The Roxxon Energy Corporation (otherwise 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. 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.[1]
The company has appeared in various media adaptations as well as many television shows and films set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
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.[3][4]
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.[5]
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,[6] 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.[7]
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.[8]
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.[9]
Jonas "Jonah" Hale - Director of Research,[15] as well as the former chief operations director of Roxxon's predecessor, the Republic Oil and Natural Gas.[16] His schemes were ruined by Iron Man, the first was mining a small island in the Atlantic Ocean with vibranium,[17] and the second was while as a supervisor of The Star Well I (Roxxon's satellite).[18] 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.[19] Hale also conspired with Carlton Drake of the Life Foundation.[20]
Samuel Higgins - The Facility Director in Denver.[21] 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.
Michael Brady - Executive of Roxxon's Chemical Division.[27]
Clayton Burr - Vice President for Roxxon's international development.[28] He supervised Cybertek.
Brandon Chambers - Executive of Roxxon.[29] 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.[30] He was killed by Crossbones.[31]
Ian Forbes - Director of Roxxon's Belfast facility.[32]
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,[37] and later the President of the Roxxon Oil Company.[38] 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.[37] Gamelin was also in charge of the Brand Corporation.[39] Gamelin's early appearances never showed his face, just a silhouette of a man wearing eyeglasses and smoking a pipe.
Reuben Kincaid - Executive of Roxxon. He was murdered by Michael Brady.[27]
Simon Krieger - Vice President of Roxxon's predecessor Republic Oil & Natural Gas.[16] He had arranged the murders of Howard Stark and Maria Stark as part of an attempted takeover of Stark Industries.[16] 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 is killed while in jail.[41]
Linden Laswell - Executive of Roxxon's Latveria project.[42]
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 Hulkverine.[54] Sterling is safe thanks to Hulkverine and Doctor Strange fighting the Wendigo, eventually killing the creature.[55] Sterling later runs into Sonia Sung while looking for Hulkverine who throws Sonia and Sterling safely away from Roxxon's capture of Hulkverine.[56] Sterling and Sonia infiltrates Roxxon's facility to help Hulkverine escape from Dario Agger's clutches.[57]
Michael Thomas - A sleeper agent working at Stark International.[58]
Ulik - Originally hired by Dario Agger to help level Broxton, hired to be a consultant on the "Inter-Realm Investment Division".[59]
Walter - An executive assistant to President Gamelin.[37]
Alvie Walton - Member at Roxxon's Snow Valley service station.[60]
Duncan O'Neill - A mole within MI-5: British Secret Agent 003.[32]
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.
Manticore - A Brand Corp. criminal with a battlesuit replacing his amputated legs.[72]
Jason Quartermaster - A superhuman scientist.[34] He worked for Rand-Meachum and was a double agent for Roxxon. He was knocked into his own universal solvent by Luke Cage.
Saboteur - An armored agent.[16] She acted as an agent of Republic Oil and Natural Gas in an attempt to sabotage Stark Industries but was defeated by Iron Man.[16] She would later be killed by the Grim Reaper.[73]
Stratosfire / Sandy Vincent - Roxxon's superhuman secretary.[13] She was empowered in a similar manner to Sunturion but acted as a hero to improve Roxxon's public image. She was killed by Sunturion activating Roxxon's Zed Control Unit within her armour.[13]
Ogre, Razor Wire and Lightning Fist - Three costumed operatives protecting the company's interests on the island nation of Taino in the Caribbean Sea. They are consumed and destroyed by a mutated zombie virus, and the airborne virus reconstructs their bodies into a skeletal being, which is later destroyed by the Man-Thing.[75]
Strikeforce B.E.R.S.E.R.K.E.R. - A small platoon of Roxxon's most elite of elite special forces strictly loyal to the company and its shady designs. After hearing Loki's tale, Dario Agger had them drink blood from the heart of a burning dragon, turning them into mystical Hulk-like creatures with strength, toughness and a warrior's fury comparable to both gods and monsters.[76]
Anton Aubuisson - [78] A mercenary of Roxxon who massacres a tribe of Anuquit natives in order to build an oil pipeline but gets thwarted by War Machine.
Will o' the Wisp[84] - He had his molecules torn apart after Brand's experiment went haywire and was put together by Spider-Man and Dr. Marla Madison. He is still seeking revenge on Brand.
Roxxon exists in the Transformers 120185 reality. Professor Peter Anthony Morris was working for them in Oregon, where he came up with the theory that the Transformers were controlled by oil tycoon G.B. Blackrock. He accidentally kills a Roxxon security guard.
The Ultimate Marvel version of the Roxxon Corporation is responsible for various immoral activities and is led by inept heir Donald Roxxon. Elijah Stern discovered a way to use vibranium as a power source for the company, but gets fired so Roxxon could take all the credit. This led to villains Vulture, Killer Shrike and Omega Red being sent to harass Donald.[87]Herman Schultz had gotten a hold of design weapons for Roxxon before employment was terminated.[88]
The Roxxon Corporation later got a hold to a sample of the VenomSymbiote which was targeted by the Beetle. When the original Spider-Man fought the Beetle and the vial containing the sample broke, the sample was rendered worthless.[89]
During the Ultimate Enemy storyline, Roxxon Corporation's compound was destroyed by a bio-mass that was secretly created by Reed Richards.[90]
The Roxxon Corporation secretly used guinea pigs in experiments as super-soldiers (i.e. Bombshell, Spider-Woman, and Cloak and Dagger), as well as an experiment to restore the Venom Symbiote, which gets stolen by Roxxon's biochemist Dr. Conrad Markus.[93] When the new Spider-Man and a group of amateur superheroes all realize they're guinea pigs/super-soldiers, Donald is defeated by Spider-Man and was arrested by S.H.I.E.L.D.[94]
The Roxxon Corporation appears in Lego Marvel Super Heroes, with Roxxon guards serving as playable characters.[99]
The Roxxon Corporation appears in Spider-Man: Miles Morales.[100][101][102][103] Roxxon's head of R&DSimon Krieger commissioned the company's headquarters in Harlem, Roxxon Plaza, which is powered by the clean energy source Nuform. Roxxon also employs a mercenary security force and supervillains such as the Rhino and the Prowler as enforcers. Furthermore, Roxxon's corporate corruption resulted in Nuform's creator Rick Mason trying to expose its deadly properties before being killed by Krieger, who took credit for Nuform. This led to Rick's sister Phin adopting the Tinkerer alias and taking over the Underground criminal group to seek revenge on Roxxon and Krieger. A violent conflict breaks out between the two groups, which Spider-Man works to contain. Amidst this, The Tinkerer also seeks to utilize Roxxon Plaza's Nuform reactor to destroy it. However, Spider-Man foils the plot by absorbing the reactor's energy. Phin then helps Spider-Man safe releasing the energy above Harlem, sacrificing herself in the process and destroying Roxxon Plaza. Danika Hart later reports that Roxxon received several lawsuits and Krieger was arrested.
