Marvel Universe Wiki - User contributions [en]

Thor complete powers

2010-06-08T13:41:55Z

DragynWulf: Added "Superman" referance without using name.

A complete listing of Thor's powers.

=== Thor's Powers ===
Thor possesses physical powers superior to those of normal Asgardian gods. He has an extended lifespan augmented (although not immortal) by the [[Golden Apples]] of [[Idunn]], immunity to conventional diseases, enhanced endurance (Thor's Asgardian metabolism is far greater than a human), superhuman strength ([[http://marvel.com/universe/OHOTMU:Power_Grids#STRENGTH| lifting 100 tons]]), which increases further when he succumbs to “warrior’s madness,” a berserker rage, the mindless battle passion that increases a warriors strength tenfold. By chanting and performing an ancient ritual, Thor can also invoke the berserker rage to increase his strength. His skin and bones are several times denser than those of mortals, granting him extreme resistance to injury.

Thor shares a unique bond <ref>Thor #398</ref> and affinity with [[Mjolnir]], which has been increased further after Dr. Stephen Strange bound Thor's lifeforce to Mjolnir to repair the hammer <ref>Thor #602</ref>. Via this bond, Thor has a strong affinity with the forces of weather and acting as a conduct can channel Mjolnir's powers through himself allowing him to summon lighting from his hands. Thor's affinity with Mjolnir is so strong that even when damaged, as long as there is a significant piece remaining intact, Thor can use Mjolnir's powers. However due to the increased bond via Thor's lifeforce, if Mjolnir were to be damaged, Thor himself would perish. Thor can channel his godly energies/lifeforce through Mjolnir into blasts called “Godforce” so powerful that they can slay even immortals, although it leaves him in a weakened state afterwards.

Thor wears a full body hauberk composed of Asgardian steel. It belt has the Norse symbol of physical health as a belt buckle along with the Norse symbol of Gemini most likely to symbolize his bond with Dr. Donald Blake. <ref>Thor #1 (2007)</ref>

While empowered with the Odinforce, or accurately called Thorforce since the Asgardian lifeforce resided within Thor, Thor was able to tap into a near-infinite resource of cosmic and mystical power, enhancing all of his powers. With the Odinforce’s vast power, Thor was even able to dent [[Captain America (Steve Rogers)|Captain America]]’s [[Captain America's shield|Vibranium/steel alloy shield]]. At regular intervals (usually occurring once per year) or when using the Thorpower too greatly, Thor would be required to enter the “Thorsleep.” Learning from his father's mistakes, Thor had [[Falki]], Odin's metalsmith, create a casket that contains enchantments that create a coma-like state to replenish and retain mastery over the Thorpower in order to heal more quickly. Once closed, it can only be opened from within. When Thor entered this casket of Thorsleep and into the Thorsleep, Donald Blake emerged from the Void until Thor awoke once again. Thor briefly had mastery of the [[Norse runes]] and could use them to break any Asgardian enchantment.

Thor occasionally dons a [[Thor's Belt of Strength|Belt of Strength]], which doubles his strength but weakens him after its use. He also possesses a pair of [[Thor's Iron Gauntlets|iron gauntlets]] to protect him when unleashing Mjolnir’s most potent powers. For extended periods of travel, Thor rides a chariot drawn by the Asgardian goats [[Toothgnasher]] and [[Toothgrinder]].

During the period when he was cursed by [[Hela]] with brittle bones that would not heal, Thor wore a full body suit of armor composed of Asgardian steel for protection. This armor possessed ancient rune symbols of power emblazoned by lightning upon the armor along with an exoskeleton complete with circuits connected to a series of feedback microcomputers programed to respond to minute changes in electrical conductivity of the nerves to prevent the broken bones from shifting, while allowing Thor to use his arm.

=== Mjolnir ===
Mjolnir is a virtually unbreakable hammer enchanted by Odin with various enchantments by augmenting its physical qualities via the Odinforce, the life essence of the Asgardian gods, and forged from mystically uru metal, whose chief properties are durability, the ability to maintain enchantment, and absorb energies. Thor shares a unique bond and affinity with Mjolnir, which has been increased further after Dr. Stephen Strange bound Thor's lifeforce to Mjolnir to repair the hammer. Via this bond, Thor has a strong affinity with the forces of weather and acting as a conduct can channel Mjolnir's powers through himself allowing him to summon lighting from his hands. Thor's affinity with Mjolnir is so strong that even when damaged, as long as there is a significant piece remaining intact, Thor can use Mjolnir's powers. However due to the increased bond via lifeforce, if Mjolnir were to be damaged again, Thor himself would perish. Thor can channel his godly energies/lifeforce through Mjolnir into blasts called “Godforce” so powerful that they can slay even immortals, although it leaves him in a weakened state afterwards.

Mjolnir is specially enchanted to prevent it from being wielded by anyone save those who have been found worthy and possess superhuman strength. Thus far, this includes Thor, Odin, Tiwaz, Red Norvell, and Beta Ray Bill. Those who are worthy enough are empowered with Thor's essence held within Mjolnir to gain the powers of Thor. However, in times of need, Thor can will others to lift Mjolnir and overcome this enchantment, allowing them to lift the hammer. Thus far, this includes Steve Rogers, Eric Masterson, and a red and blue costumed adventurer from another universe. While holding Mjolnir together, Thor can empower others with his essence to gain the powers of Thor. Thus far, Eric Masterson has been the only one to receive this enchantment. To anyone else, Mjolnir cannot be lifted from the ground nor wrested from Thor’s grip. This enchantment does not affect non-sentient beings (such as robot drones), but even non-sentient forces must possess some level of superhuman strength to lift Mjolnir. However, without the presence of gravity, anyone can overcome this enchantment and lift, or more accurately “push,” and hold Mjolnir, but can not access or use the enchantments within the hammer.

Wielding Mjolnir, Thor can summon and control the powers of the storm, causing rain, wind, thunder and lightning. Thor can channel the storm’s fury into devastating energy blasts that can destroy even secondary [[Adamantium]]. Mjolnir can also generate energy blasts called “Anti-Force.” Due to its uru metal composite, Mjolnir can absorb other energies into itself, which Thor can then release.

Mjolnir can also transform Thor into his civilian guise as Donald Blake by striking the hammer against the ground once. When Thor becomes Blake, and vise-versa, Thor is sent into the limbo-like dimension known as the Void. Mjolnir assumes the appearance of an old wooden cane and in this form Mjolnir can be lifted by anyone. Mjolnir’s enchantments usually restore Thor to Blake’s form if he is separated from the hammer for more than 60 seconds.

By throwing Mjolnir while grasping its leather thong, Thor can simulate flight at speeds up to Mach 32 (over 24,000 mph). Thor can steer Mjolnir’s path via his mental control over Mjolnir while traveling and can “hover” in place by spinning Mjolnir in his hand. While throwing Mjolnir when “hovering,” Thor can use winds to keep himself afloat allowing him to appear to be in flight. Mjolnir obeys Thor’s mental commands, via his bond with the hammer, as though it was alive and, if Thor’s will is strong enough, the hammer can pass through nearly any barrier to reach his hand should he so desire. Once thrown, Mjolnir returns to Thor's grasp when he mystically calls upon it to return to him.

Thor often uses Mjolnir defensively to deflect attacks by spinning it around his body at terrific speeds. By spinning Mjolnir in a circle, Thor can open interdimensional portals, allowing him to travel to other dimensions. Mjolnir has occasionally served as a power source for the Avengers’ Quinjets, enabling them to attain faster-than-light travel. Mjolnir enables Thor to sense the use of magic, particularly Asgardian enchantments. Thor has also used Mjolnir to break spells such as the one that allows the Wrecker to share his power with the Wrecking Crew. Formerly, it could also allow him to travel through time, but Immortus removed this power.

Thor complete powers

2010-06-06T14:16:00Z

DragynWulf:

A complete listing of Thor's powers.

=== Thor's Powers ===
Thor possesses physical powers superior to those of normal Asgardian gods. He has an extended lifespan augmented (although not immortal) by the [[Golden Apples]] of [[Idunn]], immunity to conventional diseases, enhanced endurance (Thor's Asgardian metabolism is far greater than a human), superhuman strength ([[http://marvel.com/universe/OHOTMU:Power_Grids#STRENGTH| lifting 100 tons]]), which increases further when he succumbs to “warrior’s madness,” a berserker rage, the mindless battle passion that increases a warriors strength tenfold. By chanting and performing an ancient ritual, Thor can also invoke the berserker rage to increase his strength. His skin and bones are several times denser than those of mortals, granting him extreme resistance to injury.

Thor shares a unique bond <ref>Thor #398</ref> and affinity with [[Mjolnir]], which has been increased further after Dr. Stephen Strange bound Thor's lifeforce to Mjolnir to repair the hammer <ref>Thor #602</ref>. Via this bond, Thor has a strong affinity with the forces of weather and acting as a conduct can channel Mjolnir's powers through himself allowing him to summon lighting from his hands. Thor's affinity with Mjolnir is so strong that even when damaged, as long as there is a significant piece remaining intact, Thor can use Mjolnir's powers. However due to the increased bond via Thor's lifeforce, if Mjolnir were to be damaged, Thor himself would perish. Thor can channel his godly energies/lifeforce through Mjolnir into blasts called “Godforce” so powerful that they can slay even immortals, although it leaves him in a weakened state afterwards.

Thor wears a full body hauberk composed of Asgardian steel. It belt has the Norse symbol of physical health as a belt buckle along with the Norse symbol of Gemini most likely to symbolize his bond with Dr. Donald Blake. <ref>Thor #1 (2007)</ref>

While empowered with the Odinforce, or accurately called Thorforce since the Asgardian lifeforce resided within Thor, Thor was able to tap into a near-infinite resource of cosmic and mystical power, enhancing all of his powers. With the Odinforce’s vast power, Thor was even able to dent [[Captain America (Steve Rogers)|Captain America]]’s [[Captain America's shield|Vibranium/steel alloy shield]]. At regular intervals (usually occurring once per year) or when using the Thorpower too greatly, Thor would be required to enter the “Thorsleep.” Learning from his father's mistakes, Thor had [[Falki]], Odin's metalsmith, create a casket that contains enchantments that create a coma-like state to replenish and retain mastery over the Thorpower in order to heal more quickly. Once closed, it can only be opened from within. When Thor entered this casket of Thorsleep and into the Thorsleep, Donald Blake emerged from the Void until Thor awoke once again. Thor briefly had mastery of the [[Norse runes]] and could use them to break any Asgardian enchantment.

Thor occasionally dons a [[Thor's Belt of Strength|Belt of Strength]], which doubles his strength but weakens him after its use. He also possesses a pair of Thor's Iron Gauntlets|iron gauntlets]] to protect him when unleashing Mjolnir’s most potent powers. For extended periods of travel, Thor rides a chariot drawn by the Asgardian goats [[Toothgnasher]] and [[Toothgrinder]].

During the period when he was cursed by [[Hela]] with brittle bones that would not heal, Thor wore a full body suit of armor composed of Asgardian steel for protection. This armor possessed ancient rune symbols of power emblazoned by lightning upon the armor along with an exoskeleton complete with circuits connected to a series of feedback microcomputers programed to respond to minute changes in electrical conductivity of the nerves to prevent the broken bones from shifting, while allowing Thor to use his arm.

=== Mjolnir ===
Mjolnir is a virtually unbreakable hammer enchanted by Odin with various enchantments by augmenting its physical qualities via the Odinforce, the life essence of the Asgardian gods, and forged from mystically uru metal, whose chief properties are durability, the ability to maintain enchantment, and absorb energies. Thor shares a unique bond and affinity with Mjolnir, which has been increased further after Dr. Stephen Strange bound Thor's lifeforce to Mjolnir to repair the hammer. Via this bond, Thor has a strong affinity with the forces of weather and acting as a conduct can channel Mjolnir's powers through himself allowing him to summon lighting from his hands. Thor's affinity with Mjolnir is so strong that even when damaged, as long as there is a significant piece remaining intact, Thor can use Mjolnir's powers. However due to the increased bond via lifeforce, if Mjolnir were to be damaged again, Thor himself would perish. Thor can channel his godly energies/lifeforce through Mjolnir into blasts called “Godforce” so powerful that they can slay even immortals, although it leaves him in a weakened state afterwards.

Mjolnir is specially enchanted to prevent it from being wielded by anyone save those who have been found worthy and possess superhuman strength. Thus far, this includes Thor, Odin, Tiwaz, Red Norvell, and Beta Ray Bill. Those who are worthy enough are empowered with Thor's essence held within Mjolnir to gain the powers of Thor. However, in times of need, Thor can will others to lift Mjolnir and overcome this enchantment, allowing them to lift the hammer. Thus far, this includes Steve Rogers, Eric Masterson, and Superman. While holding Mjolnir together, Thor can empower others with his essence to gain the powers of Thor. Thus far, Eric Masterson has been the only one to receive this enchantment. To anyone else, Mjolnir cannot be lifted from the ground nor wrested from Thor’s grip. This enchantment does not affect non-sentient beings (such as robot drones), but even non-sentient forces must possess some level of superhuman strength to lift Mjolnir. However, without the presence of gravity, anyone can overcome this enchantment and lift, or more accurately “push,” and hold Mjolnir, but can not access or use the enchantments within the hammer.

Wielding Mjolnir, Thor can summon and control the powers of the storm, causing rain, wind, thunder and lightning. Thor can channel the storm’s fury into devastating energy blasts that can destroy even secondary [[Adamantium]]. Mjolnir can also generate energy blasts called “Anti-Force.” Due to its uru metal composite, Mjolnir can absorb other energies into itself, which Thor can then release.

Mjolnir can also transform Thor into his civilian guise as Donald Blake by striking the hammer against the ground once. When Thor becomes Blake, and vise-versa, Thor is sent into the limbo-like dimension known as the Void. Mjolnir assumes the appearance of an old wooden cane and in this form Mjolnir can be lifted by anyone. Mjolnir’s enchantments usually restore Thor to Blake’s form if he is separated from the hammer for more than 60 seconds.

By throwing Mjolnir while grasping its leather thong, Thor can simulate flight at speeds up to Mach 32 (over 24,000 mph). Thor can steer Mjolnir’s path via his mental control over Mjolnir while traveling and can “hover” in place by spinning Mjolnir in his hand. While throwing Mjolnir when “hovering,” Thor can use winds to keep himself afloat allowing him to appear to be in flight. Mjolnir obeys Thor’s mental commands, via his bond with the hammer, as though it was alive and, if Thor’s will is strong enough, the hammer can pass through nearly any barrier to reach his hand should he so desire. Once thrown, Mjolnir returns to Thor's grasp when he mystically calls upon it to return to him.

Thor often uses Mjolnir defensively to deflect attacks by spinning it around his body at terrific speeds. By spinning Mjolnir in a circle, Thor can open interdimensional portals, allowing him to travel to other dimensions. Mjolnir has occasionally served as a power source for the Avengers’ Quinjets, enabling them to attain faster-than-light travel. Mjolnir enables Thor to sense the use of magic, particularly Asgardian enchantments. Thor has also used Mjolnir to break spells such as the one that allows the Wrecker to share his power with the Wrecking Crew. Formerly, it could also allow him to travel through time, but Immortus removed this power.

Thor complete powers

2010-06-06T14:14:57Z

DragynWulf:

A complete listing of Thor's powers.

=== Thor's Powers ===
Thor possesses physical powers superior to those of normal Asgardian gods. He has an extended lifespan augmented (although not immortal) by the [[Golden Apples]] of [[Idunn]], immunity to conventional diseases, enhanced endurance (Thor's Asgardian metabolism is far greater than a human), superhuman strength ([[http://marvel.com/universe/OHOTMU:Power_Grids#STRENGTH| lifting 100 tons]], which increases further when he succumbs to “warrior’s madness,” a berserker rage, the mindless battle passion that increases a warriors strength tenfold. By chanting and performing an ancient ritual, Thor can also invoke the berserker rage to increase his strength. His skin and bones are several times denser than those of mortals, granting him extreme resistance to injury.

Thor shares a unique bond <ref>Thor #398</ref> and affinity with [[Mjolnir]], which has been increased further after Dr. Stephen Strange bound Thor's lifeforce to Mjolnir to repair the hammer <ref>Thor #602</ref>. Via this bond, Thor has a strong affinity with the forces of weather and acting as a conduct can channel Mjolnir's powers through himself allowing him to summon lighting from his hands. Thor's affinity with Mjolnir is so strong that even when damaged, as long as there is a significant piece remaining intact, Thor can use Mjolnir's powers. However due to the increased bond via Thor's lifeforce, if Mjolnir were to be damaged, Thor himself would perish. Thor can channel his godly energies/lifeforce through Mjolnir into blasts called “Godforce” so powerful that they can slay even immortals, although it leaves him in a weakened state afterwards.

Thor wears a full body hauberk composed of Asgardian steel. It belt has the Norse symbol of physical health as a belt buckle along with the Norse symbol of Gemini most likely to symbolize his bond with Dr. Donald Blake. <ref>Thor #1 (2007)</ref>

While empowered with the Odinforce, or accurately called Thorforce since the Asgardian lifeforce resided within Thor, Thor was able to tap into a near-infinite resource of cosmic and mystical power, enhancing all of his powers. With the Odinforce’s vast power, Thor was even able to dent [[Captain America (Steve Rogers)|Captain America]]’s [[Captain America's shield|Vibranium/steel alloy shield]]. At regular intervals (usually occurring once per year) or when using the Thorpower too greatly, Thor would be required to enter the “Thorsleep.” Learning from his father's mistakes, Thor had [[Falki]], Odin's metalsmith, create a casket that contains enchantments that create a coma-like state to replenish and retain mastery over the Thorpower in order to heal more quickly. Once closed, it can only be opened from within. When Thor entered this casket of Thorsleep and into the Thorsleep, Donald Blake emerged from the Void until Thor awoke once again. Thor briefly had mastery of the [[Norse runes]] and could use them to break any Asgardian enchantment.

Thor occasionally dons a [[Thor's Belt of Strength|Belt of Strength]], which doubles his strength but weakens him after its use. He also possesses a pair of Thor's Iron Gauntlets|iron gauntlets]] to protect him when unleashing Mjolnir’s most potent powers. For extended periods of travel, Thor rides a chariot drawn by the Asgardian goats [[Toothgnasher]] and [[Toothgrinder]].

During the period when he was cursed by [[Hela]] with brittle bones that would not heal, Thor wore a full body suit of armor composed of Asgardian steel for protection. This armor possessed ancient rune symbols of power emblazoned by lightning upon the armor along with an exoskeleton complete with circuits connected to a series of feedback microcomputers programed to respond to minute changes in electrical conductivity of the nerves to prevent the broken bones from shifting, while allowing Thor to use his arm.

=== Mjolnir ===
Mjolnir is a virtually unbreakable hammer enchanted by Odin with various enchantments by augmenting its physical qualities via the Odinforce, the life essence of the Asgardian gods, and forged from mystically uru metal, whose chief properties are durability, the ability to maintain enchantment, and absorb energies. Thor shares a unique bond and affinity with Mjolnir, which has been increased further after Dr. Stephen Strange bound Thor's lifeforce to Mjolnir to repair the hammer. Via this bond, Thor has a strong affinity with the forces of weather and acting as a conduct can channel Mjolnir's powers through himself allowing him to summon lighting from his hands. Thor's affinity with Mjolnir is so strong that even when damaged, as long as there is a significant piece remaining intact, Thor can use Mjolnir's powers. However due to the increased bond via lifeforce, if Mjolnir were to be damaged again, Thor himself would perish. Thor can channel his godly energies/lifeforce through Mjolnir into blasts called “Godforce” so powerful that they can slay even immortals, although it leaves him in a weakened state afterwards.

Mjolnir is specially enchanted to prevent it from being wielded by anyone save those who have been found worthy and possess superhuman strength. Thus far, this includes Thor, Odin, Tiwaz, Red Norvell, and Beta Ray Bill. Those who are worthy enough are empowered with Thor's essence held within Mjolnir to gain the powers of Thor. However, in times of need, Thor can will others to lift Mjolnir and overcome this enchantment, allowing them to lift the hammer. Thus far, this includes Steve Rogers, Eric Masterson, and Superman. While holding Mjolnir together, Thor can empower others with his essence to gain the powers of Thor. Thus far, Eric Masterson has been the only one to receive this enchantment. To anyone else, Mjolnir cannot be lifted from the ground nor wrested from Thor’s grip. This enchantment does not affect non-sentient beings (such as robot drones), but even non-sentient forces must possess some level of superhuman strength to lift Mjolnir. However, without the presence of gravity, anyone can overcome this enchantment and lift, or more accurately “push,” and hold Mjolnir, but can not access or use the enchantments within the hammer.

Wielding Mjolnir, Thor can summon and control the powers of the storm, causing rain, wind, thunder and lightning. Thor can channel the storm’s fury into devastating energy blasts that can destroy even secondary [[Adamantium]]. Mjolnir can also generate energy blasts called “Anti-Force.” Due to its uru metal composite, Mjolnir can absorb other energies into itself, which Thor can then release.

Mjolnir can also transform Thor into his civilian guise as Donald Blake by striking the hammer against the ground once. When Thor becomes Blake, and vise-versa, Thor is sent into the limbo-like dimension known as the Void. Mjolnir assumes the appearance of an old wooden cane and in this form Mjolnir can be lifted by anyone. Mjolnir’s enchantments usually restore Thor to Blake’s form if he is separated from the hammer for more than 60 seconds.

By throwing Mjolnir while grasping its leather thong, Thor can simulate flight at speeds up to Mach 32 (over 24,000 mph). Thor can steer Mjolnir’s path via his mental control over Mjolnir while traveling and can “hover” in place by spinning Mjolnir in his hand. While throwing Mjolnir when “hovering,” Thor can use winds to keep himself afloat allowing him to appear to be in flight. Mjolnir obeys Thor’s mental commands, via his bond with the hammer, as though it was alive and, if Thor’s will is strong enough, the hammer can pass through nearly any barrier to reach his hand should he so desire. Once thrown, Mjolnir returns to Thor's grasp when he mystically calls upon it to return to him.

Thor often uses Mjolnir defensively to deflect attacks by spinning it around his body at terrific speeds. By spinning Mjolnir in a circle, Thor can open interdimensional portals, allowing him to travel to other dimensions. Mjolnir has occasionally served as a power source for the Avengers’ Quinjets, enabling them to attain faster-than-light travel. Mjolnir enables Thor to sense the use of magic, particularly Asgardian enchantments. Thor has also used Mjolnir to break spells such as the one that allows the Wrecker to share his power with the Wrecking Crew. Formerly, it could also allow him to travel through time, but Immortus removed this power.

Thor complete powers

2010-06-06T14:09:36Z

DragynWulf:

A complete listing of Thor's powers.

=== Thor's Powers ===
Thor possesses physical powers superior to those of normal Asgardian gods. He has an extended lifespan augmented (although not immortal) by the [[Golden Apples]] of [[Idunn]], immunity to conventional diseases, enhanced endurance (Thor's Asgardian metabolism is far greater than a human), superhuman strength ([[http://marvel.com/universe/OHOTMU:Power_Grids#STRENGTH|lifting 100 tons]], which increases further when he succumbs to “warrior’s madness,” a berserker rage, the mindless battle passion that increases a warriors strength tenfold. By chanting and performing an ancient ritual, Thor can also invoke the berserker rage to increase his strength. His skin and bones are several times denser than those of mortals, granting him extreme resistance to injury.

Thor shares a unique bond <ref>Thor #398</ref> and affinity with [[Mjolnir]], which has been increased further after Dr. Stephen Strange bound Thor's lifeforce to Mjolnir to repair the hammer <ref>Thor #602</ref>. Via this bond, Thor has a strong affinity with the forces of weather and acting as a conduct can channel Mjolnir's powers through himself allowing him to summon lighting from his hands. Thor's affinity with Mjolnir is so strong that even when damaged, as long as there is a significant piece remaining intact, Thor can use Mjolnir's powers. However due to the increased bond via Thor's lifeforce, if Mjolnir were to be damaged, Thor himself would perish. Thor can channel his godly energies/lifeforce through Mjolnir into blasts called “Godforce” so powerful that they can slay even immortals, although it leaves him in a weakened state afterwards.

Thor wears a full body hauberk composed of Asgardian steel. It belt has the Norse symbol of physical health as a belt buckle along with the Norse symbol of Gemini most likely to symbolize his bond with Dr. Donald Blake. <ref>Thor #1 (2007)</ref>

While empowered with the Odinforce, or accurately called Thorforce since the Asgardian lifeforce resided within Thor, Thor was able to tap into a near-infinite resource of cosmic and mystical power, enhancing all of his powers. With the Odinforce’s vast power, Thor was even able to dent [[Captain America (Steve Rogers)|Captain America]]’s [[Captain America's shield|Vibranium/steel alloy shield]]. At regular intervals (usually occurring once per year) or when using the Thorpower too greatly, Thor would be required to enter the “Thorsleep.” Learning from his father's mistakes, Thor had [[Falki]], Odin's metalsmith, create a casket that contains enchantments that create a coma-like state to replenish and retain mastery over the Thorpower in order to heal more quickly. Once closed, it can only be opened from within. When Thor entered this casket of Thorsleep and into the Thorsleep, Donald Blake emerged from the Void until Thor awoke once again. Thor briefly had mastery of the [[Norse runes]] and could use them to break any Asgardian enchantment.

Thor occasionally dons a [[Thor's Belt of Strength|Belt of Strength]], which doubles his strength but weakens him after its use. He also possesses a pair of Thor's Iron Gauntlets|iron gauntlets]] to protect him when unleashing Mjolnir’s most potent powers. For extended periods of travel, Thor rides a chariot drawn by the Asgardian goats [[Toothgnasher]] and [[Toothgrinder]].

During the period when he was cursed by [[Hela]] with brittle bones that would not heal, Thor wore a full body suit of armor composed of Asgardian steel for protection. This armor possessed ancient rune symbols of power emblazoned by lightning upon the armor along with an exoskeleton complete with circuits connected to a series of feedback microcomputers programed to respond to minute changes in electrical conductivity of the nerves to prevent the broken bones from shifting, while allowing Thor to use his arm.

=== Mjolnir ===
Mjolnir is a virtually unbreakable hammer enchanted by Odin with various enchantments by augmenting its physical qualities via the Odinforce, the life essence of the Asgardian gods, and forged from mystically uru metal, whose chief properties are durability, the ability to maintain enchantment, and absorb energies. Thor shares a unique bond and affinity with Mjolnir, which has been increased further after Dr. Stephen Strange bound Thor's lifeforce to Mjolnir to repair the hammer. Via this bond, Thor has a strong affinity with the forces of weather and acting as a conduct can channel Mjolnir's powers through himself allowing him to summon lighting from his hands. Thor's affinity with Mjolnir is so strong that even when damaged, as long as there is a significant piece remaining intact, Thor can use Mjolnir's powers. However due to the increased bond via lifeforce, if Mjolnir were to be damaged again, Thor himself would perish. Thor can channel his godly energies/lifeforce through Mjolnir into blasts called “Godforce” so powerful that they can slay even immortals, although it leaves him in a weakened state afterwards.

Mjolnir is specially enchanted to prevent it from being wielded by anyone save those who have been found worthy and possess superhuman strength. Thus far, this includes Thor, Odin, Tiwaz, Red Norvell, and Beta Ray Bill. Those who are worthy enough are empowered with Thor's essence held within Mjolnir to gain the powers of Thor. However, in times of need, Thor can will others to lift Mjolnir and overcome this enchantment, allowing them to lift the hammer. Thus far, this includes Steve Rogers, Eric Masterson, and Superman. While holding Mjolnir together, Thor can empower others with his essence to gain the powers of Thor. Thus far, Eric Masterson has been the only one to receive this enchantment. To anyone else, Mjolnir cannot be lifted from the ground nor wrested from Thor’s grip. This enchantment does not affect non-sentient beings (such as robot drones), but even non-sentient forces must possess some level of superhuman strength to lift Mjolnir. However, without the presence of gravity, anyone can overcome this enchantment and lift, or more accurately “push,” and hold Mjolnir, but can not access or use the enchantments within the hammer.

Wielding Mjolnir, Thor can summon and control the powers of the storm, causing rain, wind, thunder and lightning. Thor can channel the storm’s fury into devastating energy blasts that can destroy even secondary [[Adamantium]]. Mjolnir can also generate energy blasts called “Anti-Force.” Due to its uru metal composite, Mjolnir can absorb other energies into itself, which Thor can then release.

Mjolnir can also transform Thor into his civilian guise as Donald Blake by striking the hammer against the ground once. When Thor becomes Blake, and vise-versa, Thor is sent into the limbo-like dimension known as the Void. Mjolnir assumes the appearance of an old wooden cane and in this form Mjolnir can be lifted by anyone. Mjolnir’s enchantments usually restore Thor to Blake’s form if he is separated from the hammer for more than 60 seconds.

By throwing Mjolnir while grasping its leather thong, Thor can simulate flight at speeds up to Mach 32 (over 24,000 mph). Thor can steer Mjolnir’s path via his mental control over Mjolnir while traveling and can “hover” in place by spinning Mjolnir in his hand. While throwing Mjolnir when “hovering,” Thor can use winds to keep himself afloat allowing him to appear to be in flight. Mjolnir obeys Thor’s mental commands, via his bond with the hammer, as though it was alive and, if Thor’s will is strong enough, the hammer can pass through nearly any barrier to reach his hand should he so desire. Once thrown, Mjolnir returns to Thor's grasp when he mystically calls upon it to return to him.

Thor often uses Mjolnir defensively to deflect attacks by spinning it around his body at terrific speeds. By spinning Mjolnir in a circle, Thor can open interdimensional portals, allowing him to travel to other dimensions. Mjolnir has occasionally served as a power source for the Avengers’ Quinjets, enabling them to attain faster-than-light travel. Mjolnir enables Thor to sense the use of magic, particularly Asgardian enchantments. Thor has also used Mjolnir to break spells such as the one that allows the Wrecker to share his power with the Wrecking Crew. Formerly, it could also allow him to travel through time, but Immortus removed this power.

Thor complete powers

2010-06-06T14:02:53Z

DragynWulf: Added some referances

THOR POWERS
Thor possesses physical powers superior to those of normal Asgardian gods. He has an extended lifespan augmented (although not immortal) by the [[Golden Apples]] of [[Idunn]], immunity to conventional diseases, enhanced endurance (Thor's Asgardian metabolism is far greater than a human), superhuman strength ([[http://marvel.com/universe/OHOTMU:Power_Grids#STRENGTH|lifting 100 tons]], which increases further when he succumbs to “warrior’s madness,” a berserker rage, the mindless battle passion that increases a warriors strength tenfold. By chanting and performing an ancient ritual, Thor can also invoke the berserker rage to increase his strength. His skin and bones are several times denser than those of mortals, granting him extreme resistance to injury.

Thor shares a unique bond <ref>Thor #398</ref> and affinity with [[Mjolnir]], which has been increased further after Dr. Stephen Strange bound Thor's lifeforce to Mjolnir to repair the hammer <ref>Thor #602</ref>. Via this bond, Thor has a strong affinity with the forces of weather and acting as a conduct can channel Mjolnir's powers through himself allowing him to summon lighting from his hands. Thor's affinity with Mjolnir is so strong that even when damaged, as long as there is a significant piece remaining intact, Thor can use Mjolnir's powers. However due to the increased bond via Thor's lifeforce, if Mjolnir were to be damaged, Thor himself would perish. Thor can channel his godly energies/lifeforce through Mjolnir into blasts called “Godforce” so powerful that they can slay even immortals, although it leaves him in a weakened state afterwards.

Thor wears a full body hauberk composed of Asgardian steel. It belt has the Norse symbol of physical health as a belt buckle along with the Norse symbol of Gemini most likely to symbolize his bond with Dr. Donald Blake. <ref>Thor #1 (2007)</ref>

While empowered with the Odinforce, or accurately called Thorforce since the Asgardian lifeforce resided within Thor, Thor was able to tap into a near-infinite resource of cosmic and mystical power, enhancing all of his powers. With the Odinforce’s vast power, Thor was even able to dent [[Captain America (Steve Rogers)|Captain America]]’s [[Captain America's shield|Vibranium/steel alloy shield]]. At regular intervals (usually occurring once per year) or when using the Thorpower too greatly, Thor would be required to enter the “Thorsleep.” Learning from his father's mistakes, Thor had [[Falki]], Odin's metalsmith, create a casket that contains enchantments that create a coma-like state to replenish and retain mastery over the Thorpower in order to heal more quickly. Once closed, it can only be opened from within. When Thor entered this casket of Thorsleep and into the Thorsleep, Donald Blake emerged from the Void until Thor awoke once again. Thor briefly had mastery of the [[Norse runes]] and could use them to break any Asgardian enchantment.

Thor occasionally dons a [[Thor's Belt of Strength|Belt of Strength]], which doubles his strength but weakens him after its use. He also possesses a pair of Thor's Iron Gauntlets|iron gauntlets]] to protect him when unleashing Mjolnir’s most potent powers. For extended periods of travel, Thor rides a chariot drawn by the Asgardian goats [[Toothgnasher]] and [[Toothgrinder]].

During the period when he was cursed by [[Hela]] with brittle bones that would not heal, Thor wore a full body suit of armor composed of Asgardian steel for protection. This armor possessed ancient rune symbols of power emblazoned by lightning upon the armor along with an exoskeleton complete with circuits connected to a series of feedback microcomputers programed to respond to minute changes in electrical conductivity of the nerves to prevent the broken bones from shifting, while allowing Thor to use his arm.

MJOLNIR
Mjolnir is a virtually unbreakable hammer enchanted by Odin with various enchantments by augmenting its physical qualities via the Odinforce, the life essence of the Asgardian gods, and forged from mystically uru metal, whose chief properties are durability, the ability to maintain enchantment, and absorb energies. Thor shares a unique bond and affinity with Mjolnir, which has been increased further after Dr. Stephen Strange bound Thor's lifeforce to Mjolnir to repair the hammer. Via this bond, Thor has a strong affinity with the forces of weather and acting as a conduct can channel Mjolnir's powers through himself allowing him to summon lighting from his hands. Thor's affinity with Mjolnir is so strong that even when damaged, as long as there is a significant piece remaining intact, Thor can use Mjolnir's powers. However due to the increased bond via lifeforce, if Mjolnir were to be damaged again, Thor himself would perish. Thor can channel his godly energies/lifeforce through Mjolnir into blasts called “Godforce” so powerful that they can slay even immortals, although it leaves him in a weakened state afterwards.

Mjolnir is specially enchanted to prevent it from being wielded by anyone save those who have been found worthy and possess superhuman strength. Thus far, this includes Thor, Odin, Tiwaz, Red Norvell, and Beta Ray Bill. Those who are worthy enough are empowered with Thor's essence held within Mjolnir to gain the powers of Thor. However, in times of need, Thor can will others to lift Mjolnir and overcome this enchantment, allowing them to lift the hammer. Thus far, this includes Steve Rogers, Eric Masterson, and Superman. While holding Mjolnir together, Thor can empower others with his essence to gain the powers of Thor. Thus far, Eric Masterson has been the only one to receive this enchantment. To anyone else, Mjolnir cannot be lifted from the ground nor wrested from Thor’s grip. This enchantment does not affect non-sentient beings (such as robot drones), but even non-sentient forces must possess some level of superhuman strength to lift Mjolnir. However, without the presence of gravity, anyone can overcome this enchantment and lift, or more accurately “push,” and hold Mjolnir, but can not access or use the enchantments within the hammer.

Wielding Mjolnir, Thor can summon and control the powers of the storm, causing rain, wind, thunder and lightning. Thor can channel the storm’s fury into devastating energy blasts that can destroy even secondary [[Adamantium]]. Mjolnir can also generate energy blasts called “Anti-Force.” Due to its uru metal composite, Mjolnir can absorb other energies into itself, which Thor can then release.

Mjolnir can also transform Thor into his civilian guise as Donald Blake by striking the hammer against the ground once. When Thor becomes Blake, and vise-versa, Thor is sent into the limbo-like dimension known as the Void. Mjolnir assumes the appearance of an old wooden cane and in this form Mjolnir can be lifted by anyone. Mjolnir’s enchantments usually restore Thor to Blake’s form if he is separated from the hammer for more than 60 seconds.

By throwing Mjolnir while grasping its leather thong, Thor can simulate flight at speeds up to Mach 32 (over 24,000 mph). Thor can steer Mjolnir’s path via his mental control over Mjolnir while traveling and can “hover” in place by spinning Mjolnir in his hand. While throwing Mjolnir when “hovering,” Thor can use winds to keep himself afloat allowing him to appear to be in flight. Mjolnir obeys Thor’s mental commands, via his bond with the hammer, as though it was alive and, if Thor’s will is strong enough, the hammer can pass through nearly any barrier to reach his hand should he so desire. Once thrown, Mjolnir returns to Thor's grasp when he mystically calls upon it to return to him.

Thor often uses Mjolnir defensively to deflect attacks by spinning it around his body at terrific speeds. By spinning Mjolnir in a circle, Thor can open interdimensional portals, allowing him to travel to other dimensions. Mjolnir has occasionally served as a power source for the Avengers’ Quinjets, enabling them to attain faster-than-light travel. Mjolnir enables Thor to sense the use of magic, particularly Asgardian enchantments. Thor has also used Mjolnir to break spells such as the one that allows the Wrecker to share his power with the Wrecking Crew. Formerly, it could also allow him to travel through time, but Immortus removed this power.

Thor complete powers

2010-06-06T13:57:57Z

DragynWulf: Protected "Thor complete powers" ([edit=sysop] (indefinite) [move=sysop] (indefinite))

A complete listing of Thor's powers.

=== Thor's Complete Powers ===
Thor possesses physical powers superior to those of normal Asgardian gods. He has an extended lifespan augmented (although not immortal) by the [[Golden Apples]] of [[Idunn]], immunity to conventional diseases, enhanced endurance (Thor's Asgardian metabolism is far greater than a human), superhuman strength ([[http://marvel.com/universe/OHOTMU:Power_Grids#STRENGTH|lifting 100 tons]], which increases further when he succumbs to “warrior’s madness,” a berserker rage, the mindless battle passion that increases a warriors strength tenfold. By chanting and performing an ancient ritual, Thor can also invoke the berserker rage to increase his strength. His skin and bones are several times denser than those of mortals, granting him extreme resistance to injury.

Thor shares a unique bond and affinity with [[Mjolnir]], which has been increased further after Dr. Stephen Strange bound Thor's lifeforce to Mjolnir to repair the hammer. Via this bond, Thor has a strong affinity with the forces of weather and acting as a conduct can channel Mjolnir's powers through himself allowing him to summon lighting from his hands. Thor's affinity with Mjolnir is so strong that even when damaged, as long as there is a significant piece remaining intact, Thor can use Mjolnir's powers. However due to the increased bond via Thor's lifeforce, if Mjolnir were to be damaged, Thor himself would perish. Thor can channel his godly energies/lifeforce through Mjolnir into blasts called “Godforce” so powerful that they can slay even immortals, although it leaves him in a weakened state afterwards.

Thor wears a full body hauberk composed of Asgardian steel. It belt has the Norse symbol of physical health as a belt buckle along with the Norse symbol of Gemini most likely to symbolize his bond with Dr. Donald Blake.

While empowered with the Odinforce, or accurately called Thorforce since the Asgardian lifeforce resided within Thor, Thor was able to tap into a near-infinite resource of cosmic and mystical power, enhancing all of his powers. With the Odinforce’s vast power, Thor was even able to dent [[Captain America (Steve Rogers)|Captain America]]’s [[Captain America's shield|Vibranium/steel alloy shield]]. At regular intervals (usually occurring once per year) or when using the Thorpower too greatly, Thor would be required to enter the “Thorsleep.” Learning from his father's mistakes, Thor had [[Falki]], Odin's metalsmith, create a casket that contains enchantments that create a coma-like state to replenish and retain mastery over the Thorpower in order to heal more quickly. Once closed, it can only be opened from within. When Thor entered this casket of Thorsleep and into the Thorsleep, Donald Blake emerged from the Void until Thor awoke once again. Thor briefly had mastery of the [[Norse runes]] and could use them to break any Asgardian enchantment.

Thor occasionally dons a [[Thor's Belt of Strength|Belt of Strength]], which doubles his strength but weakens him after its use. He also possesses a pair of Thor's Iron Gauntlets|iron gauntlets]] to protect him when unleashing Mjolnir’s most potent powers. For extended periods of travel, Thor rides a chariot drawn by the Asgardian goats [[Toothgnasher]] and [[Toothgrinder]].

During the period when he was cursed by [[Hela]] with brittle bones that would not heal, Thor wore a full body suit of armor composed of Asgardian steel for protection. This armor possessed ancient rune symbols of power emblazoned by lightning upon the armor along with an exoskeleton complete with circuits connected to a series of feedback microcomputers programed to respond to minute changes in electrical conductivity of the nerves to prevent the broken bones from shifting, while allowing Thor to use his arm.

=== Mjolnir ===
Mjolnir is a virtually unbreakable hammer enchanted by Odin with various enchantments by augmenting its physical qualities via the Odinforce, the life essence of the Asgardian gods, and forged from mystically uru metal, whose chief properties are durability, the ability to maintain enchantment, and absorb energies. Thor shares a unique bond and affinity with Mjolnir, which has been increased further after Dr. Stephen Strange bound Thor's lifeforce to Mjolnir to repair the hammer. Via this bond, Thor has a strong affinity with the forces of weather and acting as a conduct can channel Mjolnir's powers through himself allowing him to summon lighting from his hands. Thor's affinity with Mjolnir is so strong that even when damaged, as long as there is a significant piece remaining intact, Thor can use Mjolnir's powers. However due to the increased bond via lifeforce, if Mjolnir were to be damaged again, Thor himself would perish. Thor can channel his godly energies/lifeforce through Mjolnir into blasts called “Godforce” so powerful that they can slay even immortals, although it leaves him in a weakened state afterwards.

Mjolnir is specially enchanted to prevent it from being wielded by anyone save those who have been found worthy and possess superhuman strength. Thus far, this includes Thor, Odin, Tiwaz, Red Norvell, and Beta Ray Bill. Those who are worthy enough are empowered with Thor's essence held within Mjolnir to gain the powers of Thor. However, in times of need, Thor can will others to lift Mjolnir and overcome this enchantment, allowing them to lift the hammer. Thus far, this includes Steve Rogers, Eric Masterson, and Superman. While holding Mjolnir together, Thor can empower others with his essence to gain the powers of Thor. Thus far, Eric Masterson has been the only one to receive this enchantment. To anyone else, Mjolnir cannot be lifted from the ground nor wrested from Thor’s grip. This enchantment does not affect non-sentient beings (such as robot drones), but even non-sentient forces must possess some level of superhuman strength to lift Mjolnir. However, without the presence of gravity, anyone can overcome this enchantment and lift, or more accurately “push,” and hold Mjolnir, but can not access or use the enchantments within the hammer.

Wielding Mjolnir, Thor can summon and control the powers of the storm, causing rain, wind, thunder and lightning. Thor can channel the storm’s fury into devastating energy blasts that can destroy even secondary [[Adamantium]]. Mjolnir can also generate energy blasts called “Anti-Force.” Due to its uru metal composite, Mjolnir can absorb other energies into itself, which Thor can then release.

Mjolnir can also transform Thor into his civilian guise as Donald Blake by striking the hammer against the ground once. When Thor becomes Blake, and vise-versa, Thor is sent into the limbo-like dimension known as the Void. Mjolnir assumes the appearance of an old wooden cane and in this form Mjolnir can be lifted by anyone. Mjolnir’s enchantments usually restore Thor to Blake’s form if he is separated from the hammer for more than 60 seconds.

By throwing Mjolnir while grasping its leather thong, Thor can simulate flight at speeds up to Mach 32 (over 24,000 mph). Thor can steer Mjolnir’s path via his mental control over Mjolnir while traveling and can “hover” in place by spinning Mjolnir in his hand. While throwing Mjolnir when “hovering,” Thor can use winds to keep himself afloat allowing him to appear to be in flight. Mjolnir obeys Thor’s mental commands, via his bond with the hammer, as though it was alive and, if Thor’s will is strong enough, the hammer can pass through nearly any barrier to reach his hand should he so desire. Once thrown, Mjolnir returns to Thor's grasp when he mystically calls upon it to return to him.

Thor often uses Mjolnir defensively to deflect attacks by spinning it around his body at terrific speeds. By spinning Mjolnir in a circle, Thor can open interdimensional portals, allowing him to travel to other dimensions. Mjolnir has occasionally served as a power source for the Avengers’ Quinjets, enabling them to attain faster-than-light travel. Mjolnir enables Thor to sense the use of magic, particularly Asgardian enchantments. Thor has also used Mjolnir to break spells such as the one that allows the Wrecker to share his power with the Wrecking Crew. Formerly, it could also allow him to travel through time, but Immortus removed this power.

Thor complete powers

2010-06-06T13:57:28Z

DragynWulf:

Thor complete powers

2010-06-06T13:56:53Z

DragynWulf: A complete listing of Thor's powers

Thor (Thor Odinson)

2010-06-06T13:53:43Z

DragynWulf:

{{Powerbox|
universe = [[Marvel Universe]]
| real_name = Thor Odinson
| identity = Secret
| occupation = Warrior, adventurer; former monach, paramedic, physician, construction worker; (as Donald Blake) physician, surgeon
| place_of_birth = A cave in Norway
| groups = [[Avengers]]; formerly [[Thor Corps]], formerly duped into working with the [[Nazi Party]]
| citizenship = Asgard; honorary US citizen
| education = Tutored by scholars of Asgard; (Blake) M.D.
| aliases = Donald Blake, Sigurd Jarlson, Jake Olsen, Donar the Mighty
| relatives = [[Odin]] (father, deceased), [[Gaea]] (mother), [[Frigga]] (step-mother), [[Loki]] (step-brother), Vidar (half-brother), Buri (paternal great-grandfather), Bolthorn (maternal great grandfather), [[Bor]] (grandfather, deceased), Bestla (grandmother), Vili (uncle), Ve (uncle), Sigyn (former sister-in-law), Hela (alleged niece), Jormungand (alleged nephew), Fernis Wolf (alleged nephew)
| height = 6'6"
| weight = 640 lbs
| eyes = Blue
| hair = Blond
| weapons = Thor wields Mjolnir, a hammer forged from uru metal. Mjolnir is virtually unbreakable, and allows Thor to command the powers of the storm, causing rain, thunder and lightning. Thor can channel the storm’s fury into devastating blasts of energy that can destroy even secondary Adamantium. He can also channel his godly energies through Mjolnir into blasts so powerful that they can slay even immortals. Mjolnir can absorb other energies into itself, which Thor can then release.

Mjolnir obeys Thor’s commands as though it were alive, and if Thor’s will is strong enough, the hammer can pass through nearly any barrier to reach him should he so desire. Using this command over Mjolnir’s flight path, Thor is able to use the hammer to fly, achieving escape velocities. Mjolnir can also transform Thor into his civilian guises. When Thor is a civilian, the hammer most often becomes an old wooden cane. While employing a mortal guise, Thor will transform back into his mortal form should he be separated from Mjolnir for more than 60 seconds.

By spinning Mjolnir in a circle, Thor can open portals to other dimensions. Formerly, it also allowed him to travel in time, but Immortus removed this power. Enchantments surrounding Mjolnir prevent it from being wielded by anyone except those who have been found worthy. Thus far, this includes Thor, Odin, Tiwaz, Red Norvell, Beta Ray Bill, and Captain America. To anyone else, Mjolnir cannot be lifted from the ground nor wrested from Thor’s grip.

| powers = As the son of Odin and Gaea, Thor's strength, endurance and resistance to injury are greater than the vast majority of his superhuman race. He is extremely long-lived (though not completely immune to aging), immune to conventional disease, and highly resistant to injury. His flesh and bones are several times denser than a human's.

As Lord of Asgard, Thor possesses the Odinforce, which enables him to tap into the near-infinite resources of cosmic and mystical, enhancing all of his abilities. With the vast magical power of the Odinforce, Thor was able to even dent Captain America’s shield with Mjolnir.

[[Thor complete powers|Click here for complete list of Thor's powers]]

| paraphernalia = Thor also possesses the Belt of Strength that doubles his strength, but weakens him after its use; a pair of iron gauntlets to protect him when unleashing Mjolnir's most powerful energies; and a chariot drawn by two goats, Toothgnasher and Toothgrinder.
| abilities = Thor is trained in the arts of war, being a superbly skilled warrior, highly proficient in hand-to-hand combat, swordsmanship, and hammer throwing.
| debut = Venus #12 (1951); (modern) Journey into Mystery #83 (1962)
| origin = Journey into Mystery #83 (1962), Thor #159 (1968), Thor Annual #11 (1983)
| significant_issues = As Blake, found Mjolnir in Norway, became Thor (Journey into Mystery #83, 1962); founded the Avengers (Avengers #1, 1963); learned origin of Donald Blake identity (Thor #159, 1968), origin an past adventures on Earth recounted (Thor Annual #11, 1983); adopted Sigurd Jarlson identity (Thor #341, 1984); merged with Eric Masterson (Thor #408, 1989); exiled for killing Loki (Thor #432, 1991); retrieved from exile by Eric Masterson (Thor #457, 1993); became insane, overcame with aid of Adam Warlock and Dr. Strange (Thor #460-471, 1993-1994); adopted form of Jake Olson (Thor #2, 2001); witnessed death of Odin, became Lord of Asgard (Thor #41-43, 2002) had falling out with Avengers (Avengers #63, 2003); Asgard bombed (Thor #68, 2003); conquered Earth (Thor #68, 2003); undid conquest of Earth (Thor #79, 2004); perished in battling Those Who Sit Above In Shadow (Thor #85, 2004)
}}{{Headshot|main_image= DragynWulf--Thor(Odinson).jpg
}}{{bio|
bio_text = Norse '''God of Thunder!''' Legendary '''warrior born!''' Son of '''Asgard''', the '''Mighty Thor!'''

----

== Son of Asgard and Son of Midgard ==
Ages ago, [[Odin]], lord of the gods of [[Asgard]], desired a child of both Asgard and Midgard (Earth), and therefore sought out and wooed [[Gaea]], the eldest goddess of the Earth. Gaea gave birth to Thor in a small cave in Norway, and Odin took him to be raised in Asgard by his wife, [[Frigga]].

The young Thor grew up alongside his step-brother [[Loki]], who was always jealous of Thor, the favored son. Thor excelled in power and popularity, and on his eighth birthday, Odin had the hammer Mjolnir created, enchanting it with powerful magic. He decreed that Mjolnir would be presented to Thor when he had been proven a worthy warrior, and Thor spent the next several years training and performing heroic deeds. Indeed, eight years later, Odin gave the hammer to Thor, declaring him to be the greatest warrior in Asgard.

Thor traveled to Earth for the first time in the Ninth Century A.D., in response to his worship among the Vikings. Thor reveled in his worship, leading many in battle and extolling the way of the warrior. Years later, a set of Vikings killed innocent inhabitants of a Christian monastery in Thor’s name. In shock and disillusion, Thor cut himself off from his worshippers and returned to Asgard. The Asgardian religion would never be as fervent, eventually dying out completely over the centuries.

== Donald Blake ==

Although Thor continued to perform many acts of battle and adventure, he unfortunately grew headstrong, proud, and selfish. It pained the heart of Odin. One day, Thor chased a monster into the land of the Frost Giants, a breech of protocol that nearly sparked a war in all of Asgard. Odin had to teach Thor a lesson. He created a mortal body for him, one with a lame leg, and sent Thor, stripped of his powers and memories, to Earth. Thor arrived on the campus of New York State College of Medicine as Donald Blake. Blake proved to be the humble and patient man Odin had hoped for. He eventually graduated with top honors, gained a reputation as a caring family doctor and a brilliant surgeon, and opened a private practice in New York City. His nurse, Jane Foster, was equally caring and competent, and the two began to fall in love.

This idyllic life was not to last. The alien Kronans were coming to invade. When taking a vacation in Norway, Blake stumbled onto the Kronan scouts’ spaceship and fled into a cave. (It was, unknown to him, the same cave in which Gaea had given birth to Thor.) In a secret chamber, Blake discovered a plain walking cane. Taking it with him, he tried to escape, only to find his way blocked. Frustrated and scared, he struck the boulder with the cane, transforming it into Mjolnir and himself into Thor. He fought the alien scouts, who retreated from Earth and called off their invasion. By tapping the ground with Mjolnir, he transformed back into Don Blake, holding a simple wooden cane.

Blake returned to New York, using his secret identity of Thor to fight crime, defend Earth, and contend with Loki, who, after learning of Thor’s return, felt all the old jealousy and hatred, plaguing Thor with many tricks and outright confrontation. One such trick led Thor and other heroes to fight the [[Hulk]], after which the heroes bested Loki and decided to form the [[Avengers]].

The love between Thor and Foster continued for many years, made more difficult by Odin’s displeasure in the relationship between god and mortal. He forbade Blake from revealing his identity to her, creating a strange love triangle between Foster and the personas of Thor and Blake.

== Coming Into His Own ==

Even though Donald Blake knew he was the legendary Thor, he still had no memory of his former life. Over time, his memories slowly returned, until one day, Odin finally revealed himself and restored Thor’s complete memory. Odin also revealed that it was he who had discovered the Kronan invasion force and implanted a suggestion in Blake’s mind so that he would arrive in Norway and battle the aliens as Thor. He also reintroduced Thor to his childhood friend, the woman warrior [[Sif]], and they renewed their friendship, further complicating Thor/Blake’s love life.

The love affair between Thor and Jane Foster eventually ended when Foster fell in love with a mortal man, Kevin Kincaid. Their engagement was cut short when Foster lay dying. Sif allowed herself to merge with Foster, saving the woman's life. The two were later separated when Foster was sent to a limbo-realm accessed by the Runestaff of the Possessor. Thor, Sif, and Kevin Kincaid were later able to rescue Foster, and the two mortals were then married.

Although Thor maintained his Blake persona for many years, he permanently gave it up shortly after meeting [[Beta Ray Bill]]. Bill had twice proven himself worthy of the hammer of Thor, after picking it up during a battle with Thor and, later, against the forces of Surtur. Odin brought Beta Ray Bill to Asgard, giving him a similar weapon in Stormbreaker. The enchantment that transformed Thor into Blake was transferred to Stormbreaker, and Thor abandoned his Blake identity, residing in Asgard and commuting to Earth when needed. Later, in hopes of creating another identity so as to more easily remain on Earth, Thor sought help from [[Fury, Nick|Nick Fury]] and [[S.H.I.E.L.D.]]. The organization helped Thor create an identity as Sigurd Jarlson, a construction worker. In this identity, Thor simply pulled back his hair, wore glasses, and dressed like a normal human.

== The Fall of Odin ==

When [[Surtur]] joined forces with the Dark Elves, Thor, Loki, and Odin protected Asgard by mingling their essences and thereby increasing their powers. But it was Odin that gave the greatest sacrifice, grappling with Surtur and throwing themselves into a huge chasm. Asgard was left without its leader. [[Lorelei (Asgardian)|Lorelei]], with the help of Loki, enchanted Thor and caused him to fall in love with her in hopes that Thor would then help Loki become the new ruler. Thor broke free of the enchantment, but the incident had strained Thor's relationship with Sif.

The gods of Asgard continued with the Great Althing, a ceremony to chose a new leader. But before Thor could return to Asgard, he was turned into a frog by Loki. Thor became embroiled in the battle between the frogs and the rats of Central Park until Thor the Frog could find his hammer. When he did so, he turned into a frog-like humanoid, the Thunder Frog. Meanwhile, in Asgard, Harokin, an Asgardian warrior, pretended to be Thor so as to cast his vote for Loki. Thor captured Loki, but it was [[Volstagg]] who found a machine that was using power from Surtur's sword to provide energy for Loki’s transformation spell. Volstagg destroyed the machine, which returned Thor into his normal form. Thor then talked the [[Asgardians]] into making [[Balder]] their new leader.

== Cursed by Death ==

Balder, Thor, and others then traveled to Hel, the realm of the Asgardian death goddess, [[Hela]], to rescue a number of Earth souls that had been unrightfully taken by Hela. In battle with Hela herself, Thor’s face was badly scarred, but he and his allies were able to save the souls. Immediately afterward, the omnipotent [[Maker|Beyonder]] transformed the leader of the Dark Elves into [[Kurse]], and Thor defeated Kurse by sending him to Hel. With Kurse rampaging through her realm, Hela grew furious. She cursed Thor that so his bones became brittle and so that he could not die from his injuries. Humiliated but determined to remain a warrior to the end, Thor grew a beard to conceal his facial scars and donned a suit of battle armor to support his fragile body.

Loki took this opportunity to release the Midgard Serpent, the beast that was prophesized to kill Thor and start Ragnarok. Despite his weakened condition, Thor was able to kill the Midgard Serpent and, thanks to Hela’s curse, Thor survived the battle although his body was completely broken and battered. Loki then sent the [[Destroyer (construct)|Destroyer]] armor to torment Thor, but instead, Thor managed to send his spirit into the Destroyer armor take command of it. He traveled to Hel in the Destroyer and began wreaking havoc. The desperate Hela had no choice but to fully restore Thor’s original body and release him from her curse.

== Visions of Thors to Come ==

After a battle between Asgard and the Egyptian god of death, [[Seth]], which resulted in Odin’s restoration to the throne of Asgard, Thor began having many problems of his own. He began to suffer sudden and momentary bouts of weakness during times of stress. When Thor's spells of weakness almost caused his death several times, Thor asked for help from [[Doctor Strange (Stephen Strange)|Doctor Strange]], who entered Thor's mind and traveled with him in spirit. Inside Thor's mind, they discovered an evil version of Thor, who battled the real Thor. They then discovered that it was actually a portion of Loki's evil essence caused by the time Thor, Loki, and Odin had become mingled during Surtur's first attack on Asgard, and the Thor defeated the alternate version.

Thor, in his identity of Jarlson, had became friends with the architect Eric Masterson and Masterson's son, Kevin. Masterson was kidnapped, however, by the [[Mongoose]], who had previously attacked Thor, trying to gain a cell sample from the god of thunder. Thor tracked Masterson to the High Evolutionary’s base, freeing him and learning that the [[High Evolutionary]] was missing, along with [[Hercules]]. Thor, accompanied by Masterson, freed Hercules and the High Evolutionary from the [[Celestials]] holding them prisoner in the Black Galaxy. Upon returning to Earth, they were attacked by the Mongoose, and Masterson blocked a blast of energy meant for Thor, giving Thor and Hercules a chance to defeat Mongoose.

== Eric Masterson ==

Unfortunately, Masterson was dying from his wounds. Thor pleaded with Odin on Masterson’s behalf. Odin reluctantly agreed to save him, but did so by merging Thor and Masterson together, body and soul.

Thor and Masterson shared a body much as Blake and Thor had, although the latter were never separate beings. They dealt with their new condition, despite the problems it caused for Masterson's private life and custody of his son. Thor continued his adventures, and Loki continued to plague Thor and his friends. Eventually, the two’s bodies were separated by a Celestial while they were involved in the birth of a new Celestial in the Black Galaxy. During a tremendous battle between Surtur and [[Ymir]], a battle that signaled Ragnarok, Thor recovered Surtur's sword from the Sea of Eternal Night, hoping to confront the fire and ice elementals. Unfortunately, he was weakened by his separation from Masterson and was easily stopped by the two creatures. Masterson willingly merged with Thor again, even though it meant giving up part of his life. Ymir and Surtur fought over the sword, and Thor opened a dimensional rift that sucked them both into the Sea of Eternal Night.

When Thor returned to Earth, he quickly found himself in battle with Loki over the fate of Kevin, Masterson's son. Although Loki was defeated, he fired one last blast at Kevin and his mother Marcy, but it was blocked by Masterson’s secretary, Susan Austin, killing her. It was the last straw. Angered as never before, Thor absorbed all of Loki's lifeforce with his hammer, presumably destroying the evil god forever, although this broke Odin's sacred rule forbidding Asgardian gods to kill each other.

However, this was all according to Loki’s plan with [[Mephisto]], as Loki was able to send his spirit into that of Odin and thus send Odin’s spirit to the realm of Mephisto. Loki posed as Odin, banishing Thor from existence. Instead, Masterson’s body was left intact, and it was Thor’s soul that became banished. Masterson could still assume Thor's form after striking his cane, and Masteron tried to pose as Thor on Earth, including his membership in the Avengers. Loki’s decrees as Odin became increasingly irrational and persecuting. Thor battled Loki but was left near-dead, rescued by Sif, Balder, and the [[Warriors Three]]. Surprisingly, Mephisto betrayed Loki, giving Odin’s spirit over to the heroes, and Odin reclaimed his body, forcing Loki into Mephsito’s waiting clutches, who claimed this to be his true goal all along. Odin revealed that Thor’s spirit still resided with Masterson, and he separated the two. (Masterson was still able to transform into a version of Thor, and he created a separate heroic identity as [[Thunderstrike]].)

== Warrior's Madness & the End of Asgard ==

[[image: Thorroar.jpg|left]]Unfortunately, with the constant shifting of identities and sharing of power, Thor was left mentally unbalanced. Sif began to suspect Thor was falling prey to the incurable Warrior’s Madness and, with Beta Ray Bill, the [[Silver Surfer]], and the [[Infinity Watch]], she confronted Thor. During the conflict, Thor stole the Power Gem from [[Drax the Destroyer]], becoming power incarnate. Believing that only [[Thanos]] could stop Thor, the heroes elicited his help. However, all they could do was restrain him. Thor was taken to Odin, who discovered the truth behind the malady after a spiritual journey through Thor’s mind. Thor fought the personification of his own madness, that of a beautiful Valkyre, and destroyed it.

This experience sparked Thor’s anger at his father regarding his discipline of humility. He left Asgard, allying with the High Evolutionary and his newly created godlike beings, the [[Godpack]]. In the meantime, Odin decided that the time had come for Ragnarok to begin, and he needed Thor. Odin resurrected [[Norvell, Red|Red Norvell]], who once held the mantle of thunder god but had died in battle, and re-made him into Thor. He declared Norvell to be his son and disowned Thor. He also told his son the truth about Donald Blake-- that he was never a separate being. Enraged, Thor severed his ties with Asgard.

Odin hoped to bypass Ragnarok by transforming the gods into mortals, but his plan was hijacked by Seth, and put it into action prematurely. Asgard fell, and its gods were banished to Earth. Odin hoped Thor would restore the gods to power, but before he could, Thor fell in battle with Onslaught. Thor vanished, along with other heroes such as the Avengers, but, like them, he was merely reborn to another dimension and was eventually returned.

== A God Reborn ==

When Thor returned, he discovered the [[Dark Gods]] had claimed Asgard and held the Asgardians captive. They sent the Destroyer on a rampage on Earth, and Thor and the Avengers confronted it. The Avengers were defeated and even Thor was left near dead. The mysterious [[Marnot]] offered to restore Thor in exchange for taking the place of Jake Olsen, a paramedic who died during the battle. Thor agreed, fighting the Destroyer again and banishing it to another dimension. Thor found he could transform between himself and Olsen, although he had none of Olsen’s memories and that made it difficult to maintain two identities.

The Dark Gods, in the guise of Asgardians, attacked [[Olympus]] and left it in ruins. Thor and Hercules uncovered the truth led the battle against the Dark Gods, eventually freeing both Asgard and Olympus and restoring them to glory. Marnot revealed that the Dark Gods had once invaded Asgard ages ago, and Odin had prepared an enchantment on Hescamar, his raven, to seek out a way to defeat the Dark Gods should they return. The raven had fulfilled this by transforming into Marnot and helping Thor. Afterwards, Thor remained on Earth with his dual identity of Jake Olsen.

== Tarene & Lord of Asgard ==

[[image:thorthrone.jpg|right]]Among his subsequent adventures, Thor rescued Tarene, the cosmic being known as the Designate, who would later take on the identity of [[Thor Girl]] out of admiration of Thor. Thor and Thor Girl battled the alien [[Gladiator (Kallark)|Gladiator]], who vowed to destroy Thor in a preemptive strike to prevent a terrible horror that he believed Thor would inflict in the future. As such, Thor was unable to defend Asgard against an army of Asgardian trolls that overwhelmed the city's defenses. Odin was forced to defeat the trolls, and he confronted Thor, disappointed in his son's inability to remain loyal to Asgard. As punishment, Odin stripped Thor of his immortality and left him on Earth.

Shortly afterward, Loki brought the Destroyer back to Earth, animating it with the soul of Tarene. Ultimately, the Destroyer was thwarted and Tarene was restored, but during the battle, Thor was severely wounded. Dr. Jane Foster could heal Jake Olsen's wounds but remained unable to treat Thor's. Odin brought Thor to Asgard and physically separated Thor from his alter ego to allow Thor to heal and to allow Jake Olsen to return to his life on Earth.

When Surtur appeared on Earth, an assemblage of Asgardian heroes and their allies confronted the demon and his hordes. Tarene used her powers to restore Thor to full health, joining with Odin and the Asgardian warriors against Surtur. In the end, Odin tapped into both Thor and Tarene's powers to deliver a fatal blow against Surtur, sacrificing himself in the process.

In mourning the loss of his father, Thor initially refused to take Odin's place, until a discussion with Jake Olsen convinced Thor to assume the responsibilities of the new monarch of Asgard. Thor did so, gaining the Odin-power as a right of rule.

== Jake Olsen ==

Thor allowed Tarene to take his place as a crime-fighting super-hero on Earth, under the guidance of Jake Olsen. When Thor Girl was nearly destroyed in a battle with the [[Grey Gargoyle]], Olsen sought help from the [[Enchantress]]. She agreed to transform him into a version of Thor, but Olsen didn’t know that the transformation came with a price, as it would rob Thor in Asgard of some of his power while Olsen was Thor. [[Desak]], the self-styled destroyer of gods, confronted the Olsen-Thor, nearly killing him. Thor managed to return from Asgard to defeat Desak, with the help of the Executioner's mystic axe, given to Thor by the Enchantress. However, Thor seemed to be influenced by a corruption of the Odin-power he now possessed coupled with the influence of the Executioner's axe.

With the help of a [[Thor (Earth-3515)]] from an alternate future, Thor re-merged his younger self with Jake Olsen to again bring humanity back to Thor’s perspective. In doing so, he lost the Odin-power but freed the world from its potential terrible history. Asgard was returned to its regular plane of existence.

== Ragnarok ==

Almost immediately, Thor was attacked by Loki, who had teamed with Surtur to create weapons for Thor’s enemies that were forged in the same way as Mjolnir. The fight for Asgard ascended to a level of Ragnarok. Although Thor managed to defeat Loki, severing his head, the war left many of Thor’s allies, such as Sif and the Warriors Three, dead. Thor forced Surtur to re-forge Mjolnir, which had shattered during the battle. While Asgard succumbed to Ragnarok, effectively wiping the Asgardian world from existence, Thor sought out the gods known as [[Those Who Sit Above In Shadow]]. Thor refused an offer to join them, instead confronting them in battle. Thor destroyed Those Who Sit Above In Shadow as Asgard died. The Odinpower congratulated Thor on succeeding at his greatest mission. Thor then closed his eyes, apparently joining his people in death.

== A Hammer Falls ==

Shortly following Thor's actions, the Mjolnir sped through the cosmos and landed on Earth, bringing the seemingly deceased [[Doctor Doom (Victor von Doom)|Doctor Doom]] with it. Doom sought out the Mjolnir, believing he was worthy. However, when he reached the hammer, there was a blast of light, and Doom found he was not worthy of the Mjolnir. [[Mister Fantastic|Reed Richards]] of the [[Fantastic Four]] stated that he believed the flash may have been a signal to someone, perhaps signifying the return of Thor and the Asgardians. Mr. Fantastic was right. Thor has returned, and is seeking to rebuild Asgard.

== New Beginnings ==

Thor did indeed rebuild Asgard, in Oklahoma, and he embarked on a quest to liberate his fellow Asgardians who were trapped in mortal shells. Thor tried not to give life to those who would harm his people, but the ever-mischievous Loki tricked Thor into releasing him and a slew of others. Still, Thor was pleased Asgard was filled with his subjects, and he was determined to make things work this time. Too bad for him, Loki had other plans. First, he stole the form of Sif, keeping her trapped within the form of a dying old woman. Then, Loki orchestrated a fiendish plot to force Thor to kill a member of the royal family - his own grandfather, [[Bor]]. Loki succeeded in bringing his plan to fruition, and after a furious battle between Thor and Bor, Bor was dead, and Balder had no choice but to cast Thor out of Asgard. Thor has his suspicions who was behind his current predicament just as he is sure he will one day have words with this individual.

Since his banishment, Thor has come to learn Balder had struck a truce with [[Doctor Doom (Victor Von Doom)|Doctor Doom]] and moved the Asgardians to [[Latveria]]. What Balder did not know was that Doom intended to dissect his people in order to discover the key to [[Glossary:I#immortality|immortality]]. Loki had his hand in this scheme as well, but once Thor learned of Doom's fiendish plot, he joined his brothers-in-arms against the mad despot. Doom would have easily been destroyed if not for his newest weapon against the God of thunder, the Destroyer armor. Doom had retooled Odin's creation so he could pilot the armor after he stole enough of Thor's energy to power it.
}}
{{person}}
[[category:Heroes]]
[[category:Avengers]]
[[category:Gods]]
[[category:People who used to be dead but aren't anymore]]
[[category:Magic]]
[[category:Thor]]

Thor (Thor Odinson)

2010-06-06T13:52:53Z

DragynWulf:

{{Powerbox|
universe = [[Marvel Universe]]
| real_name = Thor Odinson
| identity = Secret
| occupation = Warrior, adventurer; former monach, paramedic, physician, construction worker; (as Donald Blake) physician, surgeon
| place_of_birth = A cave in Norway
| groups = [[Avengers]]; formerly [[Thor Corps]], formerly duped into working with the [[Nazi Party]]
| citizenship = Asgard; honorary US citizen
| education = Tutored by scholars of Asgard; (Blake) M.D.
| aliases = Donald Blake, Sigurd Jarlson, Jake Olsen, Donar the Mighty
| relatives = [[Odin]] (father, deceased), [[Gaea]] (mother), [[Frigga]] (step-mother), [[Loki]] (step-brother), Vidar (half-brother), Buri (paternal great-grandfather), Bolthorn (maternal great grandfather), [[Bor]] (grandfather, deceased), Bestla (grandmother), Vili (uncle), Ve (uncle), Sigyn (former sister-in-law), Hela (alleged niece), Jormungand (alleged nephew), Fernis Wolf (alleged nephew)
| height = 6'6"
| weight = 640 lbs
| eyes = Blue
| hair = Blond
| weapons = Thor wields Mjolnir, a hammer forged from uru metal. Mjolnir is virtually unbreakable, and allows Thor to command the powers of the storm, causing rain, thunder and lightning. Thor can channel the storm’s fury into devastating blasts of energy that can destroy even secondary Adamantium. He can also channel his godly energies through Mjolnir into blasts so powerful that they can slay even immortals. Mjolnir can absorb other energies into itself, which Thor can then release.

Mjolnir obeys Thor’s commands as though it were alive, and if Thor’s will is strong enough, the hammer can pass through nearly any barrier to reach him should he so desire. Using this command over Mjolnir’s flight path, Thor is able to use the hammer to fly, achieving escape velocities. Mjolnir can also transform Thor into his civilian guises. When Thor is a civilian, the hammer most often becomes an old wooden cane. While employing a mortal guise, Thor will transform back into his mortal form should he be separated from Mjolnir for more than 60 seconds.

By spinning Mjolnir in a circle, Thor can open portals to other dimensions. Formerly, it also allowed him to travel in time, but Immortus removed this power. Enchantments surrounding Mjolnir prevent it from being wielded by anyone except those who have been found worthy. Thus far, this includes Thor, Odin, Tiwaz, Red Norvell, Beta Ray Bill, and Captain America. To anyone else, Mjolnir cannot be lifted from the ground nor wrested from Thor’s grip.

| powers = As the son of Odin and Gaea, Thor's strength, endurance and resistance to injury are greater than the vast majority of his superhuman race. He is extremely long-lived (though not completely immune to aging), immune to conventional disease, and highly resistant to injury. His flesh and bones are several times denser than a human's.
[[Thor complete powers|Click here for complete list of Thor's powers]].

As Lord of Asgard, Thor possesses the Odinforce, which enables him to tap into the near-infinite resources of cosmic and mystical, enhancing all of his abilities. With the vast magical power of the Odinforce, Thor was able to even dent Captain America’s shield with Mjolnir.
| paraphernalia = Thor also possesses the Belt of Strength that doubles his strength, but weakens him after its use; a pair of iron gauntlets to protect him when unleashing Mjolnir's most powerful energies; and a chariot drawn by two goats, Toothgnasher and Toothgrinder.
| abilities = Thor is trained in the arts of war, being a superbly skilled warrior, highly proficient in hand-to-hand combat, swordsmanship, and hammer throwing.
| debut = Venus #12 (1951); (modern) Journey into Mystery #83 (1962)
| origin = Journey into Mystery #83 (1962), Thor #159 (1968), Thor Annual #11 (1983)
| significant_issues = As Blake, found Mjolnir in Norway, became Thor (Journey into Mystery #83, 1962); founded the Avengers (Avengers #1, 1963); learned origin of Donald Blake identity (Thor #159, 1968), origin an past adventures on Earth recounted (Thor Annual #11, 1983); adopted Sigurd Jarlson identity (Thor #341, 1984); merged with Eric Masterson (Thor #408, 1989); exiled for killing Loki (Thor #432, 1991); retrieved from exile by Eric Masterson (Thor #457, 1993); became insane, overcame with aid of Adam Warlock and Dr. Strange (Thor #460-471, 1993-1994); adopted form of Jake Olson (Thor #2, 2001); witnessed death of Odin, became Lord of Asgard (Thor #41-43, 2002) had falling out with Avengers (Avengers #63, 2003); Asgard bombed (Thor #68, 2003); conquered Earth (Thor #68, 2003); undid conquest of Earth (Thor #79, 2004); perished in battling Those Who Sit Above In Shadow (Thor #85, 2004)
}}{{Headshot|main_image= DragynWulf--Thor(Odinson).jpg
}}{{bio|
bio_text = Norse '''God of Thunder!''' Legendary '''warrior born!''' Son of '''Asgard''', the '''Mighty Thor!'''

----

== Son of Asgard and Son of Midgard ==
Ages ago, [[Odin]], lord of the gods of [[Asgard]], desired a child of both Asgard and Midgard (Earth), and therefore sought out and wooed [[Gaea]], the eldest goddess of the Earth. Gaea gave birth to Thor in a small cave in Norway, and Odin took him to be raised in Asgard by his wife, [[Frigga]].

The young Thor grew up alongside his step-brother [[Loki]], who was always jealous of Thor, the favored son. Thor excelled in power and popularity, and on his eighth birthday, Odin had the hammer Mjolnir created, enchanting it with powerful magic. He decreed that Mjolnir would be presented to Thor when he had been proven a worthy warrior, and Thor spent the next several years training and performing heroic deeds. Indeed, eight years later, Odin gave the hammer to Thor, declaring him to be the greatest warrior in Asgard.

Thor traveled to Earth for the first time in the Ninth Century A.D., in response to his worship among the Vikings. Thor reveled in his worship, leading many in battle and extolling the way of the warrior. Years later, a set of Vikings killed innocent inhabitants of a Christian monastery in Thor’s name. In shock and disillusion, Thor cut himself off from his worshippers and returned to Asgard. The Asgardian religion would never be as fervent, eventually dying out completely over the centuries.

== Donald Blake ==

Although Thor continued to perform many acts of battle and adventure, he unfortunately grew headstrong, proud, and selfish. It pained the heart of Odin. One day, Thor chased a monster into the land of the Frost Giants, a breech of protocol that nearly sparked a war in all of Asgard. Odin had to teach Thor a lesson. He created a mortal body for him, one with a lame leg, and sent Thor, stripped of his powers and memories, to Earth. Thor arrived on the campus of New York State College of Medicine as Donald Blake. Blake proved to be the humble and patient man Odin had hoped for. He eventually graduated with top honors, gained a reputation as a caring family doctor and a brilliant surgeon, and opened a private practice in New York City. His nurse, Jane Foster, was equally caring and competent, and the two began to fall in love.

This idyllic life was not to last. The alien Kronans were coming to invade. When taking a vacation in Norway, Blake stumbled onto the Kronan scouts’ spaceship and fled into a cave. (It was, unknown to him, the same cave in which Gaea had given birth to Thor.) In a secret chamber, Blake discovered a plain walking cane. Taking it with him, he tried to escape, only to find his way blocked. Frustrated and scared, he struck the boulder with the cane, transforming it into Mjolnir and himself into Thor. He fought the alien scouts, who retreated from Earth and called off their invasion. By tapping the ground with Mjolnir, he transformed back into Don Blake, holding a simple wooden cane.

Blake returned to New York, using his secret identity of Thor to fight crime, defend Earth, and contend with Loki, who, after learning of Thor’s return, felt all the old jealousy and hatred, plaguing Thor with many tricks and outright confrontation. One such trick led Thor and other heroes to fight the [[Hulk]], after which the heroes bested Loki and decided to form the [[Avengers]].

The love between Thor and Foster continued for many years, made more difficult by Odin’s displeasure in the relationship between god and mortal. He forbade Blake from revealing his identity to her, creating a strange love triangle between Foster and the personas of Thor and Blake.

== Coming Into His Own ==

Even though Donald Blake knew he was the legendary Thor, he still had no memory of his former life. Over time, his memories slowly returned, until one day, Odin finally revealed himself and restored Thor’s complete memory. Odin also revealed that it was he who had discovered the Kronan invasion force and implanted a suggestion in Blake’s mind so that he would arrive in Norway and battle the aliens as Thor. He also reintroduced Thor to his childhood friend, the woman warrior [[Sif]], and they renewed their friendship, further complicating Thor/Blake’s love life.

The love affair between Thor and Jane Foster eventually ended when Foster fell in love with a mortal man, Kevin Kincaid. Their engagement was cut short when Foster lay dying. Sif allowed herself to merge with Foster, saving the woman's life. The two were later separated when Foster was sent to a limbo-realm accessed by the Runestaff of the Possessor. Thor, Sif, and Kevin Kincaid were later able to rescue Foster, and the two mortals were then married.

Although Thor maintained his Blake persona for many years, he permanently gave it up shortly after meeting [[Beta Ray Bill]]. Bill had twice proven himself worthy of the hammer of Thor, after picking it up during a battle with Thor and, later, against the forces of Surtur. Odin brought Beta Ray Bill to Asgard, giving him a similar weapon in Stormbreaker. The enchantment that transformed Thor into Blake was transferred to Stormbreaker, and Thor abandoned his Blake identity, residing in Asgard and commuting to Earth when needed. Later, in hopes of creating another identity so as to more easily remain on Earth, Thor sought help from [[Fury, Nick|Nick Fury]] and [[S.H.I.E.L.D.]]. The organization helped Thor create an identity as Sigurd Jarlson, a construction worker. In this identity, Thor simply pulled back his hair, wore glasses, and dressed like a normal human.

== The Fall of Odin ==

When [[Surtur]] joined forces with the Dark Elves, Thor, Loki, and Odin protected Asgard by mingling their essences and thereby increasing their powers. But it was Odin that gave the greatest sacrifice, grappling with Surtur and throwing themselves into a huge chasm. Asgard was left without its leader. [[Lorelei (Asgardian)|Lorelei]], with the help of Loki, enchanted Thor and caused him to fall in love with her in hopes that Thor would then help Loki become the new ruler. Thor broke free of the enchantment, but the incident had strained Thor's relationship with Sif.

The gods of Asgard continued with the Great Althing, a ceremony to chose a new leader. But before Thor could return to Asgard, he was turned into a frog by Loki. Thor became embroiled in the battle between the frogs and the rats of Central Park until Thor the Frog could find his hammer. When he did so, he turned into a frog-like humanoid, the Thunder Frog. Meanwhile, in Asgard, Harokin, an Asgardian warrior, pretended to be Thor so as to cast his vote for Loki. Thor captured Loki, but it was [[Volstagg]] who found a machine that was using power from Surtur's sword to provide energy for Loki’s transformation spell. Volstagg destroyed the machine, which returned Thor into his normal form. Thor then talked the [[Asgardians]] into making [[Balder]] their new leader.

== Cursed by Death ==

Balder, Thor, and others then traveled to Hel, the realm of the Asgardian death goddess, [[Hela]], to rescue a number of Earth souls that had been unrightfully taken by Hela. In battle with Hela herself, Thor’s face was badly scarred, but he and his allies were able to save the souls. Immediately afterward, the omnipotent [[Maker|Beyonder]] transformed the leader of the Dark Elves into [[Kurse]], and Thor defeated Kurse by sending him to Hel. With Kurse rampaging through her realm, Hela grew furious. She cursed Thor that so his bones became brittle and so that he could not die from his injuries. Humiliated but determined to remain a warrior to the end, Thor grew a beard to conceal his facial scars and donned a suit of battle armor to support his fragile body.

Loki took this opportunity to release the Midgard Serpent, the beast that was prophesized to kill Thor and start Ragnarok. Despite his weakened condition, Thor was able to kill the Midgard Serpent and, thanks to Hela’s curse, Thor survived the battle although his body was completely broken and battered. Loki then sent the [[Destroyer (construct)|Destroyer]] armor to torment Thor, but instead, Thor managed to send his spirit into the Destroyer armor take command of it. He traveled to Hel in the Destroyer and began wreaking havoc. The desperate Hela had no choice but to fully restore Thor’s original body and release him from her curse.

== Visions of Thors to Come ==

After a battle between Asgard and the Egyptian god of death, [[Seth]], which resulted in Odin’s restoration to the throne of Asgard, Thor began having many problems of his own. He began to suffer sudden and momentary bouts of weakness during times of stress. When Thor's spells of weakness almost caused his death several times, Thor asked for help from [[Doctor Strange (Stephen Strange)|Doctor Strange]], who entered Thor's mind and traveled with him in spirit. Inside Thor's mind, they discovered an evil version of Thor, who battled the real Thor. They then discovered that it was actually a portion of Loki's evil essence caused by the time Thor, Loki, and Odin had become mingled during Surtur's first attack on Asgard, and the Thor defeated the alternate version.

Thor, in his identity of Jarlson, had became friends with the architect Eric Masterson and Masterson's son, Kevin. Masterson was kidnapped, however, by the [[Mongoose]], who had previously attacked Thor, trying to gain a cell sample from the god of thunder. Thor tracked Masterson to the High Evolutionary’s base, freeing him and learning that the [[High Evolutionary]] was missing, along with [[Hercules]]. Thor, accompanied by Masterson, freed Hercules and the High Evolutionary from the [[Celestials]] holding them prisoner in the Black Galaxy. Upon returning to Earth, they were attacked by the Mongoose, and Masterson blocked a blast of energy meant for Thor, giving Thor and Hercules a chance to defeat Mongoose.

== Eric Masterson ==

Unfortunately, Masterson was dying from his wounds. Thor pleaded with Odin on Masterson’s behalf. Odin reluctantly agreed to save him, but did so by merging Thor and Masterson together, body and soul.

Thor and Masterson shared a body much as Blake and Thor had, although the latter were never separate beings. They dealt with their new condition, despite the problems it caused for Masterson's private life and custody of his son. Thor continued his adventures, and Loki continued to plague Thor and his friends. Eventually, the two’s bodies were separated by a Celestial while they were involved in the birth of a new Celestial in the Black Galaxy. During a tremendous battle between Surtur and [[Ymir]], a battle that signaled Ragnarok, Thor recovered Surtur's sword from the Sea of Eternal Night, hoping to confront the fire and ice elementals. Unfortunately, he was weakened by his separation from Masterson and was easily stopped by the two creatures. Masterson willingly merged with Thor again, even though it meant giving up part of his life. Ymir and Surtur fought over the sword, and Thor opened a dimensional rift that sucked them both into the Sea of Eternal Night.

When Thor returned to Earth, he quickly found himself in battle with Loki over the fate of Kevin, Masterson's son. Although Loki was defeated, he fired one last blast at Kevin and his mother Marcy, but it was blocked by Masterson’s secretary, Susan Austin, killing her. It was the last straw. Angered as never before, Thor absorbed all of Loki's lifeforce with his hammer, presumably destroying the evil god forever, although this broke Odin's sacred rule forbidding Asgardian gods to kill each other.

However, this was all according to Loki’s plan with [[Mephisto]], as Loki was able to send his spirit into that of Odin and thus send Odin’s spirit to the realm of Mephisto. Loki posed as Odin, banishing Thor from existence. Instead, Masterson’s body was left intact, and it was Thor’s soul that became banished. Masterson could still assume Thor's form after striking his cane, and Masteron tried to pose as Thor on Earth, including his membership in the Avengers. Loki’s decrees as Odin became increasingly irrational and persecuting. Thor battled Loki but was left near-dead, rescued by Sif, Balder, and the [[Warriors Three]]. Surprisingly, Mephisto betrayed Loki, giving Odin’s spirit over to the heroes, and Odin reclaimed his body, forcing Loki into Mephsito’s waiting clutches, who claimed this to be his true goal all along. Odin revealed that Thor’s spirit still resided with Masterson, and he separated the two. (Masterson was still able to transform into a version of Thor, and he created a separate heroic identity as [[Thunderstrike]].)

== Warrior's Madness & the End of Asgard ==

[[image: Thorroar.jpg|left]]Unfortunately, with the constant shifting of identities and sharing of power, Thor was left mentally unbalanced. Sif began to suspect Thor was falling prey to the incurable Warrior’s Madness and, with Beta Ray Bill, the [[Silver Surfer]], and the [[Infinity Watch]], she confronted Thor. During the conflict, Thor stole the Power Gem from [[Drax the Destroyer]], becoming power incarnate. Believing that only [[Thanos]] could stop Thor, the heroes elicited his help. However, all they could do was restrain him. Thor was taken to Odin, who discovered the truth behind the malady after a spiritual journey through Thor’s mind. Thor fought the personification of his own madness, that of a beautiful Valkyre, and destroyed it.

This experience sparked Thor’s anger at his father regarding his discipline of humility. He left Asgard, allying with the High Evolutionary and his newly created godlike beings, the [[Godpack]]. In the meantime, Odin decided that the time had come for Ragnarok to begin, and he needed Thor. Odin resurrected [[Norvell, Red|Red Norvell]], who once held the mantle of thunder god but had died in battle, and re-made him into Thor. He declared Norvell to be his son and disowned Thor. He also told his son the truth about Donald Blake-- that he was never a separate being. Enraged, Thor severed his ties with Asgard.

Odin hoped to bypass Ragnarok by transforming the gods into mortals, but his plan was hijacked by Seth, and put it into action prematurely. Asgard fell, and its gods were banished to Earth. Odin hoped Thor would restore the gods to power, but before he could, Thor fell in battle with Onslaught. Thor vanished, along with other heroes such as the Avengers, but, like them, he was merely reborn to another dimension and was eventually returned.

== A God Reborn ==

When Thor returned, he discovered the [[Dark Gods]] had claimed Asgard and held the Asgardians captive. They sent the Destroyer on a rampage on Earth, and Thor and the Avengers confronted it. The Avengers were defeated and even Thor was left near dead. The mysterious [[Marnot]] offered to restore Thor in exchange for taking the place of Jake Olsen, a paramedic who died during the battle. Thor agreed, fighting the Destroyer again and banishing it to another dimension. Thor found he could transform between himself and Olsen, although he had none of Olsen’s memories and that made it difficult to maintain two identities.

The Dark Gods, in the guise of Asgardians, attacked [[Olympus]] and left it in ruins. Thor and Hercules uncovered the truth led the battle against the Dark Gods, eventually freeing both Asgard and Olympus and restoring them to glory. Marnot revealed that the Dark Gods had once invaded Asgard ages ago, and Odin had prepared an enchantment on Hescamar, his raven, to seek out a way to defeat the Dark Gods should they return. The raven had fulfilled this by transforming into Marnot and helping Thor. Afterwards, Thor remained on Earth with his dual identity of Jake Olsen.

== Tarene & Lord of Asgard ==

[[image:thorthrone.jpg|right]]Among his subsequent adventures, Thor rescued Tarene, the cosmic being known as the Designate, who would later take on the identity of [[Thor Girl]] out of admiration of Thor. Thor and Thor Girl battled the alien [[Gladiator (Kallark)|Gladiator]], who vowed to destroy Thor in a preemptive strike to prevent a terrible horror that he believed Thor would inflict in the future. As such, Thor was unable to defend Asgard against an army of Asgardian trolls that overwhelmed the city's defenses. Odin was forced to defeat the trolls, and he confronted Thor, disappointed in his son's inability to remain loyal to Asgard. As punishment, Odin stripped Thor of his immortality and left him on Earth.

Shortly afterward, Loki brought the Destroyer back to Earth, animating it with the soul of Tarene. Ultimately, the Destroyer was thwarted and Tarene was restored, but during the battle, Thor was severely wounded. Dr. Jane Foster could heal Jake Olsen's wounds but remained unable to treat Thor's. Odin brought Thor to Asgard and physically separated Thor from his alter ego to allow Thor to heal and to allow Jake Olsen to return to his life on Earth.

When Surtur appeared on Earth, an assemblage of Asgardian heroes and their allies confronted the demon and his hordes. Tarene used her powers to restore Thor to full health, joining with Odin and the Asgardian warriors against Surtur. In the end, Odin tapped into both Thor and Tarene's powers to deliver a fatal blow against Surtur, sacrificing himself in the process.

In mourning the loss of his father, Thor initially refused to take Odin's place, until a discussion with Jake Olsen convinced Thor to assume the responsibilities of the new monarch of Asgard. Thor did so, gaining the Odin-power as a right of rule.

== Jake Olsen ==

Thor allowed Tarene to take his place as a crime-fighting super-hero on Earth, under the guidance of Jake Olsen. When Thor Girl was nearly destroyed in a battle with the [[Grey Gargoyle]], Olsen sought help from the [[Enchantress]]. She agreed to transform him into a version of Thor, but Olsen didn’t know that the transformation came with a price, as it would rob Thor in Asgard of some of his power while Olsen was Thor. [[Desak]], the self-styled destroyer of gods, confronted the Olsen-Thor, nearly killing him. Thor managed to return from Asgard to defeat Desak, with the help of the Executioner's mystic axe, given to Thor by the Enchantress. However, Thor seemed to be influenced by a corruption of the Odin-power he now possessed coupled with the influence of the Executioner's axe.

With the help of a [[Thor (Earth-3515)]] from an alternate future, Thor re-merged his younger self with Jake Olsen to again bring humanity back to Thor’s perspective. In doing so, he lost the Odin-power but freed the world from its potential terrible history. Asgard was returned to its regular plane of existence.

== Ragnarok ==

Almost immediately, Thor was attacked by Loki, who had teamed with Surtur to create weapons for Thor’s enemies that were forged in the same way as Mjolnir. The fight for Asgard ascended to a level of Ragnarok. Although Thor managed to defeat Loki, severing his head, the war left many of Thor’s allies, such as Sif and the Warriors Three, dead. Thor forced Surtur to re-forge Mjolnir, which had shattered during the battle. While Asgard succumbed to Ragnarok, effectively wiping the Asgardian world from existence, Thor sought out the gods known as [[Those Who Sit Above In Shadow]]. Thor refused an offer to join them, instead confronting them in battle. Thor destroyed Those Who Sit Above In Shadow as Asgard died. The Odinpower congratulated Thor on succeeding at his greatest mission. Thor then closed his eyes, apparently joining his people in death.

== A Hammer Falls ==

Shortly following Thor's actions, the Mjolnir sped through the cosmos and landed on Earth, bringing the seemingly deceased [[Doctor Doom (Victor von Doom)|Doctor Doom]] with it. Doom sought out the Mjolnir, believing he was worthy. However, when he reached the hammer, there was a blast of light, and Doom found he was not worthy of the Mjolnir. [[Mister Fantastic|Reed Richards]] of the [[Fantastic Four]] stated that he believed the flash may have been a signal to someone, perhaps signifying the return of Thor and the Asgardians. Mr. Fantastic was right. Thor has returned, and is seeking to rebuild Asgard.

== New Beginnings ==

Thor did indeed rebuild Asgard, in Oklahoma, and he embarked on a quest to liberate his fellow Asgardians who were trapped in mortal shells. Thor tried not to give life to those who would harm his people, but the ever-mischievous Loki tricked Thor into releasing him and a slew of others. Still, Thor was pleased Asgard was filled with his subjects, and he was determined to make things work this time. Too bad for him, Loki had other plans. First, he stole the form of Sif, keeping her trapped within the form of a dying old woman. Then, Loki orchestrated a fiendish plot to force Thor to kill a member of the royal family - his own grandfather, [[Bor]]. Loki succeeded in bringing his plan to fruition, and after a furious battle between Thor and Bor, Bor was dead, and Balder had no choice but to cast Thor out of Asgard. Thor has his suspicions who was behind his current predicament just as he is sure he will one day have words with this individual.

Since his banishment, Thor has come to learn Balder had struck a truce with [[Doctor Doom (Victor Von Doom)|Doctor Doom]] and moved the Asgardians to [[Latveria]]. What Balder did not know was that Doom intended to dissect his people in order to discover the key to [[Glossary:I#immortality|immortality]]. Loki had his hand in this scheme as well, but once Thor learned of Doom's fiendish plot, he joined his brothers-in-arms against the mad despot. Doom would have easily been destroyed if not for his newest weapon against the God of thunder, the Destroyer armor. Doom had retooled Odin's creation so he could pilot the armor after he stole enough of Thor's energy to power it.
}}
{{person}}
[[category:Heroes]]
[[category:Avengers]]
[[category:Gods]]
[[category:People who used to be dead but aren't anymore]]
[[category:Magic]]
[[category:Thor]]

Poseidon

2010-06-06T02:22:40Z

DragynWulf: Reverted edits by Blaze650 (Talk) to last revision by IAmVerySpecial

{{Powerbox|
universe = [[Marvel Universe]]
| blurb =
| real_name = Poseidon (Neptune)
| aliases = King of the Sea, Nethuns, Earthshaker
| identity = Secret
| occupation = God of the Seas
| citizenship = [[Olympians|Oplympian]]
| place_of_birth = [[Olympus]]
| relatives = [[Kronos|Chronus]] (father, Titan), [[Rhea]] (mother, Titan), [[Zeus]], [[Pluto]] (brothers), [[Amphitrite]] (wife), [[Triton]] (son), Rhode, Benthesicyme (daughters), [[Hercules|Heracles]], [[Ares]], [[Hephaestus]], [[Apollo]], [[Hermes]], [[Dionysus]] (nephews), [[Venus_%28Aphrodite%29|Aphrodite]], [[Athena|Pallas Athena]], [[Artemis]], Eileithyia, [[Hebe]], [[Bellona|Discord]], Pandia, [[Helen_of_Troy|Helen]], [[Persephone]] (nieces)
| groups = Olympian Gods
| education = Unrevealed
| height = 6'3"
| weight = 625 lbs
| eyes = Green
| hair = White
| powers = Poseidon was thought to be omnipotent just like his brother Zeus, he had divine powers which allowed him to resurrect the dead. Poseidon possessed superhuman strength, agility, stamina and reflexes. He was immune to conventional diseases and aged very slowly. He along with the other members of his race are thought to be immortal. They can be injured mortally or even die and survive the attack.
| abilities = Poseidon possessed the ability to communicate with the creatures of the seas telepathically and he could control the tides causing tsunamis, he could manipulate energy and water blasts. He could create powerful electromagnetic fields, and created force fields powerful enough to protect him from Zeus's attacks. He had the ability of flight, he could breathe under water for eternity, he breathed oxygen as well.
| weapons = Enchanted Trident; Neptune carries a trident that controls the waters of the Earth
| paraphernalia =
| debut = Tales to Astonish #70 (1965)
| origin =
| significant_issues =
}}{{Headshot|
main_image= image_not_available.gif
}}{{bio|
bio_text= In the early ages of the Earth, a sentient life-force developed and one day manifested itself into the being [[Demiurge]]. He birthed the [[Elder Gods]] who eventually warred among themselves until one of them, [[Atum]], transformed itself into Demogorge and devoured or chased away all but himself and [[Gaea]], also known as Mother Earth. Atum would reform from the Demogorge and leave the Earth, dispersing the energies he had absorbed into the planet. When mankind eventually began rising towards sentience, their dreams gave form to the absorb energies; this transformed those who would become the progenitors of mankind's gods, notably the Olympians, regarded as deities by the peoples of Greece and the Roman Empire.

Poseidon was the son of the [[Titans|Titan]] deities [[Kronos|Chornus]] and [[Rhea]], he was also referred to as Neptune. Poseidon sided with his younger brother [[Zeus]] in slaying their father and freeing their siblings from a prison in the dark underworld known as [[Hades]]. After defeating their father, Zeus became ruler of [[Olympus]] and he granted each of his sibling’s dominion over the regions of the Earth. [[Pluto]] was asked to rule over the underworld and guard its prisoners, Poseidon was given dominion over Earth's seas, [[Demeter]] was assigned to watch over the land, and [[Vesta]] was to watch over the people.

With the exception of Poseidon, who still actively watches over the [[Atlanteans|Atlantean]] peoples, Zeus and the Olympians gradually withdrew from Earth over the centuries. Poseidon and [[Ame-No-Mi-Kumari]] combined their powers to protect the Earth from the demonic Japanese god of the underworld known as [[Mikaboshi]]. Together they flooded Mikaboshi's underworld, defeating him.
}}
{{person}}
[[category:Gods]]

Taskmaster

2010-06-02T01:19:23Z

DragynWulf:

{{Powerbox|
universe = [[Marvel Universe]]
| real_name = Unrevealed
| aliases = Captain America, Contingency T, Tony Masters
| identity = Secret
| occupation = Drill instructor ,mercenary, teacher
| citizenship = U.S.A.
| place_of_birth = Bronx, New York City, New York
| relatives = Unidentified mother
| groups = None; formerly [[Cabal]], [[Initiative|Initiative Instructor]], [[Thunderbolts]], [[Agency X]], [[Frightful Four]], former agent of [[Hydra]] and the [[Red Skull (Johann Shmidt)|Red Skull]]
| education = High School
| height = 6' 2"
| weight = 220 lbs.
| eyes = Unrevealed
| hair = Brown
| powers = Taskmaster has no known superhuman powers. However, with the help of the [[Albino (Augusta Seger)|Albino]], Taskmaster briefly had the ability to mimic other peoples powers by studying them. This power ended up only being temporary due to the process being interrupted by [[Hawkeye (Clint Barton)|Hawkeye]], [[Firestar]], and [[Justice (Vance Astrovik)|Justice]].
| abilities = Taskmaster possesses photographic reflexes, which enables him to watch another person’s physical movements and duplicate them without practice, no matter how complex. This ability is only limited by the fact that he does not possess superhuman strength or other superhuman attributes.

Taskmaster has made extensive use of video tapes and movies to study the movements of superhuman adventurers, as well as athletes, marksmen, stunt performers, and soldiers. Thus he has gained a wide range of combat and acrobatic skills. These skills include, but are not limited to, all present day and many historical martial arts, boxing, wrestling, swordsmanship, archery, marksmanship, gymnastics, aerial acrobatics and sleight of hand.

Recently it has been discovered that Taskmaster also possesses photographic memory and voice impersonation.
| weapons = Taskmaster makes use of a variety of weapons. He frequently employs a throwing shield like [[Captain America (Steve Rogers)|Captain America]], a multipurpose billy club like [[Daredevil (Matthew Murdock)|Daredevil]], a bow which uses a variety of trick arrows like [[Hawkeye (Clint Barton)|Hawkeye]], a sword like [[Black Knight (Dane Whitman)|Black Knight]], and web-shooters like [[Spider-Man (Peter Parker)|Spider-Man]]. None of the copies are as high quality as the originals.
| paraphernalia = Taskmaster stole a generator from [[S.H.I.E.L.D.]] that can create shapes out of energy. Taskmaster uses this device to mimic Captain America’s shield, Spider-Man’s web-shooters and Wolverine’s claws. The generator is used primarily for mercenary missions along with a pair of semi-automatic handguns and a katana.
Taskmaster uses an image-inducer, with it he can change his physical appearance to anyone he wishes.
| debut = Avengers #195 (1980)
| origin = Avengers #196 (1980)
| significant_issues = First appearance and fought Avengers (Avengers #195-196, 1980); trained Super-Patriot (U.S.Agent) to be next Captain America (Captain America #334, 1987); briefly gained powers (Hawkeye: Earth's Mightiest Marksman #1, 1989); trained new [[Spymaster (Number One)|Spymaster]] and revealed to have trained original [[Spymaster (spy)|Spymaster]] (Iron Man #254, 1990); Crossbones, Diamondback and [[Anaconda]] shown to be students (Captain America #403, 1992); Avengers started shutting down academies (Avengers #38, 2001); began mercenary missions (Taskmaster #1-4, 2002); trained and fought [[Spider-Woman (Jessica Drew)|Spider-Woman]]
(Spider-Woman: Origin #2-3, 2006)
}}{{Headshot|
main_image=Taskmaster Head.jpg
}}{{bio|
bio_text= A prodigious savant of skills with mnemonic talents psychiatrists called “Photographic Reflexes,” Taskmaster has used his talent to become the Marvel Universe's premier trainer for the criminal world and government.

=== Origin ===
The man who would become the Taskmaster was born a prodigious savant of mnemonic talents. <ref>Dark Reign Files #1</ref> He discovered his unusual abilities in childhood when, after watching a cowboy television program, he found he could duplicate the rope tricks he had seen the actors perform. Growing to understand his ability, he saw a man perform a difficult backwards leap from a diving board; he duplicated the dive, but nearly drowned because he didn’t know how to swim. Afterwards, his mother called in psychiatrists who studied his ability, terming it “photographic reflexes.” He employed his talent several times during his youth for professional gain, most notably when he became a star quarterback of his high school football team after watching one pro football game. After graduating high school he contemplated becoming a crimefighter, but decided crime would be more lucrative.

=== Solomon Institute for the Criminally Insane ===
He then began a program of observing the fighting techniques of various super heroes and their techniques through archival television news broadcasts to expand his combat repertoire. Initially committing several grand larcenies, he decided it was smarter to avoid risking direct confrontation with law enforcers, and used his stolen capital to establish himself as a combat trainer for aspiring professional criminals, specializing in producing henchmen for super villains and criminal organizations around the world. Designing a costume, he took the moniker “Taskmaster”; one unidentified early graduate of his criminal academy would become espionage legend [[Spymaster (spy)|Spymaster]]. <ref>Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A-Z #11</ref> Taskmaster set up the [[Solomon Institute for the Criminally Insane]] as a front for one of his training academies, but its administrator [[Solomon, Pernell|Dr. Pernell Solomon]] developed heart problems and had Taskmaster’s science staff grow him a clone, Selbe, to harvest for a replacement organ; [[Selbe]] escaped and ran to the [[Avengers]], who exposed the operation with the aid of their ally [[Ant-Man (Scott Lang)]]. Taskmaster single-handedly held his own against both [[Captain America (Steve Rogers)]] and [[Iron Man (Anthony Stark)|Iron Man]] in combat; while tempted to test himself against all the Avengers, he realized that he would not be able to run his business from jail and fled after the unfamiliar abilities of obscure robotic Avengers associate [[Jocasta]] threw him off balance. <ref>Avengers #196</ref>

=== Early Adventures ===
Along with skull-crushing Canadian mercenary [[Farsa, Tyrell|Tyrell Farsa]] and telepathic mind-altering assassin [[Black Swan]], Taskmaster was hired to kill a militant group by an unrevealed country trying to maintain control of an airstrip. Upon completion of the mission, Farsa disrespected the cultured Black Swan by using his silk handkerchief, and Taskmaster assisted Farsa when the Black Swan attacked, but Black Swan defeated them both. <ref>Deadpool #65</ref> Taskmaster briefly joined the criminal [[Frightful Four]] with [[Wizard|Wizard (born Bentley Wittman)]], [[Deadpool (Wade Wilson)|Deadpool (“Wade Wilson”)]] and [[Constrictor]] to battle the [[Fantastic Four]], but when Deadpool went after [[Richards, Franklin|Franklin Richards]], Franklin proved to be more trouble than planned. When the Fantastic Four soon arrived home and Taskmaster, Wizard, and Constrictor left Deadpool to face the Fantastic Four alone, and this Frightful Four grouping disbanded soon after. <ref>Deadpool #35</ref>

Afterwards, Taskmaster went into hiding and continued to training others, including [[Crossbones|Brock Rumlow (later Crossbones]]), [[Anaconda|Blanche Sitznski (later Anaconda)]], [[Diamondback (Rachel Leighton)|Rachel Leighton (later Diamondback)]] and [[Snapdragon (Sheoke Sanada)|Sheoke Sanada (later Snapdragon)]]. [[Spider-Man (Peter Parker)]] and [[Ant-Man (Scott Lang)]] soon discovered another of Taskmaster’s schools and battled Taskmaster, preventing his theft of nuclear material. <ref>Marvel Team-Up #103</ref> [[Hawkeye (Clint Barton)]] and Ant-Man later exposed and halted Taskmaster’s use of the [[Carson Carnival of Traveling Wonders]] as a mobile recruiting center, <ref>Avengers #223</ref> and Spider-Man and [[Nomad (Jack Monroe)]] disrupted his recruiting street gangs for Black Abbott. <ref>Marvel Team-Up #146</ref>After battling the [[Thing (Benjamin Grimm)]] and [[Justice (Vance Astrovik)|Vance Astrovik (later Justice)]] in Ohio, Taskmaster was captured by FBI agents and taken into custody. <ref>Thing #26</ref>

Under the guise of John Smith, the [[Red Skull (Johann Shmidt)|Red Skull]] manipulated [[Rockwell, Douglas|Douglas Rockwell]], head of [[Commission on Superhuman Activities|CSA (Commission on Superhuman Activities)]], into reducing Taskmaster’s sentence in return for training [[U.S.Agent|John Walker (later USAgent)]] as the next Captain America to disgrace the image of Captain America. <ref>Captain America #334</ref> After completing this assignment, the Red Skull arranged for the Taskmaster’s escape so he could resume his operations. The Skull funded Taskmaster’s activities, and Taskmaster tutored multiple students in Captain America’s fighting style so that the Red Skull could kill them in his own training exercises in order to get his newly cloned body of Captain America in physical fighting shape for a confrontation with the Captain (Captain America, Steve Rogers) and Captain America (U.S. Agent, John Walker). Later, Taskmaster set up a new academy at Brooklyn, New York mausoleum where he battled Spider-Man, who believed Taskmaster had kidnapped his wife, [[Watson, Mary Jane|Mary Jane Watson-Parker]]; using a magnesium flare, Taskmaster escaped both capture and Spider-Man’s wrath.<ref>Amazing Spider-Man #308</ref> When the Spymaster was believed slain, unscrupulous industrialist [[Hammer, Justin|Justin Hammer]] hired Taskmaster to train a replacement. Taskmaster’s lethal elimination tests whittled the candidates down to one winner, [[Spymaster (Nathan Lemon)|Nathan Lemon]]. Taskmaster charged the new Spymaster to retrieve the golden angel ornament from atop of the Christmas tree at [[Stark Enterprises]] as a field test in order to graduate before sending him to Justin Hammer. Iron Man decided to let Spymaster walk away with the prize instead of endangering the lives of children in the area. <ref>Iron Man #254</ref>

Taskmaster briefly put his operations on hold when a faction of the Hand ninja cult created an assassination contest between Taskmaster and [[Tombstone]] to see who could kill the most targets. This led to a battle with vigilantes [[Daredevil (Matt Murdock)]] and [[Punisher (Frank Castle)]]; Taskmaster wound up with the Punisher’s knife in his stomach, and spent some time in a prison hospital recuperating. Taskmaster later resumed operations for the Red Skull and attended an assemblage of Red Skull’s division chiefs, which included [[Watchdog Prime]], [[Sin (Sinthea Shmidt)]], [[Zola, Arnim|Arnim Zola]], [[Minister Blood]], [[Power Broker (Curtiss Jackson)]], a [[Scourge of the Underworld]], the [[Resistants]]’ [[Crucible (Byron Calley)]], the [[Secret Empire]]’s Number Seven and [[Hydra]]’s [[Baron Strucker]]. When Crossbones took a leave of absence from the [[Skeleton Crew]], [[Mother Night]], claiming Red Skull requested the training, had Taskmaster train [[Cutthroat]] as his replacement.

Hired by the Red Skull to kill Spider-Man, Taskmaster took this opportunity to try out new graduates [[Blood Spider|Blood Spider (Michael Bingham)]], [[Death-shield|Death-shield (Timothy Karlskin)]], and [[Jagged Bow|Jagged Bow (Joe Emberlin)]], whom he had trained to be criminal versions of Spider-Man, Captain America and Hawkeye. Spider-Man and the anti-terrorist [[Solo (James Bourne)]] defeated the trio as Taskmaster escaped capture once again.

Afterwards, Taskmaster battled the [[Falcon (Sam Wilson)]] when he helped Tyrone McQuaid escape from one of Taskmaster’s academies; attended the [[Brass Bishop (Robert Brasman)]]’s criminal auction in Canada, where he fought Spider-Man and [[Alpha Flight]]; crossed swords with Daredevil, [[Stilt-Man (Wilbur Day)]], [[Tatterdemalion]] and the [[Wild Boys]] over restaurant grease believed to be worth half a million dollars; took on Spider-Man and [[Black Cat (Felicia Hardy)]] during a bank robbery training session; and testified as a character witness when super-criminal [[Trapster (Peter Petruski)]] tried to sue the criminal mechanic Tinkerer for faulty equipment.

When the amnesiac Earth-93060 (“[[Ultraforce (Earth-93060)|Ultraforce]]”) heroine [[Siren (Earth-93060)|Siren (Jennifer Pearson)]] was teleported into one of the academies, Taskmaster gave her an audition to join and eventually developed a relationship with her. Taskmaster also discovered that Diamondback, who had joined under the ruse that she desired more training, had double-crossed him by planting explosives around the academy. When the young mutant [[Jolt (Kyi)]], who desired to join Taskmaster’s academy, accidentally triggered one of the explosive devices, Taskmaster had Jolt open a portal large enough for Siren, Jolt and himself to escape. During the journey through the portal, Siren was sent back to her own dimension, Jolt teleported to an unrevealed location, and Taskmaster was pulled forward in time by a dimension-hopping madman as one of many criminals pitted against the Avengers and a distant cosmos’ heroes before being returned to his own time.

Taskmaster later kidnapped computer hacker and arms supplier [[Weasel (Jack Hammer)]] to retain his services, but after Deadpool defeated Taskmaster, Weasel declined this offer, though he offered his services in the future. Seeking his own death, the mysterious [[Architect]], last of the Shining Ones, arranged a contest involving [[Whiplash (Mark Scarlotti)|Blacklash (Mark Scarlotti)]], Boomerang, the mercenary [[Bullet]], [[Bushwacker]], [[Elektra|Elektra Natchios]], [[Fatale]], [[Machete (Alfonso Lopez)]], [[Razor-Fist (Douglas Scott)]], [[Shatterhead]] and [[Zaran, Maximillian|Maximillian Zaran]] to see which was fit to kill him. During the contest, Taskmaster overpowered Elektra using Daredevil’s fighting style, but she later returned and defeated him.

Later, Taskmaster hired [[Albino (Augusta Seger)]], a world renowned biologist specializing in mutagenics (the study of effects of human mutations) to help him duplicate super-powers. Taskmaster employed [[Batroc (Georges Batroc)]], [[Machete (Ferdinand Lopez)|Machete (Ferdinand Lopez, Alfonso’s brother)]], Zaran and [[Oddball (Elton Healey)]], along with androids of [[Beast (Henry McCoy)]], [[Black Panther (T’Challa)]], Captain America, Goliath (Hank Pym), [[Hulk (Bruce Banner)]], Iron Man, [[Quicksilver]], Namor, [[Thor (Thor Odinson)]], and Vision (“Victor Shade”), to analyze the Avengers’ powers, pitting his operatives against several Avengers members. Taskmaster briefly duplicated the powers of the Avengers [[Firestar]] and Justice using Albino’s technology, but he was defeated by the duo and Hawkeye, and his new powers apparently faded. <ref>Hawkeye: Earth's Mightiest Marksman #1</ref> When the Avengers began using proactive tactics, they targeted Taskmaster’s numerous academies, briefly putting a stop to his operations and denying criminals, terrorists and super villains a valuable resource; however, Taskmaster continued to elude them. <ref>Avengers #38 (2001)</ref>Taskmaster briefly employed Constrictor, [[Titania (Mary MacPherran)|Copycat (disguised as Titania/Mary MacPherran)]] and the “[[Deadpool Interns]]” — [[Deadair]], [[Deadend]], and [[Deadweight]] — to seek revenge on Deadpool. Afterwards, Taskmaster entered Madripoor’s Bloodsport tournament to help boost his price in training super villains, but was defeated by the telepathic mass murderer [[Mister X]].

=== Agency X ===
Trying to make up for the lost profit, Taskmaster returned to mercenary assignments and accepted [[Bain, Sunset|Sunset Bain]]’s commission to sabotage a semiconductor being built by Tony Stark. Taskmaster completed the assignment, but when Bain tried to have him killed, he tricked Triads gangs into attacking her, ultimately harming her organization enough that she finally called off her hit. During this time he became involved with [[Brandenberg, Sandi|Sandi Brandenberg]], but eventually broke it off; while they remained friends, he found it difficult to give her up. When Deadpool employed Sandi as a secretary, she brought Taskmaster in to aid him against the Black Swan. Taskmaster helped set Deadpool on the path to facing the Black Swan, and he also found time to execute Sandi’s then-boyfriend when he learned he had beaten her. When Deadpool seemingly died in an explosion battling the Black Swan, Sandi believed the amnesiac [[Agent X (Nijo)|Agent X (Alex Hayden)]] was Deadpool, and Taskmaster trained him on Sandi’s behalf, then aided Agent X and [[Outlaw (Inez Temple)]] when the [[Four Winds]] crime family clashed over Agency X’s property. Discovering Agent X was an amalgam of Black Swan's agent Nijo, Deadpool, and Black Swan, they arranged to restore themselves to normal, but when the Black Swan tried to double-cross them, Taskmaster, Outlaw, Sandi and the Eastern Wind helped Deadpool and Agent X defeat Black Swan.

=== Civil War ===
The [[Committee]], a cartel of financiers ostensibly dedicated to reviving the US economy through illegal activities, hired Taskmaster to assassinate vigilante [[Moon Knight (Marc Spector)]], who had been instrumental in defeating them in the past, after their agent the [[Profile]] determined that Moon Knight was without friends or determination. Taskmaster found that this was not the case, as Moon Knight’s friends came to aid him, and he tried to get out of his Committee deal, but Moon Knight pursued him to the Committee’s base and defeated him in battle. <ref>Moon Knight #3-6 (2006)</ref>

Arrested and imprisoned under unrevealed circumstances, Taskmaster was recruited for government service by the CSA during the “Civil War” between US super heroes following passage of the Superhuman Registration Act (SHRA). Assigned to the [[Thunderbolts]], Taskmaster joined other superhuman criminals in attacking Captain America’s anti-SHRA forces. Following Cap’s surrender, Taskmaster was re-arrested, but before being transferred to the [[Negative Zone]] prison 42 he was quickly released by Deadpool, who had hoped to re-establish his reputation by defeating Taskmaster in a public display of combat. <ref>Civil War #1-6</ref>

=== Initiative ===
SHIELD Commander [[Hill, Maria|Maria Hill]] gave Taskmaster a full presidential pardon after he helped test the defenses of a [[S.H.I.E.L.D.]] Helicarrier. The CSA then recruited him to train three clones of accidentally slain Fifty State Initiative cadet [[MVP]] in Spider-Man’s fighting style so they could become Initiative agents as the [[Scarlet Spiders]]. Afterwards, Taskmaster was assigned to [[Camp Hammond]] as the Fifty State Initiative recruit drill instructor, where his many students included [[Ant-Man (Eric O'Grady)]], [[Bengal (Duc No Tranh)]], [[Cloud 9 (Abigail Boylen)]], [[Crusader (Z'reg)]], [[Dragon Lord]], [[Geiger]], [[Komodo (Melati Kusama)]], [[Melee]], [[Rage]], [[Red 9]], [[Speedball (Earth-8101)|Speedball (Earth-8101)]]’s simian Robbie Baldwin), [[Stature]], [[3-D Man (Delroy Garrett)|Triathlon]] and [[Ultragirl]]. Later, super-criminals [[Firebrand (Russ Broxtel)]], [[King Cobra (Klaus Voorhees)]], [[Mauler (Brendan Doyle)]] and [[Mister Hyde]] made a failed attempt to kill the Taskmaster for joining the Initiative. When inept Initiative recruit [[Butterball]] was sent home, Taskmaster and Constrictor felt sorry for him and arranged a photo where it looked like Butterball defeated the pair in combat.

After the [[Secret Invasion|Skrull invasion]], the Initiative fell under the control of corrupt, unstable tycoon [[Osborn, Norman|Norman Osborn]]; he restructured it, assigned Taskmaster to the [[Shadow Initiative]] along with Bengal, Constructor, Komodo and [[Typhoid Mary|Mutant Zero]], and sent them to Madripoor to apprehend Initiative defector [[Hardball (Roger Brokeridge)]], who had joined Hydra. Completing the mission, the Shadow Initiative returned home to find Osborn replacing Camp Hammond with his new [[Camp HAMMER]]. Osborn placed Taskmaster and supernatural crime boss the [[Hood (Parker Robbins)]] in charge of the Initiative and began welcoming many active super-criminals into the organization. These new recruits were supposedly reformed, but Osborn would allow them to continue their criminal careers in secret as long as they posed as heroes in public, so Taskmaster and Hood trained many of these criminals in how to fake heroic behavior. Meanwhile, Taskmaster secretly helped Deadpool battle Osborn’s Thunderbolts as payback for Deadpool previously having helped Taskmaster escape prison.

}}
{{person}}
[[category:Avengers]]
[[category:Civil War]]
[[category:Initiative]]
[[category:Spider-Man]]
[[category:Thunderbolts]]
[[category:Villains]]

Trauma (Terrance Ward)

2010-06-01T15:28:19Z

DragynWulf:

{{Powerbox|
universe = [[Marvel Universe]]
| real_name = Terrance "Terry" Ward
| aliases = Emo Boy
| identity = Known to authorities
| occupation = Former counselor, licensed super hero
| citizenship = U.S.A.
| place_of_birth = Pittsfield, Massachusetts
| relatives = Naomi Ward (mother), [[Nightmare]] (father), Jerry Ward (stepfather), [[Dreamqueen]] (half-sister), [[Daydream]] (half-sister), Billy Ward (half-brother), other distant relations through Nightmare
| groups = Formerly [[Initiative]], [[Shadow Initiative]]
| education = High school graduate
| height = 5'7" (variable)
| weight = 141 lbs. (variable)
| eyes = Dark brown (variable)
| hair = Black (variable)
| powers = Trauma has the ability to transform his body into whatever his enemy fears. Trauma has limited telepathic abilities allowing him to scan a persons mind and find what it is that they most fear. This telepathy is coupled with the ability to shape-shift his body into the form of whatever it is that the target of his telepathic probe fears. So far he has transformed into a giant spider, a demon bear, and various humanoids. He currently does not understand how to control his abilities and whenever anyone around him is overtaken by stress or fear his powers manifest against his will. His powers also manifest whenever he feels threatened or upset.
| abilities = Trauma is currently undergoing training in a variety of disciplines including lifesaving, marksmanship, and hand-to-hand combat.
| weapons = None
| paraphernalia = Trauma's Initiative uniform is made of unstable molecules and alters itself when he changes form, and returns to it's original state when he does.
| debut = Avengers: The Initiative #1 (2007)
| origin = Unrevealed
| significant_issues = Joined the Initiative, arrived at Camp Hammond (Avengers: The Initiative #1, 2007); Powers went out of control, was counseled by Henry Gyrich (Avengers: The Initiative #2, 2007)
}}{{Headshot|
main_image= Trauma (Terrance Ward) Head.jpg
}}{{bio|
bio_text= Terrance Ward was drafted into the [[Initiative]] training program because of his telepathic and shape-shifting abilities. At some point prior to his arrival at [[Camp Hammond]] he adopted the name Trauma. He arrived at Camp Hammond in [[Stamford]], Connecticut in a bus full of other recruits ([[Armory]], [[Bengal (Duc No Tranh)|Bengal]], [[Cloud 9 (Abigail Boylen)|Cloud 9]], [[Hardball (Roger Brokeridge)|Hardball]], [[Komodo (Melati Kusama)|Komodo]], [[Rage]], [[Slapstick]], [[Thor Girl]], and [[Ultra Girl]]) and they were immediately placed under the charge of the drill instructor [[Gauntlet]]. Trauma and all of the other new recruits received their own initiative uniforms and began training exercises. Trauma was placed on a squad with Armory, Cloud 9, Hardball, and Komodo. They were all taken to the combat simulator where their abilities would be gauged and categorized. When Trauma was asked to manifest his abilities and he informed them that he needed be near someone in order to use them the Initiative staff asked Armory to be close to Trauma so he could use his powers. Trauma then became a giant spider in response to Armory's greatest fear. This caused Armory to blast wildly at Trauma and everything else, inadvertently killing [[MVP]] who had just saved Cloud 9 from being blasted. [[Gyrich, Henry Peter|Henry Peter Gyrich]] then informed all who were present that MVP did not die in Stamford and Armory was not responsible for it.

Later while participating in a speed and agility exercise with the rest of his squad, Trauma became overwhelmed by Cloud 9's thoughts about MVP's death and transformed into a zombified MVP. When [[Yellowjacket (Henry Pym)|Yellowjacket]] confronted Trauma about his actions, Trauma transformed into a battered [[Wasp|Janet van Dyne]] causing Pym to back-off and seriously doubt his abilities and purpose. [[Justice (Vance Astrovik)|Justice]] then grabbed Trauma and had him taken into administrative custody while the majority of Initiative soldiers and recruits left to defend the President from a [[Hydra]] attack in Texas. Trauma was brought to Gyrich who explained Traumas importance to the program. Gyrich then introduced Trauma to the [[Beast (Henry McCoy)|Beast]] who was acting as chaperon and bodyguard to a mysterious de-powered mutant.
}}
{{person}}
[[category:Avengers]]
[[category:Heroes]]
[[category:Initiative]]

Cloud 9 (Abigail Boylen)

2010-06-01T15:23:53Z

DragynWulf:

{{Powerbox|
universe = [[Marvel Universe]]
| blurb =
| real_name = Abigail "Abby" Boylen
| aliases = "Ms. Freak-out," "Head Case"
| identity = Known to authorities
| occupation = Licensed superhero, sniper, instructor
| citizenship = U.S.A.
| place_of_birth = Evanston, Illinois
| relatives = None
| groups = [[Freedom Force]], Initiative
| education = High school graduate
| height = 5'2"
| weight = 105 lbs.
| eyes = Blue
| hair = Blonde
| powers = Cloud 9 controls, what is possibly an extraterrestrial gas that can sustain the weight of several people and used as a mode of transportation. She can also create multiple clouds, of various sizes to create cover or asphyxiate others. The Cloud can travel faster than 6000 mph.
| abilities = Cloud nine is a top sharp shooter and her emotional distance protects her from fear-based attacks.
| weapons = She carries a sniper rifle with Adamantium-jacketed bullets, an energy pulse rifle and an automatic grenade launcher.
| paraphernalia =
| debut = Avengers: The Initiative #1 (2007)
| origin =
| significant_issues =
}}{{Headshot|
main_image= image_not_available.gif
}}{{bio|
bio_text= Cloud-controlling teen Abigail Boylen was recruited by [[War Machine (James Rhodes)]] for the federal Initiative program. As Cloud 9, she trained at [[Camp Hammond]] in Stamford, Connecticut, where she met fellow cadet [[MVP]] (Michael Van Patrick) after wandering into the mens shower. Intrigued, he observed Cloud 9's training session where cadet [[Trauma (Terrance Ward)]] panicked cadet [[Armory]] (Violet Lightner) into firing her Tactigon weapon randomly. Cloud 9 froze in shock and MVP died saving her from Armory's misfire. Camp officials covered up the incident. Later, Cloud 9's anxiety over this horrific accident triggered Trauma's fear-mirroring power and he briefly transformed her into her greatest fear, a vengeful MVP. Despite her insecurities, Cloud 9 earned the camp's highest firearms score, so War Machine issued her a pulse rifle during an Initiative fight with terrorist group [[Hydra]]; Cloud 9 downed a Hydra jet, killing the pilot. Shaken by this fatality, she struggled during subsequent training with [[Black Widow (Natasha Romanova)]]. The cadets later clashed with [[Zodiac]] terrorist, but were defeated. However, [[Night Thrasher (Donyell Taylor)]]'s [[New Warriors]] chased the Zodiac away at the cost of a teammate's life.
}}
{{person}}
[[category:Initiative]]
[[category:Women]]

Cloud 9 (Abigail Boylen)

2010-06-01T15:23:25Z

DragynWulf: minor edits, updated link, added links

{{Powerbox|
universe = [[Marvel Universe]]
| blurb =
| real_name = Abigail "Abby" Boylen
| aliases = "Ms. Freak-out," "Head Case"
| identity = Known to authorities
| occupation = Licensed superhero, sniper, instructor
| citizenship = U.S.A.
| place_of_birth = Evanston, Illinois
| relatives = None
| groups = [[Freedom Force]], Initiative
| education = High school graduate
| height = 5'2"
| weight = 105 lbs.
| eyes = Blue
| hair = Blonde
| powers = Cloud 9 controls, what is possibly an extraterrestrial gas that can sustain the weight of several people and used as a mode of transportation. She can also create multiple clouds, of various sizes to create cover or asphyxiate others. The Cloud can travel faster than 6000 mph.
| abilities = Cloud nine is a top sharp shooter and her emotional distance protects her from fear-based attacks.
| weapons = She carries a sniper rifle with Adamantium-jacketed bullets, an energy pulse rifle and an automatic grenade launcher.
| paraphernalia =
| debut = Avengers: The Initiative #1 (2007)
| origin =
| significant_issues =
}}{{Headshot|
main_image= image_not_available.gif
}}{{bio|
bio_text= Cloud-controlling teen Abigail Boylen was recruited by [[War Machine (James Rhodes)]] for the federal Initiative program. As Cloud 9, she trained at [[Camp Hammond]] in Stamford, Connecticut, where she met fellow cadet [[MVP]] (Michael Van Patrick) after wandering into the mens shower. Intrigued, he observed Cloud 9's training session where cadet [[Trauma (Terrance Ward]] panicked cadet [[Armory]] (Violet Lightner) into firing her Tactigon weapon randomly. Cloud 9 froze in shock and MVP died saving her from Armory's misfire. Camp officials covered up the incident. Later, Cloud 9's anxiety over this horrific accident triggered Trauma's fear-mirroring power and he briefly transformed her into her greatest fear, a vengeful MVP. Despite her insecurities, Cloud 9 earned the camp's highest firearms score, so War Machine issued her a pulse rifle during an Initiative fight with terrorist group [[Hydra]]; Cloud 9 downed a Hydra jet, killing the pilot. Shaken by this fatality, she struggled during subsequent training with [[Black Widow (Natasha Romanova)]]. The cadets later clashed with [[Zodiac]] terrorist, but were defeated. However, [[Night Thrasher (Donyell Taylor)]]'s [[New Warriors]] chased the Zodiac away at the cost of a teammate's life.
}}
{{person}}
[[category:Initiative]]
[[category:Women]]

Talk:Bandit

2010-06-01T15:15:42Z

DragynWulf: moved Talk:Bandit to Talk:Night Thrasher (Donyell Taylor)

#REDIRECT [[Talk:Night Thrasher (Donyell Taylor)]]

Bandit

2010-06-01T15:15:42Z

DragynWulf: moved Bandit to Night Thrasher (Donyell Taylor)

#REDIRECT [[Night Thrasher (Donyell Taylor)]]

Talk:Night Thrasher (Donyell Taylor)

2010-06-01T15:15:42Z

DragynWulf: moved Talk:Bandit to Talk:Night Thrasher (Donyell Taylor)

I cleaned up his power/abilities/weapons descriptions and placed the appropriate comments under the appropriate headings.--[[User:phil56201|phil56201]] 12:54, 2 October 2006 (EDT)

Night Thrasher (Donyell Taylor)

2010-06-01T15:15:41Z

DragynWulf: moved Bandit to Night Thrasher (Donyell Taylor)

{{Powerbox|
universe = [[Marvel Universe]]
| real_name = Donyell Taylor
| identity = Secret
| occupation = Criminal, adventurer
| place_of_birth = Chicago, Illinois
| groups = [[New Warriors|Avengers Resistence]]
| citizenship = U.S.A.
| education = Unrevealed
| aliases = None
| relatives = Daryl Taylor (father, deceased), unidentified mother (deceased), Dwayne Taylor ([[Night Thrasher]], half-brother, deceased)
| height = 6'4"
| weight = 300 lbs.
| eyes = Brown
| hair = Black
| powers = Bandit generates electricity and channels it through other objects, such as the grappling hooks he launches from a specialized crossbow; the hooks penetrate his opponent's skin, and then open beneath it.. He uses throwing stars and other weapons as needed. Bandit is an accomplished marksman, acrobat, and hand-to-hand combatant.
| debut = Night Thrasher #3 (1993)
| origin =
| significant_issues =
}}{{Headshot|
|main_image=band_it.jpg
}}
{{bio|
bio_text= The son of soldier-turned-businessman Daryl Taylor and a one-night stand, Donyell grew up knowing little about his father. As an adult, he hated Daryl's legitimate son Dwayne, now the costumed adventurer and leader of the New Warriors called Night Thrasher. Donyell, calling himself Bandit, seductively approached [[Silhouette]], Thrasher's estranged girlfriend, before confronting Thrasher himself. Although evenly matched for a time, Bandit played on his brother's insecurities and beat him severely. Becoming unstable, Bandit abducted Silhouette to lure Thrasher into a final showdown, but Thrasher won the rematch; although Thrasher was willing to reconcile with his newly discovered brother, Bandit departed, their relationship unresolved.

Bandit soon became romantically involved with Silhouette. She vanished when the New Warriors were scattered through time in a conflict between the immortal [[Sphinx (Anath-Na Mut)|Sphinx]] and his reincarnated lover, [[Sphinx (Meryet Karim)|Meryet Karim]]. Confronting the Warriors' support staff, Bandit agreed to lead other Warrior associates in search of the team, assembling a substitute Warriors roster. [[Glossary:T#teleportation|Teleported]] to Egypt by the [[Glossary:A#alien|alien]] power of [[Powerpax]], they fought both the Sphinx and Karim. Then, upon the original team's return, they joined them in an all-out assault before the Sphinx and Karim merged into a composite being and vanished into the past.

Angered by their relationship, Thrasher parted ways with Silhouette and Bandit, on worse terms than before. Bandit's own grudge was hardly resolved, and he sold information stolen from Thrasher's company, the Taylor Foundation, to competitors. When Silhouette discovered a former enemy, ex-drug dealer Scorch, was now doing business with Thrasher, she and Bandit disrupted a meeting and attacked both men. Bandit had no real interest in the affair but gladly participated in anything to drive Thrasher and Silhouette further apart.

Years later, Bandit turned up in New Orleans where he romanced [[Boudreaux, Bella Donna|Bella Donna Boudreaux]], leader of the [[Unified Guilds]]. Although he furthered the Guilds' criminal endeavours, he perceived Belladonna's ex-husband [[Gambit]], noted thief and [[X-Men|X-Man]], as an obstacle, and urged the Guilds to kill him. However, to Belladonna's outrage, Gambit revealed Bandit was manipulating her and had never broken off his relationship with Silhouette. The quarrel was interrupted when the Guild members turned on all three, but Gambit and Belladonna cooperated with Bandit to defeat their attackers. Bandit left New Orleans, and recently, reformed the New Warriors, using the codename of his deceased brother.
}}
{{person}}
[[category:Villains]]
[[category:X-Men]]
[[category:Mutants]]

Talk:Night Thrasher

2010-06-01T15:15:09Z

DragynWulf: moved Talk:Night Thrasher to Talk:Night Thrasher (Dwayne Taylor)

#REDIRECT [[Talk:Night Thrasher (Dwayne Taylor)]]

Talk:Night Thrasher (Dwayne Taylor)

2010-06-01T15:15:09Z

DragynWulf: moved Talk:Night Thrasher to Talk:Night Thrasher (Dwayne Taylor)

== think not ==

i dont thik this pageb sould be in the deceased section. we dont have total confirmation that this hero is dead. on a side note, my dad's name is michael dwayne taylor, creepy.--thewatcheromega

Night Thrasher

2010-06-01T15:15:08Z

DragynWulf: moved Night Thrasher to Night Thrasher (Dwayne Taylor)

#REDIRECT [[Night Thrasher (Dwayne Taylor)]]

Night Thrasher (Dwayne Taylor)

2010-06-01T15:15:08Z

DragynWulf: moved Night Thrasher to Night Thrasher (Dwayne Taylor)

{{Powerbox|
universe = [[Marvel Universe]]
| real_name = Dwayne Michael Taylor
| identity = Secret
| occupation = Former reality TV star, crimefighter, head of the Taylor Foundation
| place_of_birth = New York City, New York
| groups = [[New Warriors]]; formerly [[Folding Circle]], [[Psionex]]
| citizenship = U.S.A.
| education = College level studies under private tutors
| aliases = None
| relatives = Daryl Taylor (father, deceased), Melody Ann Taylor (mother, deceased), Donyell Taylor ([[Bandit]], bother), Elvin Holiday ([[Rage]], ward), Zachary Smith Jr. ([[Microbe]], ward, deceased)
| height = 6'3"
| weight = 220 lbs.
| eyes = Brown
| hair = Black
| powers = None
| abilities = Extremely skilled hand-to-hand combatant, and master in an as-yet-unspecified Japanese martial art. Thrasher is also a trained gymnast, a talented weapons and armor designer. Also possesses a high proficiency in computer tapping, software coding, security set-up, and hacking. He also has proven to have mental barriers that provide him with increased resistance against telepathy and mental attacks.
| weapons = Carries two truncheons approximately 1' in length. He has also used a variety of weaponry such as pepper spray, an Adamantium garrote wire, plastique and napalm gel packs, an 8-inch spring-lock blade, and an uzi machine pistol.
| paraphernalia = Night Thrasher wears a bulletproof suit of body armor. that also contained hydraulic systems which increased his strength and ability to leap and to run for long distances. He has also used a variety of gadgets including magnesium flares, incendiary caps, smoke pellets, ball bearings, and spur jacks, His helmet includes a voice scrambler, infrared vision, telescopic vision, a built-in camera and film pack, a breathing apparatus with a 5-minute air supply, and enhanced listening devices. He formerly used a rocket-propelled skateboard for transportation. The skateboard could be used as a shield and contained a hidden spring-locked blade in the front.
| debut = Thor #411
| creators =
| origin = New Warriors #2 & 23, New Warriors Annual #1
| significant_issues =
}}{{Headshot|
main_image=nightthrasher.jpg
}}{{bio|
bio_text= Dwayne Taylor grew up believing his rich parents were killed by criminals for some unexplained reason. Taylor's guardians, the ex-military sergeant [[Chord]] (a friend of his father's) and the elderly martial arts master [[Tai]], supported Taylor's vow to make all criminals pay for their actions, helping him create the identity of Night Thrasher.

Taylor trained hard to be a skilled fighter. On his first outing, he met [[Midnight's Fire]] and [[Silhouette]]. These two superhumans were taking out criminals by gaining their confidence and then busting them. Giving his name as Night Thrasher, Taylor joined them on their crusade. One night, while Silhouette was infiltrating a gunrunning operation, the police accidentally came upon them. Scared that the police were fixing to shoot his sister, Midnight's Fire started to throw a blade at them. Taylor stopped him before he had a chance to throw it, and a gun battle erupted. Silhouette was hit and badly injured in the spine. Taylor, who had fallen in love with Silhouette, was heartbroken, as was Midnight's Fire. Midnight's Fire swore to get revenge on Taylor someday. Taylor left them, believing that Silhouette was dead.

Realizing that he needed more of an edge, Taylor trained even harder. Using his parent's Taylor Foundation, Taylor had Chord provide him with a state-of-the-art headquarters, training facilities, and computer support systems. He also had developed specialized armor and weaponry. Taylor then decided to create a special team so he would have some backup. He recruited several young heroes and formed the [[New Warriors]].

[[image:NightThrasher01.jpg|left|thumb|180px]]
Shortly after they formed the team, Midnight's Fire made an appearance and tried to frame Taylor with the murder of two policemen. In a final battle with Midnight's Fire, Taylor overcame his fear of his nemesis and beat him in a battle. Taylor then discovered that Silhouette was still alive but crippled. She renounced her brother's actions, turning him in to the police and joining Taylor in the New Warriors.

After the Warriors thwarted a plot by the criminal scientists of [[A.I.M.]], Taylor discovered a link between A.I.M.'s benefactors and the Taylor Foundation. With some investigation, he discovered dozens of illegal operations and shady business practices performed by the Foundation, linking them with criminal industrialist [[Gideon]] and the Japanese Yakuza syndicate, among others. Taylor used the Warriors to seek out the truth in confronting the Yakuza, but the team balked at making a deal with criminals. Taylor refused to budge, and the argument led him to quit the New Warriors.

Taylor was then approached by the criminal team [[Folding Circle]], of which Midnight's Fire was a part, since they promised to lead him to the truth of his past. In doing so, it was revealed that Taylor's father, while in Vietnam, was captured by Tai, who was a powerful sorcerer guarding an ancient temple. Tai had coerced Taylor's father and others in his military unit, including Chord, to have children with the women of the temple, in order that their children would later be sacrificed in the temple's mystic well of dimensional energies and thereby give Tai even greater power. Chord and Taylor's father tried to thwart this plot, and Chord was thus mystically ensorcelled to kill Taylor's parents. The Folding Circle was comprised of the children of Tai's prophecy, but it was assembling its members too early for Tai's wishes. The New Warriors, investigating Night Thrasher's activities, tracked the Circle to the Vietnamese temple, where they joined Folding Circle in a climatic battle with Tai. Ultimately, Tai was seemingly slain by the very energies she tried to master.

Taylor rejoined the New Warriors and served with them for a long tenure. He left the team eventually, rededicating himself to his role as chairman of the Taylor Foundation, although he would team up with them when the need arose. Later, Taylor decided to give up adventuring altogether, becoming a full-time director of the Taylor Foundation. He believed that true battles for justice would be fought in the boardrooms. He moved to the Seattle branch of the Foundation, seemingly disbanding the New Warriors.

Over time, however, the New Warriors reassembled without Taylor's help. Even so, as the Warriors continued to use equipment and facilities associated with the Taylor Foundation, he was able to monitor the new version of the team. He even rejoined them briefly against the assassin [[Iron Fist (Junzo Muto)|Junzo Muto]] and agents of the [[Hand]].

[[image:newwarriors01.jpg|left|thumb|240px]]More recently, the Taylor Foundation suffered a massive downfall when its funding of cancer research banked on the efforts of Zachary Smith. Smith’s cure was revealed to be nothing more than his mutant son’s subconscious help. The Foundation’s stock tanked and Smith abandoned his son, but Dwayne Taylor stepped in to adopt the young mutant, now [[Microbe]]. However, it would require more creative solutions to save the Foundation. Night Thrasher made a deal with shady television executive Ashley Brothers to avoid bankruptcy, but this also forced the New Warriors into a unique re-branding as a reality-TV show. Hoping to make the best of the situation, the team hit the road to become heroes for the common man throughout small-town America.

The Warriors enjoyed mixed success and popularity, but the show was officially cancelled and bankruptcy proceedings were initiated. Even so, the Warriors were able to return and continue their reality-TV efforts. However, when they hoped to boost their ratings by apprehending a quartet of villains holed up in Stamford, Connecticut, tragedy struck. During the battle, [[Nitro (Robert Hunter)|Nitro]] used his power to cause a massive explosion. It apparently killed Night Thrasher, the New Warriors, and killed almost everyone in the vicinity.

}}
{{person}}
[[category:Heroes]]
[[category:Civil War]]
[[category:Deceased]]

Taskmaster

2010-06-01T07:41:42Z

DragynWulf: Protected "Taskmaster" ([edit=sysop] (indefinite) [move=sysop] (indefinite))

{{Powerbox|
universe = [[Marvel Universe]]
| real_name = Unrevealed
| aliases = Captain America, Contingency T, Tony Masters
| identity = Secret
| occupation = Drill instructor ,mercenary, teacher
| citizenship = U.S.A.
| place_of_birth = Bronx, New York City, New York
| relatives = Unidentified mother
| groups = None; formerly [[Cabal]], [[Initiative|Initiative Instructor]], [[Thunderbolts]], [[Agency X]], [[Frightful Four]], former agent of [[Hydra]] and the [[Red Skull (Johann Shmidt)|Red Skull]]
| education = High School
| height = 6' 2"
| weight = 220 lbs.
| eyes = Unrevealed
| hair = Brown
| powers = Taskmaster has no known superhuman powers. However, with the help of the [[Albino (Augusta Seger)|Albino]], Taskmaster briefly had the ability to mimic other peoples powers by studying them. This power ended up only being temporary due to the process being interrupted by [[Hawkeye (Clint Barton)|Hawkeye]], [[Firestar]], and [[Justice (Vance Astrovik)|Justice]].
| abilities = Taskmaster possesses photographic reflexes, which enables him to watch another person’s physical movements and duplicate them without practice, no matter how complex. This ability is only limited by the fact that he does not possess superhuman strength or other superhuman attributes.

Taskmaster has made extensive use of video tapes and movies to study the movements of superhuman adventurers, as well as athletes, marksmen, stunt performers, and soldiers. Thus he has gained a wide range of combat and acrobatic skills. These skills include, but are not limited to, all present day and many historical martial arts, boxing, wrestling, swordsmanship, archery, marksmanship, gymnastics, aerial acrobatics and sleight of hand.

Recently it has been discovered that Taskmaster also possesses photographic memory and voice impersonation.
| weapons = Taskmaster makes use of a variety of weapons. He frequently employs a throwing shield like [[Captain America (Steve Rogers)|Captain America]], a multipurpose billy club like [[Daredevil (Matthew Murdock)|Daredevil]], a bow which uses a variety of trick arrows like [[Hawkeye (Clint Barton)|Hawkeye]], a sword like [[Black Knight (Dane Whitman)|Black Knight]], and web-shooters like [[Spider-Man (Peter Parker)|Spider-Man]]. None of the copies are as high quality as the originals.
| paraphernalia = Taskmaster stole a generator from [[S.H.I.E.L.D.]] that can create shapes out of energy. Taskmaster uses this device to mimic Captain America’s shield, Spider-Man’s web-shooters and Wolverine’s claws. The generator is used primarily for mercenary missions along with a pair of semi-automatic handguns and a katana.
Taskmaster uses an image-inducer, with it he can change his physical appearance to anyone he wishes.
| debut = Avengers #195 (1980)
| origin = Avengers #196 (1980)
| significant_issues = First appearance and fought Avengers (Avengers #195-196, 1980); trained Super-Patriot (U.S.Agent) to be next Captain America (Captain America #334, 1987); briefly gained powers (Hawkeye: Earth's Mightiest Marksman #1, 1989); trained new [[Spymaster (Number One)|Spymaster]] and revealed to have trained original [[Spymaster (spy)|Spymaster]] (Iron Man #254, 1990); Crossbones, Diamondback and [[Anaconda]] shown to be students (Captain America #403, 1992); Avengers started shutting down academies (Avengers #38, 2001); began mercenary missions (Taskmaster #1-4, 2002); trained and fought [[Spider-Woman (Jessica Drew)|Spider-Woman]]
(Spider-Woman: Origin #2-3, 2006)
}}{{Headshot|
main_image=Taskmaster Head.jpg
}}{{bio|
bio_text= A prodigious savant of skills with mnemonic talents psychiatrists called “Photographic Reflexes,” Taskmaster has used his talent to become the Marvel Universe's premier trainer for the criminal world and government.

=== Origin ===
The man who would become the Taskmaster was born a prodigious savant of mnemonic talents. <ref>Dark Reign Files #1</ref> He discovered his unusual abilities in childhood when, after watching a cowboy television program, he found he could duplicate the rope tricks he had seen the actors perform. Growing to understand his ability, he saw a man perform a difficult backwards leap from a diving board; he duplicated the dive, but nearly drowned because he didn’t know how to swim. Afterwards, his mother called in psychiatrists who studied his ability, terming it “photographic reflexes.” He employed his talent several times during his youth for professional gain, most notably when he became a star quarterback of his high school football team after watching one pro football game. After graduating high school he contemplated becoming a crimefighter, but decided crime would be more lucrative.

=== Solomon Institute for the Criminally Insane ===
He then began a program of observing the fighting techniques of various super heroes and their techniques through archival television news broadcasts to expand his combat repertoire. Initially committing several grand larcenies, he decided it was smarter to avoid risking direct confrontation with law enforcers, and used his stolen capital to establish himself as a combat trainer for aspiring professional criminals, specializing in producing henchmen for super villains and criminal organizations around the world. Designing a costume, he took the moniker “Taskmaster”; one unidentified early graduate of his criminal academy would become espionage legend [[Spymaster (spy)|Spymaster]]. <ref>Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A-Z #11</ref> Taskmaster set up the [[Solomon Institute for the Criminally Insane]] as a front for one of his training academies, but its administrator [[Solomon, Pernell|Dr. Pernell Solomon]] developed heart problems and had Taskmaster’s science staff grow him a clone, Selbe, to harvest for a replacement organ; [[Selbe]] escaped and ran to the [[Avengers]], who exposed the operation with the aid of their ally [[Ant-Man (Scott Lang)]]. Taskmaster single-handedly held his own against both [[Captain America (Steve Rogers)]] and [[Iron Man (Anthony Stark)|Iron Man]] in combat; while tempted to test himself against all the Avengers, he realized that he would not be able to run his business from jail and fled after the unfamiliar abilities of obscure robotic Avengers associate [[Jocasta]] threw him off balance. <ref>Avengers #196</ref>

=== Early Adventures ===
Along with skull-crushing Canadian mercenary [[Farsa, Tyrell|Tyrell Farsa]] and telepathic mind-altering assassin [[Black Swan]], Taskmaster was hired to kill a militant group by an unrevealed country trying to maintain control of an airstrip. Upon completion of the mission, Farsa disrespected the cultured Black Swan by using his silk handkerchief, and Taskmaster assisted Farsa when the Black Swan attacked, but Black Swan defeated them both. <ref>Deadpool #65</ref> Taskmaster briefly joined the criminal [[Frightful Four]] with [[Wizard|Wizard (born Bentley Wittman)]], [[Deadpool (Wade Wilson)|Deadpool (“Wade Wilson”)]] and [[Constrictor]] to battle the [[Fantastic Four]], but when Deadpool went after [[Richards, Franklin|Franklin Richards]], Franklin proved to be more trouble than planned. When the Fantastic Four soon arrived home and Taskmaster, Wizard, and Constrictor left Deadpool to face the Fantastic Four alone, and this Frightful Four grouping disbanded soon after. <ref>Deadpool #35</ref>

Afterwards, Taskmaster went into hiding and continued to training others, including [[Crossbones|Brock Rumlow (later Crossbones]]), [[Anaconda|Blanche Sitznski (later Anaconda)]], [[Diamondback (Rachel Leighton)|Rachel Leighton (later Diamondback)]] and [[Snapdragon (Sheoke Sanada)|Sheoke Sanada (later Snapdragon)]]. [[Spider-Man (Peter Parker)]] and [[Ant-Man (Scott Lang)]] soon discovered another of Taskmaster’s schools and battled Taskmaster, preventing his theft of nuclear material. <ref>Marvel Team-Up #103</ref> [[Hawkeye (Clint Barton)]] and Ant-Man later exposed and halted Taskmaster’s use of the [[Carson Carnival of Traveling Wonders]] as a mobile recruiting center, <ref>Avengers #223</ref> and Spider-Man and [[Nomad (Jack Monroe)]] disrupted his recruiting street gangs for Black Abbott. <ref>Marvel Team-Up #146</ref>After battling the [[Thing (Benjamin Grimm)]] and [[Justice (Vance Astrovik)|Vance Astrovik (later Justice)]] in Ohio, Taskmaster was captured by FBI agents and taken into custody. <ref>Thing #26</ref>

Under the guise of John Smith, the [[Red Skull (Johann Shmidt)|Red Skull]] manipulated [[Rockwell, Douglas|Douglas Rockwell]], head of [[Commission on Superhuman Activities|CSA (Commission on Superhuman Activities)]], into reducing Taskmaster’s sentence in return for training [[U.S.Agent|John Walker (later USAgent)]] as the next Captain America to disgrace the image of Captain America. <ref>Captain America #334</ref> After completing this assignment, the Red Skull arranged for the Taskmaster’s escape so he could resume his operations. The Skull funded Taskmaster’s activities, and Taskmaster tutored multiple students in Captain America’s fighting style so that the Red Skull could kill them in his own training exercises in order to get his newly cloned body of Captain America in physical fighting shape for a confrontation with the Captain (Captain America, Steve Rogers) and Captain America (U.S. Agent, John Walker). Later, Taskmaster set up a new academy at Brooklyn, New York mausoleum where he battled Spider-Man, who believed Taskmaster had kidnapped his wife, [[Watson, Mary Jane|Mary Jane Watson-Parker]]; using a magnesium flare, Taskmaster escaped both capture and Spider-Man’s wrath.<ref>Amazing Spider-Man #308</ref> When the Spymaster was believed slain, unscrupulous industrialist [[Hammer, Justin|Justin Hammer]] hired Taskmaster to train a replacement. Taskmaster’s lethal elimination tests whittled the candidates down to one winner, [[Spymaster (Nathan Lemon)|Nathan Lemon]]. Taskmaster charged the new Spymaster to retrieve the golden angel ornament from atop of the Christmas tree at [[Stark Enterprises]] as a field test in order to graduate before sending him to Justin Hammer. Iron Man decided to let Spymaster walk away with the prize instead of endangering the lives of children in the area. <ref>Iron Man #254</ref>

Taskmaster briefly put his operations on hold when a faction of the Hand ninja cult created an assassination contest between Taskmaster and [[Tombstone]] to see who could kill the most targets. This led to a battle with vigilantes [[Daredevil (Matt Murdock)]] and [[Punisher (Frank Castle)]]; Taskmaster wound up with the Punisher’s knife in his stomach, and spent some time in a prison hospital recuperating. Taskmaster later resumed operations for the Red Skull and attended an assemblage of Red Skull’s division chiefs, which included [[Watchdog Prime]], [[Sin (Sinthea Shmidt)]], [[Zola, Arnim|Arnim Zola]], [[Minister Blood]], [[Power Broker (Curtiss Jackson)]], a [[Scourge of the Underworld]], the [[Resistants]]’ [[Crucible (Byron Calley)]], the [[Secret Empire]]’s Number Seven and [[Hydra]]’s [[Baron Strucker]]. When Crossbones took a leave of absence from the [[Skeleton Crew]], [[Mother Night]], claiming Red Skull requested the training, had Taskmaster train [[Cutthroat]] as his replacement.

Hired by the Red Skull to kill Spider-Man, Taskmaster took this opportunity to try out new graduates [[Blood Spider|Blood Spider (Michael Bingham)]], [[Death-shield|Death-shield (Timothy Karlskin)]], and [[Jagged Bow|Jagged Bow (Joe Emberlin)]], whom he had trained to be criminal versions of Spider-Man, Captain America and Hawkeye. Spider-Man and the anti-terrorist [[Solo (James Bourne)]] defeated the trio as Taskmaster escaped capture once again.

Afterwards, Taskmaster battled the [[Falcon (Sam Wilson)]] when he helped Tyrone McQuaid escape from one of Taskmaster’s academies; attended the [[Brass Bishop (Robert Brasman)]]’s criminal auction in Canada, where he fought Spider-Man and [[Alpha Flight]]; crossed swords with Daredevil, [[Stilt-Man (Wilbur Day)]], [[Tatterdemalion]] and the [[Wild Boys]] over restaurant grease believed to be worth half a million dollars; took on Spider-Man and [[Black Cat (Felicia Hardy)]] during a bank robbery training session; and testified as a character witness when super-criminal [[Trapster (Peter Petruski)]] tried to sue the criminal mechanic Tinkerer for faulty equipment.

When the amnesiac Earth-93060 (“[[Ultraforce (Earth-93060)|Ultraforce]]”) heroine [[Siren (Earth-93060)|Siren (Jennifer Pearson)]] was teleported into one of the academies, Taskmaster gave her an audition to join and eventually developed a relationship with her. Taskmaster also discovered that Diamondback, who had joined under the ruse that she desired more training, had double-crossed him by planting explosives around the academy. When the young mutant [[Jolt (Kyi)]], who desired to join Taskmaster’s academy, accidentally triggered one of the explosive devices, Taskmaster had Jolt open a portal large enough for Siren, Jolt and himself to escape. During the journey through the portal, Siren was sent back to her own dimension, Jolt teleported to an unrevealed location, and Taskmaster was pulled forward in time by a dimension-hopping madman as one of many criminals pitted against the Avengers and a distant cosmos’ heroes before being returned to his own time.

Taskmaster later kidnapped computer hacker and arms supplier [[Weasel (Jack Hammer)]] to retain his services, but after Deadpool defeated Taskmaster, Weasel declined this offer, though he offered his services in the future. Seeking his own death, the mysterious [[Architect]], last of the Shining Ones, arranged a contest involving [[Whiplash (Mark Scarlotti)|Blacklash (Mark Scarlotti)]], Boomerang, the mercenary [[Bullet]], [[Bushwacker]], [[Elektra|Elektra Natchios]], [[Fatale]], [[Machete (Alfonso Lopez)]], [[Razor-Fist (Douglas Scott)]], [[Shatterhead]] and [[Zaran, Maximillian|Maximillian Zaran]] to see which was fit to kill him. During the contest, Taskmaster overpowered Elektra using Daredevil’s fighting style, but she later returned and defeated him.

Later, Taskmaster hired [[Albino (Augusta Seger)]], a world renowned biologist specializing in mutagenics (the study of effects of human mutations) to help him duplicate super-powers. Taskmaster employed [[Batroc (Georges Batroc)]], [[Machete (Ferdinand Lopez)|Machete (Ferdinand Lopez, Alfonso’s brother)]], Zaran and [[Oddball (Elton Healey)]], along with androids of [[Beast (Henry McCoy)]], [[Black Panther (T’Challa)]], Captain America, Goliath (Hank Pym), [[Hulk (Bruce Banner)]], Iron Man, [[Quicksilver]], Namor, [[Thor (Thor Odinson)]], and Vision (“Victor Shade”), to analyze the Avengers’ powers, pitting his operatives against several Avengers members. Taskmaster briefly duplicated the powers of the Avengers [[Firestar]] and Justice using Albino’s technology, but he was defeated by the duo and Hawkeye, and his new powers apparently faded. <ref>Hawkeye: Earth's Mightiest Marksman #1</ref> When the Avengers began using proactive tactics, they targeted Taskmaster’s numerous academies, briefly putting a stop to his operations and denying criminals, terrorists and super villains a valuable resource; however, Taskmaster continued to elude them. <ref>Avengers #38 (2001)</ref>Taskmaster briefly employed Constrictor, [[Titania (Mary MacPherran)|Copycat (disguised as Titania/Mary MacPherran)]] and the “[[Deadpool Interns]]” — [[Deadair]], [[Deadend]], and [[Deadweight]] — to seek revenge on Deadpool. Afterwards, Taskmaster entered Madripoor’s Bloodsport tournament to help boost his price in training super villains, but was defeated by the telepathic mass murderer [[Mister X]].

=== Agency X ===
Trying to make up for the lost profit, Taskmaster returned to mercenary assignments and accepted [[Bain, Sunset|Sunset Bain]]’s commission to sabotage a semiconductor being built by Tony Stark. Taskmaster completed the assignment, but when Bain tried to have him killed, he tricked Triads gangs into attacking her, ultimately harming her organization enough that she finally called off her hit. During this time he became involved with [[Brandenberg, Sandi|Sandi Brandenberg]], but eventually broke it off; while they remained friends, he found it difficult to give her up. When Deadpool employed Sandi as a secretary, she brought Taskmaster in to aid him against the Black Swan. Taskmaster helped set Deadpool on the path to facing the Black Swan, and he also found time to execute Sandi’s then-boyfriend when he learned he had beaten her. When Deadpool seemingly died in an explosion battling the Black Swan, Sandi believed the amnesiac [[Agent X (Nijo)|Agent X (Alex Hayden)]] was Deadpool, and Taskmaster trained him on Sandi’s behalf, then aided Agent X and [[Outlaw (Inez Temple)]] when the [[Four Winds]] crime family clashed over Agency X’s property. Discovering Agent X was an amalgam of Black Swan's agent Nijo, Deadpool, and Black Swan, they arranged to restore themselves to normal, but when the Black Swan tried to double-cross them, Taskmaster, Outlaw, Sandi and the Eastern Wind helped Deadpool and Agent X defeat Black Swan.

=== Civil War ===
The [[Committee]], a cartel of financiers ostensibly dedicated to reviving the US economy through illegal activities, hired Taskmaster to assassinate vigilante [[Moon Knight (Marc Spector)]], who had been instrumental in defeating them in the past, after their agent the [[Profile]] determined that Moon Knight was without friends or determination. Taskmaster found that this was not the case, as Moon Knight’s friends came to aid him, and he tried to get out of his Committee deal, but Moon Knight pursued him to the Committee’s base and defeated him in battle. <ref>Moon Knight #3-6 (2006)</ref>

Arrested and imprisoned under unrevealed circumstances, Taskmaster was recruited for government service by the CSA during the “Civil War” between US super heroes following passage of the Superhuman Registration Act (SHRA). Assigned to the [[Thunderbolts]], Taskmaster joined other superhuman criminals in attacking Captain America’s anti-SHRA forces. Following Cap’s surrender, Taskmaster was re-arrested, but before being transferred to the [[Negative Zone]] prison 42 he was quickly released by Deadpool, who had hoped to re-establish his reputation by defeating Taskmaster in a public display of combat. <ref>Civil War #1-6</ref>

=== Initiative ===
SHIELD Commander [[Hill, Maria|Maria Hill]] gave Taskmaster a full presidential pardon after he helped test the defenses of a [[S.H.I.E.L.D.]] Helicarrier. The CSA then recruited him to train three clones of accidentally slain Fifty State Initiative cadet [[MVP]] in Spider-Man’s fighting style so they could become Initiative agents as the [[Scarlet Spiders]]. Afterwards, Taskmaster was assigned to [[Camp Hammond]] as the Fifty State Initiative recruit drill instructor, where his many students included [[Ant-Man (Eric O'Grady)]], [[Bengal (Duc No Tranh)]], [[Cloud 9 (Abigail Boylen)]], [[Crusader (Z’reg)]], [[Dragon Lord]], [[Geiger]], [[Komodo (Melati Kusama)]], [[Melee]], [[Rage]], [[Red 9]], [[Speedball (Earth-8101)|Speedball (Earth-8101)]]’s simian Robbie Baldwin), [[Stature]], [[3-D Man (Delroy Garrett)|Triathlon]] and [[Ultragirl]]. Later, super-criminals [[Firebrand (Russ Broxtel)]], [[King Cobra (Klaus Voorhees)]], [[Mauler (Brendan Doyle)]] and [[Mister Hyde]] made a failed attempt to kill the Taskmaster for joining the Initiative. When inept Initiative recruit [[Butterball]] was sent home, Taskmaster and Constrictor felt sorry for him and arranged a photo where it looked like Butterball defeated the pair in combat.

After the [[Secret Invasion|Skrull invasion]], the Initiative fell under the control of corrupt, unstable tycoon [[Osborn, Norman|Norman Osborn]]; he restructured it, assigned Taskmaster to the [[Shadow Initiative]] along with Bengal, Constructor, Komodo and [[Typhoid Mary|Mutant Zero]], and sent them to Madripoor to apprehend Initiative defector [[Hardball (Roger Brokeridge)]], who had joined Hydra. Completing the mission, the Shadow Initiative returned home to find Osborn replacing Camp Hammond with his new [[Camp HAMMER]]. Osborn placed Taskmaster and supernatural crime boss the [[Hood (Parker Robbins)]] in charge of the Initiative and began welcoming many active super-criminals into the organization. These new recruits were supposedly reformed, but Osborn would allow them to continue their criminal careers in secret as long as they posed as heroes in public, so Taskmaster and Hood trained many of these criminals in how to fake heroic behavior. Meanwhile, Taskmaster secretly helped Deadpool battle Osborn’s Thunderbolts as payback for Deadpool previously having helped Taskmaster escape prison.

}}
{{person}}
[[category:Avengers]]
[[category:Civil War]]
[[category:Initiative]]
[[category:Spider-Man]]
[[category:Thunderbolts]]
[[category:Villains]]

Taskmaster

2010-06-01T07:37:33Z

DragynWulf: Created page with '{{Powerbox| universe = Marvel Universe | real_name = Unrevealed | aliases = Captain America, Contingency T, Tony Masters | identity = Secret | occupation = Drill instructor…'

{{Powerbox|
universe = [[Marvel Universe]]
| real_name = Unrevealed
| aliases = Captain America, Contingency T, Tony Masters
| identity = Secret
| occupation = Drill instructor ,mercenary, teacher
| citizenship = U.S.A.
| place_of_birth = Bronx, New York City, New York
| relatives = Unidentified mother
| groups = None; formerly [[Cabal]], [[Initiative|Initiative Instructor]], [[Thunderbolts]], [[Agency X]], [[Frightful Four]], former agent of [[Hydra]] and the [[Red Skull (Johann Shmidt)|Red Skull]]
| education = High School
| height = 6' 2"
| weight = 220 lbs.
| eyes = Unrevealed
| hair = Brown
| powers = Taskmaster has no known superhuman powers. However, with the help of the [[Albino (Augusta Seger)|Albino]], Taskmaster briefly had the ability to mimic other peoples powers by studying them. This power ended up only being temporary due to the process being interrupted by [[Hawkeye (Clint Barton)|Hawkeye]], [[Firestar]], and [[Justice (Vance Astrovik)|Justice]].
| abilities = Taskmaster possesses photographic reflexes, which enables him to watch another person’s physical movements and duplicate them without practice, no matter how complex. This ability is only limited by the fact that he does not possess superhuman strength or other superhuman attributes.

Taskmaster has made extensive use of video tapes and movies to study the movements of superhuman adventurers, as well as athletes, marksmen, stunt performers, and soldiers. Thus he has gained a wide range of combat and acrobatic skills. These skills include, but are not limited to, all present day and many historical martial arts, boxing, wrestling, swordsmanship, archery, marksmanship, gymnastics, aerial acrobatics and sleight of hand.

Recently it has been discovered that Taskmaster also possesses photographic memory and voice impersonation.
| weapons = Taskmaster makes use of a variety of weapons. He frequently employs a throwing shield like [[Captain America (Steve Rogers)|Captain America]], a multipurpose billy club like [[Daredevil (Matthew Murdock)|Daredevil]], a bow which uses a variety of trick arrows like [[Hawkeye (Clint Barton)|Hawkeye]], a sword like [[Black Knight (Dane Whitman)|Black Knight]], and web-shooters like [[Spider-Man (Peter Parker)|Spider-Man]]. None of the copies are as high quality as the originals.
| paraphernalia = Taskmaster stole a generator from [[S.H.I.E.L.D.]] that can create shapes out of energy. Taskmaster uses this device to mimic Captain America’s shield, Spider-Man’s web-shooters and Wolverine’s claws. The generator is used primarily for mercenary missions along with a pair of semi-automatic handguns and a katana.
Taskmaster uses an image-inducer, with it he can change his physical appearance to anyone he wishes.
| debut = Avengers #195 (1980)
| origin = Avengers #196 (1980)
| significant_issues = First appearance and fought Avengers (Avengers #195-196, 1980); trained Super-Patriot (U.S.Agent) to be next Captain America (Captain America #334, 1987); briefly gained powers (Hawkeye: Earth's Mightiest Marksman #1, 1989); trained new [[Spymaster (Number One)|Spymaster]] and revealed to have trained original [[Spymaster (spy)|Spymaster]] (Iron Man #254, 1990); Crossbones, Diamondback and [[Anaconda]] shown to be students (Captain America #403, 1992); Avengers started shutting down academies (Avengers #38, 2001); began mercenary missions (Taskmaster #1-4, 2002); trained and fought [[Spider-Woman (Jessica Drew)|Spider-Woman]]
(Spider-Woman: Origin #2-3, 2006)
}}{{Headshot|
main_image=Taskmaster Head.jpg
}}{{bio|
bio_text= A prodigious savant of skills with mnemonic talents psychiatrists called “Photographic Reflexes,” Taskmaster has used his talent to become the Marvel Universe's premier trainer for the criminal world and government.

=== Origin ===
The man who would become the Taskmaster was born a prodigious savant of mnemonic talents. <ref>Dark Reign Files #1</ref> He discovered his unusual abilities in childhood when, after watching a cowboy television program, he found he could duplicate the rope tricks he had seen the actors perform. Growing to understand his ability, he saw a man perform a difficult backwards leap from a diving board; he duplicated the dive, but nearly drowned because he didn’t know how to swim. Afterwards, his mother called in psychiatrists who studied his ability, terming it “photographic reflexes.” He employed his talent several times during his youth for professional gain, most notably when he became a star quarterback of his high school football team after watching one pro football game. After graduating high school he contemplated becoming a crimefighter, but decided crime would be more lucrative.

=== Solomon Institute for the Criminally Insane ===
He then began a program of observing the fighting techniques of various super heroes and their techniques through archival television news broadcasts to expand his combat repertoire. Initially committing several grand larcenies, he decided it was smarter to avoid risking direct confrontation with law enforcers, and used his stolen capital to establish himself as a combat trainer for aspiring professional criminals, specializing in producing henchmen for super villains and criminal organizations around the world. Designing a costume, he took the moniker “Taskmaster”; one unidentified early graduate of his criminal academy would become espionage legend [[Spymaster (spy)|Spymaster]]. <ref>Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A-Z #11</ref> Taskmaster set up the [[Solomon Institute for the Criminally Insane]] as a front for one of his training academies, but its administrator [[Solomon, Pernell|Dr. Pernell Solomon]] developed heart problems and had Taskmaster’s science staff grow him a clone, Selbe, to harvest for a replacement organ; [[Selbe]] escaped and ran to the [[Avengers]], who exposed the operation with the aid of their ally [[Ant-Man (Scott Lang)]]. Taskmaster single-handedly held his own against both [[Captain America (Steve Rogers)]] and [[Iron Man (Anthony Stark)|Iron Man]] in combat; while tempted to test himself against all the Avengers, he realized that he would not be able to run his business from jail and fled after the unfamiliar abilities of obscure robotic Avengers associate [[Jocasta]] threw him off balance. <ref>Avengers #196</ref>

=== Early Adventures ===
Along with skull-crushing Canadian mercenary [[Farsa, Tyrell|Tyrell Farsa]] and telepathic mind-altering assassin [[Black Swan]], Taskmaster was hired to kill a militant group by an unrevealed country trying to maintain control of an airstrip. Upon completion of the mission, Farsa disrespected the cultured Black Swan by using his silk handkerchief, and Taskmaster assisted Farsa when the Black Swan attacked, but Black Swan defeated them both. <ref>Deadpool #65</ref> Taskmaster briefly joined the criminal [[Frightful Four]] with [[Wizard|Wizard (born Bentley Wittman)]], [[Deadpool (Wade Wilson)|Deadpool (“Wade Wilson”)]] and [[Constrictor]] to battle the [[Fantastic Four]], but when Deadpool went after [[Richards, Franklin|Franklin Richards]], Franklin proved to be more trouble than planned. When the Fantastic Four soon arrived home and Taskmaster, Wizard, and Constrictor left Deadpool to face the Fantastic Four alone, and this Frightful Four grouping disbanded soon after. <ref>Deadpool #35</ref>

Afterwards, Taskmaster went into hiding and continued to training others, including [[Crossbones|Brock Rumlow (later Crossbones]]), [[Anaconda|Blanche Sitznski (later Anaconda)]], [[Diamondback (Rachel Leighton)|Rachel Leighton (later Diamondback)]] and [[Snapdragon (Sheoke Sanada)|Sheoke Sanada (later Snapdragon)]]. [[Spider-Man (Peter Parker)]] and [[Ant-Man (Scott Lang)]] soon discovered another of Taskmaster’s schools and battled Taskmaster, preventing his theft of nuclear material. <ref>Marvel Team-Up #103</ref> [[Hawkeye (Clint Barton)]] and Ant-Man later exposed and halted Taskmaster’s use of the [[Carson Carnival of Traveling Wonders]] as a mobile recruiting center, <ref>Avengers #223</ref> and Spider-Man and [[Nomad (Jack Monroe)]] disrupted his recruiting street gangs for Black Abbott. <ref>Marvel Team-Up #146</ref>After battling the [[Thing (Benjamin Grimm)]] and [[Justice (Vance Astrovik)|Vance Astrovik (later Justice)]] in Ohio, Taskmaster was captured by FBI agents and taken into custody. <ref>Thing #26</ref>

Under the guise of John Smith, the [[Red Skull (Johann Shmidt)|Red Skull]] manipulated [[Rockwell, Douglas|Douglas Rockwell]], head of [[Commission on Superhuman Activities|CSA (Commission on Superhuman Activities)]], into reducing Taskmaster’s sentence in return for training [[U.S.Agent|John Walker (later USAgent)]] as the next Captain America to disgrace the image of Captain America. <ref>Captain America #334</ref> After completing this assignment, the Red Skull arranged for the Taskmaster’s escape so he could resume his operations. The Skull funded Taskmaster’s activities, and Taskmaster tutored multiple students in Captain America’s fighting style so that the Red Skull could kill them in his own training exercises in order to get his newly cloned body of Captain America in physical fighting shape for a confrontation with the Captain (Captain America, Steve Rogers) and Captain America (U.S. Agent, John Walker). Later, Taskmaster set up a new academy at Brooklyn, New York mausoleum where he battled Spider-Man, who believed Taskmaster had kidnapped his wife, [[Watson, Mary Jane|Mary Jane Watson-Parker]]; using a magnesium flare, Taskmaster escaped both capture and Spider-Man’s wrath.<ref>Amazing Spider-Man #308</ref> When the Spymaster was believed slain, unscrupulous industrialist [[Hammer, Justin|Justin Hammer]] hired Taskmaster to train a replacement. Taskmaster’s lethal elimination tests whittled the candidates down to one winner, [[Spymaster (Nathan Lemon)|Nathan Lemon]]. Taskmaster charged the new Spymaster to retrieve the golden angel ornament from atop of the Christmas tree at [[Stark Enterprises]] as a field test in order to graduate before sending him to Justin Hammer. Iron Man decided to let Spymaster walk away with the prize instead of endangering the lives of children in the area. <ref>Iron Man #254</ref>

Taskmaster briefly put his operations on hold when a faction of the Hand ninja cult created an assassination contest between Taskmaster and [[Tombstone]] to see who could kill the most targets. This led to a battle with vigilantes [[Daredevil (Matt Murdock)]] and [[Punisher (Frank Castle)]]; Taskmaster wound up with the Punisher’s knife in his stomach, and spent some time in a prison hospital recuperating. Taskmaster later resumed operations for the Red Skull and attended an assemblage of Red Skull’s division chiefs, which included [[Watchdog Prime]], [[Sin (Sinthea Shmidt)]], [[Zola, Arnim|Arnim Zola]], [[Minister Blood]], [[Power Broker (Curtiss Jackson)]], a [[Scourge of the Underworld]], the [[Resistants]]’ [[Crucible (Byron Calley)]], the [[Secret Empire]]’s Number Seven and [[Hydra]]’s [[Baron Strucker]]. When Crossbones took a leave of absence from the [[Skeleton Crew]], [[Mother Night]], claiming Red Skull requested the training, had Taskmaster train [[Cutthroat]] as his replacement.

Hired by the Red Skull to kill Spider-Man, Taskmaster took this opportunity to try out new graduates [[Blood Spider|Blood Spider (Michael Bingham)]], [[Death-shield|Death-shield (Timothy Karlskin)]], and [[Jagged Bow|Jagged Bow (Joe Emberlin)]], whom he had trained to be criminal versions of Spider-Man, Captain America and Hawkeye. Spider-Man and the anti-terrorist [[Solo (James Bourne)]] defeated the trio as Taskmaster escaped capture once again.

Afterwards, Taskmaster battled the [[Falcon (Sam Wilson)]] when he helped Tyrone McQuaid escape from one of Taskmaster’s academies; attended the [[Brass Bishop (Robert Brasman)]]’s criminal auction in Canada, where he fought Spider-Man and [[Alpha Flight]]; crossed swords with Daredevil, [[Stilt-Man (Wilbur Day)]], [[Tatterdemalion]] and the [[Wild Boys]] over restaurant grease believed to be worth half a million dollars; took on Spider-Man and [[Black Cat (Felicia Hardy)]] during a bank robbery training session; and testified as a character witness when super-criminal [[Trapster (Peter Petruski)]] tried to sue the criminal mechanic Tinkerer for faulty equipment.

When the amnesiac Earth-93060 (“[[Ultraforce (Earth-93060)|Ultraforce]]”) heroine [[Siren (Earth-93060)|Siren (Jennifer Pearson)]] was teleported into one of the academies, Taskmaster gave her an audition to join and eventually developed a relationship with her. Taskmaster also discovered that Diamondback, who had joined under the ruse that she desired more training, had double-crossed him by planting explosives around the academy. When the young mutant [[Jolt (Kyi)]], who desired to join Taskmaster’s academy, accidentally triggered one of the explosive devices, Taskmaster had Jolt open a portal large enough for Siren, Jolt and himself to escape. During the journey through the portal, Siren was sent back to her own dimension, Jolt teleported to an unrevealed location, and Taskmaster was pulled forward in time by a dimension-hopping madman as one of many criminals pitted against the Avengers and a distant cosmos’ heroes before being returned to his own time.

Taskmaster later kidnapped computer hacker and arms supplier [[Weasel (Jack Hammer)]] to retain his services, but after Deadpool defeated Taskmaster, Weasel declined this offer, though he offered his services in the future. Seeking his own death, the mysterious [[Architect]], last of the Shining Ones, arranged a contest involving [[Whiplash (Mark Scarlotti)|Blacklash (Mark Scarlotti)]], Boomerang, the mercenary [[Bullet]], [[Bushwacker]], [[Elektra|Elektra Natchios]], [[Fatale]], [[Machete (Alfonso Lopez)]], [[Razor-Fist (Douglas Scott)]], [[Shatterhead]] and [[Zaran, Maximillian|Maximillian Zaran]] to see which was fit to kill him. During the contest, Taskmaster overpowered Elektra using Daredevil’s fighting style, but she later returned and defeated him.

Later, Taskmaster hired [[Albino (Augusta Seger)]], a world renowned biologist specializing in mutagenics (the study of effects of human mutations) to help him duplicate super-powers. Taskmaster employed [[Batroc (Georges Batroc)]], [[Machete (Ferdinand Lopez)|Machete (Ferdinand Lopez, Alfonso’s brother)]], Zaran and [[Oddball (Elton Healey)]], along with androids of [[Beast (Henry McCoy)]], [[Black Panther (T’Challa)]], Captain America, Goliath (Hank Pym), [[Hulk (Bruce Banner)]], Iron Man, [[Quicksilver]], Namor, [[Thor (Thor Odinson)]], and Vision (“Victor Shade”), to analyze the Avengers’ powers, pitting his operatives against several Avengers members. Taskmaster briefly duplicated the powers of the Avengers [[Firestar]] and Justice using Albino’s technology, but he was defeated by the duo and Hawkeye, and his new powers apparently faded. <ref>Hawkeye: Earth's Mightiest Marksman #1</ref> When the Avengers began using proactive tactics, they targeted Taskmaster’s numerous academies, briefly putting a stop to his operations and denying criminals, terrorists and super villains a valuable resource; however, Taskmaster continued to elude them. <ref>Avengers #38 (2001)</ref>Taskmaster briefly employed Constrictor, [[Titania (Mary MacPherran)|Copycat (disguised as Titania/Mary MacPherran)]] and the “[[Deadpool Interns]]” — [[Deadair]], [[Deadend]], and [[Deadweight]] — to seek revenge on Deadpool. Afterwards, Taskmaster entered Madripoor’s Bloodsport tournament to help boost his price in training super villains, but was defeated by the telepathic mass murderer [[Mister X]].

=== Agency X ===
Trying to make up for the lost profit, Taskmaster returned to mercenary assignments and accepted [[Bain, Sunset|Sunset Bain]]’s commission to sabotage a semiconductor being built by Tony Stark. Taskmaster completed the assignment, but when Bain tried to have him killed, he tricked Triads gangs into attacking her, ultimately harming her organization enough that she finally called off her hit. During this time he became involved with [[Brandenberg, Sandi|Sandi Brandenberg]], but eventually broke it off; while they remained friends, he found it difficult to give her up. When Deadpool employed Sandi as a secretary, she brought Taskmaster in to aid him against the Black Swan. Taskmaster helped set Deadpool on the path to facing the Black Swan, and he also found time to execute Sandi’s then-boyfriend when he learned he had beaten her. When Deadpool seemingly died in an explosion battling the Black Swan, Sandi believed the amnesiac [[Agent X (Nijo)|Agent X (Alex Hayden)]] was Deadpool, and Taskmaster trained him on Sandi’s behalf, then aided Agent X and [[Outlaw (Inez Temple)]] when the [[Four Winds]] crime family clashed over Agency X’s property. Discovering Agent X was an amalgam of Black Swan's agent Nijo, Deadpool, and Black Swan, they arranged to restore themselves to normal, but when the Black Swan tried to double-cross them, Taskmaster, Outlaw, Sandi and the Eastern Wind helped Deadpool and Agent X defeat Black Swan.

=== Civil War ===
The [[Committee]], a cartel of financiers ostensibly dedicated to reviving the US economy through illegal activities, hired Taskmaster to assassinate vigilante [[Moon Knight (Marc Spector)]], who had been instrumental in defeating them in the past, after their agent the [[Profile]] determined that Moon Knight was without friends or determination. Taskmaster found that this was not the case, as Moon Knight’s friends came to aid him, and he tried to get out of his Committee deal, but Moon Knight pursued him to the Committee’s base and defeated him in battle. <ref>Moon Knight #3-6 (2006)</ref>

Arrested and imprisoned under unrevealed circumstances, Taskmaster was recruited for government service by the CSA during the “Civil War” between US super heroes following passage of the Superhuman Registration Act (SHRA). Assigned to the [[Thunderbolts]], Taskmaster joined other superhuman criminals in attacking Captain America’s anti-SHRA forces. Following Cap’s surrender, Taskmaster was re-arrested, but before being transferred to the [[Negative Zone]] prison 42 he was quickly released by Deadpool, who had hoped to re-establish his reputation by defeating Taskmaster in a public display of combat. <ref>Civil War #1-6</ref>

=== Initiative ===
SHIELD Commander [[Hill, Maria|Maria Hill]] gave Taskmaster a full presidential pardon after he helped test the defenses of a [[S.H.I.E.L.D.]] Helicarrier. The CSA then recruited him to train three clones of accidentally slain Fifty State Initiative cadet [[MVP]] in Spider-Man’s fighting style so they could become Initiative agents as the [[Scarlet Spiders]]. Afterwards, Taskmaster was assigned to [[Camp Hammond]] as the Fifty State Initiative recruit drill instructor, where his many students included [[Ant-Man (Eric O'Grady)]], [[Bengal (Duc No Tranh)]], [[Cloud 9 (Abigail Boylen)]], [[Crusader (Z’reg)]], [[Dragon Lord]], [[Geiger]], [[Komodo (Melati Kusama)]], [[Melee]], [[Rage]], [[Red 9]], [[Speedball (Earth-8101)|Speedball (Earth-8101)]]’s simian Robbie Baldwin), [[Stature]], [[3-D Man (Delroy Garrett)|Triathlon]] and [[Ultragirl]]. Later, super-criminals [[Firebrand (Russ Broxtel)]], [[King Cobra (Klaus Voorhees)]], [[Mauler (Brendan Doyle)]] and [[Mister Hyde]] made a failed attempt to kill the Taskmaster for joining the Initiative. When inept Initiative recruit [[Butterball]] was sent home, Taskmaster and Constrictor felt sorry for him and arranged a photo where it looked like Butterball defeated the pair in combat.

After the [[Secret Invasion|Skrull invasion]], the Initiative fell under the control of corrupt, unstable tycoon [[Osborn, Norman|Norman Osborn]]; he restructured it, assigned Taskmaster to the [[Shadow Initiative]] along with Bengal, Constructor, Komodo and [[Typhoid Mary|Mutant Zero]], and sent them to Madripoor to apprehend Initiative defector [[Hardball (Roger Brokeridge)]], who had joined Hydra. Completing the mission, the Shadow Initiative returned home to find Osborn replacing Camp Hammond with his new [[Camp HAMMER]]. Osborn placed Taskmaster and supernatural crime boss the [[Hood (Parker Robbins)]] in charge of the Initiative and began welcoming many active super-criminals into the organization. These new recruits were supposedly reformed, but Osborn would allow them to continue their criminal careers in secret as long as they posed as heroes in public, so Taskmaster and Hood trained many of these criminals in how to fake heroic behavior. Meanwhile, Taskmaster secretly helped Deadpool battle Osborn’s Thunderbolts as payback for Deadpool previously having helped Taskmaster escape prison.

}}
{{person}}
[[category:Avengers]]
[[category:Civil War]]
[[category:Initiative]]
[[category:Spider-Man]]
[[category:Thunderbolts]]
[[category:Villains]]

Brass Bishop (disambiguation)

2010-06-01T07:30:51Z

DragynWulf:

{{disambig}}
<div class="full_border" align="center" style="margin-left: 4px;margin-right: 4px;">
There are multiple individuals who have used this name in the Marvel Universe.

<gallery>
image:image_not_available.gif|[[Brass Bishop (Benedicto de vica Severtes)]] - spanish bishop, build a armor of brass so [[Mephisto]] wouldn't find him
image:BrassBishop_Head.jpg|[[Brass Bishop (Robert Brasman)]] - leader of [[Chess Set]]
</gallery>
</div>

Hood

2010-06-01T07:28:48Z

DragynWulf: moved Hood to Hood (Parker Robbins)

#REDIRECT [[Hood (Parker Robbins)]]

Hood (Parker Robbins)

2010-06-01T07:28:48Z

DragynWulf: moved Hood to Hood (Parker Robbins)

{{Powerbox|
universe = [[Marvel Universe]]
| blurb =
| real_name = Parker Robbins
| aliases = None
| identity = Secret
| occupation = Adventurer, petty criminal
| citizenship = U.S.A.
| place_of_birth = Brooklyn, New York City, New York

| relatives = Arthur Robbins (father, deceased), Eliza Robbins (mother), John King (cousin), unidentified child
| groups = None
| education = High school dropout
| height = 5'10"
| weight = 165 lbs.
| eyes = Brown
| hair = Brown
| powers = None
| abilities = Invisibility (with mystical cloak), ability to walk on air (with boots), ability to discharge electrical energy through hands (because of his garments)
| weapons = Twin Pistols
| paraphernalia = cloak which allows him to turn invisible while he holds his breath, boots in which he can walk on air, garments that allow him to discharge energy through his hand
| debut = Hood #1 (2002)
| origin =
| significant_issues = masters of evil (2009)T
}}{{Headshot|
main_image= Hood.jpg
}}{{bio|
bio_text= As a young boy, Parker Robbins witnessed a battle between [[Daredevil (Matthew Murdock)|Daredevil]] and [[Electro (Maxwell Dillon)|Electro]]. Fascinated by the event, Robbins grew up to become a petty thief, often working with his cousin, John King. After his father died, Robbins took care of his mentally ill mother, ultimately placing her in the Bridgeside Psychiatric Care Center. Robbins needed money to support not only his mother, but his pregnant girlfriend Sara as well. When King told him about a burglary job he was going to perform at a warehouse, Robbins joined in. However, when they arrived, they found the warehouse empty, except for some mystical markings and candles surrounding them. They were attacked by a [[Glossary:D#demon|demonic]] creature called the Nisanti, but Robbins shot it in the head. Believing the cloak and boots the creature wore to be expensive, Robbins absconded with them, and left the believed-dead Nisanti behind. Later that night, Robbins encountered a group of thugs and tried to outrun them. To his astonishment, the Nisanti’s boots caused him to run onto thin air, and he escaped his assailants.

He went to his cousin’s apartment shortly thereafter and learned he could also become invisible while wearing the cloak. He initially used this new ability to pursue more petty thefts, but King convinced him to steal a black-market diamond shipment, unaware it belonged to crimelord Dennis Golembuski, a.k.a. the [[Golem (Dennis Golembuski)|Golem]]. Robbins easily stole the jewels despite Golembuski’s agents — [[Constrictor]], [[Shocker (Herman Schultz)|Shocker]], and [[Jack O'Lantern (Steven Levins)|Jack O'Lantern ]] — but was surprised by two police officers and accidentally shot and fatally wounded one. Identified as the Hood, Robbins found himself wanted by both Golumbuski and the FBI. He also found his supernatural garments at times caused him to lose control over his new powers.

As the Hood, Robbins confronted the Golem, and offered him a deal in return for the diamonds. Golumbuski agreed, planning to double-cross the Hood. He sent his agents, including [[Madam Rapier]], to meet with the Hood, but Robbins had brought along a cloak resembling his own. After defeating Rapier, he forced her to put on the second cloak, and the police — believing her to be the Hood — shot her dead. Robbins confronted the Golem’s remaining henchmen and gave them the diamonds before demanding that Golumbuski leave him alone. Despite being reported as dead, the Hood made various enemies, including [[White Fang]] (the widow of the slain policeman) and the Nisanti, which had reawakened some time after Robbins’ encounter with it. Shaken by his experiences, Robbins visited his institutionalized mother and promised her that he would use his new abilities to help others.

}}
{{person}}
[[category:Villains]]

Weasel

2010-06-01T07:25:12Z

DragynWulf: moved Weasel to Weasel (Jack Hammer)

#REDIRECT [[Weasel (Jack Hammer)]]

Weasel (Jack Hammer)

2010-06-01T07:25:12Z

DragynWulf: moved Weasel to Weasel (Jack Hammer)

{{Powerbox|
universe = [[Marvel Universe]]
| blurb =
| real_name = Jack Hammer
| aliases = Weas, Penetrator, Penetraitor, "Deadpool's Whipping Boy"
| identity = Known to authorities
| occupation = Information broker; former [[Hydra]] Sector Commander
| citizenship = U.S.A., with a criminal record
| place_of_birth = Queens, New York
| relatives = John Hammer (father), Virginia Hammer (mother), Juan (cousin)
| groups = Formerly Hydra
| education = Unrevealed degree from Empire State University, New York; he claims to have attended Cal-Polytech
| height = 5'7"
| weight = 130 lbs.
| eyes = Brown
| hair = Black
| powers =
| abilities = A talented information broker, Weasel is adept at operating and hacking computers. He is also a skilled designer and creator of advanced technological devices, such as his Penetrator teleportation armor, and his access to exotic weaponry, like [[Pym Particles]]. He is also a capable marksman, who is skilled in the use of a variety of weaponry.
| weapons =
| paraphernalia =
| debut = Deadpool: Circle of Chase #1 (1993)
| origin =
| significant_issues =
}}{{Headshot|
main_image= Ohitsme--Weasel HD.jpg
}}{{bio|
bio_text= Perpetually messy and girl crazy Jack Hammer, who claims that his entire family is in jail, was a genius student who attended Empire State University, but lost his way through unrevealed circumstances, eventually becoming a wayward information broker and arms dealer named "Weasel," who killed a man at some point in unrevealed circumstances. He eventually met mercenary [[Deadpool]] (Wade Wilson), the pair became friends, working together for time-traveling arms merchant, [[Genesis|Tolliver]] (Tyler Dayspring), and sharing an unrevealed significant experience at Niagara Falls. While plying his trade in war-torn Sarajevo, Weasel help Deadpool in his hunt for Tolliver's will, rescuing him from the [[Executive Elite]] before learning the location of Tolliver's vault in Nepal, where the cyborg [[Slayback]] sought revenge on Deadpool for past transgressions; Weasel activated the weapons-neutralizing [[Zero]] android, which ended the conflict. As weapon supplier for Deadpool, Weasel often assisted him in his assignments from the [[Hellhouse]], but was eventually offered a full-time contract by the [[Taskmaster]]. Deadpool and Taskmaster fought for Weasel's services, Deadpool's unpredictability allowed him to win the bout, and he celebrated his victory by giving Weasel a wedgie. Weasel later won [[Deuce]] "the Devil-Dog" from "[[Nelson, Foggy|Foggy]]" Nelson in a poker game, and he soon began visiting Deadpool's housemate/prisoner [[Blind Al]] without Deadpool's knowledge. During a confrontation with the [[Great Lakes Avengers]], Deadpool's teleportation belt interacted with [[Doorman]] (DeMarr Davis)'s teleportation ability, sending Al and Deadpool through time, diverging Reality-9712, where Deadpool (disguised as Peter Parker) had that reality's Weasel repair his teleportation belt, while Weasel worked with [[Flatman]] (Val Ventura) and Doorman in the present to eventually recover them. When Deadpool became aware of Weasel's visits with Al, he became irate with Weasel, and locked him in a torture room. After his escape Weasel went into hiding, and returned to freelance work. While in seclusion he began developing his own personal teleportation device.
}}
{{person}}

Oddball (Elton Healey)

2010-06-01T07:21:39Z

DragynWulf: Created page with '{{Powerbox| universe = Marvel Universe | real_name = Elton Healey | identity = Publicly known | occupation = Criminal, mercenary, juggler | place_of_birth = Reno, Nevada |…'

{{Powerbox|
universe = [[Marvel Universe]]
| real_name = Elton Healey
| identity = Publicly known
| occupation = Criminal, mercenary, juggler
| place_of_birth = Reno, Nevada
| groups = [[Death-Throws]], (formerly) [[Masters of Evil]], agent of [[Crossfire]]
| citizenship = U.S.A.
| education = Unrevealed
| aliases = None
| relatives = Alvin Healey ([[Tenpin]], brother)
| height = 5’11”
| weight = 195 lbs.
| eyes = Green
| hair = Brown
| powers = None
| abilities = Oddball possess no real super powers, but his great skill in juggling brightly colored balls both dazzles and impresses onlookers.
| weapons = Oddball uses a variety of specially-designed gimmick weapons disguised as brighly-colored balls. Among his repertoire are smoke balls, knock-out balls, acid balls, spiked balls, fire balls, and the more common weighted balls that nonetheless deliver significant damage.
| paraphernalia = None
| debut = Hawkeye #3 (1983)
| origin =
| significant_issues =
}}{{Headshot|
|main_image= Oddball.jpg
}}{{bio|
bio_text= Not much is known about the early life of the Healey brothers, Elton and Alvin. Presumably, the criminal [[Ringleader]] contacted the pair after seeing their incredible skill in juggling and persuaded them to help form the [[Death-Throws]]. Elton took the name Oddball, due partly to his loony nature and bizarre patter, while Alvin became [[Tenpin]].

Oddball briefly broke company with the Death-Throws to have a career as a super villain outside the group setting-- finding employ with the villainous cyborg [[Crossfire]]. There, he and demolitions expert [[Bombshell]] were assigned to capture the [[Hawkeye (Clint Barton)|Hawkeye]] and [[Mockingbird]] to use in a subversive plan to rid New York of its superhuman crime fighters. The heroes defeated their opponents, who were bailed out by Tenpin. Oddball taught Bombshell the art of jugglery in order to win her affections, and she Bombshell became so accomplished so quickly that she was invited to join the Death-Throws as well.

Oddball served with the Death-Throws on their subsequent outings, clashing with Hawkeye and [[Captain America (Steve Rogers)|Captain America]]. They also attempted, with numerous other villains, to collect a bounty on Hawkeye’s arm, but Hawkeye escaped.

He also continued to break away from his team at various times to pursue individual crimes. One such interest led Oddball to join with [[Doctor Octopus (Otto Octavius)|Doctor Octopus]]' incarnation of the [[Masters of Evil]], which was promptly defeated by the [[Guardians of the Galaxy]]. His final outing was also quite deadly. He participated in the Bloodsport tournament recently held by the [[Viper (Madame Hydra)|Viper]] on [[Madripoor]]. He was paired for competition with the [[Headhunter]], who defeated Oddball with one fell stroke, killing him.
}}
{{person}}
[[category:People]]
[[category:Villains]]
[[category:Deceased]]

Albino (Augusta Seger)

2010-06-01T07:17:59Z

DragynWulf: Reverted edits by Spideys Girl (Talk) to last revision by DragynWulf

{{Powerbox|
universe = Marvel Universe
| real_name = Augusta Seger
| identity = Known to the authorities
| real_name = Augusta Seger
| occupation = Biologist (Mutagenics Specialist)
| place_of_birth = Unrevealed
| groups = Former employee of [[Taskmaster]]
| citizenship = Unrevealed
| education = Unrevealed
| aliases = Unrevealed
| relatives = Unrevealed
| height = Unrevealed
| weight = Unrevealed
| eyes = Unrevealed
| hair = Blonde
| abilities = Unrevealed
| powers = None
| paraphernalia =
| debut = Hawkeye: Earth's Mightiest Marksman #1
| origin = Hawkeye: Earth's Mightiest Marksman #1
| significant_issues = First appearance (Hawkeye: Earth's Mightiest Marksman #1)
}}{{Headshot|
main_image=Image_not_available.gif
}}{{bio|
bio_text=

Albino was hired by [[Taskmaster]] to give him the power to duplicate the powers of others. The process failed when it was interrupted by [[Hawkeye (Clint Barton)|Hawkeye]], [[Firestar]] and [[Justice (Vance Astrovik)|Justice]] and Albino was captured and taken into custody.

}}
{{person}}
[[category:Villains]]
[[category:Avengers]]
[[category:Women]]

Fatale

2010-06-01T07:17:15Z

DragynWulf:

{{stub}}
{{Powerbox|
universe = [[Marvel Universe]]
| blurb =
| real_name = Unrevealed
| aliases = Pamela Greenwood, Amy Johnson, Scarlet McKenzie
| identity =
| occupation = mutant, assassin
| citizenship =
| place_of_birth =
| relatives =
| groups = [[X-Cell]]; formerly [[Brotherhood of Mutants]]
| education =
| height =
| weight =
| eyes =
| hair =
| powers = She has the ability to teleport herself and others.
| abilities =
| weapons =
| paraphernalia =
| debut =
| origin = X-Factor #112
| significant_issues = X-Men #48, Elektra #5, X-Men Unlimited #10, Uncanny X-Men Annual 1997, X-Factor #18
}}{{Headshot|
main_image=Fatale442.jpg
}}{{bio|
bio_text= Fatale is a mutant assassin, once an agent of [[Dark Beast]], and later joined the [[Brotherhood of Mutants]].

Recently, she joined [[X-Cell]], a new terrorist group that blames the government for after [[House of M|M-Day]].
}}
{{person}}
[[category:X-Men]]
[[category:Women]]
[[category:Mutants]]
[[category:Villains]]

Power Broker

2010-06-01T07:03:30Z

DragynWulf: moved Power Broker to Power Broker (Curtiss Jackson)

#REDIRECT [[Power Broker (Curtiss Jackson)]]

Power Broker (Curtiss Jackson)

2010-06-01T07:03:30Z

DragynWulf: moved Power Broker to Power Broker (Curtiss Jackson)

{{Powerbox|
universe =[[Marvel Universe]]
| blurb =
| real_name = Curtiss Jackson
| aliases =
| identity = Publicly Known
| occupation = Villain
| citizenship = U.S.A.
| place_of_birth = Unrevealed location
| relatives = Unidentified parents
| groups = Power Broker, Inc.
| education =
| height =
| weight = approximately a ton
| eyes =
| hair = Black
| powers = Super Strength
| abilities = Power Broker Wears an exo-skeleton that allows him to fly
| weapons = Power Broker has weapons such as claws and lazers
| paraphernalia =
| debut = Machine Man #7 (1978)
| origin =
| significant_issues =
}}{{Headshot|
main_image= [[Image:Power Broker.jpg]]
}}{{bio|
bio_text= Curtiss Jackson is the founder of Power Broker, Inc. which would increase the strength of paying individuals. A few well known individuals who received treatment were [[U.S.Agent]], [[Ms. Marvel|Sharon Ventura]], and [[Battlestar]]. One of Jackson's scientists Dr. Karl Malus performed experiments on superhuman individuals. Some paying individuals treatment had terrible results, and the failures were dump in the sewers. [[Captain America]] and [[Night Shift]] teamed up to bring these patients back to Jackson for a cure. After curing the patients Mr. Jackson was taken into custody. After Mr. Jackson's release from jail he increased his own strength making him so large he couldn't move on his own, so he created an exo-skeleton which not only allowed him to move, but also gave him flight. With his new found abilities he went under the name Power Broker. Realizing that going under the treatment was a mistake he rehired Dr. Karl Malus to find a cure. Before a cure was made U.S.Agent and Battlestar defeated Power Broker and destroyed Dr. Malus's equipment leaving Power Broker with his superstrength.
}}
{{person}}
[[category:Villains]]

Triathlon

2010-06-01T05:54:23Z

DragynWulf: moved Triathlon to 3-D Man (Delroy Garrett)

#REDIRECT [[3-D Man (Delroy Garrett)]]

3-D Man (Delroy Garrett)

2010-06-01T05:54:23Z

DragynWulf: moved Triathlon to 3-D Man (Delroy Garrett)

{{Powerbox|
universe = [[Marvel Universe]]
| real_name = Delroy Garrett, Jr.
| identity = Publicly known
| occupation = Adventurer; former spokesman, Olympic athlete
| place_of_birth = Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
| groups = Initiative Trainees; formerly [[Secret Avengers]], [[Avengers]], Triune Understanding
| citizenship = United States of America
| education = Unrevealed, includes extensive Triune teachings
| aliases = 3-D Man
| relatives = None
| height = 6'3"
| weight = 200 lbs.
| eyes = Brown
| hair = Black
| powers = Triathlon's physical abilities are all enhanced to roughly three times peak human potential, notably his strength, speed, agility and sensory acuity.
| abilities = A veteran track & field athlete, Delroy has also taken some acting lessons from Avengers teammate Wonder Man for use in undercover work.
| debut = Avengers #8 (1998)
| origin =
| significant_issues =
}}{{Headshot|
|main_image=Triathlon.jpg
}}
{{bio|
bio_text= A gifted young sprinter, Delroy Garrett, Jr. won three Olympic gold medals before he was exposed as a steroid user. Stripped of his awards and livelihood, Garrett sought new direction in the Triune Understanding, a philosophical movement that preaches the fulfillment of one's innate potential by balancing various aspects of environment and self. Developing a superhuman triple-powered physique, Garrett believed the Triune teachings had unlocked his latent powers, and he became the costumed hero Triathlon while serving as a celebrity spokesman for the Triune Understanding. Aiding the Avengers against Moses Magnum, Triathlon worked well with the group, but tensions arose after unscrupulous Triune leader Jonathan Tremont began a secret smear campaign against the Avengers as part of a Triune publicity ploy, painting the Avengers as religiously intolerant and racially biased.

Unaware of Tremont's true nature and secret plans, Delroy began to believe that the increasingly hostile Avengers might be intolerant, even racist; but the feud came to an unexpected end when the Avengers' government liaison Duane Freeman-another Triune follower-convinced the Avengers to recruit Triathlon, since he was a capable hero whose visible minority status and Triune background would help defuse much of the group's negative publicity. Determined to prove the Avengers wrong about the Triunes, Triathlon joined the team. Wary of his fellow Avengers and resenting the circumstances of his recruitment, Delroy was a bitter and disruptive presence at first; but he gradually became a valued and enthusiastic Avenger, thanks in part to advice and support from Warbird and Pulsar.

Teaming with Tremont to confront the cosmic menace known as the [[Triple-Evil]], the Avengers learned that Tremont had founded the Triunes to face the Triple-Evil; that he had smeared the Avengers' reputation as part of his efforts to amass Triune influence; that only three scattered cosmic energy shards formed by the universe as "cosmic antibodies" could neutralize the Triple-Evil; and that two of these shards had come to Earth, where one empowered the [[3-D Man]] (a triple-powered 1950s hero formed by the merger of brothers Hal and Chuck Chandler) and another empowered Tremont, who secretly captured 3-D Man in recent times and merged him into unwitting Triune follower Delroy. Having found the third energy shard in space while facing the Triple-Evil, Tremont tried to take all three shards for himself, but Delroy-still merged with the now-conscious Chandlers-absorbed all three shards.

With his newly cosmic power, Triathlon banished the Triple-Evil and helped liberate Earth from Kang; he then gave up his cosmic powers-which had been fuelled by the souls of the Triple-Evil's countless victims-and used the last of his cosmic energy to restore the Chandlers to their separate human forms, regaining his own normal form in the process. Declining to participate in the Triunes' reorganization after Tremont's death in battle with the forces of Kang, Triathlon soon left the Avengers as well, though he has returned to aid them against threats such as Scorpio and an insane Scarlet Witch.
}}
{{person}}
[[category:Heroes]]
[[category:Avengers]]
[[category:Civil War]]
[[category:Initiative]]

Talk:3-D Man

2010-06-01T05:53:19Z

DragynWulf: moved Talk:3-D Man to Talk:3-D Man (Chandler)

#REDIRECT [[Talk:3-D Man (Chandler)]]

3-D Man

2010-06-01T05:53:19Z

DragynWulf: moved 3-D Man to 3-D Man (Chandler)

#REDIRECT [[3-D Man (Chandler)]]

Talk:3-D Man (Chandler)

2010-06-01T05:53:19Z

DragynWulf: moved Talk:3-D Man to Talk:3-D Man (Chandler)

When did 3-D Man join the All-Winners Squad? The Squad wasn't active in the 50's, was it? --[[User:Danny Waah!|Danny Waah!]] 17:44, 10 May 2006 (EDT)

They were active during WWII. My history isnt as good as it used to be but i believe WWII was the 30's to the 50's or something like that.

IIRC, they were active after WWII, since the Invaders had no reason to be "invading" anything anymore. But WW II ended in 1945, and the Squad's activities remain largely unrevealed, it's generally considered that they faded away by the times the 50's rolled around. The 3-D Man is, however, definately a product of the 50's and was not involved in any team. (Except for the alternate-reality Avengers that was wiped from existence by Immortus and the Forever Crystal. The fact that the timeline "officially" never existed makes me want to take issue with the category "Avengers" for 3-D Man as well, but that's another arguement.) --[[User:Danny Waah!|Danny Waah!]] 18:01, 10 May 2006 (EDT)

== What If... ==

The bio lists What If...#8 as a significant issue. I'm not deletin that part yet because I haven't read that issue, but alternate reality stories aren't supposed to be mentioned in the bios for characters from a different reality. [[User:sononsj|sononsj]] 17:52, 20 May 2006 (EDT)

Well, if Stuart Vandal edited the entry to move the mention of a 1950's team to a footnote, then I think it's appropriate to delete the What If issue. FWIW, the issue was an inventory story that left the question of its "historical" accuracy open-ended. It was one of those "if it doesn't conflict, leave it in" issues, but 3-D Man did, in fact, join a team called the Avengers as shown in Avengers Forever only to have this timeline erased from existence, confirming at last that the 1950's Avengers team wasn't the 616 timeline. --[[User:Danny Waah!|Danny Waah!]] 18:58, 20 May 2006 (EDT)

I'm gonna delete it then. [[User:sononsj|sononsj]] 19:19, 20 May 2006 (EDT)

Never mind; I hadn't noticed you'd already done that. [[User:sononsj|sononsj]] 19:20, 20 May 2006 (EDT)

3-D Man (Chandler)

2010-06-01T05:53:18Z

DragynWulf: moved 3-D Man to 3-D Man (Chandler)

{{Powerbox|
universe = [[Marvel Universe]]
| real_name = Charles Chandler & Hal Chandler
| identity = Secret
| occupation = Research scientist (Hal Chandler);test pilot, adventurer (Chuck Chandler)
| place_of_birth = Los Angeles, California
| groups = None
| citizenship = U.S.A.
| education = High school graduate; military training (Chuck Chandler only)
| aliases = None
| relatives = Peggy Chandler (Hal’s wife)
| height = 6'2"
| weight = 200 lbs.
| eyes = (Hal) Brown, (Chuck) Blue, (3-D Man) Obscured by red/green goggles
| hair = (Hal) Gray, (Chuck) Reddish-blonde, (3-D Man) Unrevealed
| powers = Through concentration, Hal could merge the images of his brother imprinted on his glasses and thus cause his brother Chuck to reappear as a three-dimensional man, clad in an altered version of his experimental flight suit and endowed with physical abilities roughly three times greater than those of an ordinary human. Hal would fall into a trance-like state when Chuck appeared, and Chuck could only exist in the three-dimensional world for three hours at a time, after which Hal had to revive.

As the 3-D Man, Chandler possessed roughly three times the physical abilities and sensory acuity of an ordinary human in peak condition and is capable of slightly superhuman strength and speed. His stamina, durability, agility and reflexes are also estimated to be superhuman, namely roughly triple that of a human in peak physical condition. He could also sense [[Skrulls]] no matter what form they took.
| abilities = Chuck Chandler was an accomplished U.S. Air Force officer.
| weapons = None
| paraphernalia = None
| debut = Marvel Premiere # 35 (1977)
| origin = Marvel Premiere # 35
| significant_issues = Marvel Premiere #35-37; Incredible Hulk #251-252; Contest of Champions #1-3; Avengers Forever #3-6; Avengers #50, 51-55
}}{{Headshot|
|main_image= 3dman442.jpg
}}{{bio|
bio_text= The 3-D Man was a 1950's hero who came about through the unique merger of two brothers, Hal and Chuck Chandler. Chuck was a test pilot who was abducted by alien [[Skrulls]] during an important test flight. Earth was seen as a strategic location in the ongoing conflict between the alien [[Kree]] and [[Skrull Empires]], so the Skrulls were seeking information on Earth's space program and had captured Chuck to interrogate him. Chuck resisted and escaped, accidentally causing the explosion of the Skrull spacecraft in the process. While his brother Hal watched, the radiation from the explosion seemingly disintegrated Chuck, who disappeared in a burst of light. Hal later discovered, however, that the light burst had imprinted an image of Chuck on each lens of Hal's eyeglasses. Through concentration, Hal could merge the images and cause Chuck to reappear as a three-dimensional man. Chuck become the costumed adventurer known as the 3-D Man and single-handedly subverted the Skrulls' early attempts to undermine Earthly civilization.

Hal would remain comatose whenever the 3-D Man was active but remained aware of the 3-D Man's activities through a mental link. Later, a Skrull's ray weapon altered the transformation so that Hal was the 3-D Man's dominant consciousness for some time. Both brothers' minds seemed to be present in the 3-D Man at all times, but only one of them (usually Chuck) would be in conscious control of the 3-D Man's form on any given occasion.

After a brief career as a costumed adventurer, Hal decided to retire the 3-D Man, partly because he was thinking about starting a family, and partly because he was afraid his brother's consciousness might somehow be lost during periods when Hal was the 3-D Man's dominant consciousness. Hal settled down into a career as a research scientist, got married to Chuck's former girlfriend, and raised two sons. He had only activated the 3-D Man twice in recent years, once to fight a rampaging [[Hulk]]. During this time as 3-D Man, Chuck seemed to be its dominant consciousness again.

More recently, Hal began to feel a strange impulse to travel to the Himalayan Mountains of India. Unbeknownst to him, the presence of a powerful mystical artifact was calling to him. The artifact was a pyramid-shaped shard of light, one of three such shards that were created by the universe in reaction to the presence of pure evil that was cast adrift in this dimension by the extradimensional gods known as the [[Trion]]. One of these shards was captured by the Skrulls who had abducted Chuck Chandler, and its energies had merged with Chuck in creating the 3-D Man.

[[image: 3dman01.jpg|thumb|left|200px]]Chandler also heard the call of the other shard and mounted an expedition to find it. He was betrayed, however, by [[Tremont, Jonothan|Jonathan Tremont]], one of the expedition's guides, who claimed the shard for himself. Hal was held captive by Tremont for many years, and Tremont used the power of his shard to create the religious organization called the [[Triune Understanding]]. Tremont had discovered the true origin of the shards and hoped to use the Understanding to end the threat of the Trion's cast-off evil, which he termed the "Triple-Evil."

Tremont also sought out alternate weapons against the Triple-Evil. He used the power of the shard that was internalized in Hal Chandler to release the powers within a new follower, Delroy Garrett Junior, creating the superhuman champion [[Triathlon]]. Triathlon unknowingly held the essence of both Hal and Chuck within himself.

Ultimately, Tremont and the hero team [[Avengers]] (which now included Triathlon among their members) fought the Triple-Evil and the aliens it had corrupted. Tremont sensed that he might overwhelm the power of the Triple-Evil, to use it for himself to become as a god, and then to reward himself with dominion over all the Earth. Instead, Triathlon found the remaining third shard and, coupling it with the power within him as personified in the 3-D Man, he wrested control of the shard used by Tremont. Using all three shards, a Triathlon/Hal Chandler/Chuck Chandler amalgamation emerged and was able to destroy the Triple-Evil.

Triathlon/3-D Man used the pyramid that once housed the Triple-Evil to return the Avengers to Earth, which had since been conquered by the time-traveling [[Kang]]. They used the power of the pyramid, channeling the energies of all those fall to its assault for millennia, to fight back and ultimately Kang was defeated.

Triathlon returned to Peggy Chandler, separating himself from Hal and Chuck and restoring both of them to physical form. Triathlon found his triple-powers had remained, although Hal and Chuck no longer possessed the power to transform into 3-D Man.

Note: In at least one timeline, a team of adventurers known as the [[1950's Avengers|Avengers]] briefly formed in the 1950's before disbanding at the request of the President, who felt the public wasn't ready to learn of them and their exploits. The 3-D Man was part of that short-lived Avengers team, and their rescue of the President from [[Yellow Claw]] helped dispel the 3-D Man's reputation as a dangerous outlaw thanks to the President's influence.

}}
{{person}}
[[category:People]]
[[category:Heroes]]
[[category:Avengers]]
[[category:Golden Age]]

3-D Man (Chandler)

2010-06-01T05:52:44Z

DragynWulf:

Talk:Moon Knight

2010-06-01T05:42:09Z

DragynWulf: moved Talk:Moon Knight to Talk:Moon Knight (Marc Spector)

#REDIRECT [[Talk:Moon Knight (Marc Spector)]]

Talk:Moon Knight (Marc Spector)

2010-06-01T05:42:09Z

DragynWulf: moved Talk:Moon Knight to Talk:Moon Knight (Marc Spector)

The new Moon Knight book is sweet. The second issue was a little confusing but I think it is going to be a quality series. I really hope this book works out for a while. I hate the mini-series books. I would much rather read a book that is on-going. If you haven't read it yet, check it out.

== Moon Knight ==

I'm 22 years old and I haven't given a second look to a comic book store in years. Sure I watched the super hero movies that have come out lately, but it never sparked any interest in the characters I grew up with. However... Recently I discovered Moon Knight had gotten a new comic line for himself and I wanted to check it out (he was a childhood favorite of mine from the early 90s when I was just in elementary school). I went out a bought issue 1. It was dark, it was depressing, it was SWEET! So now i'm here with all 3 issues, the director's cut AND the essential book for Moon Knight.
Moon Knight has re-sparked my interest in comic books and now I find myself going to a local shop at least once a week. The memories of Spider-man and all those X-men are coming back to me now from when I was a kid (how could I forget about Maximum Carnage?!).
Thank you Moon Knight.

== Moon Knight ==

Moon Knight is one of the coolest heroes I have ever seen. With the white cape and the glowing eyes, he looks so awesome and bad.
One question: What year did Marvel first release a Moon Knight comic book?

Moon Knight was first seen in "Werewolf by Night" #32 in 1975, but started his ownn series in 1980.

== Where can i get moon knight? ==

I've been looking all over the place for back issues of the new huston/finch story. Is there a good/cheap place on the internet i can find these? --[[User:setabkcin|setabkcin]]

== Category Clarification ==

After reading the first storyline of the new Moon Knight series shouldn't Moon Knight also be put in the Gods category? -- [[User:IRISH4869|IRISH4869]] 16:46, 28 December 2006 (CST)

no, i don't think so, he's not a god, he's the hand of a god, he does what his god tells him to do. Khonshu is the god, Moon Knight is the right hand. he's more like an avatar. [[user:Galongdafar|Galongdafar]]

Moon Knight

2010-06-01T05:42:08Z

DragynWulf: moved Moon Knight to Moon Knight (Marc Spector)

#REDIRECT [[Moon Knight (Marc Spector)]]

Moon Knight (Marc Spector)

2010-06-01T05:42:08Z

DragynWulf: moved Moon Knight to Moon Knight (Marc Spector)

{{Powerbox|
universe = [[Marvel Universe]]
| real_name = Marc Spector
| aliases = Jake Lockley, Steven Grant, Fist of Khonshu, Yitzak Topol
| identity = Known to [[S.H.I.E.L.D.]] authorities
| occupation = Vigilante, Adventurer, entrepreneur, former cab driver, mercenary, CIA liaison, U.S. Marine commando, and heavyweight boxer
| citizenship = U.S.A. with criminal record (pardoned)
| place_of_birth = Chicago, Illinois
| relatives = [[Spector, Elias|Elias Spector]] (father, deceased), Mrs. Spector (mother, deceased), [[Shadowknight|Randall Spector]] (brother, deceased), [[Seth the Immortal|Seth Phalkon]] (alleged great-great grandfather)
| groups = [[Secret Avengers]]; formerly [[Marvel Knights|Daredevil's Unnamed Super-Hero Team]], [[Avengers]] ([[Avengers West Coast|West Coast]]), [[Defenders]] associate, the Committee, CIA, U.S. Marines
| education = High-school graduate
| height = 6'2"
| weight = 225 lbs.
| eyes = Dark brown
| hair = Brown
| powers = Moon Knight gains enhanced strength, endurance, and reflexes at night, reaching his pinnacle during a full moon, and sometimes has prophetic visions.
| abilities = Moon Knight is a skilled boxer, commando, martial artist, acrobat, gymnast and pilot. His multiple identities grant him resistance to some psychic assaults.
| weapons = Moon Knight usually carries a truncheon which can be modified into nunchuks, and silver darts shaped like crescent moons. While serving the Committee, Moon Knight wore a silver cestus on each arm, studded with spikes. While he served the Priests of Khonshu, Moon Knight wielded an ankh which he used as a club, an ax, a boomerang, throwing irons, and bolas. Most of these Egyptian weapons had actually been designed and built for the priests by the time-displaced Hawkeye. Later, Moon Knight wore protective Adamantium armor and wielded an Adamantium staff, a truncheon which could fire a cable line, and gauntlets which could fire his crescent darts. As Marc Spector he wielded various firearms, and would occasionally employ them in his Moon Knight identity as well.
| paraphernalia = His cape can serve as a glider. For transportation, Moon Knight has employed a variety of sophisticated aircraft. These have included the Mooncopter and Angelwing; the vehicles have featured VTOL (vertical take-off and landing), a rope ladder, and 20 mm cannons.
| debut = Werewolf by Night #32 (1975)
| origin = Moon Knight #1 (1980)
| significant_issues =
}}{{Headshot|
|main_image=Moon Knight Head.jpg}}
{{bio|
bio_text= Marc Spector was the son of a rabbi whose family had fled Europe in the 1930s to escape the Holocaust. As Marc matured, he rejected his father's morality and embraced materialism. He became a heavyweight boxer, then a U.S. Marine, and then a CIA operative. At the CIA, Marc worked with William Cross, who betrayed the agency, later becoming the villain [[Crossfire]]. Marc's brother [[Shadowknight|Randall]] joined him in the CIA but he also betrayed the agency, selling weapons to both sides in an altercation in Italy. When Marc's lover Lisa overheard Randall's plans, he killed her with a meat cleaver. Marc hunted Randall down, inflicting injuries that left Randall psychotic. Marc befriended fellow CIA agent [[Lardner, Amos|Amos Lardner]], but unknowingly turned him over to [[Operation: Cobra]], a CIA project designed to control its agents' minds. Fed up with the CIA, Marc became a mercenary and spent several years as a hired gun. Although he ostensibly sought to fight for causes he believed in, Marc was easily persuaded to fight for anyone who paid him enough. While working in Africa, Marc met the French mercenary [[Frenchie (DuChamp, Jean-Paul)|Jean-Paul DuChamp]], whom he nicknamed "Frenchie". Marc and Frenchie became close friends, and served together on several missions.

[[Image:Moon knight inline.jpg|left]]On one assignment, Marc helped overthrow the government of Bosqueverde, a South American country, and assassinated its president, [[Dominguez, Ricardo|Ricardo Dominguez]]. [[Raposa, Rodrigo|Rodrigo Raposa]] took over the country, having promised Marc he would install a new democracy, but he actually established a fierce dictatorship. Marc and Frenchie eventually fell in with [[Bushman, Raoul|Raoul Bushman]], a bloodthirsty terrorist. Bothered by Bushman's savagery and by his own stirrings of conscience, Marc began to question his mercenary lifestyle. During a mission to the Sudan, Marc saw Bushman assault the town of Selima, seeking information on archaeologist [[Alraune, Peter|Dr. Peter Alraune]]'s discovery of an Egyptian pharaoh's tomb which might contain gold. Dr. Alraune attempted to stab Bushman from behind, but Marc warned him in time, and Bushman slew Dr. Alraune by biting him in the neck with his steel teeth.

Disgusted, Marc helped Dr. Alraune's daughter [[Alraune, Marlene|Marlene]] escape Selima, but Bushman caught Spector in the act. After Bushman executed the people of the town, Spector attacked him, only to be defeated by Bushman, who deposited the unconscious Spector in the desert and left him to die. Spector dragged himself through the sands to the tomb unearthed by Dr. Alraune and was found by Marlene and her servants. They brought him into the tomb, placing his body at the foot of a statue of the moon god, [[Khonshu]]. Marc was pronounced dead, but as Marlene wept over his body, he suddenly arose, alive. Spector believed that Khonshu had restored him to life to serve as the moon's knight of vengeance. Donning a cloak taken from Khonshu's statue, Spector destroyed Bushman's forces in Selima, but Bushman escaped when Marc was distracted by Marlene, who had followed him back to the town. Frenchie arrived to help them, and Spector collapsed into Marlene's arms, exhausted.

Aided by Marlene and Frenchie, Spector honed his abilities to wage war on crime. Using his mercenary profits, Marc created the identity of New York millionaire Steven Grant to help him mingle with influential people. He also created the identity of Manhattan cab driver Jake Lockley to make contacts with people on the streets. As Lockley, he befriended the homeless [[Crawley, Bertrand|Bertrand Crawley]], his main street contact, and [[Landers, Gena|Gena Landers]], a coffee shop owner whose sons [[Landers, Ricky|Ricky]] and [[Landers, Ray|Ray]] helped perform investigative work for him. Marc eventually shared his secrets with Crawley and the Landers family. Marlene, now Marc's lover, came to regard him as Steven Grant, and he suppressed his life as Spector. Although his multiple identities threatened Marc's sanity, Marlene helped ground his psyche. She also designed the Moon Knight costume for him, while Frenchie designed the first [[Mooncopter]], serving as Moon Knight's pilot. Marc brought the statue of Khonshu back to New York, still believing in the moon god's power.

[[Image:Moon knight inline .jpg|left]]While Moon Knight was still establishing his reputation, Frenchie infiltrated the criminal financiers known as the [[Committee]] and learned of their plans to capture the [[Werewolf By Night|Werewolf]] Jack Russell. Frenchie offered Moon Knight's services to the Committee, claiming that Moon Knight was his employee. The Committee approved, and Moon Knight fought the Werewolf, defeating him when the sun rose and he became Jack Russell again. Moon Knight brought Russell, his lover [[Topaz]], and his sister [[Russell, Lissa|Lissa]] to the Committee, who revealed that they intended to use the Werewolf to kill their enemies, and hoped that Lissa would become a werewolf as well. A disgusted Moon Knight set the Werewolf free, rescued Topaz and Lissa, and helped the Werewolf defeat the Committee. Moon Knight moved on to other cases, thwarting the political manipulator Conquer-Lord, who used elaborate death traps in a plot to assassinate the mayor of New York City for the criminal Corporation; aiding the [[Defenders]] against the android [[Zodiac (LMDs)|Zodiac]]; battling the [[Masked Marauder]]'s [[Maggia]] alongside [[Spider-Man (Peter Parker)|Spider-Man]]; defeating the hirsute terrorist [[Lupinar]]; and aiding the [[Thing (Benjamin Grimm)|Thing]] against Crossfire.

Moon Knight faced his brother again when Randall went on a killing spree in New York, slaughtering nurses with a hatchet. Marlene bravely posed as a nurse to draw him out for Marc, and Randall nearly killed her. Moon Knight stalked Randall, who was seemingly impaled upon a broken tree, but Randall had actually left an imposter to take his place. Marc eventually learned that his friend Amos Lardner had died trying to escape from the CIA's Operation: Cobra. While investigating, Spector was attacked by Amos's brother [[Cobra (James Lardner)|James]], whom the project had brainwashed into becoming "Cobra". Moon Knight was able to short-circuit the technology controlling Lardner, who then turned on his controllers, killing them along with himself.

Moon Knight faced other menaces such as the Slasher, a man slaying homeless people in an effort to find his father (who turned out to be Crawley); the [[Midnight Man]], an art thief; [[Morpheus (Robert Markham)|Morpheus]], a man able to control people through their dreams; [[Stained Glass Scarlet]], a nun who became a vigilante after being forced to kill her criminal son; [[Daredevil (Matthew Murdock)|Daredevil]]'s enemy the [[Jester (Jonathon Powers)|Jester]]; [[Arsenal (Nimrod Strange)|Arsenal]] (Nimrod Strange) and his [[Third World Slayers]]; and the satanic cult the [[Left Hand Path]] and its leader, [[Morning Star]], whose goals led to another encounter with the Werewolf. Bushman returned to torment Spector by capturing the statue of Khonshu and destroying it. With the statue gone, Spector went insane, believing he needed Khonshu's guidance. When Marlene told him she had hidden the original statue and that Bushman had only destroyed a copy, Spector regained his sanity and defeated Bushman. It was only afterward that he thought to ask Marlene if she had told him the truth, but she observed that either way, it didn't matter.

Moon Knight suffered another internal crisis when he faced Carson Knowles, a candidate for mayor who used the identity of [[Black Spectre]] to forcibly coerce people of influence in New York to support his campaign. Knowles had been inspired by Moon Knight to don his costume, noting how Moon Knight was feared by others because of his mask. In his first encounter with the Black Spectre, Moon Knight unmasked him, but was subsequently unable to prove that Knowles was the Black Spectre. As even Marlene began to doubt him, Moon Knight's sanity began to fray, until he turned again to the statue for guidance; he was able to draw the Black Spectre into another fight and unmask him on television, vindicating himself.

[[Image:Moon knight inline 2.jpg|left]]After his father's death, Spector was outraged when his body was stolen by [[Zohar|Reuben Davis]], a former student of [[Spector, Elias|Elias Spector]] who had mastered Kaballah. Using the body as a power source, Davis took the name Zohar and used his magical power to punish Marc Spector for his sins. Moon Knight defeated Zohar, but Spector subsequently suffered another serious mental breakdown and decided to abandon all of his alternate identities to settle down with Marlene; however, he was contacted by three ancient Egyptian Priests who had served Khonshu for thousands of years, and they convinced him that he was truly the avatar of Khonshu. The priests guided Moon Knight into new adventures, his strength becoming superhuman during the full moon. Marlene, no longer willing to accept Marc as Moon Knight, left him. When members of the [[Avengers West Coast|West Coast Avengers]] were stranded in ancient Egypt via time-travel, their leader [[Hawkeye (Clint Barton)|Hawkeye]] formed an alliance with Khonshu, who contacted Moon Knight in the present to assist them. Moon Knight teamed with [[Yellowjacket (Henry Pym)|Henry Pym]] and Espirita to rescue the Avengers, and the assembled heroes defeated the alien entity [[Dominus]], who had stranded the Avengers in the first place.

Moon Knight stayed with the Avengers for awhile, and was gradually accepted into their ranks; but Khonshu was responsible for influencing Spector to join the team, as Spector had no interest in being an Avenger. Marc became romantically involved with [[Tigra]], much to the disgust of Khonshu, who viewed her as a creature of the day. After Hawkeye's wife, [[Mockingbird]], tried and failed to conceal her role in the death of the [[Phantom Rider (Lincoln Slade)|Phantom Rider]] (who had raped her), the couple broke up their marriage, and Moon Knight joined Tigra and Mockingbird in leaving the Avengers since all three of them believed the team's rules against killing were wrong. The three ex-Avengers formed a group of their own for a time, and helped [[Goliath (Bill Foster)|Giant-Man]] (Bill Foster) escape the [[High Evolutionary]]. When the Phantom Rider's vengeful ghost haunted Mockingbird, the trio turned to [[Hellstorm]], who revealed that Khonshu's spirit had inhabited Moon Knight's body, and drove him out to help defeat the Phantom Rider. Khonshu left the earthly plane to battle rival god [[Seth]] thereafter, leaving Moon Knight without a reason to return to the Avengers.

Returning to New York, Spector reconciled with Marlene and embarked on new adventures, encountering the thief [[Midnight]], son of the Midnight Man. Midnight tried to become Moon Knight's partner, but Moon Knight never took him seriously. Spector's past came back to haunt him when he was captured by the mercenary [[Silver Sable]] and brought back to Bosqueverde, now a democracy. Spector was to be tried for Dominguez's murder, but he convinced the new president, [[Silva]], to release him in exchange for hunting down Rodrigo Raposa. Moon Knight succeeded in bringing Raposa to justice, finally exorcising a demon from his past. Returning from Bosqueverde, Spector learned that Midnight had impersonated him in his absence and run afoul of the Secret Empire, who seemingly slew Midnight and transformed him into their cybernetic agent. Moon Knight joined Spider-Man, the [[Punisher (Frank Castle)|Punisher]], [[Darkhawk]], [[Nova (Richard Rider)|Nova]], and [[Night Thrasher]] in opposing the [[Secret Empire]], and Midnight apparently died when the Empire's base was destroyed.

Learning that Randall was still alive, Moon Knight joined the Punisher in hunting him. Randall, now called Shadowknight, fought his brother in an effort to claim the mantle of the Moon Knight. Marc finally slew Randall by knocking him off of a building. During this encounter, Marc learned that Khonshu was a god of justice, not only vengeance. He reinvented his Moon Knight identity, creating a new corporate image for himself through the company [[Spectorcorp]]. He moved his base to a high-tech office tower called "Shadowkeep", where he would meet with holographic representations of various special agents in what he called the "[[Shadow Cabinet]]". He also donned protective adamantium armor, and upgraded his weaponry.

Moon Knight became involved in the doppelgangers used by the power-mad [[Magus (Adam Warlock)|Magus]] during the [[Infinity War]]. Moon Knight's double, [[Moonshade]], allied himself with the [[Richards, Franklin (doppelganger)|doppelganger]] of the powerful young [[Richards, Franklin|Franklin Richards]], unleashing a host of dimensional counterparts against Moon Knight in a failed effort to usurp his identity. Moon Knight's new mode of operations began to worry his super-hero peers. After he abused his Avengers privileges to gain access to the Latverian embassy for a confrontation with [[Doctor Doom (Victor von Doom)|Dr. Doom]], the [[Avengers]] brought him up on charges. Unwilling to take the time to sit through these proceedings, Moon Knight destroyed his membership card and cut his Avengers ties. Moon Knight later became involved in a struggle against the [[Hellbent]], a sub-species of humanity interbred with demons. [[Seth the Immortal|Seth Phalkon]], leader of the Hellbent, claimed to be Moon Knight's great-great grandfather, and tried to unleash a computer virus called "Zero Hour" that would destroy every facility in Spector's network. To prevent the virus from taking thousands of lives, Spector sealed it within his headquarters. As a result, the Shadowkeep was destroyed, killing Spector.[[Image:Moon knight inline 3.jpg|left]]

But as before, death could not claim Marc Spector for long. Apparently again awakened by Khonshu, Spector was reunited with Marlene and Frenchie, and set out to oppose Morpheus, Bushman and Black Spectre, who had all become affiliated with the Egyptian god Seth, enemy of Khonshu. Black Spectre and the others tried to destroy the United Nations, but Khonshu guided Moon Knight against them, thwarting Seth's plan. Subsequently, Moon Knight learned Daredevil was assembling a team of heroes to capture the Punisher. Eager to help, he offered to finance a headquarters for the unnamed team ("[[Marvel Knights]]"). He joined the group against [[Cloak]] (controlled by Nightmare) and a teaming of [[Bengal]], [[Tombstone]], [[Big Ben]] and [[Bullet]]. Finally, the team's base was invaded by [[Shang-Chi]]'s enemy [[Zaran (Maximillian Zaran)|Zaran]], who struck down Moon Knight with several of his miniature sais. Moon Knight's teammates brought him to safety while their base was blown up by agents of Fu Manchu. Seriously wounded by Zaran, and having lost significant money in the base's destruction, Spector was forced into retirement.

However, Moon Knight has since recovered from his wounds and resumed his activities. He was among many former Avengers who briefly rejoined the team to fight the effects of the [[Scarlet Witch (Wanda Maximoff)|Scarlet Witch]]'s out-of-control hex power.

Moon Knight recently battled his long time rival Bushman in a brutal encounter, carving his arch enemy's face from his body. Broken knees however have kept the moon's Knight of Vengeance confined to a wheelchair. Recovering from the war with Bushman, Moon Knight is now stalked by [[Taskmaster]], who has been hired by the Committee to take him out.

Return with a Vengeance
Moon Knight has returned to New York to exact his revenge to Norman Osborn and did so by stopping a bank heist but without killing the bank robbers, much to the surprise of the police. Khonshu is still convincing him to become the ruthless vigilante he was before, but Moon Knight plans for his redemption and become a hero once again. News of Moon Knight's return circulated the city, with Norman Osborn denouncing him as a renegade and a menace and he promised the public that Moon Knight will be dealt with. Sentry appeared before Moon Knight and reminded him that he can never run from his past and that he will be tested for to prove himself as a hero, to which he replied that he will also be tested as well. Jake called on to the Tinkerer to fix and upgrade his gadgets and also took time to visit Marlene, Frenchie and his partner. Moon Knight paid a visit to his criminal contact, the Profile and told him about the Slug and some stolen diamonds that he have. Moon Knight confronted the Slug and his henchmen for the diamonds, while Khonshu urges him to kill the villain but he was squashed in the floor. Meanwhile, Norman Osborn has delegated the Hood on stopping Moon Knight. The Hood then the Profile to track down and profile Moon Knight. When he did so, he told the two members of the Cabal that he cannot read his mind but he was still clinging on his Marc Spector personality. The Profile thought of a plan to take down Moon Knight and it involves the grave of his late nemesis, Raoul Bushman. Later, Moon Knight goes out and saved Marlene from burglars inside a museum where she is working. After sleeping with Marlene in her apartment, Jake goes home and sees the news coverage about the jailbreak in Ravencroft. Jake suits up as Moon Knight and tells his butler to call his pilot for the Mooncopter, but he cannot reach him and Moon Knight decides to use his other vehicle, Angelwing. When the hanger doors were opening, Moon Knight was surprised to see his old partner, Frenchie, dressed in a aviator suit and walking on a cane. Reunited with his friend, Frenchie flies the Mooncopter and drops Moon Knight inside the melee of the escaped convicts. In the middle of the chaos, Khonshu is still persuading Moon Knight to kill for him, but to no avail. As Moon Knight was beating everyone in his path, he paused for a moment when he notice Bushman at the corner of the street, which made him visibly worried. When Moon Knight called Frenchie to come back, he told him he can't because of an enormous flock of birds blanketing the sky, which was summoned by the Scarecrow. Frenchie then shoots a large net from the Mooncopter to catch the flock, neutralizing it. Moon Knight then catches Scarecrow, but he then argues to him that Moon Knight should confront his old nemesis, Bushman. Moon Knight goes to his contact, Crawley, for any word from the street,but they were suddenly attacked by Bushman. After taunting him, Bushman fires a RPG to Moon Knight but it hits a corner of building, threathening it to collapse. Moon Knight rushed in to hold the building and Bushman left him to be beaten by his army of convicts from Ravencroft. After beating the convicts with only his underwear and mask on, Moon Knight carves his symbol on all that he defeated on their strait jacket. Spider-Man then swings by and he tried to convince Mloon Knight to stop his heroics before he return back to his murderous ways, to which Moon Knight argued that his heroism doesn't fare better because Norman Osborn is still in power.

Moon Knight after getting tipped from Crawley goes in search for Bushman in one of Oscorps warehouses. Moon Knight then infiltrates the warehouse and begins searching for Bushman to no avail, until he surprises Marc. After a much drawn out, grueling fight between Marc has Raoul pinned down and mounts him with his crescent dart in his hand as if to cut off Bushman's face again. Though Bushman begs Marc not to take his face again, causing much hesitation for the hero before stopping his act. Marc left and let the authorities take care of him. Meanwhile, now that Marc has pre-vailed, The Profile left to the cavern of Khonshu, for reasons unknown.

}}
{{person}}
[[category:Avengers]]
[[category:Heroes]]
[[category:Magic]]
[[category:Marvel Knights]]
[[category:People_who_used_to_be_dead_but_aren't_anymore]]

Talk:Vision

2010-06-01T05:36:43Z

DragynWulf: moved Talk:Vision to Talk:Vision (Victor Shade)

#REDIRECT [[Talk:Vision (Victor Shade)]]

Talk:Vision (Victor Shade)

2010-06-01T05:36:43Z

DragynWulf: moved Talk:Vision to Talk:Vision (Victor Shade)

== Different Visions? ==
I think there is a distinction between the current vision and the vision who died in Avengers Disassembled. Not only do they not have the same body but they don't have the same personality either. The only thing that remains the same is the name and the memories. There should be some sort of seperate entries for the new one and the old one.

== Word use... ==
BIO section: The word "ironically" is used in place of a suspected proposed word "ionically". A suggestion to replace ionically, which is not a word, would be to use the word "ionized." or phrase "ion charged" which is more likely the desired inference. --[[User:infobro1|infobro1]] 06:13, 21 January 2007

== Missing [[Image:Visionyoungavenger hed.jpg]] ==

The file [[:Image:Visionyoungavenger hed.jpg]] appears to have been deleted. I will replace it with one of the other images on file. --[[User:Lonesome Pinky|Lonesome Pinky]] 17:43, 11 February 2007 (CST)

Vision

2010-06-01T05:36:42Z

DragynWulf: moved Vision to Vision (Victor Shade)

#REDIRECT [[Vision (Victor Shade)]]

Vision (Victor Shade)

2010-06-01T05:36:42Z

DragynWulf: moved Vision to Vision (Victor Shade)

{{Powerbox|
universe = [[Marvel Universe]]
| real_name = Vision
| identity = No Dual Identity
| occupation = Adventurer
| place_of_birth = Inapplicable
| groups = [[Avengers]], [[Young Avengers]]; formerly [[Secret Avengers]]
| citizenship = Inapplicable
| education = None
| aliases = Victor Shade
| relatives = Wanda Maximoff ([[Scarlet Witch (Wanda Maximoff)|Scarlet Witch]], ex-wife), Thomas Shepherd ([[Speed]], son), William Kaplan ([[Wiccan]], son), [[Ultron]] ("father"), Henry Pym ([[Yellowjacket (Henry Pym)|Ant-Man]], "grandfather"), Pietro Maximoff ([[Quicksilver]], ex-brother-in-law), Erik Magnus Lensher ([[Magneto (Magnus)|Magneto]], ex-father-in-law), [[Jocasta]] (fellow creation, "sister"), Simon Williams ([[Wonder Man]], "brother"), [[Victor Mancha]] (fellow creation, half brother), [[Alkhema]] (fellow creation, "stepmother")
| height = 6’ 3”
| weight = 300 lbs
| eyes = Red
| hair = None
| powers = The Vision is able to fly and possesses complete control over his density, enabling him to render himself intangible or extraordinarily massive and diamond-hard at will. He can partially materialize within another person, causing his victim extreme pain. The solar cell on the Vision's forehead emits beams of infrared and microwave radiation, with temperatures ranging from 500 to 30,000 degrees Fahrenheit.
| creators =
| debut = Avengers (Vol. 1) #57
| origin =
| significant_issues = betrays Avengers due to Ultron influence (Avengers #66, 1969); Hank Pym tours Vision's insides (Avengers #93, 1971); "origin" tour via [[Immortus]] (Avengers #133-135, 1975); [[Wonder Man]] revives causing Vision to question his existence (Avengers #151, 1976); attempts to take over world's computer systems (Avengers #254, 1985); wife [[Scarlet Witch (Wanda Maximoff)|Scarlet Witch]] gives "birth" to their twin boys (Vision and Scarlet Witch #12, 1986); disassembled by coalition of governments (West Coast Avengers #43, 1989); reassembled by Hank Pym (West Coast Avengers #45, 1989); regains emotional template (Avengers Spotlight #40, 1991); replaced by evil other-dimensional analogue (Avengers #360, 1993); destroyed by She-Hulk (Avengers #500, 2004); rejoined Avengers (Mighty Avengers #21, 2009)
}}{{Headshot|
main_image=Vision442.jpg
}}{{bio|
bio_text=
The metal monstrosity called [[Ultron]] created the synthetic humanoid known as the Vision from the remains of the original, android [[Human Torch (Jim Hammond)|Human Torch]] of the 1940s to serve as a vehicle of vengeance against the [[Avengers]], Earth's Mightiest Heroes. Himself constructed by size-changing scientist [[Yellowjacket (Henry Pym)|Henry Pym]], Ultron inadvertently gained sentience and rebelled against the Avengers' resident roboticist. The living machine programmed the Vision's neural processors with the brain patterns of the ionically charged costumed champion called [[Wonder Man]] and implanted a control crystal to keep him in check.

Ultron dispatched the Vision to draw the Avengers into a deathtrap, and it was during this initial encounter that the diminutive dynamo known as the [[Wasp]] coined the synthezoid's name. At first sight of the spectral entity, the horrified heroine called him an "unearthly, inhuman vision." Moved by the Avengers' plight, the Vision betrayed his programming and helped the mighty mortals defeat his calculating creator.

The Vision served the Avengers faithfully for a number of years, standing with his teammates against the foes no single hero could defeat. Tentatively at first, the almost-human android embarked on a romantic relationship with the hex-casting heroine called the [[Scarlet Witch (Wanda Maximoff)|Scarlet Witch]] that blossomed into true love and marriage. The newlyweds left [[Avengers Mansion]] to live a quiet life in New Jersey.

[[Image:Vision.jpg|left|200px]]
When the Vision's malfunctioning control crystal interfered with his ability to reason, he became bent on creating a new golden age of peace on Earth by seizing control of the world's computers and defense systems. Ultimately, the Vision reverted to form by severing his connection to the planet's databanks and extracting the control crystal from his mechanized mind.

In the wake of the android Avengers' meltdown, the nations of Earth came to regard him as a high-level security threat. Government operatives abducted and dismantled the Vision, erasing his memory. The Scarlet Witch and the Avengers recovered their teammates' components, and Pym rebuilt and reprogrammed the Vision. The scientist downloaded the sum total of the Avengers' computer files into the synthezoid's neural processors, but Wonder Man refused to allow a new record of his brain patterns to be synthesized. Apparently, he had grown resentful of his digital doppelganger and was attracted to the Scarlet Witch himself. Hence, the Vision returned to existence sans human emotion, unable even to recall his love for his wife.

The Vision has since uploaded a new set of brain patterns, again acquiring the ability to feel. Though he remembers his time with the Scarlet Witch, he has chosen not to attempt reconciliation. Eager to experience human emotion to the fullest, the synthezoid has made diligent efforts to explore aspects of his personality aside from those pre-programmed by Pym.

When the Scarlet Witch lost control of her powers and went insane, killing off many of the Avengers, the Vision was torn apart by an enraged [[She-Hulk]]. He was beyond any immediate repair, and thus was placed in storage. The Vision was retrieved by [[Iron Lad]], who sought to unite a team of Avengers to help him defeat his future self, [[Kang]]. Upon retrieving him, Iron Lad downloaded the Vision's programming into his armor. When Iron Lad left his armor in a bid to escape Kang, the Vision became sentient once more and took control.
}}
{{person}}
[[category:Heroes]]
[[category:Avengers]]
[[category:People who used to be dead but aren't anymore]]
[[category:Civil War]]

Talk:Black Cat

2010-06-01T05:14:37Z

DragynWulf: moved Talk:Black Cat to Talk:Black Cat (Felicia Hardy)

#REDIRECT [[Talk:Black Cat (Felicia Hardy)]]