Bloodshot (Valiant)
Bloodshot is a male comic character who features in Valiant Comics.
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Biography
Valiant Comics
Angelo Mortalli
He came to be a ruthless and arrogant hitman climbing the mob ranks and about to marry the daughter of mobster Gino Canelli, head of one of New York City's major crime families. It was later discovered that Mortalli was having an affair leading to Canelli takes revenge by framing him for murder. Mortalli offered evidence in exchange for federal witness protection rather than prison. But Canelli learnt about this further betrayal and bought off an FBI agent to kidnap Mortalli. Rather than kill the former hitman, Canelli delivered him to be a new test subject for Project Rising Spirit that were an research organization that conducted illegal experiments to turn people into living weapons with this being headed by a corrupt scientist named Hideyoshi Iwatsu.
Acclaim Comics
Angelo Mortalli was a cover identity assumed by Raymond Garrison, an agent of the Domestic Operations Authority, for the purpose of infiltrating the Cianelli crime family. Unforeseen circumstances resulted in Angelo’s exposure and execution. Fortunately, the DOA was able to recover his remains promptly enough to place them in cryogenic suspension and preserve them while Project: Lazarus perfected the process of nanotechnological resurrection. Severe mnemonic fragmentation due to tissue necrosis, however, complicated the reconstruction of consciousness. The nanites employed the clearest, most recent memories – those of the Mortalli identity – as their template, and in so doing, transformed fiction into delusion. He strikes like a bolt of lightning. Bones and sinew are ground into powder in his hands. Microscopic machines whisper into his brain and haunt him with memories of an erased past. Raymond Garrison was thus gone and he was now Bloodshot.
As four mobsters came out of a theater in Bensonhurst one evening, Raymond Garrison opened fire on them and a shootout ensued. Though the men shot him at least seven times, Raymond did not notice, and, in a voice that sounded like if a gravestone could talk, he asked one of them about Angelo Mortalli and he told him to ask Michael Pileggi just before a car ran him over. As Raymond pursued the car through the Belt Parkway on a stolen Harley, a man in the car shot him on the chest with a shotgun, but the hit did not faze him and he shot him back on the throat while he smiled. The last shotgun blast blew out Raymond’s front tire and he went through the guardrail into Sheepshead Bay. While Raymond, who was gravely injured, hid in the bottom of the bay, he paid heed to the voices in his head that told him to sleep, and, in his slumber, he relived his rebirth at the hands of Dr. Frederick J. Stroheim, the DOA scientist in charge of Project Lazarus. In his dream, Raymond awoke in a regeneration tank and grabbed Cameron Sinclair, an agent of the Domestic Operations Authority and his friend, who when he demanded that he tell him where he was, who the people around him where, and what they had done to him, said that they brought him back from the dead.
Valiant Entertainment
Raymond Garrison
For decades, countless men were roped into a mysterious government program run by Project Rising Spirit, in an attempt to make the ultimate super soldier. Most of the subjects failed, but in the 21st century the Project tried again, using their recent studies in artificial intelligence and nanites to make a brand new, perfect soldier. In an attempt to avoid the emotional and mental problems previous subjects had faced, the Project used Nanites to manipulate the new Bloodshot's memories. Sometimes he was a prisoner on death row given a new lease on life, and other times he was a washed up former athlete. However, none of these memory files would "stick". This led to rampages, and the Project having to try over and over again. This means no one, even Bloodshot, knows who he truly is, after so many fake, broken lives. The first memory to really stick was that of Raymond "Ray" Garrison, a trained soldier fighting to protect his family, and that became his 'real' life. "Ray's" physiology was enhanced further, granting him a healing factor, super strength, and powerful technopathy.
For years, "Ray Garrison" was used in simple operations in the Middle East and wherever he was needed. Soon, however, Project Rising Spirit was made aware of the growing presence of Psiots, a subspecies of humanity who all possess powerful psychic abilities. As the Bloodshot Program's resources were diverted to the growing crisis, a scientist named Kuretich fled the Project, and joined the Psiot-run Harbinger Foundation. While Bloodshot was running an assassination attempt on a young psiot in Afghanistan, Bloodshot was captured, and the rogue scientist reprogrammed Bloodshot's nanites to reveal the fakeness of his memories. Bloodshot agreed to work with Kuretich under the agreement that the scientist would help him find his true identity.
Overview
Personality and attributes
One incarnation of him was referred to as the Angel of Death.
Powers and abilities
His blood contained nanites that gave him a variety of special powers. These powers included superhuman physicality, the ability to regenerate from any wound if he consumed enough matter, the ability to alter his body shape, and the ability to communicate with machines.
The process that gave him his powers also made him lose his memories resulting in Rising Spirit implanting false memories to manipulate and motivate him.
Notes
- Bloodshot was created by Kevin VanHook, Don Perlin and Bob Layton where he made his first appearance in Eternal Warrior v1 #4 (November, 1992).
Alternate Versions
- In Divinity II v1 #2 (2016), an alternate version of the character named Komandar Bloodshot appeared in the altered timeline of the Stalinverse in the Multiverse.
In other media
Films
- In Bloodshot, Blodoshot appeared in the setting of the 2020 live-action film where he was portrayed by actor Vin Diesel.
Appearances
- Eternal Warrior v1: (1992)
- Bloodshot v1:
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