:Crimson Commando

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Frank Bohannan first appears in The Uncanny X-Men vol. 1 #215 (March 1987), and was created by Chris Claremont and Alan Davis.

The second version only appeared briefly in X-Men vol. 2 #106 (November 2000), and was created by Chris Claremont and Leinil Francis Yu.

The third version appears in X-Men vol. 3 #40 (March 2013), and was created by Seth Peck, Jefte Palo and Guillermo Mogorron.

Frank BohannanThe Uncanny X-Men #215 was born somewhere in Massachusetts. As Crimson Commando, he was one of a trio of World War II veteran super-heroes recruited to be a member of Freedom Force, the original government-sponsored mutant team. Earlier, along with his partners, Stonewall and Super Sabre, Bohannan had become a vigilante who captured criminals, released them and hunted them in Adirondack State Park in upstate New York. The trio killed the criminals, both to reduce the criminal element in society and for the enjoyment of hunting them.

The trio captured Pamela Morrison, a drug dealer, and mistaking Storm (the leader of the X-Men) for a criminal, the trio hunted and captured her as well. The women were set out for the vigilantes to hunt both to their deaths. Crimson Commando killed Morrison, but Wolverine arrived to help Storm. When Storm and Wolverine eventually defeated the trio, Stonewall and Crimson Commando agreed to turn themselves in to law enforcement authorities and confess their vigilantism.The Uncanny X-Men #215-216 Stonewall, Crimson Commando and Super Sabre (who had been presumed dead) agreed to join Freedom Force, a U.S. government sponsored team of superhumans, in exchange for a commutation of their sentences.The Uncanny X-Men #223

On his first mission with Freedom Force, he fought the X-Men in Dallas, and battled cavemen transported to Dallas by time-waves created by the Adversary. He watched a telecast of the X-Men's deaths in order to defeat the Adversary, and then witnessed the return of Forge to Dallas without the X-Men.The Uncanny X-Men #225-227 While still in Dallas, Freedom Force also contended against the New Mutants.The New Mutants #65

Crimson Commando was also a part of the Freedom Force mission to attempt to capture Cyclops and Marvel Girl who defeated Freedom Force.X-Factor #30-31 He also assisted the team's attempt to capture Rusty Collins which was thwarted by the New Mutants.The New Mutants #78 He again fights Rusty and his girlfriend Skids, alongside Freedom Force; this time, they captured Rusty and Skids.The New Mutants #86 (1990) With Freedom Force, he also pursued Cable who had escaped federal custody.The New Mutants #88-89 (1990)

Crimson Commando would be gravely wounded during a bungled mission in the Middle East. Freedom Force was sent to Kuwait City to rescue or kill physicist Reinhold Kurtzmann, but they encountered the Arabic super-team called Desert Sword. Teammate Super Sabre was killed, while Crimson Commando's right hand was severed by the "cutting wind" of Aminedi.The New Mutants Annual #7 Bohannan was seriously wounded,The Uncanny X-Men Annual #15 and Avalanche was forced to abandon Blob and Pyro in the desert to save his life. Bohannan was evacuated from Kuwait for hospitalization.X-Factor Annual #6

Bohannan next appeared having been turned into a cyborg going by the name of Cyborg X. He had been rebuilt by CARE LABS but a testing accident had caused him to malfunction bringing him into a confrontation with Spider-Man and Ghost Rider. Cyborg X would later assist Spider-Man in battling the Sinister Six but was believed to have been killed in an explosion at CARE LABS.Erik Larsen and Fabian Nicieza had originally turned Crimson Commando into a cyborg in order to include him in a proposed X-Factor re-launch in the mid-1990s that eventually went to Peter David. Larsen would later use his design to create SuperPatriot

Now going by only the name Commando, Bohannan next appeared on a mission for Project Wideawake. He was teamed-up with his former Freedom Force teammate Avalanche to infiltrate the reclusive Empyrean's headquarters and put his operation out of commission.X-Men Annual #2 They were also ordered by a rogue government official to assassinate Polaris of X-Factor.

Commando appears in the reality-altered House of M storyline serving as one of Magneto's royal guards. After this and M-Day, he lost his mutant powers.The Uncanny X-Men #539 Without his powers, Bohannan begins to die. He kidnaps Hope Summers in an attempt to have the latter save him. Wolverine rescues Hope and decapitates Bohannan.

A young, female, African-American version of Crimson Commando appeared very briefly as a member of Mystique's new Brotherhood of Mutants.X-Men #106 Her name was never stated and her powers never exhibited, but Chris Claremont previously stated there would be a new versions of Super Sabre, Mastermind and Crimson Commando.

A human/cyborg version of Crimson Commando is a member of the Freedom Force.X-Men vol. 2 #40 His power armor is equipped with two automatic machine guns as hands and a machine/rail gun mounted on its left shoulder.

Frank Bohannan is a mutant who has the ability to achieve the peak of human physical perfection (similar to the physical enhancements granted by Captain America's super-soldier treatments). More specifically, his mutation has kept his body at the very peak of physical perfection a baseline human can achieve without becoming a superhuman, and thus apparently ages at a much slower rate than normal human beings. This also seems to include enhanced resistance to injury, managing to survive having his right hand severed and bleeding continuously for an hour, before being maimed by a land mine.The New Mutants Annual #7 Although he was on the brink of death, he managed to hang on long enough to receive medical attention and survive.X-Factor Annual #6

Bohannan can carry out actions while submerging his conscious thought processes so deeply within his mind that they are shielded from telepathic detection. He also exhibited some degree of super-vision, able to see his teammate Super Sabre when the latter was moving at superhuman velocities.{{Volume needed|c=y|date=January 2021}} Bohannan wore a computer and modem device on his wrist, and carried knives, daggers, and conventional handguns as weapons. He is an extraordinary hand-to-hand combatant and commando fighter, and is also a highly skilled hunter and tracker. As a cyborg, the extent of his abilities is largely unknown. One arm was replaced by a large gun, his legs are now metal and he can walk up the side of buildings, and at least one eye was replaced with an optical sensor able to see beyond the range of normal human vision.{{Volume needed|c=y|date=January 2021}}

A similar character, the Commander Crimson, appears in the alternate Ultimate Marvel continuity. Sayuri Kyota was an ex-agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. who was the leader of a terrorist cell of Hydra. She fought the Ultimates as she used an Infinity Gem which disintegrated her.Ultimate Comics: Ultimates #20-21. Marvel Comics.

The Frank Bohannan version of Crimson Commando appears in X-Men II: The Fall of the Mutants.{{cn|date=January 2025}}

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• {{Marvunapp|http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix/cyborgxs.htm|Cyborg X}}
• {{Marvunapp|http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix6/crimsoncommando_brotherhoodtrainee.htm|Crimson Commando (Brotherhood)}}
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20070315220118/http://tatooine.fortunecity.com/bear/353/xfactor.html A rebuilt Commando in an X-Factor Proposal]
• http://marvel.com/universe/Commando_%28Frank_Bohannan%29

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