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Jerry Hunt (Earth-616)

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A British Regional Officer for the international law enforcement agency S.H.I.E.L.D. and its link with Scotland Yard, Jerry Hunt worked chasing criminals in British territory. Happening across former Hydra agent Jessica Drew/Spider-Woman, at the time on the verge of committing petty thefts, Hunt unmasked her and thought he recognized that face (from S.H.I.E.L.D. files on Hydra agents, but he did not notice at the time). Hunt became obsessed with her and fell in love with her even before knowing her in person. After several encounters in London, Hunt followed Spider-Woman to Los Angeles, taking a leave of absence from S.H.I.E.L.D. In Los Angeles, Hunt was summoned by Spider-Woman's mentor, Magnus the Magician, so that he'd help against Morgan Le Fay and the Werewolf. Although Hunt's role was little more than a distraction, he convinced Spider-Woman of Hunt's honest intentions, and the two began dating. Hunt also became an ally of Spider-Woman in her fight against criminals, helping her find her father's murderers, and supported her in becoming a superhero.

While Hunt valued Spider-Woman's independence, her unusual behavior sometimes got him on his nerves. He also had trouble because several other supervillains (Needle, Brothers Grimm) overpowered him, making him a burden for her even if he was a trained S.H.I.E.L.D. agent, and because they did not agree in the best course of action (He identified Gypsy Moth as a threat while she wanted to befriend Moth). After Drew's landlady Priscilla Dolly (Madame Doll) kidnapped Hunt to transfer her husband Nathan's life essence to Hunt's body, once again requiring Spider-Woman's help to be rescued, S.H.I.E.L.D. asked Hunt to return to active duty. Hunt expected to be sent back to London and asked Spider-Woman to go with him, but she refused because she was settling in Los Angeles. Hunt broke off her romance with her but, as she had lost her lodging with Mrs. Dolly, Hunt gave her the apartment he had rented in Los Angeles, paid for two months.

Instead of going to London, Hunt continued working for SHIELD in Los Angeles, collaborating with Agent Laura Brown in the search for missing agents Jeffrey Cochren and Margaret Huff. He had personal friction with Brown, who did not want to work with Hunt, but he managed to win her sympathy. In the course of the investigation, Hunt and Brown were captured by the group responsible, the Cult of Kali led by Nekra, and then rescued by Spider-Woman and her new male friend Shroud, which again strained Hunt's emotions. When Hunt was finally transferred to London, he formally said goodbye to Spider-Woman, and both realized that they were no longer in love. Hunt continued to work for S.H.I.E.L.D. in Europe for a time, including an operation in Switzerland against U.L.T.I.M.A.T.U.M. with Captain America's help.

History

London[]

Born in London,[6] Great Britain,[7] Jerry Hunt learned a secret recipe for cooking lasagna from his mother.[4] Hunt became an agent for international law enforcement agency S.H.I.E.L.D.,[8][10][11] reaching the rank of Lieutenant[14] and the position of Regional Officer (Level 5).[10][11][9][6] As a Regional Officer, Hunt was responsible for executing the policies of the Regional Director in London, and had jurisdiction over Field Agents.[11][6] At some point in his career, Hunt coincided with fellow S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Laura Brown,[13] a Field Agent (lower rank than Hunt's),[10] but she did not get along with him.[13] Hunt was also the S.H.I.E.L.D. liaison with the Metropolitan Police Service (Scotland Yard), responsible for law enforcement throughout London and surrounding areas,[5][8] and as such was also a member of that police force. One of their missions included tracking down two criminals, Chauncy and Trevor,[5] responsible for a series of bomb attacks across London.[15] S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Sid worked along with Hunt for this mission.[5]

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Meeting Spider-Woman in London.

At one point, Hunt reviewed S.H.I.E.L.D. files about members of enemy organization Hydra and came across documents that included the photograph of Jessica Drew,[13] superhuman Hydra agent who had faced to S.H.I.E.L.D. using the alias Arachne and later as Spider-Woman, but was freed from Hydra's control[16] twice.[17] Hunt however forgot where she had seen Drew's face.[13] At that time, Spider-Woman was in London and, with hardly any resources, she considered robbing a market in St. Martin's Lane; regretting it at the last moment, she decided to leave without taking anything, but as she left the closed premises, she accidentally bumped into Hunt. Exercising his authority as a police officer, Hunt identified himself as a Scotland Yard agent and attempted to arrest Spider-Woman. She slipped away, but Hunt took off her mask and realized he knew the woman's face. Spider-Woman escaped without identifying herself, but the encounter made a big impression on Hunt, who decided to investigate the woman (and immediately discovered that she had not stolen anything).[5]

The next day, Hunt ran into Drew, this time in street clothes, on Oxford Street, and followed her. Although Hunt did not intend to arrest her and tried to explain that to her, Drew panicked, fled into an alley and, finding herself cornered, ripped out a street lamp with superhuman strength and threw it at Hunt. Instantly realizing her mistake, Drew pushed Hunt away from severe damage, but in the process she knocked him out. After that encounter, Drew redesigned her costume so she would not be unmasked so easily and dyed her brown hair black. [5]

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Hunt in London.

Hunt and Sid were sent to the British Parliament where they faced, in a shootout, the criminals Chauncy and Trevor, who were armed with laser guns. The fugitives wounded Hunt in the forehead, but fortunately Spider-Woman was in the area: She took down both criminals and went to check on Hunt, noting that she was dying, and deciding that she cared about him more than she would about a mere stranger. Trevor recovered and attacked Spider-Woman while she was with Hunt; after beating Trevor, she offered to take Hunt to the hospital, knowing that she would go faster than the official transports. The police officers were reluctant to accept, and although Hunt supported Spider-Woman, his voice was barely heard. Forcibly, Spider-Woman took Hunt to a hospital in London and demanded that doctors transfer blood from Spider-Woman to Hunt, as it would help him resist the effects of the laser radiation used against him. Recovering in the hospital and informed of the details (including the criminal plans of Chauncy, who had been arrested) by his Scotland Yard colleague Clarence,[5] Hunt became obsessed with Spider-Woman, determined to find her and wondering whether he had fallen in love with her for some strange reason.[5][8]

When Hunt returned to work shortly after, he had Scotland Yard look for Spider-Woman for two weeks. He confessed to his coworker Frank that he believed he had fallen in love with Spider-Woman. Shortly afterward, another colleague, Max informed him of a crime in which a man on horseback attacked a shop on Carnaby Street, and a woman in strange clothes had been seen there; Max suspected that she might be Spider-Woman, and knew of Hunt's interest on her. Accompanied by Frank, Hunt went to the scene, and found a clothing store in perfect condition, and criminal "Slapper" Struthers unconscious with a note that said "America Spider-Woman"; no trace of the horse or the crime was found. Hunt had Frank arrest Struthers, charges pending to be decided, and then took an extended leave of absence from S.H.I.E.L.D. to travel to the United States following Spider-Woman.[8] Discovering that Spider-Woman had gone to Los Angeles,[18] Hunt also traveled there[1][19] on a commercial flight.[1][note 1]

Los Angeles and relationship with Spider-Woman[]

Hunt traveled on a commercial flight to Los Angeles International Airport, where he was picked up by William Foster, researcher for Stark Industries, as personal favor of Anthony Stark to S.H.I.E.L.D. and without Hunt knowing that someone was going to receive him. Foster began a friendship with Hunt and took him to eat at a Mexican restaurant in the area,[1] possibly Pancho's Villa.[20] Hunt asked Foster if Foster knew anything about Spider-Woman; Foster, who claimed to be an expert on costumed people[1] (he himself being a costumed superhuman),[21] knew nothing about Spider-Woman.[1] Hunt later stayed in a hotel,[12] and gained access to the LAPD headquarters to search for Drew's face among the mugshots.[22]

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Hunt, seemingly killed during the fight against Le Fay

Spider-Woman was captured and imprisoned in a so-called Haunted Mansion, where the witch Morgan Le Fay subjected her to torture using hallucinations, including ones in which Jerry Hunt attacked her. Morgan also captured Spider-Woman's elderly mentor, the sorcerer Magnus,[23] and coerced Spider-Woman into helping her obtain a mystical item, the Darkhold. Magnus, deciding that he could trust Hunt, secretly used his magic to reveal to Hunt, in the form of intuition, where Spider-Woman was. Hunt left the police station and drove to Venice Beach, where he saw Spider-Woman defeat the Werewolf and fly away carrying him; Hunt followed her by car, arriving at the Haunted Mansion, and went in to help her; he saw Spider-Woman confronting Le Fay. Spider-Woman accepted help from the newly arrived Hunt, although she was baffled because he insisted on calling her "gorgeous" and claimed to be in love with her. Le Fay seemingly destroyed Magnus while Hunt and Spider-Woman watched; but later, when she attacked Hunt and Spider-Woman with magical flames, they were magically protected in some way that neither of them understood (Magnus had not actually been destroyed and was protecting them with magicks). Spider-Woman asked Hunt to move away to distract Le Fay, and then Le Fay incinerated Hunt with a new fire attack, reducing him to ashes (This was an illusion produced by Magnus to throw Le Fay off track). Spider-Woman then defeated Le Fay, sending her back to her time, and because of her magic, the mansion itself disappeared. Magnus revealed himself to Hunt, explained his actions, and returned Werewolf to his home; but Hunt and Spider-Woman barely listened to him because they spent that time kissing and hugging.[22]

From that moment on, infatuated Hunt became the boyfriend of Spider-Woman[24][19] (and her secret identity, Jessica Drew), [25][26] as well as her ally as an agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. [27] Hunt explained to Drew how he frequented seedy hangouts on the harbor to obtain information from locals, so that she'd be able to do that too.[2]

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Hunt and Magnus became Spider-Woman's staunch allies.

Hunt and Drew went on a date at the Los Angeles Zoo with Magnus as chaperone. Drew explained to Hunt what she knew of her peculiar origin, including her work for Hydra and, before that, how she had been raised by the High Evolutionary on Mount Wundagore, accompanied by the New Men, so that she had had little contact with humans or civilization.[24] Drew had discovered that his father, Jonathan, had been murdered,[18] and wanted to discover the culprit. Hunt decided to use his contacts with S.H.I.E.L.D. to search for information about Jonathan on their advanced computers, although Magnus was reluctant; Hunt wanted to help Drew cut ties with her past and then ask him for "something very important." That same afternoon, they went to the S.H.I.E.L.D. laboratories. in Sacramento, where maxi-computers pointed to the company Pyrotechnics. Hunt and Spider-Woman spied on Pyrotechnics, with Hunt infiltrating the building, knocking out a security guard and impersonating him to enter the records' room and take photos of the documents. With that information and other discoveries, Drew, Hunt, and Magnus theorized that Pyrotechnics forced Jonathan to work for them and perhaps killed him when he tried to escape; Magnus also told them some details he knew about Jonathan and himself, which were not relevant to Jonathan's death. Drew then had a revelation and decided to run out the window without explaining herself; Hunt would have followed her, but Magnus secretly convinced him to let her "seek her own destiny." Spider-Woman was however caught by her father's murderer, who was also the mastermind behind a Pyrotechnics conspiracy, Congressman James T. Wyatt.[24] Pyrotechnics intended irradiate the country with a Neutron Device and conquer it using mutated soldiers with a discovery by Jonathan;[24][19] in fact they intended to take all the military bases in the country that same night.[24]

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Hunt with S.H.I.E.L.D. troops during the attack on Pyrotechnics

Hunt obtained enough evidence to convince his S.H.I.E.L.D. contacts. to give him support. Hunt and several agents under his command captured a group of soldiers who were going from Pyrotechnics' secret military base to the Pyrotechnics company to undergo an immunization process, after which they would attack the government bases. Hunt and his men posed as Pyrotechnics soldiers and entered the secret military base, suddenly overrunning it to the surprise of the conspirators. Hunt explicitly sought out Wyatt and ordered him to free Spider-Woman. Wyatt attempted to activate a self-destruct button on the base, but Spider-Woman stopped him, and Hunt shot him dead. Hunt and Spider-Woman interrogated dying Wyatt, who confessed to both his plans to conquer the country[24] and the murder of Jonathan.[24][19] After that, Hunt took Spider-Woman to the S.H.I.E.L.D. Los Angeles headquarters[4] to inform the director of S.H.I.E.L.D., Nicholas Fury. Fury told them that some of Wyatt's accomplices had confessed, and Drew was pleased to have found her father's killer, as well as her relationship with Hunt.[24][note 2]

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The Needle sewed Hunt's mouth

After this, both Hunt and Magnus supported Drew to start a career as a costumed heroine. By then, she was openly in love with Hunt,[28] and appreciated that he was loving, giving and respectful, and that he valued her independence, even encouraging her to maintain her own space or break off a date if an emergency required her powers.[12] Shortly after, however, Spider-Woman's independence began to be a problem when, after going to the theater with Hunt, she preferred to fly solo rather than allow Hunt to drive her home. Left alone, Hunt heard a cry for help in an alley and, going there, saw a long-haired boy attacked by the disguised criminal the Needle. Although Hunt had trained as a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent, the Needle's powers paralyzed him. The Needle then sewed Hunt's lips together. Hunt was found and sent to Los Angeles Municipal Hospital, room 313. The next day, Drew was informed of this on the phone, and she visited him. Unable to speak due to her injuries, Hunt wrote to ask Drew to stay out of the case because the Needle was dangerous;[29] but she refused to obey him. When Hunt was discharged, still injured, and returned to his hotel room, he was angry at her,[29][19] although she had made progress by discovering that all of the Needle's victims, except Hunt, were under thirty years old; Drew also insisted on her independence and hoped that Hunt could accept her as she was. When Hunt was sufficiently recovered, they both patrolled together, although she was flying, and he felt that she was insulting him because he had been overpowered by the enemy. The Needle ambushed Hunt again; Hunt fired, but missed, and then the Needle paralyzed Hunt with his powers. Spider-Woman arrived in time to save him, and she managed to defeat the criminal, who was arrested by the police. Hunt was disappointed that he had not been able to save his girlfriend, and that he needed her to save him.[29] However, he was not considering leaving Los Angeles and, at some point after this, he went on to rent an apartment[13] oriented to the functionalities he needed as a single professional.[30]

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Trying to help Spider-Woman, Hunt shot the Moth.

Shortly afterward, while Hunt was still recovering from his injuries, Hunt and Drew had a sunset picnic at a secluded beach; Drew was reluctant to kiss him because his lips had been damaged. There[31] she saw a flying superhuman, Gypsy Moth, and looking for a like-minded person to fraternize with, Drew left Hunt on the beach to fly after the Moth, though she failed to catch the Moth.[31][25][26] Hunt was hurt and ended the appointment prematurely; Drew thought it was because Hunt, unlike her, did not know what it was like to feel different. A few days later, Hunt tracked down Spider-Woman to apologize, and found her,[31] flying and fighting Moth, over a house in Bel Air.[31][25][26] Seeing that she could save Spider-Woman,[31] Hunt shot at the Moth's wings, knocking her down.[31][25][26] Spider-Woman, enraged because she was still trying to befriend Moth, responded by launching a venom-blast at Hunt, knocking him down,[31] and then carried Moth to safety[31][25][26] in the surrounding wilderness.[31] Moth escaped,[31][25][26] and Spider-Woman met Hunt in his car; the blast had been mild and Hunt had only needed a few minutes to recover. However, Hunt was once again angry with Spider-Woman.[31] This encounter, along with the problems in capturing the Needle, alienated Hunt.[19]

Since arriving in Los Angeles, Drew and Magnus had been staying at the Dolly Household, renting rooms from Priscilla Dolly.[18][27] They were unaware that Mrs. Dolly's supposedly dead husband, Nathan Dolly, had transferred his life essence into two doll-like figurines, which she later managed to transfer into two full-sized mannequins with supernatural powers controlled by Nathan. She pretended that these mannequins were her supposed sons Jake and William, and they were secretly carrying out crimes under the name Brothers Grimm,[20][32][33][27] having confronted Spider-Woman in the past.[27][18][1][24][29] Hunt had not gone to the Dolly Household until that point, and therefore had not met the Dollys, but after the encounter with the Moth, Hunt made a reservation for two at Pancho's Villa and went to pick up Drew at the Dolly Household, bringing her flowers. Drew introduced her to his landlady. For some time,[20] Nathan Dolly had longed to possess a human body and planned to obtain Hunt's;[20][32][33] Mrs. Dolly also thought that Hunt was suitable for her purposes.[20] Furthermore, Drew had stumbled upon the compromising original figurines of the Brothers Grimm in a drawer,[20][27] and Mrs. Dolly intended to punish her for being nosy[20][27] (When she told Hunt about the figurines, he did not suspect that Mrs. Dolly was involved in anything suspicious).[20] The Dollys had also discovered that Magnus had magical powers[20][27] and hoped to coerce Magnus into performing a magical rite of transference[20][32] at the Playhouse Theater, which was owned by the Dollys.[20][27] To this end, the Dollys intended to capture Drew and Hunt during their date.[20]

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As the heroic woodsman in a hallucination

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Captured by the Brothers Grimm

One of the Brothers Grimm was seen in the restaurant, causing chaos and panic with his deadly pranks. While Drew went to the bathroom to change clothes to reappear as Spider-Woman, Hunt tried to help but could not use his revolver in such a crowded place, and Grimm, identifying him as a threat, pushed a hostage onto him to keep him busy. Spider-Woman was more effective, and Grimm fled through the rocky backroads of Los Angeles, pursued by her by air, and by Hunt in his car. The other Brother Grimm was hidden in Hunt's car, so he was able to surprise Hunt and knock him out with gas. Spider-Woman was later captured,[20] and they were both taken to the Theatre, where they would wake up restrained. Meanwhile, thanks to his magical powers, Magnus sensed danger and went to the Theatre, where Mrs. Dolly, calling herself Madame Doll,[34][27] threatened to kill Spider-Woman unless Magnus transferred her husband's spirit to Hunt's body.[34][27][32][35] Madame Doll, maddened, believed that Nathan's spirit was in the small figures, not the life-sized mannequins.[34][27] One Brothers Grimm drugged Hunt and Spider-Woman with gas; and he had a hallucination similar to the story of Little Red Riding Hood, with herself as Hood, Madame Doll as granny who becomes the big bad wolf, and Hunt as the heroic woodsman who saves Hood from the Wolf; however, upon defeating Granny, Hunt discovered that she had been wearing masks with the faces of villains Hunt had been defenseless against (the Werewolf, the Needle, and Brothers Grimm). Hunt was kept unconscious and suffering nightmares inside a Circle of Transfer while, in the real world, one of the Brothers gave Hunt's gun to Madame Doll, and she pointed it at Magnus to force him to obey.[34] However, Magnus deduced the nature of the Brothers Grimm, which allowed him to draw a plan:[27] He distracted Madame Doll with his magic[34] so that Spider-Woman would disrupt the spell[34][35][27] defeating Madame Doll and removing Hunt from the pentagram;[34][27] Magnus held Nathan's spirit, who had abandoned the Brothers' mannequins,[34] and when Hunt was no longer in the pentagram,[34][35][27] Magnus prevented Nathan from returning to the mannequins,[32] so that the spirit had no body to enter and dissipated.[34][35][27][32] Hunt woke up and asked what had happened; Magnus replied that Mrs. Dolly had lost her family, not realizing in her dementia that her children were actually the spirit of her husband.[34]

SHIELD work in Los Angeles[]

Mrs. Dolly was then admitted to a mental hospital,[27][19] and Magnus explained that he had been hired to perform in Las Vegas as a conjurer. While Drew and Magnus visited her, S.H.I.E.L.D. telephoned Hunt to reinstate him to active duty,[13] which could include relocating him back to London.[2] The next day, Drew and Hunt accompanied Magnus to Los Angeles International Airport to see him off on his trip, since his first performance would be in a few days; Magnus asked Hunt to take care of Drew, and Hunt joked that she would not let him take care of her. When Magnus left, Hunt told Drew that he'd be back working for S.H.I.E.L.D. and offered to enlist her in S.H.I.E.L.D. so that they could continue together in the missions; but she refused, remembering her time as a spy working for Hydra (which made Hunt remember how he had seen Drew's face before their first meeting: In a dossier on Hydra agents).[13][note 3]

At this point, Hunt agreed to end his relationship with Drew,[13] because she was too independent for him.[13][28] However, since she had lost her lodging with Mrs. Dolly,[13] Hunt allowed her to relocate to his Los Angeles apartment, which he abandoned,[13][19] as he had already paid the next two months.[13] Drew went on to forward the mail that arrived to Hunt, unopened, possibly through S.H.I.E.L.D. [36] Curiously, however, Hunt rejected the transfer to London and asked S.H.I.E.L.D. to allow him to remain based in Los Angeles to be close to Drew.[2] Hunt was therefore placed under the orders of Barth Bukowski,[13] S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Regional Director for Los Angeles.[10]

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Working with Laura Brown

Bukowski assigned Hunt to investigate the sudden disappearance of two other S.H.I.E.L.D. agents, Jeffrey Cochren and Margaret Huff, who had been investigating a murder cult in Los Angeles. Bukowski ordered Hunt to work with Laura Brown, even though she would have preferred not to;[13] Brown's attitude also bothered Hunt, and he soon wished he had agreed to go to London. Hunt had him and Laura go to the Glendale suburb where Cochren lived, which had already been investigated by the police; she protested about it, firstly because she found it useless, and secondly because she believed that Bukowski had deliberately brought them together for reasons she disapproved of. While Hunt failed to achieve results, Spider-Woman ironically advanced her career by using what Hunt had taught her to defeat enemies [2] and to infiltrate S.H.I.E.L.D.'s HQ.[4]

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Trying to change Brown's mind about himself

Information in a police report about the disappearance of Cochren and Huff[30] and about murder cult-related attacks[2] led Hunt and Brown to investigate an emotional investigation clinic,[30] Hatros Institute, where the secretary had reported an attack by men armed with daggers.[2] Brown and Hunt questioned the manager, Dr. Mark Leaman, who repeated what he had told the police. He further told them that the receptionist he had witnessed, and who was not available at the time, was Miss Drew; Hunt was surprised to hear that name, because he did not know that Drew had gotten a job, and he was overwhelmed because he had not yet defined his own feelings toward her. Dr. Leaman showed them around the clinic, but was unable to arrange a meeting between Hunt and the supposedly absent head of the clinic.[2] In reality, the head of the clinic was murder cult leader Nekra,[4] and she had monitored that encounter.[2] Not wanting the S.H.I.E.L.D. discovered her plans, Nekra ordered her cultists to capture them to sacrifice them in a ritual.[4][37][38] Unaware of this, Brown took Hunt to her beach house in Malibu, unhappy at having no results after a week, and Hunt impressed her by cooking his family recipe for lasagna for her.[4] At least ten Nekra thugs infiltrated the beach house[4] and captured Brown and Hunt after a fight.[30] The S.H.I.E.L.D. agents were knocked out, tied up, muffled,[30] and taken to a hidden lair under a mausoleum in a cemetery north of Glendale, disposed before an altar of sacrifice to the goddess Kali. With a congregation of at least two dozen fanatics, Nekra prepared to kill them; but fortunately Spider-Woman and her new superhuman ally Shroud had also followed that trail and were hidden in the lair.[4] Spider-Woman and the Shroud defeated the thugs, rescuing both still unconscious agents.[4][37][38][19] Spider-Woman recognized Hunt and told the Shroud that, since the victims were S.H.I.E.L.D. agents, they would be able to handle themselves when they woke up. She also realized that she had not felt the same emotions she used to feel when seeing Hunt (while she had a complicity with the Shroud that she had not had with Hunt), and she understood that, when Hunt knew that she had saved him again, that was going to make their relationship even more difficult.[4]

When Brown and Hunt awoke, they found themselves surrounded by twenty-five tied thugs, who had been overcome by one or more strangers; Hunt suspected Spider-Woman had rescued him again. Brown and Hunt also found the bodies of Cochren and Huff, and took the prisoners to the S.H.I.E.L.D. base, where they interrogated them to no avail. They then presented their report to Bukowski, although Hunt did not mention Spider-Woman. Bukowski offered Brown the chance to no longer work with Hunt, but she decided they had a satisfactory professional relationship. Brown and Hunt were assigned to London, together.[30]

Leaving Los Angeles[]

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Jerry Hunt breaking up with Jessica Drew

Shortly afterward, Spider-Woman defeated Nekra, leaving her in a coma[30][37][38] and handing her over to the authorities. Hunt visited Drew at her old apartment, noting that she had changed the decor, and offered again that she accompanies him to London. This time, she rejected him because she had gained a sense of belonging in her situation with a home and a job; and he, who had also stopped feeling the same way about her, decided that a clean break would be better than a long goodbye. Hunt left in Brown's car, thinking that if Drew had told him that she had rescued him, even if he did not want to hear it, the conversation would have been different.[30]

With their personal and professional relationship over,[39] Drew missed Hunt, remembering him several times during their subsequent adventures.[40][41] She was evicted from Hunt's former apartment,[36][19] after which she looked for a new home and began to collaborate with the criminologist Scott McDowell,[42][19] who had a crush on her.[42] However, as with Hunt, she proved to be too independent-minded and they eventually ended their partnership.[19]

Spider-Woman died in a confrontation with Le Fay, and at the request of Spider-Woman's spirit, Magnus cast a spell so that everyone who had ever met her, including Hunt, would forget her;[43] however, Magnus' magic failed, leading to several people remembering Spider-Woman[44] and resurrecting her.[45] If Hunt remembered Spider-Woman again, he did not contact her.

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Lieutenant Hunt during the operation in the Swiss Alps

Hunt participated in a S.H.I.E.L.D. military operation [14] against the terrorist group ULTIMATUM in the Swiss Alps, attacking the ULTIMATUM base there in collaboration with Captain America.[14][46] Hunt, as a Lieutenant, had some authority over the operation. After taking the base, both Captain America and ULTIMATUM leader Flag-Smasher had gone missing; while agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. arrested dozens of prisoners, agent Riley reported to Hunt, explaining that two other agents, Felker and Wohl, had seen Captain America jump onto a fleeing helicopter. Hunt deduced that the helicopter was operated by Flag-Smasher, and that Captain would have communicated if he could, so he assumed the Captain and the helicopter had crashed. Hunt considered sending a search party, but was convinced that they did not have enough manpower and that night was approaching too quickly; however, Hunt insisted that Riley and another agent, Dave, remain on guard in case Captain returned, while Hunt sent two transport choppers[14] with several dozen prisoners[46] to the S.H.I.E.L.D. Division headquarters.[14] Captain America appeared alive, and with several other prisoners including Flag-Smasher.[14]

Hunt remained an agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. for quite some time after this,[47] although he ended up leaving the organization.[48]

Personality

Jerry Hunt was a professional,[14] dedicated agent of S.H.I.E.L.D., following his orders for the greater good even if he disliked them,[13] but not risking his own morality in the process.[8][20] In his personal relationships, he behaved like a gentleman, never behaving rudely even when infuriated[31][2] and trying to protect the people he cared about[29] and the agents under his command.[14] When wooing a woman, he may be daring enough to compliment her unexpectedly.[22]

For a time, Hunt was obsessively infatuated with Spider-Woman, at the time a former Hydra agent turned urchin[5] (Hunt had seen her photograph while reviewing S.H.I.E.L.D. files on Hydra).[13] After a couple encounters in London, Spider-Woman left for Los Angeles, and Hunt's feelings were so intense that he followed her there,[1] taking a leave of absence at work.[8] Once they met, they fell in love quickly[22] and started dating.[24] Hunt made an effort to be loving, giving and respectful, deferential to Spider-Woman's initiative to stop a date with him to help in a crisis, and valuing her independence;[12] along with her mentor Magnus, he supported Spider-Woman to start a career as a costumed heroine[28] and became her ally in those operations.[39][24] However, the situation became complicated when, on several occasions, Spider-Woman's activities against enemies such as Gypsy Moth and Needle made Hunt feel estranged,[19] especially since Hunt was not only unable to help her on those missions,[29][31] but also he often needed to be rescued himself.[29] Spider-Woman believed that Hunt was not able to understand how she felt because, due to her origin, she was different from most people.[31] After being captured by the Brothers Grimm, and once again rescued by Spider-Woman,[34] Hunt returned to active duty with S.H.I.E.L.D. and wanted to continue her relationship with Spider-Woman, but she refused. Hunt generously left her his rented apartment in Los Angeles, having paid rent for several more months.[13] Hunt also decided to stay in Los Angeles, to be secretly close to her.[2] However, when they met again after being apart, neither felt the same as before for the other and, although Hunt once again offered Spider-Woman to go to London with him, she rejected him, and Hunt decided to end their romance.[30]

Hunt had a tense relationship with the S.H.I.E.L.D. agent. Laura Brown, who was unhappy working with him;[13] since Brown was aggressive when addressing Hunt, he in turn felt uncomfortable with her.[2] Despite this, Brown invited Hunt to her beach house, where he cooked lasagna for her.[4] After a mission, Brown decided that he had no problem continuing to work with Hunt, and it is possible that they became attracted to each other.[30]

Attributes

Powers

Jerry Hunt (Earth-616), Pyrotechnics (Earth-616) from Spider-Woman Vol 1 7 001

Hunt was a trained spy.

Hunt received a blood transfusion from Spider-Woman which, due to her powers, enhanced Hunt's resistance to damage caused by laser radiation.[5]

Abilities

Jerry Hunt received S.H.I.E.L.D. training in espionage and combat,[29] being able to handle himself in difficult situations and to count on S.H.I.E.L.D.'s support.[4] This included a variety of specific skill, from obtaining information by visiting seedy locales[2] to take photos of documents while infiltrating in the enemy's file room, to operate undercover using a just-knocked-down guard's uniform,[24] to coordinate S.H.I.E.L.D.'s efforts with other enforcement agencies.[8] As a Lieutenant, he was also a military leader even in combat situations.[14]

Hunt was good in unarmed, hand-to-hand combat, and was also trained in the use of semiautomatic military weapons.[24] Hunt's personal weapon was a short handgun he could keep hidden while in plainclothes.[5][29] Hunt was reputedly a crack shot and was seen using his gun with both his right[29] and his left hand.[31] When fighting, however, Hunt prioritized the bigger picture and the security of innocent civilians in the line, so he did not shoot or made attacks when other people may be in danger.[20]

Other skills Hunt demonstrated included driving a car,[23][20] writing to communicate when his mouth had been damaged,[29] and cooking: Hunt was particularly proud of his mother's secret recipe for lasagna.[4]

Weaknesses

Jerry Hunt demonstrated to be unfamiliar with the specifics of computer technology used by S.H.I.E.L.D.[24]

Paraphernalia

Equipment

As an agent of S.H.I.E.L.D., Level 5 (Regional Officer),[9] Hunt wore a standard uniform with red-orange bands and piping to denote rank.[9][14]

Weapons

Jerry Hunt usually hides a short gun under his jacket when in civilian clothes.[5][29] He has occasionally used other military weapons, including a two-handed semiautomatic gun.[24]

Transportation

Hunt owned and drove a convertible in California.[20] Occasionally S.H.I.E.L.D. provided him with specific transport for his missions, such as helicopters.[14]

Notes

Jerry Hunt (Earth-616) from Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Vol 1 10 001

Hunt's image in SHIELD's profile for Official Handbook

Trivia

  • Hunt is systematically called Jerry, even in lists of SHIELD agents. Only once,[2] fellow SHIELD agent Laura Brown addresses him as "Gerald". It is unclear whether "Gerald" is Hunt's full name, which Brown may have seen in SHIELD files, and "Jerry" is a nickname that friendlier people address him as; or Brown may have been wrong, accidentally or on purpose to get Hunt on his nerves.
  • In his first appearance, when he found Jessica Drew stealing, Hunt identifies himself as working for Scotland Yard;[5] in his second appearance, he's revealed to be a SHIELD agent.[8] Surely he did not want to reveal his SHIELD affiliation, possibly classified, to a common criminal he had just met, while his Metropolitan Police affiliation had use in that first encounter.
  • When Hunt first landed in Los Angeles, he met Bill Foster, who took him to an unnamed Mexican restaurant in the area.[1] Later, Hunt took his girlfriend Jessica Drew to eat at Pancho's Villa, mentioning how Hunt had been introduced to the place through a friend.[20] It's likely, but not confirmed, that Pancho's Villa is the restaurant Foster took Hunt to.
  • Hunt was over 29 years of age during her relationship with Spider-Woman.[29]
  1. ↑ It is unclear why Hunt traveled specifically to Los Angeles. The note he had left Spider-Woman only said "America Spider-Woman", unless it had more text elsewhere. However, Spider-Woman had made a public appearance in Los Angeles in Spider-Woman #3 (which S.H.I.E.L.D. surely recorded), before Hunt travels there in Spider-Woman #4; Hunt may have waited to hear from her before choosing a destination city.
  2. ↑ The story in Spider-Woman #7 (starting in the Los Angeles Zoo, ending when they report to Nick Fury) explicitly takes place from 2:30 pm of July 2nd, 1978, to 10:00 am of July 4th, 1978. These are topical dates according to the Sliding Timescale
  3. ↑ After Magnus leaves Los Angeles, Jessica Drew mentioned how he had been an agent of Hydra, and "the word triggers a long-suppressed memory" in Hunt, making him remember that he had first seen her face in SHIELD files of Hydra in Spider-Woman #13. However, Jessica had explicitly mentioned to Hunt her work for Hydra way before that, including in one of their first dates in the Los Angeles Zoo in Spider-Woman #7.

See Also

Links and References

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 Spider-Woman #4
  2. ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 Spider-Woman #14
  3. ↑ Captain America #322
  4. ↑ 4.00 4.01 4.02 4.03 4.04 4.05 4.06 4.07 4.08 4.09 4.10 4.11 4.12 4.13 4.14 Spider-Woman #15
  5. ↑ 5.00 5.01 5.02 5.03 5.04 5.05 5.06 5.07 5.08 5.09 5.10 5.11 5.12 5.13 Spider-Woman #1
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 Gamer's Handbook of the Marvel Universe #6 ; SHIELD I's profile
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Marvel Atlas #1 ; United Kingdom's profile
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 8.5 8.6 8.7 8.8 Spider-Woman #2
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 Weapons Locker #1 ; S.H.I.E.L.D. uniform's profile
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe #10 ; S.H.I.E.L.D.'s profile
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe (Vol. 2) #11 ; S.H.I.E.L.D.'s profile
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 Spider-Woman #8
  13. ↑ 13.00 13.01 13.02 13.03 13.04 13.05 13.06 13.07 13.08 13.09 13.10 13.11 13.12 13.13 13.14 13.15 13.16 13.17 13.18 Spider-Woman #13
  14. ↑ 14.00 14.01 14.02 14.03 14.04 14.05 14.06 14.07 14.08 14.09 14.10 Captain America 322
  15. ↑ Marvel Two-In-One #30
  16. ↑ Marvel Spotlight #32
  17. ↑ Marvel Two-In-One #31
  18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 18.2 18.3 Spider-Woman #3
  19. ↑ 19.00 19.01 19.02 19.03 19.04 19.05 19.06 19.07 19.08 19.09 19.10 19.11 19.12 Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A to Z #11 ; Spider-Woman (Drew)'s profile
  20. ↑ 20.00 20.01 20.02 20.03 20.04 20.05 20.06 20.07 20.08 20.09 20.10 20.11 20.12 20.13 20.14 20.15 20.16 20.17 Spider-Woman #11
  21. ↑ Defenders #62
  22. ↑ 22.0 22.1 22.2 22.3 Spider-Woman #6
  23. ↑ 23.0 23.1 23.2 Spider-Woman #5
  24. ↑ 24.00 24.01 24.02 24.03 24.04 24.05 24.06 24.07 24.08 24.09 24.10 24.11 24.12 24.13 24.14 Spider-Woman #7
  25. ↑ 25.0 25.1 25.2 25.3 25.4 25.5 All-New Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A to Z #10 ; Skein (Sybil Dvorak)'s profile
  26. ↑ 26.0 26.1 26.2 26.3 26.4 26.5 Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A to Z #10 ; Skein's profile
  27. ↑ 27.00 27.01 27.02 27.03 27.04 27.05 27.06 27.07 27.08 27.09 27.10 27.11 27.12 27.13 27.14 27.15 27.16 Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A to Z #2 ; Brothers Grimm's profile
  28. ↑ 28.0 28.1 28.2 Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe: Avengers 2005 #1 ; Spider-Woman (Drew)'s profile
  29. ↑ 29.00 29.01 29.02 29.03 29.04 29.05 29.06 29.07 29.08 29.09 29.10 29.11 29.12 Spider-Woman #9
  30. ↑ 30.00 30.01 30.02 30.03 30.04 30.05 30.06 30.07 30.08 30.09 Spider-Woman #16
  31. ↑ 31.00 31.01 31.02 31.03 31.04 31.05 31.06 31.07 31.08 31.09 31.10 31.11 31.12 31.13 31.14 Spider-Woman #10
  32. ↑ 32.0 32.1 32.2 32.3 32.4 32.5 Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe (Vol. 2) #2 ; Brothers Grimm's profile
  33. ↑ 33.0 33.1 New Avengers Most Wanted Files #1 ; Brothers Grimm's profile
  34. ↑ 34.00 34.01 34.02 34.03 34.04 34.05 34.06 34.07 34.08 34.09 34.10 34.11 Spider-Woman #12
  35. ↑ 35.0 35.1 35.2 35.3 Avengers Assemble #1 ; Magnus's profile
  36. ↑ 36.0 36.1 Spider-Woman #20
  37. ↑ 37.0 37.1 37.2 All-New Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A to Z #8 ; Nekra's profile
  38. ↑ 38.0 38.1 38.2 Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A to Z #8 ; Nekra's profile
  39. ↑ 39.0 39.1 Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Master Edition #8 ; Spider-Woman I's profile
  40. ↑ Spider-Woman #17
  41. ↑ Spider-Woman #19
  42. ↑ 42.0 42.1 Spider-Woman #21
  43. ↑ Spider-Woman #50
  44. ↑ Avengers #240
  45. ↑ Avengers #241
  46. ↑ 46.0 46.1 Deadpool Corps: Rank and Foul #1 ; ULTIMATUM's profile
  47. ↑ All-New Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A to Z #10 ; S.H.I.E.L.D.'s profile
  48. ↑ Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A to Z #10 ; S.H.I.E.L.D.'s profile
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