The Hood (comics)
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The Hood (Parker Robbins) is a fictional character from the Marvel Comics universe. He was the protaganist of his own self-titled series in 2002.
[edit] Publication history
The Hood was a six issue comic book mini-series published by Marvel Comics in 2002. It was created by Brian K. Vaughan, Kyle Hotz and Eric Powell.
[edit] Fictional character biography
With his mother in a psychiatric hospital in a vegetative state, Parker Robbins he drifts from one job to another, occasionally turning to crime to make ends meet. He also frequents prostitutes and habitually lies to his pregnant girlfriend and his mother. While attempting a heist with his cousin, John King, Parker shot and apparently killed a cloaked, demonic-looking figure. Stealing its cloak and boots, he soon discovers that the boots allow him to walk or run on thin air, and levitate. He also finds out by accident that the cloak lets him turn invisible, but only while he is holding his breath.
He tries to use these abilities to rob a diamond shipment, only to find that four supervillains-- The Constrictor, Jack O'Lantern, The Shocker, and Madame Rapier --had been hired to guard the stones. In the resulting confusion, Robbins accidentally shoots a police officer in the throat. His cousin knocks down the other cop and tells Robbins to run, and is himself arrested. Robbins is now a wanted man.
Robbins, now called "The Hood" by the press, tries to free his cousin, only to be ambushed by FBI agents armed with high-tech sonic weapons. When he is blasted, Robbins loses control of himself, starts chanting in an unknown language, and blasts the agents with lightning bolts. Unable to release his cousin, he checks the agents to make sure they are alive, and leaves to pawn some stolen diamonds to help John get a lawyer.
Running into the Shocker at the pawnshop, Robbins decides to lay low. However, he later approaches the diamonds' owner, gangster Dennis "The Golem" Golembuski, and offers to return most of the diamonds. The Golem agrees, then secretly orders Madame Rapier to kill him.
The Hood obtains a similar cloak, and when Rapier attacked him and took his (half-loaded) gun, the Hood uses a second gun to force her to dress in the fake cloak, leaving her to face the arriving FBI agents. The agents shot the supposed cop-killer dead, and released John from jail. The Hood gave the rest of the diamonds back to the Golem's men, and told them to leave him alone.
He later promises his mother that he would help people and make her proud of him; he may have been lying.
[edit] Civil War
It has been revealed by Brian Michael Bendis that the Hood will have exploited Marvel's Civil War to become a powerful Kingpin-like figure in New Avengers.
