MINDWAVE
Real Name: Unrevealed
Identity/Class: Human mutate
Occupation: Unrevealed, posing as a criminal
Group Membership: Partnership with Bluestreak, Caprice (Kendra Louise Price), and Mirage
Affiliations: None
Enemies: Doc Samson (Leonard Samson), Thunderbolts (Bullseye/Lester, Green Goblin/Norman Osborn, Moonstone/Karla Sofen, Penance/Robert Baldwin, Radioactive Man/Chen Lu, Songbird/Melissa Gold, Swordsman/Andreas von Strucker, Venom/Mac Gargan)
Known Relatives: None
Aliases: None
Base of Operations: None (deceased);
briefly Thunderbolts Mountain, Colorado;
formerly Las Vegas, Nevada
First Appearance: Thunderbolts I#116 (October, 2007)
Powers/Abilities: Mindwave possessed exceptionally powerful telekinetic abilities, enabling him to manipulate objects and exert tremendous destructive force using only his mind. He could dismantle firearms, suspend and redirect bullets in midair, and unleash powerful telekinetic blasts capable of destroying large structures. He demonstrated these abilities when he single-handedly demolished a Las Vegas police station, killing the officers inside. Mindwave also possessed limited telepathic abilities, allowing him to communicate mentally with other telepaths and combine his powers with theirs. Working alongside the other psychics, he could influence the thoughts, emotions and behavior of others, exploiting their psychological vulnerabilities to provoke irrational and violent actions.
Height: Unrevealed (approximately 6'2")
Weight: Unrevealed (approximately 195 lbs.)
Eyes: Grey
Hair: White
History:
(Thunderbolts I#117 (fb) - BTS) - Following the implementation of the Superhuman Registration Act, Mindwave joined forces with three other telepaths, Bluestreak, Caprice and Mirage. The four psychics devised a plan to infiltrate Thunderbolts Mountain, where the government-sanctioned Thunderbolts were imprisoning unregistered superhumans. Rather than attempting to overpower the team directly, they intended to be captured and use their combined mental abilities to manipulate the Thunderbolts into destroying one another.
(Thunderbolts I#116) - Ready to start his mission and to be apprehended by the Thunderbolts, Mindwave entered a police station in Las Vegas, Nevada, announcing that he had come to formally protest the Superhuman Registration Act. When the officers questioned him, he identified himself as Mindwave, specifically pointing out that his name was different from that of the earlier criminal known as Mind-Wave. The officers initially treated his declaration as a joke, unaware of the danger he represented. Mindwave then demonstrated his tremendous telekinetic abilities by destroying the police station, dismantling their firearms and stopping the bullets fired at him in midair. Mindwave then simply surrendered, knelt down and put his hands behind his head while declaring he was an unregistered superhuman combatant.
(Thunderbolts I#117 - BTS) - Mindwave surrendered without resistance, allowing him to be taken into custody. Unaware that his capture had been deliberately orchestrated, he was transported to Thunderbolts Mountain.
(Thunderbolts I#117) - Mindwave was placed in a detention cell next to the three other telepaths who were wondering what took him so long to get captured. With the first phase of their plan a success. Mindwave and his allies began using their combined telepathic abilities to gather information about the facility and identify weaknesses they could exploit. Their ultimate objective was to drive the Thunderbolts insane and provoke them into killing one another.
During their telepathic discussions, Mindwave suggested that it might be entertaining to interfere with the surgery being performed on Bullseye, who had suffered severe injuries during his confrontation with American Eagle. However, the conspirators ultimately concentrated their efforts on manipulating the active members of the Thunderbolts, leaving Bullseye outside their immediate plans.
(Thunderbolts I#118 - BTS) - Continuing their campaign of psychological manipulation from their cells, Mindwave and the other telepaths used their combined telepathic powers to influence the Thunderbolts and the personnel stationed at Thunderbolts Mountain. Their interference contributed to the increasingly unstable behavior of the facility's inhabitants, including Norman Osborn who was continuously confronted with his Goblin-mask, Venom taking full control over his host Mac Gargan and Swordsman to rebel against Osborn and destroying the Zeus.
(Thunderbolts I#119) - With their plan in full motion, Mindwave asked Blue Streak whether he had gained complete control over Venom. He also dismissed Bullseye as a potential threat, knowing the assassin was still undergoing medical procedures. However, Mirage deviated from their plan when she attempted to probe the mind of Doc Samson, who had arrived at Thunderbolts Mountain to help Penance. Her intrusion triggered a powerful psychic backlash as she encountered the gamma-fueled rage Samson deliberately kept at the forefront of his mind to defend against telepathic attacks. Frustrated by her recklessness, Mindwave reminded Mirage that she was never supposed to enter Samson's mind and ordered her to leave both him and Penance alone.
(Thunderbolts I#120) - Mindwave and his fellow telepaths continued to manipulate the Thunderbolts as the situation inside their headquarters deteriorated. Their combined psychic influence intensified existing tensions among the team members, driving several to act on their most violent impulses. Swordsman (Andreas von Strucker) rebelled against Norman Osborn, who had donned his Green Goblin costume with murderous intent, while Moonstone (Karla Sofen) became increasingly unstable. However, when Radioactive Man (Chen Lu) and Songbird (Melissa Gold) began to suspect that the recently captured telepaths were responsible for the escalating chaos, Mindwave and his allies acted quickly to prevent them from investigating further. Using their psychic abilities, they manipulated Radioactive Man into wanting to expose everyone inside Thunderbolts Mountain to lethal radiation, giving them cancer. Confident that their plan was succeeding, the four conspirators decided it was time to initiate its final phase. They intended to drive the Thunderbolts into slaughtering the facility's human staff, ensuring that the team's atrocities could no longer be concealed or justified and ultimately bringing an end to the Thunderbolts and their unlawful activities.
(Thunderbolts I#121) - As their campaign reached its climax, Mindwave and the other psychics maintained their telepathic assault against the Thunderbolts, driving the already unstable team members into increasingly violent confrontations. However, their plans were unexpectedly disrupted when Bullseye recovered from his surgery. Having been ignored by the telepaths, the assassin was able to move through the facility without attracting their attention. Bullseye entered the detention area where Mindwave and his companions were imprisoned and attacked them with surgical scalpels, displaying his extraordinary accuracy by killing all four prisoners before they could defend themselves. Mindwave's death brought an abrupt end to the psychics scheme to destroy the Thunderbolts.
Comments: Created by Warren Ellis and Mike Deodato Jr.
Mindwave and his three fellow telepaths shared their codenames with victims of the Scourge of the Underworld. The original Blue Streak, Mind-Wave and Mirage were all criminals murdered by Scourge in Captain America I#318-320, while Caprice had previously been involved with the Scourge organization. Mindwave even specifically pointed out the difference in spelling between his codename and that of his predecessor, suggesting the connection was intentional. Given the four telepaths' determination to destroy the Thunderbolts, whom they regarded as criminals masquerading as government-sanctioned heroes, it is likely that their choice of names was a deliberate reference to Scourge's original mission of eliminating criminals. By adopting the names of criminals who had fallen victim to Scourge, the telepaths may have been drawing an ironic parallel between those earlier killings and their own efforts to bring down the Thunderbolts. This parallel is particularly striking since the telepaths themselves were willing to employ murderous methods to achieve their goals.
Caged Angels was the name of the Thunderbolts story-line, not a name for the group of telepaths.
Profile by MarvellousLuke
CLARIFICATIONS:
Mindwave has no known connections to
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Thunderbolts I#116, p17, pan4 (main image)
Thunderbolts I#116, p21, pan4 (using powers)
Thunderbolts I#121, p14, pan7&9 (death)
Appearances:
Thunderbolts I#116 (October, 2007) - Warren Ellis (writer), Mike Deodato Jr. (pencils/inks), Molly Lazer (editor)
Thunderbolts I#117 (November, 2007) - Warren Ellis (writer), Mike Deodato Jr. (pencils/inks), Molly Lazer (editor)
Thunderbolts I#119 (April, 2008) - Warren Ellis (writer), Mike Deodato Jr. (pencils/inks), Molly Lazer (editor)
Thunderbolts I#120 (July, 2008) - Warren Ellis (writer), Mike Deodato Jr. (pencils/inks), Molly Lazer (editor)
Thunderbolts I#121 (August, 2008) - Warren Ellis (writer), Mike Deodato Jr. (pencils/inks), Molly Lazer (editor)
First Posted: 11/01/2026
Last Updated: 11/01/2026
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