Brick (DC)
Brick is a male comic supervillain who features in DC Comics.
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Biography
Origin
Daniel Brickwell
Originally, Brick was a low-level henchman/enforcer for various mobsters in Star City and also ran his own street gang. He also had a brilliant criminal mind and higher aspirations to go with it. In the wake of the demonic attack on Star City, he began to expand his gang's criminal activities, particularly drug sales, into areas left vacant by other criminal organizations. His major success was to unite the various street gangs of Star City under his leadership. These low-level criminals were previously denied access to many lucrative areas by more "up-market" mafioso, but once united under the leadership of Brick they became an overnight crime syndicate with greater manpower and resources than the now greatly weakened traditional organized crime families. As his criminal empire grew, he came to the attention of Star City's police department, Green Arrow, and the council of mafia/gang leaders who represented the various criminal families of Star City. Brick was invited to a meeting of this council and told that his new criminal enterprise would be allowed to continue in Star City, but only if the Mafia were given a cut; his alternative was death. Brick had the house leveled by a missile. His invulnerability left him the sole survivor of the blast and the unopposed ruler of Star City's underworld.
In the wake of the demon blackout, he looked to make a name for himself and began growing his territory as he made a name for himself. In time, he managed to gain large parts of Star City under his control. (Green Arrow v3 #41) As part of his expansion, he had a meeting with other local crime bosses as he sought to grow his holdings. During the haggling, his competitors looked for a larger cut leading to Brick killing them. (Green Arrow v3 #40)
Brick was responsible for hiring Deathstroke to blow up Green Arrow's first house. (Green Arrow v3 #50)
He was seemingly killed by Cupid who blew up his office with a gigantic wrecking ball. (Green Arrow and Black Canary v1 #18) However, he somehow had survived where he came to be active in San Francisco and was attempting to kidnap the daughter of a millionaire. Unknown to him, this was actually Miss Martian in disguise where he came to be quickly defeated by her where she came to knock him out. (Justice League: Cry for Justice v1 #4)
Post-Flashpoint
Following the Flashpoint, a new version of reality was created with a different history of events.
He came to be one of Richard Dragon's Longbow Hunters, whose aim is to kill Green Arrow because of the $30 million bounty Dragon put out on him. (Green Arrow v5 #31)
Brick later operated as mercenary and member of the Ninth Circle that were an international criminal organization which banked for criminals where he worked alongside other such assassins like Eddie Fyers, Shado and Cheshire. (Green Arrow v6 #10)
Overview
Personality and attributes
In appearance, Brick was a human with orange rock-like skin and a large frame with him having white-grey hair that was arranged as dreadlocks. Typically, he was shown wearing a white business suit when operating in the city. (Green Arrow v3 #40) He would have people sometimes informally call him Danny. (Green Arrow v3 #41)
He claimed that usually he did not hurt children. (Green Arrow v5 #33)
Brick was shown to use his powers to his advantage as part of his criminal ventures. This included having his own men fire a rocket at his location to kill everyone around him whilst he survived the explosion. (Green Arrow v3 #41)
Powers and abilities
It was noted that that he had powers and that he could not be hurt. (Green Arrow v3 #41) He survived after being shot with multiple arrows by Emiko Queen and quickly recovered without showing any sign of pain, still his durability has its limits as an enraged Green Arrow was able to almost beat him to death with his bare hands. (Green Arrow v5 #33) Brick had even taken multiple arrows to the chest but they failed to cause any damage and simply bounced off his skin, an explosive arrow also failed to harm him. (Green Arrow Annual v6 #2)
Such was his strength that he was capable of ripping off a person's arm and killing multiple people by himself. (Green Arrow v3 #40) He was able to break through a concrete wall with no effort and can easily lift a full grown man like Green Arrow with just one arm and could throw Emiko Queen against a wall with enough strength to crack it. (Green Arrow v5 #33) In one instance, he demolished a skycraper by punching down its foundations. (Green Arrow v6 #21)
He showed some fight capabilities as show in his fights with Green Arrow but mostly relies on his brute strength. (Green Arrow Annual v6 #2)
Brick was shown to be the head of a gang where he looked to expand his criminal territory to grow in power. (Green Arrow v3 #41)
Notes
- Brick was created by Judd Winick and Phil Hester where he made his first appearance in Green Arrow v3 #40 (September, 2004).
Alternate Versions
In other media
Television
- In Young Justice, Brick appeared as an antagonist in the animated television series where he was voiced by actor Khary Payton. Brick oversaw the import of illegal firearms at the Star City docks. He was captured by Speedy, who encased him in high-density polyurethane foam. He was imprisoned in Belle Reve Penitentiary, where he managed to form his own group, though still answered to the "capo", Icicle Sr.. He participated in the riot and attempted breakout, and threatened to kill the warden, Amanda Waller, but Hugo Strange convinced Brick that Waller was more useful alive. Working in the kitchen, Brick could not resist mocking new arrival Count Vertigo, and splattered his lunch all over him.
- In Arrow, Danny 'Brick' Brickwell appeared as an antagonist in the live-action television series set in the Arrowverse where he was portrayed by actor Vinnie Jones. This version was a non-metahuman English gang leader whose nickname is derived from his high pain tolerance. Additionally, he killed Malcolm Merlyn's wife, Rebecca, as part of an initiation into a criminal gang. Throughout the third season, Brickwell and his gang take over the Glades section of Starling City, but they are overthrown by Arsenal and Black Canary while Brickwell is defeated and nearly killed by Merlyn. In the fourth season, Brickwell escaped from Iron Heights Penitentiary and joins H.I.V.E., only to be defeated and remanded to Slabside Maximum Security Prison as of the seventh season. While working with Ricardo Diaz after he takes over the prison, Brickwell was killed by Stanley Dover.
Appearances
- Green Arrow v3: (2004)
- Justice League: Cry For Justice v1:
- Green Arrow v5:
- Green Arrow v6:
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