Mitchell Carson
Publication information
PublisherMarvel Comics
First appearanceMarvel Team-Up Vol. 3 #21 (June 2006)
Created byRobert Kirkman
(writer)
Andy Kuhn
(artist)
In-story information
Alter egoMitch Carson
SpeciesHuman
Team affiliationsS.H.I.E.L.D.
AbilitiesS.H.I.E.L.D. training

Mitchell "Mitch" Carson is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.

The character was portrayed in live-action by Martin Donovan in the Marvel Cinematic Universe 2015 film Ant-Man.

Publication history

Created by writers Robert Kirkman and Andy Kuhn, the character first appeared in Marvel Team-Up Vol. 3 #21 (June 2006). He was the primary antagonist in the 2006 Irredeemable Ant-Man series.

Fictional character biography

Mitch Carson was a high-ranked security agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. He killed his father when he was fifteen years old and many others after that. However, he had never been caught for any of those crimes and managed to find employment with S.H.I.E.L.D.[1]

Carson was part of the S.H.I.E.L.D. team that took the Iron Maniac into custody alongside the Life Model Decoy (LMD) of Diamondback.[2] His body somehow adapted to the sedatives used, and he attacked the agents watching him, then activated the LMD coercing it to help.[3]

Carson was supposed to be utilize the new Ant-Man suit made on the Helicarrier by Hank Pym, but the Ant-Man suit was thought to be stolen when it actually disappeared by accident when Chris McCarthy tried it on before Hydra's attack to which Eric O'Grady utilized the technology.[4] Carson was determined to find whoever stole it,[5] and gets heavily burned in the face during a fight with O'Grady to which it did not take long for Carson to find out that it was actually O'Grady.[6]

Carson used an older Ant-Man suit to confront and capture O'Grady. However, Carson planned to use torture,[7] utilizing the Ant-Man suit used by McCarthy and O'Grady to torture the latter as Carson confessed his crimes and intended to kill until Iron Man intervened to which O'Grady lied and said Carson killed McCarthy and tried to steal the Ant-Man suit. O'Grady claimed to be on the run from Carson and trying to prevent him from getting the suit. Carson was arrested for attempted murder and stealing the Ant-Man suit.[1]

Powers and abilities

Mitch Carson has S.H.I.E.L.D. training, specifically in firearms/explosives, espionage, intelligence gathering, and hand-to-hand combat. He gained access to an old Ant-Man suit which he used to shrink and take out Eric O'Grady using the more advanced Ant-Man suit.

In other media

Martin Donovan as Mitchell Carson in Ant-Man (2015).

Mitchell Carson appears in Ant-Man (2015), portrayed by Martin Donovan. This version is a Hydra agent who previously worked undercover as the Head of Defense of S.H.I.E.L.D. during the 1990s and partook in a failed attempt at replicating Hank Pym's Pym Particles. In the present, Carson and a group of Hydra agents meet with Darren Cross, Pym's former protégé who had successfully recreated Pym Particles and developed the Yellowjacket battlesuit, and absconds with the replicated technology. In an alternate ending, Carson is apprehended by Scott Lang before he can escape.

References

  1. 1 2 Irredeemable Ant-Man #11
  2. ↑ Marvel Team-Up Vol. 3 #21
  3. ↑ Marvel Team-Up Vol. 3 #22
  4. ↑ Irredeemable Ant-Man #3
  5. ↑ Irredeemable Ant-Man #4
  6. ↑ Irredeemable Ant-Man #5
  7. ↑ Irredeemable Ant-Man #10
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