Benjamin Pollack

Benjamin "Bennie" Pollack is a former robber who was recruited to S.H.I.E.L.D. after he and his girlfriend Claire Weiss found a Chitauri weapon after the Battle of New York.
==Biography==
===Using the Weapon===
Benjamin Pollack was an unemployed scientist with a pronounced talent for technology. When an inactive Chitauri Gun fell into his lab, Pollack was able to repair it and make it work again. Claire Weiss, his girlfriend, convinced the hesitant Pollack to use the gun to rob some banks. Within a few days, the two of them collected a large amount of money from every bank they robbed.
===Attacked by Agent Sitwell===
While in a motel to take a break from "work", Pollack was sent by Claire Weiss to the room besides theirs, so that he could ask the guys in there to turn down the volume of the music they were playing. In the other room, though, Pollack found a secret agent who had been following them, who easily knocked him out and tied him up. Pollack managed, anyway, to break the stereo with the music and to warn his girlfriend of the agent's presence; Weiss used the Chitauri Gun to try to save him. During the fight, Pollack charged the agent to save Weiss, but, in the process the gun is broken, and it shoots by itself destroying the room.
===Joining S.H.I.E.L.D.===
When Jasper Sitwell, the agent who arrested them, realized that Pollack was the one who repaired the Chitauri Gun, he chose to enlist him instead of killing him. Pollack entered S.H.I.E.L.D. in the "R&D Think Tank" section, so that he could work for them reverse-engineering Chitauri technology recovered from the Battle of New York.
==Personality==
Pollack was the least confident in his relationship with Claire Weiss. He had to have a pep talk given to him before their first robbery. He was the brains though, as he was able to get a Chitauri Gun to work so he could rob banks.
==Abilities==
*Master Engineer: Pollack was able to reactivate a dormant Chitauri Gun that no other scientist could. His work once he joined S.H.I.E.L.D. allowed to retrofit this technology into the advanced weapons used by HYDRA.
==Equipment==
===Weapons===
*Chitauri Gun: Pollack reverse engineered a gun from the Chitauri in order to rob many banks in a few weeks. However, the gun hurt his wrist, making him claim he had carpel tunnel.
==Facilities==
*Farmers & Merchants Bank: Pollack and his lover, Claire Weiss made their first robbery at this bank.
==Relationships==
===Allies===
*S.H.I.E.L.D. (First Incarnation)
**Claire Weiss - Girlfriend
**Jasper Sitwell † - Former Enemy and Colleague
**Felix Blake - Former Enemy and Colleague
==Trivia==
*Benjamin Pollack wore an Empire State University shirt during one of the robberies.
*It is hinted during the credits of Marvel One-Shot: Item 47 that using Benjamin Pollack's knowledge, HYDRA was able to reactivate the Chitauri Guns and upgrade them into the HYDRA Tanks and weapons seen in Avengers: Age of Ultron.
**This was addressed in The Wakanda Files: A Technological Exploration of the Avengers and Beyond.
*Bennie and Claire's names are a homage to famous outlaws and bank robbers .
==Behind the Scenes==
*Holland Diaz was a stunt double for Jesse Bradford in the role of Benjamin Pollack.
==References==
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Category:Marvel One-Shot: Item 47 Characters
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