Origin

Despite Herman being an intelligent and gifted inventor and using his abilities for legitimate purposes, he dropped out of high school and decided to use his powers for evil, becoming a successful thief. However, despite these claims of brilliance he was arrested and it was in prison that he developed the gauntlets that he would become famous for. He then broke out of prison and took the name The Shocker.

The first time he fought Spider-Man he defeated him, however, this was a one-off and in the return battle he was beaten and sent back to prison. This would mean that Shocker would become ever-present in Spider-Man's rogues gallery, often teaming up with other villains to form the Sinister Six or Masters of Evil. During their solo battle, Schultz often has the upper hand against Spider-man only to be thwarted by outside interferences.

Recently, Schultz was show in Civil War as part of a new Sinister Six before being defeated by Captain America and his team of Avengers. He was again show in Avengers: Initiative once again being defeated, this time by Komodo and War-Machine. In blood from stones chapter two The shocker makes an appearance when he is hired by the Golem.

Powers

while he has no superhuman powers, Shocker has a pair of gauntlets that can release incredibly powerful vibration waves. At their lowest power setting, these vibration waves can knock a normal person off their feet. At their highest setting, they can vibrate a person's bones into jelly. Shocker also wears a heavily insulated suit that protects him from the effects of his own vibration waves, as well as attacks from enemies.

Ultimate Shocker

Sharing little of the success of his 616 counter-part, this version of The Shocker is a middle-aged crook who often fights Spider-Man and is always defeated and placed in prison only to break out with new gear. He has become something of a running joke throughout the series.

He has been seen fight both Shadowcat and Spider-Man together twice.

Other Media

In "The Spectacular

Spider-Man series" voiced by Jeff Bennett, Shocker starts

as an enforcer for the "big man" but managed to evade capture afterwords he stole a battle-suit built by a Corporation designed to use vibrations

as a weapon. Wearing the suit and calling himself "Shocker" he attempts to finish off Spider-man but was beaten and arrested.

He returned to crime as a member of the sinister six but he and the other 5 were ultimately beaten by the Blacksuit spiderman