Troll (Marvel Comics)

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Troll
Publication information
Kevin Walker
In-story information
Alter egoGunna Sijurvald
SpeciesAsgardian/Troll Hybrid
Team affiliationsThunderbolts
AbilitiesSuper-strength

Troll (Gunna Sijurvald) is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.

Publication history

The character first appeared in

Kevin Walker

She has appeared as a regular character in Thunderbolts since issue #157, and has remained with the team since the title transitioned into Dark Avengers beginning with issue #175.

Fictional character biography

Troll is the offspring of an

Troll tribe.[1] She was originally held prisoner in Asgard until the Siege of Asgard destroyed her jail cell.[1] Apprehended by the Thunderbolts, Troll was placed in a cell on The Raft despite protests by Valkyrie that she should be returned to Asgard.[1]

When Luke Cage lead the Thunderbolts on their first mission to the Raft, they run into the young Gunna, who attacks and disables Ghost suit with her axe. Ghost tries calling for help, as the attacking girl wearing troll skin is about to slice him in two. Luckily for Ghost, Crossbones hits her in the side with one shot, causing her to fall down. Cage reprimands Crossbones for the seemingly lethal action, though the latter defends that he simply used a dart to penetrate the girl's ear.

Later at the Raft, Valkyrie identifies the girl as Gunna, an

Moonstone (who earlier just left Songbird) runs out and claims to save the day, Songbird points out that she did nothing while Gunna saved the day.[2] While at lunch, the other female prisoners criticize her eating habits and describe her like an unbroken house pet. When they jokingly ask if she was a cannibal, she shocks the prisoners with a deadpan "Aye."[3]

Thor also visited Troll in her jail cell to offer her a place at Asgard, but she rejected his offer telling him that she was not Asgardian.[4]

When a trio of male prisoners tease Gunna from behind the forcefield separating the men's courtyard from the women's. Gunna tries pouncing on them only for the forcefield to block her way. Warden

John Walker and the prison guards show up to defuse the situation and discipline the prisoners. Once it is settled, one of the guards confides in Walker that Gunna is too powerful for a juvenile facility but too young for the Raft. A new Thunderbolt team is drafted in case the primary team dies on a mission with Songbird selected as leader. Therefore, she and John Walker go around the Raft and select potential recruits.[5]

Recently, Troll was recruited to join their Beta team of the Thunderbolts nicknamed 'The Underbolts'.

Boomerang from being eaten by zombies.[7]

During the

Juggernaut in the form of Kuurth: Breaker of Stone destroyed the Raft and was "enjoying herself."[8]

Troll escaped together with several other inmates who were members of the Thunderbolts. Due to a failure of the teleportation technology of their tower caused by

Fixer killed his younger self which began to cause a collapse in reality and forced Fixer to assume his younger self's place, Troll returned to the future with the rest of the Thunderbolts.[14]

While the other members of the Thunderbolts went their criminal ways, Troll stayed behind in the care of Luke Cage and Songbird, to - as the latter put it - "Show the world who you really are."[15]

At the time when the Mother Parasite plotted to take over the world, Troll is among the younger characters that assist the Young Avengers into fighting the Mother Parasite as children and those who are young at heart can see the Mother Parasite's machinations.[16]

Powers

Troll has been shown to have superhuman strength, displayed by bending the metal bars on her jail cell and wielding a battle-axe that mortal men find impossible to lift. She appears to have the ability to call the axe to her mentally as shown when she fought an army of Doombots in Latveria.[17]

References

  1. ^ a b c d Thunderbolts #146
  2. ^ Thunderbolts #147
  3. ^ Thunderbolts #148
  4. ^ Thunderbolts #150
  5. ^ Thunderbolts #155
  6. ^ Thunderbolts #156
  7. ^ Thunderbolts #157
  8. ^ Thunderbolts #158
  9. ^ Thunderbolts #163
  10. ^ Thunderbolts #164
  11. ^ Thunderbolts #166
  12. ^ Thunderbolts #169
  13. ^ Thunderbolts #170
  14. ^ Thunderbolts #173
  15. ^ Dark Avengers #183
  16. ^ Young Avengers Vol. 2 #11-15
  17. ^ Dark Avengers #177

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