From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Dallas Riordan
Dallas Riordan
Dallas Riordan was exposed as villains.[5] The Thunderbolts, led by Citi-
zen V (by now Baron Zemo once again), soon made an at-
tempt to take over the world.[6] To save face, the mayor
chose to blame Dallas for leading him astray and prompt-
ly fired her.[7]
A short time later, Dallas was approached by Roger
Aubrey of the V-Battalion[8] and was offered the role
of Citizen V (the original Citizen V was a Golden Age
Publication information hero murdered by Helmut’s father Baron Heinrich Ze-
mo), their primary field agent.[9] It turned out that Dal-
Publisher Marvel Comics las’s grandfather had worked for the original V-Battalion
First Thunderbolts vol. 1 #1 (1997) (the majority of which were slaughtered by Heinrich).
appearance He had served in World War II but stayed in Europe to
help recreate the V-Battalion with Roger Aubrey and var-
Created by Kurt Busiek
Mark Bagley ious others, leaving his wife and son, Jim Riordan, be-
hind. Jim raised Dallas to be
In-story information tough and encouraged her desire to be a police officer.
Alter ego Dallas Riordan Jim did not like the V-Battalion but he presumably want-
ed his daughter to be trained in combat so that she would
Team V-Battalion
be prepared if she ever accepted a role in the V-Battalion
affiliations NYPD
Thunderbolts (as was her right, being a descendant of a member).
Furious over the way her life had been destroyed by
Notable Vantage, Atlas, Citizen V the Thunderbolts, Dallas decided to join the V-Battalion
aliases
and became Citizen V. She became somewhat of a super-
Abilities None. As Vantage, Dallas once possessed hero herself, first fighting Baron Zemo[10] and then going
superhuman levels of agility and endurance. up against the threat of the Crimson Cowl, who after
While sharing consciousness with Atlas, knocking Citizen V unconscious[11], framed Dallas for be-
Vantage was charged with ionic energy and
could grow to great heights, fire ionic blasts, ing the leader of the Masters of Evil, which was all a set-
create a protective energy field, and fly. up to throw the Thunderbolts off the trail of the real
Crimson Cowl (Justine Hammer).[12] Dallas was then ar-
Dallas Riordan is a character in the Marvel Comics uni- rested. Dallas was rescued from prison by the V-Battal-
verse. ion.[13] She soon tried to track down the Crimson Cowl[14]
but instead found herself fighting the Imperial Forces of
America (ironically, but unknown to her, they were fund-
Fictional character biography ed by Baron Zemo). [15] The V-Battalion ordered Dallas
Dallas Riordan’s family had a long storied history of being to assassinate Henry Peter Gyrich[16] (who would become
police officers.[1] Dallas was once an NYPD officer and a her co-worker in the Commission on Superhuman Activ-
soldier[2] before she went into politics and became the ities several years later) because Gyrich and the CSA had
aide to the New York mayor.[3] When the Thunderbolts been compromised by the nanite conspiracy spearhead-
appeared on the scene after the disappearances of the ed by Baron Strucker of HYDRA.[17] Dallas refused and
Avengers and the Fantastic Four, the mayor wanted to the V-Battalion sent their operatives to stop her from in-
take advantage of the Thunderbolts publicity and chose forming the Thunderbolts of their plans.[18]
to appoint Dallas as the liaison between his office and the When Dallas returned to the United States, she tried
new team of "heroes". Dallas was completely unaware to get help from the Thunderbolts but a battle broke out
that her new associates were really super villains in dis- between the two groups and Dallas vanished in battle,
guise, plotting to use their new found publicity to get se- kidnapped again by the Crimson Cowl.[19] Dallas wound
curity clearances with which they could take over the up in a prison base on the border of Symkaria and Latve-
world.[4] ria.[20] She managed to find a means of escape but chose
Dallas quickly began a flirtation with Thunderbolt to confront the Cowl instead. The battle ended with her
member Atlas and the two were dating when the group falling off a bridge and into a river.[21] Dallas washed up
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in Latveria[22] (the country led by Doctor Doom) and her dier she married after Watkins death. Dallas’s father Jim
back was crushed, requiring her to use a wheelchair for Riordan was born to an American couple. Jim’s father was
mobility. Dallas soon began to get visitations from her ex- a soldier in WWII who stayed in Europe after the war
boyfriend Erik[23] (who had been killed by Scourge)[24]. and helped recreate the V-Battalion in 1951, but he died
Eventually Dallas was freed from Latveria by the soon afterwards.[34] Jim’s mother was left to raise her son
Redeemers[25], at which point she came back to the Unit- alone. Dallas used the family history of John Watkins the
ed States (and presumably her criminal record as the 3rd as her cover story when she explained her origin to
Cowl was expunged). Captain America, but he immediately saw through the
deception.[35] JJ Watkins, the son of John Sr and Paulette
The Thunderbolts, who had previously disbanded, re- and father to John Watkins the 3rd, is presumably unre-
united during a battle with Graviton. Dallas reasoned that lated to the Riordan family. Dallas was offered the man-
the ionic-powered Erik’s visitations were similar to Won- tle of Citizen V because of her grandfather’s sacrifice in
der Man’s visitations of the Scarlet Witch, who he used the early days of the reconstituted V-Battalion.[36] The
as an emotional anchor to tie him to the world after he official handbook entry on Dallas Riordan is incorrect in
had been killed. Erik didn’t have a body to come back these matters.
to and instead channeled his ionic energy into Dallas. In
their ionic state, Dallas’s body could walk and had various
super powers. Atlas rejoined the Thunderbolts to fight
References
Graviton but after the battle, Erik and Dallas found them- [1] Thunderbolts #5
selves and their teammates marooned on Counter Earth. [2] Thunderbolts #41
When they returned, the ionic energy recreated a power- [3] Thunderbolts #1
less Erik Josten and Dallas retained a portion of the ion- [4] Thunderbolts #1-10
ic energy.[26] Thanks to the Fixer, Erik soon gained Pym [5] Thunderbolts #5, #10
Particle-related powers again.[27] [6] Thunderbolts #11
Dallas joined the Thunderbolts as Vantage and chose [7] Thunderbolts #10, 15
to remain on the team to watch Zemo, who she could [8] Thunderbolts #42
not trust. Eventually Helmut was scarred by a deranged [9] Thunderbolts #-1: Distant Rumblings
Moonstone when trying to save Captain America. The [10] Thunderbolts #17
Thunderbolts briefly disbanded and Erik asked Hank Pym [11] Thunderbolts #24
to strip him of his new powers. Dallas and Erik broke up [12] Thunderbolts #25, #42, #65
and Dallas took a job working for homeland security. [28] [13] Thunderbolts #27
Erik soon rejoined the Thunderbolts despite being [14] Thunderbolts #30
powerless.[29] After an encounter with Genis, Erik be- [15] Thunderbolts #31-32
came enraged and tapped into his ionic powers which [16] Thunderbolts #35
somehow left Dallas paralyzed again. [30] [17] Thunderbolts #48-50, Citizen V and the V Battalion
Dallas is currently a fulltime member of the CSA and #1-3
even helped organize the battle between the Thunder- [18] Thunderbolts #36-39
bolts and the new Avengers.[31] Dallas and the CSA are [19] Thunderbolts #39
apparently working with Zemo to save the world from [20] Thunderbolts #40-42
the Grandmaster. Dallas does not trust Helmut, but gave [21] Thunderbolts #42
him the benefit of the doubt.[32] [22] Thunderbolts #43
Altered again by the Wellspring, during a battle [23] Thunderbolts #51, #54
against the Grandmaster in which he had to surrender [24] Thunderbolts #47
his powers temporarily to Zemo, Josten was left stuck [25] Thunderbolts #51-52
in a giant form, too heavy even to move and communi- [26] Thunderbolts #74-75
cate. However he was able to send back some ionic ener- [27] Thunderbolts #75
gy to Dallas, restoring her legs. She offered jobs to Abner [28] Avengers/Thunderbolts #1-6
Jenkins and Norbert Ebersol within the CSA. She next ap- [29] New Thunderbolts #1
peared as part of senate sub committee questioning Nor- [30] New Thunderbolts #8
man Osborn about the Skrull invasion.[33] [31] New Thunderbolts #13-14
[32] New Thunderbolts #14-18, Thunderbolts #100-108
[33] Thunderbolts #126
Notes [34] Thunderbolts #42
Dallas is not the granddaughter of John Watkins Sr, the [35] Captain America/Citizen V annual 1998
original Citizen V, nor is she the granddaughter of [36] Thunderbolts #42
Watkins’s lover Paulette Brazee and the red-headed sol-
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