Gregory Herd
Gregory Herd is a male comic supervillain who features in Marvel Comics.
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Biography
Gregory Herd
He came to be employed by Lady Octopus who built advanced battle suits for himself and his wife. This saw him naming himself as Override whilst his wife went by Aura. In this time, the pair teamed up with the Looter where Aura and Override combat-trained with him in Doctor Octopus' secret base. Override managed to shut down the Looter's cybernetic costume, but was only saved from a Looter-thrown forklift by Aura's force field. Before the three could cause more property damage, they were interrupted by Trainer, who briefed them on their next mission. Later that night, the three cyber-criminals attacked Jason Tso's Club Noir, in search of some valuable microchips. Override "overrode" a truck, sending it crashing into the club, and used his powers to open the valves of the Scarlet Spider's web-shooters, sending web-fluid everywhere. Taking advantage of this, the Spider shot Override full of tranquilizing stingers. He managed to escape with the others, albeit without the microchips, when the Looter collapsed the club's ceiling, forcing the Spider to ignore them and save the clubgoers below. (Spectacular Scarlet Spider v1 #1)
Doctor Octopus would berate Override and his teammates over their failure to recover the microchips until she was contacted by Tso. Arranging a meeting at the children's zoo in Central Park, she sent the three there to ambush Tso. Override and his teammates ambushed the Scarlet Spider at the zoo, thinking him to be Tso's hired muscle, blowing up the monkey house in the process. They briefly managed to restrain him until Tso and his new ally Alistaire Smythe sent their Cyber-Slayers in. Override managed to shut down one of the robots, but was knocked out by the Spider. He and his teammates were subsequently taken away by the police. (Web of Scarlet Spider v1 #2)
Having apparently beaten the rap and moved out of the city, Ann and Greg came back to New York, lured by the $5 million bounty on Spider-Man. Despite her misgivings, Ann agreed to resume their criminal careers to make enough money to retire. Wearing upgraded costumes, they ambushed Spider-Man. Although weary from battling bounty hunters, Spider-Man managed to maneuver Aura into blasting Override and escape in the resulting confusion. Back in their room at the Manhattan Marriot, Ann tried to convince Greg to give up, but he remained determined, and promised her that nothing would go wrong. Leaping into a confrontation between Spider-Man and the Dealy Boys, Aura blew away a cop with her force blast while Override shut down the Dealy Boys' weapons. Override opened up an 'area of operability' around Aura to allow her to ensnare Spider-Man in a force field unaware that one of the Dealy Boys was also in that sphere. He fired his laser at Aura, and she raised her force field an instant too late, trapping the laser beam in it with her. The beam ricocheted about the energy bubble, tearing her apart. (Spectacular Scarlet Spider v1 #25)
Overview
Personality and attributes
As a mercenary, he operated under the name Override where he made use of his cybernetic armature. (Spectacular Scarlet Spider v1 #1)
Powers and abilities
His cybernetic armature gave him the ability to possess or mentally activate any piece of mechanical equipment which he could then turn to his advantage. In addition to vehicles, it was noted that he could commandeer the cybernetics of another person. (Spectacular Scarlet Spider v1 #1)
Notes
- Gregory Herd was created by Todd Dezago, Sal Buscema, and Jimmy Palmiotti where he made his first appearance in the Spectacular Scarlet Spider v1 #1 (November, 1995)
- The character later debuted as Shadrac in the Amazing Spider-Man v2 #2 (February, 1999).
Alternate Versions
Appearances
- Spectacular Scarlet Spider v1: (1995)
- Amazing Spider-Man v2: (1999)
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