Television
- In the 1967 Spider-Man cartoon's episode "Blueprint For Crime", Ox and Montana (known as Cowboy) were employed by the villain the Plotter to steal missile blueprints.
- The Enforcers appear in The Spectacular Spider-Man. They appear in the first episode, "Survival of the Fittest", along with Hammerhead. In the episode they are employed by the Big Man who is unseen. In the show, the Enforcers are re-imagined as a tactical strike team with modern weaponry, suits, and equipment. Montana, this time imagined as The Shocker is the leader and strategist of the team, with a strong southern accent. Instead of wielding a lasso like his counterpart in the main Marvel Universe, he uses an attack helicopter with various weapons and gives the orders to the rest of the team (though in "Opening Night", he uses several tied-together bedsheets as a lasso). Ox is much like his Marvel Universe counterpart, a simple-minded strongman. Perhaps the largest difference is his moustache. Fancy Dan, in this version known as Ricochet similar to his own counterpart is a martial artist skilled enough to combat Spider-Man despite his superhuman powers. He is African American, and wields a metal bō staff, as well as his armor allowing him to bounce around at extreme speeds and use his body as a weapon. At the end of the episode, Fancy Dan and Ox are captured but Montana escapes. He reappears several episodes later as this series' version of the Shocker. As for the Big Man, the episode "The Invisible Hand" seemingly reveals Tombstone as this series' Big Man. In the episode "Group Therapy", the Enforcers escape Ryker's Island with the Sinister Six; however Montana stays behind as the Shocker while Ox and Fancy Dan escape with Hammerhead, Tombstone's henchman. The Enforcers become the New Enforcers, because of the Tinkerer's newly designed-suits. Fancy Dan gains the ability to gain super-speed, turning into Ricochet. Ox gains super-strength, and stays with his name. They fight Spider-Man in the Metro Bank, then escape to the nearby laundry to disguise as policemen to break into the Vault. They fight Spider-Man in the Vault which contains billions worth of gold. They try to escape in a prepared train, fighting Spider-Man at the same time. Spider-Man reverses the train and tumbles the train, destroying Ox's suit and losing all their gold. They are about to get away, but Hammerhead spikes their car, thus getting arrested. In the episode "Opening Night," the Enforcers were seen as prisoners in the Vault until the Green Goblin releases all the prisoners as Silvermane enlists the Enforcers to rally the prisoners into defeating Spider-Man.
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Famous quotes containing the word television:
“Television ... helps blur the distinction between framed and unframed reality. Whereas going to the movies necessarily entails leaving one’s ordinary surroundings, soap operas are in fact spatially inseparable from the rest of one’s life. In homes where television is on most of the time, they are also temporally integrated into one’s “real” life and, unlike the experience of going out in the evening to see a show, may not even interrupt its regular flow.”
—Eviatar Zerubavel, U.S. sociologist, educator. The Fine Line: Making Distinctions in Everyday Life, ch. 5, University of Chicago Press (1991)
“Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid of the world.”
—Clive James (b. 1939)
“Laughter on American television has taken the place of the chorus in Greek tragedy.... In other countries, the business of laughing is left to the viewers. Here, their laughter is put on the screen, integrated into the show. It is the screen that is laughing and having a good time. You are simply left alone with your consternation.”
—Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)