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The team[]
- Rogues Gallery Transplant: They actually fought the Thunderbolts, their predecessors as the Masters of Evil, not the Avengers.
- We Can Rule Together: Since the T-Bolts were almost all ex-Masters already, the Cowl's team naturally tried recruiting them.
Aqueduct (Peter Van Zante)[]
- Alliterative Name: His old alias, Water Wizard
- Butt Monkey
- Dirty Coward
- Floating Water
- Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain
- Making a Splash
Bison (William "Billy" Kitson)[]
Blackwing (Joseph Manfredi)[]
- Badass Normal
- Bat Out of Hell
- The Beast Master: He's a former animal trainer but mainly uses bats in his crimes.
- Bond Creatures: The bats themselves.
- Clothes Make the Superman: His gives him armor and short-term flight.
- Color Character: Despite his costume not being all that black.
- Expy: When Blackwing joined the Masters of Evil, Kurt Busiek seemingly noticed his similitude to Batman and ran with it.
- Overlord, Jr.: His father is the minor Spider-Man villain Silvermane.
Boomerang (Fred Myers)[]
- I Know Madden Kombat: Was a major league baseball pitcher before getting kicked out for accepting bribes. I does help him throwing his Boomerangs...A LOT.
- Jet Boots: Boomerang likes to use them as a secondary weapon.
- Precision-Guided Boomerang
- Psycho for Hire
- Trick Boomerangs
Cardinal (Donald Clendenon)[]
- Animal Theme Naming
- Black and Nerdy
- Heel Face Turn: As a member of the Thunderbolts.
- Hired Guns
- Old Soldier: A Vietnam Vet.
- Power Armor
Constrictor (Frank Payne)[]
- Animal Theme Naming: The boa constrictor
- Becoming the Mask: He was a SHIELD agent faking to be a supervillain, then he became a supervillain for real.
- Clothes Make the Superman
- Combat Tentacles
- Cyborg
- Shock and Awe: Through his whips
- Whip It Good
Crimson Cowl (Justine Hammer)[]
- Affirmative Action Legacy: To Ultron, the original Crimson Cowl.
- Badass Cape: The source of her flying, teleporting and long range attacking abilities.
- Blinded by the Light
- Color Character
- Corrupt Corporate Executive
- Flight
- Frame-Up: She had the world convinced that Dallas Riordan was really the Crimson Cowl for some time.
- Karma Houdini
- Teleporters and Transporters
- Unholy Matrimony: Apparently had a child with Iron Man's archfoe the Mandarin.
- Villain with Good Publicity
Cyclone (Pierre Fresson)[]
- Blow You Away
- Clothes Make the Superman
- French Jerk
- Everything's Better with Spinning
- Legacy Character
Dragonfly (Veronica Dultry)[]
- Amazing Technicolor Population: Her red skin.
- Animal Theme Naming
- Bug Woman
- Hypnotic Eyes
- Monochromatic Eyes
- Winged Humanoid
Eel (Edward Lavell)[]
Flying Tiger[]
Gypsy Moth / Skein (Sybil Dvorak)[]
- Animal Theme Naming
- Depraved Bisexual
- Distracted by the Sexy
- Evil Is Sexy
- Femme Fatale
- The Hedonist
- Hot Gypsy Woman
- Mind Over Matter
- Mutant
- Power Floats
- Roma
Hydro-Man (Morris "Morrie" Bench)[]
Icemaster[]
- An Ice Person
- An Ice Suit
- Badass Beard
- Canon Immigrant: Icemaster was created for one of a series of Hostess advertisements placed in various issues of a number of Marvel comics in the 1980s. He entered Marvel proper in Thunderbolts #24 1999.
- Freeze Ray
Joystick (Janice Yanizeski)[]
- Combo-Platter Powers
- Depraved Bisexual
- Dual-Wielding: Her energy batons
- Energy Weapon
- Going Commando: Jolt notices this after taking her clothes to disguise.
- In Harm's Way
Lodestone (Andrea)[]
- Damn, It Feels Good to Be a Gangster!
- Dark Action Girl
- I Believe I Can Fly: With electromagnetism.
- Most Common Superpower
- Selective Magnetism
Machinesmith (Samuel "Starr" Saxon)[]
- Alliterative Name: Samuel "Starr" Saxon
- Bald of Evil
- Camp Gay
- Cyborg
- Emergency Transformation
- Gadgeteer Genius
- Heel Face Revolving Door: He became Tony Stark's assistant for a while, but returned to his villanous ways shortly after The Crossing.
- Rogues Gallery Transplant: As Mister Fear, he was an enemy of Daredevil, but after turning into Machinesmith, he became mostly a Captain America foe.
- Virtual Ghost
- We Can Rebuild Him
Man-Ape (M'Baku)[]
- Animal Motifs: The white gorilla.
- Combat Pragmatist
- Large Ham
- Lightning Bruiser
- Proud Warrior Race Guy: Without the honorable aspects.
- Scary Black Man
- The Starscream: Subverted. He was planning to get the Masters leadership, but he was defeated by the Thunderbolts before he could make his move.
Man-Killer (Katrina Luisa Van Horn)[]
- Amazonian Beauty
- Cyborg
- Dark Action Girl
- Does Not Like Men: Atlas being the only exception.
- Evil Redhead
- Fiery Redhead
- Lesbian Jock
- Sizeshifter
- Super Strength
Quicksand[]
- Blob Monster: Can become soft sand or a hard rock.
- Dishing Out Dirt
- Elemental Shapeshifter
- From a Single Cell
- Genius Bruiser
- I Just Want to Be Normal: At least at first, but she eventually learns to lover her appearance and powers.
Scorcher (Steven Hudak)[]
- Fire-Breathing Weapon
- Jet Pack
- Playing with Fire
- Power Armor: Fireproof power armor.
- Pyromaniac
Shatterfist[]
- Good Old Fisticuffs
- Megaton Punch
- Power Fists
- Timey-Wimey Ball: The first time he was seen, it was a future version who had become a major villain and nearly killed Thor. In his present-day appearances, he's a loser who swiped some power gloves and will one day perhaps become that dangerous guy.
- Tricked-Out Gloves
Shockwave (Lancaster Sneed)[]
Slyde (Jalome Beacher)[]
- Butt Monkey
- Clothes Make the Superman
- Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain
- Ted Baxter
- Unknown Rival: To Spider-Man
- What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?: His suit makes him super slippery and gives him the ability to run 30 m.p.h.
Sunstroke[]
- Blinded by the Light
- I Believe I Can Fly
- Heat Wave: Able to produce these on a smaller scale.
- Light'Em Up
- The Power of the Sun
Supercharger (Ronald "Ronnie" Hiliard)[]
- Boomerang Bigot: He hates super powered people even though he is one.
- Energy Absorption: Can absorb electricity like a living battery
- Freudian Excuse: The Freak Lab Accident that gave him his powers also killed his father, a person obsessed with superheroes.
- Psycho Electro
- Shock and Awe