Red Hulk Locks In a New Team Ahead of the Antihero's Marvel Movie Debut: Who's On the Squad?

Red Hulk is assembling a new team of unlikely and overlooked heroes from Marvel’s past. In the midst of Doctor Doom’s impending global takeover, the Red Hulk will soon find himself imprisoned by the villain, but Thunderbolt Ross is not one to idly sit by. In response, the gamma-hero will assemble a team of Marvel’s oldest cyborgs to overthrow the new Sorcerer Supreme’s tyrannical rule.

Red Hulk #2 is set to follow the disgraced general and his fight to escape from Doctor Doom’s grasp. The last readers saw Ross, he was standing over a man’s corpse while praising “God Bless America,” before blacking out and awaking in a Latverian prison cell.

Red Hulk #2 (2025) Release Date: March 26, 2025 Writer: Benjamin Percy Artist: Geoff Shaw Cover Artist: Geoff Shaw THE GREAT ESCAPE! Thunderbolt Ross stages an escape from the "Think Tank" where Doctor Doom has imprisoned him. He’s been underground so long the powers of the Red Hulk are fading! He’ll need the assistance of the misfit crew of Machine Man, Deathlok, and General Simon Ryker if he’s going to outsmart and outmuscle the legion of Doombots that are after them.

Alongside the world’s greatest military, political, and criminal minds, Ross has been conscripted to help Doom build a “better” world by leveraging the his unique perspective. However, it seems that the Red Hulk isn't going to sit idly and take his imprisonment without a fight.

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Despite Thunderbolt Ross’s long and decorated military career, he has devolved into a brutish echo of his former self; thus, Marvel has introduced Ross’s new team consisting of America’s greatest minds in military cybernetics. These three Marvel relics are all spectacles from Marvel's past, who combine to offer an unlikely path to freedom for the Red Hulk to seize. For those unfamiliar with Ross’s team, all three were once members of the U.S. military, specializing in the field of cybernetic warfare. General Simon Ryker sat as the military’s chief cyberneticist, whose goal was to create the first perfect cyborg.

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Alongside his brother Harlan, Ryker successfully created that cyborg in the form of the Deathlok. Using the time-displaced body of the original, two different Deathloks were created, one made from a willing soldier, John Kelly, and the other from an unwilling and disturbed soldier, Luther Manning. Now, alongside Ryker, one of Marvel’s various Deathloks serves on the Red Hulk’s team of anti-Doom revolutionaries. In addition to the team stands the Machine Man, Aaron Stack. Originally built to be another military weapon, Stack’s creator freed him, allowing the synthezoid to later join the Avengers and the Celestials.

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A common theme among this group is their shared experience of being “other.” The original Deathlok, Luther Manning, originates from Earth-7484, whereas his Earth-616 counterparts are merely duplicates. In his universe, the Ryker brothers created the Deathlok after one was critically injured by their universe's Doctor Doom. Whether the Deathlok in this series is the original or one of the duplicates remains unknown. Similarly, Machine Man is only one of 52 versions, all of which succumbed to madness. The last time readers saw the real Aaron Stack, he had become a sentinel, exiled into space alongside the Celestials.

Though his new team is an unlikely blend of cybernetic expertise and military experimentation, the Red Hulk is the perfect monstrous military experiment to lead them.

At the heart of this team is their formidable leader, the Red Hulk. Once a respected military general, Thaddeus "Thuderbolt" Ross threw away his respect when he allied with MODOK and the Leader, transforming himself into the very type of monster he threw everything away to hunt. To cover up his treachery, Ross replaced himself with an LMD, choosing to live a lie while continuing his relentless hunt for the Hulk. Though his new team is an unlikely blend of cybernetic expertise and military experimentation, the Red Hulk is the perfect monstrous military experiment to lead them.