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Roxxon Energy Corporation
Publication information
PublisherMarvel Comics
First appearanceCaptain America #180 (December 1974)
In-story information
Type of businessPetrochemical company
Base(s)Various locations
Owner(s)Aleksander Lukin
Employee(s)August D'Angelo
Roster
See: Members section

Roxxon Energy Corporation (also known as Roxxon, formerly known as Roxxon Oil Company) is the name of a fictional massive petroleum corporation owned by Aleksander Lukin and run by August D'Angelo.[1] The company appears in comic book stories published by Marvel Comics and exists in that company's shared universe, known as the Marvel Universe. It first appeared in Captain America #180 (Dec 1974), created by Steve Englehart. The company is currently a wholly owned subsidiary of Kronas Corporation.

Fictional company history

Roxxon is the world's largest conglomerate. Roxxon is notorious for its determination to make massive profits regardless of any laws or moral principles, and continually covertly uses unethical and illegal means to increase its profits. As such, it is involved in numerous criminal plots that require the opposition of the various superheroes to stop. The name of the company resembles that of Exxon, an American petroleum company often criticized for its profiteering at the expense of the environment.

While this fictional company has encountered numerous superheroes, it has most notably been at odds with Iron Man, as in a storyline called "The Iron Age" where it was revealed that agents of Roxxon Oil killed Tony Stark's parents. Roxxon has also regularly been at odds with Project: Pegasus regarding energy sources as the latter has been involved with alternative energy research that could hurt Roxxon's oil profitability.

The central division of the Roxxon conglomerate is Roxxon Oil. Subsidiaries of the Roxxon Energy Corporation include Metrobank and the Brand Corporation (a scientific research and development firm which has conducted many projects for the federal government). Brand is another for-profit company that has specialized in creating superhumans while Brand is usually considered a Roxxon subsidiary, it has sometimes made its own decisions and acted independently.

Roxxon has its own army-like security task force, and has employed a number of special agents, many of whom it has given superhuman abilities.

The former head of the company Hugh Jones had been arrested several times but has never been convicted to date.

In at least one possible future, Roxxon is still a viable company in the year 2099. In Spider-Man 2099 #1, Tyler Stone (the head of Alchemax) mentions Roxxon while listing mega-corporations of his era.

In the mini-series Great Lakes Avengers, a character named the Grasshopper was introduced. Real name Douglas Taggert, he was an employee of Roxxon, wearing a suit of cybernetic armor themed like a grasshopper developed by them to defend the company. Seconds after accepting an invitation to join the GLA he was killed by a villain named Zaran.

In the following GLX-Mas Special, the villain Killer Shrike (himself a former employee of Roxxon) attempts to steal "Project Z" from the company, but he is stopped by a new Grasshopper, who defeats the villain. He dies mere minutes later after activating the suit's maximum jump, which launched him into space.

Since then the Red Skull, inside the body of former Soviet General Aleksander Lukin, has used Lukin's powerful Kronas Corporation and the Cosmic Cube in order to buy out Roxxon.

In Dark Reign: New Nation, Roxxon Oil operative Anton Aubuisson massacres a tribe of Anuquit natives in order to build an oil pipeline, but their efforts are thwarted by War Machine.

Roxxon Energy is shown to previously have a mining operation on Mars, but due to unexplained circumstances, halted the operation and erased all traces of everyone involved.[2][3]

Members

Executives

  • Pierce Benedict - Director of sea-going operations.[4]
  • Douglas Bravner - Sunturion Project executive.[5]
  • August D'Angelo (Chairman of the Board)[6]
  • Jonas "Jonah" Hale - Director of Research.[7] He is also the former chief operations director of Republic Oil and Natural Gas.
  • Samuel Higgins - The Facility Director in Denver.[8] He utilized James Hudson as a power source following his return from Quwrlln, he later recruited Madison Jeffries to assist Windshear on a mission and also presided over the facility developing Omega-32, which was raided by the Beetle.
  • Aleksander Lukin - Owner of Roxxon Energy Corporation.
  • Henry Mason - Vice-President of Roxxon Energy Corporation.[9]
  • Carrington Pax - Executive in Roxxon Energy Corporation's West Coast division.[10]
  • Huck Petrie - Negotiator of the Roxxon Energy Corporation.[11]
  • Brian Sagar - Vice-President of the Roxxon Energy Corporation.
  • Mike Tappan - Associate director of Roxxon Energy Corporation's Los Angeles division.[10]

Former Executives

  • Clayton Burr - Vice President for Roxxon's international development.[12] He supervised Cybertek.
  • Brandon Chambers - Executive of Roxxon.[13] He sponsored his brother Phillip's DNA experiments not realizing that their other brother Mitchell was the subject.
  • Mr. Clarkson - Vice President of Roxxon's Texas division.[14] He was killed by Crossbones[15]
  • Ian Forbes - Director of Roxxon's Belfast facility.[16]
  • Calvin Halderman - President of Roxxon.[17]
  • Curtis Henshaw - Executive of the R&D section at Roxxon's Bolivian facility.[18]
  • Jerome "Jerry" K. Jaxon - Associate Vice President of Special Developments.[19]
  • Hugh Jones - Owner, President, & CEO of Roxxon Energy Corporation.[20]
  • John T. Gamelin - Director of Foreign Operations.[21] He was later the President of Roxxon Energy Corporation.[22])
  • Don Kaminski - President of Roxxon Energy Corporation.[23]
  • Simon Krieger - Vice President of Roxxon's Republic Oil & Natural Gas.[24]
  • Linden Laswell - Executive of Roxxon's Latveria project.[25]
  • Jonathan Darque (Magma) - Project head of Roxxon's division in Temple Corners, VA.[26]
  • Terence Gerard - [18]
  • Michael Brady - Executive of Roxxon's Chemical Division.[27]
  • Reuben Kincaid - Executive of Roxxon Energy Corporation. He was murdered by Michael Brady.[27]

Staff

  • Bill - Helicopter pilot for Roxxon's Long Island division.
  • Carson - Aecurity operative.
  • Chester - A floating oil refinery worker for Roxxon Oil.
  • Chief Compton - Supervisor of Roxxon's underground NYC facility.[28]
  • Larry Curtiss - A security operative.[29]
  • Davis - A scientist who is an assistant to Jonas Harrow.
  • Delvecchio - Member of Roxxon's underground NYC facility.[28]
  • Jim Dworman - Former Cybertek programmer. He was in charge of Cybertek's shutdown.[30]
  • Gail - Secretary to Carrington Pax.
  • Gordon - Member of Roxxon's underground NYC facility.[28]
  • Grist - Member of Roxxon's underground NYC facility security.
  • Jake - A security guard at Roxxon's Denver division.[31]
  • Joe - A floating oil refinery worker.
  • Juan - An executive assistant to Hale in Roxxon's San Francisco division.
  • Ms. Loring - A scientist under Hale and participator in the Nuform project.
  • 'Missy - A Roxxon agent.[29]
  • Patrick Nestor - Roxxon's company spokesman.[32]
  • Dr. Malachi Oz - A scientist.[33]
  • Riki - A boardroom chair at One Roxxon Plaza.[34]
  • Cindy Shelton - Roxxon's lead researcher.
  • "Agger" - An assistant to Huck Petrie.[11]
  • Raymond Sikorski - A recruiter with Roxxon Blackridge.[35]
  • Miss Simpkins - A secretary at Hydropolis.[34]
  • Walter - An executive assistant to President Gamelin.[21]
  • Jillan Woods (Sepulchre) - An agent for Roxxon Blackridge.[36]
  • Chief Wyngard - Roxxon's underground NYC facility supervisor.[28]
  • Michael Thomas - A sleeper agent working at Stark International.[37]
  • Alvie Walton - Member at Roxxon's Snow Valley service station.[38]

Former staff

  • Cary Albertson - A scientist on the bio-chip project at Roxxon's Sault Ste. Marie facility.
  • Babs Bendix - A secretary at [5]
  • Blair - An agent of Roxxon.[39]
  • Kenneth H. Bradley - A covert operative and former Brand security member.[23]
  • Phillip Chambers - A Roxxon scientist.
  • Abner Doolittle - An Nth Command scientist.
  • Roberta "Bobbie" Haggert - A scientist on Roxxon's Omega-32 project.[31] She was assassinated by Scourge[40]
  • Seth Hanks - A child savant and unwilling employee of Roxxon.[41]
  • Paul Hazlett (Raptor) - A scientist.[42]
  • Dan Jermain (Danger Man) - A former security inspector for Roxxon.[43]
  • Kelly - A security guard at Roxxon's underground NYC facility.
  • Kristy - An assistant to Mr. Clarkson.[14] She was murdered by Sin & Crossbones.
  • Lewis - A security guard at Roxxon's underground NYC facility.
  • Alexander Lipton - A scientist.[39] He was murdered.
  • Mischa and Yuri - Roxxon's biochemists.[44]
  • Moyer - An agent of Roxxon.[39]
  • Duncan O'Neill - A mole within MI-5: British Secret Agent 003.[16]
  • Dr. Gerald Roth -
  • Schroeder - A security guard at Roxxon's underground NYC facility.
  • Jack Rollins - A sleeper agent for Nick Fury.[45]
  • Steve - A security guard at Long Island Research Complex.[46]

Super-operatives

Hired agents

Other versions

Amalgam

Roxxon exists in the Amalgam universe and is similar to the main Roxxon.[65]

Roxxon 2099

Roxxon is still going strong in the alternate future of 2099 and is one of the main major corporations[66]

Ultimate Marvel

In the Ultimate Marvel Universe, the Roxxon Corporation is also responsible for creating supervillains, although its owner, Donald Roxxon, seems to have little idea what the company actually does. In Ultimate Spider-Man he was targeted by a former employee who took the identity of the Tinkerer. Donald Roxxon hired Silver Sable to track down Spider-Man, as he believed the hero knew who was responsible. He also wanted to know why Spider-Man seemed to be looking out for Roxxon. He had not been, it was simply a series of coincidences. Silver Sable manages to capture Spider-Man for Roxxon. Spider-Man is tied up, unmasked, and questioned by Roxxon. He escapes Roxxon and ends up saving him from the Vulture. During this incident, a flashback reveals Donald is trying to run a decent company as best as he knows how, despite being almost in over his head.[67]

Among those who attacked Roxxon were Killer Shrike, Omega Red, Vulture, and The Spot with the former three being hired by Tinkerer and the latter one being created in an accident at Roxxon. It is also revealed that Herman Schultz was also a former employee of Roxxon Corporation, whom Roxxon got to design weapons before terminating his employment to the company, forcing him to a life of crime.[68] Herman Schultz also stated that even if Spider-Man was able to bring down Roxxon, "two more would grow in its place" which is similar to the motto of the fictional terrorist organization HYDRA.

Following the events of Ultimate Enemy as seen in Ultimate Mystery, Roxxon Corporation had assembled a Roxxon Brain Trust consisting of Doctor Octopus, Dr. Arnim Zola III, Dr. Layla Miller, Misty Knight, Dr. Samuel Sterns, and Dr. Nathaniel Essex.[69]

In other media

Television

Film

  • The Roxxon logo and corporate headquarters appear briefly in the background of the 2008 Iron Man film during the climactic fight scene.
  • In Iron Man 2, one of the cars at the Monaco Grand Prix is sponsored by Roxxon.

Video games

  • The Roxxon building appears in the background of the 2000 Spider-Man video game.

References

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