Contents 1 History 2 Alternate realities 2.1 Marvel Animated Universe (Earth-8096) 3 Points of Interest 4 Residents 4.1 Mainstream Universe (Earth-616) 4.1.1 Staff 4.1.2 Male Prisoners 4.1.3 Female Prisoners 4.1.4 Former Residents 4.2 Marvel Animated Universe (Earth-8096) 4.2.1 Former Prisoners 5 Notes 6 Trivia 7 See Also 8 Links and References

History

The Raft is a prison for various superpowered criminals located near Ryker's Island, NY. At some point, Electro, hired by a Skrull disguised as Elektra, institutes a mass prison break. Fortunately, Matt Murdock, Luke Cage and Jessica Drew were there to control the situation, along with Spider-Man (who arrived there hanging from a helicopter), Iron Man and Captain America. Although the efforts of the heroes were extraordinary, at least forty-six supervillains were released. Months later the Raft was renovated, being upgraded with a bioenergy dampening field surrounding the prison to suppress superpowers. Especially powerful inmates have inhibitors implanted on their spines. The waters around the island in a half-mile radius are infested with jellyfish that possess a powerful nerve-toxin. The courtyard is protected by a force field and thirty rayguns coordinated by a targeting computer. All guards wear light armor with obscured faces developed by Mach-V and carry electroshock weapons that only work when operated by a specific guard. The United States' Thunderbolts program is also run from this location, allowing super-criminals to reduce their sentences by joining the state-sponsored crime-fighting team.

Alternate realities

Marvel Animated Universe (Earth-8096)

The Raft is one of four specialized, high security prisons maintained by S.H.I.E.L.D. along with The Big House, The Cube, and The Vault. The Raft was the place where only prisoners too dangerous for the other S.H.E.I.L.D. prisons. The Raft complex is actually deep underwater at the bottom of the ocean, with a garbage scow at the surface as cover.^[1]

Points of Interest

Thunderbolts Tower, Courtyard, Women's Mess Hall, Men's Mess Hall

Residents

Mainstream Universe (Earth-616)

Staff

• U.S. Agent (John Walker), warden
• Luke Cage, head of the Thunderbolts program
• Songbird
• Fixer
• Mach V
• Melvey - Assigned on level B, Agent Melvey was hit when Electro materialized out of a piece of ball lightning^[2].

Male Prisoners

• Armadillo (Antonio Rodriguez)^[3]
• Badd Axe
• Blackout
• Blood Brother
• Bushwacker (Carl Burbank)
• Centurius (Noah Black) (Currently in the Thunderbolts program)
• Colossus (Piotr Rasputin)^[4]
• Corruptor (Jackson Day)
• Equinox (Terrance Sorenson)^[3]
• Ghost (Currently in the Thunderbolts program)
• Griffin (John Horton)
• Grizzly (Maxwell Markham)
• Hyperion
• Icemaster (Bradley Kroon)
• Lightmaster (Edward Lansky)
• Man-Bull (William Taurens)^[3]
• Man-Thing (Currently in the Thunderbolts program)
• Ox (Raymond Bloch)
• Powderkeg (Frank Skorina)
• Purple Man (Zebediah Killgrave)
• Quicksand
• Scarecrow (Ebenezer Laughton)
• Schizoid Man (Chip Martin)
• Supercharger Ronald Hilliard)
• Spider-Slayer (Alistaire Smythe)
• The Squid (Donald Callahan)
• Vermin (Edward Whelan)

Female Prisoners

• Black Mamba (Tanya Sealy)
• Gunna Sijurvald (Troll)
• Man-Killer (Katerina van Horn)
• Moonstone (Currently in the Thunderbolts program)
• Ruby Thursday (Thursday Rubinstein)
• Silk Fever (Min Li Ng)
• Titania
• Troll (Gunna Sijurvald)

Former Residents

• Answer (Aaron Nicholson)
• Blizzard (Donny Gill)
• Boomerang (Fred Myers)
• Boom-Boom (Tabitha Smith) (Only for a few seconds)^[4]
• Carnage (Cletus Kasady)
• Controller (Basil Sandhurst)
• Crossbones (Brock Rumlow)
• Crusader (Arthur Blackwood)
• Cutthroat (Daniel Leighton)
• Dark Beast (Henry McCoy)
• Doctor Octopus (Peter Parker)
• Doctor Octopus (Otto Octavius)
• Grey Gargoyle (Paul Duval)
• Hydro-Man (Morris Bench)
• Jigsaw (Billy Russo)
• Lady Mastermind (Regan Wyngarde) ^[5]
• Lizard (Curt Connors)
• Mac Gargan
• Mandrill (Jerome Beechman)
• Mister Fear (Alan Fagan)
• Mister Hyde (Calvin Zabo)
• Molecule Man (Owen Reece)
• Morbius (Michael Morbius)
• Norman Osborn (Transferred to an underwater prison, the Special Containment Center)
• Purple Man (Zebediah Killgrave)
• Razor-Fist (Douglas Scott)
• Sauron (Karl Lykos)
• Scarecrow (Ebenezer Laughton)
• Shocker (Herman Schultz)
• Shockwave (Lancaster Sneed)
• Skeleton Ki (Alisher Sham)
• Slug (Ulysses Lugman)
• Super-Skrull (Kl'rt)
• Tiger Shark (Todd Arliss)
• Typhoid Mary (Mary Walker)
• U-Foes
  • Ironclad (Michael Steel)
  • Vapor (Ann Darnell)
  • Vector (Simon Utrecht)
  • X-Ray (James Darnell)
• Vermin (Edward Whelan)
• Wrecking Crew
  • Bulldozer (Henry Camp)
  • Piledriver (Brian Calusky)
  • Thunderball (Eliot Franklin)
  • Wrecker (Dirk Garthwaite)

Marvel Animated Universe (Earth-8096)

Former Prisoners

• Baron Zemo (Heinrich Zemo)
• Graviton (Franklin Hall)
• Purple Man (Zebediah Killgrave)
• Wendigo (Paul Cartier)

Notes

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Trivia

• No trivia.

See Also

• Appearances of Raft
• Location Gallery: Raft
• Images related to Raft
• Fan Art Gallery: Raft
• Marvel Staff members who were born in Raft

Links and References

• http://marvel.com/universe/raft
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Raft_%28comics%29

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