Fort Cheer

Fort Cheer
Name	Fort Cheer
Location Details
Reality	Earth-616
Galaxy	Milky Way
Star System	Sol
Planet	Earth
Country	United States of America
State	Nebraska
Creators and Appearances
Creators	Peter David, Gary Frank
First	Incredible Hulk #410 (August, 1993)
First	Incredible Hulk #410 (August, 1993)

Fort Cheer is a maximum security federal prison located in Nebraska, United States of America. Hulk and the Pantheon broke into Fort Cheer to free spy Susan Jacobson.

History

Fort Cheer security staff.

Fort Cheer, in Nebraska, was a little-known maximum security federal prison. It was one of the prisons associated to S.H.I.E.L.D., feeding the agency with a stream of data on how to keep prisoners safely. Fort Cheer proud itself of being the most secure prison in the United States of America, second only to the Vault, having protocols to withstand even a nuclear attack. While highly secure, it was considered inhumane by Amnesty International, with some prisoners being kept in dark cells for years, barely receiving light and fresh air when the guards opened a tiny slot to check whether the prisoner was still in the cell - something that was double-checked with monitor systems. Prisoners were kept shoeless, with barely any food and the company of rats. The man in charge of the institution was Warden Tarkington.

CIA agent Susan Jacobson was convicted of treason and White House Secretary Oliveris ensured that she was sent to permanent solitary confinement at Fort Cheer, for life, unjustly. She remained imprisoned for two years, three months and six days until her ex-boyfriend, the Incredible Hulk, organized a rescue operation aided by his associates from Pantheon. The Hulk tried to intimidate Tarkington by having his head appear in the warden's office to demand Jacobson's immediate release, or the prison would be attacked and Jacobson rescued anyway. Tarkington informed Oliveris, who refused to back down. Tarkington also had Jacobson moved to another cell, to make the rescue more difficult. A Pantheon rogue agent, Achilles, informed S.H.I.E.L.D. of the Hulk's plans, allowing S.H.I.E.L.D. prepare a rapid response to contribute to the protection of Fort Cheer.

The Hulk takes warden Tarkington hostage during the attack to Fort Cheer.

The Hulk and his ally Ulysses flew over Fort Cheer in a Pantheon ship piloted by Hector, and stormed through Corridor C, Section 2; quickly, S.H.I.E.L.D. fighters under the direct command of Director Nick Fury appeared to aid the defense, launching a localized sonic blast against the Hulk and Ulysses, and initiating a dogfight against Hector. The Hulk dug under the nuclear fallout shelter, temporarily escaping Fury. Oliveris criticized Fury and Tarkington for not quickly eliminating the Hulk. New pantheon fighter planes joined the attack, facing the S.H.I.E.L.D. vehicles. The Hulk and Ulysses, unable to find Jacobson, went after the Fort Cheer command center, where Ulysses defeated the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents Smith and Jones while the Hulk took Tarkington hostage, reaching a Mexican standoff with Fury. The Hulk bluffed about an attack with tactical warheads if he died; Fury, even knowing it was a lie, authorized Jacobson's release because he had discovered that her conviction had been for unjust reasons; so he allowed the Pantheon to leave Fort Cheer, and then went to White House to threaten Oliveris with making public the details of the Jacobson case. Fort Cheer remained active as a prison.

Points of Interest

• Command central
• Corridor C, Section 2 (where Hulk broke in)
• Heavy-duty blast doors closed in case of nuclear attack
• Nuclear fallout shelter
• Susan Jacobson' cell

Residents

• Susan Jacobson
• Warden Tarkington

See Also

• 3 appearance(s) of Fort Cheer
• 1 appearance(s) in handbook(s) of Fort Cheer
• 1 mention(s) of Fort Cheer
• 2 image(s) of Fort Cheer