Thunderball tries to kill a wounded Captain America. Kelsey Leigh saves him using the shield, but dies due to the shock of the impacts. Kelsey later returns as a new Captain Britain and seemingly kills Thunderball, but he survives. It is, however, revealed that this Thunderball is either Mordred, the ally of Morgana le Fay, or Franklin possessed by him. Later, the Wrecking Crew breaks into a bank in Los Angeles, where they are confronted by the Runaways, who defeat them. Thunderball gets chewed on by one of the team, Old Lace, a dinosaur from the future. Thunderball and the rest of the Wrecking Crew are forced into governmental service under the Thunderbolts program. The Wrecking Crew with Thunderball have since been spotted in Canada fighting the newly created Omega Flight. The Hood hired Thunderball and the rest of the Wrecking Crew as part of his criminal organization to take advantage of the split in the superhero community caused by the Superhuman Registration Act. He helps them fight the New Avengers, but is taken down by Doctor Strange. Thunderball was later seen with the Hood watching the Skrull invasion on TV, helping to ferret out Skrull infiltrators from their own ranks and assisting in the Hood/hero alliance battle against invading Skrulls in Central Park. He joins with the Hood's gang in an attack on the New Avengers, who were expecting the Dark Avengers instead. During the Siege storyline, Thunderball rebelled against his teammates' attitude, stating that looting Asgard was blasphemy. He was knocked out by the rest of the Wrecking Crew before they were eventually defeated by the Young Avengers. Following the Death of Wolverine storyline in the pages of Wolverine, the Wrecking Crew hired out to Mister Sinister to recover the remains of Wolverine and encountered Mystique's team. As part of the All-New, All-Different Marvel event, Thunderball appears as a member of the Hood's incarnation of the Illuminati. Titania asks about the rest of the Wrecking Crew and he replies "I ditched 'em. I needed a change, and the Hood offered it." During the "Search for Tony Stark" story arc, Thunderball and the rest of the Wrecking Crew rejoin the Hood's gang as they attack Castle Doom. Thunderball and the Wrecker are defeated by Doctor Doom in his Iron Man armor. Powers and abilities Thunderball possesses superhuman strength and a high degree of imperviousness to harm thanks to the