Everett Ross

Martin Freeman
Martin Freeman
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Modern, Comics: Acting as the government's Wakanda expert, he advises the White House and is assigned to counsel forces in the planned US response to Klaw's invasion.

Cinematic

A former US Air Force pilot and CIA officer. In 2016 he ran the Joint Terrorism Task Force enforcing the Sokovia Accords, then hunted Ulysses Klaue and was shot by Killmonger. Shuri healed him in Wakanda, and he helped T'Challa against Killmonger. In 2025 he passed Wakanda information and was arrested by his ex-wife Valentina Allegra de Fontaine, then freed by Okoye. By 2026 Skrulls had replaced and imprisoned him.

Comics

An American State Department official assigned to escort Wakanda's Black Panther, T'Challa, and drawn into his affairs, including a bargain with Mephisto, a coup, and a stint as Wakanda's regent. He becomes the United States government's leading expert on Wakanda, advises on a failed invasion plan, works with S.H.I.E.L.D., and later prosecutes Maria Hill. He is last shown in a lower-level post.

Timeline 22 events

  1. Modern · Comics: Assigned to escort T'Challa during his visit to New York, where the group is arrested and freed on diplomatic immunity.
  2. Modern · Comics: Left to entertain Mephisto in T'Challa's absence, he is later taken to Hell with the Panther and returns to Brooklyn.
  3. Modern · Comics: Backs T'Challa against the XCon plot of Reverend Achebe and is named regent of Wakanda in the Panther's absence.
  4. Modern · Comics: Watches Erik Killmonger defeat T'Challa in ritual combat, then helps T'Challa regain the throne.
  5. Modern · Comics: Girlfriend Nikki Adams is killed in the crossfire of Malice's attack, and he tries to resurrect her.
  6. Modern · Comics: Goes to New Orleans to ask Storm to come to Wakanda at T'Challa's request.
  7. Modern · Comics: Helps resolve an incident with the Deviant ruler Ghaur that nearly brings war between Wakanda and Lemuria.
  8. Modern · Comics: Sent back with others to Texas in 1875 by King Solomon's Frogs and mistaken for his grandfather, before returning with help from Asgard.
  9. Modern · Comics: Acting as the government's Wakanda expert, he advises the White House and is assigned to counsel forces in the planned US response to Klaw's invasion.
  10. Modern · Comics: S.H.I.E.L.D. calls on him to help organize Wakandan security, and he handles the Panther's diplomatic tour.
  11. Modern · Comics: Shown aware of a US plan to destabilize Wakanda by helping Killmonger seize power.
  12. Secret Wars · Comics: Serves on the Public Accountability Office team prosecuting S.H.I.E.L.D. Director Maria Hill after the Pleasant Hill fiasco, and she is found guilty.
  13. Fresh Start · Comics: Promoted to a lower-level post, he is seized by Hunter and Malice over stolen weather-control data and freed by police.
  14. 2016 · Cinematic: Put in charge of the Joint Terrorism Task Force to enforce the Sokovia Accords, Ross holds Winter Soldier, Captain America and T'Challa in Berlin, and later takes Helmut Zemo into custody.
  15. 2016 · Cinematic: Tracking Klaue, Ross meets him at a Busan casino, joins the chase, and arrests him with T'Challa's help.
  16. 2016 · Cinematic: Ross takes a bullet to the spine shielding Nakia from Killmonger's rescue of Klaue, and T'Challa brings him to Wakanda, where Shuri heals him.
  17. 2016 · Cinematic: During Killmonger's rule Ross flees with the Golden Tribe to Jabariland and later remotely pilots a Royal Talon Fighter to destroy Killmonger's weapon transports at the Battle of Mount Bashenga.
  18. 2016 · Cinematic: Ross attends T'Challa's speech at the United Nations in Vienna announcing that Wakanda is opening to the world.
  19. 2025 · Cinematic: Shuri and Okoye ask Ross about the Vibranium Detector inventor, and he gives them Riri Williams's name despite CIA Director de Fontaine's watchfulness.
  20. 2025 · Cinematic: Ross helps Ramonda by warning her of US plans against Wakanda and by infiltrating the NSA to erase data from Williams's laptop.
  21. 2025 · Cinematic: De Fontaine arrests Ross for treason, and Okoye in Midnight Angel armor frees him from the transport.
  22. 2026 · Cinematic: Ross is replaced by a Skrull impostor and held in stasis at New Skrullos until G'iah defeats Gravik and frees the captives.

allied with

T'Challa, Okoye, Sharon Carter, Nakia, Shuri, Ramonda, Thaddeus Ross, Storm

enemy of

Erik Killmonger, Helmut Zemo, Ulysses Klaue, Mephisto, Maria Hill, Valentina Allegra de Fontaine

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Last checked 21 Oct 2026