TheFixer is the name of two characters appearing inAmerican comic books published byMarvel Comics:Roscoe Sweeney andPaul Norbert Ebersol.
Roscoe Sweeney was portrayed by Kevin Nagle in theMarvel Cinematic Universe seriesDaredevil while Paul Norbert Ebersol has appeared in animated media.
The first Marvel Comics character known as the Fixer was Roscoe Sweeney. He first appeared inDaredevil #1 (Apr. 1964), and was created byStan Lee,Jack Kirby, andBill Everett.
The second iteration of Fixer was long-time supervillain Paul Norbert Ebersol, first appearing inStrange Tales #141 (February 1966) and was created byStan Lee andJack Kirby.[1] Much later, he appeared as a regular character inThunderbolts, until he was forced to leave the team.
| Roscoe Sweeney | |
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| First appearance | Daredevil #1 (April 1964) |
| Created by | Stan Lee (writer) Jack Kirby (artist) Bill Everett (artist) |
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| Alter ego | Roscoe Sweeney |
Roscoe Sweeney was a gangster and crooked fight promoter who was involved in extortion and illegal gambling who operated as the "Fixer". He paidboxer"Battling Jack" Murdock to take a fall and lose a fight. Murdock accepted the money, however, the boxer became determined to continue the fight and eventually won by a knockout. The Fixer's right-hand man Slade killed Jack after the fight in retaliation. Learning of his father's murder and vowing to bring men like the Fixer to justice, Matt Murdock became a lawyer as well as thesuperheroDaredevil. The Fixer and Slade went to Fogwell's Gym where they encountered Daredevil. When the Fixer and Slade ran for it upon their being disarmed, Daredevil pursued them into the subway station. After the Man Without Fear tripped Slade, the Fixer had a fatal heart attack when confronted by Daredevil and died. As the Fixer's body fell onto the subway tracks, the Man Without Fear stopped a subway from running over the Fixer's body. Slade was arrested and sentenced to death by the electric chair.[2]
| Paul Norbert Ebersol | |
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.png) Fixer (Paul Norbert Ebersol) byPatrick Zircher. | |
| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| First appearance | Strange Tales #141 (February 1966) (as Fixer)[3] The Incredible Hulk #449 (January 1997) (as Techno) |
| Created by | Stan Lee (writer) Jack Kirby (artist) |
| 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 | Techno, Mr. Fix, Ogre, Phil |
| Abilities | Electronics and mechanical genius Robotic body Technoforming |
Paul Norbert Ebersol was born inDayton, Ohio. He was ascientist 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", asupervillain andgenius-level criminalinventor who has often worked for criminal cartels likeHYDRA.
In his first appearance, he escaped from prison,[4] teamed with his partnerMentallo in an attempted takeover of the New YorkS.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters, and even capturedNick Fury.[5] Fixer and Mentallo were defeated by Tony Stark and S.H.I.E.L.D. troops.[6] His connection with THEM was revealed; and THEM was later revealed as part of HYDRA.[7] Behind the scenes, he was even revealed as the chief of the HYDRA Science Division.[8]
With Mentallo, the Fixer later escaped prison again. They invaded the New York S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters and captured theThing. They then invaded theBaxter Building, battled the Thing and Nick Fury, and usedDoctor Doom's time machine to bringDeathlok from his alternate future.[9] Mentallo then mind-controlled Deathlok in an attempted assassination of the U.S. president, but Fixer and Mentallo were defeated by theFantastic Four and taken into custody by S.H.I.E.L.D.[10] 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 theMicronauts who then defeated Fixer and Mentallo.[11]
Fixer and Mentallo then aidedProfessor Power in his attempt to addProfessor X's powers to Mentallo's, but they were defeated bySpider-Man.[12] Fixer attempted to loot Northwind Observatory ofBruce Banner's inventions, but was captured byCaptain America.[13] Fixer then invaded theWest Coast Avengers Compound in an attempt to stealIron Man'sarmor, but was defeated by Iron Man andKa-Zar.[14]
WhenBaron Helmut Zemo formed the fourth incarnation of theMasters of Evil, Fixer served as his right-hand man. When the Masters of Evil invadedAvengers Mansion, Fixer created a device enabling Baron Zemo to controlBlackout. Fixer helped engineer the capture of Captain America,Black Knight, andEdwin Jarvis.[15] Fixer was apprehended byAnt-Man. Behind the scenes, Fixer was overpowered by theSuper-Adaptoid which changed places with him.[16] The Super-Adaptoid disguised as the Fixer later escaped prison.[17] The real Fixer was discovered by theAvengers in the android's former confinement tube atAvengers Island.[18] Fixer later escaped prison withYellowjacket who then spurned his romantic advances. The Fixer followed Yellowjacket and battled Yellowjacket and the Black Knight before escaping.[19]
In Zemo's second incarnation of the Masters of Evil, the team changed their identity to theThunderbolts, while Fixer adopted the alias ofTechno.[20][21] He was then apparently killed when his neck was broken by Iron, one of the Elements of Doom,[22] and he transferred his mind into arobotic body,[23] and this Techno sided, alone among the Thunderbolts, with Zemo when he went ahead with his scheme to conquer the planet.[24]
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 cloningKevin Costner for fun at one point.[25] After the two fell out, Techno infiltrated the Thunderbolts by replacingOgre,[26] while continuing his experiments behind-the-scenes, including recoveringJolt's body when she was killed and placing it in a healing tube.[27]
Techno's impersonation of Ogre ended whenScourge of the Underworld 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, initiallyamnesiac of the robot's exploits, returned to calling himself the Fixer.[28]
Fixer then became one of theRedeemers, a government-backed team whereby criminals could use it to accelerate their sentences and clear their record until most of that team was slaughtered byGraviton. He joined with the reunited Thunderbolts to stop Graviton, and he was one of the team members exiled toCounter-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 himquadriplegic, Zemo managed to force Fixer to transfer the Baron's consciousness to his Counter-Earth counterpart's body.[volume & issue needed]
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, afterMoonstone 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.[volume & issue needed]
Later,Deadpool visited Fixer at his holiday home to enlist his help in savingCable. After a brief fight, Fixer accepted the challenge (and Deadpool's monetary inducement), and successfully bonded new, benign, techno-organic mesh to Cable. Sometime after this, Fixer suddenly reappeared to save his former teammateMACH-IV 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.[volume & issue needed]
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 theCivil War. He also helped Zemo save the Wellspring of Power from theGrandmaster. After Zemo was betrayed and the Thunderbolts were placed underS.H.I.E.L.D. control, Fixer and MACH-IV were offered jobs with theCommission on Superhuman Activities.[volume & issue needed]
Ebersol has been identified as one of the 142 registered superheroes who appear on the cover of the comic book.[29]
During the "Heroic Age" storyline, Fixer works as the Raft's supervisor in its section for male supervillains when Captain Steve Rogers andLuke Cage arrive to recruitGhost.[30] As well as working with the Thunderbolts, Fixer has also been seen working with Baron Zemo.[31]
During the "Fear Itself" storyline, Fixer was seen working on a forcefield to secure the rounded-up prisoners who had escaped from the Raft afterJuggernaut, in the form of Kuurth: Breaker of Stone, leveled it.[32]
After escaping the Raft by time-traveling, the Thunderbolts wound up meeting their counterparts - the first Thunderbolts team.[33] Being as arrogant as they are, present-Fixer and past-Fixer got into an argument in which Fixer impulsively killed his past self.[34] 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.[35]
During the "Avengers: Standoff!" storyline, Fixer resurfaces where is shown to be a prisoner of the S.H.I.E.L.D.-establishedgated community Pleasant Hill whereKobik, fragments of aCosmic Cube transformed into a nigh-omnipotent child, turned him into a mild-manneredmechanic named Phil. Phil was able to see through this and arranged a meet-up with a man named Jim. Upon showing the training video he stole that featured the details about Pleasant Hill by MayorMaria Hill to the S.H.I.E.L.D. Cadets, Phil used the machine he invented to turn himself back into Fixer and Jim back into Baron Helmut Zemo. Both of them vowed to use the device on the other brainwashed supervillains and reduce Pleasant Hill to dust.[36] Fixer and Baron Zemo began to restore the memories of the other inmates one by one.[37] Fixer later invented a device that would help Baron Zemo and his fellow villains find Kobik.[38]
Following the Pleasant Hill incident, Fixer joined up with Winter Soldier's incarnation of the Thunderbolts with the goal to keep S.H.I.E.L.D. from continuing the Kobik Project.[39]
At the time when Baron Zemo formed the fourth incarnation of the Masters of Evil, Fixer joined the Thunderbolts into fighting them which ends with the Thunderbolts being defeated.[40]
During the "Opening Salvo" part of theSecret Empire storyline, Fixer defected to the Masters of Evil after Winter Soldier was sent back in time to World War II and Kobik had shattered. While Atlas and Moonstone worked to gather Kobik's pieces, Fixer maintained the inventory of the pieces he has withErik Selvig. Fixer was later present when Baron Helmut Zemo is advised by the Kobik-reprogrammed Captain America into having the Masters of Evil be part of the Army of Evil.[41]
The second version of Fixer is an intuitive genius at the invention of weapons and other electrical and mechanical devices. He has designed numerous devices and paraphernalia for himself, including his body armor. As for 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 that contains a three-hour air supply and acts as an air pressure reduction valve, together with 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 physically absorbed the mass of other mechanical materials nearby into himself. Techno's body also could morph into forms that appeared completely organic, as with his assumed guise of Thunderbolt machine-smith Ogre.
Roscoe Sweeney, renamedEdward "Eddie" Fallon, appears inDaredevil (2003), portrayed byMark Margolis.[citation needed] This version previously employed a youngWilson Fisk as an enforcer.
The industrial bandMentallo and the Fixer derive their name from the Paul Norbert Ebersol incarnation of the Fixer and his former partnerMentallo.[citation needed]
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