Riot Squad

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First Appearance: The Incredible Hulk #345
Origin: The Incredible Hulk #345

	Hotshot Real Name: Lou (last name unknown) Powers/Abilities: Hotshot can project balls of energy from his fingers. He can project single balls or a rapid succession of balls so that it appears to be a stream. Artist Representation Gallery
	Jailbait Real Name: Jessie Harrison Powers/Abilities: Jailbait creates an energy field around an object to keep that object from excaping.. Artist Representation Gallery
	Ogress Real Name: Diane (last name unknown) Powers/Abilities: Ogress possess super-human strength, below the level of the Hulk. Artist Representation Gallery
	Soul Man Real Name: Father Jason McCall Powers/Abilities: Soul Man has the ability to bring back a person's "soul" once they have died. Artist Representation Gallery
	Omnibus Real Name: Burt Horowitz Powers/Abilities: : Omnibus has the ability to take on any mental ability he believes he already had. Initially, he believed he was a complete resource of any information. After the Leader died, Omnibus believed he had powers comparable to the Leader, such as being able to mentally control people through one physical touch. Artist Representation Gallery

Origin: To forever be rid of the Hulk and to start building his own army, the Leader sets off a gamma bomb in the town of Middletown. He kidnaps the only five survivors of the explosion to start his new order of beings.

GREAT MOMENTS IN HISTORY

The Incredible Hulk #345: Father McCall preaches before his ever dwindling flock about how their town of Middletown is slowly dying from lost jobs but that God is watching down on them. After the sermon, he gets a call from the Vicar that an accountant will be coming out to check on the financial irregularities in the Church books. Father McCall nervously says that he looks forward to the visit. Diane wakes up and tells her husband that she is "sick of defending crummy people over crummy things" and that they might want to get out of the town. Jessie gets into a fight with her parents about her boyfriend Lou and storms out. Burt, an encyclopedia salesman, drives into the town of Middletown, passing by workers burying objects just outside the city limits. He is tired of his job. Later, Jesse talks to Lou outside of school about how unfair her parents were being. Lou says not to worry since Jesse is almost eighteen and that they should run off together that night. The principal of the school calls Jesse's mother and informs her who her daughter was talking with. Burt comes at that moment to try and sell encyclopedia's but Jesse's mom just slams the door in his face. While at the start of a case, Diane finally has enough and admits that her client is guilty. The judge throws her in jail. Father McCall informs God that he was going to replace the money he stole before anyone would notice and to give him guidance. Later still, Jesse hears Bruce and the gang trying to warn the citizens to evaculate the town. While talking to her husband in jail, Diana overhears the same message coming from Clay's transport vehicle. That night, Burt starts ripping up the encyclopedias. Jesse looks out her window, waiting for Lou to come pick her up. Father McCall tries to call the Vicar to confess but the phone lines are dead. Diane sits in jail wondering is she really understands what she has done. Moments before the gamma bomb explodes, the judge lets Diane go, Jesse still waits for Lou, Father McCall resolves to call and confess after the phones are fixed, and Burt is glad to be free of his job. Burt tries to leave town, but the Leader's force field keeps him trapped in the town just as it keeps Clay, Betty and Bruce trapped outside. Then the bomb goes off.

The Incredible Hulk #346: While searching the remains of the town of Middletown, a rescue squad finds Father McCall still alive and with a green skin color. During a hearing about the whole gamma bomb incident, Betty describes how after the force shield came down, she went over to see Burt and saw him open his eyes. After all is done, the army transports the five survivors away when the Leader takes them from the army. He boasts how in one stroke, he killed his enemy the Hulk and created the first of his new order of beings.

The Incredible Hulk #366: The Leader transports the poisoned Hulk to his secret base. The Hulk fights Rock and Redeemer but after the Hulk drops a building on them, Jailbait traps the Hulk in an energy cage. The Hulk tries to break free and Jailbait can't hold him much longer so Hotshot fires energy balls at the Hulk and hurts him. The Ogress comes up and hits the Hulk and keeps beating on him until the Leader finally says that the Hulk has had enough. The Leader tells the Hulk that he has two more members in reserve (Omnibus and Soul Man).

The Incredible Hulk #367: The Hulk sits silent and motionless in a chair, the poison wasting him away. Jailbait tries to listen for a heartbeat but can't hear anything and says that the Hulk's body is cold as ice. Hotshot says they should find out if he is really dead or not before he starts to stink the place up. The Leader, Hotshot, and Jailbait leave the room to go get some equipment. The Hulk, along with Bruce's help figures out that Phil Sterns aka Madman and the Leader are related. When the Leader comes back, the Hulk pins him up against the wall and the Hulk is too small and wasted from the poison for the Leader's mental blasts to hit him. Jailbait and Hotshot try to break the Leader free but they can't do it. The Leader tells the Hulk a half truth about his brother Phil Sterns and Madman. After the Leader transports the Hulk away, Hotshot says the excuse the Leader gave to the Hulk seemed pretty lame.

The Incredible Hulk #397: The U-Foes attack the Pantheon mountain base and the Hulk and Pantheon members go up against them. Just as the Hulk asks them what they are doing there and who told them about the base, the Leader appears with the Riot Squad plus Redeemer.

The Incredible Hulk #398: Rock and Redeemer attack the Hulk along with the U-Foes and Riot Squad. There are so many people fighting the Hulk that the Hulk is able to throw Ogress and Ironclad into each other. The Hulk then throws Ironclad into Redeemer. Rock impales the Hulk from behind but the Pantheon jump into the fight and help. The Hulk claps his hands and knocks most of them out. He then knocks out Vector but before he can do anything else, Agamemnon appears and says that there has been a truce. The Leader just smirks.

The Incredible Hulk #399: The Riot Squad transport away from the Pantheon mountain base along with the Leader, the U-Foes, and Rock and Redeemer.

The Incredible Hulk #400: Jailbait and Hotshot show Rick around Freehold, the city founded by the Leader for people sick from radiation poison. They take Rick to the church where the Leader talks about the purpose of Freehold and introduces Soul Man, who can ease spirits. Soul Man talks about helping Rick and Marlo, who is in a crystalline object, dead. Rick thought the whole idea of bringing back Marlo from the dead was ridiculous until he saw that the formally deceased General Ross was actually Redeemer. In the Leader's office, he explains to Rick how he took the deceased General's body and used it to experiment with his machines to revitalize cells of a dead body. The problem was that it was too late to bring back Ross's soul. For recently deceased people, he can use his equipment to bring them to life and Soul Man to bring back their souls. The Leader tells Rick it is his decision to what he wants to do about Marlo. Rick finally agrees later to do it. Rick comes up on Soul Man, who is meditating, and talks to him about what he is going to do. The Leader takes Rick and Soul Man to the lab to show him his machine. The Leader also introduces Rick to Omnibus. Just then, Hydra forces attack the mountain. The Hydra forces knock a wall down on Ogress and shot Hotshot in the back. Jailbait comforts him. The Hulk arrives and agrees to fight them for Rick while Soul Man starts his process. The Hulk, enraged, comes into the lab and interferes with the process. He knocks down the Leader and uses his body as a shield when Redeemer fires. Rick pulls Marlo's body free from the crystalline structure and leaves with her. In the battle, Ogress digs her way out while Jailbait is still holding Hotshots limp body. The gravely injured Leader crawls into the crystalline structure while the Soul Man is still performing the porcess when the Hulk throws Redeemer's body at him and blows everything up. The Hulk digs up out of the rubble and finds the dying Soul Man.

The Incredible Hulk #401: Omnibus tells the U-Foes that the Leader was killed by the Hulk and then transports them out of the base. Hotshot wakes up in the hospital with Jailbait at his side. Jailbait tells him that Hydra is gone and that the Leader and Soul Man are dead. Omnibus walks in and wants to talk about new leadership. Ogress is seen helping clean up the rubble along side Rock. Omnibus talks in front of the residents of Freehold and officially tells everyone that the Leader and Soul Man are dead. He talks about how the Leader would want them to go on and that he would be the right person to be the new leader. They all agree. Omnibus goes back to the Leader's office and laughs now that he has power.

The Incredible Hulk #399: The U-Foes appear briefly with the Leader.

The Incredible Hulk #401: After the Leader is defeated, the U-Foes are let out of their prison. They stumble across the Hulk, who is not in a good mood. Ironclad attacks but gets the crap beaten out of him. Knowing when a situation looks bad, Vector just says they want to be left along and walk off.

The Incredible Hulk #436: Senator Ralston goes to Major Talbot's office to see him and he is greated by Talbot's assistance, who is actually Omnibus. Omnibus touches the senator's hand and gains control of him. The senator leaves the office but can't remember why he even went there in the first place. Omnibus just sits back, in his true form, and laughs. Later, Omnibus boasts to himself that everything is working out as planned. He talks about his plan but when he crosses in front of a mirror, a reflection of the Leader is looking back at him and says "Omnibus, shouldn't that be my plan?" Omnibus looks shocked.

Cutting Edge #1: Omnibus, in disguise as Major Talbot's assistance, is seen in the background as Major Talbot "convinces" the Ringmaster to help them with the Hulk. After the Ringmaster leaves, Omnibus tells Major Talbot that they must know the Hulk's weaknesses before they destroy him. He tells Talbot that he has technology to help perfect the Ringmaster's equipment. Later, in the lab, Omnibus mentally helps the lab techs put everything together. During the experiment with the Hulk, the equipment goes haywire and all heck breaks loose as subconsciousnesses get out of control. At one point, Major Talbot's sees a slavetrader with Omnibus's face. Omnibus worrys and tries to concentrate to get control. The Ringmaster sees the true Omnibus giving people orders to find the generators and shut them down. At one point, Omnibus comes across a giant head of the Leader with spider legs, obviously from Omnibus's subconsciousness, saying that everyone will be a part of him. The Hulk manages to shut down the equipment.

The Incredible Hulk #437: Omnibus blows up airplanes, boats and roads under the guise of the "Alliance." Omnibus, as Lt. Dallas, "tells" Major Talbot that he needs some time off. While driving out of the base, Omnibus sees the Leader's reflection in the rearview mirror and tells him to get out of his head.

The Incredible Hulk #438: Omnibus catches Jailbait and Hotshot in his lab at Freehold and tells them to get out. He looks in the mirror, expecting to see the Leader and dares him to show himself or say something. Omnibus blows up world monuments, such as the China Wall, and laughs about it. While looking at monitors, observing his work, he boasts more that his plan is coming together, and as he speaks, his physical features slowly take on those of the Leader. The Incredible Hulk #439: The Hulk finally makes it to the outskirts of Freehold but is attacked by Ogress and Hotshot. The Hulk gets a drop on Ogress and threatens to break her in half if Hotshot does not take him down below into Freehold. Jailbait is looking at some lab rats in Omnibus's lab when Omnibus walks in. Jailbait hides under a desk so not to upset him. She overhears him talking about the Alliance group and his plans. He explodes bombs at Wall Street, the Trade Towers, and the White House. Hotshot and Ogress lead the Hulk through the Freehold city. Omnibus greets the Hulk and the Hulk asks to get the X-ray equipment. Omnibus finds grenade fragments in the Hulk's brain and then tells the Hulk he does not know where the Leader's machinery is which would remove it. Omnibus proposes the Hulk stay there until he can figure out how to remove the fragments. He then tells the Hulk about what the mysterious "Alliance" group is doing out in the world, destoying it. The Hulk sees the destruction and sees the future as the Maestro said it would happen. To stop the world from destroying itself, the Hulk turns himself into a modern day Maestro infront of Omnibus who gets a little freaked out.

The Incredible Hulk #440: Omnibus boasts to himself how quickly his plan is coming together and that he has agents planted throughout the government. Hotshot and some other members of Freehold come into Omnibus's lab and confront him, asking if he is the one behind the "Alliance." They take him into custody.

The Incredible Hulk #441: Omnibus is taken from a jail cell and brought to a court. Omnibus is accussed by Hotshot of masterminding a "phantom" terrorist organization. Omnibus tells the jury that the people in the world would have destroyed themselves eventually, he was just helping them along and that he should not be held to standards of right and wrong. They find him guilty.

The Incredible Hulk #442: Hotshot and Jailbait and other members of Freehold fly Omnibus over the artic circle. They tell Omnibus to get out and strip most of his clothes off. Omnibus confesses that it wasn't his idea, that the Leader's soul and intellect was in his head and the Leader was the true mastermind. Then, the Leader comes out but nobody buys it and they throw him off the plane into the snow. He begs them to stop but they leave him. The last scene is Omnibus walking thorugh the snow and coming across a polar bear.

The Incredible Hulk #464: Jailbait and Hotshot explain to General Ross how the Troyans came into Freehold with an unstoppable force and took control of the city. General Ross says that he remembers part of his time there when he was Redeemer.

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