Hood (Thunderbirds)
The Hood is a male television villain who features in Thunderbirds.
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Biography
Original
The Hood
Continuing to make use of his telepathic connection with Kyrano, the Hood learnt that International Rescue are ready to begin operations. With the belief that learning the secrets of International Rescue would make him the wealthiest man in the world, the Hood sets out to engineer International Rescue's first mission by sabotaging the maiden flight of the new atomic-powered Mach 6 Fireflash aircraft. After Thunderbird 1 arrives on scene at London International Airport, the Hood disguises himself as an airport police officer guarding the craft, in order to get close to it and take photographs using a concealed camera in his cap. What the villain doesn't realise is that TB1 is equipped with an automatic camera detector, which alerts Scott Tracy to the ongoing deception. The Hood makes a hasty getaway and shakes off the real airport police as he enters the M1 motorway, heading towards Birmingham. Almost free, the Hood notices a pink Rolls-Royce car hot on his tail, which proceeds to shoot him off the road using a concealed machine cannon. The Hood's vehicle rolls down an embankment and meets a fiery end which destroys the photographs. However, the Hood, having survived the crash, still has to flee the country.
Reboot
The Hood was portrayed as having been secretly after International Rescue for some time, but his existence was apparently more of a rumour and theory rather than confirmed knowledge
The Hood's objectives were to steal International Rescue's technological secrets and make a fortune by selling them to the criminal underworld. To this end, he repeatedly manipulates the organisation into situations that enable him to film the Thunderbird craft. Due to his opponents' quick thinking, or sometimes his own recklessness, the Hood's schemes invariably fail and all of his camera footage is destroyed. However, he is never captured and International Rescue remain ignorant of his identity.
Overview
Personality and attributes
He was only ever referred to as Agent Seven-Nine and as 671.
The Hood was commonly shown to have a short temper and be very poor at improvisation when his schemes did not work out the way he had planned.
Powers and abilities
The Hood was shown to be a master of disguise, using various masks to try and discover the secrets of the Thunderbirds machines and carry out various missions. He also possessed strange hypnotic powers of unknown origin, although these abilities were apparently limited to making people carry out simple commands, such as to follow him or put them to sleep. He was also apparently unable to use these powers to acquire information; on one occasion he attempted to force Brains to tell him the location of a lost treasure by burying him up to his neck in sand and sunlight and depriving him of water rather than simply hypnotising him to learn the answer, suggesting that he cannot make people tell him information but simply make them carry out certain actions.
The only exception to this ability has been when he hypnotises Kyrano, as he was able to make Kyrano tell him such information as when International Rescue would be ready to start operating or where the organisation's headquarters was located. These abilities were apparently aided by a statue of Kyrano he had in his temple, as he always stood in front of it when making contact with his brother.
He regularly spends his time in an Aztec-themed temple in the heart of a Malaysian jungle.
Notes
- The Hood was created by Gerry Anderson and Sylvia Anderson where he featured in the setting of the Thunderbirds universe.
In other media
Television
Films
- In Thunderbirds, the Hood appeared in the setting of the 2004 live-action film where he was portrayed by actor Ben Kingsley.
Video games
Appearances
- Thunderbirds:
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