Crossbones

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Cinematic and Comics

Modern, Comics: He kidnaps Diamondback and uses her as bait to lure Captain America into a trap in Madripoor.

Cinematic

Brock Rumlow, a Hydra plant who rose to command S.H.I.E.L.D.'s STRIKE team. After the Triskelion battle left him badly scarred, he dropped Hydra and became a mercenary named Crossbones, hunting Captain America. In 2016 he staged a raid in Lagos, was beaten, and died when his suicide vest was deflected by Wanda Maximoff into a building.

Comics

Brock Rumlow, a New York gang leader turned criminal instructor and mercenary, becomes the Red Skull's enforcer Crossbones and a long-running enemy of Captain America. Across the page he leads the Skeleton Crew, kidnaps Diamondback, shoots Steve Rogers during the Civil War, serves with the Thunderbolts, escapes the Raft, joins the D.O.A., and later helps run Hydra's prison.

Timeline 18 events

  1. Modern · Comics: Crossbones shadows Baron Zemo's hunt for the Bloodstone fragments and steals two of them.
  2. Modern · Comics: He kidnaps Diamondback and uses her as bait to lure Captain America into a trap in Madripoor.
  3. Modern · Comics: He founds and leads the Skeleton Crew in service to the Red Skull.
  4. Modern · Comics: After surviving an assault on Arnim Zola's Swiss chateau, he is accepted by the Nazi Red Skull and given the name Crossbones.
  5. Modern · Comics: He kidnaps Diamondback again, brainwashing and training her, and has her steal Captain America's serum-treated blood.
  6. Modern · Comics: Hired by Hydra to bomb New York's embassy row, he is stopped by Captain America and then turns on Hydra.
  7. Modern · Comics: The Red Skull rehires him, and he kidnaps and brainwashes the Skull's daughter Sin while hunting Aleksander Lukin.
  8. Modern · Comics: During the Civil War he serves as the sniper in the plot that shoots Captain America, and S.H.I.E.L.D. captures him.
  9. Modern · Comics: Escaping custody with Sin, he works with the Red Skull to move the Skull's mind into Steve Rogers' preserved body, a plan that backfires.
  10. Modern · Comics: As a Thunderbolt he gains energy powers from Terrigen Mist, then loses them after being thrown into a pool of extradimensional water.
  11. Modern · Comics: A breakout at the Raft lets him escape, and he murders Man Mountain Mario who helped him.
  12. Modern · Comics: He hunts the Worthy's hammers with Sin, is healed by Daimon Hellstrom after a fight with Wolverine, and joins the D.O.A.
  13. Secret Wars · Comics: He fights Sam Wilson and Ian Zola at a Hydra base in Bagalia under Baron Zemo and is defeated.
  14. Secret Wars · Comics: An inmate at Pleasant Hill, he attacks Steve Rogers, is beaten after Kobik restores Rogers, and afterward founds a new Hydra with the Red Skull and Sin.
  15. Secret Wars · Comics: He and Sin run a Hydra super-prison that the Underground raids.
  16. 2012 · Cinematic: After the Battle of New York he takes Loki's Scepter from Stark Tower and quietly routes it to Hydra.
  17. 2016 · Cinematic: Raids a Lagos laboratory to steal a biological weapon and draw out the Avengers.
  18. 2016 · Cinematic: Detonates his vest after losing to Captain America and dies, killing Wakandan relief workers.

enemy of

Steve Rogers, Sharon Carter, Black Widow (Natasha Romanoff), Sam Wilson (Captain America), Nick Fury, Wanda Maximoff (Scarlet Witch), Diamondback, Wolverine (Logan)

allied with

Red Skull, Alexander Pierce, Jasper Sitwell

travels to

The Raft

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Last checked 22 Oct 2026