Nitro (character)

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Nitro
Hardcore's Untouchables[1]
Notable aliasesExploding Man
Living Bomb
Abilities

Nitro is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. He first appeared in 1974.[2]

Nitro is known for playing a part in the death of the

crossover
.

Publication history

Nitro first appeared in

Captain Marvel #34 (September 1974) and was created by Jim Starlin.[3]

Fictional character biography

Robert Hunter was born in

nerve gas;[4] this encounter ultimately caused Captain Marvel's fatal cancer.[5][6]
Since then he has clashed with Earth's superhumans, who have found creative ways to defeat him, including using the "fractioning (separation) of his exploded mass" against him (essentially, if he can't reform himself after an explosion, he can't explode again).

Nitro later battled and was defeated by

Super Skrull and Titanium Man. When the mission ended with the Silver Surfer rescuing the Earth-based villains, Nitro decided to take a space craft and explore space.[12]

Much later, when the

Kingpin was plotting his return to the New York underworld, he hired Nitro as one of many assassins to launch a carefully planned simultaneous attack on several New York crime bosses, including Don Fortunato, Hammerhead, Caesar Cicero, Silvermane, and many others; Nitro's target was Norman Osborn, who emerged relatively unscathed.[13]

One such appearance where a foe took advantage of his limitations was in Iron Man vol. 3 #15, where he was hired to kill Tony Stark. A fight occurred between Nitro and Iron Man. Iron Man, whose sensors and telecommunications gear had been recently upgraded, noticed that every time he exploded, a high-frequency pulse was emitted by his body. Experimenting, Iron Man duplicated the pulse, causing Nitro to explode. After he exploded several times in a minute, he passed out from exhaustion (presumably, it takes energy to explode, and he could only spare so much before he passed out). Iron Man then handed him over to S.H.I.E.L.D., along with a recommendation on constructing a null-harness. He was sent to prison.[14]

On another occasion, when Nitro's lawyer had him released from captivity, the villain immediately escaped, attempting to rob a bank for money to travel to San Francisco to kill Captain Marvel. He was opposed by Spider-Man, who defeated Nitro by webbing a barrel of tear gas to his body right before he exploded. As Nitro reformed, the suddenly evaporated tear gas mixed with his own molecules, leaving him violently ill and unable to fight back. Again, Nitro was arrested and sent to jail.[8]

Later, Nitro is hired as a

Matt Murdock. He almost succeeds, killing several innocent people. Daredevil and the police work together to capture him.[15]

At the start of the

Microbe, and the supervillains he was with during the raid along with sixty children at the nearby elementary school and some 600 people in the surrounding neighborhood in Stamford, Connecticut where the fight took place.[16]

Nitro escaped in the back of a pickup truck and Wolverine soon began hunting him.[17] Eventually Wolverine and a group of S.H.I.E.L.D. agents caught up with Nitro. The agents perished in the battle.[18] Atlantean agents show up and capture Nitro for Namor and Wolverine follows them to New Pangea in an Iron Man armor to find Nitro has killed his interrogators in an attempt to escape.[19] Wolverine captures Nitro and slices off his arm before leaving Nitro a prisoner of Atlantis.[20]

Namor used Nitro in the destruction of New Pangea after moving his civilization to Latveria, a nation ruled by Doctor Doom.[21] Nitro was held prisoner in Latveria until Penance brought him back to America after forcing him to suffer for the Stamford explosion, leaving him in critical condition and close to death.[22][23]

Nitro later popped up as a member of

Hood's crime syndicate when they stole a treasure from an Arabic diplomat and then had a celebratory party were the Hood shows them how he's the leader and the ways he delegates the job.[24]

Nitro later appeared at a party in Madripoor that was held by

Sabretooth.[25]

Nitro was among the villains that fought Spider-Man on a submarine.[26]

During the Avengers: Standoff! storyline, Nitro was an inmate of Pleasant Hill, a gated community established by S.H.I.E.L.D.[27]

During the "Opening Salvo" part of the Secret Empire storyline, Nitro is recruited by Baron Helmut Zemo to join the Army of Evil.[28] Nitro is among the villains on a rampage after what went down in Pleasant Hill. During his fight with the Defenders, Nitro defeated them by exploding.[29]

Powers and abilities

Nitro can forcefully convert his whole body into

gases, resulting in a violent explosion. This transformation could be limited to discrete portions of himself, such as his fist and aim the force in a specific direction. While in a gaseous form, he cannot reform if any fraction of his body is separated from the rest and must completely reconstitute himself before detonating again. The process does not have any healing qualities, so any wound received due to the explosion would be present when he reforms.[30]

In other media

Television

Nitro appears in the

Wolverine explains they would have destroyed Genosha if the X-Men had not intervened, the Brotherhood begrudgingly allow Nitro to be returned to the MRD.[31]

Video games

References

  1. ^ Cage #3
  2. ISBN 0-8160-1356-X.[1]
  3. ISBN 978-1-4654-7890-0
    .
  4. ^ Captain Marvel #34
  5. ^ "The Death of Captain Marvel"
  6. ISBN 978-1465455505
    .
  7. ^ Omega the Unknown #8
  8. ^ a b Peter Parker, the Spectacular Spider-Man #55
  9. ISBN 978-0756692360
    .
  10. ^ The New Mutants #86
  11. ^ The Secret Defenders #12
  12. ^ The Secret Defenders #14
  13. ^ Peter Parker: Spider-Man #95
  14. ^ Iron Man vol. 3 #15
  15. ^ Daredevil vol. 2 #26
  16. ^ Civil War #1
  17. ^ Wolverine vol. 3 #42
  18. ^ Wolverine vol. 3 #43
  19. ^ Wolverine vol. 3 #44
  20. ^ Wolverine vol. 3 #45
  21. Sub-Mariner
     #6
  22. ^ Penance - Relentless #2
  23. ^ Penance: Relentless #5
  24. ^ Dark Reign: The Hood #1
  25. ^ Wolverine vol. 2 #304
  26. ^ Marvel Knights: Spider-Man vol. 2 #3-4
  27. ^ Avengers Standoff: Assault on Pleasant Hill Alpha #1
  28. ^ Captain America: Steve Rogers #16
  29. ^ Secret Empire #0
  30. ^ All-New Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe: Update Vol 1 #4 (December 2007)
  31. ^ "Time Bomb". Wolverine and the X-Men. Episode 8. March 6, 2009. Nicktoons.

External links

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