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Jimmy Woo
Jimmy Woo
Alter Ego: James "Jimmy" Woo
Notable Aliases: Woo Yen Jet (Chinese name), Jimbo
First Appearance: Yellow Claw #1 (October, 1956)
During the 1950s, no FBI Agent had as distinguished a career as Jimmy Woo, the prime agent involved in battling the villainy of the Yellow Claw. Reborn 50 years later he is now the head of the Atlas Foundation and the Agents of Atlas.
- Badass Normal: Doesn't have powers but he's a pretty skilled secret agent.
- Fish out of Temporal Water: A side-effect of being rebooted from a young man in the 50s to a young man in the 00s is he takes time to adjust. Sometimes it's humorous, such as thinking San Francisco's being evacuated when it's just normal heavy traffic, sometimes it's not, when he thinks a man's drawing a gun when he's actually getting his phone out.
- Fountain of Youth: He was an old man when his last mission went haywire and he was revived in his mid-twenties.
- Good Running Evil: Originally the Atlas Foundation was an Ancient Conspiracy, but ever since he took charge, it has become a far more beneficial organization, if a bit shady still.
- The Leader: Eventually grows into this role with the Agents of Atlas.
- Magnetic Hero: Jimmy has no superpowers, but he's able to get the ragtag bunch of weirdoes to be a team by sheer force of personality.
- Older Than They Look: He's technically in his seventies, but thanks to Bob he's restored to his late twenties.
- Reassigned to Antarctica: Spent a lot of his career at SHIELD put behind a desk. The first Agents of Atlas series begins with him going against orders to investigate Claw, and very nearly killed for it.
- Trickster Mentor: The approach he takes with the new Agents of Atlas, especially towards Amadeus Cho.
3-D Man I
3-D Man I
Alter Ego: Charles Chandler
Notable Aliases: Chuck Chandler
First Appearance: Marvel Premiere #35 (April, 1977)
In the 1950s, NASA test pilot Chuck Chandler was flying an experimental plane when he ran into some Skrulls, who captured him. In trying to escape, Chuck destroyed their ship but was exposed to mysterious radiation. When found by his brother Ray, Chuck suddenly disappeared. He had in fact become transformed into a two-dimensional being, stuck in his brother's glasses. When Ray concentrated, he was able to summon Chuck, now the mighty 3-D Man.
Although his character is essentially a 50's hero, he was created in the 1970s for the comic series, Marvel Premiere. Also, while 3-D Man was a member of the Avengers team in the What If...? than inspired the Agents of Atlas, he wasn't actually a member of the team in regular continuity.
- Alliterative Name: Charlie Chandler.
- And I Must Scream: The incident that gives Charles the powers of 3-D Man also leaves him a two-dimensional being stuck inside his brother's glasses, and he stays that way for decades. It wasn't until the events of Kang War that Triathalon's actions freed Charles, allowing him to live a normal life again.
- Depower: The Triune Understanding stole Hal's powers and gave them to Delroy Garrett, Jr..
- Older Than They Look: Chuck still looks like a young man, thanks to spending all that time inside his brother's glasses not aging.
- Retired Badass: By the modern-day, both Chandler brothers have stepped down from active hero work.
- Sibling Team: Sort of. Hal can summon his brother, but since Charles is the one with the superpowers, he's doing all the work.
- Summon Magic: How 3-D Man works, basically.
- Super-Senses: His senses are exactly three times stronger than those of the human average.
3-D Man II / Triathlon
3-D Man II / Triathlon
Alter Ego: Delroy Garrett, Jr.
Notable Aliases: Triathlon, Three Dimensional Man
First Appearance: Avengers Vol 3 #8 (September, 1998)
Delroy has three times the physical abilities of someone at the peak of human conditioning as he has been bonded with the spirit of 3-D man.
See The Avengers
Namora
Namora
Alter Ego: Aquaria Nautica Neptunia; later changed to Namora
Notable Aliases: Avenging daughter, The Sea-Woman, The Sea Queen, Sub-Mariner
First Appearance: Marvel Mystery Comics #82 (May, 1947)
The daughter of an Atlantean man and a surface woman, Namora is the cousin of Namor and, like him, is one of Marvel's first mutants. She's also the mother of Namorita.
See Sub-Mariner
Venus
Venus
Notable Aliases: Victoria Nutley Starr, Vicki Starr, Aphrodite Goddess
First Appearance: Venus #1 (August, 1948)
Venus was a Siren cursed by a magician "making her soul as beautiful as her physical form". Ashamed of her past, she began claiming to be Aphrodite the Olympian Goddess of Love, a claim which fooled even the Gods themselves. Becoming a member of the Agents of Atlas, Venus found herself officially receiving the position of the Olympian Goddess of Love after an encounter with the real Aphrodite.
- All-Loving Hero: Venus likes and cares about everybody, as befits a goddess of love.
- Charm Person: Venus's central power; anyone who hears her voice will do anything to make her happy. Good thing she's currently the All-Loving Hero type since she used to be a Siren leading sailors to their deaths.
- Godiva Hair: She initially did not wear a shirt so her hair covered her breasts.
- Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: When she was blonde, but even after becoming a redhead she remains as kind as ever.
- Heart Is an Awesome Power: It's been stated repeatedly, both within the group and by their enemies, that Venus is actually the most dangerous member, because you can't beat the Agents of Atlas if you can't even bring yourself to fight them.
- I Hate Past Me: She doesn't look too fondly at her past as a Siren.
- Innocent Fanservice Girl: She's completely oblivious to how much she exposes with the way she dresses.
- Kaleidoscope Hair: She can change what color it is, having gone from red to blond to silver. She goes back to red when Namora returns.
- Love Goddess: After Aphrodite passes her title of Goddess of Love to her.
- Magical Barefooter: Is a siren, and tends to be barefoot.
- Ms. Fanservice: Venus wears a fairly skimpy, partially transparent outfit, and when she uses her powers an image of her appears that is entirely nude.
- No-Sell: Very few people can resist Venus's song. It usually takes being in a state of Unstoppable Rage or complete insane.
- Older Than She Looks: Obviously, as an immortal, she's far older than she looks; but also from a meta standpoint, since she's a relatively obscure Golden Age comics character, revived in modern comics. Apart from her involvement with the Agents of Atlas, she also had a brief encounter with Thor and the First Line during the Sixties.
- Our Sirens Are Different: She's a Siren whose Compelling Voice can enchant almost anyone who hears her.
- Retcon: For most of the character's history, she was presumed to be the real Venus, just like Thor, Hercules, or Marvel's other Superhero Gods. Declaring her to just be a siren was a major retcon.
- Significant Green-Eyed Redhead: She's a Siren with red hair that took over the role of love goddess from Aphrodite herself.
- Tomboy and Girly Girl: The girly girl to Namora's Tomboy.
- Vapor Wear: It's obvious she doesn't wear underwear.
- Voluntary Shapeshifting: Venus can alter her form at will limited only by her imagination and desire. Because Venus enjoys her current form, she usually only shifts her hair color and clothing.
Uranian
Uranian
Alter Ego: Robert Grayson note
Notable Aliases: Bob Grayson, Marvel Boy, The Great Grayson
First Appearance: Marvel Boy #1 (December, 1950)
A classic 1950 hero, Robert Grayson, using bands given to him by rogue Eternals, would find a never-ending battle against the forces of evil. Years later, he returned to aid the Agents of Atlas.
- Anti-Hero: The Bob of the 50s stories on occasion, thanks to some differences in cultural attitudes. One story has him outright kidnap a princess of an alien race as a hostage, so he can convince her people not to attack Uranus.
- Bizarre Alien Biology: Bob extends his esophagus out of his mouth to consume food.
- Clingy Costume: His grey outfit, which was a requirement of living on the surface of Uranus for prolonged periods. Bob's pretty annoyed about this, but there's nothing he can do.
- Did Not Get the Girl: His Timely-era stories had a few girls of the week, some human, some Uranian, but they'd always be gone by the next story. His 2010 miniseries has him briefly date a girl but breaks it off with her after a while.
- Flying Saucer: His flying saucer is the main method of transportation for the Agents of Atlas.
- Human Aliens: While he was born human, he was genetically modified by the Uranian Eternals with their DNA, endowing him with superior physical abilities.
- Legacy Character:
- Briefly (and we mean briefly, as in for one issue) succeeded as Marvel Boy by Wendell Vaughn.
- Noh-Varr of the Young Avengers took his old codename of Marvel Boy for a time.
- Light 'em Up: Bob's main weapon is a blinding flash of light from his bands.
- Missing Mom: Killed by Nazis, on account of being Jewish, which was one of the reasons Bob's father decided to leave Earth entirely.
- Parts Unknown: Bob tries to obscure the fact that he's from Uranus by solely referring to it as "the seventh planet", mostly because it makes Ken laugh.
- Retcon:
- In the 70s, Bob supposedly went insane, renamed himself the Crusader, attacked the Fantastic Four, and then died when the Quantum Bands he was wielding overloaded. Come 2006, this was revealed to be an unknown Eternal who'd been altered to look like Bob.
- His 2010 miniseries suggests that at least some of Bob's 50s stories are, in-universe, fabrications made up by Timely Comics.
- Screw You, Elves!: Bob had a falling out with the Uranians when they felt he wasn't doing what they wanted. He told them to go spin, figuring there was probably a reason they'd been exiled to Uranus, and left. They responded by making an insane clone of him.
- Sleeves Are for Wimps: His costume as Marvel Boy eschewed sleeves.
- The Smart Guy: He's the most intelligent of the Agents of Atlas.
- Spock Speak: Not in his early days, when Bob spoke the same as anyone else, but on his return in Agents of Atlas Bob tends to speak in a very stoic manner, often bereft of contractions, to indicate his general isolation from people.
- Thou Shalt Not Kill: Bob had a code against killing. Blinding people and beating the stuffing out of them is okay, but actually killing them is not.
- Touched by Vorlons: Bob was modified by the Uranian Eternals.
- You Can't Go Home Again: The native Uranians killed the Uranian Eternals. Bob stayed with them for a while, but left when he got the summons to help Jimmy, with the understanding he couldn't go back.
- You Killed My Father: Things with the Uranians were not helped by them killing his dad in an attempt to trick him in to coming back.
Gorilla-Man
Gorilla-Man
Alter Ego: Kenneth Hale
Notable Aliases: General Hale
First Appearance: Men's Adventures #26 (March, 1954)
A former mercenary, who after killing the previous Gorilla-Man, became stuck in the body of a huge gorilla due to the curse of the gorilla.
- The Ageless: The curse of the gorilla means he won't die of old age or disease, although he can be killed.
- Cursed with Awesome: Sure, he is a gorilla, but an immortal gorilla.
- Deadpan Snarker: If there's a sarcastic comment to be made, odds are Gorilla Man will be the one to make it.
- Hired Guns: Used to be a mercenary back when he was human, and even nowadays he's seen as one when not with Atlas, like Deadpool's Mercs for Money.
- Hitman with a Heart: Ken Hale is an expert mercenary. He used to be a lot more unscrupulous, but the Gorilla Curse has left him with much more time to reflect, and while he still works under Deadpool's Mercs for Money operation, he's also a hero with the Agents of Atlas, S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Howling Commandos, and for the Avengers as one of Black Panther's "Agents of Wakanda".
- Killer Gorilla: Especially when they come heavily armed.
- One-Steve Limit: The Gorilla-Man alias has also been used by the lesser-known villain Arthur Nagan, a Mad Scientist who placed his head on a gorilla's body.
- You Kill It, You Bought It: How the Gorilla Curse works. Since Ken killed the previous Gorilla-Man, he's now a gorilla until someone kills him.
Human Robot
Human Robot
Alter Ego: M-11
Notable Aliases: Tin-Man
First Appearance: Menace #11 (May, 1954)
A human consciousness within the metallic body of a humanoid robot, better known as M-11, team member of the Agents of Atlas.
- Beware the Quiet Ones: He's a killer robot who does not speak most of the time, but he's also the member of the team most willing to kill enemies or just opponents at a moment's notice. Case and point, when he burned the flesh off of Wolverine's arm just after immediately meeting him when it was meant to be a kill shot.
- The Big Guy: The tallest, most resilient, and best-armed member of the original agents.
- Cyber Cyclops: M-11 only has one visor that functions as an eye.
- Eye Beams: His visor can shoot an incredibly powerful beam.
- Literal-Minded: In Menace #11, this was his flaw. Told to pick up a chair, M-11 would pick up a chair. Then another, and another, and another, because it hadn't been told to stop. So, when told to "kill the man in the room", it kills the first man in the room it sees. Then when the person who told him that comes into the room...
- Pulling Themselves Together: Is capable of reforming, thanks to a magical spell Mr. Lao placed on him. Comes in handy, since when something comes along that can wreck M, it wrecks him.
- Retcon: M-11's original origin had him reprogrammed to kill his creator, then killing the man responsible for that before walking off into the night to find more people to kill. Agents of Atlas changed this a little, removing the guy who reprogrammed him, instead having him be built by the Golden Claw and his creator, trying to forestall robot-murderyness, doing a bit of Brain Uploading to give M-11 a conscience.
- Ridiculously Human Robots: He might not look that advanced, but his human consciousness compensates for it.
- Rubber Man: Limited to his extending arms.
- Shock and Awe: Besides his Death Ray, he can project powerful electric shocks from his hands.
- The Quiet One: He is indeed capable of speaking, but chooses not to.
- The Speechless: He doesn't have a mouth to speak.
- Trash Talk: Engages in this with M-21. As Ken learns, it's not a part of the upgrade. M was just doing it by choice.
- Upgrade vs. Prototype Fight: With M-21, Jade Claw's own counterpart to him. M-11 loses quite decisively several times over, until he gets an upgrade.
Mr. Lao
Mr. Lao
First Appearance: Agents of Atlas #5 (February, 2007)
Mr. Lao is a man who gained eternal life by being cursed into a "lung dragon". He's got an important role in Atlas Foundation serving as an advisor for its khans during many centuries, including Jimmy Woo and his Inner Circle of allies, the Agents of Atlas.
- Alien Non-Interference Clause: Dragons like him can't directly interfere in the affairs of humanity, preferring mostly to advise from his cave.
- Breath Weapon: Has fire breath.
- The Chessmaster: Even Jimmy knows both Lao and other dragons love using mortals as pieces in their games.
- I Owe You My Life: Is loyal to the Golden Claw for having the Ancient One free him from the lantern he'd been stuck in. Loyal is not the same as trustworthy.
- Our Dragons Are Different: He has elements of both Western and Eastern dragons, having six limbs and breathing fire, but with the serpentine body.
- They Call Me Mr Tibbs: He and all the other dragons refer to each other as Mr.
- Treacherous Adviser: Plan warns Jimmy not to trust Mr. Lao. Jimmy initially doesn't listen, which results in the brief war with Suwan.
- Was Once a Man: Apparently he was once a human who became a dragon.
Temugin
Temugin
Alter Ego: Temugin
Notable Aliases: Temujin, Gene Khan, Son of the Mandarin
First Appearance: Iron Man Vol 3 #53 (June, 2002)
Temujin is the son of the Mandarin and a member of the Agents of Atlas. Inheriting the Mandarin's powerful rings, Temujin resolved to use his father's resources to bring tranquillity rather than terror to the world.
Derek Khanata
Derek Khanata
Alter Ego: Derek Khanata
Notable Aliases: D'Khanata
First Appearance: Amazing Fantasy Vol 2 #7 (June, 2005)
Derek is a Wakandan-born who entered SHIELD at the recommendation of the Black Panther. In his first appearance, he recruits Scorpion and then becomes her field handler. Later, He became an associate of the Agents of Atlas.
Jade Claw
Jade Claw
Alter Ego: Suwan
First Appearance: Yellow Claw #1 (October, 1956)
Suwan is a grand-niece of Yellow Claw and former lover of Jimmy Woo. She's now known as Jade Claw.
- At Least I Admit It: Claims that all men who claim to wish to wield power for a greater good are simply lying, while she is honest about her intentions.
- Color Character: Jade Claw.
- Dating Catwoman: She was Jimmy's lover before she turned to crime and scheming.
- Dragon Lady: Something she deliberately invokes, similarly to her great-uncle who invoked the Yellow Peril trope.
- Frontline General: Like Jimmy, she leads from the front.
- Green and Mean: Wears jade-colored clothes and has taken her uncle's role as a criminal.
- Older Than They Look: She's probably Jimmy's age, but thanks to the elixirs that gave her father longevity, she looks as if she's in her twenties.
- Woman Scorned: At least some of her motivation is feeling that Jimmy forgot about her in the decades apart, and so she's going to burn Atlas to the ground to get back at him.
