Donnie Gill

Donnie Gill is a male comic supervillain who features in Marvel Comics.

Biography

Donald Gill was a male human born in Newark, Delaware. He became a criminal mercenary and was hired by Justin Hammer, who gave him a cryogenic suit reminiscent of the original Blizzard. As the original was vaporized by Iron Man 2020, Donnie decided to use the name Blizzard, as well. His first mission had him working with two other super-villains namely the Beetle and Blacklash in order to capture Force who had betrayed Hammer. However, Blizzard was clumsy, and annoyed his teammates with his amateur mistakes, such as creating an ice wall which blocked their path to their objective. After accidentally encasing Blacklash in ice, the trio fled as more reinforcements arrived to protect Force. (Iron Man v1 #223)

After Whiplash's death, Donny briefly became an employee of M.O.D.O.K. in yet another world takeover, but was quickly defeated by the Avengers. Angered by the fact that he had lost out once again, he found She-Hulk in a bar and proceeded to freeze her in a block of ice, which she quickly snapped out of. However, as She-Hulk had had a hard day anyway, she refused to fight Donny; instead, she had him sit down next to her and carefully got him drunk before handing him over to the police. (She-Hulk v1 #1)

Gill returned to the usual business of robbing banks along with Whirlwind. When the Avengers left Earth in order to battle the Builders, he and Whirlwind were approached by Spymaster, who offered them the opportunity to join a group of villains of Iron Man who planned to assault the almost-defenseless Stark Tower. During a briefing, Donny suddenly collapsed in the floor. (Infinity: Heist v1 #1) After waking up, it was revealed to Donny he had suffered changes, such as his skin's pigmentation and the ability to generate ice on his own. Gill had been exposed to the Terrigen Mists unleashed upon the face of the entire Earth by Black Bolt, and being unknowingly an Inhuman descendant, he suffered Terrigenesis, but still couldn't realize what his latent powers were. Blizzard thought that this was his opportunity to "be part of something bigger" and decided to leave Spymaster's team, but he and Whirlwind where brutally attacked by Spymaster and Titanium Man when they tried to leave. (Infinity: Heist v1 #2)

Blizzard and Whirlwind were forced into taking part of the assault to Stark Tower, but after Spymaster used teleporter discs to teleport some Iron Man Armors to the buyers, he escaped and left Blizzard and the rest of his accomplices to be discovered by the heroes which were using the tower as a base. They managed to defeat the heroes, and they were offered to be taken to Spymaster by Titanium Man. When they arrived to a spaceship where Spymaster was, they were ambushed by him and Titanium Man, who revealed himself as Captain Atlas of the Kree who was revealed to be the buyer. (Infinity: Heist v1 #3) They managed to escape custody and started fighting Spymaster, Titanium Man and the army of Iron Men, controlled by the first. The actual Iron Man arrived to the spaceship, after having tracked down the armors, and helped Blizzard and his allies defeat the enemies. During the fight, Blizzard used the powers he discovered of being like a human battery to overcharge the armors and deactivate them, but he fainted and fell of the spaceship's cargo door. A suit Iron Man was controlling rescued him, but in order to let his friends escape, Blizzard froze himself and the suit. Donny was taken to S.H.I.E.L.D. custody and was left sedated under the virtual simulation that he had been delivered to the Inhumans in order to prove himself as the changed man Gill thought he was, until S.H.I.E.L.D. could know what to do with him. (Infinity: Heist v1 #4)

He managed to escape where he made his way to China after hearing Iron Man was in the region. Blizzard intended to fight his foe but ended up encountering Star Brand and Nightmask who easily defeated him. Gill was then taken away and into the custody of S.P.E.A.R. (Starbrand & Nightmask v1 #1) However, he came to be possessed by Entropy who was a cosmic abstract and a child of Eternity that represented the universe ending in the Big Freeze. (Starbrand & Nightmask v1 #3)

He came to be a number of supervillains that had been apprehended by S.H.I.E.L.D. and kept at their Pleasant Hill prison facility where their realities had been overwritten to make them peaceful citizens by using the powers of Kobik. (Captain America: Sam Wilson v1 #8)

Afterwards, he came to be one of a number of villains that fell into the service of Korvac who offered great power to his disciples. (Iron Man v6 #3)

Overview

Powers and abilities

It was revealed that he was a descendant of the Inhumans and came to experience Terrigenesis due to the T-Cloud travelling around the Earth. (Infinity: Heist v1 #2)

Notes

• Donnie Gill was created by David Michelinie and Bob Layton where he made his first appearance in Iron Man v1 #223 (October, 1987).

In other media

Television

• In Iron Man, the Donnie Gill Blizzard appeared in the setting of the 1990s animated television series where he was primarily voiced by actor Chuck McCann, though Neil Ross voiced him in the episode "The Beast Within".
• In The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes, Donnie Gill appeared in the setting of the animated television series in the episode "The Breakout" Pt. 1 where he was voiced by actor Troy Baker.
• In Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Donnie Gill appeared in the setting of the live-action television series where he was portrayed by actor Dylan Minnette.
• In Marvel's Future Avengers, Donnie Gill appeared in the setting of the anime television series where he was voiced by Japanese actor Hideo Ishikawa and by English actor Kyle McCarley in the English dub. He was shown as being a criminal where the Terrigen Cloud transformed him and gave him ice powers which he used to get revenge against his former associates.

Video games

• In Marvel: Avengers Alliance, Donnie Gill as Blizzard appeared as a boss level antagonist in the setting of the Facebook video game.
• In Marvel Heroes, Donnie Gill as Blizzard appeared in the setting of the MMORPG where he was voiced by actor Michael Benyaer.

Appearances

• Iron Man v1: (1987)
• Infinity: Heist v1:
• Starbrand & Nightmask v1:
• Iron Man v6:

External Links

• Marvel Database Entry

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