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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)

• 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