Bison is fictional character from the Marvel Comics

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Fictional character biography

Billy Kitson was a champion basketball player who won a college scholarship and planned to become a professional basketball player, until another player accidentally tripped Billy which resulted in Billy getting a broken leg, ending his dreams and his relationship with his girlfriend Shimari Asbery.

Billy Kitson had later made contact with the Egyptian God Seth who turned Billy into the man-bull creature Bison to serve Seth in exchange for his leg being healed.

Seth sent Bison to capture a sample of the Inferno-42 weapon from S.H.I.E.L.D.

S.H.I.E.L.D.

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 This resulted in Shimari turning to Luke Cage

Luke Cage

Luke Cage is a fictional character, a superhero appearing in comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by writer Archie Goodwin and artist John Romita, Sr., he first appeared in Luke Cage, Hero for Hire #1...

 and Thunderstrike

Thunderstrike (Eric Masterson)

Eric Masterson is a fictional character in the Marvel Comics Universe, a superhero that has appeared as Thor and later Thunderstrike. The character was introduced as a supporting character in the Thor title, but continued in several other comic books, including the self-titled series Thunderstrike...

 to help Billy. Bison also ran afoul of Seth's other minions Quicksand

Quicksand (comics)

Quicksand is a fictional character, a supervillain appearing in the Marvel Comics universe. Her first appearance was in Thor #392.-Fictional character biography:...

 and Mongoose

Mongoose (comics)

Mongoose is a fictional character, a comic book supervillain from the Marvel Comics universe.-Fictional character biography:Apparently, Mongoose was a real mongoose before his powers were genetically engineered by the High Evolutionary to serve as his agent. At one point, the Mongoose arrives in...

 whom Bison later teamed up with to fight Luke Cage and Thunderstrike and later turned on his partners. After saving agent Alex DePaul from his Mandroid

Mandroid

A Mandroid is a fictional suit of power armor which appears in the Marvel Comics universe. It first appeared in Avengers #94 , created by Roy Thomas and Neal Adams.-Fictional history:...

 armor, Bison was let go.

Later on, Bison has joined the 7th incarnation of the Masters of Evil

Masters of Evil

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 and was defeated in combat by the Thunderbolts

Thunderbolts (comics)

The Thunderbolts are a Marvel Comics superhero team, which consists mostly of former supervillains. The group first appeared in The Incredible Hulk #449 , and was created by Kurt Busiek and Mark Bagley.-Publication history:...

. All Bison wanted was to get enough money for his own cure and reunite with Shimari.

It is revealed in the Guardians of the Galaxy series that Bison is one of the inmates left behind in the Negative Zone

Negative Zone

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 42 prison and was used alongside Condor

Condor (comics)

- Publication history :The Condor first appeared in Nova #2-3 , and was created by Marv Wolfman and John Buscema.The character subsequently appears in Nova #6-8 , #10 , Nova #2-5 , #13 , Nova #3-4 , #7 , and Amazing Spider-Man #562-563 - Publication history :The Condor first appeared in Nova #2-3...

 and Gorilla-Man

Gorilla-Man

Gorilla-Man is the name of three fictional characters appearing in the Marvel Comics universe. Ken Hale first appeared in Men's Adventures #26 , while Arthur Nagan first appeared in Mystery Tales #21 , and Franz Radzik first appeared in Tales to Astonish #28 .-Ken Hale:200px|thumb|left|Cover art...

 II to help Star-Lord

Star-Lord

Star-Lord is the name of three fictional characters that appear in publications from by Marvel Comics.The first Star-Lord was Peter Quill, who first appeared in Marvel Preview #4 , and was created by Steve Englehart and Steve Gan...

 communicate with Mantis telepathically to bring the other Guardians to help defend the 42 prison against Blastaar

Blastaar

Blastaar, sometimes called the Living Bomb-Burst and Blasstaar, is a Marvel Comics supervillain. Blastaar is an opponent of the Fantastic Four and lives in the Negative Zone...

and his horde from invading earth via the non-functional portal there.

Powers and abilities

Bison's transformation has made him incredibly strong. His flesh has been toughened by his transformation. His horns can be used to violently gore an opponent.

External links

• Bison at Marvel.com
• Grand Comics Databases entry on Thunderstrike # 13, Bison's debut