The character made his live-action debut in the Marvel Cinematic Universe television series She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, portrayed by Nick Gomez.

the Wrecker, first appeared in Thor, and is depicted as a former manual laborer for a demolitions crew who is fired for his violent and anti-social tendencies.

Garthwaite created a costume for himself and called himself the Wrecker, committing a series of robberies, demolishing looted locations and leaving a crowbar at the scene of the crime.

[6] While searching for a gamma bomb built by Thunderball with which they hope to extort New York City, the Wrecking Crew battled several members of the Defenders: Doctor Strange; Nighthawk and the Hulk.

[19] The Wrecker also received instruction from another enemy of Thor, the Asgardian Rock Troll Ulik, as to how to utilize the full power of the enchanted crowbar.

[37] After an appearance in the second volume of She-Hulk,[38] New Avengers revealed that the Hood has hired a small army of criminals, which included the Wrecker (taking advantage of the division in the superhero community caused by the Superhuman Registration Act)[39] In Daredevil and at the Hood's direction, the Wrecker battled fellow criminals the Enforcers[40] and the New Avengers.

[41] The Wrecker and the rest of the Wrecking Crew were featured in a short story in the second volume of Marvel Comics Presents;[42] then in Punisher War Journal;[43] the miniseries 1985[44] and with the Hood's army in the Secret Invasion storyline battling the alien Skrull force invading New York City.

[45] The Wrecker continued to make appearances across several titles as an employee of the Hood, including New Avengers;[46] Captain America;[47] the miniseries Marvel Apes[48] and a promotional comic book produced by Taco Bell.

The Wrecker and Thunderball were taken down by Doctor Doom in his Iron Man armor until the Hood showed up with the rest of his gang and shot him with one of his enchanted bullets.

As the Wrecker prepared to do the final opening move, Victor von Doom disappeared in a bright light, leaving the armor behind.

[58] Courtesy of an Asgardian enchantment placed on him by mistake by Karnilla the Norn Queen, the Wrecker possesses superhuman strength, stamina and durability (bulletproof).

After receiving training from Ulik the Rock Troll, the Wrecker no longer suffers from this handicap and is now capable of using his powers to their full potential and use the crowbar in the same fashion that Thor can utilize his mystic hammer Mjolnir.