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So. You've found a suit of [[Clothes Make the Superman|clothes that give you superpowers]]. Will you use them for good? Will you become a [[Superhero]] and fight evil, even if it means sacrificing your own life, health, and happiness in the process?
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Hell no! You're no [[Spider-Man (Comic Book)|Peter Parker]]. Your name is Parker Robbins. Your mom is crazy, your father is dead, your girlfriend is pregnant, your only cousin is an alcoholic and you have to pay your favourite Russian prostitute. You need money, and you will do anything to get it. And this nice hood and shoes that give you superpowers, stolen from a strange demon, could come in pretty handy.
'''''The Hood''''' was a six-issue limited series (July-December, 2002), from [[Marvel Comics]]' MAX imprint, written by Brian K. Vaughan, the same man who created ''[[Runaways]]'' and ''[[Y: The Last Man]]''. After years of being a part of the [[Marvel Universe]], the Hood became a really lucky villain - [[Brian Bendis]], current writer of ''[[The Avengers (Comic Book)|Avengers]]'' titles, took him under his wing, and turned him into a first-class villain, king of New York's underground. After ''[[Civil War (Comic Book)|Civil War]]'', Hood became a secondary [[Big Bad]] for the ''[[New Avengers]]'' -- while he's not their only, or even greatest, threat (that title was claimed first by the Skrulls and later by [[Villain with Good Publicity|Norman]] [[Spider-Man|Osborn]]), he's certainly a legitimate menace. Originally his powers came from an unknown demon, later revealed to be none other than the Dread [[Dimension Lord|Dormammu]] himself; since then he has gone up and down the power scale as he gains and loses "patrons."
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* [[Ascended Fanboy]]: Parker was a fan of supervillains since childhood.
* [[An Offer You Can't Refuse]]: {{spoiler|He made one in order to get White Fang off of him.}}
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* [[Demonic Possession]]: His relationship with Dormammu later turned into that.
* [[De-Power]]: Several times.
** First in ''[[Marvel Zombies]] 4'', when Dormammu ditched him for somebody else.
** Secondly {{spoiler|after the new Sorcerer Supreme destroyed his connection with Dormammu.}}
** A''third time'' when {{spoiler|1=Loki took the Norn Stones back
** And a fourth time when {{spoiler|he lost the Infinity Gems}}.
* [[The Dulcinea Effect]]: {{spoiler|White Fang told Hood she would abandon her campaign against him after he threatened to kill Force - a superhero she had known less than one day!}}
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* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: Before Parker got his powers, he and his cousin John King beat up a guy who tried to recruit them in Hydra, because they don't like terrorists. Then Parker stole his shoes.
* [[Eviler Than Thou]]: Mr. Negative, a [[Super-Powered Evil Side]] who strongly believes in the [[Balance Between Good and Evil]] (which he enforces by corrupting all good deeds done by his good side) told Hood that he would fail because he forsook all the good that was in him.
* [[Gotta Catch Them All]]: He nearly obtained all the Infinity Gems.
* [[I Have Your Wife]]: {{spoiler|White Fang}} threatened him with {{spoiler|the fact that she knows about his wife and daughter}}.
* [[In the Hood]]: Mostly, depends on the artist.
* [[Motive Decay]]: At first he wanted power because he legitimately needed money. Now he just wants power.
* [[New Powers as the Plot Demands]]: Happens '''a lot'''. Justified when his backer was Dormammu, who is one of the most powerful demons in the universe and a [[Dimension Lord]].
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: After [[Dark Reign (comics)|Dark Reign]], The Hood broke out of prison and was about to give up villainy (since he lost his wife and daughter). However, three members of Avengers Academy broke into his apartment because the video of Hood beating up Tigra had gone viral (which wasn't his fault: the villain Slug sold it to a celebrity gossip site without his knowledge). Not only does that almost get them expelled from the Avengers Academy (Tigra wasn't happy that they [[Pay Evil Unto Evil|paid evil unto evil]]), but this also spurs the Hood to go after the Infinity Gems.
* [[No-Holds-Barred Beatdown]]: He gave one to superheroine [[Catgirl|Tigra]] because another villain asked him to do so in exchange for his advice.
* [[The Only One Allowed to Defeat You]]: He seems to consider himself as the only one allowed to defeat the New Avengers, while White Fang has that same feeling about him.
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* [[This Is Your Brain on Evil]]: When his relationship with Dormammu got worse.
* [[Tomato in the Mirror]]: Dormammu had [[Incredibly Lame Pun|a bad habit]] of replacing Parker's reflection in the mirror.
* [[Took a Level
* [[Unskilled but Strong]]: He's had access to world-shaking power, but he doesn't know how to fight except as a street thug, so he can never use it to its full advantage.
* [[Villain Protagonist]]: In both of his limited series, especially in the second.
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** Let's not forget the [[House of M]] tie-in book! You know, the one that took place '''four years''' after the original storyline...
* [[You Killed My Father]]: White Fang, [[Action Girl]] in [[Powered Armor]] blames him for killing her husband.
** Funny thing is, that was an accident. She also doesn't know her husband was cheating on her.
*** Also it was his cousin.
* [[You Kill It, You Bought It]]: Dormammu convinced him that he could be Sorcerer Supreme if he killed Doctor Strange. Strange insisted that it doesn't work that way, but Hood was in no mood to listen.
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