The Fixer is the name of two characters<!-- Please do not specify what type of character you think. Categories like "superhero" & "supervillian" are subjective. It's better to use a generic term and let the reader decide for themselves.--> appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics: Roscoe Sweeney and Paul Norbert Ebersol.

Roscoe Sweeney was portrayed by Kevin Nagle in the Marvel Cinematic Universe series Daredevil, while Paul Ebersol has appeared in animated media.

Publication history

The first Marvel Comics character known as the Fixer was Roscoe Sweeney. He first appeared in Daredevil #1 (Apr. 1964), and was created by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, and Bill Everett.

The second iteration of Fixer was long-time supervillain Paul Ebersol, first appearing in Strange Tales #141 (February 1966) and was created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. Much later, he appeared as a regular character in Thunderbolts, until he was forced to leave the team.

Fictional character biography

Roscoe Sweeney

Roscoe Sweeney was a gangster and crooked fight promoter who was involved in extortion and illegal gambling who operated as the "Fixer". He paid boxer Jack Murdock to take a fall and lose a fight. Murdock accepted the money, however, the boxer became determined to continue the fight and eventually won by a knockout. The Fixer's right-hand man Slade killed Jack after the fight in retaliation. Learning of his father's murder and vowing to bring men like the Fixer to justice, Matt Murdock became a lawyer as well as the superhero Daredevil. The Fixer and Slade went to Fogwell's Gym where they encountered Daredevil. The Fixer had a fatal heart attack when being chased by Daredevil in the subway and died.

Paul Norbert Ebersol

Paul Norbert Ebersol is a scientist from Dayton, Ohio who held a number of odd jobs, including auto mechanic, television repairman, and electronics laboratory assistant. He then became Fixer, a supervillain and genius-level criminal inventor who has often worked for criminal cartels like Hydra.

Fixer later joins Helmut Zemo's incarnation of the Masters of Evil. The team is later rebranded as the Thunderbolts, who masquerade as superheroes, with Fixer assuming the alias of Techno. He is apparently killed by Iron, one of the Elements of Doom, and transfers his mind into a robotic body.

Fixer joins the Redeemers, a government-backed team whereby criminals could shorten their sentences and clear their record. However, most of the team is killed by Graviton. He joined with the reunited Thunderbolts to stop Graviton, and he was one of the team members exiled to Counter-Earth. The team eventually returns to Earth via a rift.

During the "Avengers: Standoff!" storyline, Fixer appears as a prisoner of the S.H.I.E.L.D.-established gated community Pleasant Hill, where Kobik transforms him into a civilian mechanic named Phil. Phil sees through the effects of Kobik's powers and creates a machine to revert himself to normal. After restoring Zemo, who had been similarly transformed, Fixer vows to take revenge on S.H.I.E.L.D. Following the Pleasant Hill incident, Fixer joins Winter Soldier's incarnation of the Thunderbolts with the goal to keep S.H.I.E.L.D. from continuing the Kobik project.

During the "One World Under Doom" storyline, Fixer is among the original Thunderbolts members who join the Fulgar Victoris led by Valentina Allegra de Fontaine as Citizen V. Amidst the showdown in Latveria, Fixer defects to the Thunderbolts and activates the Doombot Protocol Fixer Omega Daffodil to shut down the other Doombots.

Amidst a power vacuum in A.I.M., Madame Masque enlists Fixer to help obtain scientists to get them to go through the same struggles that Tony Stark did to make his first Iron Man armor and abduct Stark. Fixer later goes rogue and combines all the inventions made by the captive scientists to create armor for himself, becoming known as Advanced Iron Man.

Powers and abilities

The second version of Fixer is an intuitive genius at the invention of weapons and other electrical and mechanical devices. Fixer's Techno body can mentally control his robotic body which is capable of assuming virtually any form from blast cannons to pile-drivers to even the form of a space station. To take on larger shapes, Techno physically absorbed the mass of other mechanical materials nearby into himself. Techno's body also could morph into forms that appeared completely organic, as with his assumed guise of Ogre.

Equipment

The second Fixer has designed numerous devices and paraphernalia for himself, including his body armor. As for weaponry, he has used various devices including bombs, electronic jamming devices, guided missiles, sonic amplifiers, brain-wave scanners, and mind-control pods. He has also built anti-gravity discs which are affixed to his feet and allow flight at the speed of sound, as well as a special mask that contains a three-hour air supply and acts as an air pressure reduction valve, together with enabling flight at high velocity and high altitude.

In other media

Television

  • The Paul Ebersol incarnation of Fixer, renamed Mr. Fix, appears in Iron Man: Armored Adventures, voiced by Donny Lucas. This version is a genius inventor and high-tech arms dealer with ties to the Maggia. In the second season, Justin Hammer has his personal assistant Sasha inject Fix with a nano-virus to force him to make weapons for the former, primarily the Titanium Man armor. Following a disastrous first outing in the armor, Hammer activates the nano-virus, destroying Fix's body and transforming him into an artificial intelligence called Fix 2.0.
  • The Paul Ebersol incarnation of Fixer appears in Marvel Disk Wars: The Avengers.
  • Roscoe Sweeney appears in Daredevil (2015), portrayed by Kevin Nagle. As in the comics, he has Jack Murdock killed when the boxer refused to take a dive in one of his matches. Following Jack's death, Sweeney hid out in another country under the alias "Al Marino". In the present, Sweeney is subdued by Elektra so Jack's son Matt Murdock can exact revenge. Matt grievously beats Roscoe, but turns him over to the police instead much to Elektra's disappointment.
  • The Paul Ebersol incarnation of Fixer, hybridized with and named after Ralph Roberts, appears in Avengers Assemble, voiced by Rick D. Wasserman.

Music

The industrial band Mentallo and the Fixer derive their name from the Paul Ebersol incarnation of Fixer and his former partner Mentallo.

References

  • Fixer (Roscoe Sweeney) at Marvel.com
  • Fixer (Paul Ebersol) at Marvel.com
  • Fixer (Roscoe Sweeney) at Marvel Wikia
  • Fixer (Paul Ebersol) at Marvel Wikia
  • Fixer (Roscoe Sweeney) at Marvel Appendix