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In an alternate future timeline, the character inherits both of her parents' abilities and uses the title of Captain America.[5] She was mentored by Madame Natasha.[6] She is taken from her timeline to battle Ultron and then a Doombot, and subsequently teams up with the modern day Avengers to battle Moridun who had possessed Wiccan.[7] She returns to the present to aid the U.S.Avengers in capturing her nemesis, the Golden Skull.[8]

Caiera possessed abilities that were derived from the planet itself. She could transform her body into stone and become incredibly resistant and strong, to the extent that she battled the Hulk to a standstill even when his strength and fighting skills had dramatically increased. She was also an expert fighter and tactician.

An issue of What If? examined what would have happened if Caiera had survived the explosion instead of Hulk. Angered at the loss of her husband, Caiera takes the entirety of her planet's energy into herself, vastly increasing her power. She then goes to Earth to avenge his death. She kills the Illuminati and enslaves Earth.

Caiera appears in Planet Hulk, voiced by Lisa Ann Beley.[15] She follows the Red King loyally because he saved her from the Spikes that destroyed her village and her family. However, it later turns out that the Red King was the one who created the Spikes, thus making him responsible for destroying Caiera's village and killing her people. Once the truth is revealed, Caiera angrily severs her loyalty to the Red King and aids the Hulk and the Warbound in defeating him. Caiera then plants a Spike bug on the Red King, leaving him to be killed by his Death Guard robots as revenge. She then goes on to become the Queen Consort to Hulk, who accepts his new role as the new King of Sakaar.

Jessica's mother, named Alisa Jones (née Campbell), appears in Jessica Jones. She is presented as an amalgam of Jessica's actual mother and the woman who adopted her in the comics. In the first season, Alisa is portrayed by Miriam Shor. Her name comes from Alisa Bendis, wife of Brian Michael Bendis, creator of the comic book character Jessica Jones. She appears in a flashback in the episode "AKA WWJD?" where she attempts to stop an argument between Jessica and her brother Philip. They die when the car crashes into a truck filled with chemicals. She shows up in a nightmare convincing Jessica to get to work.[16] Alisa is a series regular in the second season, portrayed by Janet McTeer. She is revealed to have survived the car accident but is horribly disfigured. She and Jessica were treated at IGH, a private clinic specializing in gene editing. While Jessica was saved and discharged after three weeks, Alisa suffered more severe injuries and needed a longer recovery period. Dr. Karl Malus has to declare Alisa legally dead to save her life because of the illegality of the operations. As a result of the intense gene therapy and reconstructive surgery, Alisa gained super strength similar to her daughter's, but she is also mentally unstable and prone to dissociative episodes. She eventually breaks out of the IGH facility and tracks down Jessica.[17]

A variation of Captain Hydra appears in Iron Man and Captain America: Heroes United (2014), as the brainwashed form of Steve Rogers.

Rosalie Carbone is introduced in season two of Luke Cage, played by Annabella Sciorra.[26] Rosalie is first seen in "Can't Front on Me" attending an auction house with Anibal Izqueda, Eric Hong, and Hai-Qing Yang.[27] In the episode "They Reminisce Over Your", Rosalie is among several gangsters that are seeking a slice of the void left by Mariah's arrest as it was mentioned that she was planning to expand into Harlem like her father did when he tried to drive the Stokes out. While some inmates loyal to her do an attempt on Mariah Dillard's life, Rosalie is visited by Luke Cage intimidating her into staying out of Harlem. Luke later goes into business with her and Anibal after Cage inherits control of Harlem's Paradise following Mariah's death.[28]

Rosalie makes a later appearance in season three of Daredevil. In the episode "Revelations", she is one of several criminal figures that Wilson Fisk directs blackmailed FBI agents to round up for a secret parlay. Rosalie is picked up by Ray Nadeem and Benjamin Poindexter at a groundbreaking opening ceremony as Ray tells her to come quietly. She is taken along with four criminal figures John Hammer, Everett Starr, Latimer Zyl, and Sophia Carter to a fancy restaurant in Hell's Kitchen called the Red Fish Blue Restaurant, where they are seated around a circular table for several hours. Rosalie was shown to be on good terms with Zyl. Fisk then shows up and offers the five criminal figures protection from prosecution in exchange for 20% of their profits. When Starr refuses the offer, Dex kills him by lobbing a baton at his forehead. Fisk uses this as an incentive to hike the tax to 25%, which Rosalie and the other crime lords hastily agree to. In the season 3 finale, Rosalie is later seen as one of the many criminal figures and socialites in attendance at Fisk and Vanessa Mariana's wedding. She comments to Fisk about him sitting her next to the prosecutor that tried to send her to prison and stated that she made him hold her purse. When Nadeem's posthumous confession implicating Fisk in the manipulation of the FBI is leaked onto the Internet, Rosalie along with Hammer and Zyl quickly take their leave before Dex attacks the wedding.

Cardinal first appeared in New Warriors #28 and was created by Fabian Nicieza and Darick Robertson. Cardinal has appeared in the pages of New Warriors, Night Thrasher, and Thunderbolts.

Donald Joshua Clendenon is a Vietnam War veteran. While on a mission in Rhodesia, he conceives a child named Valerie Barnhardt with fellow mercenary buddy Sprocket (Amelia Barnhardt). At some point, Clendenon is outfitted with a powered suit of armor and took the name Cardinal. Cardinal first appeared as a bodyguard for arms smuggler Jeremy Swimming-Bear (aka "Sea Urchin"). The plot was foiled by the New Warriors.[29] Broken out of prison by his allies, the Air Force, he and the team went after the New Warriors, but were defeated and sent back to prison.[30]

Some time later, Air Force was dispatched to attack Dwayne Taylor and a group of high-powered corporate officials on a jet bringing humanitarian aid to the people of Bosnia-Herzogovina. Taylor, secretly Night Thrasher, defeated Air Force and blackmailed them into assisting in relief efforts in middle Africa.[31] In Africa, Air Force were moved by the humanitarian disaster and began to earnestly help transport food and other aid to the starving peoples of the region. Protocol and his Soldiers of Misfortune attempted to interfere with the rescue missions and decimated Air Force, killing two of their members. Cardinal was badly injured in the battle.[32] With the destruction of Air Force and frustrated with his attempt to do good, Clendenon repaired the Cardinal armor and vowed to continue to work on his own as a mercenary-for-hire.[33]

Cardinal joined the Crimson Cowl's version of the Masters of Evil.[34] The Thunderbolts defeated the Masters of Evil and destroyed the Crimson Cowl's weather machine which threatened the whole world. Cardinal was again incarcerated in Seagate Prison.[33] To clear her criminal record, Cardinal's daughter Valerie becomes a member of the government Redeemers program and is given the name Meteorite along with a special fighting suit. She is murdered along with several of her teammates during a battle with the villain Graviton. Josh did not know he had a daughter until after her death and a paternity test is done after her corpse is retrieved from space by S.H.I.E.L.D. Hawkeye and the Thunderbolts' connection to the Redeemers is what the Crimson Cowl uses to get Cardinal to rejoin her Masters of Evil.[35] Hawkeye tracks the Masters of Evil down and convinces them that most of them were infected by a deadly biotoxin with which the Crimson Cowl sought to control them. Hawkeye makes a deal with them for the four Masters of Evil to join him, Songbird, and Plant-Man to stop the Crimson Cowl. They accept and form a new team of Thunderbolts.[36] Cardinal takes the new name of Harrier.[37] The team defeats Crimson Cowl and the rest of her Masters of Evil. They are able to neutralize the biotoxin.[38]

Soon after, Citizen V contacts the team explaining that the engines of the Vanguard, the V-Battalion's airship, had created a white hole. This threatens to fuse the whole Northern Hemisphere into glass within two hours' time. He explains he needs the Thunderbolts' muscle to fill the white hole with as much material as necessary.[39] The core Thunderbolts team, who had been missing on Counter-Earth, emerge from the void. The two teams close down the anomaly void and flee the V-Battalion. The Thunderbolts reorganize and Harrier voluntarily returns to prison.[40]

Clendenon has no superhuman powers. As Cardinal he wears a suit of powered armor that gives increased strength, body armor, flight and the ability to function underwater. The suit incorporates a number of offensive weapons including energy blasters, grenade launcher and tar gun.

Cardinal appears in The Avengers: United They Stand episode "Command Decision" voiced by Peter Wildman. This version is a member of Baron Helmut Zemo's Masters of Evil.

Although he never made an appearance in the Blade films or in Blade: The Series, many of John Carik's character traits are visible in Abraham Whistler's character. He was originally intended to appear in Blade: The Series (portrayed by Marc Singer) but was eventually scrapped.

Luke Carlyle, under the alias of The Mad Bomber, appears in the Spider-Man 3 video game, voiced by Neil Ross. The Mad Bomber is the only villain to be featured across all platforms, besides the three antagonists of the film itself. His public persona is that of a respectable businessman, who secretly uses his wealth to provide for his gang, the H-Bombers, equipment, and weaponry. As their name suggests, the gang's main goal is to destroy New York using explosives, though their motivation remains unknown, and their plans are constantly thwarted by Spider-Man. The game's H-Bombers storyline culminates with an attack on the Daily Bugle, during which it is revealed that Carlyle has a vendetta against J. Jonah Jameson, who published a story that exposed Carlyle's company as environmentally damaging, driving him out of business and leading him to create his gang. After Spider-Man thwarts the H-Bombers' attack and rescues Jameson, Carlyle either escapes (in the next-gen version) or is defeated and arrested (in the PS2, PSP, and Wii versions). The Game Boy Advance version of the game differs drastically from the others. Here, The Mad Bomber does not lead the H-Bombers but instead plants several bombs across the city by himself. He is foiled by Spider-Man, who defeats him and hands him over to the police.

Bruno Carrelli appears in Ms. Marvel, portrayed by Matt Lintz.[44]

Along with Ape-Man, Bird-Man, and Frog-Man, Towshend Horgan was recruited by a man named the Organizer to form the Ani-Men. Horgan had what was described as "feline agility" and was given a cat-resembling costume as a result. The Organizer was secretly Abner Jonas, a candidate for mayor of New York City, who sent the Ani-Men on missions to undermine the current administration. Daredevil defeated them and the Ani-Men and Organizer all went to prison.[45]

Later, Ape-Man, Bird-Man, and Cat-Man formed a team called the "Unholy Three" with the Exterminator and fought Daredevil again.[46] The Unholy Three, as a team of independent thieves, fought Daredevil and Spider-Man and were defeated.[47]

Ape-Man, Bird-Man, and Cat-Man later rejoined the Ani-Men, and the Ani-Men went to work for Count Nefaria. Nefaria's scientists submitted the unwitting Ani-Men to processes that gave them superhuman powers and animal-like forms. The Ani-Men invaded the Cheyenne Mountain missile base for Count Nefaria, and fought the X-Men.[48]

The Ani-Men lost their superhuman powers and reverted to normal. Count Nefaria sent the four original Ani-Men to kill Tony Stark, however the Spymaster detonated a bomb with which he had intended to kill Stark, and the resulting explosion killed the Ani-Men instead.[49]

After the deaths of the original Ani-Men, the Death-Stalker recruited a new team of Ani-Men, with a new Ape-Man, Bird-Man, and Cat-Man. This Cat-Man is Sebastian Patane who was given Horgan's Cat-Man costume. He sent the new Ani-Men to capture Matt Murdock. The Death-Stalker murdered Ape-Man and Cat-Man by electrocution upon the completion of their mission.[50]

During the Secret Wars storyline, a new, unnamed, Cat-Man alongside a new Ape-Man and Frog-Man were shown committing crimes while the heroes were on Battleworld. They somehow got the equipment of the original Ani-Men and used it to rob a vault wagon only to be opposed by the NYPD.[51]

During the Civil War storyline, the unnamed Cat-Man alongside an Ape-Man and a Bird-Man were among the villains in Hammerhead's supervillain army.[52]

Century appeared in Iron Man, voiced by James Warwick in season one, Jim Cummings in "The Beast Within", and by Tom Kane in the two-part series finale. A scene in the episode "Data In, Chaos Out" gives Century a civilian identity as a man named Woody where he sports shades and a broad-brimmed hat. In "The Beast Within," Century was the one who told Iron Man that the Force Works team is relocating from Stark Industries following Iron Man's team-up with the Mandarin to stop Fin Fang Foom. In the two-part episode "Hands of the Mandarin," Century rejoins Force Works when Mandarin uses the Heart of Darkness crystal to disable all technology. He appeared to knock out Hypnotia when she was using her powers on Iron Man and War Machine.

The Challenger was a weapons master, who challenged opponents to fight using a weapon of their choice.[56] He was inspired by the death of his father, who was killed by underworld criminals, to travel around the world and become an expert wielding 1,000 different weapons.[57] This includes chemistry, "nerve control", and flying a plane.[58] Comics historian Jim Steranko called this "one of the weakest stories ever told".[57]

The Challenger first appeared in Daring Mystery Comics #7 (April 1941) from Marvel Comics predecessor Timely Comics, debuting in both a two-page text story, "The Valley of Time", by writer Ray Gill, and in the 12-page comics story "Meet the Challenger", by Mike Sekowsky and George Klein, under the pseudonym "Nick Karlton".[59][56] Following this issue, Daring Mystery Comics took a nine-month hiatus, and the Challenger moved over to Mystic Comics.[60]

In Mystic Comics, the Challenger appeared in issues #6-10 (Oct. 1941-Aug. 1942), in eight- to nine-page stories by artists including Al Bare and Sekowsky. In at least one instance, the Challenger story was written by Stan Lee ("Horror Mansion", Mystic Comics #9, May 1942).[61]

The Challenger was not chosen to appear with his Timely compatriots in the 1976 Golden Age nostalgia team, the Liberty Legion. Legion creator Roy Thomas considered including the Challenger in the new team but decided against it: "The Challenger was a really great character that nobody ever did much with because his motif was that he would challenge a villain to fight him with a weapon of the villain's choice, and he would beat him. That might be a limited gimmick, but it was an interesting gimmick and it made him a unique kind of character. However, it did not necessarily lend itself very well to being in a group, because he would not have the scope to do his main shtick in a group the way that he would in a solo story".[62]

The Challenger first appears in a modern-day story in She-Hulk #11 (March 2005), having "bounced forward" in time.

In 2008, the Challenger is called into service during the Fifty State Initiative to lead the Freedom Force, Montana's state superteam.[63]

The demon version of Challenger first appeared in Ghost Rider Volume 2, #17 and was created by Tony Isabella and Frank Robbins.

The Elder of the Universe version of Challenger first appeared in The Avengers #678 and was created by Mark Waid, Al Ewing, Jim Zub, and Pepe Larraz.

Former law student William "Bill" Waring, having traveled around the world to learn skills needed to avenge his father's murder for turning state's evidence over to the district attorney, dons a green costume with a full face mask to become the World War II superhero the Challenger.

Through unexplained circumstances, the Challenger "bounced forward" in time to the present day, finding himself without assets, having been presumed dead, and inquiring of the law firm Goodman, Lieber, Kurtzberg & Holliway about reversing his will. The firm puts him in contact with the superhero Captain America, who had found himself in a future era due to suspended animation, for advice and assistance.[64] He later becomes part of the federal government's Fifty State Initiative of superhero teams, joining the Montana group, Freedom Force.[65][66]

The Challenger is a demon that works as an agent of Mephisto. He was dispatched by Mephisto to drag Ghost Rider to Hell. At the time when Ghost Rider and Daimon Hellstrom were exorcising Legion from the body of Katy Milner, the Challenger appeared and challenged the Ghost Rider to a deadly race for the fate of Katy. Though he defeated Ghost Rider, the Challenger was hit by Ghost Rider's hellfire attack which caused the spell to be broken, revealing Katy Milner as the cursed form of Roxanne Simpson[67]

At the time when the Avengers and the New Avengers got displaced to the World War II-era and collaborated with the Invaders, Peter Parker sported a green costume and took up the alias of the Challenger when fighting Red Skull and the Nazis.[68]

An earlier member of the Elders of the Universe originally went by the name of the Grandmaster until he lost it in a contest against En Dwi Gast whom he shared a gaming hobby with. This Elder was banished to the void of nothingness until the end of time. After the Multiverse was recreated following the end of the "Secret Wars" storyline, the Elder returned and took up the name of the Challenger where he challenged the Grandmaster to a rematch.[69]

With Earth as the battleground, the Challenger reassembled the Black Order to the point where he resurrected Black Dwarf, Corvus Glaive, Proxima Midnight, and restored Supergiant as a psychic projection. The Challenger pitted them against the Grandmaster's incarnation of the Lethal Legion.[70] One of the challenges involved gathering the Pyramoids that were in different locations.[71]

When it came to the final round, the Challenger had an ace up his sleeve in the form of a resurrected Hulk.[72] When the Hulk destroyed the Pyramoid that was in Voyager's possession at the Avengers Auxiliary Headquarters, it cost the Challenger the victory he needed. Afterward, they both heard Voyager's confession to the Avengers for her involvement with the Grandmaster. Before the Grandmaster can offer him a rematch, the Challenger apparently disintegrated him and made plans to destroy Earth under the alias of Grandmaster Prime. He fought off Falcon, Hulk, Rogue, and Wonder Man until Voyager arrived with an army of Avengers to fight Challenger. Voyager's morale boost and power augmentation from Scarlet Witch enabled the Challenger to be defeated. Voyager then took the Challenger back to the Far Shore and shackled him to observe the Avengers' subsequent adventures where Voyager hoped that they can inspire him like they did with her. Challenger agreed to watch the Avengers until the day he is able to break free.[73]

The William Waring version of Challenger is a master of weapons, jiu-jitsu, chemistry, and swordsmanship. He is also a skilled marksman, boxer, and pilot. Through Indian nerve-control training, the Challenger gained the superpower to make himself immune to pain at will.

The Elder of the Universe version of Challenger possesses the Primordial Power which enables him to have super-strength, enhanced durability, immortality, energy manipulation, and the apparent ability to resurrect the dead.

Wealthy former professional gambler Nicholas Powell was looking for more thrill in his life. He decides to become a mercenary criminal-for-hire, incorporating his love of gambling into his work. Anyone who hires him would, instead of directly paying, bet his fee against him actually completing the mission. If Powell (calling himself "Chance") is successful, he receives his fee; if not, he lost the "bet" and owes that amount to his contractors. The thrill of this risk was the only way in which Chance felt the work was truly interesting.

Chance was first hired by the Foreigner to kill a fence named Andre Boullion. Chance wagered his fee at double or nothing that he could kill Spider-Man, but Spider-Man instead defeated him.[74] Chance was then hired by corrupt city official Robert Phalen to kill a murder witness. His initial attempt was thwarted by Daredevil, and his contract was terminated when Phelan died.[75] Chance was hired under pretense by the Life Foundation to steal a secret arms shipment. The Life Foundation captured him instead, and Carlton Drake sought to duplicate his wrist blasters. Chance joined forces with Spider-Man to overcome the Life Foundation.[76] Chance was next hired by Mister Grouper to kill casino owner Raymond Trask but was thwarted by Spider-Man.[77] Trask then hired Chance under the pretense of protecting Trask from an assassination attempt. Instead, Trask unsuccessfully tried to kill him out of revenge.[78]

During the Spider-Island storyline, Chance (alongside Scorcher and White Rabbit) is seen guarding an abandoned lab at Empire State University when Peter Parker and Carlie Cooper arrive. He ends up knocked down by Parker using the moves he learned from Shang-Chi.[79]

Chance later appeared, attempting to kill the rejuvenated Steve Rogers during a press conference, only to be defeated by the current Captain America. While getting arrested, he mentions to Captain America that he was on Pleasant Hill and did not agree with the heroes' actions as a result of the crisis.[80]

This version of Chance is a 13-year-old South Korean girl who immigrated to America, then ran away from the church which was mistreating her. The mutant criminal Vanisher recruits her as part of his group the Fallen Angels, teenagers who work as thieves.[81] There, she befriended the extraterrestrial mutant Ariel.[82]

During a fight with Warlock's father Magus, Magik accidentally ends up teleporting her whole team, split up, into two alternative future timelines.[88] In one of them, where the Sentinels have destroyed most of Earth's mutants, Cannonball, Mirage and Lila have established a guerilla operation to take mutants to temporary safety in Lila's Dyson sphere.[89]

The Marvel Cinematic Universe version of the character, renamed Goose in reference to the Top Gun character Nick "Goose" Bradshaw (Anthony Edwards), appears in the live-action film Captain Marvel (2019).[97] She is portrayed by four different cats: Archie, Reggie, Rizzo and Gonzo. Each one was chosen based on their personalities and for nuzzling, holding, "face" and "jerk" actions.[98] Goose once belonged to Mar-Vell who was posing as an Earth scientist named Wendy Lawson and met Carol Danvers, who she immediately liked. In the 1990s, when the amnesiac Danvers and Nick Fury were investigating Lawson, Goose finds them and begins following them. She accompanies them on their Quinjet to Louisiana where they go to Maria Rambeau and her daughter Monica Rambeau's house so Danvers can remember her past. There, the terrified Skrull Talos identifies Goose as a Flerken. Goose was present when Talos has a parley with Danvers and Fury. Goose accompanies Danvers, Rambeau, Fury, and Talos into space to a spaceship carrying Skrull refugees. While there, Goose reveals her true nature by using her abilities to defeat Kree soldiers and swallowing the Tesseract. Despite being very tame and friendly, she unexpectedly slashes Fury's eye (presumably because she was annoyed by him), explaining his eye patch. Despite this, Fury adopts Goose as his pet and sometime later, she coughs up the Tesseract in his Atlanta office.

Chimera is an interdimensional pirate from an unknown Earth who first encountered Wolverine whilst she was gaining information on him and his feral regressive state. She assisted the self-styled heir of Apocalypse, Genesis, with Wolverine's capture when Genesis wanted to brainwash Wolverine to be his first Horseman. They attempted to re-bond the adamantium to Wolverine's skeleton which had been removed by Magneto but the process failed. Wolverine's body violently expelled the metal, killing most of Genesis' followers, the Dark Riders. Dirtnap—one of the only Dark Riders to survive—teamed up with Chimera to get revenge on Wolverine.[99] Chimera encountered Wolverine once again when he and Venom were lured into a trap set by her and Dirtnap. She and Dirtnap were both seemingly killed in an implosion.

The villains survived and attacked the Generation X school in an attempt to kidnap the M twins, but to defend themselves the twins merged back into M and then merged with Emplate, creating the being known as M-Plate. Chimera then captured Synch and fled along with M-Plate. Synch was later rescued by Generation X.[100]

Chimera is next seen in Madripoor killing drug runners. She is approached by the Red Queen to join her Sisterhood of Mutants.[101]

Later in Japan they dig up Kwannon's body and confront Domino who is there on other business. Domino critically injures her but she gets away with the rest of the Sisterhood and Kwannon's body. After the Red Queen heals her, the Sisterhood perform a spell involving Kwannon's body and a captive Betsy Braddock, returning her to her original body.[102] The Sisterhood then attack the X-Men. Chimera, along with Martinique, attacks Northstar, Cyclops and Dazzler.[103] After taking the adult X-Men out, she tries to attack Armor and X-23 only for the girls to be teleported out by Pixie. Pixie goes and fetches the Stepford Cuckoos and Elixir and Chimera attacks the Cuckoo's who respond by savagely beating her.[104]

Spiral then teleports the Sisterhood back to their base where they split up with Chimera going with the Red Queen to Jean Grey's burial site. There she attacks Domino only to be beaten by Colossus. When the Red Queen is defeated, Spiral teleports the Sisterhood away.[105]

Chimera later appears as a member of a group of Marauders that are brainwashed to attack the X-Men.[106]

As part of the "All-New, All-Different Marvel", Chimera appears as a member of the Marauders. She assists Aries, Azimuth, and Coda into pursuing Nightcrawler through the sewers to capture him and make him Mister Sinister's specimen.[107]

Chimera is an unnamed woman who is a member of the Femizons. She is a metamorph who can grow wings, claws, and other parts.[108]

The chimera of Greek mythology appeared in Marvel Comics. It is depicted as a fire-breathing monster with the heads of a lion and a goat next to each other, the front legs of a lion, the wings of a dragon, the hindquarters of a goat, and a snake-headed tail, while also possessing the power of speech. Its history of being the offspring of Echidna and being slain by Bellerophon is still mentioned. At some point, the Chimera was restored to life by Hera to guard the caverns underneath New Olympus. It was accompanied in this job by a Cyclops and some Skeleton Warriors.[109] The Chimera encountered the Agents of Atlas. When it did not see that they were Olympians, Chimera breathed fire at them, sparking a fight between the heroes and the minions of Hera.[110] Gorilla-Man forced the chimera to set its second head ablaze, causing it to flail around until it was knocked unconscious.[111]

Andrew Chord was an American soldier, an army sergeant during the Vietnam war. His unit (calling themselves the "Half Fulls") was in the Bolaven Plateau north of the Se Kong river in Cambodia where they were looking to scout locations for a possible landing base for American aircraft. His unit of six soldiers (including Night Thrasher's father Daryl Taylor, Diego Cassaes a.k.a. the Left Hand and the fathers of the members of the Folding Circle) encountered a mysterious building known as the Temple of the Dragon's Breadth. They soon encountered a seemingly English speaking Cambodian geriatric named Tai who restrained them via magic. Tai explained to the soldiers the history of her people and the need for the soldiers to mate with six young women from her cult. The soldiers were led to believe that through these matings their children would one day rule the world. Five of the soldiers agreed to this pact. Daryl Taylor refused his bride because he was already married to his wife Melody.

Chord was married off to Tai's only daughter Miyami and brought his new bride home with him to America. Miyami soon gave birth to their two biracial children, Silhouette and Aaron (Midnight's Fire). Miyami did not want her children to be used as Tai's pawns so she faked their deaths and her own in a car crash. Miyami left her children to be raised in Manhattan's Chinatown and departed for parts unknown. Chord, believing his wife and children were dead, began to travel the world as a mercenary. He came to know the time-traveler Cable, who also spent time as a mercenary. Chord eventually returned to the Dragon Breadth's temple in Cambodia where he renewed his association with his mother-in-law Tai. Tai, believing her grandchildren were dead, sought to have a replacement to fulfill Chord's role in the pact. To this end she convinced Chord to resume his friendship with former Army buddy Daryl Taylor and his wife Melody. Chord became godfather to their infant son Dwayne Taylor. Tai one day returned and demanded Chord kill Daryl and Melody to fulfill his role in the pact. Chord reluctantly did as he was told and shot his friends in a crowded restaurant, right in front of six-year-old Dwayne. At this time Dwayne first met Tai and she erased his memory of the event.[113]

Chord and Tai trained Dwayne to be a crime fighter to avenge the murders of his parents, never revealing their role in the incident. They also ran Dwayne's business affairs; Daryl Taylor had a charitable organization called the Taylor Foundation. The two often invested the money in illegal operations all over the globe. Dwayne eventually became friends with fellow crime fighters Silhouette and Midnight's Fire.[114] Tai and Chord did not realize their familial relation to Dwayne's new friends but they disapproved of Dwayne's friendship with them and of Dwayne's romance with Silhouette. The partnership between Dwayne and the siblings ended when Silhouette was crippled during a failed undercover operation by the gunshots of a Korean gang member.

Due to Chord and Tai's urging Dwayne became Night Thrasher and assembled a young team of superheroes named the New Warriors.[115] Chord often served as their pilot. Tai had hoped to sacrifice the New Warriors to the well of the Dragon's Breadth cult in place of the members of the Folding Circle (the children from the matings of the soldiers and the female maidens) and absorb the power released from their sacrifice. Chord accompanied the New Warriors to Brazil to investigate Project: Earth. He battled Force of Nature along with them.[116] Chord was with the New Warriors when they teamed with X-Force, revealing that he knew the X-Force leader Cable from his days as a mercenary in Vietnam.[117] In a related story, Chord is one of the many heroes to become stuck inside the mind of Piecemeal as the entity attempted to convert the entire world into a mathematical construct. The 'X-Factor' team talked Piecemeal out of his plan and everything was returned to normal.[118]

Eventually Night Thrasher uncovered Chord's abuse of Taylor Foundation funds and confronted him. To keep from answering these questions Chord tricked the other New Warriors into thinking Dwayne was being controlled by an outside force. Eventually Chord's deception was uncovered. Chord chose to shoot himself in the head rather than reveal the truth. Marvel Boy rushed a dying Chord to the hospital.[119] While in the hospital Chord admitted to killing Night Thrasher's parents. While he was in the hospital his wife Miyami came to visit.[120] Tai revealed to Silhouette that she was Chord's daughter.[121] Tai murdered Miyami when she discovered Miyami's deception about the car crash. Chord was partially healed by Tai via magic. She tells herself that she cannot heal him fully because there was only so much brain to work with. He told the New Warriors that he had killed Night Thrasher's father.[122] He still had to endure months of rehab to recover from his injuries. Tai was soon killed by Night Thrasher himself when she attempted to gain large amounts of power via sacrificing the New Warriors and the Folding Circle.[123]

Soon afterwards Chord concocted an elaborate plot to stage his own kidnapping and frame other corrupt members of the Taylor Foundation board. He hired the Poison Memories to abduct him from the hospital. Chord's goal was for Dwayne to investigate the dirty dealings of the foundation and to take a proactive interest in the company's dealings. Chord wanted Dwayne to continue the good work of the foundation. Chord then underwent surgery to save his life, and was reconciled with Night Thrasher and Silhouette.[124] Chord was later named legal guardian of Elvin Haliday, a.k.a. the New Warrior Rage. This was needed because Haliday's grandmother was killed by the 'Poison Memories', a street gang with a grudge against the Warriors.[125]

Chord and his former mercenary buddy Sprocket later helped Dwayne uncover the truth about his father's illegitimate son Donyell. When the New Warriors were sent to various points in time by the Sphinx, Chord and Sprocket helped Hindsight Lad recruit a new team of Warriors to battle the Sphinx.[126] Since then, Chord has disappeared off the radar and has yet to reappear, even after Night Thrasher's death in the event that sparked the so-called "Civil War";[127] with Dwayne dead and Chord's whereabouts unknown, Donyell Taylor has assumed control of the Taylor Foundation.[128]

Chord is an athletic man, but has no superhuman powers. He is an excellent hand-to-hand combatant, with considerable combat training and experience in the U.S. Army. He is a good marksman with conventional firearms. Chord is a highly accomplished armament designer, and designed Night Thrasher's original battle-suit. He is a skilled aircraft pilot, and excellent computer operator.

• Though never appearing, Chthon is referenced in Blade: The Series as the namesake of the House of Chthon vampire faction..
• Chthon appears in The Super Hero Squad Show, voiced by Mark Hamill.
• Chthon appears Marvel's Midnight Suns, voiced by Darin De Paul.
• Chthon is mentioned in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. Like the comics, this version is referenced as the author of the Darkhold and creator of Mount Wundagore.

• A teenage Clayton Cole appears in the Spider-Man episode "Osborn Academy", voiced by Yuri Lowenthal. He competes with Herman Schultz for a spot in the titular school, with the former presenting his expertise in sonic technology and "clash-tech", but they get into a fight with their respective technologies, forcing Spider-Man to intervene. However, the battle is interrupted by the Jackal, who steals Herman and Clayton's technology. After the two help Spider-Man defeat the Jackal, the former brings them back to the Osborn Academy to face up to their actions. Norman Osborn takes the blame for driving the two boys into what had transpired, and grants Herman a place in the school.
• Clayton Cole appears in The Amazing Spider-Man 2, voiced by an uncredited voice actor. This version is a street thug and close friend of Herman Schultz. Spider-Man encounters Cole and a group of thugs during his search for Ben Parker's killer. After webbing him to a wall, Spider-Man deduces that Cole is not the man he is looking for and intimidates him until Cole tells him to seek out Schultz for more information.

Cloud 9 was created by writer Dan Slott and artist Stefano Caselli. She first appears in Avengers: The Initiative #1 (June 2007). She continued to appear in that series until the end of its publication, through issue #35 (May 2010). She is also one of the protagonists of the 2011 six-issue limited series Fear Itself: Youth in Revolt.

Abby first demonstrates her powers while flying on a cloud in Evanston, Illinois. She is spotted by the Initiative program and was recruited into it by War Machine, who informs her that if she wants to continue flying, she needs a license. Once at the base, Abby is revealed to be very shy. Self-conscious about her body, she compares it to the other girls' bodies there whom she feels look like Vogue magazine models.

During a uniform exchange, Abby accidentally enters the boys' showers and is found by fellow new hero MVP. He takes a liking to her and watches as she trains. However, when the training with another new hero, Armory, produces a mishap. MVP is shot by one of Armory's blasts when he tries to protect Abby from harm. Armory was grounded from being a superhero and expelled out of the base.[142]

Abby is one of the cadets sent on an emergency mission to protect the President from an assassination attempt by HYDRA. It is revealed that she is the top marksman among the Initiative cadets, and she shoots down a HYDRA fighter with a pulse rifle. She becomes distressed when she realizes the HYDRA pilot perished in the explosion. Her drill instructor Gauntlet emphasizes this.[143] Later, in a fight with the group Warbound, she tries to kill her opponent Elloe Kaifi. She is talked out of her actions.[144] She has stated that she has no intention of superhuman heroics. As she puts it, "I'm only here because I want to fly. Man, this blows."

During the "Killed In Action" story arc, Abby learns that the Initiative had secretly made clones of MVP, and that one of them, who dubs himself KIA, conducts a rampage. Along with a group of fellow Initiative members, she travels to the Van Patrick home, attempting to convince the first MVP clone to download his memories into a device that will transmit them into KIA's brain, essentially reprogramming KIA, but possibly leaving the first clone mindless. Cloud 9 manages to distract KIA by playing on the latent memories of the original MVP and kissing him, allowing her to fill his lungs with her vapor. The MVP clone, rather than wipe his own mind, instead places the helmet on KIA, leaving him an empty shell. Abby and the clone decide to start things over, with Abby acknowledging that the clone is not the MVP she knew.

When Cloud 9 completed her Initiative training, she was assigned to Freedom Force, the Montana team. She is then seen in action alongside Challenger, Think Tank, Equinox, and Spinner.[145] When Equinox is revealed to be a Skrull infiltrator, it is Cloud 9 who kills him.[146] Initiative instructor Tigra expresses concerns about Cloud 9 having developed a detached attitude towards killing in the line of duty after graduating to active service. Believing that Cloud 9 is merely bottling up her emotions rather than dealing with them, Tigra worries about the psychological trauma that may result if Cloud 9 is forced to confront those feelings.[147]

During the Dark Reign storyline, Norman Osborn orders Freedom Force to attack the Heavy Hitters after they secede from the Initiative. Cloud 9 is ordered to assassinate Night Thrasher, but she misses on purpose.[148] She lies, defending that she honestly missed, Taskmaster realizes she is lying and places her on probation.[149] She joins Hardball to battle the demon Nightmare after he possesses Trauma. Nightmare plagues Abby with visions of undead people with bullet wounds to the head. She fights them and yells at Trauma to fight off his possession. Trauma hears her but Nightmare knocks her out.[150] Following the events of the Siege storyline, Cloud 9 assists a depowered Komodo in capturing Baron Von Blitzschlag.[151]

After Steve Rogers replaces Norman Osborn, Rogers offers her the opportunity to become a trainer at Avengers Academy. She declines when he tells her that it is optional and that the Superhuman Registration Act has been abolished. She destroys her superhero registration card and removes her costume as she flies away, freed from the Act's requirements.[152] During the Fear Itself storyline, Cloud 9 refuses to attend a meeting held by Prodigy regarding magical hammers that have crashed to Earth. However, when Thor Girl is apprehended and accosted by men outside her holding cell, Cloud 9 arrives to rescue her and subdues the men. After defeating Quicksand, who was on a murder spree, they join in the battle in Las Vegas against Juggernaut (who has been transformed into Kuurth: Breaker of Stone) and rescue civilians.[153]

Cloud 9 later appears amongst the heroes allied with Jeremy Briggs. During a confrontation with the students of the Avengers Academy, she expresses contentment with her new job and expresses that she has no desire to act as a hero herself.[154] During the Secret Empire storyline, Cloud 9 appears as a member of the Underground when Hydra took over the United States.[155]

Abigail has the ability to create an unidentified cloud-like gas form on which she and others can fly. She can also use this gas in an offensive manner, by filling an opponent's lungs with it.[144] Cloud 9 is one of the better marksmen in the Initiative. War Machine states she had the highest cadet score on the shooting range.[143]

• Cloud 9 appears in Lego Marvel's Avengers, voiced by Laura Bailey.

The original version, Ralph Roberts, was created by writer Roy Thomas and penciller Werner Roth, and first appeared in X-Men #31 (April 1967).[156] He has been an antagonist to various superheroes.

An ex-employee of Stark Industries and the older brother of Ted Roberts, Ralph built a weaponized suit armor powered by cobalt radiation. Ralph gave a tour of his lab when Ted was dating Jean Grey and showed his Cobalt Man armor. He gets unstable and destructive before Cyclops, Marvel Girl, the Beast, Iceman and Angel defeat him, after which he realized the Cobalt Man armor is too dangerous to use.[157][158] However, Roberts is kidnapped in order to build a giant Cobalt robot before being rescued by the X-Men.[159]

Roberts next used a bulkier Cobalt Man armor to achieve superhuman size due to the radiation that is slowly killing him and attempts to show the dangers of nuclear power by destroying himself and Sydney, Australia, resulting in a confrontation with the Hulk where Cobalt Man seemingly dies safely away from Earth.[160]

Cobalt Man gets forced into service as Egghead's pawn for the Emissaries of Evil, fighting the Hulk once again until the Defenders helped restore his sanity and he seemingly sacrifices himself in a contained nuclear explosion alongside his tormentor.[161] However, Cobalt Man survived and fights the Hulk once again.[162]

Cobalt Man now has a more streamlined armor while having a confrontation with the Avengers where he is defeated by Iron Man and the Vision, and subsequently impersonated by Tony Stark to infiltrate the Thunderbolts.[163]

After the Raft's massive supervillain escape, Roberts went in hiding in Stamford, Connecticut with other escaped convicts who are located by the New Warriors (as part of a reality-TV show); the ensuing fight results in Nitro's powerful explosion which killed hundreds, apparently including Roberts and most of the New Warriors.[164]

Roberts is among the dead when Hercules travels to the Underworld in Erebus with a chance to return to life by winning at gambling.[165]

After he's somehow revived, Cobalt Man fights Deadpool and the Mercs for Money who capture him for the company Umbral Dynamics.[166]

Ralph Roberts's various Cobalt Man armors had abilities that included flight, superhuman strength, durability, recoil beams, and oxygen tanks for outer space.

A robot version of Cobalt Man is built for Tyrannus, but the robot fought and gets destroyed by the X-Men.[159]

A Skrull impersonated the original Cobalt Man but is defeated by Ms. Marvel.[167]

A group of fanatics of Norman Osborn went on a rampage but are defeated by Robbie Baldwin.[168]

Ralph Roberts, hybridized with Paul Norbert Ebersol, appears in Avengers Assemble, voiced by Rick D. Wasserman.[169] This version previously worked for Stark Industries until he was fired for giving away company secrets. He first appears as the Fixer of the Masters of Evil in "Under Siege" due to his hatred for Iron Man before later appearing as Techno of the Thunderbolts in the group's self-titled episode and "Thunderbolts Revealed".

• A variation of Cobalt Man appears in the episode "A Friend in Need". This version is a robot created by Ultron with teleportation abilities. Cobalt Man fights the Avengers but is defeated by the Vision.[170]

Cohen is one of the many allies of Nick Fury who work together in battling the Nazis throughout World War II. Cohen has had dozens of adventures with the team, such as in Sgt. Fury and the Howling Commandos #32, where he comes under the influence of Nazi brainwashing. He manages to resist the commands to kill his friends and is able to help turn the tables on his brainwasher and complete the interrupted mission to destroy a weapons plant. During his adventures, his sister, unnamed, is briefly seen.

After the war, Cohen goes back to Brooklyn, settles down with his wife and runs his father's mechanic shop. He has two sons and one daughter. He turns the family business into a string of car dealerships, which he eventually passes down to his sons.

Cohen signs up for a tour of duty in the Korean War, where he makes the rank of sergeant.

Cohen's military career continues to the Vietnam war, where he reunites with the Commandos for a special mission. Outside of the war, Cohen still ends up in trouble. In a 1972 reunion he ends up shot and a decade later, he confronts a Life Model Decoy of the Nazi war criminal Baron von Strucker.

When Nick Fury's espionage organization S.H.I.E.L.D. is corrupted by a sentient Life Model Decoy and nearly destroyed from within, Cohen serves with the group until it can get back on its feet.

Over the years Cohen and his friends have dealt with Nick Fury's deaths, mostly correctly guessing it was some sort of ruse or LMD. They were fooled in one instance where the vigilante Punisher, not in his right mind, had slain a Fury LMD.

Cohen is considered a mechanical genius. Though he specializes in automobiles, he has a talent for rigging and fixing all sorts of mechanical devices. As a ranger, he is also trained in explosives. His weaponry tends to consist of grenades and machine guns.

• Izzy Cohen makes a cameo appearance in the X-Men: The Animated Series series episode "Old Soldiers".
• Izzy Cohen appears in The Incredible Hulk, voiced by Thom Barry. This version is a ruthless S.H.I.E.L.D. agent and member of General Thunderbolt Ross' "Hulkbusters".
• Izzy Cohen appears in a flashback in The Super Hero Squad Show episode "Wrath of the Red Skull".
• Izzy Cohen appears in The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes episode "Meet Captain America".

The daughter of Dorothy and the late Burt Carlysle, of New Brunswick, New Jersey,[174] as a young mutant shapeshifter kicked out of her home, Vanessa Carlysle fell into a life of prostitution in Boston where she met and fell in love with a mercenary named Wade Wilson. Carlysle was soon saved from Wilson's vengeful employers by Zoe Culloden, a time-traveling agent of Landau, Luckman, and Lake who had journeyed into the past to prevent Wilson's eventual self-destruction. That night, Wilson broke up with Carlysle after learning he had terminal illness, leaving her heartbroken. Carlysle became a mercenary herself, eventually employed by arms-dealer Tolliver.

Under his orders, Copycat infiltrated X-Force in the shape of Domino while the real Domino was a prisoner. Her mission was to blow up X-Force's headquarters to kill Cable, but she became attached to the team members, fell in love with Cable and did not go through with her mission. Tolliver sent Deadpool to force her to set the bomb. Deadpool would be put in her place, if she refused. Deadpool revealed Copycat's cover to X-Force, and left them for dead by blowing up the complex without knowing that X-Force had already escaped.

Vanessa briefly hid herself under the false identity (as a twin) of one of her friends; Tina Valentino. Deadpool and his associate, Sluggo, believing they killed her, killed Tina instead. She then moved in with Garrison Kane in San Francisco, until Cable found them.[175] She was subsequently captured by the emotion-manipulating Psycho-Man, who sought Kane's advanced technology, but was rescued from the Microverse by Kane, Cable, Domino and the Microverse's resident heroes, the Microns. Later, she broke up with Kane and came back to live with Deadpool. Deadpool's feelings towards Siryn grew, so she left him after having taken his appearance to attack her, in hopes of souring their potential relationship.

Some time later, Copycat was captured by Weapon X. The treatments of Weapon X destroyed her memory and she forgot her mission. Recruited by Sabretooth, Deadpool received an order to kill her. He tried to warn her, so Weapon X sent Kane to kill the both of them. The fight took them to a local zoo where Deadpool left her in a shapechanged-gorilla form among other gorillas to fight against Kane. When he returned, the other gorillas were dead and Copycat was dying from wounds inflicted by Sabretooth. She died shortly after in Deadpool's arms.[176]

However, Deadpool had poured an amount of his blood into Copycat's wounds, which, unknown to him, healed her. Vanessa then took up the identity of an owner of a chimichanga stand, and later cheated Deadpool out of one of his past marriages.[177]

Copycat is such a powerful and precise metamorph that she can duplicate another being down to the cellular level. Because of this, she is able to replicate superhuman powers, abilities, and even mental imprints so closely that telepaths have trouble identifying her. Copycat simply requires knowledge to duplicate someone's appearance, but needs physical contact to duplicate anything else. She is also capable of turning into animals, finding these forms easier to maintain than human shape.[176] Weapon X modified her powers by accelerating the rate at which she could duplicate others. However, as a side effect of this enhancement, Copycat began to lose her memory and was unable to hold any solid form for long periods of time.

In the Age of Apocalypse reality, Copycat was a member of the Brotherhood of Chaos, an elite religious group affiliated to the Church of the Madri. She served alongside other members such as Madison Jeffries and Spyne. She was often referred to as Sister Vanessa or Sister Carlysle. Using her shape-shifting powers, Copycat was able to hide incognito amongst the humans who had hoped to flee North America and was able to discover the site of the Sentinel Evacuation while in their midst. Vanessa led the Brotherhood to an emigration site in Maine and there they clashed with the Amazing X-Men. In an attempt to elude the X-Man Quicksilver, Copycat posed as Scarlet Witch, but was forced to revert to her normal self by Dazzler. Both Copycat and Box were able to escape the X-Men and conceal themselves, posing as humans, and escaped to Europe. They were discovered at a checkpoint and provided a distraction for a group of Altered Humans to pass through, but were subsequently hunted down by Weapon X and Jean Grey, with the latter slaying Vanessa in the process.[178]

In the Age of X reality, Copycat infiltrated Cannonball's X-Force when she worked for the Human Coalition. She was unmasked and killed by Husk. [179]

• Copycat makes minor non-speaking appearances in X-Men: The Animated Series.
• Copycat makes a minor non-speaking appearance in Wolverine and the X-Men.
• Vanessa Carlysle appears in the live-action film Deadpool, portrayed by Morena Baccarin. Though she sports a telltale streak of white hair and references are made to the "roles" she has played, Vanessa has not demonstrated any mutant powers as of yet that relate to her comic-book counterpart. This is due to writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick deciding the reveal would be too confusing, although they have expressed interest in exploring the idea in a future story.[180] She is in a relationship with and got engaged to Wade Wilson, later learning of his cancer. Following his transformation into Deadpool and disfigurement in an attempt to cure his cancer however, he left her without a word. While working at a strip club, Vanessa is abducted by Ajax and Angel Dust to lure out Deadpool. After he rescued her, Vanessa was initially angry with Deadpool for abandoning her, though she reconciled with him upon learning of his plight.
• Vanessa appears in the live-action sequel film Deadpool 2, with Morena Baccarin reprising her role. Vanessa and Wade celebrate their anniversary and discuss starting a family. However, a drug lord he failed to kill earlier kills her. Following this, Vanessa later appears as a vision in the afterlife to tell a devastated Wade that he must protect Russell Collins from Cable. After Deadpool sacrifices himself to save Russell, he and Vanessa are temporarily reunited, but she tells him it is not his time yet and sends him back. In a mid-credits scene, Deadpool uses Cable's time-travel device to avert Vanessa's death.

Tom Corsi was a member of the police department in Westchester County. The Demon Bear carried out an attack on Dani Moonstar. After her attack, the New Mutants brought Dani to the Mid-County Medical Center. At the hospital, Tom and Sharon Friedlander, an ER nurse, were kidnapped and possessed by the Demon Bear. The Demon Bear attempted to transform Corsi and Friedlander into his demonic slaves. After the New Mutants defeated the bear, Tom and Sharon were returned to their natural human form, though a couple of physical changes. The two of them—who are both Caucasian—now physically resemble Native Americans, along with being enhanced to the level of perfect human specimens.[192]

Later, Tom and Sharon are mentally attacked by the New Mutants long-term adversary, Empath. The man twists the attraction the two have for each other into a sexual obsession, which lasts for several days.[193] Afterwards, Tom spent some time at the Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters. Eventually, Tom found himself involved in a battle with the Reavers on Muir Island. Tom was also one of the Muir Islanders being manipulated by the Shadow King, at the time.[194]

Being part of Charles Xavier's Mutant Underground, he was asked to work at 'Our Mother of the Sacred Heart', a school for the disabled. The school eventually came under attack by a group of Acolytes looking for a potential mutant. In the process, Tom kills one of the Kleinstock Brothers. Sharon is slain by Joanna Cargill. The X-Men, summoned by Sharon before her death, defeat the Acolytes.[195]

Some time after, Tom was a gym teacher at the Massachusetts Academy, a school for mutants run by the White Queen. He teaches physical education to the mutants that reside there, a small group known as Generation X. When that facility is closed down, he moves back to the Xavier Institute. After many more students join Xaviers, Corsi again becomes a physical education teacher. The student called Elixir is in his class.

After M-Day, Corsi is let go due to the loss of 90% of the student body. Danielle Moonstar was also let go. His current whereabouts are unknown.

Due to the Demon Bear's enchantment of his body, Tom has moderately enhanced strength. He claims he can lift twice the amount of the world weightlifting record with relative ease.

Delphine Courtney first appeared in Alpha Flight #7 (February 1984) and was created by John Byrne.

The character subsequently appears in Alpha Flight #11–13 (June–August 1984), Alpha Flight #22 (May 1985), and Alpha Flight #25–28 (August–November 1985).

Delphine Courtney appeared as part of the "Omega Flight" entry in The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Deluxe Edition #9.

Delphine Courtney was a servitor robot, built by the Roxxon Energy Corporation to serve Jerry Jaxon. The robot initially had a fully feminine human appearance, and was referred to as "she" by its creators to the point that Jaxon himself was unaware of "her" true nature.[196] Courtney acted on Jaxon's behalf to recruit several superhumans that were former members of Gamma Flight and Beta Flight (the Canadian government's training teams) that were dismissed after the government closed Department H, the division that oversaw Gamma, Beta, and the primary Alpha Flight team.[197] Jaxon intended to form a personal super-team to revenge on James MacDonald Hudson, founder of Department H and leader of the still-active Alpha Flight as Guardian, and Courtney was able to manipulate the already-disenfranchised recruits into seeking their own revenge on Alpha through an "influencer" device built into its systems.[198] However, Courtney was unable to influence Roger Bochs (inventor of the Box robot) who was still loyal to Hudson and the Flight program, forcing Jaxon to directly involve himself by taking control of Box.[196]

Luring James and Heather Hudson to America with an offer of employment at Roxxon's New York City holdings, Jaxon and Omega Flight executed an ambush of Guardian while Heather was detained by Courtney. When Heather made an attempt to escape and scuffled with Courtney, the robot's flesh-like facial covering was damaged and its true nature revealed. While Omega Flight's goal of revenge was attained with Guardian's apparent death, Courtney was witness to Jaxon's own death due to feedback from Box's destruction,[196] and Omega's remaining members were turned over to the New York City authorities.[199]

Escaping capture, Courtney freed Omega Flight from jail and employed the group in a new plot against Alpha Flight. Having its appearance reconfigured and incorporating facsimiles of Guardian's battle-suit technology into its systems, Courtney infiltrated Alpha Flight posing as Guardian and eventually lured the group into a second encounter with Omega Flight, using Alpha's trust of "Guardian" to ambush.[200] However, Omega Flight's victory was foiled by the Beyonder's arrival,[201] and Courtney and its team were forced to flee.

Their escape was blocked by Madison Jeffries, a former Flight trainee whom Courtney had avoided recruiting, fearing his ability to control machines and his loyalty to James. When Jeffries attacked with a construct created from an automobile, Courtney used one of the future duplicates of Omega Flight member Flashback as a human shield, resulting in its death (and the mental breakdown of the original Flashback, now condemned to violent death in his future). This enraged Jeffries, who used his powers to destroy Courtney, forcing its internal circuitry out of its mouth.[202]

Bochs and Jeffries later salvaged portions of Courtney's second incarnation to construct a new battle-suit functionally identical to James's original,[203] which was used by Heather under the Vindicator identity.[204]

Delphine Courtney possessed superhuman strength and had a high degree of resistance to physical damage. Its sight and hearing were sharper than a human being's. It also possessed a device called an "influencer" that could affect pre-existing psychological conditions in the human mind, allowing Courtney to manipulate individuals with judicious use of the influencer combined with verbal interaction; however, it could not absolutely control human beings, as Roger Bochs' loyalty to James Hudson allowed him to resist its manipulations. Courtney was also able to disguise itself as a human being with a flesh-like outer covering. It could masquerade as either gender by altering its underlying structure and could even impersonate specific individuals convincingly enough to fool those close to the person imitated. While impersonating James Hudson/Guardian, Courtney also contained technology that could replicate the properties of Guardian's original battle-suits, granting it all of its identity theft victim's super-powers.

June Covington first appeared in the first issue of the 2011 Osborn limited series and was created by Kelly Sue DeConnick and Emma Rios. June Covington began appearing as a regular character in the Dark Avengers series, beginning with Dark Avengers #175.

June Covington started out as a postgrad student who was bored with her life working at a university. She later met a biologist named Edward Wynne who had a birth defect on his left arm. June then decided to take up an interest in getting rid of genetic imperfections and became a scientist. After a few genetic failures and finally testing on herself, June was able to perfect her own genetics. A year later, she met Edward Wynne again and presented him with a gift. Edward rejected her gift and methods and handed her over to the police. Covington's laboratory was shut down and she was dismissed from the university. Sometime later, Covington encountered Wynne again, claiming that she had changed in order to prove herself. She lured Wynne to a lab, where she injected a genetic plug into him which paralyzed his body. After inducing cranial explosive failure on 18 people during a prayer meeting for special needs children, Covington was apprehended by the authorities. She was incarcerated in a secret government base somewhere underwater.[205] While imprisoned, she met fellow inmates Norman Osborn, Ai Apaec, Kingmaker, and Carny Rives. They planned a breakout.[206] After the inmates secured an escape pod and made their way to the surface, June stayed with Norman Osborn to be his doctor.[207]

Covington became a member of the second incarnation of Norman Osborn's Dark Avengers, in which she was that group's version of Scarlet Witch.[208] In the group's first battle with the New Avengers, Covington manages to successfully injure Doctor Strange.[209] June and the other members of the Dark Avengers are defeated by both Avengers teams when it turns out that her teammate Skaar was the Avengers' double-agent.[210]

When the Dark Avengers are thrown into an alternate reality, Covington and the rest of the Dark Avengers with her are disabled by the control nanites placed on them by that reality's version of Hank Pym. As he gets to work, Covington begins to regain consciousness.[211] Having gotten control of Henry Pym, Covington learns the history of this reality and then uses some Stark teleportation technology to remove a device from Ragnarok's brain. Covington is seemingly able to restore John Walker's lost limbs with help from this reality's version of the Venom symbiote which had been lobotomized.[212] Covington informs Barney Barton and Ai Apaec about the world that they are in as they watch the turf war on a nearby screen where they are unaware that the turf war was caused by this reality's Doctor Strange.[213] Covington remains with the Dark Avengers until they manage to flee the alternate reality and return to their own, whereupon the team escapes custody and disbands.[214]

Covington returns during the "Inhumanity" storyline, now sporting a new costume and no longer calling herself Scarlet Witch. She kidnaps the Terrigenesis Cocoon of one of the new Human/Inhuman hybrids, which draws the attention of Spider-Girl and the Avengers. Spider-Girl enlisted the Avengers to help her recover the Terrigenesis Cocoon because it contained Anya's social studies teacher Mr. Schlickeisen.[215] After waging a campaign against Advanced Idea Mechanics, Covington is defeated after being gagged and paralyzed by Spider-Girl.[216]

June Covington experimented on herself with her own Genetic Plug-in technology, giving her powers such as antiseptic breath, bones that soften to diffuse impact, and glands that distribute megadoses of Relaxin to allow her joints to dislocate with ease. She has a neurotoxin in her blood to which she is immune, and which she delivers using her razor-sharp fingernails. She also possesses surgically implanted gills, which allowed her to survive having her mouth and nose webbed shut by Spider-Girl.

June Covington makes a brief cameo in the prose novel New Avengers: Breakout by Alisa Kwitney. She appears as one of the escapees from the Raft and briefly battles Jessica Drew.

The first version of Crimson Cowl initially appeared in The Avengers #54 (July 1968),[217] and was created by writer Roy Thomas and artist John Buscema.[218] Ultron disguised himself as the Crimson Cowl to lead the Masters of Evil against the Avengers while using Edwin Jarvis as a body double.[219]

The second version of Crimson Cowl debuted in Thunderbolts #3 (June 1997) and was created by Kurt Busiek and Mark Bagley.[220] Fabian Nicieza later revealed the character's identity in Thunderbolts #67 (September 2002).

Justine Hammer is the daughter of industrialist and supervillain financier Justin Hammer. Despite Justin being one of the richest men in the world, her life was not one of privilege. Justin never approved of his daughter and Justine was always trying to prove her worthiness. Justine eventually decided to follow in her father's footsteps and use the supervillain community to accumulate power for herself.[221] Shortly after the Avengers and Fantastic Four seemingly died, the Crimson Cowl formed her own version of the Masters of Evil while working for HYDRA and hoping to win New York City's crime families' favor which enraged the Thunderbolts which were actually another faction of the Masters of Evil led by Baron Helmut Zemo as Citizen V. When the Thunderbolts faced the Masters of Evil in battle, she and her team escaped due to the blinding flash of the Crimson Cowl's teleportation effect. Both groups later fought, but the Crimson Cowl escaped again.[222]

After the Thunderbolts had turned on Zemo and Techno and were fugitives hated by heroes and villains alike, the Crimson Cowl saw an opportunity to induct the Thunderbolts into her version of the Masters of Evil. She sent Cyclone to bait the Thunderbolts into walking into an ambush. After defeating the Thunderbolts, she made her "proposal" to join her and enjoy all the amenities that come with being in her organization or defy her and she would tell all of the Thunderbolts' enemies how to find the group.[223] The Thunderbolts were given time to think over the situation but decided to take down the Crimson Cowl instead. The Thunderbolt's fought, but it looked like the Crimson Cowl had won until Clint Barton / Hawkeye disguised as Dreadknight saved the team.[224]

The Masters of Evil, led by the Crimson Cowl, began a plan to use a weather machine to blackmail world leaders for a billion dollars, and her group's numbers had grown from 6 members to 25, outnumbering the Thunderbolts. However, Hawkeye decided to use Moonstone's reputation as a traitor to infiltrate the Masters of Evil; Moonstone was tempted to side with the Masters for real, but eventually decided against it in favor of taking down and unmasking the Crimson Cowl who supposedly was Dallas Riordan, the Thunderbolts' former liaison. In reality, Riordan had been used as a decoy as Hammer teleported out of her costume and placed Dallas in her place.[225]

During a battle between the V-Battalion and the Thunderbolts, the Crimson Cowl had Dallas teleported to her hideout which was on the border of Symkaria and Latveria. The Crimson Cowl briefly held Dallas prisoner but Riordan soon escaped and the two fought a long battle that ended with Dallas falling off a bridge which left the latter paralyzed while nearly unmasking her.[226]

Hammer was apparently friends with Silver Sable who allowed her to stay in the country of Symkaria when she moved there after inheriting her father's fortune but was unaware that Hammer was a supervillain for quite some time. Eventually, the Crimson Cowl created a new incarnation of the Masters of Evil, but Hawkeye, Songbird and Plantman defeated most members and convinced several that the Crimson Cowl would kill the group with a bio-toxin. Hawkeye inducted several members of the Crimson Cowl's Masters of Evil into the Thunderbolts. The Crimson Cowl was eventually defeated when Skein deconstructed her costume, leaving Hammer naked even when she was put in her own cell by the Thunderbolts.[227]

During the "Civil War" storyline, Hammer is as part of a crew alongside Razor Fist and Diamondhead trying to escape the superhuman prison, the Raft. She teleported to the security center, knocking out both guards and releasing all the prisoners. Razor Fist holding Robbie Baldwin as a hostage/human shield accidentally released the latter's kinetic energy, rendering most of the prisoners unconscious, maimed, or possibly dead; Hammer was found knocked out cold by guards.[228]

The Crimson Cowl was hired by the Hood to take advantage of the superhero community split caused by the Superhuman Registration Act.[229]

Justine Hammer is later a recurring adversary to Tony Stark / Iron Man in Iron Man, beginning with the 2010 storyline "Stark Resilient". Justine has since ostensibly left supervillainy to take the reins of Hammer Industries with her daughter Sasha Hammer in order to promote Detroit Steel, their own line of mechanized battle suits to sell to both the military and private investors. Her initial presentation is considered a bust as the investors have little interest, but Stark announces leaving the weapons industry and an interest in using repulsor technology to give free energy to the world, making the military interested again in Detroit Steel. Justine is also seen buying surplus H.A.M.M.E.R. equipment that was sold amidst Norman Osborn's fall.[230]

Hammer continues as an adversary alongside the Mandarin in subsequent Iron Man storylines, including "Demon",[231] "The Long Way Down"[232] and "The Future".[233] After Iron Man and Zeke Stane joined forces to create a revolution and escape captivity, the former contacted Justine to warn her that Sasha and Zeke will want revenge for what the Mandarin did to Zeke. Justine ignores the warning but finds Sasha and Zeke waiting to presumably kill her.[234]

Justine Hammer's Crimson Cowl's main power is her prehensile cloak. Its many billows seem capable of elongating, strangling and grappling, and pummeling (and even forming sharp edges with its corners). The Crimson Cowl cloak also contains devices enabling her to levitate and to teleport herself and her teammates away from the scene, with a brilliant, debilitating flash of light just prior to the effect.[222] Hammer is an adept athlete, an unarmed combatant, a shrewd businesswoman and negotiator which make her a formidable leader and criminal organizer.

The Ultimate Marvel version of Justine Hammer has tech-based superhuman abilities. In Ultimate Comics: Armor Wars, she hopes of finding a cure for her "superhuman sickness" caused by her late father and apparently helps Iron Man to recover a stolen object. However, she is actually under the employment of Howard Stark Sr. to recover the same object which actually nullifies various technology; Justine is affected and she dies.[235]

• Elements of Justine Hammer are incorporated into a character named Sasha who appears in Iron Man: Armored Adventures, voiced by Paula Lindberg. She is Justin Hammer's level-headed secretary.
• The Ultron incarnation of the Crimson Cowl appears in the Avengers Assemble episode "Inhumans Among Us".[236]
• The Justine Hammer incarnation of the Crimson Cowl appears as a boss in Marvel: Avengers Alliance.
• The Crimson Cowl appears as an unlockable skin for Spider-Man in Spider-Man: Miles Morales.[237]

An alternate version of Crossfire appears in the 2000 three issue limited series Avataars: Covenant of the Shield, where the Marvel Universe is re-imagined in a fantasy setting. In this reality, Crossfire is known as Iron Cross and is a member of the Minions of Evil.[274]

• William Cross appears in The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes episode "To Steal an Ant-Man", voiced by Neil Ross. This version is a former criminal partner of Scott Lang and is served by Big Ben Donovan, Dontrell "Cockroach" Hamilton, Gideon Mace, Ray "Piranha" Jones and Spear.
• Crossfire appears in Lego Marvel Super Heroes 2 via the "Ant Man and the Wasp" DLC pack.[275]
• Crossfire appears in Marvel Avengers Alliance 2.[276]

A mutant version of Hogan appears in House of M under the name Green Goblin who befriends a young Peter after their wrestling match.[280]

In Spider-Man (2002), Peter Parker fights Bonesaw McGraw–who is based on Crusher Hogan from the comics–as the "Human Spider" to make money as a wrestler but is defeated in a cage match. Crusher Hogan appears in The Spectacular Spider-Man episode "Intervention" in a flashback, voiced by Jim Cummings. In it, Hogan is easily defeated by the Spider-Man.

Danny Leighton was born in Austin, Texas. He was a member of the Savage Crims, a New York street gang, as a young man.[281] He later became an assassin and was (as his first high-profile job) hired by Amos Jardine to kill Spider-Man, in place of the mad killer Arcade.[282] Cutthroat battled Nightcrawler, who had gotten wind of the plan, and Spider-Man, and they defeated him with some secret assistance from Arcade himself.[283]

Many years later, he defeated Mangler and Deathstrike in a fight to the death to become the Red Skull's new chief operative, replacing Crossbones.[284] He underwent training by the Taskmaster.[285] He tried to persuade Blackwing and Jack O'Lantern to help him free Mother Night from the police.[286] He initiated a brief affair with Mother Night.[287] With the Skeleton Crew, he battled Crossbones and Diamondback. He realized that Diamondback was his sister, Rachel,[288] and revealed his true identity to her.[289]

When Crossbones returned, Cutthroat feared he would be made redundant and so planned to kill Crossbones in his sleep. However, Mother Night alerted Crossbones to the plan, and so Crossbones was waiting for the "ambush" and slit Cutthroat's throat and he was seemingly killed.[290] The Red Skull even inspected the apparent corpse.[291] However, unknown circumstances show that he is alive and was an inmate in the Raft where he escaped with a lot of other convicts.[292] He was later recaptured.

The Hood has hired him as part of his criminal organization to take advantage of the split in the superhero community caused by the Superhuman Registration Act. He helped them fight the New Avengers but was defeated by Doctor Strange.

As part of the Hood's gang, he later joins the fight against the Skrull invading force in New York City.[293] He joins with the Hood's gang in an attack on the New Avengers, who were expecting the Dark Avengers instead.[294]

During the "Search for Tony Stark" arc, Cutthroat rejoined Hood's gang and assisted in the attack on Castle Doom.[271]

When working for the Power Elite, Cutthroat was ordered by Crossbones and Alexa Lukin to finish off a weakened Thunderbolt Ross. Cutthroat continued to use an electrical stick on Ross. This was all part of Ross' plan as it caused him to regain the ability to turn into Red Hulk who defeats Cutthroat.[295]

While regaining his franchises, Roderick Kingsley sold one of Cutthroat's old costumes to an unnamed criminal to become his version of Cutthroat.[296]