Roxxon

The Roxxon Energy Corporation (also known as the Roxxon Oil Company, Roxxon Oil Corporation, Roxxon Corporation, or simply Roxxon) is a fictional massive petroleum industrial conglomerate in the Marvel Universe appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by writer Steve Englehart and artist Sal Buscema, the Roxxon Energy Corporation first appeared in ''Captain America'' #180 (December 1974). The company is depicted as having been run by various executives who are typically ready and eager to use any underhanded and illegal option to secure profits, up to and including violent crimes. As such, Roxxon is a consistent opponent of various superheroes.

Since its original introduction in comics, Roxxon Energy Corporation has been featured in various other Marvel-licensed products, including video games and animated television series. The company made its live-action debut in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Development

Concept and creation

The name was inspired by oil company Exxon, which comics writer Ed Brubaker says is part of Marvel's policy of referencing the real world but "one step removed", similar to their re-naming the real-world crime syndicate Mafia as the Maggia.

Publication history

The Roxxon Energy Corporation debuted in ''Captain America'' #180 (December 1974), created by Steve Englehart and Sal Buscema. The company appeared in the 2024 ''Roxxon Presents: Thor'' one-shot, and the 2024 ''Iron Man'' series.

Fictional company history

Originating sometime during the early 20th century as Republic Oil & Gas Co. and having rebranded itself at various times, Roxxon has been run by various executives who are ready and eager to use underhanded and illegal option to secure profits, has its own army-like security task force, and has employed a number of special agents. Roxxon has encountered numerous superheroes, such as Captain America, Iron Man, Spider-Man, and the Black Panther.

The Roxxon conglomerate's central division is Roxxon Oil. The company currently wholly owns the Kronas Corporation and the Metrobank while the Brand Corporation is another for-profit company that has specialized in creating superhumans and is usually considered a subsidiary that has sometimes made its own decisions and acted independently.

Roxxon has also regularly been at odds regarding energy sources with Project Pegasus, which has been involved in alternative energy research that could hurt Roxxon's oil profitability.

Roxxon is also shown to have previously had a mining operation on Mars, but (due to unexplained circumstances) halted the operation and erased all traces of everyone involved.

Roxxon Energy Corporation (alongside Alchemax and Hammer Industries) was mentioned to have once tried to bid on the renovated Baxter Building only to be outbid by Parker Industries.

Roxxon is revealed to be orchestrating the young superheroes being falsely outlawed by the public. Having acquired the dragons from ''War of the Realms'' event, their first step was to get rid of the high schooler Aliana Kabua. Although Kamala Khan got injured from saving Aliana, Roxxon begin to shift the blame to the Champions for the damage they never started. While forming a partnership with Senator Geoffrey Patrick and C.R.A.D.L.E., Roxxon manipulates them into unknowingly furthering their shady businesses, such as permanent imprisonment, brainwashing and unethical experimentation, as well as possibly kidnapping of the kids who oppose the unjust law. Viv Vision, who survived Roxxon's assault on Aliana, had been monitoring her fellow younger superheroes, but discovers that she is unintentionally selling her friends to C.R.A.D.L.E. and Roxxon. Once the Champions reveals Roxxon's conspiracy to Senator Patrick and the public, the senator finally begins to repeal the unjust law, ending the partnership with Roxxon, and clearing Kamala's name while re-evaluating his business dealings. Later, Miles Morales and Sam Alexander go undercover as interns, prior to being suggested to hire Kamala Kahn. While Roxxon attempts to cover up their illegal activity by releasing a social app called "Roxx-On", a Champion and a former prisoner of C.R.A.D.L.E.'s harassment, Snowguard rallies a group of mobs because they still openly do not trust Roxxon for their previous activities. Much worst, Roxxon already hired Ironheart's nemesis from Stark Unlimited, Andre Sims, in an attempt to collect data to dispose of those who are deemed threats to its business. He replaced young superheroes with his Chaperon robots to ensure the unjust Kamala's Law remains active. During Roxx-On concert, Roxxon lost its public trust thanks to Kamala's public speech about the company's ongoing shady business, thus repealing Kamala's Law and disbanding C.R.A.D.L.E.. However, Roxxon's reputation becomes worst when Andre attempts to dispose of young people like the Champions because of his personal issues, but is immediately stopped by Roxxon's higher-up Miriam Blakemoore. After that, Roxxon finally makes a public speech to apologize for their actions and takes responsibility for Andre's crime.

Enchantress and Executioner later allied with Minotaur after Roxxon bought the fictional version of Marvel Comics. They provided him with the magic needed to write out his comic book that enabled Enchantress' ally Keep to become Roxxon's version of Thor while using the alias of Chad Hammer. The comics that are made starts to badly affect Thor and poison Gaea. As Keep fought Thor which ended with Thor slaying Keep, Enchantress had Executioner kill Minotaur and usurps his position as CEO of Roxxon.

At the start of the "Stark-Roxxon War" arc, Roxxon collaborates with A.I.M. in a plot to take over Stark Unlimited. They even have Justine Hammer on their side.

Using a combination of a machine and a blood sacrifice, Roxxon scientist Dr. Lamarr revives Dario Agger back in his normal appearance. As he was killed by a god, Dario plans to kill the gods. He starts by preventing Thor from mending his relationship with Midgard by enlisting Grey Gargoyle, King Cobra, Mister Hyde, and Radioactive Man to attack Thor. After Thor made a comeback, Dario teleports the villains away. As King Cobra left surveillance behind that proved that their defeat was partially caused by Enchantress, Dario plans to use it to leak the footage of Enchantress being Roxxon's new CEO. After mentioning Iron Man's upcoming war with Roxxon, Dario tells the villains that they will have their rematch with Thor by drawing him to them.

Roxxon and A.I.M.'s merger deal with Stark Industries fell through when it turns out that they were backed by Belasco.

Thanks to Dario Agger, Enchantress' control over Roxxon was exposed. He plans to return to the public with his workers fabricating the information on "Dario Agger Jr." It was also shown that Roxxon has another subsidiary project called Daedalus LLC which is a private prison solution as the defeated villains hired by Agger were remanded there.''Immortal Thor'' #18. Marvel Comics.

Subsidiaries

* Republic Oil and Gas Company - Roxxon's predecessor.
* Brand Corporation - A scientific research and development firm which has conducted many projects for the federal government. The Brand Corporation also worked in robotics and interdimensional exploration.
* Cybertek Systems Inc. - A cybernetic research division of Roxxon that serves as its prosthetic and robotics facility. It was later enhanced to reverse-engineer the cyborg Deathlok.
* Kronas Corporation - A company that was founded by Aleksander Lukin.
* Metrobank -
* Daedalus LLC - A private prison solution.

Members

Executives

* Pierce Benedict - Director of seagoing operations.
* Douglas Bravner - Sunturion Project executive.''Iron Man'' Annual #9. Marvel Comics.
* August D'Angelo - Chairman of the board of directors.
* Jonas "Jonah" Hale - Director of Research, as well as the former chief operations director of Roxxon's predecessor, the Republic Oil and Natural Gas. His schemes were ruined by Iron Man, the first was mining a small island in the Atlantic Ocean with vibranium, and the second was while as a supervisor of ''The Star Well I'' (Roxxon's satellite). Hale developed a new form of vibranium called Nuform which turned out to be unstable despite being presented as a suitable substitute, resulting in the Kingpin and Ultron believing that Nuform would be stable but are repelled by Iron Man, the Black Panther and Spider-Man. Hale also conspired with Carlton Drake of the Life Foundation.
* Samuel Higgins - The Facility Director in Denver.''Alpha Flight'' #87. Marvel Comics. He utilized James Hudson as a power source following his return from Quwrlln. Samuel later recruited Madison Jeffries to assist Windshear on a mission and also presided over the facility developing Omega-32, which was raided by the Beetle.
* Henry Mason - Vice-President of Roxxon.
* Carrington Pax - Executive in Roxxon's West Coast division.''Iron Man'' #220. Marvel Comics.
* Huck Petrie - Negotiator of Roxxon.''Howard the Duck'' Annual #1. Marvel Comics.
* Brian Sagar - Vice-President of Roxxon.
* Mike Tappan - Associate director of Roxxon's Los Angeles division.
* Minotaur / Dario Agger - The CEO of Roxxon.
* Enchantress - She would later usurp the position of CEO from Dario Agger.

Former executives

* Michael Brady - Executive of Roxxon's Chemical Division.''Fantastic Four: Countdown to Chaos''. Marvel Comics.
* Clayton Burr - Vice President for Roxxon's international development. He supervised Cybertek.
* Brandon Chambers - Executive of Roxxon. He sponsored his brother Phillip's DNA experiments, not realizing that their other brother Mitchell was the subject.
* Mr. Clarkson - Vice President of Roxxon's Texas division.''Captain America'' vol. 4 #18. Marvel Comics. He was killed by Crossbones.
* Ian Forbes - Director of Roxxon's Belfast facility.''Web of Spider-Man'' #22. Marvel Comics.
* Calvin Halderman - President of Roxxon.''Captain American '99''. Marvel Comics.
* Curtis Henshaw - Executive of the R&D section at Roxxon's Bolivian facility.
* Jerome "Jerry" Jaxon - Associate Vice President of Special Developments.
* Hugh Jones - Owner, President, and CEO of Roxxon.
* Alexander Jones - The founder and first chairman of Roxxon's predecessor, the Republic Oil and Gas Company. The wealthy oil tycoon founded the company in 1932 as a small business selling engineered oil before being bought by other companies in 1933. Jones ordered the digging of 1,000 acres of land in southern Indiana in 1937. It discovered massive oil amounts and sold the oil to other gas stations and petroleum companies, effectively making it a powerful oil company and turning Jones into a multi-millionaire.
* John T. Gamelin - Director of Foreign Operations,''Marvel Team-Up'' #87. Marvel Comics. and later the President of the Roxxon Oil Company. He has Hellrazor masquerade as the Black Panther while conspiring with Thomas Agar to discredit Wakanda and obtain vibranium, but the scheme is exposed by Spider-Man and the real Black Panther. Gamelin was also in charge of the Brand Corporation. Gamelin's early appearances never showed his face, just a silhouette of a man wearing eyeglasses and smoking a pipe.
* Terence Gerard - ''Spider-Man Unlimited'' #22. Marvel Comics.
* Don Kaminski - President of Roxxon.
* Reuben Kincaid - Executive of Roxxon. He was murdered by Michael Brady.
* Simon Krieger - Vice President of Roxxon's predecessor Republic Oil & Natural Gas.''Iron Man: The Iron Age'' #1. Marvel Comics. He had arranged the murders of Howard Stark and Maria Stark as part of an attempted takeover of Stark Industries. Krieger next impersonated Tony Stark in order to fool Happy Hogan and Pepper Potts before holding hostages on the Helicarrier, but gets exposed by Iron Man and arrested by the authorities. He is later killed while in jail.''Iron Man: The Iron Age'' #2. Marvel Comics.
* Linden Laswell - Executive of Roxxon's Latveria project.
* Aleksander Lukin - Owner of Roxxon Energy Corporation via Kronas Corporation while secretly acting as the Winter Soldier's handler.
* Magma / Jonathan Darque - Project head of Roxxon's division in Temple Corners, VA.

Staff

* Bill - Helicopter pilot for Roxxon's Long Island division.
* Carson - A security operative.
* Chester - A floating oil refinery worker for Roxxon Oil.
* Chief Compton - Supervisor of Roxxon's underground NYC facility.''Thing & She-Hulk: The Long Night'' #1. Marvel Comics.
* Larry Curtiss - A security operative who once operated as Trapster.''Iron Man Annual'' #12. Marvel Comics.
* Davis - A scientist who is an assistant to Jonas Harrow.
* Delvecchio - Member of Roxxon's underground NYC facility.
* Jim Dworman - Former Cybertek programmer. He was in charge of Cybertek's shutdown.
* Gail - Secretary to Carrington Pax.
* Gordon - Member of Roxxon's underground NYC facility.
* Grist - Member of Roxxon's underground NYC facility security.
* Jake - A security guard at Roxxon's Denver division.''Thunderbolts'' #35. Marvel Comics.
* Joe - A floating oil refinery worker.
* Juan - An executive assistant to Hale in Roxxon's San Francisco division.
* Keep - A minion of Enchantress who operated as Roxxon's version of Thor while using the alias of Chad Hammer.
* Dr. Lamarr - A scientist who invented a machine that takes human blood sacrifices. He used this machine to revive Dario Agger in a new body.
* Ms. Loring - A scientist under Hale and participator in the Nuform project.
* Missy - A Roxxon agent.
* Patrick Nestor - Roxxon's company spokesman.
* Dr. Malachi Oz - A scientist.
* Riki - A boardroom chair at One Roxxon Plaza.''Namor'' #3. Marvel Comics.
* Sepulchre / Jillian Woods - An agent for Roxxon Blackridge.
* Cindy Shelton - Roxxon's lead researcher.
* "Agger" - An assistant to Huck Petrie.
* Raymond Sikorski - A recruiter with Roxxon Blackridge.
* Miss Simpkins - A secretary at Hydropolis.
* Dr. Ella Sterling - A scientist contractor of Roxxon. She took part in Roxxon's archaeological expedition which resulted in her colleague turned into a Wendigo but is saved by Weapon H.''Weapon H'' #1. Marvel Comics. Sterling is safe thanks to Weapon H and Doctor Strange fighting the Wendigo, eventually killing the creature.''Weapon H'' #2. Marvel Comics. Sterling later runs into Sonia Sung while looking for Weapon H who throws Sonia and Sterling safely away from Roxxon's capture of Weapon H. Sterling and Sonia infiltrates Roxxon's facility to help Weapon H escape from Dario Agger's clutches.''Weapon H'' #5. Marvel Comics.
* Michael Thomas - A sleeper agent working at Stark International.''Iron Man'' #142. Marvel Comics.
* Ulik - Originally hired by Dario Agger to help level Broxton, hired to be a consultant on the "Inter-Realm Investment Division".
* Walter - An executive assistant to President Gamelin.
* Alvie Walton - Member at Roxxon's Snow Valley service station.
* Chief Wyngard - Roxxon's underground NYC facility supervisor.

Former staff

* Cary Albertson - A scientist on the bio-chip project at Roxxon's Sault Ste. Marie facility.
* Babs Bendix - A secretary.
* Blair - An agent of Roxxon.''Avengers Spotlight'' #40. Marvel Comics.
* Kenneth H. Bradley - A covert operative and former Brand security member.
* Phillip Chambers - A Roxxon scientist.
* Danger Man / Dan Jermain - A former security inspector for Roxxon.
* Milica Radanovic - A Roxxon scientist specializing in isotope gas chromotography and as mentioned by Mrs. Haggert.
* Abner Doolittle - An Nth Command scientist.
* Roberta "Bobbie" Haggert - A scientist on Roxxon's Omega-32 project. She was assassinated by the Scourge.
* Seth Hanks - A child savant and unwilling employee of Roxxon.
* Paul Hazlett - A scientist.''Marvel Super-Heroes'' vol. 3 #1. Marvel Comics.
* Kelly - A security guard at Roxxon's underground NYC facility.
* Kristy - An assistant to Mr. Clarkson. She was murdered by Sin and Crossbones.
* Lewis - A security guard at Roxxon's underground NYC facility.
* Alexander Lipton - A scientist. He was murdered.
* Mischa and Yuri - Roxxon's biochemists.''Marvel Comics Presents'' #75. Marvel Comics.
* Moyer - An agent of Roxxon.
* Duncan O'Neill - A mole within MI-5: British Secret Agent 003.
* Dr. Karl Clark - One of the lead engineers of Roxxon. Died in 1987 from lung cancer after being exposed to radiation while working in one of Roxxon's plants.
* Schroeder - A security guard at Roxxon's underground NYC facility.
* Jack Rollins - A sleeper agent for Nick Fury.
* Steve - A security guard at Long Island Research Complex.

Super-operatives

* Delphine Courtney - An assistant to Jerry Jaxon.''Alpha Flight'' #11. Marvel Comics.
* Cypress - An assassin. He targeted Mikhail and Yuri, but was opposed by Meggan and Shadowcat.
* Dogs of War - Agents of Simon Krieger.
** Afghan -
** Bulldog -
** Doberman -
** Greyhound -
** Labrador -
** Mastiff -
** Rottweiler -
** Shepherd -
** Wolfhound -
* Grasshopper / Douglas Taggert - Armored security.
* Grasshopper / Neil Shelton - Armored security.
* Killer Shrike / Simon Maddicks - Bodyguard of Brand's Jersey branch leader James Melvin.
* Manticore - A Brand Corp. criminal with a Manticore-like battlesuit replacing his amputated legs.
* Jason Quartermaster - A superhuman scientist. He worked for Rand-Meachum and was a double agent for Roxxon. Quartermaster was knocked into his own universal solvent by Luke Cage.
* Saboteur - An armored agent. She acted as an agent of Republic Oil and Natural Gas in an attempt to sabotage Stark Industries but was defeated by Iron Man. She would later be killed by the Grim Reaper

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