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 required six months to complete. Despite positive initial reviews, which praised the film as a well-made cinematic transfer of the "Thunderbirds" television series, "Thunderbirds Are Go" soon proved to be a box office failure for the Andersons. The disappointment of this outcome was intensified by the knowledge that Series Two of "Thunderbirds" would be cut down to six episodes and that AP Films' upcoming television project would be a brand-new series, which would later be titled "Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons" and screened from 1967. To add to the lukewarm public response, negative critical reception of "Thunderbirds Are Go" has