Ever wonder where the many characters from Marvel's comic books came from, or what they can do? Well wonder no more, we have full biographies for nearly all the characters you'll find in Marvel: Ultimate Alliance.
The Hulk
Real Name:
Robert "Bruce" Banner
Aliases:
Annihilator, Captain Universe, Joe Fixit, Mr. Fixit, Mechano, Professor, War, Bruce Bancroft, David Banner, David Bixby, Bob Danner, Bruce Jones, Bruce Roberts, David Blaine, the Green Scar, Green Goliath, Jade Giant
Identity:
Publicly known
Occupation:
Unemployed, former nuclear physicist
Citizenship:
USA
Place of Birth:
Dayton, Ohio
Powers:
The Hulk possesses an incredible level of superhuman physical ability. His capacity for physical strength is potentially limitless due to the fact that the Hulk's strength increases proportionally with his level of great emotional stress, anger in particular. The Hulk uses his superhumanly strong leg muscles to leap great distances. The Hulk has been known to cover hundreds of miles in a single bound and once leaped almost into orbit around the Earth. The Hulk has shown a high resistance to physical damage nearly regardless of the cause, and has also shown resistance to extreme temperatures, poisons, and diseases in addition to regeneration of damaged or destroyed areas of tissue at an amazing rate.
The Hulk's body also has a gland that makes an "oxygenated per fluorocarbon emulsion", which creates pressure in the Hulk's lungs and effectively lets him breathe underwater and move quickly between varying depths without concerns about decompression or nitrogen narcosis
Abilities:
Dr. Bruce Banner is a genius in nuclear physics, possessing a mind so brilliant that it cannot be measured on any known intelligence test. When Banner is the Hulk, Banner's consciousness is buried within the Hulk's, and can influence the Hulk's behavior only to a very limited extent.
Weapons:
None
Hawkeye
Real Name:
Clinton Francis "Clint" Barton
Aliases:
Father Time, Goliath, the Golden Archer, Hawkeye the Marksman, Longbow, and he impersonated Dreadknight
Identity:
Secret
Occupation:
Adventurer; (Formerly) carnival performer, security chief, and criminal
Citizenship:
USA
Place of Birth:
Waverly, Iowa
Powers:
None. As Goliath, Barton used gasses designed by Hank Pym to grow to great heights, with appropriate increases in strength and toughness. (He could also use them to shrink to miniscule size.)
Abilities:
Hawkeye is a world-class archer and marksman. His above average reflexes and hand-eye-coordination make him the most proficient archer ever known.
Weapons:
bow and arrow
Cyclops
Real Name:
Scott Summers
Aliases:
"Slim," formerly Slym Dayspring, Mutate #007, Erik the Red
Identity:
Known
Occupation:
Co-headmaster of Xavier Institute for Higher Learning, adventurer, former student, former radio announcer
Citizenship:
USA
Place of Birth:
Anchorage, Alaska
Powers:
Cyclops possesses the mutant ability to project a beam of heatless ruby-colored concussive force from his eyes, which act as inter-dimensional apertures between this universe and another. Cyclops' body constantly absorbs ambient energy, such as sunlight, from his environment into his body's cells that allows him to open the apertures. Cyclops' mind generates a psionic field that is attuned to the forces that maintain the apertures. Because this field envelops his body, it automatically shunts the other-dimensional particles back into their point of origin when they collide with his body. Thus, his body is protected from the effects of the particles, and even the thin membranes of his eyelids are sufficient to block the emission of energy. The synthetic ruby quartz crystal used to fashion the lenses of Cyclops' eyewear is resonant to his minds' psionic field and is similarly protected.
The width of Cyclops' optic blast is focused by his mind's psionic field with the same autonomic function that regulated his original eyes' ability to focus. As Cyclops focuses, the size of the apertures change and thus act as a valve to control the flow of particles and the beam's relative power. The height of Cyclops's eye-blast is controlled by his visor's adjustable slit. The beam's effective range is approximately 2,000 feet.
Due to a head injury, Cyclops is unable to shut off his optic blasts at will and must therefore wear ruby quartz lenses to block the beams.
Abilities:
Unknown
Weapons:
None
Nightcrawler
Real Name:
Kurt Wagner
Aliases:
"Fuzzy Elf", formerly Gainsborough
Identity:
Secret (known by British authorities)
Occupation:
Adventurer; former priest, circus performer
Citizenship:
Germany
Place of Birth:
Bavaria, Germany
Powers:
Nightcrawler is a mutant who can teleport by opening a portal into another dimension, travelling through it via an unconscious direction-finding sense, and returning to his own dimension. When teleporting, Nightcrawler leaves behind a small portion of the atmosphere of the other dimension that escapes with a muffled “bamf” sound and smells of brimstone. On returning, his power automatically displaces any extraneous liquids and gases.
Nightcrawler can easily teleport north south along Earth's magnetic lines of force. However, teleporting east west against them or teleporting vertically is more difficult. Under optimal conditions, Nightcrawler can teleport 2 miles east west, 3 miles north south, and 2 miles vertically if he exerts himself. Nightcrawler's momentum is retained when teleporting, so he arrives with the same inertia he left with. He can reduce this by teleporting short distances in the opposite direction.
Nightcrawler has a limited unconscious extrasensory ability that prevents him from teleporting into any area that he cannot see or has not seen in the past, as doing so runs the risk of injury or death by materializing partially or entirely within a solid object.
Through practice, Nightcrawler has increased the mass he can teleport with him, though the limit to the amount of weight he can carry when teleporting and the distance over which he can teleport with such additional loads are unknown. Teleporting with Nightcrawler often leaves a passenger feeling weak and nauseous.
Nightcrawler is also able to cling to solid surfaces via his hands and feet. He can also render himself nigh-invisible in shadows by manipulating the ever-present portal to the dimension he teleports through so as to bend light around himself.
Abilities:
Nightcrawler is an Olympic-class acrobat thanks to his flexible spine that allows him to perform contortionist-like feats and to go long periods in a semi-crouching position without injury. He is a skilled hand-to-hand combatant and a master at fencing, which he can even perform with his tail, which is strong enough to support his entire body weight.
Weapons:
Nightcrawler formerly wielded a pair of swords.
Dr Doom
Real Name:
Victor Von Doom
Aliases:
The Master, Invincible Man, Vincent Vaughn, Hans; has also inhabited the bodies of Daredevil, Norman McArthur and the Fantastic Four
Identity:
Known
Occupation:
Monarch of Latveria, would-be conqueror
Citizenship:
Latveria
Place of Birth:
A camp outside Haasenstadt (now Doomstadt), Latveria
Powers:
Doom can exchange minds with others. He possesses some mystical abilities, such as casting bolts of eldritch energy and invoking mystical entities (principalities) for additional support. While empowered by the Haazareth, his mystical powers were on a par with those of Dr. Strange.
Abilities:
Doom is a genius in physics, robotics, cybernetics, genetics, weapons technology, bio-chemistry, and time travel. He is also self-taught in the mystic arts. Doom is a natural leader, a brilliant strategist, and a sly deceiver.
Weapons:
Primarily his suit’s armaments.
