One of my favourite villains is probably a character called Sicarius
He was born in 1950 Sighisoara (City in Romania) as Cristofer Ioniță in a poverty-ridden area. He grew up surrounded by street crime and the consequences of a struggling economy. At the age of 23, he moved to Budapest where he started to work low salary jobs. In 1979, he decided to join the army but was rejected to the communist rumours beginning to orbit the Romanian state. In 1981, the Romanian revolution was beginning to start and revolts in major cities were on the rise (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanian_Revolution). Cristofer began to join the revolution against the dictators of Romania and led gangs down the streets of Bucharest. His skills and courage were noticed by the Facility, how a kid raised from a background of irrelevance now is beginning to become an icon of his people. He trained himself to a sufficient level of fighting, handling and understanding of artillery and studied the mechanics of army vehicles and tactics to stand a chance against their resistance.
The Facility decided that on the day a major movement of political hierarchy would be the perfect opportunity to claim Cristofer as their own. During the Ceaușescus attempted helicopter extraction and the storming of the Communist party headquarters, Cristofer was present and was able to overpower the bodyguards alongside his fellow rebels. However, during this event, he was injured and knocked unconscious by an anonymous armoured militia but everyone was too focused on the fleeing leaders rather than a single individual.
Cristofer awoke to his limbs being tied up by rope and attached to the back of a truck being driven out into the Rural parts of Romania, far away from Budapest. The date was Christmas day, the same date that the Ceaușescus were to be executed therefore he must have been immobilised for a long time. In a desperate attempt to escape from what he thought were communist rogues taking him hostage, Cristofer was able to cut the loose bonds via a piece of sharp metal in the truck, grab a service rifle and started his escape into the forest of the country. The next hours consisted of a manhunt. He had to get out of their sights without been seen or heard.
However, luck was not on his side as the Facility is always five steps ahead. It was revealed it was all a test. The kidnapping, cat and mouse through the forest as they swiftly subdued him with a perfect shot to his left thigh. They just wanted to see if he was just as dynamic and resourceful as they needed and if he had that driving survival instinct buried deep within.
The next decades consisted of human experimentation, brainwashing, a human enhancing system far beyond any other scientific attempts assigned to Project Lambda as X-41. They gave him the codename Sicarius and his entire history, identity and memories were wiped. They removed his fingerprints from any system and his hand, they made him kill his family to eliminate the opportunity of weakness. They were making him obedient, loyal, an assassin who could do whatever it took to keep the order of society and work within the threads of humanity, stitching them appropriately. They were also preparing him for something greater, ascended but it was revealed his obedience was what made him flawed for the experiment. Instead, it was Bruce, X-42, who would become the Tau.
Bruce, Cristofer and a woman called Amelia had formed a dying friendship within the Facility but that is a story for another origin…
During Insurgents Run, no one knew what happened to Sicarius as they all though his loyalty would make him a non/easy target. They were wrong as it turned out he wasn't as thoughtless as he seemed, actually killing a few doctors on his escape to the real world where now he had no identity, past, place or purpose.
He worked rogue, making his way through the spiral of anarchy and killing any criminal or heathen he could find. His path kept entwining with Bruce's but his existence kept being denied by everyone.
Eventually, he decided to make a group of his own, acting as the "supervillain" group of Bruce's heroes. Here he became the leader, though still mostly uncooperating and distant from his "allies".
Long story short, he acts as the opposite of the protagonist Bruce and is one of the most complex characters I have made. His ending is bittersweet as he eventually does help Bruce in fighting s shared threat but then decides to leave their problems to rest and is unable to gain his purpose. The last we see of him is the uncertainty of his future as he says farewell and disappears over the rooftops. Forever gone.
He's not really a villain but he certainly isn't a hero, or anti-villain or anti-hero. He kinda has his own alignment.
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