Fixer (comics)

The Fixer is a fictional character, a supervillain in Marvel Comics.

Publication history

The first Marvel Comics character known as the Fixer was Roscoe Sweeney.

The second Fixer first appeared in Strange Tales #141 (February 1966) and was created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. After some time away from the team, he appeared as a regular character in Thunderbolts beginning with issue #144, until he was forced to leave the team in issue #174.

Fictional character biography

Fixer

Fixer, by Patrick Zircher
Publication information
Publisher Marvel Comics
First appearance Strange Tales #141 (February 1966)
Created by Stan Lee
Jack Kirby
In-story information
Alter ego Paul Norbert Ebersol
Team affiliations Advanced Idea Mechanics
Commission on Superhuman Activities
HYDRA
Masters of Evil
New Enforcers
Redeemers
Thunderbolts
Partnerships Mentallo
Notable aliases Mr. Fix, Techno, Ogre
Abilities Electronics and mechanical genius
Robotic body

The second Fixer was a long-time supervillain who later became a member of the Thunderbolts.

Paul Norbert Ebersol was born in Dayton, Ohio. He was a scientist who held a number of odd jobs, including auto mechanic, television repairman, and electronics laboratory assistant. He then became the second and more prominent Fixer, a supervillain and genius-level criminal inventor who has often worked for criminal cartels like HYDRA.

In his first appearance he escaped from prison,[1] and teamed with his partner Mentallo in an attempted takeover of the New York S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters, and even captured Nick Fury.[2] Fixer and Mentallo were defeated by Tony Stark and S.H.I.E.L.D. troops.[3] His connection with THEM was revealed; and THEM was later revealed as part of HYDRA.[4] Behind the scenes, he was even revealed as the chief of the HYDRA Science Division.[5]

With Mentallo, the Fixer later escaped prison again. They invaded the New York S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters and captured the Thing. They then invaded the Baxter Building, battled the Thing and Nick Fury, and used Doctor Doom's time machine to bring Deathlok from his alternate future.[6] Mentallo then mind-controlled Deathlok in an attempted assassination of the U.S. President, but Fixer and Mentallo were defeated by the Fantastic Four and taken into custody by S.H.I.E.L.D.[7] The pair was freed from prison by a HYDRA force controlled by Baron Karza. Fixer created the living machine-intelligence Computrex, which was destroyed by the Micronauts, who then defeated Fixer and Mentallo.[8]

Fixer and Mentallo then aided Professor Power in his attempt to add Professor X's powers to Mentallo's, but they were defeated by Spider-Man.[9] Fixer attempted to loot Northwind Observatory of Bruce Banner's inventions, but was captured by Captain America.[10] Fixer then invaded the West Coast Avengers Compound in an attempt to steal Iron Man's armor, but was defeated by Iron Man and Ka-Zar.[11]

When Baron Helmut Zemo formed the fourth incarnation of the Masters of Evil, Fixer served as his right-hand man. When the Masters of Evil invaded Avengers Mansion, Fixer created a device enabling Baron Zemo to control Blackout. Fixer helped engineer the capture of Captain America, Black Knight, and Edwin Jarvis.[12] Fixer was apprehended by Ant-Man. Behind the scenes, Fixer was overpowered by the Super-Adaptoid, who changed places with him.[13] The Super-Adaptoid disguised as the Fixer later escaped prison.[14] The real Fixer was discovered by the Avengers in the Adaptoid's former confinement tube at Avengers Island.[15] Fixer later escaped prison with Yellowjacket, who then spurned his romantic advances. The Fixer followed her and battled her and the Black Knight before escaping.[16]

In Zemo's second incarnation of the Masters of Evil, the team changed their identity to the Thunderbolts, while Fixer adopted the alias of Techno. He was then apparently killed when his neck was broken by Iron, one of the Elements of Doom, and he transferred his mind into a robotic body, and this Techno sided, alone among the Thunderbolts, with Zemo when he went ahead with his scheme to conquer the planet.

Zemo and Techno decamped to one of Zemo's bases, where Techno began to experiment with cloning, offering to clone Zemo an unscarred body, and even cloning Kevin Costner for fun at one point. After the two fell out, Techno infiltrated the Thunderbolts by replacing Ogre, while continuing his experiments behind-the-scenes, including recovering Jolt's body when she was killed and placing it in a healing tube.

Techno's impersonation of Ogre ended when Scourge stowed away inside him, shrunken, and destroyed his body from the inside, while he refused to kill Jolt again to allow him to construct a new body. However, his backup plan worked, and his consciousness was returned to his original human body—mostly healed, although the nerve damage in his neck meant he required his tech-pac to bypass the damage—and the human Ebersol, initially amnesiac of the robot's exploits, returned to calling himself the Fixer.

Fixer then became one of the Redeemers, a government-backed team whereby criminals could use it to accelerate their sentences and clear their record, until most of that team was slaughtered by Graviton. He joined with the reunited Thunderbolts to stop Graviton, and he was one of the team members exiled to Counter-Earth. By a complicated series of events, at the end of the trip to Counter-Earth, Zemo's consciousness ended up in Fixer's tech-pac. By threatening to disable it and leave him quadriplegic, Zemo managed to force Fixer to transfer the Baron's consciousness to his Counter-Earth counterpart's body.

The team remained on Counter-Earth for some time, until, in sealing a rift, they returned home, leaving Jolt (whom Fixer saved from burning out in helping to seal the rift) behind. Finally, after Moonstone went insane, Fixer furnished a device that could give the combined Avengers and Thunderbolts a couple of seconds to make their move; he then left.

Later, Deadpool visited Fixer at his holiday home to enlist his help in saving Cable. After a brief fight, Fixer accepted the challenge (and Deadpool's monetary inducement), and successfully bonded new, benign, techno-organic mesh to Cable. Some time after this, Fixer suddenly reappeared to save MACH-IV, his former teammate, from a fall. Fixer recruited MACH-IV to join a secretive group headed by Zemo to combat and destroy Genis-Vell, a member of the Thunderbolts whom Zemo had brought back to life. The process was flawed, however, and Genis' existence now threatened the universe.

After Genis was destroyed, Fixer remained with the Thunderbolts, who were now helmed by Zemo. He helped the team recruit supervillains to the pro-registration cause during the Civil War. He also helped Zemo save the Wellspring of Power from the Grandmaster. After Zemo was betrayed and the Thunderbolts were placed under S.H.I.E.L.D. control, Fixer and MACH-IV were offered jobs with the Commission on Superhuman Activities.

Ebersol has been identified as one of the 142 registered superheroes who appear on the cover of the comic book.[17]

During the Heroic Age storyline, Fixer works at the Raft supervising its section for male supervillains when Captain Steve Rogers and Luke Cage arrive to recruit Ghost.[18]

As well as working with the Thunderbolts, Fixer has also been seen working with Baron Zemo.[19]

During the Fear Itself storyline, Fixer was seen working on a forcefield to secure the rounded up prisoners that escaped from the Raft after Juggernaut in the form of Kuurth: Breaker of Stone leveled it.[20]

After escaping the Raft by time-travelling, the Thunderbolts wound up meeting their counterparts - the first Thunderbolts team.[21] Being as arrogant as they are, present-Fixer and past-Fixer got into an argument in which Fixer impulsively killed his past self.[22] In order to preserve the timeline, Fixer surgically changed himself to restore his younger appearance and preserved his age by a blood-transfusion from Centurius. Fixer and the past Thunderbolts' memories were wiped, stranding Fixer in a stable time-loop and preserving the timeline after his mistake.[23]

Powers and abilities

The second Fixer is an intuitive genius at invention of weapons and other electrical and mechanical devices. He has designed numerous devices and paraphernalia for himself, including his body armor. As weaponry, he has used various devices including bombs, electronic jamming devices, guided missiles, sonic amplifiers, brain-wave scanners, and mind-control pods. He has also built anti-gravity discs which are affixed to his feet and allow flight at the speed of sound, as well as a special mask which contains a three-hour air supply and acts as an air pressure reduction valve, together enabling flight at high velocity and high altitude. Fixer's Techno body can mentally control his robotic body which is capable of assuming virtually any form from blast cannons to pile-drivers to even the form of a space station. To take on larger shapes, Techno absorbed mass from other mechanical materials nearby. Techno's body also could morph into forms that appeared completely organic, as with his assumed guise of Thunderbolt machine-smith Ogre.

In other media

Television

Video games

Music

References

  1. ↑ Strange Tales #141
  2. ↑ Strange Tales #142
  3. ↑ Strange Tales #143
  4. ↑ Strange Tales #145
  5. ↑ Daredevil #121
  6. ↑ Marvel Two-in-One #26
  7. ↑ Marvel Two-in-One #27
  8. ↑ Micronauts #24-25
  9. ↑ Marvel Team-Up #118
  10. ↑ Avengers Annual #13
  11. ↑ Iron Man #202
  12. ↑ Avengers #273-274
  13. ↑ Avengers #276
  14. ↑ Avengers #286
  15. ↑ Avengers #287
  16. ↑ Solo Avengers #12
  17. ↑ Avengers: The Initiative #1 Character Map
  18. ↑ Thunderbolts #144
  19. ↑ Captain America #606
  20. ↑ Thunderbolts #159
  21. ↑ Thunderbolts #170
  22. ↑ Thunderbolts #173
  23. ↑ Thunderbolts #174
  24. ↑ http://comicsalliance.com/marvel-disk-wars-the-avengers-bandai-bachicombat-pokemon-pogs/

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