Rock and Redeemer
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First Appearance: The Incredible Hulk #343
Origin: The Incredible Hulk #343
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Rock
Real Name: Samuel J. LaRoquette
Known Group Affiliations: Hulkbusters
Powers/Abilities: Encased within a hard-rocklike exoskeleton.
The exoskeleton is made of a hard unknown substance which is
controlled mentally by LaRoquette. He can mentally reform the
exoskeleton to virtually any shape and increase the mass although
it is unknown where the extra mass comes from. Any harm to the
exoskeleton is felt by LaRoquette since they are linked. He
also hovers and can fly through the air through an unknown propulsion
force or anti-gravity equipment. LaRoquette is an expert at
surviving in any habitat on earth.
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Redeemer
Real Name: (1)Craig Saunders Jr (2)General Ross
Known Group Affiliation: (1)Hulkbusters,
US Army Corp (2)US Army
Powers/Abilities: Redeemer wears a well armored battlesuit with
deadly weapons. Saunders is a demolition expert. General Ross
is a well-trained soldier and is familiar with many types of
weapons.
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Origin: Bruce Banner brought together Saunders and LaRoquette along
with three other individuals to from the Hulkbusters
to stop the Hulk at a point when Bruce was separated from the Hulk.
Past history, a member getting killed during a training exercise,
along with never succedding in stopping the Hulk left Saunders and
LaRoquetee vunerable to the Leader's
control and manipulation to turn them into warriors for use in his
various plans.
GREAT MOMENTS IN HISTORY
The Incredible Hulk #343: While in the stasis tubes, Saunders
and LaRoquette are reminded of their pasts'. Saunders started off
as a kid loving to play with caps, seeing their flash and hearing
the noise. In high school, he accidently blew up the chemistry lab.
He joined the military as an explosives expert. One day while at a
national airport, a man tried to smuggle a bomb on an airplane. He
shot the person and tried to diffuse the bomb but found that he didn't
have time. Instead, he threw it down a hall not knowing that a woman
and her child where coming out of a restroom. The bomb exploded, killing
them both. Saunders was blamed for the deaths and the military wanted
no part of him. He wandered until he got hooked up with the Hulkbusters
but even their he couldn't seem to succeed. All he wanted was a chance,
so the Leader puts him in a battlesuit
with deadly weapons and names him Redeemer. LaRoquette remembers growing
up pretending fantasy after fantasy. He grew up and lived every adventure
he could, conquering every environment on the planet, from water to
mountains to jungles. He eventually became a college professor and
got involved with one of his students, Carolyn Parmenter. The Dean
of Students found out of the relationship and LaRoquette ending up
hitting the Dean and getting fired from the college and also led to
the relationship with Carolyn ending badly, as they broke up and lost
contact with each other. He went to work for Argo Industries and during
an expedition, an earthquake claimed the lives of two of his workers.
His bosses blamed him so he punched them. Then he joined the Hulkbusters
and met up with Carolyn again, which seemed to go well. But then,
she died during a training session and even though he blamed the Hulk
and Doc Samson, he feels that he should have somehow saved her. All
his life, he felt that people have tried to put him down and tell
him what to do but he has hung tough. The Leader
encases LaRoquette in a extremely hard material which LaRoquette can
shape mentally and calls him Rock. The Leader
plans on using his new soldiers to steal a gamma bomb and to destroy
the Hulk.
The Incredible Hulk #344: Rock and Redeemer attack Yuma Base
to steal a gamma bomb. They go through and kill soldier after soldier
effortlessly. During the battle, Redeemer asks why the Leader
doesn't use the humanoids. The Leader
tells him that is so that the world doesn't realize that the Leader
is still alive. The Leader also says
that he didn't just matter transport one out because the bomb might
go off during the transfer. They reach the vault holding hundreds
of gamma bombs and take one.
The Incredible Hulk #345: Bruce, Clay, Betty and Rick look
over footage of Rock and Redeemer's attack of the base. Meanwhile,
Rock and Redeemer train at the Leader's
base on a robotic Hulk. Rock says that he wants to go up against the
real Hulk. The Leader tells them to have
patience. Rock asks if when the mission is over, he will be disconnected
from his suit. The Hulkbuster
team. The Hulk jumps at Rock and Redeemer, demanding them to tell
him where the bomb is. The Hulk tracks down Redeemer and Redeemer
shoots the Hulk square in the face. The Hulk, unfazed, grabs one of
Redeemer's hands and crushes it. The Hulk asks him again where the
bomb is, with Rock sneaking up on him. Rock creates sharp points and
starts to twirl up behind the Hulk but at the last minute, the Hulk
turns around and throws Redeemer at Rock, killing him. Rock wants
revenge, forming hands and grabbing the Hulk. The Hulk gets ahold
of one of the hands and rips it off of Rock, causing mental feedback
and intense pain for Rock. The Hulk takes the opportunity and beats
the heck out of Rock. The Leader appears
and distracts the Hulk enough for the weakened Rock to come up behind
the Hulk and pierce through the Hulk's body from behind. The Rock
is too weak to finish the job, so the Leader
transports him and Rock away.
The Incredible Hulk #366: The Leader
transports the Hulk to his secret base to talk to him. Rock attacks
the Hulk from behind and tells the Hulk he owes him a lot of payback.
The Hulk breaks a spike off a Rock and throws him at it. Redeemer
shows up and the Hulk is thrown for a minute because he saw Redeemer
die before. Redeemer's visor is cloudy so you can not actually see
the person in the outfit. The Hulk knocks Rock and Redemer back with
a clap of his hands and then knocks a building down on them. The Hulk
then runs into the Leader.
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 Rock and Redeemer plus the Riot
Squad.
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: Rock and Redeemer transport away
from the Pantheon mountain base along with the Leader,
the U-Foes, and Riot
Squad. Later, the Leader and Redeemer
transports into Rick's room. He tells Rick of the empathic bond they
share and that he cannot deal with the grief from Marlo's death. The
Leader says that he must do something
about it and Rick takes that as if the Leader
is going to kill him. Instead, the Leader
says that he plans to bring Marlo back which Rick thinks is a lie.
He tells Rick of his comibination of technology plus the powers of
Soul Man, he can bring someone back to
life and to prove it, he tells Redeemer to take off his helmet. Redeemer
lifts his helmet up and although you can't see who it is, Rick looks
shocked.
The Incredible Hulk #400: While at Freehold, Rick looks at
the slacken-faced General Ross in the Redeemer battlesuit, finally
believing that the Leader can bring people
back to life. In his office, the Leader
explains to Rick how he took the deceased General Ross's body and
brought it back to life with his machines and put it in the Redeemer
suit when Saunders was killed. Rick asks why he didn't bring Saunders
back to life. The Leader answers that
he didn't bring Saunders back because he was annoying. When Hydra
attacks, Rock and Redeemer help the Riot
Squad fight them off. When the Hulk interrupts the Soul
Man's process to bring Marlo back to life, Redeemer fires at him.
The Hulk uses the Leader's body as a
shield. The enraged Hulk breaks the helmet of Redeemer and is surprised
to see General Ross. He throws Redeemer/Ross at the crystalline structure
the gravely injured Leader crawled into
and causes the whole thing to explode. The Hulk digs himself out ofthe
rubble and finds the body of the once again deceased General Ross.
The Incredible Hulk #401: Rock is seen helping clean up rubble
alongside Ogress.
The Incredible Hulk #464: When General Ross, along with Bruce
Banner, goes to Freehold with the Troyjans,
he is greeted by Rock. Ross recognizes LaRoquette from the Hulkbusters
and wonders what has happened to him. Rock says that noone has called
him LaRoquette in a long time and calls General Ross "Redeemer." That
opens a floodgate of info as Ross remembers his life as Redeemer and
then dying at the Hulk's hand and then the Troyjans
bringing him back to life again.
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