THE MONSTER

Real Name: Unknown

Identity/Class: Human mutate or mutant

Occupation: Professional underground fighter

Group Membership: None

Affiliations: Rey Trueno

Enemies: Armadillo

Known Relatives: None

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: Hoboken, New Jersey, USA

First Appearance: Thunderbolts#76 (April, 2003)

Powers/Abilities: The Monster has the ability to gain strength by drawing the anger from his opponents. He also has an animal-like appearance, with fur covering his body, and two small horns protruding from his forehead.

History: (Thunderbolts#76) - The current champion of Ray Trueno’s underground fighting promotion, Armadillo, was set up against his next opponent, The Monster. Armadillo was advised that his new opponent could draw strength from him getting angry and was told to stay calm.

(Thunderbolts#76 [bts]) - Armadillo beat The Monster during their fight.

(Thunderbolts#76) - The Monster was left unconscious on a street sidewalk, his earnings from the fight stuffed in his pocket. When three kids attempted to take the cash, The Monster awoke and scared them off.

Comments: Created by John Arcudi and Francisco Ruiz Velasco

Trueno’s promotion, while considered by many readers to be a take-off of the movie Fight Club, seems to have a lot more similarities to the mixed martial-arts promotions, such as UFC and PRIDE, that have gained prominence as an alternative to the glitz of professional wrestling, only with super-powered fighters.

This was the first issue of what has become a near universally reviled relaunch of the Thunderbolts book, dropping the current roster, creators and concept and going with something completely different. In and of itself, it was a good read, but it never should have been tacked onto the Thunderbolts title.

Profile by Madison Carter

CLARIFICATIONS:

THE MONSTER has no known connection to:

• MONSTER (Larry Rambow), mutated by father’s experiments, @Fantastic Four I#105
• MONSTER ( ), Earth-temporal (Earth-2099), simulated powers of Henry (The Beast) McCoy, @X-Men 2099#99
• MONSTER from the LOST LAGOON - Quon--Fantastic Four I#97
• MONSTER FROM MARS - statue advertising movie, brought to life by Miracle Man, destroyed by Human Torch--Fantastic Four I#3
• MONSTER in the IRON MASK - extra-terrestrial, scout for invading force, proved immune to any attack except gas, from which his mask protected him, fled when a magician realized that he was not wearing any mask and convinced the army to threaten him with gas --Tales of Suspense I#31 I#
• MONSTER of ALHMET of the Hyborian era —Conan the Barbarian Annual#10
• MONSTER of BA'AL --Wolverine II#14
• MONSTER of the BADOON - large green robot/cyborg--Silver Surfer I#2
• MONSTER of the DWELLER-IN-DARKNESS - trained ape--Master of Kung Fu I#92
• MONSTER of FRANKENSTEIN - see FRANKENSTEIN MONSTER--Monster of Frankenstein#1
• MONSTER of the MOORS - see MORLANDS MONSTER--Tomb of Dracula I#6
• MONSTER of the MOORS (Ronson Slade) - British scientist, attempted to restore youth, resulted in periodic transformation into savage murdering creature, framed son who knew the truth, kept son imprisoned in dungeon, eventually discovered and killed by Morbius --Marvel Preview#8
• MONSTERs of BALD MOUNTAIN (Evil, Good)- sculpted by Anton Gorge, represented good and evil, came to life from bolt of lightning. Evil destroyed Good, and then set out to conquer Earth, but hid from nuclear weapons in a metal cylinder, which turned out to be a rocket that launched it into space --Tales to Astonish I#7
• MONSTERS of Zero Street --Captain America I#201
• MONSTERS of the Fire People of Earth-Ultraverse - result of generations of breeding away from light--Freex#12
• MONSTER that WALKED LIKE a MAN - see GIGANTUS--Journey into Mystery I#63
• Any other "monster" characters

Images:

Thunderbolts#76, page19, panel 2

Last updated: 04/27/04

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