Fabian Stankowicz

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Fabian Stankowicz is a comic relief former supervillain foe of and then support crewmember of the Avengers. He first appeared Avengers #217.

A lottery winner, Stankowicz used his winnings to gain notoriety as a supervillain by using his engineering talent to invent powered armor suits to attack the Avengers as The Mechano-Marauder.

Unfortunately for him, The Avengers recognized from the start that he was not a major threat, but rather an annoyance instead. For instance, during his first assault on the Avengers, Stankowicz challenged by Iron Man who considered this dilletant so minor a problem that when several fellow Avengers passed by at various times and inquired if the ally needed assistance, Iron Man casually declined and they departed from the scene without comment.

After that defeat, Stankowicz attempted to attack the team multiple times such as when he crashed an Avengers female recruitment tea party where he was casually defeated and when the team made appearance on Late Night with David Letterman only to be subdued by David Letterman himself.

Eventually after an unpleasant stay in prison, Captain America spoke in Stankowicz's support at his parole hearing. Captain America felt Stankowicz was more misguided than evil and hired him on as part of the Avengers' support crew to give him something better to do with his time.