Sniper (Marvel)
The Sniper is a male comic character who features in Marvel Comics.
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Biography
Rich von Burian
While serving under Castle in the Marines, Rich von Burian took out Vietnamese soldiers pinning down the rest of his troop, allowing them to escape via helicopter. During the flight, he learned that the body bags they were transporting were in fact filled with corpses stuffed with packs of cocaine. He investigated this and learned that his commanding officer, Col. Ray Schoonover was heading a drug smuggling operation. Following the war, Burian hired on as an assassin/enforcer for Schoonover. (Punisher War Journal v1 #4) As Schoonover's bid for the US Senate progressed, von Burian began assassinating the members of his former troop, on the chance that any of them had learned the secret of the corpses. After killing off Chin, Inoguchi, Pope, and Thorne, he was tracked by Frank Castle, the Punisher. He ambushed Castle and nearly killed him, but the Punisher drove him off with remote-controlled weaponry in his battle van. The Punisher forced Schoonover to confess his crimes to the press and then commit suicide. Von Burian attempted to pick off the Punisher but was stopped by Levin, who had become an agent of the DEA. Von Burian turned the tables on Levin and killed him, but by that time the Punisher was on his trail. Castle succeeded in overpowering von Burian, but as the press arrived, the Sniper took a hostage, whom he used to escape. (Punisher War Journal v1 #5)
Overview
Personality and attributes
Powers and abilities
A former member of the United States Marine Corps, Sniper was an expert marksman, excelled at armed and unarmed combat, and was a skilled pilot and computer hacker. His main weapons were a rifle, and a push dagger.
Notes
- Sniper was created by Jim Lee and Carl Potts where he made his first appearance in Punisher War Journal v1 #4 (March, 1989).
Alternate Versions
In other media
Television
Appearances
- Punisher War Journal v1: (1989)
- Wolverine and The Punisher: Damaging Evidence v1:
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