Flag-Smasher
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Flag-Smasher is a fictional character, a supervillain appearing in the Marvel Comics universe. He has most often been a foe of Captain America. Other adversaries include The Punisher, Moon Knight, Ghost Rider, and The Runaways.
[edit] History
Flag-Smasher was born in Bern, Switzerland, the son of a wealthy Swiss banker-turned-diplomat. He wanted to follow in his father's footsteps and become a diplomat until his father was trampled to death in a riot at a Latverian embassy. He came to believe that humanity needed to do away with the concept of countries and nationalism that made people feel superior to those of different nationalites.
Today, Flag-Smasher uses terrorism to spread anti-nationalist sentiment. He founded ULTIMATUM, the Underground Liberated Totally Integrated Mobile Army To Unite Mankind. Roxxon Oil turned him into a berserker with super-strength, but he later lost these powers.
During the events of Citizen V & The V-Battalion: The Everlasting, Flag-Smasher was installed as the ruler of Rumekistan by the V-Battalion as a compromise between powers. In a recent story-arc of Cable & Deadpool, Flag-Smasher was assassinated by Domino as part of a series of events which installed Cable as leader of that nation.[1]
[edit] Civil War
Flag-Smasher reappears in Civil War: Young Avengers/Runaways #1, though the Civil War Files one-shot describes him as an imposter. He attacks the Santa Monica Farmers' Market to show his opposition to the Super-Human Registration Act, but is defeated by The Runaways.
The mini-series, Dr. Strange: The Oath describes a fight between Flag-Smasher and Araña, but doesn't specify if it is the original Flag-Smasher or an imposter.
[edit] Bibliography
- Cable & Deadpool #27-28 ("death")
- Captain America vol. 1 #312, 321-322, 400, 438
- Captain America 1999
- Citizen V and the V Battalion: Everlasting #1-4
- Civil War: Young Avengers/Runaways #1 (imposter)
- Ghost Rider vol. 3 #5-6
- Marvel Team-Up vol. 2 #3
- Moon Knight vol. 3 #8-9
- Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A-Z #4
- X-Man #35
- X-Men Unlimited vol. 1 #22
