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Universe
Marvel Universe

Real Name
James Bourne

Aliases
None

Identity
Known to authorities

Occupation
Counter-terrorist

Citizenship
U.S.A.

Place of Birth
Unrevealed

Known Relatives
Unrevealed

Group Affiliation
None; formerly Six Pack, Omega Strike, former ally of Spider-Man

Education
Unrevealed

Height
6'

Weight
200lbs

Eyes
Brown

Hair
Reddish Brown

Powers
Solo is able to teleport himself and a certain amount of mass which is in contact with him, such as his weapons. There appears to be a limit to the distance and number of teleports Solo can achieve in a given time span. The longer the distance over which Solo teleports, the more difficult it is for him to make the "jump".

Abilities
Solo is a master of many forms of hand-to-hand combat. He is also highly adept in the use of conventional weapons and firearms.

Weapons
Submachine guns, other projectile weapons, and grenades.

Paraphernalia
His costume is bulletproof

First Appearance
Web of Spider-Man #19 (1986)

Origin
Solo #1 (1994)

Significant Issues
teamed with Spider-Man against Taskmaster (Amazing Spider-Man #367, 1992); turned in by Spider-Man (Solo #03, 1994); turned himself in after killing a civilian (Solo #04, 1994); worked with Six Pack (Cable & Deadpool #7, 2004); captured by S.H.I.E.L.D. as unregistered combatant (Civil War: Front Line #04, 2006)

Very little is known about the James Bourne before he joined the army and was stationed in Germany. There he met young woman named Melinda Wallace and fell in love with her. The love was short lived when Melinda got shot and killed in the near by down by some terrorists. James took her death really hard and few months after the funeral he was drafted to top-secret special forces operation. He endured ten months of hard and brutal training and earned his place in the new counter-terrorist group Omega Strike leader by Emil Tessler. They also had several surgical operations where in their brains was implanted with Cyber-Chips that made teleporting possible. Many people didn’t survive the operation, because the brain rejected the implant. Bourne also had grown very close to one of his squat members named Rowena Maclean in those ten months.

Soon they were sent to their first mission to Italy where some terrorist had hijacked a plane. James was given the lead of hostage recovery unit and Rowena and Gabriel Grant leaded the terrorist termination unit. When they jumped in the plane all of James’ team got killed in seconds and he himself got also hit, but managed to teleport to the passenger section of the plane. When he arrived he saw that Grant had killed all of the terrorist, hostages and even his teammates except Rowena. James wanted an explanation and Grant told him that him and Tessler were paid to make the mission a failure. James also told him that they are going to start their own terrorist organization when they collect enough money and shot James hitting him in the stomach. Rowena tried to stop him, but it was too late. Rowena said to James that she didn’t have a choice and that she will always love him. She also hanged a golden necklace on his neck before she and Grant teleported away. Soon after they left James himself teleported away and got his injuries healed. Shortly after he healed he tried to find Rowena, but discovered that she and Grant had died in a plane crash and that Grant even ruined his reputation by leaving false evidence that incriminated him. At that moment James Bourne died and Solo was born.

In his career he has worked with Spider-Man, Captain America and Silver Sable to capture Sabretooth and to stop Ultimatum. He was fooled sometime later by Mysterio to think that Spider-Man was Doctor Octopus. He was about to kill him, but was stopped by Cyborg X. He later joined the other heroes Spider-Man, Deathlok, Fantastic Four, Ghost Rider, Nova and Hulk to stop Sinister Six. He helped Spider-Man once again when they fought against Taskmaster, Blood Spider, Deathshield and Jagged Bow. They managed to defeat all the others, but Taskmaster managed to escape. Before Solo teleported away he told Spider-Man that the Red Skull planned to disturb America Day celebration in New York. Shortly after last encounter of Spider-Man. Solo had run in with Nick Fury when he was stopping Viper from stealing nuclear missiles. Fury didn’t really appreciate Solo’s help and blamed him of Viper’s escape. Solo didn’t like Fury’s attitude and teleported away leaving him alone in the factory.

Next time Solo resurfaced against terrorist organization A.R.E.S. and he also briefly met Black Cat who was stealing a painting. Solo soon met a ghost of his past named Gabriel Grant who now called himself Deathstroke. He had staged his own death and now runs his own terrorist organization A.R.E.S.. He fought him for a while but eventually Deathstroke escaped. He tracked them to Manhattan where he found Rowenna stealing Omega Strikes files. He didn’t have to time to react before Rowena teleported away. He turned around and saw a bomb on the table and quickly teleported himself out of there. He got back to his hideout and pulled out the old files of Omega Strike from his computer. His memories overwhelmed him and he burst in the tears holding the necklace Rowena gave him in his fist. He soon recollected himself and wowing to save Rowena anyway necessary. He soon saw the news about Spider-Man fighting A.R.E.S.’s terrorists and he teleported in joining the fight. They quickly won the fight, but Deathstroke managed to escape. Spider-Man devastated that so many innocent people had died. Turned his frustration on Solo saying that he is as bad as they are and tried to stop Solo leaving, but he still wasn’t quick enough. Solo and Spider-Man intervened in A.R.E.S.’s operations several times in the future. After one of these encounters Spider-Man decided that he wouldn’t let Solo escape. He attacked him and eventually defeated him and turned him in, but when he was transported he managed to subdue two Guardsmen who were guarding him and escaped. He tracked A.R.E.S. down and managed to stop Tessler from killing several people. When he was going to shoot Tessler Rowena jumped on the line of fire. Solo asked why she stopped him and Rowena answered that Tessler was his father. Tessler used this confusion to teleport away. When Solo noticed that he followed with Rowena right behind him. When they rematerialized again they saw Deathstroke broke Tessler’s neck. Solo attacked him, but in the mist of battle they damaged ship so much that it crashed to the ocean. Deathstroke bulled himself out of the water just to see Solo aiming at him holding unconscious Rowena on his other arm. He fires his gun hitting Deathstroke killing him just before he teleports away, but the bullet goes trough him hitting a civilian woman behind him and accidentally killing her. Spider-Man saw this happen and accused Solo once again to be as bad the terrorist he hunts. Solo then quietly waited the police to arrive and allowed them to arrest him. Even if he knew that he couldn’t amend for the death of the innocent girl.

It’s not known how long Solo was in jail, but next time he appeared he was ready to get back to his old ways. His first target was Wolverine, but was then convinced that he wasn’t a threat anymore and let him live. He wasn’t seen for while after that, but was apparently drafted to newly form Six Pack and was sent after Cable. After a short fight Cable promised to pay them more money than S.H.I.E.L.D. and they decided to join his side. Soon after X-Men arrived trying to destroy the island, but Six Pack managed to keep them back. After Silver Surfer appeared attacking Cable and interrupted the fight. X-Men and Six Pack worked together to save the people on the now falling island. Six Pack soon tracked down Cable’s hideout finding very badly injured Cable and before they realized it they were sucked inside his mind. They stayed trapped there in a mad tea party till Deadpool with help of Fixer saved Cable’s life. Cable then transferred Six Pack’s minds back to their own bodies from his own mind.

Recently Solo seem to have resigned from Six Pack and due to the events of the Superhuman Registration Act joined alongside other heroes and villains such as Typeface and Battlestar. Who went underground as they decided to oppose the Registration Act. They were soon joined by other heroes and villains who opposed the act and were recently raided by S.H.I.E.L.D.. Solo, Typeface, Battlestar, and many others were captured by S.H.I.E.L.D.
 
 
 
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