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The Thunderbolts was first assembled by Baron Helmut Zemo under the guise of Citizen V. He gathered five former members of the Masters of Evil together under new aliases tho fill the place as the new hero team, since most of the Avengers were killed in a battle with Onslaught.
The first members were Meteorite (Moonstone), Atlas (Goliath), Songbird (Screaming Mimi), Techno (Fixer), Mach IV (Beetle) and newcomer Jolt.
However they soon began to like the life as heroes more than being villains and rebelled against Zemo's plans for world domination. Since then many of them has actually redeemed themselves and saved the world on several occasions, even Baron Zemo in his own way.
Current Members
Bullseye
Green Goblin
Moonstone
Penance (Robbie Baldwin)
Radioactive Man
Songbird
Swordsman (Andreas Strucker)
Venom (Mac Gargan)
Former Members
Atlas, Baron Helmut Zemo, Blackheath (Plantman), Blizzard, Charcoal, Cobalt Man, Cyclone, Dallas Riordan, Fixer, Harrier, Hawkeye, Jack O'Lantern, Jester, Jolt, Joystick, Lady Deathstrike, MACH-IV, Man-Killer, Nighthawk, Photon, Ogre, Skein, Smuggler, Speed Demon, Taskmaster
Thunderbolts Army
This was a bunch of villains captured by the Thunderbolts before and during Civil War. They chose to serve in the Thunderbolts army rather than spend time in jail.
Ajaxis, Aqueduct, Asylum, Batroc, Beetle (Joaquim), Beetle (MK-II), Beetle (MK-III), Blacklash, Bloodstrike, Boomerang, Bushmaster, Coronary, Death Adder, Doctor Octopus, Eel, Ironclad, Killer Shrike, King Cobra, Machete, Mathemanic, Snake Marston, Mongoose, Overmind, The Ox, Porcupine, Pretty Persuasions, Primus, Quicksand, Rattler, Red Ronin, Scarecrow, Silk Fever, Slyde, Smiling Tiger, Tatterdemalion, Texas Twister, Unicorn, Vapor, Vector, Vermin, Whiplash, Whirlwind, X-Ray, Zaran
Civil War. Hunters Of The Heroes.
The new Thunderbolts engaged and defeated Quicksand in a battle in Manhattan during the early days of the superhero Civil War. Most of them showed no care whatsoever towards the Registration Act, since all of their identities were mostly public. After this, they were summoned to Washington where they met with Iron Man, Mister Fantastic and Yellowjacket. The three heroes, all supporting the Superhuman Registration Act, told Zemo and his entire team that they wanted the Thunderbolts to hunt down supervillains and recruit them to the Pro-Registration cause, which would be their chance at redemption. Unknown to Iron Man, the Thunderbolts had been doing this in secret for three weeks. Meanwhile, Reed Richards was working on the new special prison for any villains they managed to catch.
Zemo's Thunderbolt Army grew rapidly, the team vastly expanding because of the villains caught. It now included dozens of other supervillains, including most notably Doctor Octopus, the Wrecker,Green Goblin, Venom, etc. The new team dispersed to battle super-villains, capture them and offer them a choice: join the Thunderbolts or go to prison. It is obvious what almost all of the villains chose, since they wanted to remain free. Baron Zemo convinced Captain America not to stop him from battling the Grandmaster, while Nighthawk was revealed as being a spy for the Squadron Sinister inside Captain America's Secret Avengers. Zemo then informed Songbird that in the coming battle, he knew that she would betray him, which she had been planning to do all along, in revenge for his killing of Photon, and he would sacrifice himself to save the world.
Zemo then saved the Wellspring of Power from the Grandmaster, who planned to use it for his own ends. Believing that all of his visions were subject to the flow of time, and that nothing was set in stone, Zemo defeated the Grandmaster, and boasted to his teammates that the power was now all his and theirs. He insisted that he would use it to help the world, despite the consequences for doing so. Songbird, who had temporarily lost her powers during the final battle, was told by Zemo "...now is when your betrayal would have come." The vision of her betrayal turned out to be somewhat correct after all, though. Although she could not use her super-sound, Songbird used a simple opera note to crack the moonstones, sending Zemo into a whirlwind of cosmic time/space. In his final words before he was completely sucked into the vacuum, he screamed out that he would never have hurt a world he worked so hard to save.
Alternate Versions
Counter-Earth
Counter-Earth is not really an alternate reality. It is an alternate earth in the Earth-616 reality created by Franklin Richards. The members of the Counter-Earth Thunderbolts were: Heinrich Zemo, Chain Lightning, Solarr, Iron Cross, Makeshift and Phantom Eagle (Lloyd Bloch).
MC2 (Earth-982)
Many of the original members have not appear in the MC2 universe, save for Jolt. There is a government sponsored team that was assembled which is very much similar to the Thunderbolts. They are consisting of: Big Man (son of Hank Pym and Wasp), Kaine, Normie Osborn (wearing the Venom symbiote), Quickwire and Raptor.
Days of Future Past (Earth-811)
The Thunderbolts are a super-being private security force lead by Baron Zemo employed by the Sentinels. But Zemo is secretly working with Shinobi Shaw and Psylocke as members of the Hellfire Club to bring the Sentinels down.
Marvel Zombiverse (Earth-2149)
A zombie version of the Thunderbolts are seen terrorizing New York. They were later killed by Nova, Thor and the Fantastic Four.
Thunderbolts Appear in These Volumes
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