Super-Apes | They easily overpower Captain America and the Black Knight, and then the Wrecking Crew beat a drunken Hercules into a coma. Titania | The Amazing Spider-Man 2: Electro | Green Goblin | Donald Menken | Rhino | Alistair Smythe | Ashley Kafka | Felicia Hardy | Gustav Fiers | Norman Osborn Spider-Man: Web of Shadows: Spider-Man | Venom | Kingpin | Black Cat | Vulture | Electro | Tinkerer | Rhino Batroc the Leaper | Bulldorzer | Roland Treece | Green Goblin | Egghead | Vermin | Ultron | Ronan | Knull | Goliath | Shocker | Nightshade | Secret Empire | Lady Deathstrike | Puma | Mystique | M.O.D.O.K | Bolivar Trask | Melter | Not just common thugs, the Wrecking Crew's greatest asset stems from the magic imbued in team leader Wrecker's Crowbar, granting each member immense physical strength and a mystical . Silver Samurai | Baron Mordo | Blizzard | Brotherhood of Muntants | Moonstone | Cowled Commander | Wrecker and his magic crowbar battled Thor until he was ultimately defeated, by Lady Sif in the Destroyer armor, and locked away. Spider-Man 2: Enter Electro: Electro | Beetle | Hammerhead | Lizard |Sandman | Shocker Man-Spider | Arnim Zola | Dark Elves | Flag-Smasher | Ultimate Spider-Man: Bolivar Trask | Venom | Vulture | Silver Sable | Shocker | R.H.I.N.O. Constrictor | "Piledriver with the power of punching. Doctor Octopus | Mystique | Back in prison, Wrecker entrusted his brother with his costume and crowbar, but when he escaped after a mass breakout from the Raft, Dirk learned they had been sold to a collector, Ed Gross. Porcupine | Quasimodo | The Wrecking Crew first debuted as a team in 1974's The Defenders #17. Ulysses Klaw | Ultimately, Doc Ock's hubris leads him to nearly destroy New York, but the new Masters (with the Wrecking Crew leading the way) overpower them, with Doc Ock losing control of his team. Kraven the Hunter | Ares | The Wrecking Crew is one of Marvel's oldest and most durable supervillain groups. Retrieving his crowbar, Wrecker shares his power to turn them into Thunderball, Bulldozer, and Piledriver, respectively, his Wrecking Crew. Boomerang | Intelligencia (HulkKing & Josh Miller) | Titania | Wrecking Crew (Bulldozer, Piledriver, Thunderball & Wrecker) | Runa | Abomination | Leapfrog | Leap Squad, Comics Wrecker subsequently joined Wizard's(formerly Bentley Wittman) Frightful Four alongside Thunderball, and Bulldozer (Marci Camp, Bulldozers daughter), their powers boosted by evil scientist John Eden to clash with the Fantastic Four and their stand-ins, such as Jennifer Walters, AKA She-Hulk, Scott Lang, AKA Ant-Man, and Darla Deering, AKA Miss Thing. A.I.M. Egghead | Ares | Kangaroo | Red Ghost | Though, thanks to the Fantastic Four using Johnny Storm, AKA Human Torch, as a lure since he had lost his powers, his sister Susan Storm Richards, AKA Invisible Woman, trapped the Wrecker, the Wizard, and the Crew with a force field and they were captured. Nitro | Nitro | Ani-Men | He also wants a crew to hang out with, and Bulldozer and Piledriver in particular like having someone to give them orders and come up with plans. Arcade | Surtur | Piledriver is a loyal Wrecking Crew member, never questioning his leader, the Wrecker, unlike his teammate Thunderball who vies for his power and position. Wrecker with his Crew joins the Frightful Four, Helmut Zemo, AKA Baron Zemos Masters of Evil, Edward Lansky, AKA Lightmasters Masters of Evil, Initiative, Lethal Legion, and Legion Accursed when their goals align. Spymaster | X-Ray | X-Ray | Red Skull | Man-Wolf | Floronic Man | Tyrannus | Nightmare | Emma Frost | HYDRA | Bullseye | Orka | King Cobra | Universe, Other Aliases, Education, Place of Origin, Identity, Known Relatives, Powers, Group Affiliation, Get rewarded for doing what you already do as a fan., Earn points for what you already do as a Marvel fan and redeem for cool rewards as a, (Points/Rewards program available to U.S. residents only. Super-Skrull | Attuma | The Wrecking Crew's power stems from a single source: Wrecker's Magic Crowbar ( The Wrecking Crew, 6). Klaw | Darren Cross | Vulture | Apocalypse | Druig | A.I.M. Count Nefaria | Defeat Thor and the Avengers. Richard Fisk | Annihilus | Johnny Ohm | Thunderball Once a physicist who built a gamma bomb which was then stolen, the man later called the Thunderball was jailed after he tried. Kraven the Hunter | Controller | His plan involves his Awesome Android, but his creation turns on him, allowing the She-Hulk to defeat the tiny villains with ease before they get big. Kraven the Hunter | Galactus | Thunderball (Eliot Franklin) is a fictional character, a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.He is a frequent enemy of Thor and a reluctant ally of the Wrecker and the Wrecking Crew.. Grizzly | Gog | Whirlwind | Juggernaut | Kingpin | It has sometimes housed his powers, and at other times merely been normal metal, acting only as a focus. Marvel Avengers Alliance Villains | Man-Ape | Scarlet Witch | Zarrko, Movies Mac Gargan | When lightning struck it, it released the crowbars stored Asgardian magical energy. Constrictor | The Avengers: United They Stand Graviton | Sent to the Raft, the Wrecking Crew escaped during a mass breakout, with Wrecker and Piledriver traveling to the Museum of Modern Art to retrieve Wreckers spare crowbar hidden there. Lady Bullseye | Ymir | Impossible Man | Dark Beast | Vadhaka | A.I.M. Mandarin | Commander Kraken | Annihilus | Annihilus | Deadpool lands some great verbal blows (he refers to Thunderball as "Absorbing Man meets Deion Sanders") but is savagely beaten by Piledriver and Wrecker. HYDRA | | Madame Viper | Rhino | Season 2: Steel Serpent | Typhoid Mary | Turk Barrett, Comics Boomerang | Shriek | They each receive a quarter of the Wrecker's power accompanied by super-strength and unique abilities. Solo Villains | Morgan le Fay | The Wrecker led the Crew to join an ambush with Hoods gang to steal Dooms money and defeat him. Baron Zemo | With the passage of the Superhuman Registration Act, the Crew ran to Canada, where the Great Beast Tanaraq reached out to Wrecker; Tanaraq boosted the Crews powers, intending for them to help destroy Earth and free the imprisoned Beasts, but Omega Flight and Beta Ray Bill thwarted this. Puppet Master | Mad Thinker | | Purple Man | Punisher | As for the thugs in question, they are a fairly radical reinvention of the Wrecking Crew, a supervillain team who first appeared in issue #17 of The Defenders, back in November 1974.. Charter . X-Ray | They are taken to the Battleworld in "Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars Vol 1" #1 and become part of Doctor Doom's shock troops. Grandmaster | Lightmaster | | Sandman | Piledriver | Lizard | Burglar | Roxxon Energy Corporation | Their powers and their names match up so precisely: They are super strong, and they wreck things. to: * NormalFishInATinyPond: The Wrecking Crew are often depicted as grunts for heavy-hitting heroes like Thor to take out. Green Goblin | The Incredible Hulk (1978): Dell Frye | Michael Sutton | Dark David Banner | Wilson Fisk Loki Laufeyson | Mentallo | Xemnu | Collecter | If you're a supervillain, who do you bring in to take care of the most terrifying of targets? Although, they met defeat at the hands of an outlaw team of Avengers before making another escape. Grey Gargoyle | Frost Giants | Tinkerer | Rhino | Their second fight (the highlight of "Thor Vol 1" #171) does not go well for the Wrecker as Thor overpowers him, electrocutes him on a subway rail, then uses his hammer to drain the Wrecker's power. (M.O.D.O.K) | Kree Empire (Supreme Intelligence, Colonel Yon-Rogg & Ronan the Accuser) | Absorbing Man | Klaw | Ultron | Wrecker | Thunderball | Piledriver | Bulldozer | Red Hulk | Frost Giants (Loki Laufeyson & Ymir) | Technovore | Bi-Beast | The Leader | Whirlwind | Kang the Conqueror | Man-Ape | Malice | Mad Thinker | Mandrill | Graviton | Fenris Wolf | Lucia Von Bardas | Zzzax | Blizzard | Constrictor | Griffin | Living Laser | Whiplash | King Cobra | Magneto | Wendigo | Skrulls (Super-Skrull) | Ulik | Malekith the Accursed | Hela | Doctor Doom | Surtur | Glenn Talbot | Winter Soldier | J. Jonah Jameson | Destroyer | Annihilus | Purple Man | Galactus | Firelord | Stardust | Terrax the Tamer | Red Ghost | Super-Apes | Mandarin | Bushmaster | U-Foes (Vector, Vapor, X-Ray & Ironclad) | Crossfire | Serpent Society | Rattler | Death Adder | Anaconda | Air-Walker, Avengers Assemble Yellow Claw | Zodiac | Ronan | Guilt Hulk | Piledriver | Mole Man | Hela | Doctor Sun | Avengers Villains | - Durability Protection 3. Aryan | Kingpin | Frightful Four | Captain America: The First Avenger: HYDRA (Red Skull, Arnim Zola, Heinz Kruger, HYDRA Lieutenant, & Velt) | Adolf Hitler | Roeder | Hutter | Schneider Boomerang | The default setting for the Wrecking Crew has either been in prison and about to bust out, or out menacing the public. Sinister Six | Constrictor | Punisher (Earth-95126) | Loki Laufeyson | Absorbing Man | Doppelganger | Silver Samurai | Shocker | No one has ever had a better sense of how to deploy the Wrecking Crew than Baron Helmut Zemo, the leader of the Masters of Evil. Corruptor | Thunderbolts | | With the Wrecking Crew, he also goes up against Thors allies and teammates, the Avengers, the Warriors Three, and the Fantastic Four. Mister Hyde | Iron Monger | Apocalypse | | Abomination | Baron Zemo | HYDRA (Red Skull, Crossbones) | King Cobra | Whirlwind | Tiger Shark | Whiplash | Diamondback | Crimson Dynamo | Dormammu | Sabretooth | Diablo | Graviton | Juggernaut | Lizard | Absoring Man | Wrecking Crew (Bulldozer, Piledriver, Thunderball, Wrecker) | Silver Samurai | Green Goblin (Norman Osborn) | Venom | Ultron | Cottonmouth | Doctor Octopus | Mandarin | Ronan | Fin Fang Foom | Baron Blood | Vampires | Bi-Beast | Obadiah Stane | Predator X | Mystique | Taskmaster | Blizzard, Marvel Future Avengers Unlike the lunkheads Piledriver and Bulldozer, he had a meaningful career before he went into a life of crime. Scorpion | Skurge | Jormungandr | Mysterio | Thor: Tales of Asgard: Algrim | Frost Giants | Loki Laufeyson | Fenris Wolf | Amora the Enchantress | Surtur Jigsaw | Terrax the Tamer | Symbiotes | High Evolutionary | They fight the Enforcers, who are Mister Fear's men, for example. Mister Sinister | Wrecker (Leader) Thunderball Piledriver Bulldozer They have no powers but they possess incredible strengths. Ringmaster | Andrew Forson | D'Spayre | Crusader | Deadpool | Phage | The prisoners are loose and attempting escape. He wields a 4-foot cast iron crowbar; even without powers, he can throw it with uncanny accuracy. Nightmare | Cowled Commander | N'Astirh | Jigsaw | Songbird | Annihilation Wave | Grant Ward | Super-Apes | Ghost | The crowbar's secondary abilities include absorbing and shoot energy blasts, creating illusions, generating a force field, creating earthquakes, teleportation and returning to the Wrecker when thrown. HYDRA | Crimson Dynamo | Constrictor | Red Skull | Hand | Bulldozer | Masked Marauder | Silver Sable | Fancy Dan | Arcade | Super-Skrull | Moonstone | Ares | Horsemen of Apocalypse | Famine | Sidewinder | Dormammu | Thunderball | J. Jonah Jameson | M.O.D.O.K. Sabretooth | Piledriver | Characters /. Serpent Society | Desaad | Boomerang | Adolf Hitler | Lt. Ethan Warren | Iron Monger | Bullseye | Winter Soldier | Devil Hulk | Collector | Quicksilver | Overdrive | Accurate Attack, All-Out Attack, Close Attack 2, Power Attack. Apocalypse | Brotherhood of Evil Mutants | Dark Avengers | High Evolutionary | Maginty | Mister Fear | Sinister Six | Powers and Abilities Superhuman Strength: Piledriver possess superhuman strength and a high degree of imperviousness to harm. Punisher | Garthwaite was granted powers when he encountered Kamilla, the Norn Queen, who had mistaken him for Loki and gathered other fellow prisoners Henry/Bulldozer and Brian/Piledriver to grip on his. Swarm | Moonstone | Griffin | Baron Zemo | Destroyer | Gladiator | Black Cat | Skrulls | Winter Soldier | Black Widow | Prowler Villains | Moonstone | Walters initially panicked but quickly remembered she had powers and transformed into She-Hulk, throwing Bulldozer off her. Surtur | Constrictor | Whiplash | Mr. Hyde | Ultron | I am an admin of this site. Venom | | Piledriver next decided that the Wrecking Crew should prepare for their later years by training a new generation, bringing his teenage son Ricky into the group as the Excavator. Humbug | Skaar | Sauron | He knocks him out, intending to rob him. Red Ghost | Bi-Beast | Lord Deathstrike | Dracula | Blood Brothers | Arnim Zola | Goliath | Turns out, the crowbar was enchanted by Karnilla the Norn Queen, ruler of an Asgardian province and sworn enemy of Odin. Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions: Mysterio | Kraven the Hunter | Hammerhead | Hobgoblin | Electro | Sandman | Vulture | Scorpion | Deadpool | Juggernaut | Silver Sable | Goblin | Serena Patel | Carnage Cannibals (Marvel Universe Vs) | Doctor Faustus | Donald Pierce | Prime Evil | Grant Ward | Some time later, the Wrecking Crew was among several superhumans abducted by the Beyonder to fight on his Battleworld. He and his gang are in league with Thunderboltsand the Masters of Evil. He hires the Wrecking Crew to find her and powers them up. Mister Hyde | Destroyer | Masked Marauder | Not only does this attachment boost Wrecker's own strength, but he can use it to quickly add threat to the other members of the crew's side schemes! Zahnmrder | Morbius | Beta Ray Bill drives the demons back, sacrificing himself so the gate can be closed again. Loki Laufeyson | Iron Man and X-O Manowar in Heavy Metal: Crimson Dynamo | Titanium Man | Arnim Zola | Baron Zemo | Mr. Hyde | Melter | Goliath | Titania | Absorbing Man Vulture | Beetle | Eel | Brothers Grimm | The Wrecking Crew concept is so easy to understand that they've been featured in a lot of other media. MCU Theory: Crusher Creel Is Controlling the Wrecking Crew. Hercules (Marvel) Villains | Godzilla | Killer Shrike | Bor Burison | Space Phantom | Crusher | Whirlwind | Quicksilver | Electro | When Brian Philip Calusky receives the power of Asgardian Gods, he becomes the costumed super criminal Piledriver and joins the Wrecking Crew.