Marvel Characters
NYPD Officer Patrick Mulligan was implanted with a symbiote offspring during a chance encounter with Carnage.
Terrance Ward was drafted into the Initiative training program because of his telepathic and shape-shifting abilities.
Born 70 years in the future, Fitzroy was a trainee in the X.S.E., but he became Bishop's nemesis after he set up Bishop's sister Shard, and had her killed before fleeing to the 20th century.
After being exposed as a steroid user and stripped of his awards, gifted sprinter Delroy Garrett Jr. sought new direction in the Triune Understanding, a philosophical movement that preaches the fulfillment of one's innate potential by balancing various aspects of environment and self, after which he developed a superhuman triple-powered physique, and, believing the Triune teachings had unlocked his latent powers, Garrett became the costumed hero Triathlon and celebrity spokesman for the Triune Understanding.
As Turbo, young journalist Michiko Musashi is the latest in a line of heroes who have worn the turbine-powered flying armor.
Typhoid Mary, an enemy and former lover of Daredevil with psionic powers, including telekinesis, is also truly gravely mentally ill and not entirely responsible for her actions.
After a failed attempt at starting an acting career, Edie Sawyer turned to a life of crime until she learned of a new media savvy team of superhuman mutants named X-Force, and she decided to become a superhero.
With the end of the Vietnam War, John Walker thought his dreams of becoming a war hero had also ended, until he learned of the Power Broker, who could give anyone superhuman powers, which Walker used to first become Super-Patriot and later, U.S. Agent.
Uatu grew so fond of the lifeforms he observed that he occasionally violated his vow of non-interference when Earth's existence was threatened.
Ulik was a Rock Troll from the realm known as Nornheim, located underground within the dimension of Asgard.
For the past year, Peter Parker has been saving New York City from villains as the masked hero, Spider-Man. Facing thugs and evil geniuses alike, he learns how to balance heroics with homework and friends. Despite being a Super Hero, Peter is very much an average 16-year-old. With the added responsibilities of being Spider-Man, juggling all the aspects of his life will continually challenge him. When S.H.I.E.L.D. Director, Nick Fury, offers Peter the chance to raise his game and become THE ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN, Midtown High becomes a secret operations base for Spider-Man and other young heroes under the watchful eye of Fury and the school’s new principal, Agent Coulson.
Ultimo was a robotic construct that was developed several thousand years ago on an unknown world, which the Mandarin eventually discovered and claimed as his own creation.
Arguably the greatest and certainly the most horrific creation of scientific genius Dr. Henry Pym, Ultron is a criminally insane rogue sentient robot dedicated to conquest and the extermination of humanity.
Umar and her sibling Dormammu gathered matter to themselves to increase their power, a practice anathema to their fellow Faltine who consider energy to be superior to matter.
Milos Masaryk, a Soviet intelligence agent assigned as a security guard for Anton Vanko, a Soviet inventor who developed the Crimson Dynamo armor, was tasked by the Soviet government to retrieve Vanko after he defected to the United States.
Imprisoned in Germany during WWII, Brian Falsworth shared a cell with a German scientist who had tried to recreate the super-soldier serum, but didn't want it to fall into Nazi hands, so he gave his only sample to Brian, who gained enhanced strength, speed, stamina and reflexes.
Joey Chapman, the new Union Jack continued to fight evil, both alone and as a member of the Knights of Pendragon and the new Invaders.
Union Jack (Montgomery Falsworth)
During World War I, Lord Montgomery Falsworth was recruited by the British army to become one of the first public superhero champions: Union Jack.
Angelo Unuscione is a mutant whose powers did not surface until adolescence, when he first used them as a school bully and later as a small time criminal before immigrating to America and using his ability to create a virtually impenetrable force field around himself to launch a career as a flamboyant, invincible costumed wrestler known by the stage name of Unus the Untouchable.
Unus worked for Apocalypse and was sent into Old New York City to search for any remaining humans there and to kill them.
Unus worked with the Brotherhood of Mutants and with Magneto directly, projecting Magneto's image to allow him to converse with Charles Xavier without a face-to-face meeting.
Valkyrie (Samantha Parrington)
Amora magically transformed Samantha Parrington into a raging, man-hating facsimile of the Asgardian warrior goddess Brunnhilde the Valkyrie, whose form and might Amora could replicate at will, having trapped Brunnhilde's soul in a mystical crystal centuries earlier.
Vampiro, part of the race known as the Eternals, lived on Earth for many years, eventually taking a wife and making a career for himself as a professional wrestler.
Nothing is known about the Vanisher's past before he embarked on a one-man crime wave of spectacular thefts using his power of self-teleportation.
Vanisher is a mutant with the power to teleport himself and possibly others across an undefined amount of distance who was recruited by Magneto into his Brotherhood of Mutants.
Vapor, along with her brother, was among the small group led by Simon Utrecht to simulate the crash that gave the Fantastic Four their powers, and has remained with the U-Foes ever since.
Vargas claimed that mutants are deviations from the norm, an evolutionary dead end nature explored until it found the true path for the next step in mutant kinds development, the legitimate Homo Sapiens Superior, namely, himself.
Simon Utrecht wanted superhuman powers in order to persue personal power and gain, and commissioned a project that would ultimately simulate the crash that gave the Fantastic Four their powers; he has remained with the U-Foes ever since.
Magdalena Marie Neuntauben became an accomplished martial artist, then a model, and later an actress, from which she donated all of her proceeds to her charity, which made her a prime candidate for recruitment into the Order.
Michael Badilino became consumed with gaining vengeance on Ghost Rider for what happened to his family, and the demon Mephisto granted him the power with which to do so, transforming him into Vengeance.
Flash Thompson was the high school bully of Peter Parker while also being one of Spider-Man's biggest fans. After losing his legs during military service, he became the new Venom, working as an operative of the United States government.