THE HOOD
Real Name: Parker Robbins
Identity/Class: Human supernatural technology user
Occupation: Adventurer; petty criminal
Group Membership: Leader of Hood's "villain army" ( Answer (Aaron Nicholson), Armadillo, Blackout (Lilin), Blood Brother, Brother Grimm, Bulldozer, Bushwhacker, Centurius, Chemistro (Calvin Carr), Controller, Crossbones, Crossfire, Crusader (Arthur Blackwood), Cutthroat, Deathwatch, Doctor Demonicus, Grey Gargoyle, Griffin (Johnny Horton), Hydro-Man, Jigsaw, Living Laser, Madame Masque, Mandrill, Mister Fear (Alan Fagan), Mister Hyde, Piledriver, Purple Man, Razor-Fist (Douglas Scott), Recession Raider, Scarecrow, Shockwave, Squid, Thunderball, Tiger Shark, Vapor, Vector, Vermin, Wizard, Wrecker (Dirk Garthwaite), X-Ray, others)
Affiliations: Turk Barrett, Deathlok (Michael Collins), a Deathlok replica, Firebird, Gravity, Jonas Harrow, Gro, John King, Kraven the Hunter (Alyosha Kravinoff), Medusa (Medusalith Boltagon), Ox (Raymond Bloch), Dr. Henry "Hank" Pym, Sara, Uatu the Watcher, Venom (Mac Gargan), Wasp
Enemies: Constrictor, Dragon Man, the Golem (Golembuski), Hank, Hydra, Victor Infante, Jack O'Lantern (Rick Levins), Madam Rapier, Mister Fear (Larry Cranston), New Avengers (Luke Cage, Dr. Strange, Echo, Iron Fist (Rand), Ronin (Barton), Spider-Man (Parker), Wolverine), Night Nurse, the Nisanti, Owl, SHIELD, Shocker, Wyatt Sobel, Space Phantom, Stranger, Tigra, Venom (Mac Gargan), White Fang, Wong
Known Relatives: Arthur (father, deceased), Eliza (mother), John King (cousin), unidentified child
Aliases: None
Base of Operations: Crown Heights (Brooklyn), New York
First Appearance: The Hood#1 (July, 2002)
Powers/Abilities: Parker Robbins possesses no powers inherent to himself. The mystical boots and cloak he wears allow him to perform many superhuman abilities. When wearing the boots, the Hood can walk on air. While wearing the cloak, and only while holding his breath, the Hood can turn invisible. At least once, the cloak allowed Robbins to fire a sort of electrical energy from his hands.
Height: 5' 10" Weight: 165
lbs. Eyes: Brown Hair: Brown
History: (Hood#1 (fb)-BTS) - As a child,
Parker
Robbins and his father witnessed a battle between Daredevil and Electro.
(Hood#1) - Parker Robbins visited his mother at
the Bridgeside Psychiatric Care Center, where she was cared for while
in a near-vegetative state. There, he told her lies regarding how
well his life was going. When an orderly asked him why he seemed
to have a different job every time he visited, Robbins threatened the
man with a switchblade before leaving.
Shortly after,
Robbins met up with his cousin John
at a local bar. There, they discussed how to get Parker the money
to get his mother into a better care center. John told him about
a shipment of unknown, but valuable, stuff that would be ripe for
stealing. Before they could continue the discussion, Parker
recognized Max Dillon, aka Electro, with a couple of women
partying. During this, an agent of Hydra approached Robbins and
King, and the three of them stepped outside. The agent tried to
recruit the two, but they, upset that he was a terrorist, beat him
severely in the alleyway. Parker then stole the man's shoes.
The two went their
separate ways to prepare for the
heist,
with Parker first going to the apartment of Gro (a prostitute he
regularly
visited), and then returning home to his pregnant girlfriend
Sara. Parker lied to her, saying he had just gotten a job as a
security officer and had to report for duty that night. Meeting
back up with King, the two broke into the warehouse. They were
surprised to find it nearly empty save for some lit candles
and mystical symbols arranged on the floor. Preparing to leave, the two
were startled by the Nisanti, a cloak-wearing demon that lept from the
ceiling at them. Parker shot it with a gun he had brought, and it
dropped to the ground, apparently dead. Not wanting to leave
empty-handed he removed the demon's boots and cloak and took them with
him. The two cousins then split up, but as Parker attempted to dispose
of the gun in a dumpster, he was harassed by a gang who demanded his
shoes. Robbins threw one of the shoes into the face of a would-be
mugger and ran. Trying to outrun the gang, Parker hurredly put
the boots on, and was shocked to find that as he ran, he began to
levitate into the air.
(Hood#2 (fb)-BTS) - Parker then spent several hours
trying out his new footwear, "jogging" over Brooklyn.
(Hood#2) - Robbins then went to John's apartment and
showed off his new boots and their abilites. While talking,
Parker also tried on the cloak he had taken from the creature. Seeing a
bottle of alcohol, Parker chided his cousin, and was punched in the gut
for his efforts. Losing his breath, Robbins vanished
momentarily. Once the two figured out how that worked, Parker
went to a local gym and used the cloak to spy in the womens
locker-room. John had an idea to utilize Parker's newfound
abilites, and told him about a shipment of black-market diamonds being
smuggled into New York that night.
(Hood#3) - Returning
home, Robbins was confronted by
an angry Sara, who had found a condom in his laundry. He lied to
her again, telling her it was a "lucky" charm, given to him by his
father years before. When the costumed Parker attempted to steal
one of the small bags of diamonds, he was confronted by four
super-criminals (Madam Rapier, the Constrictor, Jack O'Lantern and
Shocker) who had been hired by Dennis Golembuski, the Golem, to
safeguard his
shipment. With his powers and a little help from luck, he managed
to defeat them, only to be confronted by two police officers who had
been nearby. Without realizing they were cops, Robbins shot the
male officer in the neck. John, who had been watching the events,
hit the female officer over the head and told his cousin to run,
leaving himself to be arrested. This situation led to the
authorities dubbing Parker "the Hood" and placing a reward for his
arrest.
(Hood#4) - After trying to ease his mind by visiting
Gro, Parker saw a newscast stating that John was under arrest for
shooting the police officer. Heading to the police precinct as the
Hood, he was ambushed by two FBI agents, Victor Infante and Wyatt
Sobel, as well as two techs using confiscated A.I.M gear. One of
the faux A.I.M.s shot the Hood with some sort of sonic disruptor gun,
causing him to briefly lose control of his powers. When one of
the agents shot him with another weapon, the cloak caused Parker to go
into a rage, chanting an unknown language. Without knowing how, or even
controlling it, he blasted all four with a charge of electrical energy
from his hands. With all four incapacitated, the Hood visited John in
the jail, and promised to find some way to get him out.
(Hood#5) - The Hood
checked in on his four
assailants, making sure they were all still alive. He began
trying to pawn off the stolen diamonds to get money for John's lawyer,
but almost immediately ran into the Shocker at one such shop.
After harassing Parker a little, Shocker left, unaware of who the man
was. Knowing that the situation was too tense to try to sell the
jewels, Parker left as well, but not before finding out the diamonds
belonged to the Golem. When informed of this, John explained who
the Golem was. As the Hood, Robbins surprised the Golem and Madam
Rapier at their office, shooting one bodyguard in the crotch to prove
he was serious about what he came to talk about. He then offered
to return the diamonds to the mob boss, so long as he kept a small
percentage. The Golem agreed to this, but after the Hood left to
meet Madam Rapier later at a rendezvous, the Golem told her to kill
him.
(Hood#6) - In
civilian clothes, Parker visited a
costume shop, where he bought a cloak similar to his own. Knowing
he was being set up, the
Hood met up with Madam Rapier at Coney Island, where Shocker,
Jack O' Lantern and Constrictor looked on from afar. As Rapier
handed over the money the Hood demanded, she caught him offguard and
attacked him. Planning ahead, Robbins had only loaded a certain number
of bullets in the gun which Rapier had confiscated, and once she ran
out, he forced her at gunpoint to dress in the spare cloak he had
bought. As the FBI agents arrived, Parker disappeared, leaving
the agents face to face with Rapier, who they then shot to death,
believing her to be the Hood. He then confronted the other
super-villains, handing over the diamonds anyway, and told them to send
the Golem a message: Leave him alone. After the FBI agents decided that
regardless of them knowing the real Hood was male, they would accept
the false one's death as the solving of the case, they had John King
confirm their story, and he was released from jail.
Parker picked up his cousin and brought him home,
telling Sara that he was going to let him stay a few nights.
Parker Robbins then visited his mother at the psychiatric center, and
promised her that he would start helping people and make her proud.
(Beyond#1) - The Hood was one of
several super-beings drawn to the Stranger's structure which
transported them to near a re-formed Battleword, where he (posing as
the Beyonder) promised them their greatest wishes if they slew their
enemies. Hood tried to disappear to take out the others, but Kraven
immediately smelled him out and knocked the wind out of him. Taking
advantage of the confusion, another participant, Venom, killed what he
believed to be Spider-Man (actually a Space Phantom in disguise).
(Beyond#2) - The portal crash-landed
on Battleworld, where the superhumans were met by Michael Collins. They
were attacked by Dragon Man, and Hood watched as Collins turned into
Deathlok to combat the creature.
(Beyond#3) - The Hood followed
Kraven into a forest, and after Kraven had conronted the believed-dead
Spider-Man, the Hood confronted the "dead" hero. He shot "Spider-Man"
in the kneecap, then dragged him back to the others' campsite by the
lungs, which were exposed due to the injury from Venom. With the others
watching, Hood threatened to start pulling "Spider-Man"'s organs out
one by one until he revealed what he actually was. Forced to do so,
"Spider-Man" revealed himself to be a Space Phantom.
(Beyond#4) - After battling Space
Phantom, who had taken the form of Xemnu the Titan, Hood and the others
used one of Hank Pym's dimensional gateways to go to Limbo, where they
planned to wait for the Phantom. After they entered, Venom arrived and
destroyed the gateway, trapping them on the other side.
(Beyond#5) - While trapped in limbo,
Hood and Gravity showed each other their respective girlfriend's
pictures and bonded a little. When the Space Phantom arrived, the
heroes captured him and Kraven gave Hood a knife to threaten the Space
Phantom with again. The Phantom returned all of the participants back
to Battleworld, where they confronted Venom and realized Uatu the
Watcher was present. Hank Pym then shot Hood and the others with a
raygun, seemingly killing them. Afterwards, he demanded Beyonder give
him his reward.
(Beyond#6) - Pym confronted the "Beyonder" who revealed himself to actually be the Stranger. The Stranger then realized that Pym had tricked him and didn't actually kill the others, but shrunk them. Hood and the others returned to full size, and battled the Stranger, who only agreed to stop the experiment due to his paranoia over Uatu's presence. Stranger departed, and the others rushed to escape Battleworld as it fell apart. While Gravity sacrificed himself to hold things together long enough, the pressure killed him. Afterwards, back on Earth, Parker Robbins and Sara attended his funeral.
(Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe 2006#5 (fb)-BTS) - At some point in time, Sara gave birth to Parker's child. (see comments)
(New Avengers#35 (fb) ) - The Hood invited many villains to a Chinese restaurant in Brooklyn, where he offered each of them $25, 000 in seed money to join his villain army. Hood soon proofed himself to the others by beating up Tigra for Jigsaw, who filmed it. Hood showed the video to the other villains, who were mostly impressed enough, to join him. Chemistro (Curtis Carr) then informed King and Hood about Owl's auction of a Deathlok replica.
(Daredevil II#105 (fb) - BTS) - Mister Fear (Cranston) refused to even participate in the meeting, which angered the Hood.
(New Avengers#33) - The Hood attacked the Owl at his auction of a Deathlok replica after his cousin told Owl and the potentional buyers, Madame Masque, Crimson Cowl (Justine Hammer), Jonas Harrow and Wizard, that the auction wasn't authorized.
Later that night Hood and King went to Hank's bar to get something to eat and drink. They talked about their plans with the Deathlok replica, which was overheard by Wolverine, who in the process attacked them. Hood became invisible upon Wolverine's attack and fought back.
(New Avengers#34) - Pumping bullets into Wolverine wasn't enough and Hood turned into his demonic form to take down Wolverine long enough to escape.
(New Avengers#35) - Hood, King, Harrow, Wizard and Chemistro looked at the Deathlok replica and decided to use it to rob the Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. bank in Jersey.
Hood sent the Wrecking Crew and the Deathlok replica out for the robbery. The Deathlok replica was destroyed, but they stole 12.7 million dollars. Hood gave Chemistro 1.3 million finder's fee and then divided the rest between the other participants in the robbery. Madame Masque then showed Hood and the others that the Mighty Avengers were on TV attacked by alien symbiotes. Hood saw this as an opportunity.
(New Avengers#36) - The New Avengers attacked Hood's hideout while Hood and his allies still watched the news about the Avengers fight with the symbiotes.
(New Avengers#37) - Dr. Strange tricked the present villains with an illusion of dozens of heroes attacking them. Hood told his men to split up and run. During the fight Dr. Strange revealed Hood's demonic form with the Eye of Agamotto, but Hood eventually teleported away and left his men behind.
Not long after that the Hood freed the Wrecker from his cell at the Raft after killing some guards.
(New Avengers Annual#2 (fb) - BTS) - The Hood broke out the rest of the Wrecking Crew, Chemistro, Wizard and Madame Masque as well.
(Daredevil II#101) - Turk informed Hood about Mister Fear's (Cranston) current agenda against Daredevil. From a roof Hood and Turk watched Daredevil fight some thugs on his search for Mister Fear. Hood decided to follow Daredevil and then beat up whoever was still standing after the confrontation between Daredevil and Mister Fear.
(Daredevil II#102 - BTS) - Hood sent Wrecker and Razor-Fist to take care of Mister Fear's Enforcers (Fancy Dan, Montana, Ox). Mister Fear wasn't worried about the Hood and wanted to continue his scheme against Daredevil.
(Daredevil II#103 - BTS) - The Wrecking Crew's Bulldozer and Thunderball wrecked havoc in Hell's Kitchen on Hood's orders.
(Daredevil II#104) - Hood watched Daredevil leave a warehouse and found a chained Ox inside. Hood told Ox he would help him.
Ox arranged a meeting with Mister Fear. Hood shot Mister Fear's two bodyguards in the head and then confronted Mister Fear himself.
(Daredevil II#105) - Mister Fear told Hood that he only went to war with the Hood in Hell's Kitchen because Daredevil loved the neighborhood. Mister Fear offered Hood Hell's Kitchen when he was finished with Daredevil, but Hood didn't want it. He told Mister Fear that he could've helped him. Hood was contacted by his lookout that Daredevil was coming and Mister Fear asked Hood to leave with Ox to give him the opportunity to fight Daredevil on his own. After Daredevil had defeated Mister Fear, the Hood and Ox watched Matt Murdock in his home. Hood was impressed at how broken Matt was and decided to leave Hell's Kitchen alone for awhile.
(New Avengers Annual#2) - Hood and his army visited Tigra to learn from her where the New Avengers' hideout was. Arriving at Dr. Strange's Sanctum Sanctorum, Hood used his demonic powers to look through the illusion of the Avengers' hideout. Hood and his army attacked the Avengers and Hood took out Dr. Strange first by shooting him. Wong fought Hood after the lethal attack on Dr. Strange. Hood returned to the main fight to shoot Iron Fist, but was stopped by Tigra, who joined the fight. With the Avengers nearly defeated, Dr. Strange returned and used his Zom-powers to knock all the villains out. Hood was the only one able to escape and then asked the demon within him why they had lost.
Comments:
Created by Brian K. Vaughan, Kyle Hotz and Eric Powell.
A great series, but beware: It was
part of Marvel's MAX line, which means there's lots of naughty words.
The Hood received an entry in the
OHOTMU 2006. It was here that his mother's name and the birth of his
child were revealed, all per Brian K. Vaughan. That said, it looks like
the child's birth did not take place when originally stated. When the
Hood showed up in Beyond, it turned out Sara was STILL pregnant with
the kid ("due any day now"). Considering she appeared to be pretty far
along in her pregnancy in the Hood series, it appears that series
happened later on in Marvel chronology than when it was printed (or
Beyond occured earlier, though Gravity and Venom's appearances mean it
couldn't be TOO much earlier). Either way, the baby was born, but it
looks like it was right after Beyond and not between the two series.
The Hood is set to become a player in the upcoming New Avengers books,
so we'll see what the status is then.
The Nisanti is never named within
the series, but in a personal correspondence with Vaughan, he told me
it was named so. This is also one of the words it recites as it
tries to attack Parker and John. And if you think "Nisanti" sounds
familiar, you may want to thumb through your issues of Vaughan's
Runaways series again.
All references to Mayor Bloomberg
and the year 2002 are topical, of course.
Though he never met her, White Fang
is listed as an enemy because she was being set up to be one, wanting
revenge on him for the death of her husband.
Clarifications:
The Hood has no known connections to
A prostitute Parker Robbins regularly visited, Gro
was apparently of foreign nationality and spoke rough English.
When Parker's cousin John King was arrested, Gro offered the services
of her brother Cheslav, who could make King "disappear."
--The Hood#1 ( 1, 5
Victor
Infante and Wyatt Sobel
A rookie FBI agent, Infante was upset that a nephew
of his wanted to grow up to be an Avenger. With the enactment of
the Costumed Offender Act, he saw a chance to make a name for himself
by taking down a super-villain. With his partner Wyatt Sobel, the two
questioned John King about the shooting of an officer by the wanted
criminal called the Hood. The Hood would later tip them off about a
meeting he was arranging, and when the two arrived, they shot what they
thought was the Hood (in actuality Madam Rapier). Deciding to utilize
the situation to their benefit, they agreed to let John King go free if
he corroborated that the Hood was female.
--The Hood#2 ( 2-6
(Dr. Elizabeth Bondi) Not knowing her husband Eric had been cheating on her with his partner Brooke, Elizabeth (an engineer for Stark Industries) stayed by his side in the hospital after he was shot in the neck by the Hood. There, she read to him Jack London's White Fang. After he finally passed away, she used her technical expertise to design a suit, dubbing herself White Fang and vowing revenge on the Hood.
(Civil War: Battle Damage Report) - Tony Stark considered White Fang as a potential Initiative recruit.
--The Hood#4 (Hood#4-6, Civil War: Battle Damage Report
images:
The Hood#6, cover (main image)
#6, page 17, panel 4 (face)
#1, page 23, panel 3 (walking on air)
#6, page 11, panel 4 (disappearing)
#4, page 19, panel 1 (lightning charges)
#6, page 9, panel 4 (upside down)
New Avengers#34, p5-6, top (demonic form)
Hood#4, page 11, panel 4 (Gro)
#6, page 15, panel 2 (Infante/Sobell)
#5, page 14, panel 2 (John King)
#1, page 17, panel 1 (Nisanti)
#1, page 13, panel 3 (Sara)
#6, page 20, panel 3 (White Fang)
The Hood#1--6 (July-December, 2002) - Brian K. Vaughn (writer), Kyle Hotz (pencils), Eric Powell (inks), Tom Brevoort (editor)
Beyond#1-6 (September, 2006-February, 2007) - Dwayne McDuffie (writer),
Scott Kolins (artist), Tom Brevoort (editor)
Civil War: Battle Damage Report (2007)
New Avengers#33 (October, 2007 - February, 2008) - Brian Michael Bendis (writer), Leinil Yu (artist), Tom Brevoort (editor)
Daredevil II#101 (November, 2007) - Ed Brubaker (writer), Michael Lark & Stefano Gaudiano (artists), Warren Simons (editor)
New Avengers#34-35 (November-December, 2007) - Brian Michael Bendis (writer), Leinil Yu (artist), Tom Brevoort (editor)
Daredevil II#102-103 (January-February, 2008) - Ed Brubaker (writer), Michael Lark, Paul Azaceta (#103) & Stefano Gaudiano (artists), Warren Simons (editor)
New Avengers#36-37 (January - February, 2008) - Brian Michael Bendis (writer), Leinil Yu (artist), Tom Brevoort (editor)
New Avengers Annual#2 (February, 2008) - Brian Michael Bendis (writer), Carlo Pagulayan (pencils), Jeff Huet (inks), Tom Brevoort (editor)
Daredevil II#104-105 (March-April, 2008) - Ed Brubaker (writer), Michael Lark, Paul Azaceta, Tom Palmer (#104) & Stefano Gaudiano (artists), Warren Simons (editor)
Last updated: 01/29/07
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