Even though he was a popular student and a star athlete in high school, James Bourne didnt know what he wanted to do with his life after school. He joined the Army soon after graduation and quickly discovered that he possessed a natural aptitude for hand to hand combat. Bourne met an officer named Melinda while stationed in West Germany and the two quickly fell in love. However, their happiness ended when Melinda was murdered in a terrorist attack. James took her death really hard and a few months after the funeral he was drafted to a top-secret special forces unit called Omega Strike.

Omega Strike

Omega Strike was an elite special forces unit that had been created to combat terrorism. Out of the two hundred candiates that joined the program, only 12 soldiers were able to make it through to graduation. Bourne also had grown very close to one of his squat members named Rowena Maclean in those ten months. James endured the ten months of grueling training and earned his spot in Omega Strike next to leader Emil Tessler. After making it on the team, tiny cybernetic chips were implanted in all of the team member's brains and linked to their adrenal glands, giving them the ability to teleport at will. Many people didn’t survive the operation, due to their brains rejecting the implant.

Betrayed

Soon they were sent to their first mission to Italy where some terrorist had hijacked a plane. James was given the lead of hostage recovery unit and Rowena and Gabriel Grant leaded the terrorist termination unit. When they jumped in the plane all of James’ team got killed in seconds and he himself got also hit, but managed to teleport to the passenger section of the plane. When he arrived he saw that Grant had killed all of the terrorist, hostages and even his teammates except Rowena. James wanted an explanation and Grant told him that him and Tessler were paid to make the mission a failure. James was also told that they are going to start their own terrorist organization when they collect enough money and shot James hitting him in the stomach. Rowena tried to stop him, but it was too late. Rowena said to James that she didn’t have a choice and that she will always love him. She also hanged a golden necklace on his neck before she and Grant teleported away. Soon after they left James himself teleported away and got his injuries healed. Shortly after healing his injuries, he tried to find Rowena. He discovered that she and Grant had died in a plane crash and that Grant left false evidence incriminating Bourne. At that moment, James Bourne died and Solo was born.

Revenge of the Sinister Six

Soon after the Six reform and defeat both Spider-Man and the Hulk, Solo aided the web-slinger in his second fight against the super villain team. Things took a turn for the worse when Mysterio used an illusion to make Solo believe he was attacking the Six, when in reality he was attacking Spider-Man, allowing the Six to escape. Solo escaped and Spider-Man was rescued by Cyborg X and Deathlok. Soon after, Solo rejoined Spider-Man to aid him in a final assault on the Six aided by the Hulk, Ghost Rider, Sleepwalker, Nova, Deathlok and the Fantastic Four. With the villains defeated, Solo disappeared.

Other Adventures

Solo helped Spider-Man once again when they fought against Taskmaster, Blood Spider, Deathshield and Jagged Bow. They managed to defeat all the others, but Taskmaster managed to escape. Before Solo teleported away he told Spider-Man that the Red Skull planned to disturb America Day celebration in New York. Shortly after his last encounter with Spider-Man, Solo had a run in with Nick Fury while he was stopping Viper from stealing nuclear missiles. Fury didn’t really appreciate Solo’s help and blamed him of Viper’s escape. Solo didn’t like Fury’s attitude and teleported away leaving him alone in the factory.

A.R.E.S

While tracking terrorists, Solo encountered a ghost from his past in the form of Gabriel Grant, who now called himself Deathstroke. Grant had staged his own death and now ran his own terrorist organization called A.R.E.S. The two fought, but Deathstroke eventually escaped. Solo tracked him to Manhattan, where he found Rowenna stealing Omega Strike files. Rowena teleported away before he had time to react. Solo turned around and saw a bomb on the table and quickly teleported away. Back at his hideout, Solo went over copies of the old Omega Strike files on his computer. The memories overwhelmed him as he burst into tears. Holding the necklace Rowena gave him tightly in his fist, he vowed to save Rowena by any means necessary.

Solo saw the news coverage of Spider-Man fighting A.R.E.S. agents and he quickly teleported himself directly in the middle of the fight. The two quickly won the fight, but Deathstroke still managed to escape. Later, Solo and Spider-Man teamed up multiple times to take on A.R.E.S. After one of these encounters, Spider-Man decided that he would’t let Solo escape. He eventually defeated Solo and turned him in. However, when he was being transported, Solo managed to escape by subduing the two gaurds. He tracked A.R.E.S. down and managed to stop Tessler from killing several people. When he was about to shoot Tessler Rowena jumped in the line of fire. Solo asked why she stopped him and Rowena explained that Tessler was her father. Tessler used the confusion to teleport away. When Solo noticed, he followed with Rowena right behind him.

When they rematerialized again they saw that Deathstroke had broken Tessler’s neck. Solo attacked, but the ship eventually crashed into the ocean do to major battle damage. Deathstroke pulled himself out of the water just in time to see Solo aiming a gun at him, holding an unconscious Rowena in his other arm. He fired his gun, hitting and killing Deathstroke rigth before he had a chance to teleport away. Unfortunately, the bullet went all the way through and hit a civilian woman and accidentally killed her. Spider-Man saw this happen and accused Solo, once again, of being just as bad as the terrorists he hunted. Solo then quietly waited for the police to arrive, then allowed them to arrest him, feeling tremendous guilt for the death of an innocent person.

Six Pack

Solo was hired by G. W. Bridge to join the new Six Pack alongside Hammer, Domino, Anaconda, and Constrictor in their mission to take down Cable. After finding Cable, switching sides and much fighting; the Six Pack's minds were sucked inside an unconcious Cable's mind. They stayed trapped there until Cable's life was saved, where he then transfered the Six Pack’s minds back into their own bodies.

Civil War

During the Civil War, Solo sided with other heroes who opposed registration, including Battlestar and Typeface. While waiting to make contact with the resistance led by Captain America, Solo and the others were arrested by Iron Man, Ms. Marvel, Wonder Man and S.H.I.E.L.D. agents.

X-Factor

Solo was hired along with Clay, as bodyguards to protect Wally and Molly, cheery twins who sing mutant hate-songs. They chained up M, tied up Siryn and taped her mouth shut, and locked both women in a desert bunker after they tried to round to kids up in order to enforce the kids grandparents' court granted visitation rights.

Powers and AbilitiesEdit

Powers

Solo is able to teleport himself and a certain amount of mass that is in contact with him, such as his weapons. There appears to be a limit to the distance and number of teleports Solo can achieve in a given time span. The longer the distance over which Solo teleports, the more difficult it is for him to make the "jump".

Power Grid ^[1]

* Teleporter

Abilities

Special Forces training
Solo is a master of many forms of hand-to-hand combat. He is also highly adept in the use of conventional weapons and firearms. He is an excellent marksman.
Strength level

Peak Human

ParaphernaliaEdit

Transportation

Teleportation

Weapons

Various small arms, swords, grenades, knives and other projectile weapons.

NotesEdit

Solo works without government sanction. He supports himself by appropriating funds and equipment from the terrorists he fights.

TriviaEdit

Solo has been identified as one of the 142 registered superheroes who appear on the cover of the comic book Avengers: The Initiative #1.

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Footnotes

↑ Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A-Z hardcover Vol. 10

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