Deathwish

Real Name: William Collins
Super Villain Name: Deathwish (Not because he wants to die)
Title: The Fearless Soldier, The Fear
Alignment: Chaotic Good
Age: 42
Gender: Male
Race: Caucasian
Hair: Black
Eyes: Bright Green
Height: 6'4
Weight: 160lbs

Character Costume Image:

Though he sometimes doesn't wear the cape and instead has alot of his equipment and weapons strapped on.


Personality: Deathwish's mental state isn't very stable. Since coming back from the dead, he is considerably more sane than he was in the past, now he's a "Good Guy" instead of being the psychopathic killer he once was. He is brutal and almost monsterous in the way he will deal with those he fights with. When possible, he will beat his opponents half to death, because from past experience he knows that simply locking criminals up isn't often enough to keep them from breaking the law in the future, they require a thorough beating to knock the senses into them. He's also a big fan of teamwork, but for some reason people aren't as incline to team up with him as he is, mostly because of his past history as a killer, but also because he is still technically a criminal himself. One big aspect of Deathwish's personality is that he is in every sense of the word, fearless. He doesn't fear death, pain, or anything else, not even the death of the innocent, although he isn't really happy about it either.

History: To tell the story of Willian Collins I first must tell the story of his grandfather, Richard Collins. Richard Collins was born in Texas, 1910. Francis Collins was his father, who fought and died in World War One, whose death inspired his son to join the US army upon reaching the appropriate age. When the second world war broke out on 1939, Richard was at the rank of Brigadier General and was one of the best soldiers in the whole of the the US military. Upon the breakout of the war, Richard quickly made the choice that he would fight on the front lines, dispite being advised against it by his piers. He was sent out to Germany where he fought his Nazi enemies in their homeland. While fighting on the front lines, he saw his friends and comrades die all around him, the sight of this usually led him into a bloodlust in the midst of battle. He ran towards the German enemy, fearlessly and psychotically, ignoring the bullets that flew past him. He was known to viciously and ruthlessly attack and kill everyone on the battlefield. He soon became infamous among the Nazis who had many nicknames for him, the most used of which was "Das Furcht" which means "The Fear".

In his time fighting in the war, Richard had never lost a battle, until one fateful day when his entire squad except for him were obliterated by Nazi bombers, which Richard was unsuccessful in detecting before it was too late to get to cover. The entire area was decimated by the bombs, with only Richard being the only non destroyed thing within a two mile radius. He lay unconscious in the rubble for hours before a small Nazi scouting squad recovered him and brought him to a secret facility where Nazi scientists performed horrific expermients on captured soldiers. Richard's body was badly scarred and burned when the scientists began experimenting on him. They were currently trying to create a super soldier serum that would allow them to heal from flesh wounds and broken bones within seconds, making Richard a perfect test subject. After months of experimentation, Richard finally began to show signs that the serum was working. His body started to heal and slowly returned to it's healthy state, his blue eyes turned bright green and his brown hair turned pitch black. The serum was deemed a success, but before they could return any of their research to their superiors they had to clear up the loose ends, namely the test subjects. They began exterminating each test subject and were succesful in doing so, until they came for Richard. They tried to kill him by firing a bullet into his skull, but this would only work for so long. Only minutes after they unstrapped him from the table he was on, he awoke. Their serum was far more potent that they had anticpated and Richard now possessed an incredible healing factor. Richard used his new found power to subdue his captors, break his fellow inprisoned test subjects free and burn the entire facility to the ground, obliterating everthing and everyone that had any information on the serum.

He was soon shipped home, to his dismay, and he soon met a young Mary Wright. The two fell in love and had a child together, who they named Paul Collins (William's Father) who was born with the same healing factor as his father, along with the same black hair and green eyes. Only two weeks after Paul's birth, Richard left to rejoin the men on the front lines, even after being begged not to by Mary. Dispite Richard's incredible healing factor, he was soon killed by being struck directly in the head by an enemy artillery shell. Paul grew up not knowing his father, but like Richard was inspired by the death of his father to join the army, but before he was able to even do so, he met William's mother, Joan Murphy. The two soon fell in love and his priorities changed, they married. Not long after they concieved twin children, William and Harry Collins. The two twins had inherited their father's healing factor, black hair and green eyes, just as Paul did from his father. The only major difference was that William's healing factor was even more advanced that both his father's and grandfathers while Harry's was close to none existant. Unfortunatly, Joan died in the process of giving birth and in his grief, Paul sent his children to an orphanage and left to finally join the army. A day into the Vietnam war, Paul died due to being decapitated by a falling helicopter blade. His two children grew up not knowing anything about their parents, other than their father had been killed in the Vietnam war.

His two twins grew up very close to eachother and were socially distant from everyone else in the orphanage. Although they were twins, they were very different from eachother. Harry was a very intellectual person, he spent all of his free time studying, while William was very ill disciplined, he hated school, studying and work in general. The only thing he actually liked to do when he was young was work on his parkour skills. Dispite their differences, the two brothers were incredibly close. In his childhood, William suffered many broken bones, but due to his healing factor he healed within minutes. It was also due to his healing factor that he was even able to survive many of his failed jumps, some where he fell off of three storey buildings and landed on his head, only to heal ten minutes later. Miraculously, he had managed to keep his incredible healing a secret, with only him and his brother knowing about it. By the time William reached the age of 18 he had already mastered parkour and he was eager to join the police force, unlike his brother who immediately signed up for the army.

William easily got through the police academy and was soon stationed in the New York police department. For a while, William was the most skilled police officer in the state, so it wasn't long before he was offered a positon as a member of the SWAT. William accepted and joined their elite ranks. He spent years haulting riots, nulifying hostage situations among doing other duties. William was mostly assigned to sniper opperations, which he soon mastered. Over all this time, William had become greatly skilled in both unarmed combat and in the usage of firearms. Even though William had become one of the best men ever to work in law enforcement, he still felt that he wasn't fulfilling his true purpose. So he quit his job and signed up for the army, just like his brother before him, their father before him and his father before him. Due to his past experience he had easily got through recruitment and was sent out to Iraq, where, as luck would have it, he was put into his brother's squad. His brother had been in the army for years now and had become quite highly ranked. Together, William and his brother's squad had completed many successful missions with no failures, dispite them having come into contact with more hostility than any other squad stationed in Iraq. That is until their very last mission. It seemed as if it were a normal scouting mission, but then three trucks came at them from the distance. Two of them stopped, but the third kept comming at them. The entire squad opened fire upon it, but it kept on comming. The squad tried to scatter as the truck came close, but it was too late to escape the explosion that ingulfed the area. As it happens, the truck was a kamakazi. The only survivors of which were William and Harry. William quickly healed from the burns that the explosion caused, but Harry's legs had become burnt stumps.

The other two trucks approached and out of them came several terrorists who went out to check for survivors. Two of them went over to Harry and dragged him back to their truck while the rest tried to subdue William who was fighting back furiously, until he was blasted in the kneecap by a shotgun. His lower half of his leg barely clung to the top half. The now downed William was, like his brother, dragged into the back of the truck where they were transported to a makeshift base for their terrorist captors. They were both tied to chairs and horrifically tortured, William could only watch as his brother slowly and painfully died infront of him, he wasn't even concerned about himself and he basically ignored his own pain and worried for his brother. When they were finished with them, Harry was in a near death state, while William was quickly healing, but unfortunately before the terrorists left the building they tosed a molotov cocktail in the entrance. The resulting fire began to quickly burn away at the building's interior. Willian was forced to watch as his brother suffered further as he slowly burned alive. William was finally set free from his binds when the fire reached him and burned the ropes away. Even though the building was quickly becomming an inferno, William refused to leave. He went over to the charred body of his deceased brother and weeped, dispite the fact that he himself was burning. Even after the fire had passed and the building was nothing but ash, William sat beside his brother. As he went to touch his brother's hand, it suddenly turned to ash and blew away in the wind. William's desparing weeping, became a raging scream. William had competely lost his mind. As the rest of his brothers remains turned to ash, William rose to his feet and screamed monsterously. He was little more than a fleshless beast now and he, in a fit of pure rage, charged off in a random direction. The constant irratation of the sand that blew around him stopped him from healing.

When he finally reached a town after hours of running through the desert, William, who was almost feral, charged in and tore everything in sight apart and killing everything he saw, laughing as he did it. Ironically, this was the very town his terrorist captors moved to and they were fruitlessly trying to kill him. At that moment he could have been compared to an unstoppable and merciless force of nature, which killed and destroyed everything in it's path. By the time he was finished, the entire village was left in ruin, with absolutely no survivors, not even the women nor children survived. By this time, William had finally healed and was completely naked in a ruined village in the middle of nowhere. After putting on some scavanged clothing, William left what was left of the village and began walking off into the desert.

After days of wandering through the desert and finally calming down (though he wasn't any more sane), William found a US airfield where he, after killing almost everyone in site, stole a military plane and forced a pilot to fly it back to America. Upon reaching US airspace and refusing to identify himself the military launched a missile at the plane, which was instantly destroyed on impact with the missile. The pilot died imediately, but William survived due to his healing factor and went into a freefall. He crashed down to the ground, landing just before the debris of the plane. Every bone in William's body was broken, which took quite a while before they completely healed. Once he healed, he quickly made his way to the nearest town, where he was able to find a set of clean clothing. This time he didn't instantly start to destroy everything in his path, but was far more civil. He took a seat inside of a bar and started to think. The mind of an insane man is an incredibly strange thing, but somewhere along the way William decided that he would become an assassin for hire, for both the pay and the joy he gets from killing. Months later, William had become a very successful and notorious assassin. He soon gained the status as one of the most wanted men in America through killing many politicians and highly ranked military personal, but with his infamy rising William realised that he would need to step it up a notch. He met with a specialised weaponry dealer who made several custom weapons to him. This weapons dealer has also kept him well stocked with amunition and grenades. William also had a specialised suit made, which he always wears when he goes killing.

Over time, William had become known as Deathwish. This was because of a name that he was given after being caught on camera by a news broadcaster as he charged towards a hail of gunfire by a police squad after completing another assassination. They called him this because he seemed to have a "Deathwish" as he wrecklessly attacked in a way that was deemed suicidal. William actually began to like this new nickname and refered to himself as such, and thus, Deathwish was born.

When the demons invaded earth, Deathwish was unfortunate enough to have been killed when after tearing through crowds of demons, his brain stem was impaled with a demon's blade. His soul was then dragged to hell where it was horribly tortured, even with the short time being there. Deathwish however, had other plans in mind, and being dead wasn't one of them. He forcibly crawled back out from the depths of hell, using the same route the demons took. Once freed, he reunited with his body and...his resurrection was complete. Once the demons were defeated and all was back to normal in the world, Deathwish realised his healing factor had imporved significantly and now, he was basically immortal. After a few years of doing whatever he wanted, whenever he wanted to, the impossible had finally happened...He had gotten bored. He did the same things day after day, every week of every month and now, he found that he wasn't happy with the life he was living. Eventually, his mind fell into great depression. He soon started a long string of suicide attempts, each time he failed miserably. Once he shoved an active grenade in his mouth. Then he lit himself on fire and ran into an airport, over 50 bullets were fired into him before he went down. Then he jumped into a giant meat grinder. Each time, he lived with only the memory of the pain he felt with each attempt. He ended up just giving up on the whole thing and decided to get sent to prison where he would be able to live the rest of his eternal life in confinement. He went to the nearest bank with a small handgun, planning to rob the bank and allow himelf to be caught, but that didn't happen. When he was in the bank, ready to pull out his gun and demand the money, he was suprised when a group of heavily armed men carrying automatic weaponry burst in and took everyone hostage. Deathwish wasn't happy about that, not one bit. This was HIS robbery and he was damned if he was going to let some punks with guns upstage him. Turning the gunmen, he systematically disarmed and beat each of them senseless, but before he was able to kill any of them, he was met by applause and cheers from the crowd. To Deathwish, what was strange is that he actually felt good.

A while later, he made some pretty big life decisions, mainly about his status as an evil mercenary. He decided that being evil didn't suit him anymore and that by doing good things, he felt he had a reason to go on living. So nowdays he spends his time fighting crime, yet avoiding the law due to still being wanted due to his past wrong doings.

Powers: Deathwish's only power, is his healing factor. He can heal from fatal wounds in minutes and everything else heals almost instantly. He is immune to disease and poisoning, radiation included. Another interesting ability he has picked up is that he doesn't need to breathe, but he does need to do so to talk of course. Also ever since "Rising from the Dead" Deathwish has gained the ability to heal from any single part of his body that has become detached from the rest. This means he can heal from being blow to kingdom come (Brain and all) as long as some of him remains, say a finger or an ear. His entire body would then heal from that point until he is complete again. However, there cannot be more than one Deathwish as he only has one soul of which to do this.

Aside from his healing factor, Deathwish is completely human, albeit an extremely skilled one. His strength and speed are at the normal human physical peak. His endurance is equal to an average human, though he makes up for it by having his healing factor, skill and speed. Dispite only having humanly strength and speed, he is overwelmingly skilled in combat. There are only a rare few people who can match his skill in both unarmed combat and in using of guns. Deathwish knows how to opperate almost every kind of weapon in the world with astounding skill and accuracy. He is also extremely skilled in parkour and is very agile, which easily makes up for the fact that he can't fly or get around like many other villains and heroes do.


PowerGrid:

Strength - 3

Speed - 3

Energy Projection - 7

Durability - 2

Intelligence - 2

Fighting ability - 6


Character Description: Deathwish stands at 6'4 feet and quite a muscular build. He has short pitch black hair and his eyes are a strange bright green color which seem to somewhat glow when light is shown directly on them. His skin is flawless, as any abnormalities on it is physically impossible due to his healing factor.

Super, I approve of it.

Wow...I like this.

Though "Das Sorgen" actually means "The Sorrow" in stead of "The Fear". "Der Furcht" is what it's supposed to be.

Approval needed!

Ill approve this, its just as hard to kill him as to katachi

I'm pretty sure you said you were not using this anymore. So trashing it. If I am wrong let me know and I'll move it back.


Besides, this sounds OP


This means he can heal from being blow to kingdom come (Brain and all) as long as some of him remains, say a finger or an ear. His entire body would then heal from that point until he is complete again. However, there cannot be more than one Deathwish as he only has one soul of which to do this.