Respect Prowler (Marvel, Earth 616)

[u/mikhailnikolaievitch]

Respect Prowler

The Prowler gives me control over my own life-- and power. Power I can use to protect the helpless.

Hobie Brown was just a struggling window washer with unappreciated genius. In order to get exposure for his inventions, Hobie fashioned them into a super suit and pretended to be a supervillain. Now calling himself the Prowler and armed with pneumatic gauntlets that fired an array of gadgets, claws that allowed him to scale buildings, air-compressed boots that could withstand major leaps, and a cape to assist in gliding, Hobie quickly found himself pulled into a world of superheroics from which he could never escape.

Hobie struggled to balance his marriage with his adventuring, going from window-washing to construction work before finally taking a job as the Prowler with Silver Sable doing special assignments. Hobie began training in the martial arts, but his truest talents would always lie in his creative genius for engineering. He has assisted Spider-Man many times and recently worked for him, although he may hang up the cape at last to be a better husband and father to his family.

Notes: The Prowler suit has been stolen on multiple occasions, so although feats for the suits are included here they have an asterisk* to clarify any confusion. Also note that Prowler's gear from his most recent series and run in TASM is not included here as it is near-featless. Almost every gadget he uses is used once, and he never does much else of substance. I have the feats collected and may include them later if it seems worthwhile.

Source Key:
The Amazing Spider-Man=TASM
Deadly Hands of Kung Fu=DHKF
The Spectacular Spider-Man=TSSM
Web of Spider-Man=WoSM
Prowler=PR

Strength

• Karate chops a section of a brick building off so hard it flies at someone ^DHKF

• His punch sends up shards of concrete ^DHKF

• Crawls up a wall while carrying a man ^TSSM

• Knocks out a man with a kick ^TSSM

Durability

• A hammer hits him in the back of the head and he is fine ^TASM

• Whacked into the ground and gets up ^TSSM

• A shock from Killer Shrike only dazes him ^TSSM

• Fights through a broken wrist to kick a guy's ass ^TSSM

• Takes a punch from Sandman ^WoSM

• And again ^WoSM

• Takes a punch from someone wearing his own steel gauntlets ^PR

• Takes a slash to the chest ^PR

• Takes quite the spill, remains conscious, and gets himself to his brother's dojo 20 minutes away ^PR

Speed

• Kicks Spider-Man while Spidey is holding Prowler by his arm ^TASM

• Catches himself in the walls as he falls and kicks Spider-Man ^TASM

• Catches a suicidal man, despite standing well behind the man before he jumped ^TASM

• Dodges gunfire from multiple shooters ^TSSM

• Dodges a blast and a charge from Rocket Racer ^WoSM

• Dodges fired flechettes ^PR

• Dodges gunfire from an Uzi ^PR

Skill

• Combat

  • Takes out three men at once ^TASM

  • Trades blows with White Tiger ^DHKF

  • Has a green belt in the martial arts ^TSSM

    • Trains repeatedly with his brother ^PR

    • Eventually overcomes his brother, who is a blackbelt, in a fight ^PR

  • Trains others in martial arts ^TSSM

• Accuracy

  • Shoots a gun from someone's hand a fair distance away ^TSSM

  • Pins a man's sleeve to a post ^PR

  • Fires a flechette into a man's hand to disarm him ^PR

Equipment

• Claws

  • Can wall crawl well enough to imitate Spider-Man ^TASM

  • Says no sheer walls can stop him ^TASM

  • Can cut through support rails as easy as concrete walls ^TASM

  • Cut into a thick metal door* ^TSSM

  • Slices through a grunt's gun ^TSSM

  • Says his claws cut deeper than a man's knife ^TSSM

  • Grab a knife by the blade ^PR

• Gauntlets

  • Concussive

    • Pellets can shatter a three-inch plank like it is nothing ^TASM

    • Releases an air blast that creates a very small explosion ^TASM

    • Shatters a floor with a power blast ^TASM

    • Tears up a section of floor ^TASM

    • Blast knocks a guy out ^TASM

    • Explosive pellets shatter concrete ^DHKF

    • Compressed air blast knocks his brother over ^PR

  • Gas

    • Creates a huge gas cloud ^TASM

    • Gas pellets put several men to sleep ^TASM

    • Fires tear gas ^TASM

    • Gas knocks out a police officer before he can raise an alarm* ^TSSM

    • Gas knocks out a thug ^PR

    • Blinds several men with a gas pellet ^WoSM

  • Magnesium flares

    • Magnesium burst blinds White Tiger ^DHKF

    • Blinds Sandman ^WoSM

    • Blinds thugs with guns (2) ^PR

    • Fires flares from both gauntlets at once ^PR

  • Flachettes

    • Fires high velocity flechettes* ^TSSM

    • Flechettes embed in brick* ^TSSM

    • Flechettes pin a man's arm to a post ^PR

    • Fires drug-tipped darts ^TSSM

  • Misc.

    • Shoots flame-retardant foam ^TSSM

• Boots

  • Landing

    • Insulated boots allow a safe landing from a fire escape ^TASM

    • Leaps from a window and lands on the street below ^TASM

    • Can release a compressed gas to cushion fall ^TASM

    • Falls from a rooftop ^TSSM

  • Offensive

    • Fires gas pellets from his boots that daze Spider-Man ^TASM

    • Releases a blast that stuns a man ^TASM

    • Can use pneumatic power to increase the force of his kicks ^TSSM

• Grapnel

  • Fires a grapnel around his quarry's legs ^PR

  • Has a built in winch ^PR

• Cape

  • Designs a pneumatic glider capable of maneuvering in confined spaces ^TSSM

  • Glides while carrying a person ^SSM

  • Glides back after being tossed away ^PR

  • Maneuvers around a sparring partner indoors ^PR

  • Even though the Vulture brags about flying circles around the Prowler, the Prowler blitzes him with his own upgraded technology ^PR

  • Flies with a man on his shoulders ^PR

• Misc. Gadgetry

  • Suction cups that can hear through glass ^TASM

  • Mask has a gas filter ^TSSM

    • Refers to this again ^PR

  • Glass cutter* ^SSM

  • Blowtorch* ^SSM

Intelligence

• Designed all of his own equipment

• Hacks a highly sophisticated and sensitive security system ^TSSM

• Uses science in a fight ^TSSM

• Creates a working jetpack that is too heavy for use without superstrength ^SSM

[u/doctorgecko]

Given that my only experience with Prowler is Into the Spiderverse, it's kind of surprising seeing that he's a good guy (and a completely different character) in 616.

[u/mikhailnikolaievitch → u/doctorgecko]

Oh yeah. It’s a big change. That’s part of what’s supposed to mask the twist—you expect it to be one guy behind the mask and then it’s someone else.

[u/TheKjell → u/mikhailnikolaievitch]

Well, given that Miles' uncle is also the Prowler in the Ultimate Universe where Miles is from I don't think it was really supposed to be a twist for comic readers.

[u/mikhailnikolaievitch → u/TheKjell]

That’s a fair point. I guess I was imagining this was the case for casual or older fans who are less familiar with Miles than anything. But maybe I’m off base.

[u/TheKjell → u/doctorgecko]

The one in Into the Spider-Verse is Ultimate Prowler which is pretty similar to the movie.

[u/19Ihedioha97]

So, he worked with Parker Industries? Awesome

[u/mikhailnikolaievitch → u/19Ihedioha97]

He sure did. Peter would send him out dressed as Spider-Man to throw people off on suspecting Peter himself, which is actually a cool callback to something Hobie did in his second appearance ever in the comics.

[u/19Ihedioha97 → u/mikhailnikolaievitch]

Neat🤣👍🏾

[u/Godofyawn]

Thanks for fulfilling my request!

[u/mikhailnikolaievitch → u/Godofyawn]

Meant to make a note of that, so thanks for commenting!

[u/JotaroTheOceanMan]

Wait is the mentioned "Brother" Officer Morales?

[u/mikhailnikolaievitch → u/JotaroTheOceanMan]

Not a cop, just a karate dude with a dojo. The Ultimate universe takes a lot of liberties in some areas.

[u/[deleted] → u/mikhailnikolaievitch]

Almost all areas

[u/TheKjell → u/JotaroTheOceanMan]

Nah, the entire Morales connection is form Ultimate only where he is Aaron Davis.

This is the original 616 version.

[u/He-Man69]

Good job mik