History: (Showcase '93 #2 (fb, BTS), 1, 3, 4) - Bracuda was a Cuban émigré who arrived in Gotham during the Mariel Boatlift. Bracuda set up a criminal organization in Brideshead, paying off the local police, and driving the small-time criminals out of the business under threats of death. He established a meth lab and a chop shop, and had his men steal a famous painting from the Brideshead art museum, conveniantly putting the frame on Catwoman. Catwoman witnessed drug dealers gunned down by Bracuda's men for competing with him, and attacked them. She soundly beat them, telling them Brideshead belonged to her, and the neighborhood cheered her on for standing up to the man everyone else was afraid of. Bracuda was furious that Catwoman was going after him, and his machismo despised a woman hurting his business. She ransacked his Brentwood mansion, and in a rage he attacked the guards that failed to stop her, beating them senseless before ripping out their throats with his teeth. Bracuda had forced Storrow Street shop owners from their livelihoods to set up a front for his criminal enterprise, but they organized and started a riot with Bracuda's men. Bracuda was not worried until the police, whose corruption was being rooted out by Commissioner Gordon, arrived. He watched the chaos from his apartment on Storrow Street, and was ready to flee when Catwoman confronted him. They had a violent fight, and he told her that if she wasn't such a man he would make love to her. She warned him that the GCPD would soon arrive to take him to prison, and he agreed to cut his losses and leave her neighborhood.