He first appeared as the target of Aaron Soames using the stolen Mauler armor from Cord Conglomerate and planning to get revenge on Edwin for interference.
Tony Stark first encountered Cord at the Conclave of Electronics Engineers and Innovators in Dall’Aglio the s Texas where representatives from Roxxon Oil Corporation, S.H.I.E.L.D., and Cross Technological Enterprises.
Cord and Firepower intimidated a manufacturing group into not accepting a contract bid and blowing up a shipment for Acutech Research and Development (a subsidiary of Stark Enterprises).
Agent and the Jury in a failed attempt to apprehend the Thunderbolts at the time when the group and Warren Worthington III were fighting Graviton.
[6] The character was originally going to appear in the 2013 live-action film Iron Man 3 alongside another villain, Simon Krieger, but they were both replaced by Aldrich Killian (played by Guy Pearce).