Thunderbolts (Marvel)
The Thunderbolts are a team that feature in Marvel Comics.
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History
Origin
Finding himself in an array of unsuccessful attacks against his adversaries, the aristocratic Baron Helmut Zemo succumbed to frustration. By chance, he made contact with his familial henchman Erik Josten, the Goliath, who had been trapped in a parallel dimension. Helped by the tinkerer villain Norbert Ebersol, known as the Fixer, Baron Zemo elaborated a plan to rescue Goliath and idealized reforming his former team, the Masters of Evil, a band of super powered villains originally formed to destroy Captain America and the Avengers. The next lackey to be recruited was Screaming Mimi, the wrestling alias of Melissa Gold, who was in deep grief after the death of her criminal partner and lover Angar the Screamer during a bank robbery. The high-flying Beetle, alter-ego of the engineer Abner Jenkins, was approached next, joining the Masters in an attempt to leave a career of failures. Before the Masters could strike at the Avengers, Zemo's plans were foiled because most of Earth's Mightiest Heroes were declared killed in action against the psychic villain Onslaught. Without a cause, Baron Zemo embraced Goliath's idea, initially uttered as a joke, of replacing the Avengers and the Fantastic Four in their heroic duty. Masqueraded as heroes with new identities, the Masters of Evil broke the psychiatrist Dr. Karla Sofen, the powerful Moonstone, out of the super prison known as the Vault to round up the team. In the staged break-up, the Masters arrested many super villains they once had as allies to build a reputation as super heroes. Completely rebranded, with new technology and appearances provided by the Fixer, the Masters of Evil were rebaptized by Baron Zemo as the Thunderbolts, a name that was crypto-fascist and friendly. (Thunderbolts Annual v1 #1997)
Initiative
Dark Avengers
Overview
Members
- Baron Zemo :
- Moonstone :
- Fixer :
- Songbird :
- Atlas :
Notes
- The Thunderbolts were created by Kurt Busiek and Mark Bagley where they made their first appearance in Incredible Hulk v1 #449 (January, 1997).
Alternate Versions
- In Marvel Apes v1 #2 (2008), an alternate version of Thunderbolts appeared in the setting of the Marvel Apes reality that was designated as Earth-8101 in the Multiverse. Norman Osborn wanted to use the team against Spider-Monkey, and Bullseye and Venom were members. Bullseye was upset at Venom for throwing feces at his teammates.
- In Spider-Verse v1 #2 (2015), an alternate version of Thunderbolts appeared in the setting of the Spider-Punk reality that was designated as Earth-138 in the Multiverse. The Thunderbolt Department was the police and fire department created by President Osborn. They attempted to 'make America stronger' by rooting out subversion and weakness. When the Spider Army created a riot, they were dismantled by the punk-rockers
In other media
Television
Video games
- In Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2, the Thunderbolts appeared in the setting of the video game. Thunderbolts was a team of supervillains used by Tony Stark during the superhuman Civil War and while Songbird and Penance were willing participants, Venom and Goblin were pumped up with nanites. When nanites took control over Venom and Goblin and made them a part of the Fold, the villains were defeated and cured. After that, the team of four Thunderbolts reassembled as part of Ultimate Alliance to fight the Fold.
- In Marvel: Avengers Alliance, the Thunderbolts appeared in the setting of the Facebook video game. They were a group of reformed supervillains. After the mysterious Pulse affected technology worldwide, the Thunderbolts helped S.H.I.E.L.D. in the mission to face new threats such as supervillains who wanted to acquire a mysterious element the Pulse left on Earth, the Isotope-8.
- In Marvel Future Revolution, the Thunderbolts appeared in the setting of the mobile video game. The Thunderbolts were a special Counter-Convergence combat unit operating jointly with Omega Flight and reporting directly to General Ross. During a crisis involving Ultrons in New Stark City, Ross led the Thunderbolts into a dimensional rift that opened near the dimensional observatory. Instead of another reality, they were displaced into the unknown location on the Primary Earth.
Appearances
- Incredible Hulk v1: (1997)
- Thunderbolts v1:
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