Rick Jones was a scrappy, rebellious orphan who felt responsible for the Hulk due to Bruce Banner pushing the young teenager to safety just moments before an experimental gamma bomb detonated, leaving the doctor exposed to its rays.
Rick briefly was a sidekick of Captain America and after living vicariously through the maverick alien hero Mar-Vell, discovered his own "Destiny Force". Known as Marvel Universe's "everyman", Rick is currently the hero, A-Bomb.
Origin
Rick
Jones is an orphan who eventually became an honorary Avenger. At the
character's pinnacle usage, the Marvel Universe is often seen through
his eyes as the reader.
He is often portrayed as the "ultimate sidekick"
character, however the character's raw roots are of a more angst ridden
nature. Rick Jones is a musician, a fighter, and a rebel...with the
underlying potential to be a hero.
As a teenager, Rick
Jones knew no fear. When he was dared to sneak onto a military testing
facility, he didn't give it a second thought.
What he and his friends
did not know was the facility was a test center for an experimental
Gamma bomb.
When scientist Bruce Banner noticed Rick sneaking on, he
raced out to save him seconds before the bomb was to detonate.
Time only
allowed for Banner to push Rick into the safety of a trench as the
explosion irradiated his shocked body. Thus the incredible Hulk was born. Rick Jones swore never to leave Dr. Banner again.
The
sacrifice that Banner had made caused Rick to grow up fast. He knew it
was his fault and took the responsibility to assist Banner and the Hulk,
knowing how dangerous it would be.
Character Creation
Rick Jones was created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby and first appeared in The Incredible Hulk #1 (1962).
Major Story Arcs
Pirate Radio
Rick Jones and the " Teen Brigade",
an underground network of what may be described as "pirate radio" or a
group of angst ridden teens, heard of the Hulk's rampage and summoned
the Fantastic Four.
However, instead a few of solo heroes simultaneously
answered the call, thus directly or indirectly giving birth to the
legendary super team known as The Avengers.
Bucky
Rick would soon become good friends with Captain America.
So much to the point that Rick would become his partner and call
himself Bucky.
The two would have a few adventures together, but it was
cut short when the Red Skull
used the Cosmic Cube and transferred his mind to Captain America's body
and Captain America's to his body.
Rick would walk in on the Red Skull
in Cap's body and received a big smack in the face. Thinking that it was
actually Captain America Rick decides to quit being Cap's partner and
once again becomes a wanderer.
Rick and Captain Marvel and the Destiny Force
Rick
and Captain Mar-Vell had many adventures together, they even fought his
old partner Hulk and the Zodiac Cartel along with the Avengers.
Mar-Vell and the Fantastic Four was in a battle with Annihilus,
when Mr. Fantastic managed to free Rick from the Negative Zone which
allowed both men the freedom from each other.
During a misunderstanding
with the Avengers, Mar-Vell was hospitalized, and he and Rick were
abducted by the Skrulls. This would lead into the Kree/Skrull War. This is were Rick discovered his own latentFor
the first time, Rick Jones realized his own worth beyond being the
"perennial sidekick", after a life of rejection. Through his experiences
of living vicariously through the hero Mar-Vell, Rick realized he had
the power within himself.
A concept that has almost
become cliche', but when done well as it is here, is a story of self
confidence and discovery.
It is noteworthy that this story was told
before many of the popular or more well known versions of the concept,
and they were done in the pages of Captain Marvel.
At the end
of the Kree/Skrull War, Rick and Mar-Vell would once again become bonded
to each other, to save Rick's life, he became Mar-Vell's "host body",
so they could exchange atoms for three hours for Mar-Vell to fight evil,
yet maintaining a mental link of conversation.
The Space Knight
Soon
after Ricks' guilt made him decide to expose himself to gamma rays in
hope to make a Hulk like being to stop Bruce/Hulk who was on a rampage.
It backfired and gave himself Gamma poisoning.
Rick was going to undergo
a massive blood transfusion to treat his sickness, when the hospital
was attacked by monsters created by the Dire Wraiths.
Rick was saved by the Space-knight, Rom and began to team with Rom, Brandy Clark now known as Star-shine, Forge, and Cindy Adams
against the threat of the Dire Wraiths.
He did this, despite the fact
that he was slowly dying. Upon the final defeat of the Wraiths, Rom
along with other of earth's superheroes banished them all to Limbo and
then bade farewell to Rick Jones and the Earth.
Rick Jones and Brandy
Clark met the alien called the Beyonder (a Secret Wars 2 tie in issue of
ROM). The Beyonder briefly granted Rick superhuman powers but Rick
realized he couldn't handle them, and the Beyonder stripped him of his
powers but left him cured of his cancer.
When Rick wasn't playing sidekick to a hero he was playing guitar and singing with his band trying to make it big.
Back With Hulk
During
an experiment to try and save Bruce and Hulk, Rick was knocked into a
chemical vat that turned him into a mindless Hulk like creature.
Trying
to save Rick, Grey Hulk allowed Leader
to siphon all of the excess gamma radiation from Rick's body into his
own leaving the Leader further mutated and creating a mental link
between the two.
Rick began to hang-out with the Hulk again during the
period that Hulk's skin turned gray and his persona retained some of
Bruce Banner's intellect.
Rick and and Clay Quartermain
began traveling across the country with the Hulk trying to find and
destroy all remaining gamma bombs until Hulk was believed killed by the
Leader.
After the Hulk's return, Rick begins dating Joe Fixit's ex-girlfriend Marlo Chandler.
After the Hulk personalities merged into one, a secret team of heroes called the Pantheon
approached Hulk with an offer to join them, and Rick accompanies Hulk
on most of his missions for the group. As a favor to their friend Jim Wilson,
Rick and Hulk agree to help out at an AIDS benefit concert with Rick
headlining and Hulk providing security. The concert was disrupted by the
drug-addicted assassin Speedfreek
who was sent to kill one of the concert's attendees, Jim was stabbed
defending the man and the Hulk got rid of Speedfreek before he could
kill anybody. Rick wanted to help Jim but he had also been slashed by
Speedfreek and couldn't risk getting infected with Jim's blood, luckily
Hulk was able to help Jim because of his enhanced immune system. When
Hulk and Rick returned to the Pantheon they were sent to the Florida
Everglades to investigate the disappearance of two teens that may have
been tied to a missing Pantheon scientist. While there they battled both
the Man-Thing and the missing scientist who had transformed himself
into the Glob, he was killed by the touch of the Man-Thing
when he burst into flame. During one of their missions with them they
fought alongside a rebel force in Trans-Sabal against both S.H.I.E.L.D.
issue Mandroids and the new government super team X-Factor.
The country was being ruled by Farnoq Dahn ,a dictator who had promised
the US government energy assistance if they helped him keep his place
as unchallenged ruler.
He was exposed as a psycho when he tried to win
the war by tying a mother and child to two separate missiles and
threatened to launch them if the Pantheon didn't stop, he was stopped by
Hulk and X-Factor.
The tyrant was forced to face his people for the
crimes he committed but most of them still saw him as a god and bowed at
his feet, he was then shot and killed by a traumatized Rick Jones who
had taken a Mandroid
suit.
After wards Rick returned to his apartment and cut off all
contact with the outside world until Marlo and Betty came over and
forced him to go back out into the world.
Out
of nowhere a woman showed up claiming to be Rick's mother, she had
pictures of him together as a child and claimed to have put him up for
adoption while she was on the run from some criminals.
After Rick
finally accepted the woman claiming to be his mother, she drugs him and
chains him up in her basement. Marlo and Betty follow Jackie
when they see her speed away from Rick's apartment, and Betty thought
she saw Rick in the passenger side. Marlo was killed by Jackie leaving
Rick heartbroken. The police told him that she used to work at an
orphanage but she was fired when they found out she was unstable. Rick
goes to everyone for help bringing back Marlo, from Doctor Strange to
Mister Fantastic. The emotional pain in Rick caused the Leader extreme
annoyance and he decided to resurrect Marlo to make it go away. The
process was disrupted and her mind didn't return immediately with her
body, she was alive but she couldn't do anything without somebody
guiding her. They have Doc Samson
examine her and he believes that she could just be in some kind of
coma. Her brothers show up after they find out about her and try to get
her away from Rick, but drowning in grief he fights back. When he
refuses to hand her over they have Captain America help talk some sense
into him but the Hulk shows up and a battle ensues. Just before Rick is
arrested by the cops her mind returns and their life returns to
"normal". When he is at home his granddaughter from the distant future, Janis, showed up and took the Hulk to the future to defeat the tyrant Maestro.
Rick proposes to her a few weeks later and she says yes. At the
bachelor party they watch a porno and are shocked to see Marlo in it,
the next day Rick confronts her about it and she accidentally sells her
soul to Mephisto in order to make Rick forgive her.
There wedding is
sabotaged by the Impossible Man
who sends out invitations to all of Rick's enemies and allies from the
Skrulls to Rom, but rather then ruin the day Rick allows everyone to
stay as long as their is no fighting.
The ceremony is interrupted by Mephisto
who comes to claim Marlo's soul but Hulk beats him down and sends him
back to hell.
After their marriage Rick and Marlo even get their own
talk show called "Keeping up With the Joneses".
Months later when the
Hulk is under the control of Apocalypse, the Absorbing Man
shows up and takes Rick and Janis to Cairo to help stop the Hulk.
Rick
jumps in during the battle and is crippled by Hulk, seeing his best
friend's crippled body causes Hulk to break the mind control and flee in
shame.
The loss of his legs causes trouble to start in his relationship
with Marlo.
When all of earth's missing heroes return,
Bruce is returned too and is bonded with the Hulk once more.
Bruce is
able to gain a secret presidential pardon with the help of the returned
Thunderbolt Ross and so Bruce, Betty, Rick, and Marlo all move into the
secret government facility Area 102. Bruce is able to get Reed Richards and Tony Stark
to build an exoskeleton so that Rick can walk. When Bruce sees his
friend walk again, Hulk is overcome with guilt and takes over.
He jumps
from the base but he is followed by a superhuman Rick, unfortunately he
has a heart attack because his body can't keep up with the exoskeleton
and Hulk returns them both to Area 102.
The next morning they receive
news that Betty died to to gamma poisoning and that Bruce has attempted
suicide.
Rick goes to talk to his friend to find that he has gone
completely insane and is talking to hallucinations, Bruce then
transforms into the Hulk and flees the base.
Betty's death and Bruce's
insanity destroy Rick and Marlo's already shaky relationship and they
split. Rick stays at Area 102, the new Hulk-buster base and becomes
deathly ill and the Avengers are called in to help him.
Bonding to Genis
After teaming-up with the Avengers during Avengers Forever Rick bonded with Genis,
who was the late Captain Mar-Vell's son.
They were bonded with the
Nega-bands that once bonded him with Mar-Vell, except instead of
transporting between earth and the Negative Zone they transported
between earth and K'ia in the Micro-verse.
Their bond brought out Genis'
latent cosmic awareness. Rick and Marlo were trying to get back
together after their split .
During one of their first adventures
together they encountered a young girl who was losing control of her
nigh-omnipotent abilities, the Skrulls wanted to use her as a weapon and the Silver Surfer
wanted to kill her because she had the power to destroy the universe.
Rick was able to save her by telling her to use her powers to alter the
time stream so she would never get the powers. Rick and Marlo decide to
give their relationship one more shot and begin seeing each other again.
When the alien death god Walker starts trying to kill Death, Thanos reveals that Marlo has been her host body since she was restored to life by Leader. In order to protect her Marv, Thor,
Thanos,and Marlo travel to purgatory but Walker follows them.
Since it
is impossible to die in purgatory he forces Marv to switch places with
Rick blows off his arm and ages him nearly 100 years. An angry Death
takes over Marlo and tears all of Walker's power away from him.
Rick's
transformation had a major effect on Genis, his mind was thrown into
various points in his future.
Marv found out that he would go on to
marry Songbird, have two kids, resurrect his mother and destroy Magus.
Upon return to earth Rick becomes extremely depressed and tries to kill
himself. Meanwhile Marlo's comic shop is in financial trouble due to a
new competitor that is being run by the magician Maha Yogi.
Yogi built the store so that he could gather enough sacrifices to
summon the demon Grendel's Mother. Unfortunately for Yogi, Grendel's
Mother doesn't want to help him and she leaves him to fight Marv and
Moondragon by himself.
The fight is about even until Rick uses his vast
knowledge of cliche ways to defeat a villain to help them deflect a
spell back at Yogi destroying him.
In order to find a way to return Rick to his actual age Marv travels to the Kree home world to ask the Supreme Intelligence for help.
He is defeated by Ronan the Accuser
when he arrives and he is placed in a cell.
He frees himself from the
cell and confronts the Supreme Intelligence.
He agrees to help Rick if
Marv travels in to the Negative Zone and brings back a rare type of
radiation, but the radiation only comes from a sun under the watch of Blastaar's son Burstaar.
After Marv retrieves the radiation the Supreme Intelligence tries to
restore Rick but it appears to fail. While walking around LA Rick sees a
woman giving birth in an alley and helps deliver the baby.
The baby is
born dead but Rick performs CPR and revives the baby, shortly after he
is returned to his real age.
Rick believes that it was divine power
working with karma but Genis insists that it was a delayed reaction to
the radiation.
Rick and Marlo split during this time due to her
relationship with Moondragon.
Stranded in the Microverse
After
Moondragon removes the mental blocks on Marv's cosmic awareness he
begins training to handle the power, and after months of meditation he
feels that he is ready.
Rick goes into the Microverse to let Marv try
out his new ability. Marv is immediately overwhelmed when he now sees
every crisis in the universe happening every second and has to make a
choice of which to attend to, and after he made his decision he sees
every possible outcome of what could have happened had he chosen
differently. But this ability eventually drove him mad after he chose to
save an entire race of peaceful aliens from being slaughtered over
saving one woman from being murdered by her boyfriend. Immediately after
she was killed he was shown her future as the universe's greatest
peacemaker and that under her there would have been galactic peace for
generations. Rick tries his best to help his troubled friend but it does
no good. Marv becomes desensitized to the problems of the universe and
strands Rick in the Microverse for months and refuses to speak to him
while he goes out and tries to find a way to take over the universe.
Epiphany helps him escape and awakens his creativity making him a rock
star in the Microverse.
Marv feels that joining the Kree military will
help him, but his insanity causes him to kill his commanding officer and
commit suicide.
In death Marv meets Entropy and they destroy the
universe together, he keeps Rick alive and tries to talk to him for the
first time in months and Rick tries to talk them into recreating the
universe.
Entropy begins having second thoughts and agrees with Rick,
the universe is reset to before Marv goes insane and he is given a
second chance.
Marv decides to save the peacemaker this time around,
after he sees that in the future after she dies a great war breaks out
killing billions and Marv goes insane again leaving Rick stuck in the
Micro-verse.
Marv the Mad god...Genis, not Mar-Vell.
In
order to keep Marv in line Epiphany teaches Rick how to use the
Nega-Band connection to "Psy-Fry" him and cause Marv extreme pain.
The
drawback to the technique is that the same damage is felt on Ricks end
too. Marv and Rick agree to switch places every 24 hours. Bored and
insane once again Marv decides to play the role of mad god. On earth a
convicted murderer, Coven, is executed but amazingly comes back to life
immediately after and he is set free since technically he has served his
sentence. He decides that the first thing he is going to do is kill a
key witness who testified against him against him in court, Rick Jones.
He shoots Rick from afar but when he comes closer to finish him off he
finds that Rick has swapped places with Marv. Marv is intrigued by the
situation and how the policy of the earth court system to ignore all
evidence that isn't directly presented, he bestows Coven with a fraction
of his cosmic power and they set out to find a crime in progress to
adjudicate. Rick wakes up in the Micro-verse to find himself surrounded
by concerned groupies.
Rick goes to his balcony and sees thousands of
his alien fans camped on his lawn. Flying around New York Marv and Coven
find Spider-Man fighting an alien, they use their cosmic power to knock
them both unconscious and force them to go to "trial".
The smaller
alien that Spider-Man was protecting reveals that it was just a weird
sexual game between he and the larger alien, an embarrassed Spider-Man
agrees to leave but the larger alien threatens Marv and Coven snaps his
neck.
The smaller alien flees and swears revenge against Captain Marvel.
Back
in the Micro-verse Marv continues playing Judge, Jury, and Executioner
when he puts himself in between two lovers in a dispute over Rick, the
woman has fallen in love with Rick's music and wants to call off her
engagement.
Marv decides to abuse his power once more and after
performing a quick marriage and divorce he threatens to kill the man if
he doesn't leave the planet, but before leaving the man threatens
vengeance. Back on earth Rick is attacked by the empowered Coven but he
is able to fight him off using a gun he received from one of his
Micro-verse groupies, Marv takes his powers away from Coven in
retaliation but he is able to overcome Marv and take all of his powers.
At that moment on earth and in the Micro-verse the two aliens who swore
vengeance against Marv return to the respective planets with massive
fleets backing them up to kill Marv.
In the Micro-verse the aliens found
the de-powered corpse of Marv and left, on earth the aliens saw Coven
who had taken on the appearance of Marv after stealing his powers.
Coven
threatened the aliens and they attack him, seconds before they fire
Marv takes his powers back and Coven is killed.
Marv tells Rick that
because of his cosmic awareness he had known the outcome to the entire
situation and there had never been any danger.
Some time
later Rick tries to talk Marv out of slaughtering all the Kree, Skrulls,
and Shi'ar because he deemed them all a threat to humanity. Marv takes
over Rick's mind and forces him to kill himself but brings him back to
life soon after.
The three species decide to annihilate Marv but are
convinced by the Eternals to give them a chance to save him from his
insanity. Marv and Epiphany travel to Titan and find that everybody is
gone, Rick talks to Marv and tells him that Epiphany isn't there and he
is just hallucinating.Marv is ambushed by his younger sister Phyla.
Rick is confused because Marv never mentioned that he ever had a sister
before but he is talking about having memories of them growing up
together. The rest of the Eternals show up including Marv's thought
deceased mother Elysius, she tries explain to him that when he remade
reality with Entropy they altered it. Marv rips reality in half on Titan
to get rid of his sister and mother but he is also pulled through into
the pocket universe where his powers are gone. Elysius explains
everything that is happening around him, when Marv remade the universe
he brought multiple time lines together into one contradicting one.
His
mother and sister were brought from a reality where Marv had become a
great hero and never gone insane, this also explained how all of the
events that happened before he remade the universe were still true even
though they never technically happened.
She also forces Marv to face the
fact that he was never insane but had used it as an excuse to escape
liability for his actions because he knew he couldn't live up to the
expectations placed on him.
Marv returns them all to Titan and swears to
live up to the name Captain Marvel, Rick tries to congratulate Marv but
he seems distracted, because the hallucination of Epiphany is still
there telling him that he is insane.
Into the Future
Newly
reformed, they set up shop on Hyperion and now only go where asked. Due
to the entire galaxy fearing Marv nobody will contact him for help so
he decides to help out Rick with his marital problems by secretly
broadcasting Rick's song for Marlo from his a private studio to every
TV, computer, and radio on earth.
Marv also set up a website to download
the song from to make Rick money, in less than an hour their are over
three million downloads and Rick becomes a millionaire.
Marlo hears the
song and her already shaky relationship with Moon-dragon crumbles when
she decides to go back to Rick.
When Rick hears about the broadcast he
is at first furious but quickly forgives Marv when he finds out about
the money, Marlo then walks through the door and attacks Rick and Phyla.
Marv intervenes and she turns to dust, Marv uses his cosmic awareness
to determine that she is from the future and he uses Titan technology to
set out and prevent her fate.
Marv jumps into the future
a few hundred years and finds over ninety percent of earth's population
annihilated, the earth was attacked by the Kree, Skrulls, and Shi'ar as
soon as earth tried to colonize another planet because they deemed
Humans too dangerous a species to be allowed to live.
Even though Marv
is traveling into the future the Titan technology allows him to keep in
contact with Rick in the present. Marv meets his immortal but otherwise
powerless son Ely and a future version of himself. They are keeping
Marlo in a coma in their bunker until they can find a cure for a
mysterious disease she contracted centuries earlier. Marv used the
Nega-Bands to fuse his two selves together to combine his limitless
power with the incredible knowledge of his future and he kills all the
aliens on earth. His future self then tries to annihilate the alien
species as revenge but Marv takes control and expels him from his body.
The people of earth are eternally grateful for his deeds and build a
statue in his honor, Marv jumps even further into the future to find the
moment when Marlo went insane but instead end up in a strange medieval
type earth where Ely is the leader of a ridiculed church dedicated to
Captain Marvel. Ely tells him that Marlo was taken from her stasis
chamber earlier but Marv sees that he's lying and tries using his cosmic
awareness to determine what really happened but Ely reveals that he
learned how to turn cosmic powers against their users so Marv switches
places with Rick and allows him to interrogate Ely.
After a serious
beating, Ely fights back by tapping into the power of Rick's Nega-Bands
and sending him farther into the future where humans have long since
died out and earth is being colonized by aliens.
Rick lost his
Nega-Bands when Ely sent him to the future and finds that the last
record of human existence is a hologram left by Doctor Doom.
Rick talks with the aliens and they direct him west to find what he is
looking for.
In this time Ely is with Marlo and they are the last people
on earth, Ely is also trying to resurrect Magus. Marv resolved to kill
his son in his Cipro, thus preventing him from ever growing into the
evil, powerful dictator.
No More Adventures
After
everyone returns to Hyperion Rick and Marlo get back together which
allows for Moondragon and Phyla to begin a relationship.
Unfortunately
the end of their adventures are signaled when Marlo's former employee at
Comic Castle, Al, shows up to collect everything. Rick sees everything
for what it really is due to his "Comic Awareness"and starts to throw a
tantrum.
Al is actually Eulogy one of "the seven friendless", a group of
cosmic entities that control the universe. Eulogy shows up at the end
of all comics to settle all loose ends and collect everything so it can
be used again later.
He sends Moon-dragon and Phyla away through a
portal before talking to Rick and Marlo. Eulogy undoes the bond between
Rick and Marv, takes away Marlo's death-wish ability, and tells them
what their futures would have been had their adventures gone on.
He
pulls Marv out of the Micro-verse and explains to him that the
adventures are over. Marv takes some convincing but he agrees to follow
Rick and Marlo through the portal. Rick and Marlo are returned to earth
as millionaires because of Rick's song and go on with their lives.
Life After Genis
Rick provided funding for a group of former teen heroes known as the Loners and tried getting them to help the new group of young heroes, the Runaways.
Rick was also present in Captain America's funeral. In the events of the World War Hulk, Rick reunited with the Hulk and supports him about the Illuminati's atrocities against him, but reasons to his friend that vengeance is not the answer. After the Hulk defeated Sentry, Miek tried to stab him but Rick protected Hulk and was the one who got stabbed. He was later rushed into the hospital.
Next,
Rick woke and found himself in burning Alaska pipeline. When he
traveled into the site where Bruce Banner became the Hulk, he was
suddenly attacked by the Red Hulk. In self-defense, Rick turned into a creature that resembled the Abomination,
calling himself A-Bomb. After Rulk is defeated A-Bomb reverts back to
Rick and is about to tell Hulk who Rulk is but he is shot in the back
and dragged off by Doc Samson.
It is revealed that Rick was transformed into A-Bomb by the Intelligencia
under command of the Leader and MODOK.
Using Abomination's blood they
changed him to become their weapon, but soon learned that he could not
be controlled as easily as they planned. Instead, they gave him one
simple command with a certain trigger - kill Bruce Banner.
Bruce
suspected this and was able to trigger Rick at an appropriate time and
talk him down, making it so Rick would not be triggered in the future
when his plans were to be carried out.
Powers
Rick
Jones is an athletic man that previously had no superhuman powers. He
has received training in combat gymnastics by Captain America and
developed a strong courageous spirit. He is also a skilled self-taught
folk and rock n' roll singer and guitarist.
Rick would
receive further training by the hero Mar-Vell as they would be bonded
symbiotically. He temporarily had one of the Nega-bands, which provided
him with the same powers as Mar-Vell, such as flight, energy blasts, and
simple matter manipulation.
During the Kree-Skrull war,
Rick demonstrated vast psionic powers which the Supreme Intelligence
claimed were latent in all humans.
Rick would learn how
to further his inherent heroism due to his experiences with Captain
Marvel (Mar-Vell).
However, this display of power was retconned as the
Destiny Force acting through Rick, and not his own innate power.
He was
also, for some time, able to shift spacial/temporal positions with
Mar-Vell and later Genis-Vell.
He was temporarily given superhuman powers by the Beyonder, including strength, flight, durability, and energy blasts.
Also when Joe Fixit
was around, Rick Jones fell into the mineral bath that was intended to
merge the Hulk and Bruce Banner causing Rick Jones to gain Hulk-like
powers. During the day Rick Jones was an average human, but at night The
Incredible Rick manifested.
His appearance was like the green Hulk's:
gamma-powered behemoth of great strength and limited intellect but with
mullet.
As A-Bomb
Rick
Jones has gained the ability to turn into a creature resembling the
Abomination, calling himself "A-Bomb". Through his transformation, he
gains protective plates of armor, vast superhuman strength( as rick
would put it, he is in the strongest there is club) and durability (even
the Red Hulk only caused superficial damage), and the ability to track
both Hulk and Red Hulk (by zeroing in on their gamma signature). He also
has a camouflage ability, being able to turn nearly invisible to match
his environment.
Alternate Earths
Earth-224
Rick
Jones was the only survivor of the destroyed reality. Not much is known
about the reality, but Rick Jones was a cyborg calling himself "Rik"
who joined Proctor's Gatherers.
Earth-1610
An Alien race, The Watchers decided that the Earth was on the brink of destruction. Uatu, one of the race, said all this to the Fantastic Four in the Project Pegasus building. The Watchers
have decided to choose one of the humans and make him a Herald, to help
the human race with the New World Order. Immediately after that, Rick
Jones began to glow in his backyard. He fell into a coma and woke up six
months after the Ultimatum. When he returned home, neighbors said that the coma was caused by drugs. May Parker wanted to help Rick after his mother told her that it was caused by him being a mutant. May said this to Peter, Johnny and Bobby,
who lived in her house and asked that they wear suits and talk to Rick.
Rick was experimenting with his powers when they arrived so he threw
them into the air, then teleported himself and
Peter to a
restaurant in Ann Arbor, before teleporting them back to his backyard.
During the conversation with Peter, Johnny and Bobby, he told them that
he was not a mutant, that the floating eye gave him powers. Then Jonny
remembered Uatu, he told all of this to Rick and the boy decided to meet
with the Watchers. However, Jonny said that they left the Earth and
Rick teleported all of them to the Project Pegasus building. They found
that it was attacked by Serpent Squad.
Serpent Squad attacked them and Rick has successfully used his powers.
When the boys returned home, Rick realized that he must use his
strength. He said goodbye to his family and took the pseudonym Nova.
Earth-7812
In this reality Rick Jones became the Hulk instead of Bruce Banner.
Earth-9200
Earth-9309
Rick
Jones of Earth-9309 called himself Thanatos and had various
superpowers. At some point he crossed over to Earth-928 and became an
enemy of Spider-Man 2099.
Rick
Jones chose to stay with the Supreme Intelligence in Kree-Lar after the
Kree-Skrull War and eventually learn everything he needed to know about
the Destiny Force. It was then that he slay the Supreme Intelligence
and chose a path of evil; causing several crises. One of the many erase
the heroes of Earth-928 also know as 2099, this event would be referred
to as the Eon War. He killed an alternate reality Thor, and also entered
the New Universe and was automatically sought by Justice who saw all
the evil he had done. While trying to escape from Justice he ventured
into the 2099 reality but was discorporate and using the Destiny Force
he took over the body of Aaron Delgado who fallen to his death thanks to
Spider-Man 2099. He then use the Innerspace to shape the body of Aaron
Delgado to his likes and reform his old body. By using a combination of
both, he brought for Justice but the transport mutate him into the Net
Prophet.
Other Media
Television
- Rick initially appeared in the 1966 Incredible Hulk segment of The Marvel Superheroes.
- Rick was also a regular character on the 1982 The Incredible Hulk, voiced by Michael Horton. There, Rick was blond, wore a cowboy hat, and had a girlfriend named Rita.
- Rick appeared alongside Hulk in the 1994 Fantastic Four episode "Nightmare In Green", voiced by Benny Grant.
- Rick was a regular character on the 1996 animated program The Incredible Hulk, voiced by Luke Perry. In the season finale of the first season, Rick Jones falls into the radiation-saturated Nutrient Bath, (which had been used to separate Hulk and Bruce Banner, and was at that moment being used to fuse them back together), Rick soaks up enough of the gamma radiation to become his own teenaged version of the Hulk. Rick is later cured after The Leader absorbed his power in order to restore his own with the help of the Gargoyle.
- Rick appeared in the Iron Man: Armored Adventures episode "Uncontrollable", voiced by Andrew Francis. Alongside the Hulk. The Controller found the task on controlling the Hulk himself impossible instead he tried to control Rick and use his friendship with Hulk to make him carry out his revenge on A.I.M. when both attempts failed, the latter due to Iron Man's intervention, he decided to take control of Iron Man to carryout his revenge. Rick and Pepper are eventually able to convince Hulk to Smash the Controller's disk on Iron Man causing the Controller to pass out with the thought of being smashed by Iron Man's Dynamo Buster armor and Hulk simultaneously
- Rick stars in the show Hulk and the A.G.E.N.T.S. of Smash, deciding to use mobile cameras to record the Hulks adventures to improve their reputation, and naming the group. Rick becomes A-Bomb but like Hulk retains his full intelligence and is unable, or unwilling to change back to human form. He has shown all the powers of his comic version, including strength, armor, and camafloug. He is often the main narrator of the show, and adds every man humor to the Hulks adventures. He if voiced by Seth Green.
Film
- Although he does not appear in The Incredible Hulk, Rick's name is briefly shown on a list of Bruce Banner's known associates during the film's opening credits.
Video Games
- Rick Jones appears in The Incredible Hulk video game voiced by Jon Curry. In the game, he is a faithful ally of the Hulk and seems to share his comic book counterpart's back story as a sidekick.
- Rick Jones's A-Bomb form appears as an NPC in Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2. He ends up under the control of The Fold when he is encountered in Wakanda on the path to the Black Panther's palace. He is assisted in battle by Justice. His powers were later copied by the Nanite Nick Fury along with Electro, Firestar, Multiple Man, and Bishop.
Fuente: comicvine
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