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Fixer (Marvel Comics)

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This article is about Marvel Comics characters. For the "Roscoe Sweeney" Sunday newspaper comic strip from the late 1940s to 1974, see Buz Sawyer. For other uses, see Fixer (disambiguation).

The Fixer is the name of two characters appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics: Roscoe Sweeney and Paul Norbert Ebersol.

Roscoe Sweeney was portrayed by Kevin Nagle in the Marvel Cinematic Universe series Daredevil while Paul Ebersol has appeared in animated media.

Publication history

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The first Marvel Comics character known as the Fixer was Roscoe Sweeney. He first appeared in Daredevil #1 (Apr. 1964), and was created by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, and Bill Everett.

The second iteration of Fixer was long-time supervillain Paul Ebersol, first appearing in Strange Tales #141 (February 1966) and was created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby.[1] Much later, he appeared as a regular character in Thunderbolts, until he was forced to leave the team.

Fictional character biography

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Roscoe Sweeney

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Roscoe Sweeney
Publication information
PublisherMarvel Comics
First appearanceDaredevil #1 (April 1964)
Created byStan Lee (writer)
Jack Kirby (artist)
Bill Everett (artist)
In-story information
Alter egoRoscoe Sweeney

Roscoe Sweeney was a gangster and crooked fight promoter who was involved in extortion and illegal gambling who operated as the "Fixer". He paid boxer 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 the superhero Daredevil. The Fixer and Slade went to Fogwell's Gym where they encountered Daredevil. The Fixer had a fatal heart attack when confronted by Daredevil and died.[2]

Paul Norbert Ebersol

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Paul Norbert Ebersol
Fixer (Paul Norbert Ebersol) by Patrick Zircher.
Publication information
PublisherMarvel Comics
First appearanceStrange Tales #141 (February 1966) (as Fixer)[3]
The Incredible Hulk #449 (January 1997) (as Techno)
Created byStan Lee (writer)
Jack Kirby (artist)
In-story information
Alter egoPaul Norbert Ebersol
Team affiliationsAdvanced Idea Mechanics
Commission on Superhuman Activities
Hydra
Masters of Evil
New Enforcers
Redeemers
Thunderbolts
PartnershipsMentallo
Notable aliasesTechno, Mr. Fix, Ogre, Phil
AbilitiesElectronics and mechanical genius
Robotic body
Technoforming

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.[4]

Fixer later joins Helmut Zemo's incarnation of the Masters of Evil.[5] The team is later rebranded as the Thunderbolts, who masquerade as superheroes, with Fixer assuming the alias of Techno.[6] He is apparently killed by Iron, one of the Elements of Doom, and transfers his mind into a robotic body.[7]

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 were killed by Graviton. He joined with the reunited Thunderbolts to stop Graviton, and he was one of the team members exiled to Counter-Earth. The team eventually returns to Earth via a rift.[8]

During the "Heroic Age" storyline, Fixer works as the Raft's supervisor in its section for male supervillains when Captain Steve Rogers and Luke Cage arrive to recruit Ghost.[9] As well as working with the Thunderbolts, Fixer has also been seen working with Baron Zemo.[10]

During the "Fear Itself" storyline, Fixer was seen working on a forcefield to secure the rounded-up prisoners who had escaped from the Raft after Juggernaut, in the form of Kuurth: Breaker of Stone, leveled it.[11]

During the "Avengers: Standoff!" storyline, Fixer resurfaces where is shown to be a prisoner of the S.H.I.E.L.D.-established gated community Pleasant Hill where Kobik, fragments of a Cosmic Cube transformed into a nigh-omnipotent child, turned him into a mild-mannered mechanic 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 Mayor Maria 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.[12] Fixer and Baron Zemo began to restore the memories of the other inmates one by one.[13] Fixer later invented a device that would help Baron Zemo and his fellow villains find Kobik.[14]

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.[15]

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.[16]

During the "Opening Salvo" part of the Secret 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 with Erik 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.[17]

During the "One World Under Doom" storyline, Fixer was among the original Thunderbolts line-up that join the Fulgar Victoris led by Valentina Allegra de Fontaine as Citizen V. Amidst the showdown in Latveria, Fixer defects to the Thunderbolts side and activates the Doombot Protocol Fixer Omega Daffodil to shut down the other Doombots.[18]

Powers and abilities

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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.

In other media

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Television

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Film

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Roscoe Sweeney, renamed Edward "Eddie" Fallon, appears in Daredevil (2003), portrayed by Mark Margolis.[citation needed] This version previously employed a young Wilson Fisk as an enforcer.

Video games

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Music

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The industrial band Mentallo and the Fixer derive their name from the Paul Ebersol incarnation of Fixer and his former partner Mentallo.[citation needed]

References

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  1. ^ Rovin, Jeff (1987). The Encyclopedia of Super-Villains. New York: Facts on File. p. 131. ISBN 0-8160-1356-X.[1]
  2. ^ Daredevil #1 (February 1964)
  3. ^ Conroy, Mike (2004). 500 Comicbook Villains. Collins & Brown. ISBN 1-84340-205-X.
  4. ^ Strange Tales #141 - 145 (February - June 1966). Marvel Comics.
  5. ^ Avengers #273-274 (November - December 1986)
  6. ^ Brevoort, Tom; DeFalco, Tom; Manning, Matthew K.; Sanderson, Peter; Wiacek, Win (2017). Marvel Year By Year: A Visual History. DK Publishing. p. 114. ISBN 978-1465455505.
  7. ^ Thunderbolts #7 - 8 (October - November 1997). Marvel Comics.
  8. ^ Avengers/Thunderbolts #1–6 (May - September 2004). Marvel Comics.
  9. ^ Thunderbolts #144. Marvel Comics.
  10. ^ Captain America #606. Marvel Comics.
  11. ^ Thunderbolts #159. Marvel Comics.
  12. ^ Avengers Standoff: Welcome to Pleasant Hill #1. Marvel Comics.
  13. ^ Avengers Standoff: Assault on Pleasant Hill Alpha #1. Marvel Comics.
  14. ^ Captain America: Sam Wilson #8. Marvel Comics.
  15. ^ Thunderbolts Vol. 3 #1. Marvel Comics.
  16. ^ Thunderbolts Vol. 3 #10. Marvel Comics.
  17. ^ Thunderbolts Vol. 3 #12. Marvel Comics.
  18. ^ Thunderbolts: Doomstrike #2-5. Marvel Comics.
  19. ^ a b "Fixer Voices (Marvel Universe)". Behind the Voice Actors (A green check mark indicates that a role has been confirmed using a screenshot (or collage of screenshots) of a title's list of voice actors and their respective characters found in its credits or other reliable sources of information.). Retrieved December 21, 2019.
  20. ^ "'Marvel Disk Wars: The Avengers' is Pokémon AND Pogs [Video]". ComicsAlliance. Archived from the original on July 15, 2014. Retrieved May 22, 2014.
  21. ^ "Fixer | Marvel: Avengers Alliance 2". Archived from the original on April 19, 2016. Retrieved April 5, 2016.
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