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real name: parker robbins

group affiliation: none

first appearance: hood #1 (2002)

abilities: invisibility (with mystical cloak), ability to walk on air (with boots), ability to discharge electrical energy through hands (because of his garments)

weapons: twin pistols



narrative profile

As a young boy, Parker Robbins witnessed a battle between Daredevil and Electro. Fascinated by the event, Robbins grew up to become a petty thief, often working with his cousin, John King. After his father died, Robbins took care of his mentally ill mother, ultimately placing her in the Bridgeside Psychiatric Care Center. Robbins needed money to support not only his mother, but his pregnant girlfriend Sara as well. When King told him about a burglary job he was going to perform at a warehouse, Robbins joined in. However, when they arrived, they found the warehouse empty, except for some mystical markings and candles surrounding them. They were attacked by a demonic creature called the Nisanti, but Robbins shot it in the head. Believing the cloak and boots the creature wore to be expensive, Robbins absconded with them, and left the believed-dead Nisanti behind. Later that night, Robbins encountered a group of thugs and tried to outrun them. To his astonishment, the Nisanti’s boots caused him to run onto thin air, and he escaped his assailants.

He went to his cousin’s apartment shortly thereafter and learned he could also become invisible while wearing the cloak. He initially used this new ability to pursue more petty thefts, but King convinced him to steal a black-market diamond shipment, unaware it belonged to crimelord Dennis Golembuski, a.k.a. the Golem. Robbins easily stole the jewels despite Golembuski’s agents — Constrictor, Shocker, and Jack O'Lantern — but was surprised by two police officers and accidentally shot and fatally wounded one. Identified as the Hood, Robbins found himself wanted by both Golumbuski and the FBI. He also found his supernatural garments at times caused him to lose control over his new powers.
As the Hood, Robbins confronted the Golem, and offered him a deal in return for the diamonds. Golumbuski agreed, planning to double-cross the Hood. He sent his agents, including Madam Rapier, to meet with the Hood, but Robbins had brought along a cloak resembling his own. After defeating Rapier, he forced her to put on the second cloak, and the police — believing her to be the Hood — shot her dead. Robbins confronted the Golem’s remaining henchmen and gave them the diamonds before demanding that Golumbuski leave him alone. Despite being reported as dead, the Hood made various enemies, including White Fang (the widow of the slain policeman) and the Nisanti, which had reawakened some time after Robbins’ encounter with it. Shaken by his experiences, Robbins visited his institutionalized mother and promised her that he would use his new abilities to help others.

source: marvel.com

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How did it come to this?

Images are almost all out in every marvel blogs and sites - such x-men being laid down by the avengers. Its all part of the Dark Reign twist.

In the post Secrect Invasion, the government assigned Norman Osborn, a reformed super villain - green goblin - by reputation, for team redevelopment to head the superhero team thunderbolts to stop the skrull threat.

When the Skrulls lost the battle and failed their takeover attempt on the planet, as the aliens were driven from Earth, it was Thunderbolts leader Norman Osborn who emerged as a publick hero while Tony Starks took the fall along with many of his former teammates, some of whom are now wanted as criminals.

Also, Osborn given a leadership of espionage agency S.H.I.E.L.D., reforms that agency into H.A.M.M.E.R. and creates a new Avengers team with his own crew of villains, dressed them up as the real thing, with himself wearing a version of Iron Man's armor with Captain America's color, calling himself the Iron Patriot.

Things are about to get worst. I just have to mention some of his crew... and probably number will add up.. who knows..

Iron Patriot
Norman Osborn

Moonstone as
Ms. Marvel

Bullesye as
Hawkeye

Daken as
Wolverine

Venom as
Spider-Man

Noh-Varr as
Captain Marvel

Sentry

Ares

Moonstone
Dr. Karla Sofen is a founding member of the "heroic" Thunderbolts and former member of the Masters of Evil. As a member of Osborn's "Dark" Avengers, she has taken up the mantle of Ms. Marvel.

Bullsye
A cruel, cruel assassin with perfect aim. He can use just about anything as a weapon. Currently he is employed by Norman Osborn to pose as Hawkeye in the Dark Avengers.

Daken
Wolverine's long lost son, he was torn from his mother's womb by the dark figure Romulus. Raised with a warped view on his father's abandonment and his mother's murder, he holds a grudge against his father.

Venom
MacDonald Gargan was an investigator that was turned into the Scorpion. He is the current host of the Venom symbiote.

Noh-Varr
Noh-Varr is a white skinned Kree male from an alternate reality who was genetically engineered from Cockroach DNA. He is the fifth person to have used the names Marvel Boy and Captain Marvel as his aliases.

Sentry
As the Sentry, Robert Reynolds is one of the most powerful beings in the Universe. But deep within his subconscious lies a dark alter ego known as the Void, whom he fears.

Ares
Ares is the Greek god of war. He is currently a member of Norman Osborn's Dark Avengers.




Begins this June.