Boris Bullski (Earth-616)

Titanium Man
Name	Boris Bullski
Current Alias	Titanium Man
Aliases	Boris the Merciless, The Commander, Andy Stockwell
Affiliation and Relationships
Affiliation	Source Control; formerly The Hammer, Remont 4, Green Liberation Front, Titanic Three, Defenders, former partner of Black Widow
Relatives	Parents: Unidentified father Spouses: Unidentified wife
Marital Status	Married
Physical Characteristics
Gender	Male
Height	7′1″ (2.16 m), 8′9″ (2.67 m) (in armor)
Weight	425 lbs (192.78 kg), 975 lbs (442.25 kg) (in armor)
Eyes	Irises: Blue
Hair	Brown
Origin and Living Status
Origin	Human mutate
Living Status	Alive
Reality	Earth-616
Place of Birth	Makeyevka, Russia
Personal Information
Identity	Public
Citizenship	Russian, Soviet (formerly)
Occupation	Mercenary; former government operative and spy
Base of Operations	Mobile Formerly Mandarin City
Creators and Appearances
Creators	Stan Lee, Don Heck
First	Tales of Suspense #69 (June, 1965)
First	Tales of Suspense #69 (June, 1965)

 Dos vedania, Iron Man! Your grave awaits you! 

—Titanium Man

History

Boris Bullski quickly rose through Soviet government ranks and became popular in the Communist Party. He had also briefly worked with Black Widow as an intelligence agent. Due to political reasons, he was reassigned to Siberia.

He learned that some of the camp members were scientists that had worked with Anton Vanko. Bullski planned to make a new armor capable of defeating Iron Man to prove the USSR's superiority over the US. A titanium alloy armor was made, however it was much larger and heavier than Iron Man's due to the camp lacking sufficient resources to design micro components. Bullski was unable to defeat Iron Man on several occasions.

Bullski was also sent to claim the new Crimson Dynamo armor that Alex Nevsky had made. During the confrontation Janice Cord was killed. After several failures, he was no longer welcome in the USSR, and placed under house arrest in Vietnam. While there he underwent experiments under Half-Face to increase his already massive physique. Teaming with Alex Nevsky and Radioactive Man, they were known as the Titanic Three.

He came into the service of the Soviet Union again and was teamed up with Yuri Petrovitch, Griffin, and Darkstar to capture Black Widow and Ivan Petrovitch as well as destroying the newly-founded Champions of Los Angeles.

Boris found the location of a defector named Sergei. Sergei was an armor designer who had created a number of prototype Credit Card Armors. The armor could be compressed into a small device resembling a credit card, and were easily transported and concealed. He blackmailed the scientist into creating more armors and working on the Titanium Man armor. Boris claimed he knew Sergei's family and would have them killed if he refused to cooperate (in reality the family had already been killed).

Boris then found a group of disgruntled war veterans. Calling himself The Commander, Boris organized them into the Green Liberation Front. They attacked various banks and were used as pawns to sabotage the US's federal money supply. The group was stopped by Beta Ray Bill.

Sergei ousted the Commander as Titanium Man after learning the truth about his family. Bullski escaped using a teleporter, but was left in his card form. Sergei ripped the card apart. The Gremlin began using his own version of Bullski's armor, but was killed fighting Iron Man.

Dimitri Bukharin was sent to revive Bullski. He managed to piece the card together and reverted it to Bullski in his armor. Bullski had some mental problems from being in the card state and part of his leg was not restored properly. He attacked Bukharin, and the two were disgraced. Valentin Shatalov offered Bullski to join his Remont 4 group, which planned to return the Soviet Union. They were unsuccessful.

Bullski grew bitter as Russia seemed to accept more Western ideals. The last straw was the opening of a Stark Enterprises branch in Moscow. He attacked the center, but was stopped by Iron Man and Black Widow. Shatalov soon arrived as Crimson Dynamo, ordered to stop Bullski by any means necessary. However, Titanium Man broke Shatalov's leg and fled.

Stark agreed to wear the Dynamo armor and let Shatalov handle things remotely to give the impression that Bullski was stopped by his own countryman. Natasha also helped with translation. Stark battled Titanium Man fiercely at an abandoned space rocket factory, the Baikonur Launch Facility. Seeing that Bullski would not stop, and other tactics failing, Shatalov used the Dynamo's 'fusioncaster' weapon. The blast knocked Bullski into Energia rockets, which exploded. Stark waded through the wreckage of the factory to find a dying Bullski. Stark was angry about the death, and Shatalov was soon removed by his superiors, claiming lethal force was not authorized.

Under circumstances still unknown Bullski was revived and outfitted in a new armor. Now a mercenary, he was hired by Tony Stark to fake an attack on Congress trying to show reasons to stop the Superhuman Registration Act. He battled Spider-Man there and made a withdrawal after Spidey damaged his helmet with his cybernetic claws, but not without saying to a camera in Spider-Man's Iron Spider suit a planned speech which Stark used in Congress in rejection of the SRA.

Later, the Titanium Man reappeared, this time in Russia, as a member of the rogue Soviet super-rebel group called Remont Six. He was knocked out by Darkstar, but was apparently not captured. Later, Titanium Man was seen being beaten down by the Protector. Bullski in an all new Titanium Man armor was used by Mandarin in an army of Iron Man villains to take down the armored Avenger.

Titanium Man was one of the vigilantes recruited by Spider-Man and Silver Sable to infiltrate the missile silos controlled by Doctor Octopus. His loyalty was questioned by Spider-Man, due to his villainous history, though Black Widow assured him that Titanium Man would not betray them. However, Titanium Man was ambushed by the Scorpion, who had been outfitted with a new armor. After a valiant effort, Titanium Man was defeated by the Scorpion.

When a black market network called Source Control rose up in the shadows as the premier provider for illegal advanced technology and weaponry, the Titanium Man became an operative for the organization, outfitted with an upgraded version of his original armor. After discovering that Source Control had acquired the rings of the deceased Mandarin, fellow operative Vic Martinelli attempted to reach out to Iron Man and War Machine. Once Source Control caught notice of Martinelli's actions, they sent the Titanium Man after him. Bullski brutally killed Martinelli before retrieving the rings.

Investigating Martinelli's murder, Iron Man and War Machine deduced Titanium Man's involvement, and he confronted the duo. Although the two heroes managed to overpower Bullski, he sprayed Iron Man with a dose of the lethal neurotoxin Compound 13 before fleeing. Stark survived the exposure to Compound 13 since he had been aware of its presence in Source Control's catalog, so his armor's filtration systems had been adjusted beforehand. However, he used the opportunity to fake falling into a coma to pursue Source Control undercover.

Attributes

Power Grid

Powers

Superhuman Strength: Bullski underwent various experiments performed on him by the Soviet government for the purpose of handling the tremendous bulk of the Titanium Man Armor. The result was Bullski's size and strength greatly increased. Even without the use of the Titanium Man armor, Bullski himself has sufficient superhuman strength to lift 1.5 tons.

Abilities

Even without the use of the armor, Bullski is a formidable hand-to-hand combatant and is a skilled espionage agent having been trained by the Black Widow.

Paraphernalia

Equipment

Inside Titanium Man's Armor

Titanium Man Armor: Like the Crimson Dynamo armor; The Titanium Man armor is essentially a Russian counterpart to Tony Stark's Iron Man armor. It has a tremendous armament of weapons and grants variable superhuman attributes to its wearer, Boris Bullski.

• Superhuman Strength: As with the Iron Man armor, the Titanium Man armor bolsters Bullski's already superhuman strength to much greater levels, increasing his strength by a factor of 50. With the armor at peak operating capacity, Bullski is able to lift approximately 75 tons.

• Superhuman Speed: Despite the armor's tremendous bulk, Bullski is able to run and move at speeds that are beyond the natural physical limits of the finest human athlete.

• Superhuman Stamina: The armor bolsters Bullski's musculature, causing it to generate considerably less fatigue toxins during physical activity than the musculature of a normal human. Much like his strength, Bullski's physical stamina is increased by a factor of 50. Bullski can exert himself at peak capacity for roughly 24 hours before the build up of fatigue toxins in his musculature begins to impair him.

• Superhuman Durability: The armor is essentially an extremely dense titanium shell making Bullski highly resistant to conventional physical injury. The armor can withstand high caliber bullets, artillery cannon shells, falls from great heights, exposure to temperature extremes, powerful energy blasts, and tremendous impact forces without sustaining damage or allowing Bullski to sustain physical injury.

• Superhuman Agility: The armor augments Bullski's agility, balance, and bodily coordination during physical activity. While wearing the armor, Bullski is more agile than the finest human athlete.

• Superhuman Reflexes: The armor enhances Bullski's reflexes similarly, making them superior to those of the finest human athlete.

• Flight: The armor possesses jets built into the bottom of its feet, enabling Bullski to fly through the air. While the full limit of how fast he can fly isn't known, he is at least able to achieve the speed of sound, which is roughly 770 miles per hour.

Weapons

The Titanium Man armor possesses a broad variety of powerful energy beams that Bullski typically uses in combat situations. Built into the armors gauntlets are powerful blasts of concussive energy similar to the repulsor rays of the Iron Man armor. The armor also has lasers built into the area of its eyes as well as a beam capable of projecting extremely high levels of heat built within its chest cavity. Also built within the armor is a powerful tractor beam that Bullski can use to ensnare an enemy trying to escape or to pull objects from a distance to potentially use in combat situations. The gauntlets can also emit magnetic flux rings that coil around a target and can expand or contract. If a target happens to be flying, these rings can disrupt the targets ability to concentrate and maintain proper altitude. The armor also possesses a unique type of cloaking system that generates a hologram allowing the armor to appear as if Bullski is merely wearing clothing or it can use the system to camouflage itself to blend in with whatever background he finds himself next to.

Notes

• His working with Natasha is a reference to the 'Boris and Natasha' characters from The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle.

See Also

• 58 appearance(s) of Boris Bullski (Earth-616)
• 12 appearance(s) in handbook(s) of Boris Bullski (Earth-616)
• 11 minor appearance(s) of Boris Bullski (Earth-616)
• 11 mention(s) of Boris Bullski (Earth-616)
• 3 mention(s) in handbook(s) of Boris Bullski (Earth-616)
• 46 image(s) of Boris Bullski (Earth-616)
• 6 quotation(s) by or about Boris Bullski (Earth-616)
• 2 victim(s) killed by Boris Bullski (Earth-616)
• 2 item(s) used/owned by Boris Bullski (Earth-616)