KILLERWATT

Real Name: Unrevealed

Identity/Class: Human mutate (Earth-982)

Occupation: US government operative; former career criminal; former roadie

Group Membership: Revengers (Big Man/Henry Pym Jr., Ion Man, Magneta, Red Queen/Hope Pym, Sabreclaw/Hudson Logan), Savage Six (Dragon King, Funny Face, Mr. Abnormal, Raptor/Brenda Drago, Sabreclaw/Hudson Logan)

Affiliations: Crazy Eight, Darkdevil (Reilly Tyne), Dragon King, Earthshaker, Funny Face, Maria Hill, Kaine, Mr. Abnormal, Raptor, Sabreclaw, Arthur Weadon

Enemies: Argo the Almighty, Avengers (American Dream/Shannon Carter, Bluestreak/Blue Kelso, Freebooter/Brandon Cross, J2/Zane Yama, Mainframe/Unit 1138, Scarlet Witch/Wanda Maximoff, Stinger/Cassie Lang, Thunderstrike/Kevin Masterson), Blacklight (Kendra Freeman), Buzz (Jack Jameson), Carnage, Coal Tiger (T'Chaka), Cyclops (Scott Summers), Earth Sentry (John Foster), Galactus (Galan), Hawkeye (Clint Barton), Edwin Jarvis, Scott Lang, Spider-Girl (May Parker), Tony Stark, X-People (Angry Eagle, Jubilee/Jubilation Lee, Torque)

Known Relatives: None

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: Brooklyn, New York, USA

First Appearance: Spider-Girl I#9 (June, 1999)

Powers/Abilities: Killerwatt appears able to generate a limitless supply of electrical energy through his body. He usually wields this power into destructive blasts of energy but he can regulate the amount of voltage he emits. By focusing his power into his fists he can simulate a superhuman punch capable of shattering brick. By focusing his powers to the ground he can generate a repulsor force that permits him to hover straight up. He can also surround his body with an electrical field to repel attacks.

Height: Unrevealed (approximately 6')
Weight: Unrevealed (approximately 175 lbs.)
Eyes: Unrevealed
Hair: Bluish-white

History:

(Spider-Girl I#9 (fb)) - A man was once a roadie for a rock group but the rockers treated him like garbage and blamed him when their cheap equipment broke down. One day while trying to set up the band's equipment the roadie was blasted with electricity. Instead of dying he discovered he had obtained the ability to release electricity from his body. He dubbed himself "Killerwatt."

(Spider-Girl I#9) - Killerwatt committed a daylight bank robbery. When the bank guards set off the alarm he stunned them with electricity before making his escape. As he reached a nearby rooftop Killerwatt was webbed to the roof by the hero Spider-Girl, who barred his path. He wondered aloud, "Who are you?" this being the first he had seen of her. Killeratt began increasing his electrical power to melt through the webbing while fighting Spider-Girl. He mocked the very idea of engaging in a fight with her as evidence that she was "into the whole hero-villain dynamic." He finally stunned her by electrifying the entire roof then considered unmasking her but when the vigilante Darkdevil appeared Killerwatt made a hasty exit.

Killerwatt went after the band he had formerly been a roadie to and explained his origin to Spider-Girl when she intervened. Spider-Girl interfered with Killerwatt's attempts on the lives of the band and by moving quickly to avoid an outcome similar to their first fight she was able to dodge between his hands and strike him in the face, knocking out Killerwatt.

(A-Next I#12 (fb)) - Killerwatt joined the Revengers, a team of super-powered criminals led by Red Queen who wanted revenge on the Avengers. Alongside his teammates Big Man, Ion Man and Sabreclaw, Killerwatt aided them in breaking into Avengers Mansion and taking Clint Barton, Edwin Jarvis, Scott Lang and Tony Stark prisoner then ambushing the Avengers immediately after they returned from an adventure on a parallel Earth.

(A-Next I#12) - While Red Queen began threatening the Avengers they had tied up, Killerwatt examined the equipment they had confiscated from the Avengers. The only item Killerwatt didn't recognize was a module, unaware it contained the computerized consciousness of Mainframe, whose physical form had been lost on the other Earth. While Killerwatt was examining the module Tony Stark taunted him, claiming he could never understand how the object worked. Killerwatt fired an electrical charge at Stark to silence him but by doing so he activated the module, sending an electronic pulse to the satellite where Mainframe's spare bodies were housed.

Again inhabiting a robot body, Mainframe gathered the Avengers' allies Argo, Blacklight, Coal Tiger and Earth Sentry to rescue the Avengers. Killerwatt was surprised to be facing reinforcements and the Revengers were unable to prevent them from freeing the captured Avengers. Killerwatt admitted he found group battles stressful as he wasn't used to working with others or against more than one person. Clint Barton knocked him out by striking him over the head with Freebooter's staff.

(Spider-Girl I#25) - Killerwatt was recruited into a gang of Spider-Girl's enemies under the leadership of Funny Face and whose other members were Dragon King, Mr. Abnormal, Raptor and Sabreclaw. Funny Face assumed the others shared his vendetta against Spider-Girl but Killerwatt admitted he only committed crimes because he was "in it for the rush." As they debated a name for their group Killerwatt suggested "the Wild Bunch" but Funny Face finally chose the Savage Six. Funny Face's brother Crazy Eight observed the team's gathering and mocked them for forming a gang.

Funny Face ordered each member of the Savage Six to prepare a trap for Spider-Girl along with a clue to the next member's location. Killerwatt was the 5th one of them to fight Spider-Girl and clashed with her a construction site, hoping to earn a bonus by being the one to kill her. Spider-Girl again nimbly dodged his attacks. Realizing she was looking for an opening to hit him, Killerwatt supercharged himself; when Spider-Girl struck him she succeeded in knocking him out but the electrical blast temporarily removed Spider-Girl's powers. Despite this, Spider-Girl defeated Funny Face with help from the Avengers and Fantastic Five. As he and Funny Face were arrested Killerwatt told him "lose my number."

(Last Planet Standing I#1) - Killerwatt rejoined the Revengers, who had replaced the reformed Big Man with Magneta. The team fought the Avengers once again and Killerwatt scoffed at Thunderstrike's powers, calling his thunderblasts "sooooo last century." When Red Queen realized her team was too evenly-matched to the Avengers she had Ion Man create a bright explosion so that they could escape and make another plan.

(Last Planet Standing I#2) - The Revengers resumed their attack, this time finding just the Avengers Mainframe, Stinger and Thunderstrike with their ally Spider-Girl. Killerwatt engaged his old foe Spider-Girl in battle but the fight was cut short when Thunderstrike abruptly lost his powers, forcing the heroes to retreat.

(Last Planet Standing I#3) - As Galactus menaced the Earth the Revengers watched the devastation his arrival caused and saw the Avengers trying to save lives from the tidal waves Galactus' approach caused. Magneta suggested they should aid the Avengers but Red Queen refused, believing this was an opportunity to strike their enemies while they were distracted.

(Last Planet Standing I#4) - While a variety of heroes from the Avengers and X-People as well as Argo, Buzz and Cyclops tried to pierce the barrier surrounding Galactus in Central Park, the Revengers attacked the heroes but Galactus' excavatron device soon caused immense shockwaves that tossed the heroes and Revengers around. Sabreclaw was the only Revenger not knocked unconscious; realizing the gravity of the situation he offered to aid the heroes on behalf of all the Revengers.

(Last Planet Standing I#5) - Killerwatt was the only other Revenger to join Sabreclaw in aiding the heroes against Galactus as the other Revengers decided to go on a crime spree, believing the heroes would save them all. The heroes ultimately triumphed over Galactus, who merged with the Silver Surfer to become a new benevolent entity.

(Amazing Spider-Girl I#9) - Killerwatt was recruited by government agent Arthur Weadon to serve as an operative on an (unnamed) team of super-criminals which included Mr. Abnormal, Earthshaker and Kaine. Weadon brought the four criminals to an amusement park in Brooklyn which the government had taken in a RICO case so that they could practice and demonstrate their skills to Maria Hill of S.H.I.E.L.D. Hill was not impressed with the team but arranged for them to serve as security to protect "Specimen 297" (the symbiote Carnage) from capture. Kaine felt the situation was suspicious as S.H.I.E.L.D. normally handled their own security, so brought in his ally Darkdevil to shadow them while they transported Carnage. Killerwatt rode in the back of the delivery truck with Mr. Abnormal while Earthshaker and Kaine sat in the cab, but their convoy was assaulted by a second S.H.I.E.L.D. team led by Contessa Allegro de Fontaine, who was working with Agent Hill to make it appear as though Carnage had been stolen by another party so that S.H.I.E.L.D. could discreetly destroy Carnage off the books. The second S.H.I.E.L.D. stole Specimen 297 and fled into the sewers. Mr. Abnormal and Killerwatt gave chase, but both of them were swiftly stunned by S.H.I.E.L.D.'s weapons. Unfortunately, Spider-Girl happened by and interfered with the Contessa's team, resulting in Carnage being released.

(Amazing Spider-Girl I#10) - Agent Hill blamed Weadon's operatives for failing in their assignment (as they had no idea they were supposed to fail in their jobs). Weadon sent his operatives to find Carnage.

(Amazing Spider-Girl I#11) - Due to her interference, S.H.I.E.L.D. demanded the arrest of Spider-Girl. While Kaine and Darkdevil were trying to understand S.H.I.E.L.D.'s motives, Killerwatt, Earthshaker and Mr. Abnormal were all-too pleased to be sent to arrest Spider-Girl, but in their first attempt on a rooftop she evaded them.

(Amazing Spider-Girl I#12) - Killerwatt, Earthshaker and Mr. Abnormal caught up to Spider-Girl as she was fighting Carnage. Unfortunately they let their old scores against her to distract them, dividing their attention instead of helping against Carnage. Killerwatt attacked Spider-Girl but she evaded him and Carnage then easily knocked Killerwatt out. Ultimately, Spider-Girl and her father Peter Parker defeated Carnage.

(Amazing Spider-Girl I#15) - Killerwatt, Mr. Abnormal, Earthshaker and Kaine were on a patrol in the Pine Barrens when Kaine received call from Spider-Girl and left the others to respond to it.

Comments: Created by Tom DeFalco, Pat Olliffe and Al Williamson.

In Spider-Girl I#100, Spider-Girl saw images of Killerwatt and other enemies mocking her when she thought she was about to die.

This profile was completed on 11/24/2025 but its publication was delayed, as it was intended for the Appendix's 25th anniversary celebratory event.

Profile by Prime Eternal.

CLARIFICATIONS:
Killerwatt should not be confused with:

images: (without ads)
Spider-Girl I#9, page 6, panel 4 (main)
A-Next I#12, page 2 (face)
Amazing Spider-Girl I#12, page 7, panel 4 (2nd costume)

Appearances:
Spider-Girl I#9 (June, 1999) - Tom DeFalco (writer, editor), Pat Olliffe (penciler), Al Williamson (inker)
A-Next I#12 (September, 1999) - Tom DeFalco (writer, editor), Ron Frenz (co-plot, penciler), Al Milgrom (inker)
Spider-Girl I#25 (October, 2000) - Tom DeFalco (writer), Pat Olliffe (penciler), Al Williamson (inker), Mike Marts (editor)
Last Planet Standing I#1-5 (July-September, 2006) - Tom DeFalco (writer), Pat Olliffe (co-plot, penciler), Scott Koblish (inker), Molly Lazer (editor)
Amazing Spider-Girl I#9-12 (August-November, 2007) - Tom DeFalco (writer), Ron Frenz (co-plot, penciler), Sal Buscema (inker), Molly Lazer (editor)
Amazing Spider-Girl I#15 (February, 2008) - Tom DeFalco (writer), Ron Frenz (co-plot, penciler), Sal Buscema (inker), Molly Lazer (editor)

First posted: 09/12/2026
Last updated: 11/24/2025

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