long overdue ass-kicking. |
| 114 | [[/folder]] |
| 115 | |
| 116 | [[folder:[=MACH-1=] / Beetle]] |
| 117 | !!MACH-1 / Beetle |
| 118 | [[quoteright:281:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/5552800_thunderbolts34001_2.png]] |
| 119 | [[caption-width-right:281:As MACH-X]] |
| 120 | [[caption-width-right:281:[[labelnote:Click here to see as MACH-IV]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/a803371602727c19dff8405ef07a6b4c.jpg[[/labelnote]]]] |
| 121 | [[caption-width-right:281:[[labelnote:Click here to see as MACH-1]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/6255bd8f34cb3db34ca23b9d28bcc67f.jpg[[/labelnote]]]] |
| 122 | [[caption-width-right:281:[[labelnote:Click here to see as Beetle]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/beetle_marvel_comics_jenkins.jpg[[/labelnote]]]] |
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| 124 | !!! '''Alter Ego:''' Abner Ronald "Abe" Jenkins |
| 125 | !!! '''Notable Aliases:''' MACH-1, MACH-2, Abe Jenkins, Matthew Davis, MACH-3, MACH-IV, MACH-VII, MACH-X |
| 126 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Strange Tales'' #123 (August 1964)[[note]]As Beetle[[/note]]; ''Incredible Hulk'' #449 (January, 1997) [[note]]As Mach-1[[/note]]; ''Thunderbolts'' #37 (April, 2000)[[note]]As Mach-2[[/note]]; ''Thunderbolts'' #57 (December, 2001)[[note]]As Mach-3[[/note]]; ''New Thunderbolts'' #1 (December, 2004)[[note]]As Mach-IV[[/note]]; ''Thunderbolts'' #144 (July, 2010)[[note]]As Mach-V[[/note]]; ''The Superior Foes of Spider-Man'' #2 (October, 2013) [[note]]As Mach-VII[[/note]]; ''Thunderbolts'' Vol 3 #1 (July, 2016)[[note]]As Mach-X[[/note]] |
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| 128 | ->'''Boomerang:''' Abner here was the Beetle -- the original Beetle. You probably don't notice much resemblance. And yes, a while back, we were in the same crew -- called ourselves the Sinister Syndicate. I like to think I've grown past it. Thing is, Abner was a piece of ☠☠☠☠ even then. Double-crossed me more than twice -- but hey, at least I could respect that. A crook is a crook. Then one day, he gets himself hooked into another gang -- the ComicBook/{{Thunderbolts}} -- a bunch of costumed baddies pretending to be good guys. It was a brilliant, beautiful long con. Least it was before Abner screwed the whole thing up -- by actually becoming a good guy. |
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| 130 | An aircraft mechanic, Abner Jenkins decided to supplement his income through less honest means and built a suit of insect-themed PoweredArmor. Starting out as a foe of the ComicBook/FantasticFour, he came into conflict with Spider-Man, continually redesigning and updating his armor in an effort to take out the Wall-Crawler. After joining the Thunderbolts under Baron Zemo, Abe decided to put his life of crime behind him and rebranded himself as a superhero called MACH I. Serving as a mainstay of the group, he would achieve legitimacy as a superhero and continue to upgrade his armor, eventually becoming MACH-X (and counting). |
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| 132 | * AmicableExes: Even after breaking up with Melissa, they still care deeply for each other. |
| 133 | * AnimalThemedSuperbeing: His original suits were built around a beetle motif. |
| 134 | * BecomingTheMask: As a Thunderbolt, he started out by pretending to be a hero, and ended up as an actual one, because he found GoodFeelsGood. |
| 135 | * ClothesMakeTheSuperman: Abner has no powers but is a brilliant mechanic who can build himself different suits of PoweredArmor to compensate. |
| 136 | * CombatTentacles: The MK 1 Beetle Armor's fingers could extend a significant distance; combined with the strength-enhancing properties of the armor and the suction cups, they could ensnare foes in an incredible grip. |
| 137 | * CostumeEvolution: As is common for {{Power Armor}}ed supers who invented their own suits, Jenkins has gone through multiple iterations of costume as he's redesigned and reinvented himself over the years. |
| 138 | ** As the Beetle, he started out with the MK 1 Beetle Armor, an embarrassingly [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]] design that looks more like a baggy green bodysuit with a helmet, metal wings strapped to his back, and mechanical gloves with three sucker-tipped tentacles for fingers. In the 90s, he upgraded to the MK 2, which looked more like a form-fitting jumpsuit with a stylish helmet and a backpack reminiscent of a beetle's carapace. Finally, he invented the MK 3, a MiniMecha with an appearance somewhere between the MK 2 and [[ComicBook/IronMan Iron Man's Hulkbuster]] -- ironically, he never actually used this suit himself. |
| 139 | ** As MACH, he has continually redesigned his armor, increasing the numeral addendum to his name with each new model. |
| 140 | * CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: He can come off as an overeager klutz, but is still a more than competent engineer and fighter. |
| 141 | * DudeWheresMyRespect: |
| 142 | ** Starting as a semi-credible villain, multiple defeats over the decades bumped him down to TheChewToy. The breaking point was just before Zemo recruited him. Abe had organized a heist, only for his crew to turn on him and run with the money. As Abe confronted one of them, the guy said they'd ''all'' been laughing at him behind his back. Abe then got attacked by Daredevil and tried fleeing through the Hudson, which gummed up his armor, forcing him to walk back to his lair. Where he found Zemo waiting with an offer to stop people from laughing at him ever again. |
| 143 | ** He occasionally gets annoyed when people think Techno is the only one on the team with any scientific knowledge. |
| 144 | * EndearinglyDorky: Became more pronounced after he switched sides. |
| 145 | * EnergyWeapon: One of the many weapons his armor is equipped with. |
| 146 | * FunWithAcronyms: It's shown in-universe that the MACH name came first and then he and Fixer tried to think up words that would allow for the acronym. They eventually settled on "Mobile Armored Cyber-Harness", which was later changed to "Mechanized Aerial Combat Harness" when he became MACH-V. |
| 147 | * HeelFaceTurn: As a result of his stint on the ComicBook/{{Thunderbolts}}, he ended up as a hero, and is one of the few Marvel characters whose turn stuck. |
| 148 | * IJustWantToBeSpecial: After becoming a hero he's developed a dream of being an Avenger. |
| 149 | * IconicOutfit: His MK 2 Beetle Armor suit (the bottommost one in the image), which he wore in the 1980s and 1990s, is one of his best-known looks. |
| 150 | * TheKlutz: [[http://www.chasingamazingblog.com/wp-content/uploads/SuperiorFoes13_01.jpg Those wings...]] |
| 151 | * NiceGuy: Part of the reason his HeelFaceTurn has been accepted pretty well by the heroes; Abner may have been a crook once, but he's a sweetheart who's always looking for friends. |
| 152 | * NoRespectGuy: While the heroes have welcomed Abner as an ally, not many of them really respect him. |
| 153 | * OfficialCouple: With Songbird in the original ComicBook/{{Thunderbolts}} run. |
| 154 | * OldShame: In-universe, he's not too impressed by his old Beetle armor. |
| 155 | * PoweredArmor: His trademark, which he continually reinvents over the years. As Mach, the fact that his suit is cybernetic is far more noticeable; his Beetle Armors look more like bodysuits. |
| 156 | ** The MK 1 Beetle Armor sported multi-function wings that could be used as razor-sharp melee weapons, shields and digging devices. It could fly at speeds of roughly 45 mph, lift around 800 lbs, and grip almost any surface. |
| 157 | ** The MK 2 Beetle Armor was an all-around improvement. Whilst no longer able to use its wings to shield or dig, it could now lift over a ton and fly at speeds of 60 mph. On-board cameras give Jenkins a 360 degree field of vision, and its various sensors and communicators include a proximity alarm that can recognize individual targets. The armor's battle computer was able to track a target and attempt to predict its moves based upon data it had previously collected. It could also jam radio waves and project an energy blast called "the electrobite". |
| 158 | ** The strength-boost and flight speed of the MACH suits varies between models. Collectively, they retain the 360-degree vision of the MK 2 Beetle, and sport a variety of weapons; the MACH-I alone featured machine guns (both conventional and rubber "mercy" rounds), heat-seeking missiles, a gas grenade launcher loaded with smoke and tear gas rounds, energy blasters and a photon burst that could be used to illuminate the area or temporarily blind foes. |
| 159 | * PrimaryColorChampion: His MACH-X armor is mostly blue with a red face mask. |
| 160 | * PutOnABus: Left the ComicBook/{{Thunderbolts}} for a while when Hawkeye convinced him to surrender to the authorities and spend his time in jail as a way to show the Thunderbolts were serious about wanting to be real heroes. He later returned to the team after the Commission on Super-Human Activities tried to use him as a deniable agent. |
| 161 | * ReligiousBruiser: Not brought up much, but after his HeelFaceTurn he apparently reconnected with his faith. |
| 162 | * RoguesGalleryTransplant: |
| 163 | ** An enemy of the ComicBook/HumanTorch but well-known for fighting Spidey too. |
| 164 | ** He provided extra muscle for several of Justin Hammer's plots against ComicBook/IronMan. Beetle would use technology stolen from the Armored Avenger to upgrade his battlesuit, which came back to bite him during the first ''Armor Wars''' storyline. |
| 165 | * SecondaryColorNemesis: All the Beetle armors have purple and green to varying extents. The MK 1 was almost entirely green, the MK 4 is almost entirely purple, and the [=MKs=] 2 and 3 are a mixture. |
| 166 | * ShockAndAwe: The MK 2 Beetle Armor has the ability to generate short-ranged but powerful blasts of static electricity, an attack Jenkins referred to as "the electrobite". |
| 167 | * TookALevelInBadass: People today would probably laugh at his old costume, which didn't look very beetle-esque. He updated his armor in the 1980s, and it's stuck around -- in fact, it was the only other costume he ever ''wore'' as the Beetle, with the bulkier MK 3 being designed by him but worn by the 2nd Beetle, Leila Davis, and the [[ChainmailBikini obviously feminine]] MK 4 being custom-designed for the 4th Beetle, Janice Lincoln, aka "Lady Beetle". |
| 168 | * WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: He's not too fond of ComicBook/SpiderMan. |
| 169 | [[/folder]] |
| 170 | |
| 171 | [[folder:Meteorite / Moonstone]] |
| 172 | !!Meteorite / Moonstone |
| 173 | [[quoteright:280:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/2239930_2239903_4.jpg]] |
| 174 | [[caption-width-right:280:Moonstone]] |
| 175 | [[caption-width-right:280:[[labelnote:Click here to see as Meteorite]] https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/6853702_giantman2019003_cov.jpg [[/labelnote]]]] |
| 176 | [[caption-width-right:280:[[labelnote:Click here to see as Ms. Marvel]] https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/karlasofen01.jpg [[/labelnote]]]] |
| 177 | |
| 178 | !!! '''Alter Ego:''' Dr. Karla Sofen |
| 179 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Captain America'' #192 (December 1975) [[note]]As Karla Sofen[[/note]]; ''The Incredible Hulk'' #228 (October 1978) [[note]]As Moonstone[[/note]]; ''Incredible Hulk'' #449 (January 1997) [[note]]As Meteorite[[/note]]; ''Dark Avengers'' #1 (March 2009) [[note]]As Ms. Marvel[[/note]] |
| 180 | |
| 181 | --> ''I'm more Ms. Marvel than you'll ever be! I am going to break you! I will keep you in the basement of the Avengers Tower! Turn you into my pet! I will be your God!'' |
| 182 | |
| 183 | Dr. Karla Sofen is a founding member of the Thunderbolts and former member of the Masters of Evil. She has flirted with both sides of the law in ComicBook/NormanOsborn's Avengers as Ms. Marvel. She's a control freak with nearly limitless power granted her by moonstones, hence her codename. |
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| 185 | * AGodAmI: Seems to have this opinion upon getting her powers, not helped by her degree in psychiatry and innate belief in her superiority to all others. |
| 186 | * {{Archenemy}}: She made life difficult for a lot of people, but the [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk Hulk]] was the first one able to prove Karla Sofen was a criminal (with a little help from Doc Sampson). Hulk got displaced by the second [[ComicBook/MonicaRambeau Captain Marvel]], who indirectly put Moonstone out of action when Sofen broke her own neck in a botched escape attempt. When Captain Marvel lost her powers, the original Moonstone, Lloyd Bloch, came back with new powers seeking [[ALighterShadeOfBlack revenge on Sofen]], and became her main enemy. When Bloch [[EvilerThanThou got taken out]] by Count Nefaria, Sofen's nemesis defaulted to Ms. Marvel, Carol Danvers, who is determined to redeem and reform Sofen. |
| 187 | * BigBadWannabe: Karla is very intelligent and has a wide range of powers, but she has a tendency to overestimate her abilities, often only winning because she is working with others against particular foes and forced to acknowledge that she isn't quite as manipulative as Baron Zemo or as skilled a fighter as [[Characters/MarvelComicsMarvels Photon]] when they manage to outmaneuver her in direct confrontations. |
| 188 | * CerebusRetcon: Dr. Karla Sofen (Meteorite/Moonstone) first appeared as a psychologist and psychiatrist who so disliked being dependent on her patients for income that she entered the super-criminal world as an aide to Doctor Faustus. Then in ''Thunderbolts'' #25, her backstory revealed that she grew up in the mansion of Hollywood producer Charles Stockbridge, as the child of his butler Karl Sofen. Growing up, Karla resented the wealthy family her parents served for having the wealth she wanted and was forced to be a playmate to Charles's daughter Deanna Stockbridge. While Deanna saw Karla as a true friend, Karla envied the wealth she had and started to manipulate the naïve Deanna into giving her things, and other times she merely messed with the poor girl's self-esteem for her own amusement. Karla wanted to get away from the mansion and the wealthy family for their effortless superiority. When her father died of a heart attack, Karla got her wish, and her mother, Marion Sofen, left the mansion to live with her parents. Karla saw her mother get three jobs to support them and made sure to give Karla the chance she never had by sending her to the best schools. At Karla's graduation, while Marion felt pride for her daughter, Karla felt contempt for her mother. Karla vowed never to be so stupid as to put anyone else's needs over her own and went into psychology in college to understand better how to control others. Then it is shown that Karla Sofen is more evil, cruel, and selfish than she let on. First, ''Thunderbolts'' #110 revealed that Karla drove eight patients to suicide and was instrumental in the therapeutic hospitalization of six more. Then ''Ms. Marvel'' #38 took her contempt for her mother to its ultimate conclusion when it is revealed that she murdered her mother. And while there were hints, she felt guilt for killing her mother, and she killed her mother because she did not want to see her as a supervillain. When she destroys her mother's grave, she shows that she truly will never put the needs of others before her own despite the guilt she feels or hurting the people she loves. |
| 189 | * ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Karla tends to plot against and betray anyone all the freaking time. Generally, the only reason anyone puts up with her is because her powers make her too useful to pass up, or she has something that can't easily be taken from her. |
| 190 | * CurbStompBattle: In issue 12 of the first Thunderbolts series, she's the one who goes after Baron Zemo when the Thunderbolts try to free Earth's heroes from his control. In a rare case of realistic outcomes, her SuperStrength and his lack of a pre-established edge means that she effortlessly handles him; she crushes his hand so badly the bones are described as snapping like twigs, breaks his jaws, pulverizes three of his teeth, and crumples his ribcage. |
| 191 | * CutLexLuthorACheck: Whilst handing out her CurbStompBattle to Baron Zemo, she furiously berates him for his lack of imagination, declaring the Thunderbolts to have been a scam that could have profited them for ''years'', but which he wasted on one single doomed-to-fail scheme. |
| 192 | ** She's also guilty of it, as Karla could just be an effective shrink, but decided to be a PsychoPsychologist - even when she discovered it could work in her favor, by breaking Lloyd Bloch to the point he released his moonstone, Karla took that as an opportunity to became a supervillain. And Moonstone's attempts to go straight always end with her branching into illegal activity. |
| 193 | * DatingCatwoman: With Hawkeye. Karla genuinely loved Clint, and actually made a genuine attempt at heroism for his sake. |
| 194 | * DirtyCoward: If a situation's looking bad, Karla's first instinct is to save herself. |
| 195 | * EvilCounterpart: After already having been Ms. Marvel, [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/7/75/Karla_Sofen_%28Earth-616%29_from_Dark_Avengers_Vol_1_185_001.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20130116020840 Karla is put into Captain Marvel's costume, making her baffled at how much people want her to be this to Carol Danvers.]] |
| 196 | * FatalFlaw: |
| 197 | ** Sloth. Karla ''always'' takes the easiest option, even when it could come back down the road to bite her. After the redemption-seeking Thunderbolts turn on Zemo, she uses her position as leader to make several decisions that grant them the momentary victory, but which could clearly come back to bite them, such as her actions on Kosmos and against Graviton. This results in the rest of the Thunderbolts calling her out on this failing, and ends in issue 20 of the original run, where everyone agrees that this trait of hers makes her unsuited to be their leader. |
| 198 | ** Her lack of empathy is another. She recognized for a while that being a hero was better for her than being a villain, but because she just lacks any natural empathy for others, she's unable to recognize her own cruelty in others. And when her heroism eventually leads her into a coma, it pretty much takes away any lasting desire towards heroism. |
| 199 | * FemmeFatale: Tall, [[MostCommonSuperpower curvaceous]], seductive (slept with Hawkeye while in the Thunderbolts, and Noh-Varr, Bullseye and ComicBook/{{Daken}} during her ComicBook/DarkAvengers stint), and very evil. |
| 200 | * FormFittingWardrobe: Karla can summon her costume, and thus starting with [[http://www.writeups.org/wp-content/uploads/Moonstone-Meteorite-Ms-Marvel-Marvel-Comics-Karla-Sofen-d.jpg Meteorite's metal-like first suit]] it's often something that showcases her body. When questioned about this, [[https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.arts.comics.marvel.universe/FjaJZg-be6s/KY4q3qSGsHgJ Kurt Busiek replied]] that Moonstone [[DistractedByTheSexy deliberately uses sex appeal as a weapon.]] Granted, she does it on her own terms, and doesn't always feel comfortable wearing other people's revealing designs. |
| 201 | * FromNobodyToNightmare: She started out as just a henchperson for Doctor Faustus. She's come a ''looong'' way since. |
| 202 | * FlyingBrick: Her move set is this as she can fly, hit strong, quickly, with more endurance and agility than most. |
| 203 | * GoodPowersBadPeople: {{Deconstruction}}; the gemstone that grants Karla her powers was originally crafted for a Kree space hero, and it's imbued with a portion of their heroic instinct, which began to come out while working with the Thunderbolts, ''particularly'' when Hawkeye came around. However, this is personified largely by giving her a conscience and a sense of empathy, two things that were ''completely'' alien to her and confused the hell out of her. The dichotomy of having an "artificial" conscience while being a natural sociopath caused a great deal of mental instability, and nearly drove her insane. Later, it succeeded, both in driving her insane and then resorting her to sanity with a conscience, that Sofen proceeded to ignore. |
| 204 | * HeelFaceDoorSlam: At one point, she actually did try to go straight. It didn't last. She just cannot resist the temptation to make a quick buck, even if it is illegal. Power over others is also something she just cannot resist. |
| 205 | * HelmetsAreHardlyHeroic: {{Invoked|Trope}}, she decided to go without a helmet when pretending to be the superhero Meteorite. It didn't provide her with that much more protection than her powers did anyway, [[ArmorIsUseless offering little help]] during her defeats at Captain Marvel's hands. Even after returning to being Moonstone, she ended up with a white mask instead of the helmet thanks to Norman Osborn, who had his own image concerns. |
| 206 | * IAmNotLeftHanded: In the early days of the team, she hid her phasing ability so her powers wouldn't too closely mirror those of the villain Moonstone (lest anyone get suspicious). |
| 207 | * IAmWhatIAm: Karla's pretty damn well aware of what a monstrous person she is, and gives absolutely no craps whatsoever. She revels in it. |
| 208 | * [[IntangibleMan Intangible Woman]]: She can make herself and other persons intangible by reducing her or the person's body's specific gravity. |
| 209 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: On occasion; for instance she WAS genuinely saddened when Jolt was murdered despite the fact that Jolt wasn't overly fond of her. |
| 210 | * LackOfEmpathy: She outright swore as a youth she'd always put herself first. While she's not a the popular idea of psychopath in that Sofen is mentally capable of caring for other people, and of discerning right from wrong, she's generally held herself to that. |
| 211 | * LegacyCharacter: She was the psychiatrist of the original Moonstone, [[Characters/CaptainAmericaRoguesGallery Lloyd Bloch]]. Karla messed with his head, then took the moonstone for herself. |
| 212 | * LightEmUp: She is able to illuminate dark areas, make it hard for other people to see if she lights herself up too brightly and can push around concentrated photons with her fists, giving her projectiles that can rend iron. |
| 213 | * LightIsNotGood: As Moonstone her costume is mostly yellow and white, yet she's easily the most amoral of the Thunderbolts. |
| 214 | * TheLostLenore: Was this for a while for both Hawkeye and Baron Zemo, after being rendered comatose. With Hawkeye it was short-lived, as he then died shortly after himself, and when he returned, so had she. For the Baron, it was much longer, and in some regard his genuine attempt at heroism was motivated by her. |
| 215 | * ManipulativeBitch: Given she is a certified psychiatrist, Moonstone uses her knowledge of the human mind to goad others - right in her villainous debut, it worked on the [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk Hulk]], confusing him enough to make Moonstone go mostly unharmed and Hulk to eventually flee the Gamma Base. There isn't anyone she won't psychoanalyze, manipulate into doing her bidding and dispose of to get what she wants. |
| 216 | * MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: Unsurprisingly, Karla generally used her degree in psychiatry to screw with people, rather than diagnose and medicate them, causing several of her patients to kill themselves. |
| 217 | * MsFanservice: Her form-fitting suits are often self made or even manifested through her powers, showing Sofen likes to show off her voluptuous curves and figure that certainly caught some stares. She doesn't always like other people's revealing designs, however, especially disliking Carol Danvers's old Miss Marvel outfit, but Sofen still wore it, if only to look more "heroic" and thus still fulfilled this trope. |
| 218 | * {{Necromancy}}: {{Conversed|Trope}} during one of Moonstone's many scams. [[LouisCypher Dr. Sophien]]'s "Project Aaru" involved using emotional manipulation and blackmail respectively on [[ComicBook/MonicaRambeau Spectrum]] and [[ComicBook/{{Ironman}} Ghost]] in an attempt to upload human memories as data in a digital communications network that would be accessible to the paying public via the internet. She claimed this would allow people to continue to converse with their loved ones after death, but "Sophien" had no knowledge, or care about any method to preserve anyone's consciousness in the process; she was really just taking the personal information of dying people without their consent. Ghost was not amused, neither with being used nor the [[EvenEvilHasStandards moral implications]] of her science project, so he ended up [[EnemyMine helping Spectrum]] overcome [[OutGambitted Moonstone]] before [[ALighterShadeOfBlack making off with the data he desired.]](he didn't agree with the extraction, but since the information was available he figured he might as well use it) |
| 219 | * NiceJobFixingItVillain: In a rare slip-up from her, Karla let slip that Norman Osborn was a villain, and his Dark Avengers team consisted entirely of villains, to Noh-Varr, turning the Kree against Norman. |
| 220 | * NotMeThisTime: During the Ellis run, Moonstone ran into Songbird's on-the-wagon mother just after she'd had an argument with Melissa. Very soon, Melissa's mother was found dead, from drunk driving. Later on, Norman Osborn asked if Karla was responsible for this. |
| 221 | -->'''Norman:''' Did you kill her? |
| 222 | -->'''Karla:''' Did ''you?'' |
| 223 | -->''(awkward pause)'' |
| 224 | -->'''Norman:''' ... Well, then. |
| 225 | * PowerCrystal: Moonstone's name and powers are derived from a Kree gravity stone that was found on the Earth's moon and bonded with her nervous system. The stone gives her the power of flight, intangibility and laser blasts from the hands. For a time, she had absorbed a second gravity stone which also granted her the ability to control gravitational forces, erect force fields, generate miniature black holes, and transport objects through dimensional rifts. |
| 226 | * PragmaticVillainy: She actively encouraged her teammates to reform and sided with them when they turned against Zemo, not because she was noble, but because, as explained above, she felt pretending to be heroes was more profitable and comfortable than Zemo's idiotic scheme to TakeOverTheWorld. |
| 227 | * PsychoPsychologist: Sofen is practically the ur-example for the Marvel Universe. She used to enjoy convincing suicidal patients to kill themselves, and at least once was shown in a flashback to her pre-Moonstone days deliberately encouraging a patient's concerns that her husband was having an affair by calling the woman's house and acting as though she was her husband's lover because she allegedly had too few patients to "afford" to lose one because she was successfully cured. |
| 228 | * PutOnABus: Entered a ConvenientComa after the events of ''Avengers / Thunderbolts''. She woke up again just at the end of Nicieza's run, and remained through 'till the end of ''ComicBook/SecretInvasion'', when she shuffled off to ''Dark Avengers''. |
| 229 | * TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Her epic chewing out of Baron Zemo for blowing their cover as the Masters of Evil during her CurbStompBattle with him in issue 12 of the original run: |
| 230 | -->'''Meteorite:'''Let me '''explain''' something, Zemo. Let me tell you '''why''' I undermined your leadership at every turn. I've got a pretty '''simple''' philosophy of life. You want to '''hear''' it? It's this: '''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis Don't. Get.]] [[SuddenlyShouting CAUGHT!]]''' Oh, I was '''stupid''' at first - I thought my powers made me '''invincible'''... so I ended up getting a '''record''', getting '''caught'''. I was willing to ride it '''out''', serve my sentence and start '''anew''' -- but you press-ganged me into your '''scheme''', and there went '''that'''. Still, it was a '''good''' scheme -- posing as heroes -- and we made it '''work'''. We had it all -- public support, adulation; the perfect cover to pull any '''number''' of scams -- and you went and '''blew''' it over '''just one'''! '''Who CARES about ruling the world?! Who wants to do that much WORK?''' We could have run this con out for '''years''' before it got old! But no, you couldn't be '''smart''' -- not when you could play '''Hitler''' like your idiot '''father'''! |
| 231 | * SanitySlippage: She went completely mad during the events of ''Avengers / Thunderbolts''. |
| 232 | * ShadowArchetype: After the death of Mar-Vell Sofen became written as a shadow to the second Captain Marvel, Monica Rambeau. They both have mother issues but while Rambeau worked hers out Sofen shut hers out, and then was {{rev|ison}}ealed to have killed her. Both are attached to their super powers, to perhaps an unhealthy degress, but Rambeau got hers by dumb luck and was initially frightened by them, falling in love with them later after being deemed the new Captain Marvel by news media, while Sofen decided to steal hers from the first Moonstone, along with his title. Both often seek posisitions of leadership, but Rambeau is a somewhat reluctant leader who takes charge when she thinks she is best for the job and lives to serve, while Sofen seeks leadership as a means to control others and live more comfortably. Sofen has discovered genuine joy in serving other people, but unlike Rambeau Sofen refuses to do so unless she herself is benefitting first. Since "leaving" The Masters Of Evil Sofen has recognized their shared interests, desires and flaws and attempted to convince Rambeau that Sofen's goals align with Rambeau's values. They usually don't, and Rambeau knows it, but she was persuaded into helping Sofen complete Project Auru during ''ComicBook/Strikeforce''. |
| 233 | * SherlockScan: Lazy, cowardly, treacherous, but she's not stupid. Karla is capable of quickly assessing things at a glance... and then working out how to utilize that for her own gain. |
| 234 | * SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: The reason she fell in love with Hawkeye. She had spent weeks planning to manipulate him, trying to figure out some way to do so, but then realized that Clint was attracted to her. Though she briefly thought about manipulating him, she found his natural charm and heroism strangely infectious and instead just seriously courted him. |
| 235 | * TheSmurfettePrinciple: She has a tendency of being the only woman when recruited into villain teams, being the only female of Norman Osborn's first Dark Avengers. When recruited by Zemo and Kingpin for their newest incarnation of the Thunderbolts, she was the only woman, and the same when Fisk hired her as personnel at Ravencroft, being the only female villain specifically brought. |
| 236 | * TheStarscream: Karla's greatest ambition is to be the one in charge - as much as she likes messing with peoples' heads for fun, it's pursuit of power that drives her manipulations and treachery first and foremost. |
| 237 | * StatuesqueStunner: She stands at 5'11"/180cm, the same height as Carol Danvers. |
| 238 | * {{Stripperiffic}}: She ''hated'' having to play Ms. Marvel for Norman, muttering angrily about Carol's old, revealing outfit. |
| 239 | * SuperStrength: With one moonstone, Moonstone is roughly equal to Spider-Man in strength. With two she's comparable to Miss Marvel. |
| 240 | * TeethClenchedTeamwork: |
| 241 | ** Initially with Zemo, as neither trusted one-another (and in fact, Karla hadn't even ''wanted'' to be on the team in the first place) and both sought to undermine the other's leadership. They got along much better after both of their HeelFaceTurn. |
| 242 | ** With Songbird, as the two genuinely can't stand one-another. Melissa resents how much of a callous sociopath Karla is and her cruel tendencies even when trying to be a hero. Karla resents that Melissa is naturally more likable and endearing to others then she is and finds the girl self righteous. Both have a tendency to butt heads, though Karla in particular likes to snarkily put her down and relishes the opportunity to antagonize her. |
| 243 | * ThenLetMeBeEvil: After a lengthy stint as a genuine hero, Karla got left comatose due to a mental breakdown. When she recovers, she slides back into her old sociopathic villainy, making it seem that nearly dying in an incident that was partially the Avengers' fault made her decide there was no point in heroics. |
| 244 | * TokenEvilTeammate: Amongst the Thunderbolts, she's the most manipulative, sadistic and amoral member of the team. She even makes Zemo more likable. |
| 245 | * TooProudForLowlyWork: When the Thunderbolts first broke away from Baron Zemo and had to find ways to make ends meet, they mostly get menial jobs like waitressing or dishwashing. Meteorite, a former psychiatrist, can't bring herself to accept such work, even though all her efforts to get more white-collar jobs end in failure. |
| 246 | * VillainExitStageLeft: Related to the FatalFlaw above, she knows when to run away instead of fighting. Sometimes it doesn't work and she's captured. |
| 247 | * WarriorTherapist: She's a warrior, a therapist, and she's evil. |
| 248 | * WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Losing her powers and becoming an ordinary person again. |
| 249 | * WickedCultured: Has a fondness for the works of Sondheim. When Jolt says she always thought his works feel a little bit like the man is too smug for her tastes, Karla's reaction was basically "... and?" |
| 250 | [[/folder]] |
| 251 | |
| 252 | [[folder:Songbird / Screaming Mimi]] |
| 253 | !!Songbird / Screaming Mimi |
| 254 | [[quoteright:281:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/songbird_marvel_comics_thunderbolts_melissa_gold_a.jpg]] |
| 255 | [[caption-width-right:281:Songbird]] |
| 256 | [[caption-width-right:281:[[labelnote:Click here to see as Screaming Mimi]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/319730_157537_songbird.jpg[[/labelnote]]]] |
| 257 | |
| 258 | !!! '''Alter Ego:''' Melissa Joan "Mel" Gold |
| 259 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Marvel Two-in-One'' #54 (August 1979) [[note]]As Screaming Mimi[[/note]]; ''The Incredible Hulk'' #449 (January 1997) [[note]]As Songbird[[/note]] |
| 260 | |
| 261 | Formerly the super villain Screaming Mimi, Songbird is a founding member of the original Thunderbolts. Melissa Gold grew up in a trailer park with her drunken father, her mother in prison for theft, and was tormented constantly by her peers. She had to develop a tough personality and ended up living on the street after running away from home. After being set up and sent to prison herself, she joined the super-human wrestling scene, being forcibly given surgical implants to give her super-sonic screams. After a brief stint with the Masters of Evil, she partnered up with fellow sound-themed villain Angar. |
| 262 | |
| 263 | After the death of Angar, Mel fell into despair and ended up destroying her vocal cords. Approached by Zemo and Fixer, she was given a new set of cybernetic vocal cords which not only returned her screams to her, but allowed her to manipulate sound into hard objects. Becoming the "hero" Songbird, she agreed to help them in their plans. Seeing her Songbird persona as the second chance she so desperately needed, she recreated herself fully, embracing the new mantle she had been given and, as more former villains joined the team, sought to give them the same chance that she had been given at a new life. |
| 264 | ---- |
| 265 | * AmicableExes: Even after breaking up with Abe, they still care about each other deeply. |
| 266 | * TheBabyOfTheBunch: Before Jolt joined, Melissa was the youngest member of the team, and many of them tended to refer to her as 'kid'. |
| 267 | * BarrierWarrior: One of the use she has of her powers as Songbird. |
| 268 | * BeautifulAllAlong: Without the Screaming Mimi wig and make-up, she's actually quite beautiful, as demonstrated when she became Songbird. |
| 269 | * BreakoutCharacter: As Screaming Mimi, Melissa was an infrequently occurring bad guy. Tough, but definitely not an a-list threat. As Songbird, her popularity exploded. As of 2016, she is officially a member of the Avengers. |
| 270 | * BrickJoke: Finally joins the Avengers after being hinted at in ''ComicBook/AvengersForever'' over twenty years ago. |
| 271 | * TheCameo: After not being seen in a couple of years, she's seen [[spoiler:at the wedding reception of Hulkling and Wiccan]] during the epilogue of ''Empyre'' along with many other heroes. |
| 272 | * DarkActionGirl: Became just an ActionGirl when she turned good. |
| 273 | * DependingOnTheWriter: In her Screaming Mimi days, it was often unclear if she shared the enhanced strength the other Grapplers had or if her scream was her only power. As Songbird, it's generally treated as the latter case, as she never references having any powers beyond her scream and sound constructs. |
| 274 | * DePower: More than once. |
| 275 | ** Aforementioned incident with Angar the Screamer. |
| 276 | ** During her stay as a "guest" of John Garret in 2015's ''New Avengers'', her powers were deactivated. Good thing she knew some friendly mad scientists who managed to get them back. |
| 277 | * DidntThinkThisThrough: During her Screaming Mimi days, Melissa once used her scream on ComicBook/{{Dazzler}}. Y'know, the Dazzler whose mutant powers are fueled by ''sound''. Once Alison managed to work through the pain, she had a handy power-up ready to go. |
| 278 | * DiedInYourArmsTonight: Her partner Angar, causing her to be so wracked with guilt that she proceeded to scream for ''43 minutes straight'' destroying the surrounding area and wrecking her vocal cords. |
| 279 | * DiscardAndDraw: She traded a sonic scream with some degree of mind control properties for ImaginationBasedSuperpower based around solid sound constructs, allowing both flight and SpontaneousWeaponCreation. She later regained her original powers. This actually caused problems for her in the early Thunderbolts days, as she had no idea how to use her new powers. |
| 280 | * DoubleReverseQuadrupleAgent: During her stint on [[ComicBook/{{Sunspot}} Roberto Da Costa]]'s ComicBook/{{New Avengers|2015}}, she claimed to be working for A.I.M., but was actually [[spoiler:working for ComicBook/{{SHIELD}}, except she was ''really'' working for Roberto all along]]. |
| 281 | * FanservicePack: She had modest proportions, specially compared to the other girl (one issue downright has Melissa described by a goon as "a skinny chick", while Karla was "a blonde bombshell"). And then another artist took over and her reintroduction was [[https://i.annihil.us/u/prod/marvel/i/mg/8/d0/5bdc646b3a224/clean.jpg like]] [[https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/S/cmx-images-prod/Item/701647/Previews/c433215d4628a8fdc14e117342c29526._SX360_QL80_TTD_.jpg this]], and it led to more depictions with the MostCommonSuperpower (though usually it's just enough to fill out the FormFittingWardrobe) or revealing civilian attire. |
| 282 | * {{Flight}}: Her most common use of her sound constructs is a pair of wings that allow her to fly. |
| 283 | * HeelFaceTurn: Eventually decides to actually make one after enjoying pretending to be a hero. |
| 284 | * KidAppealCharacter: In-universe, it's noted that Songbird is very popular with young girls, due to her cuteness and good nature. |
| 285 | * NonConformistDyedHair: As soon as she turned to crime, she dyed her blonde hair white. And the makeover as Songbird added a pink stripe. |
| 286 | * OnlySaneMan: During Ellis' run, shared with Dr. Chen Lu (and even he had a slight wobble thanks to some bad guys). |
| 287 | * SignificantGreenEyedRedhead: If one counts the pink in her hair as red, she counts given being one of the most prominent members of the Thunderbolts. |
| 288 | * StatusQuoIsGod: Averted; she's probably the one least likely to revert back to villainy. It helps that Screaming Mimi was a pretty forgettable supervillain, while Songbird is a pretty awesome superhero. |
| 289 | * {{Stripperific}}: As Screaming Mimi, she dressed often in leotards or two-piece outfits with tiny skirts. As Songbird, she's dressed head-to-toe but in a FormFittingWardrobe, and it's often shown her civilian attire can sometimes be on the revealing side. |
| 290 | * SuperScream: Her original power. As Songird, she has a mantle allowing her to channel it onto [[SwissArmySuperpower very versatile "solid sound" constructs]]. |
| 291 | * TeethClenchedTeamwork: With Moonstone, as the two genuinely can't stand one-another. Melissa resents how much of a callous sociopath Karla is and her cruel tendencies even when trying to be a hero. Karla resents that Melissa is naturally more likable and endearing to others then she is and finds the girl self righteous. Both have a tendency to butt heads, though Karla in particular likes to snarkily put her down and relishes the opportunity to antagonize her. |
| 292 | * TookALevelInBadass: As Screaming Mimi, she was a decent threat for a singe hero but ultimately quite forgettable, but as Songbird, she's one of the Thunderbolts' heaviest hitters. She also started off with the T-Bolts as something of a NaiveNewcomer, both due to getting a new powerset she was unfamiliar with and her youth, but within a few years she was the team's field leader. |
| 293 | * TheStarscream: To Zemo. |
| 294 | * WrestlerInAllOfUs: A former pro-wrestler. |
| 295 | [[/folder]] |
| 296 | |
| 297 | [[folder:Techno / Fixer]] |
| 298 | !!Techno / Fixer |
| 299 | [[quoteright:242:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/fixer_comics.png]] |
| 300 | [[caption-width-right:242:Techno]] |
| 301 | [[caption-width-right:242:[[labelnote:Click here to see as Fixer]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/3bb3ddb63da4c3383e4a21b7ab58d112.jpg[[/labelnote]]]] |
| 302 | |
| 303 | !!! '''Alter Ego:''' Paul Norbert "Bert" Ebersol |
| 304 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Strange Tales'' #141 (February 1966) [[note]]As Fixer[[/note]]; ''The Incredible Hulk'' #449 (January 1997) [[note]]As Techno[[/note]] |
| 305 | |
| 306 | A technological genius, Fixer pursued a life of crime as a partner to Mentallo and later a member of the Masters of Evil. He later became a founding member of the heroic Thunderbolts and despite hating the idea of being a hero has remained a mainstay ever since. |
| 307 | ---- |
| 308 | * BaldOfEvil: Usually appeared bald headed, although recently he has regrown his hair. |
| 309 | * BeardOfEvil: He has a goatee, and he's easily one of the more amoral Thunderbolts. |
| 310 | * BrainUploading: He escapes dying when he is seemingly killed by the Elements of Doom by transferring his brainwaves to a recording device in his tech-pack and then using it to create a new cybernetic body for himself. |
| 311 | * CaptureAndReplicate: Secretly returned to help the team disguised as Ogre, who he found in Mt. Charteris and decided to impersonate. |
| 312 | * ChallengeSeeker: Joined up with Zemo mainly because he was bored out of his mind. |
| 313 | * {{Cyborg}}: He made himself a robotic body after his organic body was ruined, and could assimilate any technology into himself. |
| 314 | * DeadpanSnarker: To Mentallo and his more eccentric teammates. |
| 315 | * DoNotCallMePaul: Literally. He prefers to being referred to by his middle name or just Bert rather than Paul. |
| 316 | * DudeWheresMyRespect: When the other Thunderbolts turn against Zemo, Fixer remains with him, and proves a dangerous enemy, until Karla exploits his vanity, unfavourably comparing him to his old buddy Mentallo. Fixer is so outraged he decides to check the international crime databases ''mid-fight'' just to soothe his ego. |
| 317 | * GadgeteerGenius: Techno's original power set is his incredible aptitude for mechanics and seemingly endless stream of ideas for new inventions, which includes his own armor. |
| 318 | * NeckSnap: The Elements of Doom break his neck to kill him. It doesn't stick. |
| 319 | * PowerArmor: He wears one of these, not just for protection but also to walk. |
| 320 | * ScienceRelatedMemeticDisorder: Prior to his transferal to a robot body, Paul seems to be actually compelled to invent new things, to the point that early on, he gets into an argument with Baron Zemo about not being allowed to indulge his need to make new devices to spruce up their initial lair. |
| 321 | * VillainousFriendship: He had one with Mentallo. With Zemo he was betrayed and they fought over it. Yet they teamed up again in recent years, making it a bit complex. |
| 322 | * WildCard: He's on his own side nowadays. |
| 323 | [[/folder]] |
| 324 | |
| 325 | !!Original Series Members |
| 326 | |
| 327 | [[folder:Jolt]] |
| 328 | !!Jolt |
| 329 | [[quoteright:317:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/171133_128792_jolt.jpg]] |
| 330 | |
| 331 | !!! '''Alter Ego:''' Helen "Hallie'' Takahama |
| 332 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Thunderbolts'' Vol. 1, #1 |
| 333 | |
| 334 | Receiving her powers from Arnim Zola's cruel experimentation, Helen Takahama joined the original Thunderbolts team as Jolt, unaware of their hidden agenda. She still managed to become a fine hero in her own right, and helped several other members of the Thunderbolts do likewise. |
| 335 | ---- |
| 336 | * {{Ascended Fan|boy}}girl: Was a superhero fan long before becoming one herself. |
| 337 | * BadassAdorable: A young, cute, good-natured teenage girl who serves as the team's MoralityPet... and also happens to have ''very'' powerful lightning abilities. |
| 338 | * BrokenBird: Her entire family died horribly during the ComicBook/{{Onslaught}} event (on her ''birthday'' no less), she was forced to live in the street with other kids only for them to get captured and offered to Arnim Zola as guinea pigs (which is where she got her powers), and when she escaped, then came back to free her friends with the Thunderbolts, turned out they had all been turned into monsters who could only receive a MercyKill. Poor girl got it ''harsh''. |
| 339 | * CameBackStrong: She died sniped by Scourge, but when Techno did some experiments on the body to investigate Jolt's powers, she was revived and had not only SuperSpeed, but could become PureEnergy, shoot biokinetic blasts and fly. |
| 340 | * FastAsLightning: Her super agility is reflected in both her name and how her ChestInsignia is a lightning bolt. |
| 341 | * MoralityPet: Became one for the team, as they developed a soft spot for her, and she was eventually crucial into convincing them to turn on Zemo; even Karla is rather fond of her despite herself. |
| 342 | * PutOnABus: She went off to Franklin Richards' Counter-Earth, and stayed there for a good long while. |
| 343 | * ShockAndAwe: Her powers after coming BackFromTheDead. |
| 344 | * StepfordSmiler: She is good at acting cheerful and upbeat, but her backstory is really tragic, and as revealed during her therapy with Karla, she had ''huge'' issues. |
| 345 | * TokenGoodTeammate: While her teammates eventually reformed for the most part, she was the first member of the team to not have any villainous past. |
| 346 | * WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Hasn't been seen since she was captured by the Masters of Evil during ''Secret Empire''. |
| 347 | [[/folder]] |
| 348 | |
| 349 | [[folder:Charcoal]] |
| 350 | !!Charcoal |
| 351 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/charcoal_1.jpg]] |
| 352 | |
| 353 | !!! '''Alter Ego:''' Charles "Charlie" Burlingame |
| 354 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Thunderbolts'' Vol. 1, #19 |
| 355 | |
| 356 | Charles Burlingame's father moved around a great deal and had trouble finding work, until he attended a rally of the Imperial Forces of America. The elder Burlingame joined that organization and took his son with him. Arnim Zola, working for the Imperial Forces, discovered that Charlie possessed the genetic potential to develop superhuman powers and facilitated the youngster's transformation into Charcoal, the Burning Man. As part of a group called the Bruiser Brigade, Charcoal fought the Thunderbolts as an enemy, but joined the team soon after. |
| 357 | ---- |
| 358 | * ElementalShapeshifter: Charcoal's primary power is to switch between his human form into a {{golem}}-like form of animate carbon, the precise makeup of which he can adjust to any specific carbon formation, from blazing coal to solid diamond. |
| 359 | * {{Flight}}: By selectively igniting his feet, Charcoal can generate blasts of flame that propel him through the air like a rocket. |
| 360 | * HealingFactor: Downplayed. Charcoal has the ability to replace lost mass from his monstrous form; this allows him to sustain his fiery battle mode and lets him launch flaming projectiles by literally throwing chunks of his own carbon body-mass at his enemies. |
| 361 | * KilledOffForReal: He bites it during a battle with Gravitron. Due to [[ScrewedByTheLawyers rights issues]], he is one of the few superhero comic characters this can be said to truly apply to. |
| 362 | * MundaneUtility: One of the perks of being in monster form is that it shields him from the cold. He also used a piece of his carbon-form's finger as a tracking device to follow Hawkeye to pitch himself as a new Thunderbolt recruit. |
| 363 | * NighInvulnerability: Shifting into diamond form makes him incredibly durable. |
| 364 | * RubberMan: Downplayed. Part of his monster form's abilities is to extend his arms and reshape them into different structures. |
| 365 | * SuperStrength: Charcoal is vastly stronger than a normal man when in his monstrous form. |
| 366 | * WreathedInFlames: As his moniker suggests, Charcoal's primary ability is to ignite his carbon body, engulfing himself in flame which he can use to make himself more dangerous. Doubles as ElementalArmor. |
| 367 | [[/folder]] |
| 368 | |
| 369 | [[folder:Ogre]] |
| 370 | !!Ogre |
| 371 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ogreface.jpg]] |
| 372 | |
| 373 | !!! '''Alter Ego:''' Brian Dunlap |
| 374 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''The X-Men'' Vol. 1, #28 |
| 375 | |
| 376 | Ogre is a human inventor who has been classified as a genius. Ogre worked with the Factor Three out of Mt. Charteris, and, after the teams disbanding, remained there awaiting their return. Years went by, and the base was commandeered by many different villains, with Ogre surviving by stealing food and supplies. After the Thunderbolts claimed Mt. Charteris as their base of operations, Ogre took a liking to the group and, using his vast intellect, created a number of devices and upgrades for them, leaving them as gifts when nobody was around. Upon the team discovering him, the Thunderbolts welcomed him to the team as their strategist and technical support. |
| 377 | ---- |
| 378 | * GadgeteerGenius: Once he discovered Mt. Charteris, decided to fiddle with the local machinery and even make trinkets for the Thunderbolts in secret. |
| 379 | * NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: He hoped to be embraced by the Thunderbolts for helping them. Instead, Techno got the laurels once he [[CaptureAndReplicate knocked out Ogre, put him in a hypersleep chamber and took his identity]]. Ogre didn't take it well, as once he woke up, he hid deep into Mt. Charteris and angrily told the Thunderbolts that he wasn't willing to take any risks. |
| 380 | * PurpleIsPowerful: His costume is mostly purple and violet. |
| 381 | [[/folder]] |
| 382 | |
| 383 | [[folder:Citizen V III / Atlas II / Vantage]] |
| 384 | !!Citizen V III / Atlas II / Vantage |
| 385 | [[quoteright:281:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/2096500_dallas_riordan_getting_her_orders_thunderbolts_1.jpg]] |
| 386 | [[caption-width-right:281:Dallas Riordan]] |
| 387 | [[caption-width-right:281:[[labelnote:Click here to see as Citizen V]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/3513399_thunderbolts04201.jpg[[/labelnote]]]] |
| 388 | [[caption-width-right:281:[[labelnote:Click here to see as Vantage]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/vantage_atlas_citizen_v_marvel_comics_thunderbolts_dallas_riordan_e.jpg[[/labelnote]]]] |
| 389 | |
| 390 | !!! '''Alter Ego:''' Dallas Riordan |
| 391 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Thunderbolts'' Vol. 1, #1 |
| 392 | |
| 393 | Dallas Riordan's father and most of her family were police officers so it was natural for her to go into the 'family business'. After some time with the NYPD she became an aide to the mayor of New York City. When the Thunderbolts appeared after the disappearances of ComicBook/TheAvengers and the ComicBook/FantasticFour, the city embraced them as their new hero team so the mayor appointed Dallas as liaison between his office and the new team of "heroes". |
| 394 | |
| 395 | Dallas quickly began a flirtatious relationship with Atlas, and the two were dating when the team was outed as villains. In order to save face, the mayor chose to blame Dallas for leading him astray and promptly fired her. A short time later, Dallas was approached by Roger Aubrey of the V-Battalion and he offered her the role as their main field operative Citizen V (the original Citizen V, John Watkins, was a Golden Age hero murdered by Helmut's father Baron Heinrich Zemo). Furious over the way her life had been destroyed by the Thunderbolts, Dallas decided to take down Zemo and the Thunderbolts herself. |
| 396 | |
| 397 | After coming into conflict with the Thunderbolts many times, and changing identities more than once, she came to acquire a mutual respect for the team members (except Zemo), and would eventually end up joining the team as Vantage (ostensibly to keep an eye on Zemo, and kill him if he gave her reason to). |
| 398 | ---- |
| 399 | * DatingCatwoman: Gender Inverted, but she technically was doing this when she was in a relationship with Erik, who at the time was still pretending to be a hero. |
| 400 | * FieryRedhead: She has red hair and can be hot-tempered when angered enough. |
| 401 | * LegacyCharacter: Third Citizen V after Zemo's exposure. |
| 402 | * StatuesqueStunner: She's 5'10"/178cm tall, and while shorter than Erik, she's still taller than Melissa and barely shorter than Karla. |
| 403 | [[/folder]] |
| 404 | |
| 405 | [[folder:Amazon / Man-Killer]] |
| 406 | !!Amazon / Man-Killer |
| 407 | [[quoteright:281:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/77286_164965_man_killer.jpg]] |
| 408 | [[caption-width-right:281:Amazon]] |
| 409 | [[caption-width-right:281:[[labelnote:Click here to see as Man-Killer]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/667622_man_killer.jpg[[/labelnote]]]] |
| 410 | |
| 411 | !!! '''Alter Ego:''' Katrina Louisa van Horn |
| 412 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Marvel Team-Up'' Vol. 1, #8 |
| 413 | |
| 414 | Katrina was a professional skier with what seemed to be a highly promising career ahead. She was challenged to a race by Karl Lubbings, a rival skier that wanted to prove her supposed inferiority to the males of the field. Karl "accidentally" crashed into her, sending them both off a cliff, with Karl dying in the fall and Katrina left scarred and crippled. She was contacted by a militant group of feminists who provided her with an exoskeleton, allowing her to walk again and increasing her strength tremendously. Taking the name Man-Killer, she sought to take revenge against the world of men. |
| 415 | |
| 416 | Later she would resurface, now free of her exoskeleton, facing off against the Thunderbolts as a member of the reformed Masters of Evil. After the group dissolved, she was offered a position on the Thunderbolts, where she hit it off with fellow teammate Skein. |
| 417 | ---- |
| 418 | * AmazonianBeauty: A 7'0" tall, 282 lb. red haired, blue-eyed beauty. |
| 419 | * AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: After Zemo gives her some Pym Particles. |
| 420 | * BrawnHilda: She's not that attractive as Man-Killer, although her appearance improves a bit as Amazon. |
| 421 | * ButchLesbian: Later revealed to be this, and has a clear attraction to her teammate Skein. |
| 422 | * CareerEndingInjury: A champion skier forced out of the sport when a rival caused her to crash off a cliff, breaking her back. |
| 423 | * {{Cyborg}}: originally used an exoskeleton to grant her mobility and superhuman strength and durability. |
| 424 | * DeadlyDisc: Man-Killer formerly carried razor-edged discs that she threw with great force and accuracy. |
| 425 | * DependingOnTheWriter: Her sexuality, and her hatred of men. |
| 426 | ** In her initial pre-T-Bolts appearances, she was portrayed as a misandrist, even going so far as to destroy her own exoskeleton (which allows her to walk) upon discovering it was designed by a man. All subsequent writers have toned this down, but the extent to which they do varies. Taken to the opposite extreme in the [[AudienceAlienatingEra Fight Club Era]], where she become a StrawHypocrite, where despite her [[DoesNotLikeMen claims to the contrary]], she very clearly has a sexual attraction to her male teammates and seems to [[InLoveWithYourCarnage get off]] to the violence they make. Fans (and writers) [[FanonDiscontinuity tend to ignore this portrayal]] in particular. |
| 427 | ** Fabien Nicieza wrote her as having an attraction to her teammate Skein, despite her showing no clear attraction to women (or anyone) previously. |
| 428 | * DoesNotLikeMen: Atlas being the only exception. |
| 429 | * EvilRedhead: A fanatical man-hater with fiery red hair. |
| 430 | * FieryRedhead: Often lets her anger overwhelm her. |
| 431 | * FreudianExcuse: Her hatred for men was spawned by an encounter with a misogynistic athlete which led to her being paralyzed. That the athlete in question died of his injuries before she could confront him prevented her from getting any kind of closure, causing her to shift her hatred from him to all men in general. That she was given help by a StrawFeminist terrorist group at the time probably influenced her as well. |
| 432 | * TheLadette: After joining the Masters of Evil, having ditched the StrawFeminist angle, she is portrayed as this. She was even a member of the [[AudienceAlienatingEra Fight-Club Era]] team because she loved fighting so much, and while more prone to picking fights with them, she does seem to be somewhat receptive to some of her male teammates advances. |
| 433 | ** Upon joining the T-Bolts, these elements are toned down somewhat. [[{{Retcon}} Also she's only attracted to women]]. |
| 434 | * LesbianJock: Used to be a professional skier. |
| 435 | * SizeShifter: Thanks to her use of Pym Particles, she can increase her size at will. |
| 436 | * StatuesqueStunner |
| 437 | * SuperStrength: Man-Killer possesses superhuman strength, enabling her to lift around 75 tons at her normal size. |
| 438 | * TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Tomboy to Skein's girly girl. |
| 439 | [[/folder]] |
| 440 | |
| 441 | [[folder:Blackheath / Plantman]] |
| 442 | !!Blackheath / Plantman |
| 443 | [[quoteright:281:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/3109843_thunderbolts075.jpg]] |
| 444 | [[caption-width-right:281:Blackheath]] |
| 445 | [[caption-width-right:281:[[labelnote:Click here to see as Plantman]]:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/plantman_marvel_comics_b.jpg[[/labelnote]]]] |
| 446 | |
| 447 | !!! '''Alter Ego:''' Samuel "Sam" Smithers |
| 448 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Strange Tales'' Vol. 1, #113 |
| 449 | |
| 450 | Samuel Smithers wanted to try to find a way for humans to communicate with plant life. With his work not taken seriously, Smithers was reduced to taking a job as a gardener. [[LightningCanDoAnything When a bolt of lightning struck Smithers' experimental device, he developed the ability to control and animate plant life.]] Seeking revenge against those who laughed at him and took his job away, Smithers became Plantman. |
| 451 | |
| 452 | Blackheath eventually joined up with the Thunderbolts for some time before they disbanded. At this time, his plantlike powers had taken a new take and Samuel had become more plant-like. He then changed his name into Blackheath. |
| 453 | ---- |
| 454 | * AlliterativeName: '''S'''amuel '''S'''mithers. |
| 455 | * GreenThumb: Is able to control plants. |
| 456 | * PlantPerson: His powers have evolved so much he's nowadays more plant than human. |
| 457 | [[/folder]] |
| 458 | |
| 459 | [[folder:Cyclone III]] |
| 460 | !!Cyclone |
| 461 | [[quoteright:238:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/197377_47210_cyclone.jpg]] |
| 462 | |
| 463 | !!! '''Alter Ego:''' Pierre Fresson |
| 464 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Thunderbolts'' Vol. 1, #3 |
| 465 | |
| 466 | The third person to bare the name Cyclone, Fresson was a member of Justine Hammer's first incarnation of the Masters of Evil and battled the Thunderbolts and other heroes on numerous occasions. He also has his own family in the Maggia organization. He later joined the Thunderbolts when most of the team were presumed dead. |
| 467 | ---- |
| 468 | * BlowYouAway: His suit gives him the ability to generate and control cyclonic winds. |
| 469 | * ClothesMakeTheSuperman: All of his powers are derived from his suit. |
| 470 | * FrenchJerk: French and not particularly nice. |
| 471 | * LegacyCharacter: Fresson is the third villain to use the Cyclone name and suit. |
| 472 | * PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Cyclone has shown himself to be a racist as he referred to a black man, Cottonmouth, as a 'savage'. |
| 473 | * RoguesGalleryTransplant: Originally a foe of the original Thunderbolts, he joined them, went back to the Masters of Evil and has faced Spider-Man and later Old Man Logan. |
| 474 | * TornadoMove: His powers are based on cyclones. |
| 475 | [[/folder]] |
| 476 | |
| 477 | [[folder:Harrier / Cardinal]] |
| 478 | !!Harrier / Cardinal |
| 479 | [[quoteright:281:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/83238_103988_cardinal.jpg]] |
| 480 | [[caption-width-right:281:Harrier]] |
| 481 | [[caption-width-right:281:[[labelnote:Click here to see as Cardinal]] https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/7fad11dccd03f14b400b3316aa695cfa.png[[/labelnote]]]] |
| 482 | |
| 483 | !!! '''Alter Ego:''' Donald "Don" Clendenon |
| 484 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''The New Warriors'' Vol. 1, #28 |
| 485 | |
| 486 | A veteran of the Vietnam War, Donald Clendenon was able to procure a powerful suit of armor and takes up the name Cardinal and worked as a bodyguard and mercenary, where he and his employers frequently came into conflict with the ComicBook/NewWarriors. Later, after the death of his daughter, he was tricked by the Crimson Cowl into believing that Hawkeye was responsible for her death. Hawkeye was able to prove his innocence and convinced Donald to give up his life of crime. He took on the name Harrier to distance himself from his old life. |
| 487 | ---- |
| 488 | * AnimalThemeNaming: The Cardinal, and later the Harrier. |
| 489 | * BlackAndNerdy: Is an engineer who is very interested in the technical specs of his suit. |
| 490 | * HeelFaceTurn: As a member of the ComicBook/{{Thunderbolts}}. |
| 491 | * HiredGuns: Is purely a mercenary. |
| 492 | * OldSoldier: A Vietnam Vet. |
| 493 | * OutlivingOnesOffspring: His daughter Valerie Bernhart was killed during a fight with Graviton. |
| 494 | * PowerArmor: Derives all of his powers from it. |
| 495 | * PutOnABus: Voluntarily went to serve his prison sentence and hasn't been seen since. Either he's still there or was released but never returned to superheroics. |
| 496 | * RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: His Cardinal armor is black and red. |
| 497 | [[/folder]] |
| 498 | |
| 499 | [[folder:Skein / Gypsy Moth]] |
| 500 | !!Skein / Gypsy Moth |
| 501 | [[quoteright:281:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/82486_8669_gypsy_moth.jpg]] |
| 502 | [[caption-width-right:281:Skein]] |
| 503 | [[caption-width-right:281:[[labelnote:Click here to see as Gypsy Moth]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/90964_135738_gypsy_moth.jpg[[/labelnote]]]] |
| 504 | !!! '''Alter Ego:''' Sybil Dvorak |
| 505 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Spider-Woman'' Vol. 1, #10 |
| 506 | |
| 507 | Sybil Dvorak was born in Focşani, Romania. She was raised by Gypsies and spent much of her time alone gardening. She was born a mutant, with the ability to telekinetically manipulate and control materials with her mind. She especially liked manipulating fiber, as it felt pleasant to her mental touch while hard objects felt uncomfortable to her. A loner, she wove herself gossamer wings. At one point she served as the leader of her own cult, calling herself Sybarite, but she was thwarted by ComicBook/SpiderWoman. |
| 508 | |
| 509 | She has served on many super villain teams over the year, including the Nightshift and the Masters of Evil. It was as a member of the latter that she encountered Hawkeye's Thunderbolts, where she decided to switch sides because [[ItAmusedMe she thought it would be fun]]. She left the team shortly after for the same reason, as it stopped "amusing her." |
| 510 | ---- |
| 511 | * AmazonBrigade: For a time she served at the Femizons and later she was part of the Initiative team the Women Warriors. |
| 512 | * AnimalThemeNaming: The Gypsy Moth |
| 513 | * DepravedBisexual: Has shown sexual interest in both sexes. |
| 514 | * DistractedByTheSexy: Her Skein costume was designed to have this effect. |
| 515 | * FemmeFatale: Often uses her looks to seduce targets. |
| 516 | * TheHedonist: She once took on the name of Sybarite and started a hedonistic cult. "Sybarite" paid her followers illegal drugs in return for soft garments and animal bodies, which they stole and scavenged from various sources. Otherwise, she's indeed a consummate hedonist and mostly does things in accordance to her own pleasure and nothing else. |
| 517 | * HotGypsyWoman: Was originally a naïve Gypsy girl whose beauty was enough to captivate a Hollywood star and make him bring her to America. |
| 518 | * ItAmusedMe: Her reason for joining the Thunderbolts. |
| 519 | * MasterOfThreads: Because her powers are directly linked to her mental fortitude, she prefers the soft feel of fabrics to anything else, making it her primary power which she uses to entangle, strangle or otherwise [[NakedPeopleAreFunny embarrassing]] her opponents. |
| 520 | * MindOverMatter: Has the ability to telekinetically manipulate materials and objects with her mind. |
| 521 | * {{Mutant}}: The source of her powers. She's one of the less than 200 mutants to keep their powers after M-Day. |
| 522 | * PowerFloats: By concentrating, she can levitate herself and move through the air as if she were swimming. |
| 523 | * UsefulNotes/{{Romani}}: Was born in Romania and raised by gypsies. |
| 524 | * {{Socialite}}: Her primary occupation . |
| 525 | * SecondaryColorNemesis: Her original outfit as Gypsy Moth was mostly orange. As Skein she prefers mostly black costumes. |
| 526 | * {{Stripperiffic}}: Her original Skein costume showed so much skin, she's practically topless except for some strategically placed fabric. Subsequent outfits are a bit more modest, but still show a lot of cleavage. |
| 527 | [[/folder]] |
| 528 | |
| 529 | !!New Thunderbolts Members |
| 530 | |
| 531 | [[folder:Smuggler]] |
| 532 | !!Smuggler |
| 533 | [[quoteright:290:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/smuggler_marvel_comics_thunderbolts_conrad_josten.jpg]] |
| 534 | |
| 535 | !!! '''Alter Ego:''' Conrad Josten |
| 536 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Thunderbolts'' Vol. 1, #16 |
| 537 | |
| 538 | The younger brother of Eric Josten, aka: Atlas. Being the sibling of a known super villain, Conrad's life wasn't easy, and he was often the one who had to deal with his brother's poor choices. After his brother joined the Thunderbolts, Conrad was approached by Henry Peter Gyrich to join his own team of meta-humans, the Redeemers. Conrad accepted and was given a suit which gave him access to the Darkforce Dimension, allowing him to open portals to and travel through the dimension. After a particularly brutal battle with Graviton in which several of his teammates were [[DroppedABridgeOnHim killed]], Conrad was invited to join the then newly reformed Thunderbolts, which he accepted. |
| 539 | ---- |
| 540 | * ThinkingUpPortals: His suit allows him to open portals into the Darkforce Dimension. |
| 541 | * TrappedInAnotherWorld: Smuggler becomes trapped in the Darkforce Dimension and presumed killed after a particularly brutal battle with Graviton. |
| 542 | [[/folder]] |
| 543 | |
| 544 | !!HAMMER Members |
| 545 | |
| 546 | [[folder:Headsman]] |
| 547 | !!Headsman |
| 548 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/2278768_2278765_thunderbolt_9.jpg]] |
| 549 | |
| 550 | !!! '''Alter Ego:''' Cleavon Twain |
| 551 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Untold Tales of Spider-Man'' #8 |
| 552 | |
| 553 | Headsman was a employee of Norman Osborn. After successive failed attempts at defeating a certain wall-crawling superhero, he joined Norman Osborn's black ops Thunderbolts team. |
| 554 | ---- |
| 555 | * BoomHeadshot: Killed this way by the Scourge when he had an hypnotic suggestion triggered to kill Norman Osborn. Scourge shot through a hologram and hit him instead. |
| 556 | * InTheHood: Has an executioner's hood that also comes with a mask that hides his face. |
| 557 | * PunnyName: Cleavon Twain = "cleave in twain," which translates to "cut in half" |
| 558 | * PurpleIsPowerful: Wears a purple hood. |
| 559 | * RedeemingReplacement: His brother Cody Twain intended to become one for his brother; [[AbortedArc sadly it never came to be]]. |
| 560 | [[/folder]] |
| 561 | |
| 562 | [[folder:Paladin]] |
| 563 | !!Paladin |
| 564 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/1514613_12_h4hv2003__var_cov.jpg]] |
| 565 | |
| 566 | !!! '''Alter Ego:''' Paul Dennis (alias) |
| 567 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Daredevil'' Vol. 1, #150 |
| 568 | |
| 569 | A benevolent and honorable mercenary. Paladin has frequently fought alongside superheroes against some of his dubious employers. |
| 570 | ---- |
| 571 | * BadassNormal: No apparent powers, only lots of skill and training. |
| 572 | * CoolShades: His helmet usually has red tinted shades. |
| 573 | * MysteriousPast: Nobody knows about Paladin's early life, not even his real name. |
| 574 | * NobleDemon: He might be a mercenary, but he prefers to use non-lethal weapons and he's rather honorable most of the time. He even turned on Norman Osborn's agenda during ''Siege''. |
| 575 | * OnlyInItForTheMoney: Always. Paladin's side is whoever's bankrolling him. Osborn just happens to pay money. |
| 576 | * PurpleIsPowerful: His default outfit has purple in it. |
| 577 | [[/folder]] |
| 578 | |
| 579 | [[folder:Mister X]] |
| 580 | !!Mister X |
| 581 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mr_x_from_wolverine_vs_mr_x_vol_1_1d.jpg]] |
| 582 | |
| 583 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Wolverine'' Vol. 1, #159 |
| 584 | An assassin and serial killer, Mister X is notably dangerous because he possesses low-level telepathic abilities that allow him to read his opponents' minds in combat and predict their moves accordingly. |
| 585 | ---- |
| 586 | * BerserkButton: Mister X hates being deprived of a kill or defeated, which is the main reason for his vendetta against ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}, the one foe he literally ''cannot'' defeat in combat as Wolverine either lets himself go berserk to negate X's advantage or relies on his HealingFactor rather than actually fighting X. |
| 587 | * CombatClairvoyance: Mister X relies in combat on the fact that he can read people's minds and tell what they're about to do. Oh, and the fact that he's a kung fu master, but it's his ability to predict moves that gives him the edge he needs. The problem with Mr. X's ability is that it only lets him read his opponent's mind, but not to ''understand'' it. Wolverine manages to beat him by flying into a rage that he can't process, Amadeus Cho thinks in formulas and SesquipedalianLoquaciousness [[PsychicStatic to confuse him]], Iron Fist uses unpredictable DrunkenBoxing, Songbird hits him with an undodgeable area attack, and Quicksilver just [[SuperSpeed moves and thinks too fast for him to keep up]] (while mocking Mr. X about how he'll know every attack is coming but be unable to do a damn thing about it). Scourge and Deadpool also give him a hard time by virtue of being insane. Basically, [[VillainDecay after his first couple of arcs]], his role in the Franchise/MarvelUniverse is to be a whipping boy so that more popular characters can show off their guile. |
| 588 | * CripplingOverspecialization: X's reliance on his telepathy means that he can be defeated if facing an opponent who ''doesn't'' think, such as Wolverine provoking himself into a berserker state of mind. |
| 589 | * ForTheEvulz: Mister X has taken on various contract assassinations just because he likes killing people. |
| 590 | * LogicalWeakness: In addition to aforementioned overspecialization, his telepathy also has two other drawbacks -- he can read the minds of his enemies, but he's still got the reaction times of a human (which had him on the receiving end of a sound thrashing by Quicksilver), and he also has to be able to understand the thoughts he's reading, so if they belong to someone smarter than him, like Amadeus Cho... there's not a thing he can really do. |
| 591 | * SinisterShades: He's almost never seen without a pair. |
| 592 | * TattooedCrook: His body is covered in tattoos. |
| 593 | * WeakButSkilled: While a skilled fighter, Mister X is physically only human, with the result that he was [[spoiler:defeated by [[Characters/MarvelComicsQuicksilver Quicksilver]] because Pietro moves too fast for Mister X to counter him]]. |
| 594 | * WouldHurtAChild: Mister X once tried to lure Wolverine in to fight him by taking a kindergarten class hostage. |
| 595 | [[/folder]] |
| 596 | |
| 597 | !!Luke Cage's Members |
| 598 | |
| 599 | [[folder:Centurius]] |
| 600 | !!Centurius |
| 601 | [[quoteright:280:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/1876194_centurius_by_declan_shalvey.jpg]] |
| 602 | !!! '''Alter Ego:''' Noah Black |
| 603 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.'' Vol. 1, #2 |
| 604 | |
| 605 | A genius in numerous fields, Centurius discovered ways to evolve living things at an accelerated rate. Using these methods on himself, he is now virtually ageless and seeks to remake the world as he sees fit. |
| 606 | ---- |
| 607 | * BaldOfEvil: His head is shaved. |
| 608 | * InsufferableGenius: He's very confident in his superior intellect. |
| 609 | * OneSteveLimit: His codename is rather similar to Ghost Rider's foe Centurious. |
| 610 | [[/folder]] |
| 611 | |
| 612 | [[folder:Troll]] |
| 613 | !!Troll |
| 614 | [[quoteright:283:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/83f22a2d1471ef7c18fdb3f19d9b0cbf_6.jpg]] |
| 615 | |
| 616 | !!! '''Alter Ego:''' Gunna Sijurvald |
| 617 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Thunderbolts'' Vol. 1, #145 |
| 618 | |
| 619 | Gunna's mother was an Asgardian and father was a Troll. Though her mother died, Gunna lived with a wild pack of Trolls and was one day captured by the people of Asgard. Unable to integrate her into civilized life, she was kept in a jail cell with the rest of the trolls until Asgard crashed to the Earth, allowing her to escape. After being captured by the Thunderbolts and taken to the Raft, she formed an attachment with Songbird and was made a part of the B-team. |
| 620 | ---- |
| 621 | * BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Only joins the team because Songbird was the first person to not treat her with condescension, anger, or pity. |
| 622 | * TheBerserker: Her main mode of fighting, and her general attitude when [[MoralityChain Songbird]] isn't around. |
| 623 | * BewareTheCuteOnes: Don't let her fuzzy clothes and simple speech fool you, she'll kick your ass and feed it to you. |
| 624 | * FantasticRacism: Troll really hates Asgardians, despite being partly Asgardian herself. |
| 625 | * ImAHumanitarian: While being teased by some of the other female prisoners, she's chidingly asked if she eats humans. Her response? "Aye." Given the circumstances, she might have been joking. Maybe. |
| 626 | * LittleMissBadass: She's small yet hits very hard. |
| 627 | * {{Moe}}: DependingOnTheArtist, she can either come off as this or UglyCute. |
| 628 | * MoralityChain: Songbird serves as her's, and it's thanks to her that she begins to make connections with other people. |
| 629 | * PeltsOfTheBarbarian: Her usual manner of dress. |
| 630 | * TheQuietOne: Troll doesn't say much. |
| 631 | * UglyCute: See {{Moe}} above. |
| 632 | * WolverineClaws: Her suit has a pair of claws, made from the finger bones of monsters she's slain. |
| 633 | * YouNoTakeCandle: Troll speak in small sentences of broken English. |
| 634 | * YoungerThanTheyLook: Troll, due to her viciousness and [[PeltsOfTheBarbarian style of dress]], was initially mistaken for much older (and human), and is sent to an all-female prison. After Thor explains her origins (and age), the guards are left in a difficult situation as it would be unethical (and illegal) to keep a minor imprisoned with adults, but [[BewareTheCuteOnes as she has already established herself a top dog]] of the prison, it would be just as unethical to ''release'' her. |
| 635 | [[/folder]] |
| 636 | |
| 637 | !!Winter Soldier's Members |
| 638 | |
| 639 | [[folder:Kobik]] |
| 640 | !!Kobik |
| 641 | [[quoteright:320:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/5154822_kobik.jpg]] |
| 642 | [[caption-width-right:320:''ComicBook/AvengersStandoff'' Appearance]] |
| 643 | [[caption-width-right:320:[[labelnote:Click here to see Thunderbolts Appearance]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tumblr_o6o74fuxwb1uoxbxjo3_1280.jpg[[/labelnote]]]] |
| 644 | |
| 645 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''ComicBook/AvengersStandoff: Welcome to Pleasant Hill'' #1 |
| 646 | |
| 647 | A combination of Cosmic Cube fragments that assumed the shape of a little girl. Initially used by S.H.I.E.L.D. to create Pleasant Hill. She was later "reunited" with [[Characters/MarvelComicsRedSkull the Red Skull]], who, under the guise of her father, manipulated her into reshaping reality to his liking. She was later "recovered" by S.H.I.E.L.D. and placed under the care of Bucky Barnes, the leader of the reformed Thunderbolts team. |
| 648 | ---- |
| 649 | * CreepyChild: ZigZagged with Kobik. She seems friendly enough, but like the all-powerful being with the mind of a four-year-old that she is, she thinks nothing of [[spoiler:ripping Karla's heart out as part of a game]] or [[spoiler:converting people to Hydra to "help" them fix the problem they have with nazis]]. |
| 650 | * GooGooGodlike: Kobik mostly resembles a four-year-old little girl and is omnipotent. With no concept of consequences or morality, reigning her in is quite a task. |
| 651 | * LittleMissBadass: Due to being all-powerful, Kobik is a force to be reckoned with. [[spoiler:Man Killer, one of the Masters of Evil, discovers this to her sorrow.]] |
| 652 | * MoralityChain: Bucky is this to Kobik, by forbidding her from simply using her powers because she feels like it, or because she wants to be nice to someone. It works most of the time. |
| 653 | * TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: Kobik acts the way a cosmic cube thinks small children act most of the time, but when adults yell at her she takes a sterner tone. ZigZagged when she gets upset and threatens to kill everyone, which in her case is a plausible threat. |
| 654 | [[/folder]] |
| 655 | |
| 656 | !!Mayor Cage's Members |
| 657 | |
| 658 | [[folder:Gutsan Glory]] |
| 659 | !!Gutsan Glory |
| 660 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/gutsen_glory_earth_616_from_thunderbolts_vol_4_1_002.jpg]] |
| 661 | |
| 662 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Thunderbolts'' (Vol. 4) #1 (August, 2022) |
| 663 | |
| 664 | A cyborg with a mysterious past recruited to give the Thunderbolts a "Man of Mystery". |
| 665 | ---- |
| 666 | * PunnyName: Gutsen Glory, the only new character in the team's initial line-up. |
| 667 | * SuperheroPackingHeat: New character Gutsen Glory is, at least visually, very much a NinetiesAntiHero based on Cable. And like Cable, he mostly relies on very big guns. |
| 668 | [[/folder]] |
| 669 | |
| 670 | [[folder:Eegro the Unbreakable]] |
| 671 | !!Eegro the Unbreakable |
| 672 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/eegro_earth_616_from_thunderbolts_vol_4_2_001.jpg]] |
| 673 | |
| 674 | !!! '''Alter Ego:''' Eegro |
| 675 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Thunderbolts'' (Vol. 4) #2 (September, 2022) |
| 676 | |
| 677 | A monster form Monster Isle who joins the Thunderbolts while visiting New York. |
| 678 | ---- |
| 679 | * KidAppealCharacter: In-universe, Eegro is a diminutive monster but he and his merchandise are incredibly popular among kids. |
| 680 | * PunnyName: Eegro, whose name is also the battle-cry for his 'Ultimate Attack', which sees him grow to huge size. Hawkeye comments on it in the final issue. |
| 681 | --> '''Hawkeye:''' ''Oh'' wait. I just got the joke. '''''[[spoiler:"He grow."]]''''' |
| 682 | [[/folder]] |
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