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| Thundra | |
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| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| First appearance | Fantastic Four #129 (December 1972) |
| Created by | Roy Thomas (Writer) John Buscema (Artist) |
| In-story information | |
| Alter ego | Thundra |
| Species | Femizon |
| Place of origin | Femizonia |
| Team affiliations | Lady Liberators Code Red[1] Frightful Four The Grapplers Roxxon Oil Squadron Supreme |
| Abilities | Vast superhuman strength and resistance to injury Peak level speed, agility, stamina, and reflexes Superior hand to hand combatant Carries a sword and a three-foot linked chain as weapons |
Thundra is a fictional character appearing inAmerican comic books published byMarvel Comics. She is often aligned with theFantastic Four. She is a powerful, red haired,amazon-like warrior, orFemizon, from amatriarchal, technologically advanced future timeline where men have been subjugated by women.
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Thundra was created byRoy Thomas andJohn Buscema, and first appeared inFantastic Four #129.[2]
Roy Thomas recalled the character's creation, "A7-foot Amazon type that I conceived as an homage of sorts to characters likeKirby'sBig Barda in hisFourth World byDC Comics. I asked John Buscema to give her a bandolier around her torso because a number of women's-lib types were wearing them (sometimes with real bullets) in photos in newspapers and magazines."[3]
Thundra is a warrior woman andtime traveler from the 23rd century on Earth-715. In her timeline,Earth is now known asFemizonia and is ruled byAmazon-likeoverlords (Femizons) who have enslaved Earth's men. The formerUnited States is now the 'United Sisterhood Republic', and Thundra hails from themegalopolis of Greater Milago (a merged sprawl ofMilwaukee andChicago), located in the United Sisterhood's Midwestern Republic. Thundra is renowned as the United Sisterhood's most formidable warrior, having been physically enhanced bygenetic engineering and trained in combat and tactics from a young age.
She is sent to the 20th century to challenge Fantastic Four member theThing to a bout of one-on-one combat, believing him to be the strongest male of all time. By beating the Thing in combat, she feels she can prove once and for all that women were superior to the malegender, and finally end a stagnant war between Femizonia and the warlike, male dominated planet of Machus, where the female population had been subjugated by its rulerMahkizmo.
Thundra is also recruited into the evil group ofsupervillains known as theFrightful Four by theWizard, and they battled theFantastic Four.[4] She secretly has her own agenda and has no real interest in the group. She battled the Thing in personal combat, and then wound up ultimately switching sides and helping the Fantastic Four defeat the Frightful Four after she quits that group.[5]
She later battled theHulk, who was possessing the Thing's body at the time.[6] Thundra later assisted the Fantastic Four against the Frightful Four again,[7] and then assisted the Fantastic Four againstNamor the Sub-Mariner.[8] Her time travel from 23rd century Femizonia, an alternate future Earth ruled by women, to prevent the formation of Machus, a planet in her alternate future dimension ruled by men, was finally revealed. Alongside the Fantastic Four, she battled Mahkizmo. She ultimately remained in the 20th century after a dimensional interface of Femizonia and Machus occurred.[9] She later assisted the Fantastic Four andTigra against the Frightful Four,[10] and then assisted the Fantastic Four, Tigra, and theImpossible Man against theBrute,Mad Thinker, andAnnihilus.[11]
Thundra later met wrestling promoter Herkimer Oglethorpe, and on his advice she became aprofessional wrestler training with theGrapplers, a group of female wrestlers who possesscybernetic-endowed superpowers. In a fixed wrestling match with one Grappler member, Thundra (who has superior strength and fighting skills) is secretly drugged by her opponent, causing her toblack out and lose the match.[12]
When she awakens, it was revealed that the Grapplers were agents working for theRoxxon Oil Company, amultinationalpetroleum company which wascovertly involved in developing advanced technology and weaponry for sinister motives. The Grapplers were assigned to trick Thundra into helping themsabotageProject Pegasus, a prison/research facility built for housing supervillains. They were employed to smuggle the Nth Projector out of Project Pegasus.[13]
As a result of the deception by Roxxon and the Grapplers, Thundra came to blows (yet again) with the Thing (in whom she has expressed a romantic interest, on more than one occasion).[13] Alongside the Thing,Quasar,Giant-Man, and theAquarian, she fought theNth Man.[14] She encountered the duplicateHyperion and theAvengers, and battledMs. Marvel.[15] She is briefly allied with the duplicate Hyperion while still in service to Roxxon, and with him stole the Nth Projector from the Nth Command, before she returned to an alternate Femizonia which did not interface with Machus.[16]
Sometime later, Thundra was revealed as the Empress of Femizonia. She teamed with the Thing to battle Machan rebels.[17] She later abducted the Avengers and Fantastic Four to the future to enlist their aid in defending Femizonia from the extra-dimensional warlordArkon and his warriors from Polemachus. She fought Arkon in personal combat, and became romantically inclined toward him.[18]
However, Thundra has a special place in her heart for Ben Grimm. In addition to her amorous advances, the two have been involved in numerous superheroic adventures; one significant pairing of the two involved enlisting Grimm to help liberate Femizonia from a powerful, six-armedandroid sent from Machus to conquer the Femizons. After defeating the android, Grimm informed Thundra that they could never be together, expressing his love forAlicia Masters. Thundra then allowed him to return to the 20th century.[17]
Medusa andCrystal infiltrate Thundra's present-day homeland to retrieve part of a device required to rescueBlack Bolt from theSkrulls. As tensions between the two disguised women boil over, Thundra appears and compels them to undertake the ritual combat required of the society to resolve the disagreement. Thundra is convinced to hand over the Skrull intelligence agent after Crystal makes an impassioned speech.[19]
Thundra,Sue Storm andValkyrie team up withShe-Hulk and her Skrull partnerJazinda (masquerading as aShi'ar) to forcibly distribute stagnating aid in the corrupt country of Marinmer.[20][21]
TheRed Hulk battles theLady Liberators and tricks them into believing they caused him to pass out. Red Hulk then kidnaps Thundra, and offers her an alliance after deducing she was the only one of the group that was willing to kill him.[22] After agreeing to the alliance, Thundra becomes a subordinate of theIntelligencia, a group of genius villains founded by Leader. After Red Hulk is betrayed by the Intelligencia in the "Fall of the Hulks" storyline, Thundra aids him in his escape and leaves the group.[23] Since her departure from the group, her daughter Lyra has joined their ranks.[24]
As a result of genetic engineering, Thundra has vastsuperhuman strength and resistance to physical injury sufficient to allow her to stand toe to toe with the likes of the Thing. Her speed, stamina, agility, and reflexes are heightened to the peak of natural human capability. She has undergone intensive pain-management training.
Trained as a warrior, with extensive training in the hand-to-hand and military combat techniques of the 23rd century, she is a seasoned combat veteran who possesses superior fighting skills and is considered to be the greatest warrior among her people. Thundra is also a skilled combatant with a sword or her three-foot linkedchain, the latter of which is herweapon of choice, often attached to a bracelet on her left forearm.
An alternate timeline variant of Thundra appears inAvengers Forever as a member of theAvengers.[25]
A possible future variant of Thundra appears inHulk: Raging Thunder andFall of the Hulks: Red Hulk.[26] This version was captured by scientists, who impregnated her with cell scrapings from the Hulk.[27] She would later give birth to a green-skinned daughter named Lyla,[volume & issue needed] who would go on to become the new She-Hulk.[volume & issue needed]
Thundra appears inJLA/Avengers.[28][29]
A zombified alternate universe variant of Thundra from Earth-91126 appears inMarvel Zombies Return #5.[30]
Thundra was ranked 62nd inComics Buyer's Guide's "100 Sexiest Women in Comics" list.[31]
Thundra appears inUltimate Spider-Man, voiced byTara Strong.[32] This version is a member of theFrightful Four.
Thundra received an action figure inHasbro'sMarvel Legends line.
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