
The Wrecking Crew
CBUB Wins: 2
CBUB Losses: 9
CBUB Ties: 0
Win Percentage: 18.18%
Added by: torman
The Wrecking Crew is a team of four fiction supervillain — Bulldozer, Piledriver, Thunderball, and the Wrecker — that appears in Marvel Comics. While not featured on the cover, the Wrecking Crew's first appearance is in Defenders vol. 1, #17 in November 1974.
The Wrecking Crew are formed when Dirk Garthwaite - the Wrecker - is approached by Dr. Eliot Franklin in prison and asked to retrieve a gamma bomb Eliot had designed, with the intent of ransoming New York for millions of dollars. Garthwaite manages to retrieve his enchanted crowbar, and during a lightning storm tells Franklin and fellow prisoners Henry Camp and Brian Calusky to grip the weapon simultaneously. A lightning bolt then strikes the crowbar and transforms the four men into the Wrecking Crew. They promptly escape from prison and in the course of searching for the gamma bomb are defeated by the Defenders and Luke Cage.
Over the years the Wrecking Crew have perpetuated a very familiar cycle - escape prison, fight and subsequently lose to superheroes, and return to prison. The Wrecking Crew have battled the Avengers, Captain America, Iron Fist, the Runaways, Spider-Man, the Sub-Mariner, the Thing, and their main foe - Thor. When the Wrecking Crew first battle Thor, they are confident that it will be a quick victory. Thor, however, defeats them all in moments and critically injures the Wrecker - infuriated by the fact that one of the Wrecker's offensives has killed an innocent bystander. Thunderball escapes and several weeks later recovers the Wrecker's crowbar, and goes on to form his own gang before being defeated by Spider-Man.
The team is later chosen by the being known as the Beyonder to participate in the Secret Wars against a team of select superheroes.
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CBUB Match Record:
Result | Opponent | My Score | Their Score | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Loss | Colossus | 36 | to | 83 |
Loss | Batman & Robin | 55 | to | 70 |
Loss | Toxin | 22 | to | 56 |
Loss | Herculoids | 35 | to | 40 |
Loss | Superman | 15 | to | 95 |
Win | The Infected | 83 | to | 24 |
Loss | Thunderbolts | 11 | to | 55 |
Loss | Warbound of Sakaar | 3 | to | 15 |
Win | The Punisher | 13 | to | 10 |
Loss | Female Furies | 2 | to | 7 |
Loss | Sailor Scouts | 3 | to | 6 |
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