Character Index/B

Babe was one of Pete London's henchmen, who mistook Daredevil for an enemy and tried to attack him, but he was quickly rebuked by Pete London.^[1]

Babette was Strong Guy's personal masseuse.^[2]

Babs was one of the many jet-set girls Tony Stark went with to forget Pepper Potts. During one of their appointments Tony told her that she had a surprise for her, and while she thought it was a jewel, a fur or a perfume Tony instead took her to visit his factory that was now to be completed.^[3]

Prince and Babyface were two homeless people arguing over being able to use a cardboard box from a refrigerator to sleep in, but after seeing a figure prowling around they got scared and decided to share the crate.^[4]

Doctor Bailey was a physician and scientist from the Beyond Corporation who treated Ben Reilly after the latter was bitten by Morbius and to which Director Danger asked if there would be any implications to study in the case of hybridization between Ben Reilly and the bite. of the vampire.^[5]

Doctor Baird assisted Carol Danvers at the Virginia Mason Hospital when she was hospitalized for alcohol abuse.^[6]

Agent Baker was a guard at the prison where Daredevil was incarcerated. During the onslaught of Knull's symbiotes on the prison, Daredevil convinced Baker to let him out of his cell to fight the symbiotes.^[7]

Mr. Balin was attacked by the Night Terror in the intelligence station where he escaped from.^[9]

Ballard survived the terrorist attack on Rome's Da Vinci Airport despite being wounded by Giancarlo Gelberto. Upon his recovery, Ballard tried to avenge the death of his girlfriend during the attack, but failed to shoot him, on the other hand thought about eliminating Gelberto after which he also killed Ballard because he had discovered that he was a former partner of Gelberto and had participated to the elimination of Gelberto's rival George Stone.^[10]

Mr. Ballard was a smuggling mobster who was defeated by the Punisher.^[11]

Bamf was Elsie's family dog, who she killed and skinned after she was possessed by the Carnage symbiote.^[12]

Doctor Bank was among the members of a board of psychiatrists who had to decide on the recovery of Stan Carter and thus be able to release him at liberty. Bank was doubtful about the release and endorsed the positions of Dr. Kalish also ironic about the situation.^[13]

Mrs. Bankhead sought out the help of Carl Burgess when her husband, Paul Bankhead was sent an extortion note from Jim Peterson. She and Carl went back to her house and found Paul had been kidnapped.^[14]

Banning was an infamous, international mercenary. His weapon of choice was a handgun, and he had an eyepatch covering his left eye. He drank alcohol, claiming that he was a better fighter when suffering from a hangover. Marc Spector, another mercenary, considered him a second-rate professional. Along with Akkad, LeGrange and Archie Simmons, he was hired by freelance mercenary Arsenal as a part of an elite unit to give support to the rebellion against dictator Bushman in Burunda; the whole operation being secretly funded by a drug cartel. Arsenal also recruited Spector, an expert in Bushman, and had the whole merc team gather in Marseilles, France. Spector sneaked away, discovered who was really behind the rebellion and, in his disguised identity as superhero Moon Knight, he easily battered him and his peers, delivering all of them to the French police.^[15] The police took them to jail in a van, but Arsenal released himself and escaped; he refused to release Banning and the other mercenaries because they have proven to be worthless.^[16]

Bao was an android nurse who raised Coldmoon and Dragonfire.^[17]

Barb was once kidnapped by Count Nefaria and taken away atop a Manhattan building, until he was confronted by Whizzer, and she then managed to escape.^[19]

Barb was a model working for Millie Collins's modeling agency. At a show at the Los Angeles Sheraton, she was the first model that vanished followed by most of the other models.^[20]

Barb and Sandy witnessed the Thunderbolts pursue the Rat Pack through the concrete canyons of Mid-Manhattan.^[21]

Some time later, she was told to check Tony Stark's phone, which her boyfriend saw in a catalog.^[22]

Barb was Norman Osborn's secretary at Oscorp. When she heard screams inside Norman's office, due to Peter Parker's outburst that he thought Norman was manipulating him, she rushed to Norman's office door, but he reassured her that everything was ok.^[23]

Barb was a waitress at a diner in Grand Central Station. When the diner owner was talking to Janine Godbe at a table trying to detain her after recognizing her, Barb advised him that the dishwasher would be arriving in five minutes, cryptically implying the police instead of the dishwasher.^[24]

Barbara was the fiancée of the rich geologist John Saxton and when he suspected that Barbara had an affair with his young brother Don, he was consumed with jealousy, plotting to kill them both by exploiting his knowledge of geology but when the truth emerged and he discovered that Barbara actually loved him and not his brother he tried to make up for it by remaining himself killed in the trap he had devised for them.^[25]

Barbara was friends with Nan Brown and Hedy Wolfe.^[26]

Barbara was a girl who advertised Borman Motors at the New York Auto Show in collaboration with Power Man.^[27]

Barbara was a security guard at the Metropolitan Art Museum and during the night shift they discovered Spider-Man's presence in the museum.^[28]
They tried to stop him thinking he was committing a crime not knowing instead that he had just finished fighting with Diablo.^[29]

Barbara interviewed a financial expert in "The Money Analyst" TV studio about the financial implications for a possible New York evacuation.^[30]

Mr. Barkley is an associate with M.M. Madison. Patsy Walker worked as a junior clerk for him one summer.^[32]

Minor Appearance: Marvel Tsum Tsum #2

A poster indicated that Barnaby was missing and the Thrilling Three decided that finding him was a good start to their heroic deeds.^[33]
The Tsum Tsum imprinted on super-heroes found Barnaby and delivered him to Dunk's brother to take him back to his owner.^[34]

Barnacle was a member of Wicked Wally Wuggens' gang who was confronted and defeated by Excalibur after trying to escape from Crossmoor Prison.^[35]

Ambassador Barnes, who was supposed to travel to the South American nation of Bonara for a trade deal to export rubber from the country, was killed by the Ambassador of Terror while awarding the Young Allies for winning a scrap collecting contest to donate to the war effort.^[36]

Professor Barnes was skeptical about Paul Harper's theory of the time dimensions.^[37]

Mister Barnes was a member of Captain McKenzie's crew aboard the Oracle icebreaker.^[38]

Barnes was Dean Swaybrick's butler.^[39]

Barney was the fireman of the train driven by Jack Lacy, a good engineer who thanks to his intuition avoided a massacre due to the collapse of a bridge.^[40]

Barney and Albert spotted Kukulcàn's sphere of solar force moving fast across the night sky.^[41]

Barney was a member of the Crime-Wave criminal organization. When Willie Lincoln unintentionally ended up in Crime-Wave's secret lair, Barney was about to eliminate him but they discovered that Willie was blind and unable to identify them and so they let him go without hurting him.^[42]

Barney and Harvey chased the Ghost Rider on the Long Island Expressway for having exceeded the speed limit, but he eventually managed to escape them.^[43]

Barry was Mary-Ann Travers' boyfriend.^[44]

Barry's mother Beatrice married Joshua Walker after the death of his first wife Dorothy. He attended the wedding of Patsy Walker to Daimon Hellstrom.^[45]

Barry was a friend of Ashley Cranford at ESU who helped him concoct and carry out an elaborate hoax on Spider-Man involving the creation of a phony super-villain. He was ultimately duped by Spider-Man, however, in a plan to teach them a lesson by feigning the death of another friend and involving the help of the Human Torch.^[46]

Barry was a newscaster who interviewed General Ulysses R. Chapman.^[47]

Barry and his family had their television stolen by their neighbor, all during the Serpent crisis that had upset their minds, in fact both he and his family turned against Hercules who was intervening to calm the situation.^[48]

Barry was a security guard who after being tied up by Bushwacker swears to his colleague that he had searched him at the entrance.^[49]

Barry was Mr. Fixit's personal chauffeur in his limousine while Fixit worked at the Coliseum Casino. He drove Fixit and his guests Spider-Man and Wolverine (the New Fantastic Four) from the airport to the casino. As Fixit explained to the rest of what was happening in Las Vegas inside Barry's limo, Barry suddenly braked as a multitude of demon-possessed people on the road attempted to attack them.Fixit left the vehicle, carried it on one hand, and leaped away, saving Barry.^[50]

Uncle Bart was the host of a children's show and when he and the show's producer observed some magic tricks from a studio worker named Howard, not knowing that they were real magic due to the clothes that had been changed by a sorcerer and Howard, cast him as a sorcerer on the show.^[51]

Bart was Ellie's boyfriend.^[52]

Bart was a security guard at a museum in Chicago and was on night shift when a theft occurred at the museum.^[53]

Bartholomew was Rupert Dockery's personal limousine driver when the latter owned the Los Angeles Courier in Los Angeles. Bartholomew drove Dockery from the newspaper's offices to a dive bar for Dockery to meet the criminal Brute Bashby there, and was surprised that they were going to such a place.^[54] Bartholomew was also possibly the driver when Dockery went to the California State Prison to meet the convict Enforcer shortly afterward.^[55]

It is unclear whether Bartholomew worked for Dockery in a personal capacity or was employed by the Los Angeles Courier. Prior to Bartholomew's first appearance, Dockery was assaulted by thugs who attempted to kidnap him outside his car; It is possible that Bartholomew had not been hired at the time.^[54] It is also unclear whether the limousine driver Dockery had in New York City when he moved there shortly afterward was Bartholomew or not.^[56]

Buddy Bartholomew's father was the reason Buddy stayed in New York and didn't move to Krakoa.^[57]

Bartok was in charge of security at the Kronas Building. After the meeting between Aleksander Lukin and a series of powerful C.E.O.s of various corporations, Lukin told Bartok that their guests would be leaving in a few minutes and he would have to make sure they reached their destination safely.^[58]

Mr. Barton was the father of Billy, a boy who was passionate about the Civil War and for whom he built dioramas representing that period. When an alien from the Sixth Dimension named Zogg arrived on Earth with the intention of capturing humans and bringing them to his dimension, he entered Billy's house and after a brief scuffle with his father, Zogg used a gas on the boy and his father, paralyzing the two but immediately afterwards the light in the house went out. Shortly afterwards Billy and his father recovered and, not remembering anything, thought it had been a dream.^[59]

Mrs. Barton was the mother of Billy, a boy who was passionate about the Civil War and for whom she built dioramas representing that period and who she had to force him to go to bed because her passion risked making him stay up late.^[59]

Basir had been employed by the Beyond Corporation for only a week when he was captured by Kraven along with other Beyond employees.^[62]

Batu was a ranger in Tsavo East, Kenya. He worked under the command of Ali.^[63]

Baum was a member of O*N*E Houston Station's Alpha Team. When the Secret Avengers went to Houston Station in search of the Shadow Council's infiltrator in Alpha Team, Baum was threatened by Moon Knight, but he turned out not to be the infiltrator and was then evacuated from the burning building.^[64]

Bawka and Vanga, two Fall People farmers, were tending the harvest for their tribe when they were attacked by a diseased T-Rex but luckily they were rescued by Matthew Plunder and Zabu.^[65]

Baxter loaned money to Pete Roark in order to let him buy cattle, but made sure his herd was stolen in order to make Roark unable to pay him back, so he set the Roark home ablaze as the land was more valuable to him. Then, Baxter and his men planned an ambush on the Ringo Kid, but he was aware of the plan and allowed himself to be locked up, only to escape and confront Baxter again, also proving Baxter's crimes and making the sheriff arrest him.^[66]

Mr. Baxter was the father of Buzz Baxter. When one day Buzz brought his report card home his mother advised him not to show it to his father because he was still shaving.^[67]

Mrs. Baxter was the mother of Buzz Baxter. When one day Buzz brought his report card home his mother advised him not to show it to his father because he was still shaving.^[67]

Mr. Baxter managed to stop an alien invasion announced by the giant Gigantus building and piloting Ulvar, a mechanical fake alien even more gigantic of Gigantus so putting him on the run and giving up its invasion plans.^[68]

Chief Baxter was the Chief of Operations at Mys-Tech. Not wanting Mullarkey to take command of the operations, she pretended to give him a bodyscreen to protect him from strange energies he would encounter, but instead it was a natural death simulator that killed him so that she took part in the operations instead of him.^[69]

Baxter was the dog of a neighbor of the Connors and he used to poop in their garden. At one point it was obvious that Baxter had been devoured by the Lizard but it was discovered that he was alive and well and that the Lizard had only broken his leash.^[70]

Baxter was one of the police officers selected to be part of the Anti-Spider Squad strongly demanded by Mayor Jameson prepared solely to capture Spider-Man.^[71]

Baxter was a member of the Raft staff who was present when Juggernaut destroyed it by picking up Kuurth's hammer. He was stuck under the rubble and was saved thanks to colleague Webber and warden John Walker.^[72]

Baz was the uncle of Eden Fesi that he visited in his homeland in Australia before embarking on a mission to reassure himself that he had not been attacked by the Symbiote Dragons of Knull.^[73]

Buzz was contacted by Lucien to set up a scenario to make Emma's kidnapping credible and obtain a ransom from her father Winston Frost.^[74]
After Lucien killed Troy, Bazz wanted to back down but was heavily scolded by Lucien who forced him to continue his work.^[75]
Bazz was the only one of Lucien's gang not to die in the shooting between the various members after Emma had filled their minds with doubts and suspicions, but still Emma made sure that he handcuffed himself for the arrival of the police.^[76]

Bea was one Tony Stark's dates.^[77]

Bea was a circus performer in Cañon City who came across the Hulk.^[78]
She pleaded the circus owner to help him.^[79]
During the battle against Ant-Man, Iron Man and the Wasp, Bea was eventually rescued by the Hulk himself.^[80]

Agent Beacher was a security guard who worked for Charles Worthy.^[81]

Beadle was the cameraman for the Young Allies movie with the young heroes playing themselves. Due to a series of incidents during the filming of the movie involving the elimination of the Young Allies by the Nazi saboteur the Owl, Beadle was placed among a small group of suspects who thought he was the Owl in disguise, of which he proved innocent.^[82]

Beatrice was a bearded lady who persuaded Deadpool to help the people of Gibsonton.^[83]

General Babbage yelled at Ms. Bebe, his secretary, for not having brought him his coffee yet, but Ms. Bebe, stammering amidst the general's curses, tried to tell him that Tony Stark had arrived to speak with him.^[84]

Bebo was an armored car robber who was confronted and defeated by Spider-Man.^[85]

Mentions: Marvel Comics Presents #48

An acquaintance of Wolverine, known only as the Captain. His daughter Mary, a powerful mutant, was kidnapped by Critical Mass's Band of Baddies to harness her powers.^[86]
After the Band of Baddies were defeated by the joint effort of Wolverine and Spider-Man and the use of Mary's powers, Logan managed to change their identities, using Beck's last name, to start a new life.^[87]

Beck was a domestic terrorist who infected Mallen with the Extremis virus.^[88]
He then drove him from Bastrop to the F.B.I. building in Houston.^[89]

Beefee was a member of the Racine Ramjets, a roller derby team that visited the all-female club Femmes. Beefee harassed Alison Blaire and her coworker Barb Spooner until a fight broke out between them with Alison Blaire coming out on top.^[91]

Dr. Beekman was a member of Mercy General Hospital staff, and he had already received a few complaints about Tony Marcheyk's attitude, so he immediately dismissed him when he got into a fight with Flash Thompson.^[92]

Nastiwell Snide went to Bela the Witch to have a potion made that would make him powerful so he could take revenge on the other boys in the village and thus conquer the girls. At the first hesitations of Bela who did not want to prepare the potion because it was dangerous, Nastiwell threatened her by saying that he would have his rich and powerful father intervene. Then Bela made him the potion that gave him 'muscles of iron' but now he was so heavy that he sinks through the floor of the witch's wagon. He could barely pull his feet out of the ground moving toward a solid rock. While he stood on the rock, the witch was the only witness to his fate, as his weight forced the rock deeper down in the Earth.^[93]

Belinda was the strong-willed and nagging wife of Gerald, a very submissive postal worker. When Gerald found a device from the future that could duplicate anything, he used it on himself to create a copy of himself that would take care of Belinda.^[94]

Dr. Bell asked Dr. Hoffsteader the story about Barry Bauman.^[95]

The X-Men teleported to Australia coming close to Eva's house, and she ran to hug her mother and introduced her to the X-Men.^[96]
When the Avengers reached the X-Men in Australia to arrest and interrogate Scott and Emma, Eva's mom feared the Hulk would enter her home. When the X-Men left, Eva told her mother not to tell where she was, and her mother replied that she didn't actually know where she was.^[97]

Belle was a Long Island native who became a barkeep in Lowtown.^[98]

Bellini was a famous film director. He was shooting a movie starring the Human Torch in the streets of New York, but Spider-Man thought that the Torch had gone evil after attacking an armored van and so he fought with the Torch, until Bellini intervened and yelled at Spider-Man that he had ruined his filming.^[99]

Belmont sold a flash drive with information on where the Serpent's hammers were located to Brock Rumlow on a yacht where an auction of prohibited items was taking place. When Rumlow asked him if he had sold this data to others, Belmont replied that he hadn't yet, so to prevent Belmont from selling it to others, Rumlow blew up the yacht, killing everyone present, including Belmont.^[100]

Chancellor Exchequer Beltane was Latveria's chief of finance.^[101]
Beltane was confronted and defeated by Iron Man.^[102]

Mr. Belvedere was Heidi's pet cat.^[103]

Ben and Spade were two thugs who were knocked out by a living statue.^[104]

During the Salem witch trials in the 18th Century, Ben saved Sarah from the witch-hunters. After Sarah got in an accident, he revealed that he knew she wasn't a witch because he is one.^[105]

Ben was a fan of the Human Torch.^[106]

Ben was a teenage henchman of Electro's partner, effectively the Chameleon in disguise, who sold drugs in Winnipeg under the orders of his boss. He was captured by Spider-Man along with Electro and the other teenage drug dealers.^[107]

Ben was the vet at Dunroman village/reserve. He helped treat Rover who had been brought there by Hawkeye after saving him from the Secret Empire. Ben was also killed by the Secret Empire when they razed the village to erase traces of their presence there.^[108]

Ben was at Yancy Street when he was saved by Spider-Man from being forever trapped in the Negative Zone.^[109]

Ben was one of the policemen who arrested the suspected murderers in Redemption Valley.^[110]

A native of Florida, Ben was among the first victims of the hunters of Vellus-Kar when they arrived on Earth via the Nexus of All Realities.^[111]

Ben was a captain of the Washington police, he tried to apprehend Spider-Man in front of Capitol Building.^[112]

Bene was a soldier under the orders of General Hector Carranza, protecting the jungles around the prison compound of Sierra Angeles where he was supposedly held. Punisher killed several soldiers in the west barraca, and Bene found their corpses. Bene reported the loss of Fernando and the Lhosa brothers to Carranza; the General did not recognize their names, but knew Bene. Bene also was in a first-name basis with Carranza's assistant Rafito and could make Rafito take the general out of his sauna.^[113]

Benetton was one of Taskmaster's trainees whom he unleashed to flush out and eliminate Tyrone McQuaid after McQuaid dared to flee Taskmaster Academy. The Falcon intervened to defend McQuaid and defeated all of Taskmaster's students.^[115]

Mr. Benitez was a plumber who fixed Robbie Reyes's house even though Reyes had no money to pay. Reyes later paid Benitez after winning some money in street races.^[116]

Benjamin and his brother Takeshi robbed a bank during the Daken-led EMP but were in turn robbed by Kobus Van Holten.^[117]
After Tyger Tiger had Madripoor's crime bosses confronted to select who would work for her, Takeshi survived, while Benjamin was killed by Param Mishra.^[118]

The mother of aspiring tennis champion Maya Benjamin was a very haughty person.^[119]
After Maya's semi-final defeat to Mill Collins, her mother tried in vain to make her understand that a defeat wasn't all that important and that tennis wasn't everything in her life.^[120]

Benjamin was an activist who cared about Nichelle Wright's well-being and along with a group of activists who supported her, he was in charge of helping and hiding her after she was accused of domestic terrorism.^[121]

Benjy was a henchman of Vince Baker. After Baker was knocked out by Heimdall, Benjy, one of Baker's henchmen, was about to shoot Heimdall, but was stopped by Kamorr, who Benjy mistook for a weak dwarf, but Kamorr grabbed Benji by the arm and threw him at Baker's other two henchmen.^[122]

Having noticed the presence of the Vision in the American Museum of Natural History, Benji made a sarcastic comment asking his friend Alan if by chance the red-faced freak was a guest or a piece of the exhibit.^[123]

Benny was a fellow inmate who helped the Melter build a new Melting Ray MK II in exchange for freedom, but, as soon as the weapon worked, the Melter turned on his companion and escaped by himself.^[3]

Benny was a member of Stoneface's gang, the Torpedoes. Together with another member of the gang he attempted to ambush Falcon, but he was warned by Redwing who blew up the surprise attack so that Falcon made easy work of the two thugs, who however gave Stoneface time to try to ram him with the car having thus succeeded in stunning Falcon and kidnapping him to blackmail |Captain America.^[124]

A few years later, Benny became one of Jigsaw's henchmen who were defeated by the Spider-Man and the Punisher.^[125]

Benny was an informant for Luke Cage and Danny Rand who gave them a list of people who knew Jeff Mann, the billionaire they were hired to find after he disappeared.^[126]

Benny was a man who had to be rescued by Moon Knight when he remained in a burning synagogue to save its Torah scrolls after an act of arson by Neo-Nazis. He afterwards praised Moon Knight as an "angel in white."^[127]

Benny was a policeman from Washington, D.C. and together with his partner they tried to stop the two Plug-Uglies robbers but Benny was hit with Flame's weapon that wrapped him in flames.^[128]

Benny was a gambler in Las Vegas, identified as a problematic customer at the Coliseum Casino by the owner, Mr. Berengetti. After losing all of his saving in the slot machines, Benny enraged shot at the item, releasing many coins. A gambler tried to pick up some of the money, assuming that Benny was a weak loser; her insults enraged Benny even more and she took her as a hostage. Berengetti in person walked there to negotiate with Benny, asking him to leave with the police and he'd forget about the damages. When Berengetti threatened to call his main enforcer Mr. Fixit as "or else", Benny submitted, was arrested and was forbidden to ever enter the Coliseum again; a Maggioso named Harry took advantage of the incident to enter Berengetti's office uninvited.^[129] Benny was later seen at the Sands Hotel and Casino, again risking his last dollar coin at the slots machine; this time, reality warper Glorian used an illusion to convince Benny that he had hit the jackpot.^[130]

Benny was a penicillin smuggler that was captured by Miss Patriot.^[131]

A member of the Spiderlings, Benny argued with his coworkers, saying he was okay with battling the Avengers since they wouldn't kill them. He was easily defeated by the heroes.^[132]

Benta alerted Chibi that two trespassers were on approach and they were Rick Jones's accomplices.^[133]

Bentley was the assistant to Simon Drudd who thought the ageing serum was for everyone, but Drudd betrayed Bentley and locked him the freezer when Drudd wanted the serum all to himself. He was later freed by the police and recounts the events to them, however they did not believe him. Bentley leaves proclaiming what happened was probably for the best.^[134]

He was the judge of Red Dog and was forced under threat from Ace Dorman to award Bull Clanton as sheriff of Red Dog instead of Blaze Carson who had been accused of murder.^[135]

Sergeant-Major Benton was one of those in charge of the arrest and transport of Juggernaut and was ordered by his superior that the prisoner was constantly sedated.^[136] A reference to John Benton from Doctor Who.

Mr. Benton was the father of Andi, aka Mania, who was killed by Jack O'Lantern.^[137]

Dr. Benway was a scientist who worked for the Red Skull. He was given the body of Diamondback on which he was to inject an experimental formula.^[138] After injecting Rachel with the experimental serum, she had a violent reaction and freed herself by throwing away Dr. Benway who got up holding a gun but Rachel disarmed him easily.^[139]

After the debacle with the Hulk, Colonel Bernardo gave Wolverine one more chance to prove his abilities before he relinquished command to his replacement.

Beatrice Bass scolded her mother Sadie for letting Gargoyle into her house and immediately told her that they were late for the appointment with Dr. Bernbaum, but Sadie replied with her that she would not visit any doctor.^[142]

Bernie was a soldier stationed at Cape Canaveral, he and his comrades responded to an attack of Quasimodo at the base.^[143]

Bernie was a kid who witnessed Spider-Man fight the Tarantula on the Jackal's bus.^[144]

Bernie was a television technician who worked in Ted Silverberg's studios and wondered how it was possible that a mediocre show like Monster Man was so successful that he asked his colleague Gil if he had ever seen something like it.^[145]

Bernie was a member of a gang of thugs who were stopped by Spider-Man and the Gargoyle as they attempted to assault an old lady. After being caught and left webbed, the police did not show up and when the web dissolved they fled and then attacked Nathan Lubensky at the Theatre District and were once again stopped and captured by Spider-Man.^[142]

Bernie was a truck driver and was hauling away the wrecked battle van of Hobgoblin when it was stolen off the truck by a huge magnet when him and his partner were distracted by a blond woman driving a red sports car.^[146]

Berry treated Red Hawk's disease at the request of Apache Kid.^[147]

Bert and Ernie were working at the docks when they saw a Viking ship arrive and a giant being, actually Heimdall, and a small one in Viking attire get out, but when Heimdall magically transformed into a wealthy man with his driver getting out of a luxury yacht, Ernie, confused, told Bert that he thought there was something strange about that guy but he couldn't remember what, and Bert replied not to mind, he was just another creep rich guy.^[148]

Bert was a man who worked at the Daily Bugle in the "Morgue" where Peter Parker was looking for clues to the agents he encountered at the Nassau County Science Exposition before they vanished. Bert was lonely and hoping Peter would keep him company.^[149] Peter later went to Bert for help digging up information on a former love interest of Aunt May named Johnny Jerome. He found a match for a recently paroled man who had been convicted of felony murder.^[150]

Bert was the owner of one of Deadpool's favorite bar, which was attacked and raided by Black Tom's mercenaries.^[151]

Bert was one of the inhabitants of the village in British Columbia where Logan established himself with Rose O'Hara. He ended up respecting Logan as he got to know him, and together with his friend Fred, defended Logan when Cookie Malone started to insult him.^[152]

Bertha was Homer's wife, who became paranoid after receiving genuine diamonds from Ozarr.^[153]

Big Bertha was killed by Clea while she was being held in the same cell.^[154]

Bertie was one of the hostage takers who were confronted and defeated by Excalibur.^[155]

Bess was Reverend Stryker's secretary. She roused him from writing one of his sermons when F.B.I. documents on the X-Men arrived, and later reminded him of his TV interview with John Cheever.^[157]

Bessy was Carlton Kilgore's limo driver. Some months before Kade made his move, he approached Bessie. Due to Carlton having harassed her, she agreed to side with Kade. She helped him kill his father.^[158]

Betty was a Centerville girl who when she met Buzz with her new hair did not recognize him by taking him for a foreigner.^[160]

Betty and her boyfriend discovered mutilated bodies in the river near Crimson Falls.^[161]

Bezukhov was an assistant to Director Vazhin who gave the order to proceed with the extraction of the mystical artifact found at the bottom of the Murmansk harbor.^[162]

Bhofu was a Burundan member of the Burunda People's Defense Force and, like many of his peers, he was very afraid of his commanding officer, General-President for Eternity Bushman. He was one of the soldiers watching the wilderness, trying to find the secret camp of the rebellion. His three-man unit noticed a helicopter during their lunch break; Bhofu insisted they report it to Bushman even if they weren't technically on watch, and they detailed it was flying to Bari Marsh. This allowed Bushman to find, and raid, the rebel base.^[16]

Biker helped the stranger defeat Ma Stillwell and her gang.^[163]

Bilge, seeing Turk Barrett being roughed up by Daredevil, he followed orders from Slaughter to kill Turk before he was able to talk. He tossed a molotov cocktail at them, but DD managed to carry Turk away from the blast. DD was caught in the shock force, and was wounded, but tried to get the information out of Bilge anyway. However Elektra was after Alarich Wallenquist, too and threw a sai at Daredevil, knocking him out with a blow to the back of the head. She grabbed hold of Bilge and told him he was a dead man unless he turns over the whereabouts of Wallenquist. Bilge then called Slaughter, though he was under duress from Elektra herself, and managed to speak in code to make Slaughter understand that he'd been captured by the assassin.^[164]
Bilge was eventually killed by Elektra.^[165]

Bill was Sidney Abel's best friend. When Sidney came to visit him following his transformation due to radiation, Bill was afraid of him, pushing him away, telling him to stay away from him as he was contaminated.^[166]

Bill was the bartender at the pub Danny frequented. When a stranger made Danny sign a document where he sold his soul for a million dollars and then disappeared into thin air, Danny's friends asked Bill if they had seen the stranger leave the club but Bill said no.^[167]

Bill attended the press conference in the auditorium of the Avengers Mansion where they announced Hawkeye's membership.^[168]

Bill and Joe filmed the battle between Iron Man and Titanium Man, so that all, including the US Senate and President, could see Iron Man fighting off this menace.^[169]

Bill was driving the transcontinental express from New York City to California, which was transporting Reed Richards and Susan Storm. All of a sudden, the Watcher appeared on the tracks in front of the train and gently stopped it, wanting to speak to the half of the Fantastic Four.^[170]

Bill and Tom were two police officers who confronted Death's Head.^[171][172]

Bill was one of three pedestrians killed by Bullseye, who hallucinated that they were Daredevil.^[173]

Bill was a neighbor of Betsy Beatty.^[174]

Bill was a surgeon at Mid-County Medical Center who was working to save the life of Dani Moonstar after being attacked by the Demon Bear. Bill witnessed the sudden appearance of a visualization of the New Mutants after they had been transported to the Badlands before he was drawn back to the surgery by his co-worker Peter. He mused about the possible quality Dani would have if they managed to save her.^[175]

Bill and Alice were a couple who lived in the apartment where Puma collapsed from the roof due to the Black Cat's powers of bad luck.^[176]

Bill was one of the paramedics who brought Stephen Strange to Saint Vincent's Hospital.^[177]

Bill was a patron of Tex's Place in Elijah, New Mexico. A discussion broke out about about migrant workers and the inhabitant of Angel's Aerie, who Bill knew to be the mutant Angel. Sheriff Macken criticized Bill for his hateful rhetoric.^[178]

Bill was one of the teen runaways that Mother Night had brainwashed and when Captain America stormed the camp where they were being trained, Bill fled on Mother Night's orders, giving up the urge to kill Captain America as a companion had suggested.^[179]

Bill was a crew member on Hal McGee's Secret Hospital.

Bill didn't see how that reinforced safety line could had fallen over Hal, until he realized it didn't break, because the end was smooth, meaning it was cut.^[180]

Bill was a child who played in a crumbling building, and when the floor gave way underneath him he was saved by Prowler who fortunately was in the area to try out his new inventions.^[181]

Bill was one of the inhabitants of Broxton who lost his job and home and was forced to move to Wichita with his whole family.^[182]

Bill was on guard outside the C.R.A.D.L.E. operations center discussing music with a colleague when Captain America showed up and asked him to see his boss.^[183]

Bill was told by Robbie Robertson to stand by for rewrite.^[184]

Bill was an attorney who Matt Murdock was speaking to at the Manhattan Courthouse in an attempt to reduce the sentence of one of his clients prior to spotting his childhood friend Johnny Squarejohn.^[185]

Bill was the owner of the Cedar Grand Motor Motel, and was stunned when he saw the Thing and his wife Alicia arrive at his motel, among other things completely ignoring who the Thing was. He tried to stop Walt, an acquaintance of his who had called to show him the strange being, who intended to hit him with his truck through the motel, only to disappear moments before hitting the motel, due to the time loop in which the Cedar town.^[186]

Billera was one of the Turek people, an alien race that the Thing and Tarianna encountered while wandering Battleworld after the events of the Secret Wars. Billera explained to Thing that their people were frequently attacked by the Silbens because they had forgotten how to fly their own ships to defend themselves. Thing then went about re-training their pilots.^[187]

FDNY Chief Billings hired Johnny Storm as a fireman.^[188]

Billy was murdered by Curly Joe's son after he intervened with his flirting with a woman.^[189]

Billy was playing in the swamp when Monstrom appeared. He was found by his father and the pair fled when it was found bullets did not stop the creature.^[190]

Billy was a kid who witnessed Monsteroso rising from under the earth into the Central Park Zoo.^[191]

Billy worked with his brother Chad to steal Frankenstein's Monster from the oil tanker Chad worked on. Chad thought he deserved a say in what happened to the monster after finding it and agreed to sell it to Billy to be an attraction at his carnival.^[192]

Billy witnessed the Fantastic Four's spaceship landing in Central Park.^[193]

Billy was a deputy for the sheriff’s department of a small California town, which was dealing with the menace of Vibro. The sheriff told Billy to have someone call Iron Man on the air from a radio station.

As a child, Billy used to play with his friend Howie in front of Stephen Strange's Mansion.^[194]

Billy was the bartender at a tavern visited by Mark Scarlotti after he had been rejected by his mother. He was bullied by other patrons from the neighborhood where he had grown up and returned in his Blacklash costume and destroyed the bar. Billy attempted to shoot him with a shotgun but his costume protected him.^[195]

Billy was a little boy who along with his friend enjoyed a soda while sitting on a construction site until a criminal pursued by Spider-Man took him hostage. However Spider-Man with a subterfuge managed to capture the criminal and Billy came out unharmed.^[196]

Billy was playing in front of the television when Baron Zemo made the announcement that he was declaring himself Emperor of the World and that his troops were advancing across the planet, and when Billy was about to ask his mom what was going on, she shushed him, wanting to continue hear the broadcast.^[197]

Billy was kidnapped by the Zombie.^[198]

Billy was one of the workers at the quarry in British Columbia where Logan began to work after establishing himself with Rose O'Hara.^[199]

Billy was a hot dog vendor at the baseball stadium.^[200]

Billy was a blind boy who had recently lost his sight due to a muzzle flash. Matt Murdock wandering in New Mexico met him and taught him how to exploit environmental noise to catch a coin on the fly.^[201]

Billy was a friend of Craig Williams, and he proposed bullying Noah Talbert by taking his lunch money but Craig said no, he felt he was good that day, but when Billy asked him if he was punkin 'out on them, Craig replied that if she kept pushing him he would find out. After witnessing the scene with Talbert threatening Craig with a gun, and Craig totally scared and crying, Billy told Craig he was a loser.^[202]

Billy was taken hostage by Nazum, a Skrull who was stranded on Earth after the Secret Invasion event.^[203]

Several years later, Billy's father died for a brain tumor, despite Stephen Strange's efforts to cure him.^[204]

A nurse looking after a convalescent Cain Marko at the hospital. When Cain answered the telepathic projection of his half-brother Charles Xavier calling him Charles, Billy entering Cain's room and seeing no one but him thought he was talking to him but he replied that his name was Billy and also made an ironic joke about the hospital lunch.^[205]

Billy was the bartender at the Remains of the Day pub, the place frequented by the city's morgues operators.^[206]

Billy Joe was an assistant to the Merchant and was ordered to hit Maverick to verify his authenticity. Maverick gave him a loud beating in response, but avoided killing Billy Joe as he was ordered.^[207]

Bilmes, a worker at Baintronics, Inc, told Ms. Bain that Stark Solutions had responded negatively to their request.^[208]

Mr. Binkey was the dog of Tom Vocson, Barry Bauman's full-time caregiver who regularly possessed him with his psychic powers in to experience reality and played with Binkey as if he were his dog.^[209]

Binky was a member of the rival gang of Red Fever who kidnapped Archie Andrews thinking he was their rival criminal due to their resemblance, and together with the other gang members came up against with the Punisher.^[210]

Mrs. Binns was Alicia Masters' landlord, who was startled by Ben Grimm's unexpected visit.^[211]

When Donald Birch as a child, while playing in the garden, was visited by his elderly and sick self from the future, he was called back by his mother that it was time for lunch and when Donald told her that there was a man in the trees she told him that not there was no one and it was just his imagination.^[212]

Bird was a friend of Peter Parker while he was studying at ESU in Pasadena. They met at the Santa Monica Pier where they played chess and systematically Bird beat Peter and during the game Bird constantly rattled off advice to Peter.^[213]

Captain Black became skeptical about the operations of the G.L.F. imposed by their commander ignoring that he was Boris Bullski but he nevertheless accepted to execute them because of his resentment for having been forgotten after the Vietnam War.^[215]

Mulholland Black's father was a grunge musician who abused drugs to the point of dying from an overdose together with his wife, leaving little Mulholland orphaned.^[216]

Mulholland Black's mother was a grunge singer who abused drugs to the point of dying from an overdose together with her husband, leaving little Mulholland orphaned.^[216]

Mr. Blackburn is the lawyer that David Cannon (disguised as Charles Matthews, a chauffeur for the Wasp) hired to steal all of the Wasp's money when she and her husband Ant-Man were presumed dead.^[217]

Blackie was a friend and fellow marshal to Sam Smith, who, alongside another marshal, pretended to lose a fight to Smith in order to scare off anyone trying to kill him.^[218]

Blackie was among the group of henchmen hired by the Green Goblin to lure Spider-Man into a fight and hit him with a gas that would weaken his senses, including his spider-sense.^[219]

Blackie was the henchman of some mob boss who prevented Patch i.e., Frederick Foswell in his identity to infiltrate crime, from being present during a meeting of crime bosses.^[220]

Blackie was a neighborhood garage workshop mechanic who jokingly scuffled with Johnny Storm, until their fighting was ended by Crystal.^[221]

Blackie was a customer at Trina's coffee shop, due to him booing Rick Jones, who was on the music stage, Jones knocked him out.^[222]

Blackie was a henchman of Dr. Vault. When the Colossus broke free and attacked the Vault men, seeing the badly dressed Blackie, he fled in a car.^[223]

Blackie was one of Lavender's goons. He was confronted by Captain America after their boss managed to shoot at Bucky.^[224]

Mr. Blair was the father of the aspiring investigative reporter Betty Blair. While they were at the table, Mr. Blair turned to his daughter and told her that she had eaten almost nothing for her haste to go out and follow an investigative case.^[225]
Later Mr. Blair woke up his daughter by pointing out that she had become famous because one of her investigative cases had ended up on the front page of the newspaper.^[226]

Professor Blair was a scientist who gave Sun Girl a belt that allowed her to travel in Uncara's dimension so as to stop the Uncarians invasion of the Earth.^[227]

Blair was a student at Dartmouth College who befriended Iceman while he was visiting there.^[228]

Blair was a dental hygienist who met Mikel Fury during a cruise vacation in Andros.^[229]

Blair was a henchman who worked for Roxxon and was among those involved in the murder of Alex Lipton.^[230]

Blair was a member of the North Institute and was among Nick Fury's jailers in Guantanamo. When he refused to release Fury using the Patriot Act as a justification, this infuriated Fury's attorney, Matt Murdock, who beat Blair and the other jailers.^[231]

A nuclear engineer, Dr. Blake was killed along with his wife Karen in their own home by Orphan-Maker during the abduction of their daughters Tammy and Sheila by Nanny.^[232]

Blake was a Midtown High student who was in competition with Peter Parker to get the scholarship to Empire State University.^[233]

Blake was an anchorman in Edmonton. When he interviewed Kyle Jinadu during the tour to promote Unity, Blake asked him backstage why they had sent Purple Woman as his bodyguard since he considered her of little worth, but he didn't realize that Kara had heard him and with his powers forced him to bring him a cup of coffee. Under her control, Blake charged into traffic and was saved from being hit by a truck thanks to the intervention of Snowbird.^[234]

Blanche was a shop assistant who witnessed the Avengers tracking Jocasta through Madison Avenue. She stood by as her superior Mrs. Pike rather clumsily tried to persuade the Scarlet Witch to become one of the shop’s models, and silently hoped that the interruption would cost Mrs. Pike her job, freeing up a promotion for herself.^[235]

Mr. Blandings was a real state realtor from Marion, Missouri. Frank Castle tried to buy a house from him in an attempt to leave his war behind, but a robbery was committed across the street and Castle had no option but to intervene, asking Blandings to call the police.^[236]

Mr. Blodgett was a staunch bureaucrat that insisted a man was dead because the paperwork reflected that as the reality despite that being untrue. Peter Parker was trying to get him to help prove he was still alive but he angrily refused.^[237]

Astrid's father died of coronary artery failure when she was only seven.^[238]

Mary's father, a young girl who had premonitory dreams and for which he sought the help of Iron Fist against the cult that tried to bring her into their ranks.^[239]

Bluey was one of the young junkies who attacked Storm when she entered an abandoned apartment building in Harlem. He slashed her hand with his switchblade before being interrupted by Power Man and Misty Knight.^[240]

Miss Blum was the secretary for Mr. Strothers, a lawyer and acquaintance of Eric Willis. Blum informed Mr. Strothers of Willis's arrest and their inability to identify his whereabouts and was asked to deliver a letter to Willis's father on Long Island.^[241]

Bluto was a henchman for Roberto DeNatale and tried to strong-arm D.J. Jones into giving up information about Spider-Man until Spider-Man intervened.^[242]

Bob and his fiancée Jean dined at a restaurant where Bob was kidnapped. Sub-Mariner rescued him and foiled the plan of some thugs.^[244]

Bob and Chuck recognized Prof. August Hopper.^[245]

Bob was one of Batroc's henchmen who were knocked out by Captain America.^[246]

Bob spotted Daredevil walking down the street.^[247]

Bob was one of the doctors who cured Tyros.^[248]

Bob was a teenager who attempted to occupy the Alley after the Morlocks were gone.^[249]

Bob was a schoolmate and friend of Chris Powell. Trying to boost Chris's morale following what had happened to his father with the bribery charges, Bob remonstrated that it was similar to what had happened with his brother in college, but this set Chris off by attacking him and yelling at him that it was not at all similar and not to pronounce his father again. Immediately afterwards Chris apologized to Bob.^[250]
Bob trained with Chris in karate class being systematically beaten.^[251]

Bob was an acquaintance of Michael McTeer.^[252]

Bob was a police officer from Jackalope who tried to stop Mastermind Excello.^[253]

Bob was a Channel 9 News announcer who witnessed Peter Parker declaring his mistake of registering his identity, giving his allegiance to the non-registered, and giving a description of the Negative Zone Prison, where the caught superhumans were imprisoned for life during the Civil War.^[254]

Bob was a policeman from a little town in southern Virginia. He was called to the rescue by a diner owner due to the presence of the Hulk in his local.^[255]

Bob was one of the guards hired by the Owl who captured the Sinister Six.^[256]

Bob was a guard in the J.A.N.U.S. assigned to Ravencroft and at the same time a member of the Cult of Knull who unearthed the tomb of Cortland Kasady.^[257]
Bob witnessed the resurrection of Cortland by Knull who turned him into Plague and he became his first victim.^[258]

After undergoing brainwashing, Bob believed to be a simple worker who worked at the mill, and among his colleagues there was Frank Castle. While Bob was talking to Frank, he noticed a slip by Frank when he called his wife Maria instead of Kim.^[259]

Bobbie was a drug-addict looking for an easy score from Cloak and Dagger before Cloak became angry and swallowed him and his partners with his cloak. Dagger demanded he stop and shot them with her light daggers instead despite being weakened. Afterwards, Cloak teleported her away from the men. Immediately after, the mindless Silvermane appeared in his quest to find Dagger as the men fled.^[260]

Bobbie was a reporter who along with her cameraman witnessed the Avengers demolishing some abandoned buildings in Memphis that were earmarked for demolition as a charity by the Maria Stark Foundation.^[261]

Bobby befriended an alien child whose ship had landed on Times Square.^[105]

Bobby was a reader of Amazing Adult Fantasy.^[262]

Bobby and his brother Tommy were called back home by their mother as soon as the Hulk was spotted heading that way.^[263]
A short time later, Bobby and his family were saved by the Hulk when their farmhouse was on fire; although the family inside were safe, they were all terrified of the monster's presence.^[264]

Bobby was cured by Dr. Blake.^[265]

Bobby noticed Spider-Man coming out a house in Forest Hills.^[266]

Bobby spotted Quasar in Manhattan.^[267]

Bobby was the newborn son of a couple who gave Eddie Brock a lift. Stopping at a diner, they were held hostage by a gang of robbers. When one of the robbers began harassing Bobby, his father fought back but the robber shot him in the shoulder. Later responding to the taunts of the bandits, Eddie decided to intervene and eliminated the entire gang.^[181]

Bobby was a young boy who lived in a quiet neighborhood in Forest Hills with his parents. While having dinner with his family and discussing the Daily Bugle news, Jason Ionello, disguised as Spider-Man, threw a rock with a threatening message through the window, just to discredit the real Spider-Man.^[268]

Bobby was a bellboy working at the Embassy Crown Hotel.^[269]

Bobby was a paramedic who went on Highway 18 to the scene of the Wolverine and Hulk confrontation and tried to assist Roger carrying his now dead wife who didn't want to stop.^[270]

Bobby was a police officer hypnotized by Kid Omega at the international arms control conference in Switzerland.^[158]

Bobby was a traitorous guide at the Maiko National Park who was confronted and defeated by the Black Widow.^[271]

Bobby was a kid whose mother was kidnapped by Mojo while play-pretending. In his role-play scenario, Bobby was a hero named the Iron Shogun, making his way to the Oni Queen to save his mother. In Mojoworld, Bobby's fantasy was brought to life with robot onis and holograms. Iron Man and War Machine infiltrated Mojoworld with samurai-esque armors to match, reenacting Bobby's story as the kid fed Stark the script via comms to portray the starring role. Once Iron Man secured Bobby's mother, he transfigured his Shogun Armor into a escape pod, and he and War Machine escorted it back to Earth, where they reunited Bobby with his mother.^[272]

Bodi was a fellow mercenary and ally of Marc Spector. Together they carried out the task for the Republic of Narobia to oppose the rebel forces during the civil war in that country. Bodi was killed when another mercenary named Henrik Kless betrayed them to steal all the diamonds they were tasked with transporting safely.^[273]

Mr. Boggs was a teacher at Peter Corbeau Preparatory, and during an argument between Cole Rivera and Benny Thomas he intervened and threatened both of them that they would regret it if they did not calm down when he returned.^[274]

Boinard with Blackie and other crooks, was captured by Spider-Man during a robbery trumped-up by the Green Goblin.^[219]

"Little Bo" Bojarsky was guilty of murder, statutory rape, and other crimes, but he delivered evidence on his bosses to the State in exchange for him not being tried and entering the witness protection program. The Punisher, concluding that Bojarsky's evidences would likely lead to no conviction, tracked Bojarsky and murdered him in his safe house, after which the Punisher heard TV news about how his old enemy Hector Carranza had returned to Bosqueverde.^[113]

Desperate after having lost everything due to a scam suffered using the Ponzi system, Artemis's father, unable to bear to become poor, remembering his noble origins deriving from being related to Queen Anna Boleyn, decides to commit suicide by doing it in front of his daughter.^[275]

Bolo was the manager of Club Apocalypse, a drinking establishment where information about crimes was sometimes sold. He had a reputation for not being easily intimidated. When Silver Sable was sent to prison, the CIA put a lot of pressure on these snitches to convince them not to collaborate with Chen u other allies of Sable. Chen went to the Apocalypse Club to try to buy information, but Bolo asked frequent clients Izzy and Jake not to talk with her, and recommended her that she not set foot there again. She was unhappy at the veiled threat.^[276]

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Mrs. Meyer was Lester's teacher at PS 178.^[277]

Bones was the companion of Pink Pearl and the physical opposite of her. His frame was extremely thin and lanky and he used that to his advantage to grapple with his victims. During an encounter at a circus where the Beaubier siblings were meeting with Clementine D'Arbanville, he briefly subdued them before accidentally striking Pink Pearl with a thrown knife and being subsequently arrested.^[278]

Bongert was on the Sweat Shoppers team sent by the Power Broker on the order of the Red Skull to the federal penitentiary in Virginia to evade Viper from prison, which they successfully accomplished.^[279]

Booch, who wore glasses and a wig, claimed to have been a non-smoking public servant involved in law enforcement against drug dealing for twelve years, then he discovered how the administration had been sabotaging their own efforts when corrupt high-ranking officials redistributed the impounded drug. He met the Punisher in Michigan to inform about his superior's crimes in Project Democracy. Leaving the locale alone, Booch was stabbed by one of Project: Democracy's agents, Sergeant Lykaios Theopolous, who later went after the Punisher. Captain America, trailing Project: Democracy and the Punisher undercover at that time, found Booch in time to tourniquet him, and demanded the bystanders to get him a medic.^[280]

It is possible that Booch was really one of the agents used by Project: Democracy to mislead the Punisher. Angela Stone used a mock assassin to get the Punisher's attention, and it may be inferred that Booch was another of Stone's stooges to attract the Punisher to Michigan where Theopolous would attack him later, possibly without Booch knowing he'd be killed after being used.

Mr. Borback was a resident of Centerville and runs the Eastern Union.^[281]

Boris was an horror actor who came across Triton.^[282]

Boris was one of the Russian government agents who faked Yuri Petrovich's rescue in West Berlin and took him back across the Wall.^[283]

Boris was confronted by the X-Men in a tavern south of Province 13 after his gang tried to rob them.^[284]

After Blade discovered the Contessa's attempt to assassinate Dracula and explained his findings to her at her home, the Contessa called her aides Boris and Sergei, but they did not answer. Instead, Blade pulled back a curtain and showed the corpses of the two that he had killed before.^[285]

Bormann was a street gang leader who was confronted and killed by Johann Schmidt.^[286]

Bosco had been taken out to have him do his bodily needs, and his master complained that he didn't have all night.^[287]

Boss-Man and his gang were defeated by Bloodscream, Elsie-Dee, and Albert.^[288]

Bosun was the second officer of the boat headed to Punta del Rey. After the fight on it between the Absorbing Man and the Avengers, Bosun asked if it was a good idea to postpone the departure, but the captain replied that they could leave regularly since the damage on the boat was only cosmetic.^[289]

Boswell was a heavily-armed espionage agent who managed to defeat Daredevil and Ka-Zar in order to obtain his Anti-Metal medallion. Back to the Plunderer's castle, he accidentally killed Feepers, and was subsequently subdued by the Plunderer.^[290]

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Boswell is something of an accidental scientist who may just be too old to remember his former genius. Either way, he accidentally created artificial intelligence in a robot he was piecing together. The robot, who he named Para-Man, then guided Boswell to make multiple alterations to his form so that he could be independent. Once his body was complete, he made Boswell his slave. One day, Boswell was out and caught a couple of bugs in his yard. Due to his terrible vision, he didn't see that the "bugs" were actually Ant-Man (Henry Pym) and Wasp (Janet Van Dyne). He tucked the two heroes away is his lab for Ree-Zee to investigate, but the two escaped and blew up the house to ensure their getaway. The last we see of Boswell is him holding the head of a destroyed Ree-Zee and promising the still sentient robot that he will make him a new body.^[291]

Mr. Bowen was the lookout for a naval convoy searching for Uranium in the Antarctic. He alerted his commander that the environment around them was changing, in fact the Atlanteans were moving icebergs around the convoy.^[292]

Boz was of the looters arrested by the West Coast Avengers.^[293]

Brackett was one of the government agents who killed Ivan Petrovich's wife and abducted his son Yuri.^[283]

Brad was a young man who challenged Outlaw Kid, but was easily disarmed by the Kid. A local arms dealer, Mr. Wilkins, seeing the courage with which Brad had challenged the Kid, suggested that he work for him, but that he was hiding weapons for Indian rebels. When Brad's aunt intervened to prevent his nephew from committing a crime even though he didn't know it, Wilkins and his men would kill her if it wasn't for the woman's skill in using guns, but anyway, having seen her aunt that could have been injured by Wilkins' gang, even Brad came to his senses and attacked the members of the gang, defeating them with his fists.^[294]

Brad needs to raise money for his brother's medical treatment and so he answers an ad from a scientist seeking to test a shrinking ray. He agrees to be the subject and the ray works. He finds himself shrinking past microscopic objects and finally finds himself in a new world. When he asks a native what this world is called, he receives the answer 'Earth'.^[295]

Brad was an airline pilot who brought participants to the government conference on man-made mutations. His plane was attacked by the Lords of Light and Darkness and he himself was injured in the eyes due to the assault of the Rakks on the plane.^[296]

Janey and Brad were two kids who encountered the Thing along with Franklin Richards in an Arcade. When Brad saw it she mistook it for "Evil Otto", but Janey corrected him that that was just a video game character, but she wasn't entirely sure.^[297]

Brad tried to lure Elektra, while she was trapped within Sandy's personality, to a location where he could kill her. As Garrett rushed to save her, Brad framed him for the death of his partner Minelli, but he was eventually killed by the S.H.I.E.L.D. special agent.^[298]

Brad was a Columbia University student who was punished by Matt Murdock for bullying Foggy Nelson.^[299]

Brad and Mikey were two bicyclists who were caught by Spider-Man after causing an accident.^[300]

Brad is introduced by Kate Vinokur to Daredevil telling him that he and his other assistant took care of everything in the office, from the investigation to making her the coffee.^[301]
Kate asks Brad how far Arnold Quaid was to locate, and Brad eloquently answered her by pointing out various indications about Quaid.^[302]

Brad was the butler, bodyguard and combat assistant to Jubilee's aunt Hope Lee.^[303]

Brad was the cameraman assigned to follow the adventures of the New Warriors in their reality show^[304] and was present during the Stamford tragedy where he also lost his life.^[305]

A student in Midtown High, he bullied another student at school and was rebuked by Peter Parker but the coach Flash Thompson intervened in his defense.^[306]

Brad was the aide of Stephen, a vampire who allied himself with Janus after Xarus's coup that killed his father Dracula and Xarus took over. Stephan and Janus were betrayed by Brad, and Stephen was killed by exposure to sunlight.^[307]
Brad allied himself with Alyssa, the leader of the Siren Sect. He devised a plan to frame the Claw Sect for the attempted assassination of Raizo Kodo and Jubilee, so that they would lose their privileged position with Dracula and then take over the leadership of the vampires.^[308]

Brad was an alien who belonged to the Omega Confederation brigade who crossed the rest of the Deadpool Corps about to save Deadpool and Headpool and was promptly killed by Lady Deadpool.^[309]

Mister Bradford worked with the Eternals to deal with the Celestials.^[310]

Agent Bradley of the Department of Defense's Office of Intelligence summoned Captain America to their headquarters in Alabama to brief him on a national security concern involving a fictional World War II-era "Project Firefly".^[311]

Bradley tried hard to make Anya love him, considering her claim that she was a lesbian just a fool. When Karma ran to Anya's aid in the woods where Bradley had taken her, she arrived at the scene and she realized that Anya did not need help because she knocked out Bradley with one punch.^[312]

One of the members of the cult that was lead by Joshua Kale and accused Kale of having stolen the Tome of Zhered-Na and for being in league with the Demons.^[313]

Brandi worked as a waitress in a famous jazz club. She served the table where three visiting Avengers had been sat, exchanging witty banter with the Beast for ordering non-alcoholic drinks.^[314]

Brandon was a small-time crook who gained powers from a trafficker of stolen genetic material. He began using his powers to commit crimes but was captured by Spider-Man and incarcerated in the Raft alongside the worst super-powered criminals. He was in his cell during the Serpent's Worthy assault on the Raft and was buried under the rubble. Once he was pulled out to safety he couldn't wake up as he was stuck in his dreams by Nightmare. He was exorcised and awakened by Loki in collaboration with Leah and the Son of Satan.^[315]

Brandon was a little boy who came into contact with Carnage when the supervillain was hiding out in his family's barn and torturing Spider-Man. Brandon suffered from physical and emotional abuse at the hands of bullies at school and his stepfather Dan, with Carnage attempting to corrupt him to his nihilistic worldview. Carnage eventually bonded Brandon to an offshoot of the Carnage symbiote, which he used to kill his stepfather. Carnage then tried to persuade him to kill Spider-Man, but Brandon instead freed the superhero - rejecting Carnage's twisted advice due to only wanting to be left alone. However, the offshoot of the Carnage symbiote ambushed Brandon while he was being hugged by his mother and bonded to him.^[316]

Gabriel Brathwaite's father was a firefighter, he died of cancer and it was only around that time that Gabriel's grades dropped but only for a semester.^[318]

Gabriel Brathwaite's mother was a widow and math teacher. She knew of her son's mutant powers and worried that people would react if he used his powers among normal people.^[318]

Bratton was a prisoner who died in a fire which Two-Gun Kid witnessed.^[319]

Herr Braun was one of the villagers possessed by Possessors, until they were whisked away by Dr. Strange.^[320]

Dr. Braun was an assistant to Dr. Vault and after learning why he had stolen the Colossus, he thought to himself that he had no claim to power like Vault but as soon as he had the opportunity he would betray Vault by appropriating his discoveries to become the richest man on the planet.^[223]

Braun was a technician at StratoCorp. After admiring Danger's abilities, upon her request to control the construction robots that she considered slow and stupid, after contacting his boss Braun told her that she couldn't do it but she replied that hers wasn't a request but simply that she did it.^[321]

Dr. Brayle was a member of Las Vegas C.S.I. who performed an autopsy on Deadpool's body.^[322]

Captain Brenner was one of Major Del Tremens' men, and was left in charge of Tranquility Base when Tremens led an assault against the Woodgod. He was later tricked into releasing Spider-Man from his restraints when the web-slinger claimed to have taken photographs of Liberty, New Mexico.^[323]

Brent was the Bill Travis' second in command n the nationalist terrorist group the Sons of Hancock that had occupied Philadelphia's Independence Hall. Upon request as a gesture of goodwill on Captain America's part, Travis ordered Brent to release the held hostage Park Feds.^[324]

Brentano was ordered by General Nguyen Ngoc Coy to observe and test the children for any sort of paranormal psychic ability; should they lack such talents, his organization would have put them to other profitable uses. He eventually surrender to Spider-Man and the Fantastic Four.^[325]

Doctor Bresnavich made sure that the American had escaped.^[326]

Logan scuffled with Brett to get Sheriff MacReedy's attention in Pottsville.^[327]

CBA News anchor Brett hosted Harry Hauser to talk about Sam Wilson's battle against U.S.Agent.^[328]

Ms. Brewster was the assistant warden at the super-villain prison called The Vault. During the insurrection created by Venom, Brewster called in the Avengers after Director Truman Marsh was taken hostage.^[329]
Following Director Marsh's death, Ms. Brewster became the Vault's Project Head and briefed a Justice Department agent on the safety improvements and rehabilitation methods being used at the Vault.^[330]

Brian was a trainer at the Arnold Columbo Health Spa. He introduced Thundra to the head trainer Kant (really the amnesiac Hyperion) as a possible new trainer. Although Kant was a bit uncertain about Thundra's abilities, both he and Brian were amazed when they saw Thundra in action as she lifted a piece of equipment in the gym that weighed tons.^[331]

Brian was an IRA guard who was watching over the Old Woman of Beare.^[332]

Brice was one of the security men at the Smith Building serving the Red Skull. He called Elron over the radio and told him that the Red Skull sparring partners supplied by Taskmaster, whom he called the five little lambs, had been checked and that he could proceed.^[333]

Dr. Brick was a psychiatrist who worked at the Arizona Home for Troubled Empowered Youth and assisted in the action of one of his patients as he helped the Marshals free Jake Gomez and the other prisoners Life Pharmaceuticals was experimenting with.^[334]

Bridget was Tony Stark's cook. She was an immigrant from Ireland.^[335]

Bridget was Lewis Green's girlfriend. When he returned from the excavations carried out in Troy to retrieve an amulet for the General, he went to Bridget's house, defying the General's orders to go directly to him, but when he was at the door of his house Bridget told him that things during her absence had changed and she was now with another man.^[336]
After acquiring the powers of Achilles, Lewis returned to Bridget wanting to win her back and heavily beat up Joey, but Bridget refused him in spite of everything, telling him that she had never loved him.^[337]

Bridgette was one of Sat-Yr-Nin's amazonian guards. She was ordered to find Kitty Pryde.^[338]

Agent Briggs is an operative for Damocles Foundation.^[339][340]

Sheriff Briggs was head of the Omaha police and welcomed the Hellions when they were sent to Omaha to demolish Mr. Sinister's orphanage.^[341]

Mentions: The Variants #3

Brinina was the saleswoman of a cosmetics store that Jessica Jones approached to find a lipstick to use for her wedding to Luke.^[342]

Britney was a girl lured into a party by a group of Skrulls that tried to slaughter her. She was saved by Ryder.^[343]

Britt was a sheriff’s deputy who worked at the Elijah Sheriff's Office. He greeted Sheriff Macken on his arrival the office on the day of his death.^[178]

Brock was a child who, during the Annual Renaissance Faire in Central Park, met the Thing and ran towards him asking him to pick him up, which the Thing willingly did and continued playing with the child, despite his mother's initial fear that after she calmed down.^[344]

Mentions: Alpha Flight #16

Dr. Brody was a physician at Bethune Memorial Hospital in Toronto who cared for Heather Hudson following her assault in Lake Ontario by a Plodex. When Puck asked how Heather's condition was, she replied that she had been very lucky and that her wounds would heal with few scars remaining and that she would walk normally again.^[345]
A few days later, Heather got out of the hospital bed thinking to herself that if she had known Dr. Brody that she was already up she would have kittens.^[346]

Mentions: Avengers: The Initiative #24

Mr. Brokeridge is the father of Roger Brokeridge, aka Hardball. Mr. and Mrs. Brokeridge were told that their son Paul Brokeridge needed an immense amount to treat him, which they couldn't afford.^[347]

Mentions: Avengers: The Initiative #24

Mrs. Brokeridge is the mother of Roger Brokeridge, aka Hardball. Mrs. and Mr. Brokeridge were told that their son Paul Brokeridge needed an immense amount to treat him, which they couldn't afford.^[347]

After her daughter Harriet was expelled from seven schools for continuing bouts of violence. he satisfied her that she wanted to stay away from her people, so they moved to the woods where he died in a fire.^[348]

Bronson was a grave robber and a murderer who took a job as a deep-sea diver to hide from the authorities. Bronson decided to murder the crew and keep the treasure for himself. Bronson donned a heavy diving suit and blew up the ship and went to claim the diamonds.

Securing his treasure, Bronson traveled to a nearby island which was populated with superstitious natives who mistakenly believed that Bronson was some sort of water god. Dubbing him "Iron-Head", Bronson was afraid to remove his helmet because the natives would kill him if they discovered he was a white man. He held out as long as he can, but within a few days, he began to fall weak with hunger. Finally, one of the natives cut off his head with an ax, revealing that he was never truly a god at all.^[349]

Brovert was a composer whose symphony was panned by the famous music critic Georges Descourtes, ruining the young man's years and sacrifices.^[350]

Brown was a secret service agent tasked to protect Chelsea Clinton.^[351]

Minor Appearances: Jessica Jones (Vol. 2) #6, Jessica Jones (Vol. 2) #13, Jessica Jones (Vol. 2) #16
Mentions: Jessica Jones (Vol. 2) #4

Sophie Brownlee was a woman who lived with her husband, with whom she had been married for eleven years, in Jersey City. One day, he returned late from his work and paced around, claiming to have lived a different life, living in Brooklyn married to a blonde woman named Gwen with whom he had a little girl named Norma. Looking for answers on her husband's sudden change of behavior, Sophie found about the theory of the Multiverse and that some people were believed to be trapped between universes. Sophie tried to talk to Doctor Strange, but he wouldn't' see her, so she resorted to hiring P.I. Jessica Jones to have her look into her husband's situation.^[353]
After a video was posted on the Internet of Jones' husband Luke Cage confronting her at the Brownlees' street while Jessica was trying to spy on Sophie's husband, Sophie confessed to him what she had done behind his back. Sophie was then stabbed by her husband most likely as a consequence of a nervous breakdown. She had her cut throat and her blood drank from her body.^[354]

Before going to the party Roddy Colt goes to Mr. Bruce to give him the war stamps and thanked him for buying them, but Mr. Bruce replied that he should not thank him, that for him it was a privilege to buy them, that he is buying of shares in freedom.^[355]

In 1965, a giant floating head appears over New York and proclaims it is the first to arrive in an invasion force. The army attack it but it disappears and reappears faster than the speed of light and the head explains they travel by there minds and can telepathically blow things up, demanding the entire city leave. A boy named Bruce figures out the truth that this is all a ruse by some criminals to rob the entire city and that the head is nothing more than a projection.^[356]

Bruce and his friend were near the pier when Sub-Mariner emerged from the water and for no apparent reason but driven by an unjustified hatred Bruce threw himself at Namor hitting him with a flying kick. This infuriated Namor who reacted by hitting Bruce violently making him fly in the water and if it hadn't been for the intervention of his friend who threw himself into the water and rescued him Bruce would have drowned.^[357]

Bruce was a fashion designer who worked for Daphne von Wilkinson's fashion studio and was systematically abused by her.^[358]

Bruce was one of the guards hired by Dr. Pernell Solomon who worked in his institute where Taskmaster trained his agents inside.^[359]

Mentions: Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man Annual #7

Bruce was a famous actor who gave Mary Jane Watson the keys to his villa in the south of France for her honeymoon with Peter Parker.^[360][361]

Brother Bruce was a psychopath and pyromaniac loyal to the Cult of Love and especially to his leader the Teacher.^[362]
Bruce died in the collapse of the Cult headquarters, also causing the Teacher's death, caused by a fire ignited by himself.^[363]

Bruce thanked Colossus for saving his family.^[364]

A student who didn't think school was necessary with one of his classmates but wanted to make easy money as an acquaintance of theirs by working for a drug dealer. When the Punisher broke into the den of the drug dealer killing everyone, Bruce and his companion were there and the Punisher frightened them saying he would keep an eye on them, and in doing so the two students returned to school and because of the warning of the Punisher no longer lost a lesson and sharply improved their grades.^[365]

Bruce was the director of the film on Cap'n Oz which had as its protagonist the Australian actor and secret a member of the Clan Destine William Chance.^[366]

Bruce was the leader of a Paris street gang involved in smuggling, drug trafficking and illegal gambling and after observing with his own eyes what the Stacy twins were capable of he made them join the gang.^[367]

Bruce was Linda's boyfriend (the counterpart of Nightcrawler's wife of Earth-295), and while Linda was talking on the phone telling about the one who kept giving her romantic gifts, Bruce showed up at his house earlier than he had planned because he loved her and missed her.^[368]

Dr. Bruce was a psychologist included in the "Pleasant Hill" program of S.H.I.E.L.D. and in particular he took care of the psychological conditioning of Helmut Zemo, succeeding us almost completely if Fixer had not intervened.^[369]

Dr. Brucknerr was a henchman and scientist who worked for Lady Octopus. He was the one who informed her that Seward Trainer had gotten around their computer defenses, and later used Trainer's files to enhance her VR wave generator.^[370]

La Bruja (Spanish for "the witch") was a woman participating in a heathen ritual in Medisuela. A male woman with body paint carried the unconscious body of the woman for a celebration, where she was to be sacrificed during a party that involved dancing around her, possibly by burning her alive. Supposedly, other women in the party came to be especially aroused after the death, leading to a further stage of celebration. General Navatilas invited corrupt U.S. Attorney General Roger Mollech to one such parties and, when Navatilas explained the activity, Mollech was aghast at the idea of directly murdering a helpless person, especially if it was discovered. Navatilas reprimanded Mollech's supposed cowardice, claiming that Mollech's illegal actions with Navatilas had already caused many other deaths, and eventually convinced Mollech to grab the torch and participate.^[280]

It is unrevealed whether Mollech came to burn La Bruja dead or not.

Bruno was a burglar who was shrunk and encased in a crystal ball by a gypsy.^[262]

A musclebound enforcer in the employ of Ward Meachum prior to his death, Bruno was one of a trio of goons who paid an unwelcome visit to Henri Sorel's private lab. Sorel had been working on a universal cure for radiation poisoning on the behalf of the World Health Organization, and Bruno and his fellow goons had been hired by Meachum to pressure Sorel into selling his discoveries to his company. When Sorel resisted them, it was Bruno who beat the physicist and sent him crashing into samples of plutonium isotopes. They then left him to die, unaware that effects from his experiments combined with the radiation exposure would mutate Sorel into Radion the Ravager. Iron Fist would later see all of this documented on a video diary midway through a confrontation with Sorel/Radion in London.^[371]

Bruno was one of Amos Jardine's employees, who escorted Peter Parker and Mary Jane Watson to the door, after Parker asked Jardine questions about the Man-Thing.^[372]

Bruno was a clown who worked for "Mr. Mike's One-Ring Traveling Tent Show" in Sullivan County.^[373]

Bruno was a retired killer who died while attempting to murder Vanessa Fisk.^[374]

Bruno was killed by Malone as they were hunted by Wolverine for torturing and abusing a Canadian nun in Iraq.^[375]

Bruno and Lawrence were two minions in Emmanuel Raposa Florida cocaine smuggling operation. When one of Raposa's sailors reported how he had been assaulted by Moon Knight, questioned and forced to drop a million dollars in cocaine, Raposa had Bruno and Lawrence grab the man so that Raposa himself could execute him by feeding him money. Bruno or Lawrence (the one with an eyepatch) mentioned that Moon Knight had been in the Avengers and was worried about these superheroes going after the operation; but Raposa focused on his drug lord rival Rory Valdez, deeming the latter the greater threat.^[376]

The story does not reveal which one is Bruno and which Lawrence. These character also seem to be Raposa's minions from the previous issue Marc Spector: Moon Knight #23, with different coloring, but Raposa calls them by different names (Raphael and Andy).

Spider-Man triggered an alarm on the roof of a building and then rushed to check on a security guard with his dog Brutus, but by the time they got to the roof Spider-Man was already in hiding having sensed their arrival thanks to his spider-sense. Even though the guard thought it was a false alarm, Rufus became aware of Spider-Man's presence and saw him swinging away.^[196]

Bryan was an inventor who built a robot with the features of his brother-in-law on his sister's instructions.^[377]

Mr. Bryant was a new English literature teacher in Centerville. Hedy Wolfe had a crush on him and began performing poorly in English to garner his tutelage,^[378]

Member of the famous rap duo AK-47 together with his wife and father of Tiowa, classmate and girlfriend of Víctor Álvarez who to annoy her parents she dressed in the fashion of the 20s.^[379]

Member of the famous rap duo AK-47 together with her husband and mother of Tiowa, classmate and girlfriend of Víctor Álvarez who to annoy her parents she dressed in the fashion of the 20s.^[379]

Mentions: Emma Frost #5

Bryce was the chauffeur of the Frost family who drove Emma to her school and came back to pick her up to take her home every day.^[380][381]
While driving Emma home, the Rolls Bryce was driving broke down during a storm, so he left Emma warm in the car while he drove into the city in the rain for help.^[382]
Bryce drove Emma to her brother Christian's apartment.^[383]
Bryce on Winston's orders stopped Emma from visiting her brother Christian.^[384]

Bryce was one of the kids from the Cresskill School for the Blind who survived the school bus crash during a trip organized by Matt Murdock where they were caught in a blizzard. During the march to safety, to reassure and distract the kids, Matt asked them what they would like for Christmas, but Bryce and the other kids didn't reply.^[385]

Bubba was the little dog who had escaped to two twins who became desperate as their grandmother was told to be responsible but Spider-Man went to their aid and found Bubba who he handed back to the two girls.^[386]

Bubenheimer and Holhein were two of ICON's henchmen on guard duty at the Innsbruck mansion. When Innsbruck ordered the two to stop the dogs from barking, the two went to do so but were both thrown back into the room where Innsbruck was by Sabretooth.^[387]

A Colonel who administered a military school and at the same time presided over a secret military operation by storing huge quantities of cocaine inside the school to create a wealth standard based on cocaine and not gold.^[388]

Bud and his friend Joe were sailing across the ocean on their small motor boat "Nina I" when they were surprised by a heavy fog and Bud having forgotten the compass they got lost on the ocean. When they sensed the approach of a ship, hoping it was the Coast Guard, they asked them for help but instead it was a Soviet vessel of which two of them boarded their boat trying to get hold of the documents to allow them to get to the radar station of Cape George to sabotage it. Bud and Joe managed to prevent this action through subterfuge until the Coast Guard actually arrived and arrested the two Soviet saboteurs.^[292]