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Thundra

Thundra is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. She is often aligned with the Fantastic Four. She is a powerful, red haired, amazon-like warrior, or Femizon, from a matriarchal, technologically advanced future timeline where men have been subjugated by women.

Thundra was created by Roy Thomas and John Buscema, and first appeared in Fantastic Four #129.

Roy Thomas recalled the character's creation, "A 7-foot Amazon type that I conceived as an homage of sorts to characters like Kirby's Big Barda in his Fourth World by DC Comics. I asked John Buscema to give her a bandolier around her torso because a number of women's-lib types were wearing them (sometimes with real bullets) in photos in newspapers and magazines."

Thundra is a warrior woman and time traveler from the 23rd century on Earth-715. In her timeline, Earth is now known as Femizonia and is ruled by Amazon-like overlords (Femizons) who have enslaved Earth's men. Thundra hails from the megalopolis of Greater Milago (a merged sprawl of Milwaukee and Chicago). Thundra is renowned as the United Sisterhood's most formidable warrior, having been physically enhanced by genetic engineering and trained in combat and tactics from a young age.

Thundra is sent to the 20th century to challenge Fantastic Four member the Thing to a bout of one-on-one combat, believing him to be the strongest male of all time. By beating the Thing in combat, she feels she can prove once and for all that women were superior to the male gender, and finally end a stagnant war between Femizonia and the male-dominated planet of Machus.

Thundra is recruited into the Frightful Four, enemies of the Fantastic Four. She secretly has her own agenda and has no real interest in the group. She battled the Thing in personal combat, and then wound up ultimately switching sides and helping the Fantastic Four defeat the Frightful Four after she quits the group.

Thundra later met wrestling promoter Herkimer Oglethorpe, and on his advice she became a professional wrestler training with the Grapplers, a group of wrestlers. In a fixed wrestling match with one Grappler member, Thundra is secretly drugged by her opponent, causing her to black out and lose the match. When she awakens, it was revealed that the Grapplers had been working for Roxxon, a petroleum company which was covertly involved in developing advanced technology and weaponry. The Grapplers trick Thundra into helping them sabotage Project Pegasus, a prison/research facility.

Medusa and Crystal infiltrate Thundra's present-day homeland to retrieve part of a device required to rescue Black Bolt from the Skrulls. As tensions between the two disguised women boil over, Thundra appears and compels them to undertake the ritual combat required of the society to resolve the disagreement. Thundra is convinced to hand over the Skrull intelligence agent after Crystal makes an impassioned speech.

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