FELIX WATERHOUSEFELIX WATERHOUSE
Real Name: Felix Waterhouse
Identity/Class: Human
Occupation: Repair man at Waterhouse
Electronics;
former A.I.M. agent
Group Membership: Waterhouse
Electronics (Mr.
Waterhouse);
formerly A.I.M. (Harold
Bainbridge, others)
Affiliations: Captain America (Steve Rogers),
Falcon (Sam Wilson), Iron Man (Tony Stark), Mr.
Waterhouse, Mrs.
Waterhouse;
formerly A.I.M. (Harold
Bainbridge, others)
Enemies: A.I.M. (Harold
Bainbridge, others)
Known Relatives: Mr.
and Mrs. Waterhouse (parents), Jerome
(brother, deceased)
Aliases: "Kid," "New Guy," "Son"
Base of Operations: South Bronx, New York
City, New York, USA
First Appearance: Captain America: Marvels
Snapshots#1 (August, 2020)
Powers/Abilities: Felix Waterhouse had no
superhuman powers but he was extremely skilled at electronics repair,
able to improve on existing technology. Tinkering with electronics,
Felix was able to create an early wireless remote control and design a
remote that generated an electronic feedback loop to disable electronic
systems.
Height: 5'9" (by approximation)
Weight: 150 lbs. (by approximation)
Eyes: Brown
Hair: Dark brown
History: (Captain America:
Marvels Snapshots#1
(fb)) - Felix Waterhouse was a teenager working in Waterhouse
Electronics, his father's South Bronx repair shop, showing an elderly
customer the wireless television remote control that he had invented
for her when the Madbomb
device was detonated in Manhattan. Unaware of
the blast due to his distance from Manhattan, Felix continued assisting
the woman and after she left, Felix's father returned to the shop and
ordered Felix to lock the back door, informing Felix that something was
happening outside.
(Captain America: Marvels Snapshots#1) - After losing
his baby brother Jerome to the effects of the Madbomb, Felix continued
working in his father's shop as the South Bronx area became a rough
neighborhood of gangs and economic collapse, dreaming of going to
college. One day, his father informed Felix that, due to the economic
slowdown and their family's hospital bills related to the Madbomb, they
could no longer afford to send Felix to college. Not long after, A.I.M.
agent Harold Bainbridge paid a visit to Waterhouse Electronics, where
he sought out Felix to join A.I.M.. Admitting he had his eye on Felix
for awhile, Bainbridge suggested Felix for a summer internship with
A.I.M., revealing that A.I.M. would pay for college as well as medical
and dental insurance and weekends in Boca Caliente. Having heard of
A.I.M., Felix questioned whether A.I.M. was part of the terrorist Hydra
organization but Bainbridge insisted no connection was ever proven in
court and A.I.M. was about research and science. Bainbridge then gave
Felix a business card and departed. Days later, still having not
contacted A.I.M. and unsure whether to believe Bainbridge, Felix asked
his father if he ever felt like they had been forgotten. His father
assured Felix that sometimes, it just took people longer to remember
other people's problems and that sooner or later, other people's
problems would become your own if you ignored them. Felix then did as
he dad suggested and continued working. When he got a broken television
working again and saw a news report about the closing of the Madbomb
case, Felix grew angry, still feeling forgotten, and threw the
television to the ground.
Feeling abandoned, Felix
decided to call Bainbridge
and he soon joined up with A.I.M. and Bainbridge gave Felix a tour of
A.I.M. headquarters beneath Manhattan. Introducing Felix to other
A.I.M. agents, Bainbridge had them ease Felix into A.I.M. work such as
surveillance equipment repair. Over time, Felix became accomplished at
improving on A.I.M. technology and he even befriended his fellow
agents. Relegated to repair and maintenance of technology, Felix
eventually became aware that the A.I.M. labs were working on a big
project and he was soon called in to assist on the project due to his
knowledge of networked control architecture. When he was brought into
the lab, however, Felix immediately recognized A.I.M.'s project as a
giant Madbomb and, upon seeing Felix, Bainbridge ordered the agents to
remove Felix from the lab. Bainbridge later sat down with Felix and
explained how A.I.M. was indeed working on a Madbomb, claiming that
every other tech company was trying to create their own as well and
explaining the situation away as simply business. Now having knowledge
of the Madbomb, Felix was upgraded to red status and given a pay raise,
and Felix attempted to go back to work. Despite feeling as if
Bainbridge's explanation made no sense to him, Felix continued
assisting on the Madbomb, adding improvements to keep the amplifiers
from glitching. One night at home, Felix tried to help his mother ease
her guilt over Jerome's death but when he reminded her that she had not
done anything to create the Madbomb, he thought about his own role in
A.I.M.'s new Madbomb. Realizing he had let A.I.M. take advantage of
him, Felix decided to make his own modifications to the Madbomb while
fine-tuning the device that would fry the electronics inside via a
feedback pulse when the Bomb was detonated.
Unfortunately, Felix's actions were discovered by Bainbridge and
Bainbridge confronted Felix, revealing that A.I.M. would now have to
kill Felix. When Bainbridge offered to allow Felix last words, Felix
pulled out a remote control and activated the feedback pulse in the
Madbomb that not only deactivated its electronics but also all of the
electronics in the nearby vicinity, drawing the attention of Captain
America, Iron Man and the Falcon. Making quick work of Bainbridge and
his A.I.M. agents, the three heroes confronted Felix, who admitted he
had destroyed the Madbomb and when Iron Man asked how Felix did so,
Felix explained how he had reconfigured the Madbomb's wave amplifier to
feed back on itself. A few days later, Felix was approached by Captain
America and Tony Stark, who offered Felix a job at Stark Industries.
Unsure if Stark was any more caring about the little man than
Bainbridge was, Felix was told by Captain America that it was easy to
only view things as a crisis when the things happen to those who aren't
used to it. After Captain America apologized for any inaction, Felix
returned to Waterhouse Electronics and Captain America and the Falcon
began helping rebuild the South Bronx. Felix visited the cleanup and
Captain America admitted that he had not meant to abandon anyone. Felix
explained that he knew that and admitted that everyone tried to do what
they were best at, and how superheroes were best at solving problems by
beating up supervillains. Captain America then remarked that it wasn't
always about saving the world so much as fixing it as the two had
coffee.
Comments: Created by Mark Russell and Ramon Perez.
Felix's first experience with the Madbomb's effects
would have likely occurred off panel during the Madbomb storyline in
Captain America I#199-200 (1976).
I'd be interested to see Felix Waterhouse show up in
some future story. Since his story coincidences with comics published
with the real life date of 1976, that'd place his activities roughly
11-12 years ago in Marvel's sliding time scale. If he was just getting
out of high school, he would've been about 17-18 at the time of his
Marvels Snapshots story, which would make him around 30 in current
Marvel stories. While he did turn down Stark's job offer at the end of
Captain America: Marvels Snapshots#1, I think it'd be cool if he later
ended up working for Stark anyway or some other company that paid for
his college. Perhaps he ended up expanding Waterhouse Electronics?
Profile by Proto-Man.
CLARIFICATIONS:
Felix Waterhouse has no known connections to:
Harold Bainbridge was an A.I.M. officer who took special interest in the young electronics whiz Felix Waterhouse. As Felix's neighborhood went downhill following a Madbomb attack, Bainbridge took advantage of the situation and visited Felix at his father's electronics repair shop to recruit Felix into A.I.M. Suspicious of A.I.M. at first, Felix waited several days before finally calling Bainbridge and joining up with A.I.M., feeling forgotten by those who were supposed to be there for him. Bainbridge tasked Felix with surveillance equipment repair while Bainbridge himself secretly worked with higher level A.I.M. agents to construct a new, bigger Madbomb. Impressed by Felix's work, a couple of A.I.M. agents ultimately brought Felix into the labs where Bainbridge was constructing the Madbomb to assist, prompting an angry Bainbridge to order Felix from the vicinity. Afterwards speaking with Felix, Bainbridge explained that every major weapons company was working on their own Madbomb and he successfully convinced Felix to continue with A.I.M. Since Felix now knew of the Madbomb, Bainbridge brought Felix into the project fully but secretly monitored Felix, whom Bainbridge suspected would not be able to go through with the project. When Felix proved Bainbridge's suspicions correct by sabotaging the Madbomb, Bainbridge confronted the boy and threatened to kill him but Felix activated a feedback pulse that shorted out the electronics of not only the Madbomb but nearby electrical devices, drawing Captain America, Iron Man and Falcon to the scene. The heroes made quick work of Bainbridge and A.I.M.
--Captain America: Marvels Snapshots#1
Mr. and Mrs. Waterhouse were the parents of Felix
Waterhouse and a younger son, Jerome. Mr. Waterhouse was the owner of
Waterhouse Electronics, a small electronics repair shop in which both
he and Felix worked. During an incident in which the madness-inducing
Madbomb was detonated in Manhattan, Mr. Waterhouse rushed to his shop
and had Felix lock the backdoor, the two riding out the Madbomb's
effects in the shop, unaware that both Mrs. Waterhouse and Jerome were
affected by the Madbomb. Under the Madbomb's influence, the baby Jerome
attacked his mother and Mrs. Waterhouse, unable to control her actions
due to the Madbomb, murdered Jerome with a butcher knife. Following the
events of the Madbomb, Mr. Waterhouse and Felix continued to work at
Waterhouse Electronics despite the area going downhill economically
while Mrs. Waterhouse lived with the intense guilt of having killed her
youngest son. After the disillusioned Felix joined A.I.M., he tried to
convince Mrs. Waterhouse that she had not been in control of her
actions, reminding her that she had not created the Madbomb, but he
succeeded only in convincing himself to leave A.I.M. and sabotage the
larger Madbomb the organization had been constructing. Following
A.I.M.'s defeat at the hands of Captain America, Iron Man, the Falcon
and Felix himself, Felix returned to Waterhouse Electronics to help his
father.
Jerome Waterhouse was the young brother of Felix Waterhouse. When the Madbomb was detonated in Manhattan, Jerome was affected by the madness-inducing weapon and attacked his mother in a fit of Madbomb-fueled rage. His mother also affected by the Madbomb, Mrs. Waterhouse took a butcher knife and murdered Jerome, immediately wracked with guilt over her actions. Despite taking Jerome to a hospital after the Madbomb was destroyed, the Waterhouse family lost Jerome.
Waterhouse Electronics was a small electronics repair
shop located in the South Bronx area of New York City and owned by Mr.
Waterhouse. Mr. Waterhouse's son Felix also worked in the shop and his
electronics knowledge allowed him to create electronics innovations for
the customers, such as creating a wireless remote control for an
elderly woman's television. When the madness-inducing Madbomb was
detonated in Manhattan, Mr. Waterhouse ordered Felix to lock the back
door of the shop and the two took shelter within the shop until the
Bomb's effects ended. Unfortunately, the Bomb took caused massive
economic damage to the area and Waterhouse Electronics was barely
scraping by when A.I.M. officer Harold Bainbridge recruited Felix into
A.I.M. Mr. Waterhouse kept Waterhouse Electronics going during Felix's
absence but Felix ultimately returned to Waterhouse Electronics after
guilt drove him to sabotage A.I.M.'s new Madbomb.
images: (without ads)
Captain America: Marvels Snapshots#1, p30, pan1 (Felix Waterhouse, main
image)
Captain America: Marvels Snapshots#1, p28, pan5 (Felix Waterhouse,
headshot)
Captain America: Marvels Snapshots#1, p26-27, pan6 (Felix Waterhouse in
A.I.M. uniform)
Captain America: Marvels Snapshots#1, p26-27, pan1 (Harold Bainbridge)
Captain America: Marvels Snapshots#1, p20, pan1 (Mr. & Mrs.
Waterhouse)
Captain America: Marvels Snapshots#1, p5, pan2 (Jerome Waterhouse)
Captain America: Marvels Snapshots#1, p29, pan1 (Waterhouse Electronics)
Appearances:
Captain America: Marvels Snapshots#1 (August, 2020) - Mark Russell
(writer), Ramon Perez (art), Darren Shan (editor)
First Posted: 03/11/2021
Last updated: 03/11/2021
Any Additions/Corrections? please let me know.
Non-Marvel Copyright info
All other characters mentioned or pictured are ™ and
© 1941-2099 Marvel Characters, Inc. All Rights Reserved. If you
like this stuff, you should check out the real thing!
Please visit The Marvel Official Site at: http://www.marvel.com
Special Thanks to www.g-mart.com for hosting the Appendix, Master List, etc.!
