Hood (Thunderbirds) Hood (Thunderbirds) The Hood is the main villain and adversary of International Rescue in the "Thunderbirds" TV series. The name "Hood" was derived from the term ""; Gerry Anderson also observed that the character was frequently masked, and that a mask "could be described as a 'hood'." Sylvia Anderson acknowledges that the Hood's appearances became less regular towards the end of the series (the character is absent from the six episodes of Series Two), explaining that, like Kyrano, the character "turned out to be less viable on the screen than on the page." To strengthen the character's antagonistic appearance, the
Thunderbirds Are Go us ... could understand why the film hadn't succeeded, so it was decided we would make another one." Budgeted at £300,000 – an increase of one fifth over "Thunderbirds Are Go" – in their approach to writing the sequel the Andersons decided to script a more light-hearted adventure to counter the seriousness of the original. However, "Thunderbird 6" would also receive a less-than-enthusiastic public reception, spelling the end of "Thunderbirds" as a film and television franchise until the arrival of the live-action adaptation, "Thunderbirds", almost four decades later in 2004. "Thunderbirds Are Go" was novelised by writer Angus P. Allan