Other versions of Danielle Cage

In an alternate future timeline, Danielle Cage inherits both of her parents' abilities and uses the title Captain America.^[5] In that timeline, she is mentored by Madame Natasha.^[6] She is taken from that timeline to battle Ultron and then a Doombot, and subsequently teams up with the modern day Avengers to battle Moridun, who has possessed Wiccan.^[7] She returns to the present to aid the U.S.Avengers in capturing her nemesis, the Golden Skull.^[8]

Caiera in other media

Caiera appears in Planet Hulk, voiced by Lisa Ann Beley.^[15] After joining the Hulk in staging a coup against the Red King, Caiera plants a spike bug on the Red King, leaving him to be killed by his Death Guard robots. She then goes on to become the Queen Consort to Hulk who accepts the new role as the new King of Sakaar.

Mrs. Campbell in other media

Jessica's mother, named Alisa Jones (née Campbell), appears in the Jessica Jones television series. She is presented as an amalgam of Jessica's actual mother and the woman who adopts her in the comics. In the first season, Alisa is portrayed by Miriam Shor. The character was named from Alisa Bendis, the wife of Brian Michael Bendis. She appears in a flashback in the episode "AKA WWJD?", where she attempts to stop an argument between Jessica and her brother Philip. They die when the car crashes into a truck filled with chemicals. She later appears in a nightmare, convincing Jessica to get to work.^[16] Alisa is a series regular in the second season, portrayed by Janet McTeer. She is revealed to have survived the car accident, albeit horribly disfigured. She and Jessica are treated at IGH, a private clinic specializing in gene editing. While Jessica is discharged after three weeks, Alisa requires a longer recovery period for her severe injuries. Dr. Karl Malus declares Alisa legally dead, as the operations he performs are illegal. As a result of intense gene therapy and reconstructive surgery, Alisa gains super strength similar to her daughter's, but she is also mentally unstable and prone to dissociative episodes. She eventually breaks out of the IGH facility and tracks down Jessica.^[17]

Steve Rogers

William Naslund

Jeffrey Mace

Sam Wilson

James Buchanan Barnes

Pitt'o Nili

Pitt'o Nili is a character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character was created by Brian Michael Bendis and Leinil Francis Yu, and first appeared in Secret Invasion #1 (April 2008). He was a War-Skrull who was brainwashed into believing he was Steve Rogers / Captain America as per Veranke's orders. Nili accompanies a group of Super-Skrulls who were disguised as superheroes that seemed to have escaped on a spaceship.^[18] "Captain America" fight Shanna the She-Devil and Ka-Zar before being killed by poisonous darts deadly to Skrulls.^[19][20][21]

Fictional biography

Powers and abilities

Made out of Krakoa's plant-based architecture and technology, the Captain Krakoa suit possesses superhuman strength, bullet-proof durability, flight, can grow vines for offensive and defensive purposes, repair itself from damage, transform into other forms of clothing and could be summoned and deactivated telepathically.

Other Versions

Mar-Vell

Monica Rambeau

Genis-Vell

Phyla-Vell

Khn'nr

Noh-Varr

Carol Danvers

Captain Victoria in other media

Captain Victoria appears in the Guardians of the Galaxy TV series, voiced by Cree Summer.

Rosalie Carbone in other media

Rosalie Carbone is introduced in season two of the television series Luke Cage, played by Annabella Sciorra.^[33] Rosalie first appears in "Can't Front on Me", where she attends an auction with Anibal Izqueda, Eric Hong, and Hai-Qing Yang.^[34] In the episode "They Reminisce Over You", Rosalie is among several gangsters seeking to fill the void left by Mariah Dillard's arrest. When some inmates loyal to Carbone make an attempt on Dillard's life, Luke Cage warns her to stay out of Harlem. Luke later goes into business with her and Anibal after he inherits control of Harlem's Paradise following Mariah's death.^[35]

Rosalie Carbone makes a later appearance in season three of Daredevil. In the episode "Revelations", she is one of several criminal figures that Wilson Fisk directs blackmailed FBI agents to round up for a secret parlay. Rosalie is picked up by Ray Nadeem and Benjamin Poindexter at a groundbreaking ceremony. She is taken, along with John Hammer, Everett Starr, Latimer Zyl, and Sophia Carter, to a restaurant in Hell's Kitchen, here Fisk offers them protection from prosecution in exchange for 20% of their profits. When Starr refuses the offer, Dex kills him by lobbing a baton at his forehead. Fisk uses this as an incentive to hike the tax to 25%, which Rosalie and the other crime lords agree to. In the season 3 finale, Rosalie attends Fisk and Vanessa Marianna-Fisk's wedding. When Nadeem's posthumous confession implicating Fisk in the manipulation of the FBI is leaked onto the Internet, Rosalie, Hammer, and Zyl leave before Dex attacks the wedding.

Publication history

Cardinal first appears in New Warriors #28 and was created by Fabian Nicieza and Darick Robertson. Cardinal has appeared in the pages of New Warriors, Night Thrasher, and Thunderbolts.

Character biography

Donald Joshua Clendenon is a Vietnam War veteran. While on a mission in Rhodesia, he conceives a child named Valerie Barnhardt with fellow mercenary Amelia Barnhardt a.k.a "Sprocket". Clendenon is outfitted with a powered suit of armor and takes the name Cardinal. Cardinal first appears as a bodyguard for arms smuggler Jeremy Swimming-Bear a.k.a. "Sea Urchin", who is foiled by the New Warriors.^[36] The Air Force breaks Cardinal out of prison, and he and his team go after the New Warriors; they are defeated and sent back to prison.^[37]

Air Force is later dispatched to attack Dwayne Taylor and a group of high-powered corporate officials on a jet bringing humanitarian aid to the people of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Taylor, who is secretly Night Thrasher, defeats Air Force and blackmails them into assisting in relief efforts in Africa.^[38] In Africa, Air Force are moved by the humanitarian disaster and assist with the transportation of food and other aid. Protocol and his Soldiers of Misfortune attempt to interfere with the rescue missions, kill two Air Force members, and severely injure Cardinal.^[39] Following the destruction of Air Force, Clendenon repairs the Cardinal armor and begins to work as a mercenary.^[40]

Cardinal joins the Crimson Cowl's version of the Masters of Evil.^[41] The Thunderbolts defeat the Masters of Evil and destroy the Crimson Cowl's weather machine, after which Cardinal is incarcerated in Seagate Prison.^[40] Cardinal's daughter Valerie joins the government Redeemers program – receiving the name Meteoritie – but is killed during a battle with Graviton. Cardinal learns that Valerie is his daughter following her death, based on a paternity test is done. The Crimson Cowl convinces Cardinal to rejoin the Masters of Evil.^[42] Hawkeye convinces four members of the Masters of Evil that the Crimson Cowl has infected them with a deadly biotoxin as a means of control. Hawkeye also persuades the Masters of Evil to join him, Songbird, and Plant-Man as part of the Thunderbolts in stopping the Crimson Cowl.^[43] Cardinal takes the new name of Harrier.^[44] The team defeats Crimson Cowl and the rest of her Masters of Evil. They also neutralize the biotoxin.^[45]

Soon after, Citizen V contacts the team, explaining that the engines of the Vanguard, the V-Battalion's airship, has created a white hole; this threatens to fuse the Northern Hemisphere into glass within two hours' time.^[46] The core Thunderbolts team, who had been missing on Counter-Earth, emerge from the void. The two Thunderbolt teams stop the white hole and flee the V-Battalion. The Thunderbolts reorganize and Harrier voluntarily returns to prison.^[47]

Powers and abilities

Clendenon has no superhuman powers. As Cardinal, he wears a suit of powered armor which gives him increased strength, body armor, flight, and the ability to function underwater. The suit incorporates a number of offensive weapons ,including energy blasters, grenade launchers, and a tar gun.

Cardinal in other media

• Cardinal appears in The Avengers: United They Stand episode "Command Decision", voiced by Peter Wildman. This version is a member of Baron Helmut Zemo's Masters of Evil.

John Carik in other media

• Although he never made an appearance in the Blade films or in Blade: The Series, many of John Carik's character traits are visible in Abraham Whistler's character. He was originally intended to appear in Blade: The Series (portrayed by Marc Singer), but his character was eventually scrapped.

Luke Carlyle in other media

• Luke Carlyle, under the alias of The Mad Bomber, appears in the Spider-Man 3 video game, voiced by Neil Ross. He is portrayed as a respectable businessman who secretly uses his wealth to provide his gang, the H-Bombers, with equipment and weaponry. As their name suggests, the gang's main goal is to destroy New York using explosives, although their motivation remains unknown. Their plans are thwarted by Spider-Man. The game's H-Bombers storyline culminates with an attack on the Daily Bugle, during which it is revealed that Carlyle has a vendetta against J. Jonah Jameson, who had published a story that exposed Carlyle's company as causing environmental damage, driving him out of business. After Spider-Man thwarts the H-Bombers' attack and rescues Jameson, Carlyle either escapes (in the next-gen version) or is defeated and arrested (in the PS2, PSP, and Wii versions). In the Game Boy Advance version, The Mad Bomber does not lead the H-Bombers, but instead plants several bombs across the city by himself. He is foiled by Spider-Man, who defeats him and hands him over to the police.

Bruno Carrelli in other media

• Bruno Carrelli appears in Ms. Marvel, portrayed by Matt Lintz.^[51]

Towshend Horgan

Along with Ape-Man, Bird-Man, and Frog-Man, Towshend Horgan is recruited by the Organizer to form the Ani-Men. Horgan has "feline agility" and thus wears a cat-like costume. The Organizer is Abner Jonas, a candidate for mayor of New York City; he sends the Ani-Men on missions to undermine the current administration. Daredevil defeats them and has them sent to prison.^[52] Later, Ape-Man, Bird-Man, and Cat-Man form a team called the "Unholy Three" with the Exterminator and fight Daredevil and Spider-Man, who defeat them.^[53][54]

Ape-Man, Bird-Man, and Cat-Man later rejoin the Ani-Men and work for Count Nefaria. Nefaria's scientists submit the Ani-Men to processes that gave them superhuman powers and animal-like forms. The Ani-Men invade the Cheyenne Mountain missile base for Count Nefaria. The Ani-Men also fight the X-Men.^[55] The Ani-Men later lose their superhuman powers. Count Nefaria sends the Ani-Men to kill Tony Stark; however, the Spymaster detonates a bomb in an attempt to kill Stark, accidentally killing the Ani-Men.^[56]

Sebastian Patane

After the deaths of the original Ani-Men, the Death-Stalker recruits a new team of Ani-Men, with a new Ape-Man, Bird-Man, and Cat-Man. Sebastian Patane, the new Cat-Man, wears Horgan's Cat-Man costume. Death-Stalker sends the new Ani-Men to capture Matt Murdock, and then murders Ape-Man and Cat-Man by electrocution upon the completion of their mission.^[57]

Unnamed replacement

During the Secret Wars storyline, a new, unnamed, Cat-Man commits crimes with a new Ape-Man and Frog-Man while the heroes are on Battleworld. Wearing the equipment of the original Ani-Men, they rob a vault wagon, facing off against the New York City Police Department.^[58] During the Civil War storyline, the unnamed Cat-Man, Ape-Man, and Bird-Man are in Hammerhead's supervillain army.^[59]

Century in other media

• Century appears in Iron Man, voiced by James Warwick in the first season, Jim Cummings in "The Beast Within", and Tom Kane in the two-part series finale "Hands of the Mandarin". This version is a member of Force Works with the civilian identity Woody.

Publication history

The Challenger is a weapons master. He challenges opponents to fight using a weapon of their choice.^[62] He travels the world and becomes an expert in 1,000 different weapons after underworld criminals kill his father.^[63] His expertise includes chemistry, "nerve control", and piloting aircraft.^[64] Comics historian Jim Steranko has called the Challenger's background "one of the weakest stories ever told".^[63]

The Challenger first appears in Daring Mystery Comics #7 (April 1941) from Marvel Comics predecessor Timely Comics, debuting in a 2-page text story, "The Valley of Time", by writer Ray Gill, and in a 12-page comics story, "Meet the Challenger", by Mike Sekowsky and George Klein, under the pseudonym "Nick Karlton".^[65][62] Following this issue, Daring Mystery Comics took a nine-month hiatus, and the Challenger was moved to Mystic Comics.^[66]

In Mystic Comics, the Challenger appeared from October 1941 to August 1942 in issues #6–10. His stories were eight to nine pages and were illustrated by several artists, including Al Bare and Sekowsky. Stan Lee wrote "Horror Mansion", Mystic Comics #9, in May 1942.^[67]

The Challenger was not chosen to appear with his Timely compatriots in the 1976 Golden Age nostalgia team, the Liberty Legion. Legion creator Roy Thomas considered including the Challenger in the new team but decided against it, stating that his "gimmick" of challenging villiains to fight him with a particular weapon was not conducive to a group, rather than solo, story.^[68]

The Challenger was not featured again until March 2005, when he appeared in She-Hulk #11, having "bounced forward" in time. In 2008, the Challenger was called into service during the Fifty State Initiative to lead the Freedom Force, Montana's state superteam.^[69] The demon version of Challenger first appears in Ghost Rider Volume 2, #17 and was created by Tony Isabella and Frank Robbins. The Elder of the Universe version of Challenger first appears in The Avengers #678 and was created by Mark Waid, Al Ewing, Jim Zub, and Pepe Larraz.

Character biography

Powers and abilities

The William Waring version of Challenger is a master of weapons, jiu-jitsu, chemistry, and swordsmanship. He is also a skilled marksman, boxer, and pilot. Through Indian nerve-control training, the Challenger can make himself immune to pain at will. The Elder of the Universe version of Challenger possesses the Primordial Power, which gives him super-strength, enhanced durability, immortality, energy manipulation, and the ability to resurrect the dead.

Nicholas Powell

Nicholas Powell, a wealthy, former professional gambler, decides to become a mercenary criminal-for-hire, known as Chance. Instead of requesting direct payment, he would bet his fee against anyone hiring him. If successful, he receives his fee; if not, he loses the "bet" and owes that amount to his contractor. Chance is described as choosing this method of payment to feel a thrill from risking his payment.

Chance is first hired by the Foreigner to kill a fence named Andre Boullion. Chance is later hired to kill Spider-Man, and wagers his fee at double or nothing, which he loses when Spider-Man defeats him.^[80] Chance is then hired by corrupt city official Robert Phalen to kill a murder witness. His initial attempt is thwarted by Daredevil, and his contract is terminated upon Phelan's death.^[81] Chance is hired by the Life Foundation to steal a secret arms shipment, but the Life Foundation instead captures him. Chance joins forces with Spider-Man to defeat the Life Foundation.^[82] Chance is next hired by Mister Grouper to kill casino owner Raymond Trask, but is thwarted by Spider-Man.^[83] Trask then hires Chance under the pretense of protecting Trask from an assassination attempt. Instead, Trask unsuccessfully tries to kill him out of revenge.^[84]

During the Spider-Island storyline, Chance, alongside Scorcher and White Rabbit, is seen guarding an abandoned lab at Empire State University when Peter Parker and Carlie Cooper arrive; Parker defeats him.^[85] Chance later attempts to kill the rejuvenated Steve Rogers during a press conference, but he is defeated by Captain America.^[86]

Female version

The female version of Chance is a 13-year-old South Korean girl who immigrates to America and runs away from a church that is mistreating her. The mutant criminal Vanisher recruits her to be part of the Fallen Angels, teenagers who work as thieves.^[87] There, she befriends the extraterrestrial mutant Ariel.^[88]

Curtis Carr

Archibald Morton

Calvin Carr

Chewie in other media

• The Marvel Cinematic Universe version of the character, renamed Goose in reference to the Top Gun character Nick "Goose" Bradshaw (Anthony Edwards), appears in the live-action films Captain Marvel (2019) and The Marvels (2023).^[105] She is portrayed by four different cats: Archie, Reggie, Rizzo and Gonzo. Each one was chosen based on their personalities and their ability to respond to commands to nuzzle, be held, "face", and "jerk".^[106] Goose once belonged to Mar-Vell, who was posing as an Earth scientist named Wendy Lawson. In the 1990s, when the amnesiac Carol Danvers and Nick Fury are investigating Lawson, Goose finds them and begins to follow them. She accompanies them on their Quinjet to Louisiana, where they visit Maria Rambeau and her daughter Monica Rambeau's house so that Danvers can remember her past. There, the terrified Skrull Talos identifies Goose as a Flerken. Goose remains present when Talos has a parley with Danvers and Fury. Goose accompanies Danvers, Rambeau, Fury, and Talos to a spaceship carrying Skrull refugees. While there, Goose reveals her true nature by using her abilities to defeat Kree soldiers and swallow the Tesseract. Despite being very tame and friendly, she unexpectedly slashes Fury's eye, explaining his eye patch. Fury adopts Goose as his pet and, sometime later, she coughs up the Tesseract in his Atlanta office. Goose returns in The Marvels, where she remains as Danvers's pet. When Danvers joins Monica Rambeau and Kamala Khan in their battle against Dar-Benn's Kree forces, Goose is left in the S.A.B.E.R. station, where she begins breeding numerous eggs across the station. Later on, the eggs catch into numerous Flerken offsprings which begin swallowing the agents, but become a useful help with evacuating the facility when it begins collapsing.

Mutant version

In the Wolverine comics, Chimera is an interdimensional pirate from an unknown Earth who encounters Wolverine while obtaining information on him and his feral state. She assists the self-styled heir of Apocalypse, Genesis, with Wolverine's capture so that Genesis can make Wolverine his first Horseman. They attempt to re-bond the adamantium that had been removed from Wolverine's skeleton by Magneto, but they fail when Wolverine's body violently expels the metal, killing most of Genesis' followers, the Dark Riders. Dirtnap – one of the only Dark Riders to survive – team up with Chimera to get revenge on Wolverine.^[107] Chimera encounters Wolverine again when he and Venom are lured into a trap set by her and Dirtnap.

Chimera and Dirtnap are both seemingly killed in an implosion, but they survive and attack the Generation X school in an attempt to kidnap the M twins. The twins merge back into M and then merge with Emplate, forming M-Plate. Chimera captures Synch and flees along with M-Plate. Generation X later rescues Synch.^[108]

Chimera is next seen in Madripoor, killing drug runners. She is approached by the Red Queen to join her Sisterhood of Mutants.^[109] Later in Japan, Chimera and the Sisterhood dig up Kwannon's body and confront Domino, who is there on other business. Domino critically injures Chimera but she escapes with the rest of the Sisterhood and Kwannon's body. After the Red Queen heals her, the Sisterhood perform a spell involving Kwannon's body and a captive Betsy Braddock, returning her to her original body.^[110] The Sisterhood then attack the X-Men. Chimera, along with Martinique, attacks Northstar, Cyclops, and Dazzler.^[111] After taking the adult X-Men out, she tries to attack Armor and X-23, but they are teleported out by Pixie. Pixie then fetches the Stepford Cuckoos and Elixir. Chimera attacks the Cuckoos, who respond by beating her.^[112] Spiral then teleports the Sisterhood back to their base, where they split up, with Chimera going with the Red Queen to Jean Grey's burial site. There, she attacks Domino but is beaten by Colossus. When the Red Queen is defeated, Spiral teleports the Sisterhood away.^[113]

Chimera later appears as a member of a group of Marauders that are brainwashed to attack the X-Men.^[114] As part of the "All-New, All-Different Marvel", Chimera again appears as a member of the Marauders. She assists Aries, Azimuth, and Coda into pursuing Nightcrawler through the sewers to capture him and make him Mister Sinister's specimen.^[115]

Femizons version

A version of Chimera is an unnamed woman who is a member of the Femizons. She is a metamorph who can grow wings, claws, and other parts.^[116]

Mythical chimera

The chimera of Greek mythology appear in Marvel Comics. It is depicted as a speaking, fire-breathing monster with the heads of a lion and a goat, the front legs of a lion, the wings of a dragon, the hindquarters of a goat, and a snake-headed tail. The chimera is described as the offspring of Echidna, which was slain by Bellerophon. The Chimera is later restored to life by Hera to guard the caverns underneath New Olympus, joined by a Cyclops and Skeleton Warriors.^[117] The Chimera encounters the Agents of Atlas, but did not recognize them as Olympians and breathed fire at them, sparking a fight between the heroes and the minions of Hera.^[118] Gorilla-Man forces the chimera to set its second head ablaze, causing it to flail around until being knocked unconscious.^[119]

Chipmunk Hunk

Chipmunk Hunk appears in Lego Marvel Super Heroes 2.

Character biography

Andrew Chord serves as an Army sergeant during the Vietnam War. His unit, known as the "Half Fulls", deploy to the Bolaven Plateau north of the Se Kong river in Cambodia, where they scout locations for an airfield. The unit comprises six soldiers, including Night Thrasher's father Daryl Taylor, Diego Cassaes a.k.a. the Left Hand, and the fathers of the members of the Folding Circle, encounter the Temple of the Dragon's Breath, where a seemingly English-speaking Cambodian geriatric named Tai restrains them via magic. Tai tells the soldiers of the history of her people and asks the soldiers to mate with six young women in her cult. The soldiers are led to believe that their children will one day rule the world. Five of the soldiers agree, including Chord; Daryl Taylor refuses because he is married.

Chord is married off to Tai's only daughter, Miyami, who he brings home to America. Miyami gives birth to their biracial children: Silhouette and Aaron (Midnight's Fire). Miyami fakes her and her children's death in a car crash to avoid their being used as Tai's pawns. She leaves her children to be raised in Manhattan's Chinatown and disappears. Chord, believing his wife and children are dead, becomes a mercenary and travels the world. He meets Cable, a time traveler, who also works as a mercenary.

Chord eventually returns to the Dragon Breath's temple in Cambodia, where Tai instructs him to resume his friendship with Taylor and his wife Melody. Chord becomes godfather to their infant son, Dwayne Taylor. Tai later demands that Chord kill Daryl and Melody to fulfill his role in the pact. Chord reluctantly does so, shooting his friends in a crowded restaurant in front of six-year-old Dwayne; Tai then erases Dwayne's memory of the event.^[121]

Chord and Tai train Dwayne to fight crime to avenge the murders of his parents, never revealing their role in the incident. They also use the Taylor Foundation, a charitable organization that Dwayne inherited from his father, to invest in illegal operations. Dwayne becomes friends with fellow crime fighters Silhouette and Midnight's Fire.^[122] Tai and Chord, who do not know that Chord is their father, disapprove of Dwayne's friendship with them and his romance with Silhouette. The partnership between Dwayne and the siblings ends when Silhouette is shot and seriously injured by a Korean gang member during a failed undercover operation.

Dwayne becomes Night Thrasher on Tai and Chord's urging, and assembles a young team of superheroes named the New Warriors.^[123] Tai secretly intends to sacrifice the New Warriors to the well of the Dragon's Breath cult in place of the members of the Folding Circle – the children from the matings of the soldiers and the female cult members – and absorb their powers. Meanwhile, Chord accompanies the New Warriors to Brazil to investigate Project: Earth. He battles Force of Nature alongside them,^[124] and works with them when team up with X-Force, revealing that he knew the X-Force leader Cable from his days as a mercenary in Vietnam.^[125] In a related story, Chord is one of the many heroes to become stuck inside the mind of Piecemeal when the entity attempted to convert the world into a mathematical construct. The X-Factor team talks Piecemeal out of his plan.^[126]

Night Thrasher eventually uncovers Chord's misuse of Taylor Foundation funds and confronts him. Chord tricks the other New Warriors into thinking that Dwayne is being controlled by an outside force, but his deception is uncovered. Chord shoots himself in the head rather than revealing the truth. Marvel Boy rushes a dying Chord to the hospital,^[127] where Chord admits to killing Night Thrasher's parents. Miyami also comes to visit,^[128] and Tai reveals to Silhouette that she is Chord's daughter.^[129] Tai then murders Miyami when she discovered her deception about the car crash. Tai partially heals Chord using her magic.^[130] Chord recovers for several months. Tai is later killed by Night Thrasher when she attempts to sacrifice the New Warriors and the Folding Circle.^[131]

Soon afterwards, Chord hires the Poison Memories to stage his kidnapping and frames other corrupt members of the Taylor Foundation board, with the hope that Dwayne would investigate and intervene in the company's dealings. After undergoing lifesaving surgery, Chord reconciles with Night Thrasher and Silhouette.^[132] Chord is later named legal guardian of Elvin Haliday a.k.a. the New Warrior Rage, after Haliday's grandmother is killed by the Poison Memories.^[133]

Chord and his former mercenary buddy Sprocket later help Dwayne uncover the truth about his father's illegitimate son Donyell. When the New Warriors are sent to various points in time by the Sphinx, Chord and Sprocket help Hindsight Lad recruit a new team of Warriors to battle the Sphinx.^[134] Since then, Chord has not yet reappeared in the comics, and after Night Thrasher's death and the Civil War,^[135] Donyell Taylor has assumed control of the Taylor Foundation.^[136]

Powers and abilities

Chord is an athletic man, but has no superhuman powers. He knows hand-to-hand combatant, and has combat training and military experience. He is a good marksman with conventional firearms. Chord also designed the Night Thrasher's original battle-suit. He is skilled at piloting aircraft and operating computers.

Chthon in other media

• Chthon appears in The Super Hero Squad Show, voiced by Mark Hamill.^[139]
• Chthon appears in Marvel's Midnight Suns, voiced by Darin De Paul.^[140][141]

Caesar Cicero in other media

Caesar Cicero appears in the Spider-Man episode "Wrath of the Sub-Mariner", voiced by Vic Perrin. He alongside Silvermane and Hammerhead meet with Kingpin where they are shown a special acid created by his scientist Dr. Everett that can unite all the crime lords and use it in different criminal activities.

John Watkins

Paulette Brazee

John Watkins Jr.

Helmut Zemo

Dallas Riordan

John Watkins III

Roberto da Costa

Clash in other media

• A teenage version of Clayton Cole appears in the Spider-Man episode "Osborn Academy", voiced by Yuri Lowenthal. This version competes with Herman Schultz for a spot in the titular school. Spider-Man is forced to intervene when they get into a conflict, but the battle is interrupted by the Jackal who steals Herman and Clayton's technologies. After the two help Spider-Man defeat the Jackal, the former brings them back to Osborn Academy. Norman Osborn takes the blame for driving the two boys into their fight, and grants Herman a place in the school.
• Clayton Cole also appears in The Amazing Spider-Man 2, voiced by an uncredited voice actor. This version is a street thug and close friend of Herman Schultz. Spider-Man encounters Cole and a group of thugs during his search for Ben Parker's killer. After webbing him to a wall, Spider-Man deduces that Cole is not the man he is looking for and intimidates him until Cole tells him to seek out Schultz for more information.

Cloud 9 in other media

• Cloud 9 appears in Lego Marvel's Avengers, voiced by Laura Bailey.

Eliot Franklin

Eliot Franklin was born in Orlando, Florida, the son of a man named Corky. At the start of his criminal career, he joins the Ringmaster's Circus of Crime, working as a circus clown, comedian, juggler, and unicyclist. He eventually decides to leave the Circus with the Human Cannonball, the Great Gambonnos, and Princess Python.^[170] They call themselves the Masters of Menace and elect Clown as their leader. The Clown plans a robbery of an art gallery on Madison Avenue, New York City, which is eventually foiled by Spider-Man, resulting in their arrest. They escape from jail and agree to rejoin the Ringmaster in the Circus of Crime. They attempt to recruit Hawkeye, Quicksilver, and Scarlet Witch to the cause, but fail when the Clown is defeated by Scarlet Witch.

After a run-in with the Hulk, the Thing, Iceman, and Giant-Man, Clown leaves the group, wipes off the make-up, and joins the Quentin Carnival, where his father Corky is a clown. The Clown attempts to go straight, but the Circus of Crime harasses him. Fire-Eater burns down Corky's tent; Ghost Rider saves Corky, who is badly hurt. Facing high hospital bills, the Clown returns to the Circus of Crime, which eventually appoints him leader. The Clown leads the Circus in robbing the Quentin Carnival and seeking revenge on Fire-Eater. Ghost Rider interrupts their attack and forces the Clown to confront his actions; the Clown sees his life as a hell and is reduced to near-catatonia. Unblinking and robotic, Eliot is given the job of pushing a broom around the Quentin Carnival. Corky recovers, returns to the show, and works to help Eliot improve. By the time Johnny Blaze leaves the carnival, Eliot is once again able to communicate, soft-spoken and with a stutter.

Sometime later, the Clown rejoins the Circus of Crime and they battle Namor, Shroud, Hulk, She-Hulk, Power Pack, Ben Reilly, Spider-Man, Howard the Duck, Generation X, Devil Dinosaur, and Moon-Boy. The Clown, along with Princess Python, Cannonball, and the Gambonnos, eventually move to Hollywood and resort to armed robbery, but they are thwarted by the Hulk.

The Clown later becomes a professional assassin. He steals his victim's televisions and stockpiles them in his room at the Hollywood Towne Hotel, where he watches every television channel to find mentions of the Ringmaster, who has gone straight and against whom Eliot has sworn revenge. At one point, he defeats an army of robot repo men attempt to steal his televisions. He battles the Jack Truman incarnation of Deathlok while attempting to kill Nick Fury, who he believes is a crime boss, but who is actually under the hypnotic effects of Ringmaster. The Clown finds the Ringmaster when he appears on television, running for elected office under the pseudonym Martin Thraller. The Clown shows up at a national political convention, where the Ringmaster is about to attempt to hypnotize television viewers into electing him President. The Clown battles with Deathlok, who eventually allows The Clown to flee rather than taking him into S.H.I.E.L.D. custody.^[171]

In the "Civil War" storyline, the Clown, alongside the Ringmaster and the Gambonnos, is a member of Hammerhead's unnamed villain army when Iron Man and S.H.I.E.L.D. raid their hideout.^[172] He later joins the Gamma Corps, which wass assembled by General Ryker to destroy the Hulk, under the name Griffin, with a mutation similar to Betty Ross' Harpy form.^[173] Griffin fights with the Gamma Corps against the Hulk's Doc Green form. After Doc Green saves them from the Doc Green A.I., each of the Gamma Corps members have their powers removed by Doc Green.^[174]

Second version

A second version of Clown appears in Brand New Day as a villains.^[175] He is a member of Hood's crime syndicate.^[176] The Clown is later contacted by Zodiac and Death Reaper, who ask him to join them. Together, they attack the Human Torch, hijack the Red Ronin to attack Times Square, and annoy Norman Osborn. The Clown, along with Paste-Pot Pete, rob a bank during Red Ronin's rampage; during the robbery, the Clown executes subdued security guards. The Clown later joins Manslaughter Marsdale in killing H.A.M.M.E.R troops at an old S.H.I.E.L.D. barbershop base, as Zodiac reveals the stolen Zodiac Key to Agent Murphy.^[177] The Clown is eventually revealed to be Eliot Franklin's half-brother.^[178] Boomerang and Owl later bring the Clown into the Sinister Sixteen, which is assembled to distract the Chameleon's forces while Boomerang steals from him.^[179]

Third version

A third, unnamed version of Clown appears as a member of the Circus of Crime in the "Spiral" storyline.^[180] During the "Opening Salvo" of the Secret Empire storyline, Clown is a member of the Circus of Crime and is recruited by Baron Helmut Zemo to join the Army of Evil.^[181]

Clown in other media

• The Eliot Franklin incarnation of the Clown appears in The Marvel Super Heroes episode "Ringmaster". This version is a member of the Circus of Crime.

Cobalt Man in other media

• Ralph Roberts, hybridized with Paul Norbert Ebersol, appears in Avengers Assemble, voiced by Rick D. Wasserman.^[194] This version initially works for Stark Industries until he is fired for giving away company secrets and becomes a supervillain to seek revenge on Iron Man. Roberts first appears as the Fixer of the Masters of Evil in the episode "Under Siege" before later appearing as Techno of the Thunderbolts in the group's self-titled episode and "Thunderbolts Revealed".
  • Additionally, a robotic Cobalt Man appears in the episode "A Friend in Need". This version was created by Ultron and is capable of teleportation.^[195]

Character biography

Cohen fights Nazis alongside Nick Fury during World War II. Cohen features in dozens of adventures, such as in Sgt. Fury and the Howling Commandos #32, where he resists Nazi brainwashing and helps to destroy a weapons plant.

After the war, Cohen goes home to Brooklyn, settles down with his wife, and runs his father's mechanic shop. He has two sons and one daughter. He turns the family business into a string of car dealerships, which he eventually passes down to his sons.

Cohen signs up for a tour of duty in the Korean War, where he is promoted to sergeant. He also fights in the Vietnam War. In 1972, he is shot at a reunion, and in the 1980s, he confronts a Life Model Decoy (LMD) of the Nazi war criminal Baron von Strucker. He then serves in S.H.I.E.L.D. after it is nearly destroyed by an LMD.

Izzy Cohen in other media

• Izzy Cohen makes a non-speaking cameo appearance in the X-Men: The Animated Series episode "Old Soldiers".
• Izzy Cohen appears in The Incredible Hulk, voiced by Thom Barry. This version is a ruthless S.H.I.E.L.D. agent and member of General Thunderbolt Ross' "Hulkbusters".
• Izzy Cohen appears in a flashback depicted in The Super Hero Squad Show episode "Wrath of the Red Skull!".
• Izzy Cohen appears in a flashback depicted in The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes episode "Meet Captain America".

Lawrence Chesney

Arthur Reynolds

Davis Lawfers

Copycat in other media

• Copycat makes minor non-speaking appearances in X-Men: The Animated Series and Wolverine and the X-Men.
• Vanessa Carlysle appears in Deadpool, portrayed by Morena Baccarin, where she enters a relationship with, and later becomes engaged to, Wade Wilson. This version is not a mutant because Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick did not want to confuse viewers, but they expressed interest in exploring the idea in a future sequel.^[202] Baccarin reprised the role of Carlysle in Deadpool 2^[203][204] and is set to appear again in Deadpool 3.^[205][206]

Character biography

Tom Corsi is a member of the Westchester County Police Department. After the Demon Bear carries out an attack on Dani Moonstar, the New Mutants bring her to the Mid-County Medical Center, where Corsi and Sharon Friedlander, an ER nurse, are kidnapped and possessed by the Demon Bear. The Demon Bear attempts to transform Corsi and Friedlander into his demonic slaves, but he is defeated the New Mutants. Tom and Sharon are returned to their human forms, but transformed to resemble Native Americans and enhanced in their abilities.^[218]

Later, Tom and Sharon are mentally attacked by the Empath, causing them to fall into a sexual obsession with one another for several days.^[219] Afterwards, Tom spends time at the Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters. Tom later battles the Reavers on Muir Island while being manipulated by the Shadow King.^[220]

As part of Charles Xavier's Mutant Underground, he is asked to work at Our Mother of the Sacred Heart, a school disabled children. When the school comes under attack by a group of Acolytes, Tom kills one of the Kleinstock Brothers and Sharon is slain by Joanna Cargill. The X-Men, summoned by Sharon before her death, defeat the Acolytes.^[221]

Tom later becomes a teacher at Massachusetts Academy, a school for mutants run by the White Queen, where he teaches physical education to a small group known as Generation X. When the school is closed down, he moves back to the Xavier Institute, where Elixir is a student in his class. After M-Day, Corsi and Moonstar are both fired due to the loss of 90% of the student body.

Powers and abilities

Tom has enhanced strength, and claims he can lift twice the amount of the world weightlifting record with relative ease.

Cornell Cottonmouth

Burchell Clemens

Character biography

Delphine Courtney is a servitor robot, built by the Roxxon Energy Corporation to serve Jerry Jaxon. Courtney initially has a fully feminine human appearance, and is referred to by she/her pronouns by her creators.^[222] On Jaxon's behalf, Courtney recruits several superhumans that were former members of Gamma Flight and Beta Flight, the Canadian government's training teams, who were dismissed after the government closed Department H.^[223] She recruits them so that Jaxon can form a personal super-team, Omega Flight, and take revenge on James Hudson a.k.a. Guardian, the founder of Department H and leader of the still-active Alpha Flight. Courtney manipulates the recruits into seeking their own revenge on Alpha through an "influencer" device built into her systems.^[224] Courtney is unable to influence Roger Bochs, the inventor of the Box robot, who remains loyal to Hudson and the Flight program, forcing Jaxon to directly involve himself by taking control of Box.^[222]

Luring James and Heather Hudson to America with an offer of employment at Roxxon in New York City, Jaxon and Omega Flight ambush James while Heather is detained by Courtney. During an attempted escape, Heather damages Courtney's flesh-like facial covering, revealing that she is a robot. Although Omega Flight seemingly enacts revenge by apparently killing James, Courtney witnesses Jaxon's death from feedback caused by Box's destruction;^[222] Omega's remaining members are turned over to the police.^[225]

Escaping capture, Courtney frees Omega Flight from jail and employs the group in a new plot against Alpha Flight. Courtney's appearance is reconfigured to incorporate facsimiles of Guardian's battle-suit technology and infiltrates Alpha Flight posing as Guardian. Courtney lures the group into a second encounter with Omega Flight.^[226] Beyonder defeats Omega Flight,^[227] forcing Courtney and the team to flee. Their escape is blocked by Madison Jeffries, a former Flight trainee whom Courtney had not recruited because of his ability to control machines and his loyalty to James. Jeffries attacks using a construct created from an automobile, and Courtney uses one of the future duplicates of Omega Flight member Flashback as a human shield, resulting in Courtney's death and the mental breakdown of the original Flashback.^[228] Bochs and Jeffries later salvage portions of Courtney's second incarnation to construct a new battle-suit functionally identical to James's original,^[229] which is used by Heather as the Vindicator.^[230]

Powers and abilities

Delphine Courtney possesses superhuman strength and has a high degree of resistance to physical damage. Courtney has better sight and hearing than a human being's, and possesses an "influencer" that can affect pre-existing psychological conditions in the human mind, allowing Courtney to manipulate individuals. Courtney could masquerade as either gender by altering its underlying structure and could also impersonate specific individuals. While impersonating James Hudson, Courtney also uses technology that can replicate the properties of his battle suits.

June Covington in other media

June Covington makes a cameo appearance in the prose novel New Avengers: Breakout by Alisa Kwitney, where she is an escapee of the Raft.

Nicholas Lewis Sr.

Nicholas "Lucky" Lewis was a masked criminal who attempted to organize all non-Maggia New York City crime gangs under his control.^[244] He was opposed by Spider-Man, Frederick Foswell, and especially his chief rival, the Green Goblin, whose real name of Norman Osborn he had found out. The Crime Master's attempt to build a criminal empire failed when Foswell informed the police about a large crime boss gathering the Crime Master had organized. Seeking revenge on Foswell, he prepared to assassinate Spider-Man, J. Jonah Jameson, and Foswell at the Daily Bugle, but he was instead killed by the police waiting for him there upon Foswell's tip-off.^[245][246]

Nicholas Lewis Jr.

Nicholas Lewis Jr. is the son of the original Crime Master. He met Janice Foswell, the daughter of the original Big Man, during his education period in Europe and they became engaged. After learning that both their fathers died due to alleged involvement by Spider-Man, Lewis decided to take up his father's identity as the Crime Master to avenge his death. Unknowingly, Janice also had the same idea and disguised herself as the new Big Man. Both met and joined up to battle Spider-Man, the Human Torch and the Sons of the Tiger; but when they got into an argument about who was in charge, Janice was fatally shot by Nick. When their identities were revealed, Nick broke down in tears and was subsequently left to the police.^[247] Since then, he has apparently remained in prison.

Bennett Brant

In his early life, Bennett Brant is the brother of Betty Brant. He ended up in a gambling debt with a gangster named Blackie Gaxton to pay for his mother's medical bills. With the help of Doctor Octopus, Blackie Gaxton kidnapped Bennett and Betty as insurance against anyone who wanted to prevent him from leaving the country. Bennett was double-crossed by Blackie Gaxton, who refused to free him of any debts. Blackie was fatally shot during a melee between Blackie Gaxton's gang, Doctor Octopus, and Spider-Man.^[248]

Many years later, a new Crime Master appeared in the Venom series. He proved to be a shrewd planner, with substantial resources and many henchmen. His paths first crossed with Eugene "Flash" Thompson, the most recent host of the Venom symbiote, when Flash was sent to stop a mad scientist who had developed powerful Antarctic Vibranium bullets for the Crime Master.^[249]

The Crime Master subsequently organized his own team to destroy Venom, which he called the Savage Six. It consisted of himself, Jack-O-Lantern, the Human Fly, the Death Adder, Megatak, and Toxin (which now has Eddie Brock as a host after losing the Anti-Venom symbiote back in the Spider-Island storyline).^[250] When Betty Brant was brought before the Crime Master, she was shocked when the Crime Master revealed himself to be her own brother, Bennett Brant, who invited Betty to join him in killing Venom.^[251] After his unmasking, Brant claimed that the Crime Master identity went back centuries, and that the bearer of it was chosen by an enigmatic criminal empire. After Venom arrived at his hideout, Bennett Brant almost killed him with a sonic pistol and a flamethrower, but he was shot and killed by Betty. When Venom began to make a comment on this, Betty stated that her brother "died a long time ago."^[252]

Impostor Crime Master

Venom later came across another Crime Master who was smuggling weapons into the city. Venom fights this Crime Master and notices that he is acting differently. At the same time, the Superior Spider-Man (Doctor Octopus's mind in Spider-Man's body) gets a call from Spider-Island 2 about Venom and the Crime Master and proceeds to have a small army assemble outside the building in which they are fighting. The Superior Spider-Man breaks into the building just as the Crime Master takes off his mask. It is revealed that the man under the mask is an unnamed Maggia operative who had just bought the Crime Master identity and gear from Hobgoblin. The Maggia operative then surrenders.^[253]

The Crime Master subsequently hires the Blood Spider, Death-Shield, and Jagged Bow to help him steal a damaged Rigellian Recorder from Deadpool and the Mercs for Money.^[254] After the heist goes awry, the Crime Master attempts to buy the Recorder through an auction being held by Deadpool, but is outbid by the Ozarks Kingpin.^[255]

During the Civil War II storyline, the Crime Master joins the Kingpin's organization and is killed by one of Fisk's enemies who defaces the corpse with a sign that reads "It's Not Your City".^[256]

Inner Demons version

One of Mister Negative's Inner Demons later impersonates the Hobgoblin's Crime Master in order to manipulate the Black Cat and the Enforcers into helping him break into Ryker's Island, where he tries to assassinate Hammerhead and Tombstone. The plan is foiled by Spider-Man and the Wraith.^[257][258]

Crime Master V

An unidentified Crime Master worked closely with Madame Masque as they both share the struggle of Kingpin's mayoral rule over New York City. He is among the crime bosses that are tasked by Mayor Wilson Fisk to target Boomerang who is reported to have the Tablet of Life and Time parts.^[259]

Crime Master is among the crime lords that attend the wedding of Randy Robertson and Janice Lincoln. When Shotgun crashes the wedding and shoots Tombstone, Spider-Man goes after him as the crime lords blame each other for calling the hit.^[260]

During the "Gang War" storyline, Crime Master attended a crime lord meeting at Arthur Avenue. When Owl asked who ran him out of Red Hook, Crime Master denies any knowledge of it and reveals that he has started a partnership with A.I.M. as an A.I.M. Agent is seen with him.^[261] Crime Master and some A.I.M. Agents fought against Ringmaster and his hypnotized civilians until Spider-Man's group showed up. Spider-Man and Spider-Woman defeated Crime Master while Elektra's Daredevil appearance defeated Ringmaster enough to free the hypnotized civilians from his control. Spider-Man then called Mayor Luke Cage to arrange for the villains to be picked up and processed.^[262]

Frank Moore

Frank Moore was born in Brooklyn, New York. Believing his father, the Comet, was killed by an assassin, Frank decides to follow in his footsteps and gain vengeance on the criminal underworld, fighting crime as the costumed Crimebuster. Later reunited with his father, Crimebuster joins the Champions of Xandar and aids them in their war against the Skrulls. Crimebuster is killed by a Skrull.^[263]

Crimebuster had no superhuman powers, but was a gifted athlete and a master of various weaponry. Among his devices were a rope gun and a single-seated hover vehicle.

Crimebuster appeared as part of the "Champions of Xandar" entry in the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Deluxe Edition #16.

Eugene Mason

Eugene Mason first appeared in Power Man and Iron Fist #105 (May 1984), and was created by Kurt Busiek and Richard Howell.

Mason was a criminal who encountered Power Man in Seagate Penitentiary. After escaping prison, Mason found Franke Moore's abandoned equipment and became the new Crime-Buster as a mercenary. He became a rival hero-for-hire to Power Man and Iron Fist for a short while.^[264] Mason was later seen among a group of superheroes battling the Lethal Legion as they attacked the offices of Marvel Comics.^[265]

Eugene is being considered as a "potential recruit" for the Initiative program.^[19]

Mason was reported dead in Power Man & Iron Fist volume 3 #1. He was revealed to have been killed by former Heroes for Hire secretary Jennifer Royce.^[266]

Crimebuster III

A new Crimebuster appeared in Avengers: The Initiative as part of the Georgia Team called The Cavalry.^[267] The identity of the Crimebuster on the Initiative team has not yet been revealed yet.

Ultron

The first version of Crimson Cowl first appears in The Avengers #54 (July 1968)^[268] and was created by writer Roy Thomas and artist John Buscema.^[269] Ultron disguises himself as the Crimson Cowl to lead the Masters of Evil against the Avengers while using Edwin Jarvis as a body double.^[270]

Justine Hammer

The second version of Crimson Cowl debuts in Thunderbolts #3 (June 1997) and was created by Kurt Busiek and Mark Bagley.^[271] Fabian Nicieza later revealed the character's identity in Thunderbolts #67 (September 2002).

Justine Hammer is the daughter of industrialist and supervillain financier Justin Hammer. Justin disapproves of his daughter, and she constantly tries to prove her worthiness. She eventually follows in her father's footsteps and uses the supervillain community to accumulate power for herself as the Crimson Cowl.^[272] Shortly after the Avengers and Fantastic Four's apparent deaths, the Crimson Cowl forms her own version of the Masters of Evil while working for Hydra, with the hope of winning the New York City crime families' favor. This enrages the Thunderbolts, who are led by Baron Helmut Zemo as Citizen V. When the Thunderbolts face the Masters of Evil in battle, the Crimson Cowl and her team escape when her teleportation ability creates a blinding flash. In a later fight with the Thunderbolts, the Crimson Cowl escapes again.^[273]

After the Thunderbolts turn on Zemo and Techno, causing villains and heroes alike to hate them, the Crimson Cowl attempts to induct them into the Masters of Evil. She sends Cyclone to bait the Thunderbolts into an ambush. After defeating the Thunderbolts, she attempts to blackmail them into joining her, threatening to turn them over to their enemies.^[274] The Thunderbolts decline her offer and are saved by Hawkeye disguised as Dreadknight.^[275]

The Masters of Evil, outnumbering the Thunderbults with 25 members, then plan to use a weather machine to blackmail world leaders for one billion dollars. Hawkeye infiltrates the group, using Moonstone's reputation as a traitor for attempting to unmask the Crimson Cowl, who had teleported Dallas Riordan, the Thunderbolts' former liaison, into her costume before the unmasking.^[276]

During a battle between the V-Battalion and the Thunderbolts, the Crimson Cowl teleports Riordan to her hideout on the border of Symkaria and Latveria and holds her prisoner. Riordan escapes and falls off a bridge during a fight with the Crimson Cowl, paralyzing and nearly unmasking her.^[277]

Hammer is friends with Silver Sable, who allows her to stay in the country of Symkaria after inheriting her father's fortune, initially unaware that Hammer is a supervillain. The Crimson Cowl creates a new incarnation of the Masters of Evil, but Hawkeye, Songbird, and Plantman defeat most of its members and convince several of them that the Crimson Cowl would kill the group with a biotoxin. Hawkeye also inducts several members of the Masters of Evil into the Thunderbolts. The Crimson Cowl is defeated when Skein deconstructs her costume, leaving her naked and allowing the Thunderbolts to place her in a cell.^[278]

During the "Civil War" storyline, Hammer forms a crew with Razor Fist and Diamondhead in an attempt to escape the Raft, a superhuman prison. She teleports to the security center, knocking out both guards and releasing all of the prisoners. Razor Fist holds Robbie Baldwin as a hostage and accidentally releases his kinetic energy, rendering most of the prisoners unconscious, maimed, or dead; Hammer is found knocked out.^[279]

The Crimson Cowl is later hired by the Hood to take advantage of the superhero community split caused by the Superhuman Registration Act.^[280]

Justine Hammer is later a recurring adversary to Iron Man, beginning with the 2010 storyline "Stark Resilient", in which she has left behind her Crimson Cowl identity to lead Hammer Industries with her daughter Sasha Hammer. They promote Detroit Steel, their own line of mechanized battle suits, to both military and private investors. Initially, the investors have little interest, until Stark announces that he is leaving the weapons industry and promoting using repulsor technology to give free energy to the world, which renews the military's interest in Detroit Steel. Justine also buys surplus H.A.M.M.E.R. equipment, which is sold after Norman Osborn's fall.^[281] Hammer continues as an adversary alongside the Mandarin in subsequent Iron Man storylines, including "Demon",^[282] "The Long Way Down",^[283] and "The Future".^[284] After Iron Man and Zeke Stane join forces to cescape captivity, the former contacts Justine to warn her that Sasha and Zeke will seek revenge against the Mandarin for harming Zeke. Justine ignores the warning, but finds Sasha and Zeke waiting to presumably kill her.^[285]

Anton Vanko

Boris Turgenov

Alexander Nevsky

Yuri Petrovich

Dmitri Bukharin

Valentin Shatalov

Others

Publication history

Crossfire first appears in Marvel Two-in-One #52 (1979) and was created by writer Steven Grant and artist Jim Craig. His next appearance in Hawkeye Volume 1, #4 (1983) shows his first of many encounters with the title character. Crossfire later faces off against Hawkeye in the pages of Captain America #317 (1986), Avengers Spotlight #24–25 (1989), Avengers West Coast Volume 2, #100 (1993), and Hawkeye & Mockingbird #1–6 (2010). Crossfire also battles Nick Fury in Nick Fury: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. Volume 3, #40–41 (1992).

The character is one of the central villains in Spider-Man: Breakout #1–5 (2005). Flashback scenes reveal elements of Crossfire's life before his time as a supervillain. He appears as a central character in the limited series Villains for Hire #1–4 (2011–2012), a supervillain spin-off of Marvel's Heroes for Hire series.

Crossfire makes minor appearances in Agent X #6 (2002), Secret War #3–5 (2004), and Union Jack Volume 2, #1–2 (2006). He appears as a member of the Hood's criminal syndicate in New Avengers Volume 1, #35, 46, 50, 55–57, 60–61, 63–64 (2007–2010), New Avengers Annual #2 (2008), Secret Invasion #6, #8 (2008), Dark Reign: The Hood #1–2, 4–5 (2009), Marvel Zombies 4 #2 (2009), Dark Reign: The Cabal #1 (2009), Captain America: Siege #1 (2010), and New Avengers: Finale #1 (2010).

Character biography

William Cross was born in Madison, Wisconsin. He becomes an interrogation expert for the CIA. While building his own rogue covert operation group, he romances federal corrections officer Rozalyn Backus, with whom he develops ultrasonic brainwashing technology. Backus, unaware of Cross's illicit activities, becomes engaged to him, until Cross steals the technology and disappears, faking his own death and framing Backus for murder. After surviving an attempt on his life, which costs him his left eye and his left ear, he replaces them with cybernetic implants and becomes a prosperous high-tech freelancer known as "Crossfire".^[297]

Plotting to make the growing superhero community exterminate each other via ultrasonic mind control, Crossfire abducts the Thing to test his technology. Moon Knight (Marc Spector) interferes and Crossfire is defeated.^[298]

Crossfire secretly rebuilds his operations at his first cousin Darren Cross's company, Cross Technological Enterprises (CTE). When Hawkeye and Mockingbird investigate, Crossfire hires Bombshell, Oddball, and Silencer to assassinate them. When they fail, Crossfire decides to make Hawkeye a test subject for his super hero mind control plot. Hawkeye thwarts Crossfire's brainwashing, captures the criminals and rescues Mockingbird, who he marries shortly thereafter.^[299]

Crossfire subsequently stalks the newlyweds to the estate of former film star Moira Brandon.^[300] The Death-Throws, a juggling supervillain team, frees Crossfire from police custody. When he is unable to pay the group, they hold him ransom until Captain America, Hawkeye, and Mockingbird capture them.^[301] Crossfire escapes and places a bounty on Hawkeye's arm, hoping to destroy the hero's skills and break his spirit. An army of supervillains, including the Brothers Grimm, Mad Dog, Bobcat, Razor Fist, Bullet Biker, and the Death-Throws, are all defeated by Hawkeye, Mockingbird, and Trickshot. Hawkeye pursues Crossfire through the sewers, knocking him off an outfall dam's edge, which he hangs onto. Hawkeye contemplates letting Crossfire fall to his death, but he saves him and sends him to prison.^[302]

Crossfire is later recruited by Lucia Von Bardas, along with other technology-based supervillains, to attack Nick Fury and a group of superheroes who were involved in a secret war in Latveria. The hired supervillains are each a component of a bomb designed to destroy the city. Fury and the heroes foil the plot and arrest the supervillains involved.^[303]

During one of his prison stays, Crossfire befriends Vector of the U-Foes, whose secret power nullification technology he hopes to exploit. After an encounter with S.H.I.E.L.D., he is imprisoned in the Vault, where the exonerated Backus is a member of the Vault's Guardsman force. Backus pretents to aid, and then foils, an escape plot by the U-Foes and Crossfire, turning the criminals against each other. She then fakes her own death, and steals a fortune in cash and valuables from the criminals, including Vector's power nullification chamber, which Backus later claimed to have secretly destroyed. The criminals are later transferred to the Raft, a super-prison, but they escape during Electro's mass breakout, with Crossfire leading a gang of his fellow mind-manipulators: Controller, Corruptor, Mandrill, and Mister Fear. While pursuing Backus and the chamber, the U-Foes and Crossfire's gang fight a super-powered gang war in New York until Spider-Man, Captain America, and Iron Man's intervention. Crossfire and his gang, except for the Corrupter, are recaptured and Backus surrenders herself to the authorities.^[297]

Along with the Death-Throws, Crossfire is hired by R.A.I.D. to take part in a terror plot in London, only to be foiled by Union Jack, Contessa Fontaine, Sabra, and the Arabian Knight. Crossfire is knocked from the top of Tower Bridge into River Thames, and is believed dead when he does not resurface.^[304] Crossfire is revealed to have survived the fall and joins the Hood to take advantage of the superhero community's split over the Superhuman Registration Act.^[305] As a member of the Hood's crime syndicate, Crossfire repels the Skrull invasion alongside the superheros, and then battles the New Avengers.^{[306][307][308]}

Crossfire later challenges Hood, who wants to use the zombie virus to gain power and influence, protesting that he was not interested in conquering the world.^[309] Led by the Wrecking Crew and Dr. Jonas Harrow, Crossfire and the rest of Hood's crime syndicate rebel against their leader and attempt to strike a deal with Osborn. They attack and defeat the New Avengers and subdue the Dark Avengers.^[310] Crossfire takes part in the siege of Asgard, an event orchestrated by Osborn. At the end of the battle, Crossfire evades capture.^[311]

Crossfire begins to deal in illegal arms, but is thwarted by Hawkeye and Mockingbird. He forms an alliance with the Phantom Rider (Jamie Slade), and with his new robotic army of Death-Throws, they plot to destroy the lives of the two heroes. Crossfire almost succeeds in killing Hawkeye and Mockingbird, severely wounding Mockingbird's mother and killing Hamilton Slade. As a result, Crossfire is captured and viciously beaten by Hawkeye. Despite being imprisoned with numerous injuries, Crossfire believes that he has won a small victory in pushing Hawkeye to a breaking point.^[312] Hawkeye later discovers that Helmut Zemo was the mysterious benefactor behind Crossfire's illegal arms dealing.^[313] The Thunderbolts' leader, Luke Cage, tells Hawkeye that he will not allow Crossfire to join his team.^[314] Steve Rogers also recommended against allowing him to join the Thunderbolts, worrying that his skill in technology could allow him to override the nanite system used to control the inmates.^[315]

Crossfire is later hired as part of Misty Knight's "Villains for Hire" team in a battle against the Purple Man.^[316] He is also recruited by Max Fury to join the Shadow Council's incarnation of the Masters of Evil.^[317] In Bagalia, he is paid off by Nick Fury Jr. to let Taskmaster out of prison at the same time that the Secret Avengers raid Bagalia to recruit him.^[318] Crossfire is hired by his second cousin Augustine Cross to capture Cassie Lang for Cross Technological Enterprises, due to Augustine's belief that Cassie's Pym Particle-irradiated heart could sustain his father's body.^[319] Crossfire later accompanies Yellowjacket and Egghead in attacking Ant-Man and Stinger.^[320] During the "Search for Tony Stark" arc, Crossfire rejoins the Hood gang and assists in the attack on Castle Doom.^[321]

Abilities

Crossfire has no superhuman powers. He is a former CIA operative with expert marksman abilities, proficient unarmed combat skills, and extensive espionage training. He is also a master of brainwashing techniques, for which he has developed technology. Crossfire is an expert in the field of robotics and cybernetics, and has specialized knowledge of applied ultrasonics. Crossfire creates the "undertaker" machine, a brainwashing device which employs ultrasonic waves to stimulate rage in the emotion centers of his victims' brains.^[322] After an explosion causes Crossfire to lose his left eye and left ear, and sustain 85% loss of hearing in his right ear, he replaces his left eye with an infrared imaging device, which allows him to see in total darkness, and his left ear with an audio sensor that is more sensitive than the human ear.^[323] As a result of the loss of natural hearing in his right ear, Crossfire is unaffected by his own ultrasonic technology. His costume is made of Kevlar and has hidden compartments containing various weapons and devices. Crossfire uses twin handguns and a sniper rifle as his weapons of choice.

Crossfire in other media

• William Cross appears in The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes episode "To Steal an Ant-Man", voiced by Neil Ross. This version is a former criminal partner of Scott Lang's who is served by Big Ben Donovan, Dontrell "Cockroach" Hamilton, Gideon Mace, Ray "Piranha" Jones, and Spear.
• Crossfire appears in Lego Marvel Super Heroes 2 via the "Ant Man and the Wasp" DLC pack.^[324]
• Crossfire appears in Marvel Avengers Alliance 2.^[325]

Arthur Blackwood

Skrull

Greek

Caldwell Rozza

Juan Aponte

Danny Leighton

Danny Leighton was born in Austin, Texas. As a young man, he is a member of the Savage Crims, a New York street gang.^[328] He becomes an assassin and is hired by Amos Jardine to kill Spider-Man in his first high profile job, replacing Arcade.^[329] After Nightcrawler learns of the plan, Cutthroat battles him and Spider-Man; they defeat him with secret assistance from Arcade.^[330]

Many years later, he defeats Mangler and Deathstrike in a fight to the death to be the Red Skull's new chief operative, replacing Crossbones.^[331] He undergoes training by the Taskmaster.^[332] He tries to persuade Blackwing and Jack O'Lantern to help him free Mother Night from the police,^[333] and has a brief affair with Mother Night.^[334] With the Skeleton Crew, he battles Crossbones and Diamondback. After learning that Diamondback is his sister, Rachel,^[335] he reveals his true identity to her.^[336]

When Crossbones returnes, Cutthroat fears that he will be replaced and plans to kill Crossbones in his sleep. However, Mother Night alerts Crossbones, allowing him to slit Cutthroat's throat.^[337] The Red Skull inspects Cutthroat's corpse,^[338] but Cutthorat lives through unknown circumstances. He becomes an inmate on the Raft, which he escapes with other convicts.^[339] He is later recaptured.

The Hood hires Cutthroat to fight superheros in the wake of the Superhuman Registration Act. He fights the New Avengers and is defeated by Doctor Strange. He later joins the fight against the Skrull invading force in New York City.^[340] He also joins the gang in attacking the New Avengers, who were expecting the Dark Avengers instead.^[341] During the "Search for Tony Stark" storyline, Cutthroat rejoins Hood's gang and assists in the attack on Castle Doom.^[321]

When working for the Power Elite, Cutthroat is ordered by Crossbones and Alexa Lukin to finish off Thunderbolt Ross. Cutthroat uses an electrical stick on Ross, but Ross is eventually able to turn into the Red Hulk and defeat Cutthroat.^[342]

Hobgoblin's Cutthroat

Roderick Kingsley sells one of Cutthroat's old costumes to an unnamed criminal to be his version of Cutthroat.^[343]

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