Paroled from prison early for assiting the Avengers, Abe Jenkins adopted a new armored guise as MACH-4 and began rebuilding the Thunderbolts, recruiting Songbird, Atlas and career criminals Blizzard, Speed Demon, Joystick and Radioactive Man; however, a morally conflicted Jenkins has struggled as a leader, Atlas has proven unstable and the new recruits have been slow to embrace the group's redemptory philosophy. Songbird, no longer in love with Abe, has begun to lose faith in the team in general and Jenkins in particular, especially after she and Atlas learned that Abe got the new team's startup cash from Baron Strucker, who had hoped to set the Thunderbolts up as cannon fodder for an apocalyptic assault on Manhattan. Despite these internal tensions, the Thunderbolts became belovedcelebritiesagain after they saved New York from a Hydra nuclear assault with a last-minute assist from cosmic antihero Genis-Vell (formerly Captain Marvel), who had returned as the semi-amnesiac Photon after a raging Atlas beat him nearly to death. With Photon as their newest recruit, the Thunderbolts continue to work to save the world, perhaps saving their souls in the process.
Members:
Baron Zemo
Songbird
M.A.C.H.-4
The Fixer
Atlas
The Blizzard
Joystick
Radioactive Man
The Swordsman III
The Smuggler
Supporting Cast:
Dallas Riordan
Warbird
Former Members:
The Beetle
Speed Demon
Photon II
Nighthawk
Moonstone
Man-Killer
Blackout
Other Heroes:
Spider-Man
Pulsar
Villains:
Baron Wolfgang Von Strucker
The Purple Man
Tremolo
Polestar
Nagala
Tamara Rahn
The Shocker
Overmind
Villainous Groups:
Hydra
The Fathom's Five
Squadron Sinister
Batroc's Brigade
The Wrecking Crew
Related Pages:
The Original Thunderbolts
