fuckyeahthunderbolts:

Fixer’s return from the dead was honestly a bit screwy.

After the Techno robot got kasploded by Scourge (no, not that Scourge; he was actually Bucky [no, not that Bucky]) Fixer woke up in a pod. There’s been waffling on whether the robot Techno was or wasn’t the same person as Fixer, and he’d certainly “evolved” into more of an AI than an actual person at that point…

As I read it, Fixer was always the same guy as Techno, and when Techno was “killed” he managed to transmit his consciousness back to his Fixer body at the last minute (and conveniently just as efforts were underway to revive that body).  Bert could have done this at any time, but evidently didn’t want to return to his old body and was exploring other options (such as a clone of Kevin Costner).  His brush with death forced his hand—you can see in T-bolts #46 that he’s  considering an option for survival that he’d rather avoid.

After that Fixer claimed he was never the robot and remembered nothing the robot did, but there was a subtext that Fixer was making that up to avoid the blame for Techno’s pranks (impersonating Ogre, turning Abe black, trapping Zemo in Citizen V’s body, etc.)  He finally admitted the truth, and that he’d always known he had been Techno, in T-bolts #75.