[1] The Power Broker is used in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) miniseries The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (2021) as the alias of Sharon Carter, portrayed by Emily VanCamp.
The Curtiss Jackson version of Power Broker first appeared in Machine Man #6 (September 1978) and was created by Roger Stern and Sal Buscema.
[2] The second version of Power Broker first appeared in Avengers: The Initiative Annual #1 (January 2008) and was created by Dan Slott and Christos N. Gage.
The strength augmenting process is tremendously risky, with half the subjects dying or becoming severely deformed, but this information is kept a closely guarded secret.
Many wrestlers of the Unlimited Class Wrestling Federation, which is only open to those with super-strength, use the Power Broker's services, and wind up indebted to them.
[6][7] The Power Broker offers wrestler Sharon Ventura superhuman strength, and is reportedly sexually abused while drugged.
[8] The Power Broker later kidnaps wrestler turned hero Demolition-Man, and battles Captain America and the Shroud when they come to rescue him.
He used an explosive wristband to force Vagabond's cooperation, but she managed to knock Malus out, destroy the fingerprint mold, place the band on his wrist, and inject him with the drug he had planned to use on her.
Malus captured and experimented on several augmented individuals, including Battlestar to perfect the de-augmentation process, which drew the involvement of the U.S.
In his plan to take over the world, Jackson smuggled the parasite spawns to a HYDRA base and a rebel Atlantean group.
[16] Power Broker proceeds to invest in Hench, a mobile app that allows people to quickly hire supervillains.
When Cross refuses to invest at least 1.2 billion dollars in Hench, Power Broker ends the demo, and cancels Whirlwind's attempted assassination of Ant-Man.
[17] A publicist named Marlena Howard later uses Hench to hire the Magician's son to stage an attack on Darla Deering.
[23] The Curtiss Jackson version of Power Broker was an ordinary man until he exposed himself to his own chemical and radiation strength augmentation process.
This granted him superhuman strength and durability, but left him with a grotesquely overdeveloped muscular physique which renders him unable to move without artificial aids.
Power Broker, Inc. is a fictional criminal corporation in the Marvel Universe which provides individuals with superhuman physical abilities for a price.
An original incarnation of the Power Broker, Sharon Carter, appears in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) miniseries The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (2021), portrayed by Emily VanCamp.