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
John Tracy (Thunderbirds) John Tracy (Thunderbirds) John Tracy is a fictional character from Gerry Anderson's Supermarionation television series "Thunderbirds" and the subsequent films "Thunderbirds Are Go", "Thunderbird 6" and the live-action film "Thunderbirds". John Tracy was initially to be one of the main characters in "Thunderbirds", but he became the least favourite character of creator Gerry Anderson, and consequently had a much more limited role in the series than originally intended. John was the first of the Tracy brothers to be cast. Actor Ray Barrett was so impressed with the attractive nature of the face of the marionette, who was modeled on head-shots