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This article is about Marvel Comics characters. For the "Roscoe Sweeney" Sunday newspaper comic strip from the late 1940s to 1974, see Buz Sawyer. For other uses, see Fixer (disambiguation).

The Fixer is the name of two characters appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics: Roscoe Sweeney and Paul Norbert Ebersol.

Roscoe Sweeney was portrayed by Kevin Nagle in the Marvel Cinematic Universe series Daredevil, while Paul Ebersol has appeared in animated media.

Publication history

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The first Marvel Comics character known as the Fixer was Roscoe Sweeney. He first appeared in Daredevil #1 (Apr. 1964), and was created by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, and Bill Everett.

The second iteration of Fixer was long-time supervillain Paul Ebersol, first appearing in Strange Tales #141 (February 1966) and was created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby.[1] Much later, he appeared as a regular character in Thunderbolts, until he was forced to leave the team.

Fictional character biography

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Roscoe Sweeney

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Roscoe Sweeney
Publication information
PublisherMarvel Comics
First appearanceDaredevil #1 (April 1964)
Created byStan Lee (writer)
Jack Kirby (artist)
Bill Everett (artist)
In-story information
Alter egoRoscoe Sweeney

Roscoe Sweeney was a gangster and crooked fight promoter who was involved in extortion and illegal gambling who operated as the "Fixer". He paid boxer Jack Murdock to take a fall and lose a fight. Murdock accepted the money, however, the boxer became determined to continue the fight and eventually won by a knockout. The Fixer's right-hand man Slade killed Jack after the fight in retaliation. Learning of his father's murder and vowing to bring men like the Fixer to justice, Matt Murdock became a lawyer as well as the superhero Daredevil. The Fixer and Slade went to Fogwell's Gym where they encountered Daredevil. The Fixer had a fatal heart attack when being chased by Daredevil in the subway and died.[2]

Paul Norbert Ebersol

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Paul Norbert Ebersol
Fixer (Paul Norbert Ebersol) by Patrick Zircher.
Publication information
PublisherMarvel Comics
First appearanceStrange Tales #141 (February 1966) (as Fixer)[3]
The Incredible Hulk (vol. 2) #449 (January 1997) (as Techno)
Created byStan Lee (writer)
Jack Kirby (artist)
In-story information
Alter egoPaul Norbert Ebersol
Team affiliationsAdvanced Idea Mechanics
Commission on Superhuman Activities
Hydra
Masters of Evil
New Enforcers
Redeemers
Thunderbolts
PartnershipsMentallo
Notable aliasesTechno
Mr. Fix
Ogre
Phil
Advanced Iron Man
AbilitiesElectronics and mechanical genius
Robotic body
Technoforming

Paul Norbert Ebersol is a scientist from Dayton, Ohio who held a number of odd jobs, including auto mechanic, television repairman, and electronics laboratory assistant. He then became Fixer, a supervillain and genius-level criminal inventor who has often worked for criminal cartels like Hydra.[4]

Fixer later joins Helmut Zemo's incarnation of the Masters of Evil.[5] The team is later rebranded as the Thunderbolts, who masquerade as superheroes, with Fixer assuming the alias of Techno.[6] He is apparently killed by Iron, one of the Elements of Doom, and transfers his mind into a robotic body.[7]

Fixer joins the Redeemers, a government-backed team whereby criminals could shorten their sentences and clear their record. However, most of the team is killed by Graviton. He joined with the reunited Thunderbolts to stop Graviton, and he was one of the team members exiled to Counter-Earth. The team eventually returns to Earth via a rift.[8]

During the "Avengers: Standoff!" storyline, Fixer appears as a prisoner of the S.H.I.E.L.D.-established gated community Pleasant Hill, where Kobik transforms him into a civilian mechanic named Phil. Phil sees through the effects of Kobik's powers and creates a machine to revert himself to normal. After restoring Zemo, who had been similarly transformed, Fixer vows to take revenge on S.H.I.E.L.D.[9] Following the Pleasant Hill incident, Fixer joins Winter Soldier's incarnation of the Thunderbolts with the goal to keep S.H.I.E.L.D. from continuing the Kobik project.[10]

During the "One World Under Doom" storyline, Fixer is among the original Thunderbolts members who join the Fulgar Victoris led by Valentina Allegra de Fontaine as Citizen V. Amidst the showdown in Latveria, Fixer defects to the Thunderbolts and activates the Doombot Protocol Fixer Omega Daffodil to shut down the other Doombots.[11]

Amidst a power vacuum in A.I.M., Madame Masque enlists Fixer to help obtain scientists to get them to go through the same struggles that Tony Stark did to make his first Iron Man armor and abduct Stark. Fixer later goes rogue and combines all the inventions made by the captive scientists to create armor for himself, becoming known as Advanced Iron Man.[12]

Powers and abilities

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The second version of Fixer is an intuitive genius at the invention of weapons and other electrical and mechanical devices. Fixer's Techno body can mentally control his robotic body which is capable of assuming virtually any form from blast cannons to pile-drivers to even the form of a space station. To take on larger shapes, Techno physically absorbed the mass of other mechanical materials nearby into himself. Techno's body also could morph into forms that appeared completely organic, as with his assumed guise of Ogre.

Equipment

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The second Fixer has designed numerous devices and paraphernalia for himself, including his body armor. As for weaponry, he has used various devices including bombs, electronic jamming devices, guided missiles, sonic amplifiers, brain-wave scanners, and mind-control pods. He has also built anti-gravity discs which are affixed to his feet and allow flight at the speed of sound, as well as a special mask that contains a three-hour air supply and acts as an air pressure reduction valve, together with enabling flight at high velocity and high altitude.

In other media

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Television

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  • The Paul Ebersol incarnation of Fixer, renamed Mr. Fix, appears in Iron Man: Armored Adventures, voiced by Donny Lucas.[13] This version is a genius inventor and high-tech arms dealer with ties to the Maggia. In the second season, Justin Hammer has his personal assistant Sasha inject Fix with a nano-virus to force him to make weapons for the former, primarily the Titanium Man armor. Following a disastrous first outing in the armor, Hammer activates the nano-virus, destroying Fix's body and transforming him into an artificial intelligence called Fix 2.0.
  • The Paul Ebersol incarnation of Fixer appears in Marvel Disk Wars: The Avengers.[14]
  • Roscoe Sweeney appears in Daredevil (2015), portrayed by Kevin Nagle.[citation needed] As in the comics, he has Jack Murdock killed when the boxer refused to take a dive in one of his matches. Following Jack's death, Sweeney hid out in another country under the alias "Al Marino". In the present, Sweeney is subdued by Elektra so Jack's son Matt Murdock can exact revenge. Matt grievously beats Roscoe, but turns him over to the police instead much to Elektra's disappointment.
  • The Paul Ebersol incarnation of Fixer, hybridized with and named after Ralph Roberts, appears in Avengers Assemble, voiced by Rick D. Wasserman.[13] This version is a Stark Industries employee who was fired for giving away company secrets.

Film

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Roscoe Sweeney, renamed Edward "Eddie" Fallon, appears in Daredevil (2003), portrayed by Mark Margolis.[citation needed] This version previously employed a young Wilson Fisk as an enforcer.

Video games

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Music

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The industrial band Mentallo and the Fixer derive their name from the Paul Ebersol incarnation of Fixer and his former partner Mentallo.[citation needed]

References

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  1. ^ Rovin, Jeff (1987). The Encyclopedia of Super-Villains. New York: Facts on File. p. 131. ISBN 0-8160-1356-X.[1]
  2. ^ Daredevil #1 (February 1964)
  3. ^ Conroy, Mike (2004). 500 Comicbook Villains. Collins & Brown. ISBN 1-84340-205-X.
  4. ^ Strange Tales #141-145 (February-June 1966)
  5. ^ The Avengers #273-274 (November-December 1986)
  6. ^ Brevoort, Tom; DeFalco, Tom; Manning, Matthew K.; Sanderson, Peter; Wiacek, Win (2017). Marvel Year By Year: A Visual History. DK Publishing. p. 114. ISBN 978-1465455505.
  7. ^ Thunderbolts #7-8 (October-November 1997)
  8. ^ Avengers/Thunderbolts #1–6 (May-September 2004)
  9. ^ Avengers Standoff: Welcome to Pleasant Hill one-shot (April 2016)
  10. ^ Thunderbolts (vol. 4) #1 (July 2016)
  11. ^ Thunderbolts: Doomstrike #2-5 (May - July 2025)
  12. ^ Iron Man (vol. 7) #2-4 (April - June 2026)
  13. ^ a b "Fixer Voices (Marvel Universe)". Behind the Voice Actors (A green check mark indicates that a role has been confirmed using a screenshot (or collage of screenshots) of a title's list of voice actors and their respective characters found in its credits or other reliable sources of information.). Retrieved December 21, 2019.
  14. ^ "'Marvel Disk Wars: The Avengers' is Pokémon AND Pogs [Video]". ComicsAlliance. Archived from the original on July 15, 2014. Retrieved May 22, 2014.
  15. ^ "Fixer | Marvel: Avengers Alliance 2". Archived from the original on April 19, 2016. Retrieved April 5, 2016.
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