Herman Schultz (Earth-21399)

Criminal Career
Herman Schultz was a professional bank robber who specialized in safecracking. Not much is known about his past.

His most lucrative job was a heist on an OsCorp shipment that yielded a stash of advanced prototypes - among them a device called the Seismic Harness Construction Resource, a wrist-mounted device that fired controlled shock waves, intended for use in building demolition.

Schultz's employer, Wilson Fisk, wanted to sell the cargo as part of his weapons trafficking operation, but Schultz saw greater potential in the SHCR gauntlets, and wanted to use them as gear for an even bigger heist on OsCorp itself. Fisk saw Schultz's ambition as a potential liability and made an example of him by sending an anonymous tip to police, who swiftly arrested Schultz.

Becoming the Shocker
Unbeknownst to Fisk, Schultz anticipated such a betrayal and loaned the blueprints for the SHCR off to a contact, who later smuggled them into Schultz's prison cell. Assigned to the prison workshop, Schultz filched various components until, over a period of time, he successfully created a working second version of the SHCR and used them to stage a breakout.

Schultz failed to consider that since the blueprints for the prototype lacked recoil buffers, he nearly broke his arm during the breakout. After recovering from the injury in a Brooklyn safehouse, Schultz made the necessary upgrades, but also incorporated a heavily insulated bodysuit just to be safe and then embarked on a spree of robberies throughout the city.