Kursk

A yellow bodysuit encases Kursk completely. Orange lightning bolts mask his eyes, jutting outward in opposite directions, while more bolts in the suit's matching yellow sit high on each calf and at both elbows. Topping his head is a yellow crest shaped, like everything else, into a lightning bolt.

Jaded and strictly professional, Kursk is a mercenary who cares about nothing but his fee and his own hide. He holds human life cheap and reaches for lethal force whenever it advances what he wants.

His abilities are electrical: he can conjure and fling lightning bolts fierce enough to pin down or injure a foe, morph his body into pure current to race along at high speed, and endure more than a normal man, even walking away unmarked after Furnace's molten form seared him. He first appears wrecking a factory, only to be neutralized in a split second by the Russian speedster Red Rush.

Isotope later calls him in as muscle for Machine Head, where he mainly goes after Invincible with Magmaniac at his side. He keeps zapping the young hero even once Tether Tyrant has him bound, but Invincible wrenches loose and hurls Tyrant back into him, crushing them together. As the Guardians of the Globe show, Dupli-Kate outclasses him, an enraged Monster Girl slams him senseless into a wall, and Robot finally puts him down before the GDA jails him.

Pressured by Mr. Liu, Titan afterward dispatches Kursk with Furnace to free Multi-Paul from prison. The two battle the guards until Kid Omni-Man and Invincible step in and defeat them, and Furnace's shattered armor drops onto Kursk and scorches him badly. He breaks out again around the time of Mr. Liu's own escape, running into the woods and jumping the guards sent after him, until Invincible knocks him cold and leaves him to be retaken once more.