| Tyrone Cash | |
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| First appearance | (Ultimate Comics: Avengers) vol.1 #7 (April 2010) |
| Created by | Mark Millar Leinil Francis Yu |
| In-story information | |
| Alter ego | Leonard Williams |
| Team affiliations | Ultimate Avengers The Ultimates S.H.I.E.L.D. |
| Partnerships | Bruce Banner (The Hulk) General Nick Fury |
| Notable aliases | The First Hulk |
| Abilities | Genius-level intellect, superhuman strength, stamina and durability, healing factor |
Tyrone Cash is a fictional character in the Ultimate Marvel universe. He is a member of The Ultimates, and is described as being the first Hulk (before Bruce Banner).[1].
In the Ultimate Marvel universe, Dr. Leonard Williams was a professor at Cambridge University and a family man with a wife and children but due to disability he relied on the aid of crutches to walk. Cambridge is where he worked with a young Bruce Banner. They worked together in order to create a super soldier formula. During this time, he became Bruce's "mentor" and allegedly taught Banner "everything he knows." Williams disappears in an unexplained occurrence in which several people are killed, and comes to be considered a missing person. [2]
Leonard Williams became the first Hulk and lives as "Tyrone Cash." Unlike the Bruce Banners Hulk, Tyrone Cash still retains his intellect and self control. The years he was "missing," he was actually being monitored by S.H.I.E.L.D., while he was "murdering and pillaging his way through Africa and Asia." Now 16 years after the accident, Leonard Williams "perished" in, Tyrone Cash resides in South America living as a ruthless gang lord. In order to draft Williams/Cash, General Nick Fury sends War Machine to retrieve him. War Machine approaches Cash peacefully, and tries to remind him of his previous life, but Cash turns on him, and starts brutally beating War Machine. During their fight, Cash shows how powerful he is and how truly sadistic and ruthless he has become. He plucks a one man plane from the air and uses it as a weapon, with no remorse for killing the pilot or the others on his island. He threatens to quickly rebuild his "crime empire" if War Machine ruins it, and only stops fighting after War Machine says, "We'll tell your wife and kid you're still alive."[1]
The first assignment given to Cash and his fellow Avengers is to take out the enigmatic and deadly Ghost Rider. In an attempt to "get the jump on" Ghost Rider the Avengers and S.H.I.E.L.D. agents stand guard at an airport. Ghost Rider eventually arrives to capture, and inevitably kill, his target. Ghost Rider ripped a man from his plane and quickly rides off but his escape is cut short but a well placed rocket courtesy of Hawkeye.
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