The Avengers (Comic Book)/Characters/Masters of Evil/Crimson Cowl Members

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)

 * Animorphism
 * Involuntary Shapeshifter
 * Animal Theme Naming
 * Anti-Villain
 * A Load of Bull
 * Mighty Glacier

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)

 * Animal Theme Naming
 * Clothes Make the Superman
 * Legacy Character
 * Psycho Electric Eel
 * Shock and Awe

Flying Tiger

 * Animal Theme Naming
 * Fangs Are Evil
 * Flight
 * Powered Armor
 * Wolverine Claws

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)

 * Blob Monster
 * Elemental Shapeshifter
 * From a Single Cell
 * Making a Splash
 * Something Person

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)

 * Cyborg
 * Power Armor
 * Psycho for Hire
 * Shock and Awe
 * We Can Rebuild Him

Slyde (Jalome Beacher)

 * Butt Monkey
 * Clothes Make the Superman
 * Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain
 * Small Name, Big Ego
 * 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