REMI ROME

Real Name: Remi Rome

Class: Human

Occupation: Minuteman

Group Affiliation: Minutemen

Known Relatives: Johno (uncle), Lindi (aunt), Siss (aunt), Ronnie Rome (brother, deceased), unnamed father, unnamed mother

Aliases: The Saint

Base of Operations: Cleveland, OH

First Appearance: 100 Bullets #10 (May, 2000)

Powers: Remi was skilled with firearms.

History:  (100 Bullets #10 (fb), 35 (fb), 56 (fb), 69 (fb), 76-79 (fb)) - Remi Rome was a member of the Minutemen, the enforcers of the Trust, the 13 most rich and powerful families in America. The Minutemen took care of Roland Dietrich, covering him in gasoline and lighting a match. Graves planned this event to disband the Minutemen when the Trust approached him with a power play that would consolidate their control over the country. The Trust wanted the Minutemen gone, but Graves wanted them to view the Minutemen as having gone rogue. Afterwards he programmed the Minutemen, making them forget their lives, and giving them new one

(100 Bullets #70, 71) - Remi's brother Ronnie got him a job at Heinz Meats, and Remi started skimming, stealing and reselling the meat himself. Ronnie was enforcer for mobster Mimo Pallidino, who had a stake in Heinz, and he warned Remi to knock it off or Mimo would have his head. Remi backtalked him but agreed, and told him he was a bad son because he still hadn't gotten their mother anything for her birthday. Remi brought his sometime lover Pamela back to his mother's house for the night, but shooed her off in the morning so as not to upset his mom. Bobby Irillo asked him about buying some nudist magazines he'd stolen from a recently deceased neighbor, and Remi happily agreed to sell to him. Remi and Ronnie went to their mother's birthday party, and Remi found a briefcase Agent Graves had given to Ronnie. It contained a gun, 100 untraceable bullets, a picture of Remi and files outlining how he'd ruined Ronnie's life.

(100 Bullets #72-74) - Remi berated Ronnie for using foul language around their ma, and told him to keep her company because he had a date with Pamela, infuriating Ronnie. At the club with Pamela he continued discussing business with Bobby, but was more interested in relaxing and doing drugs than getting the job done. Eventually he went out back to finalize the deal, but Ronnie was there on orders of Mimo, who wanted Remi dead, thinking he was still stealing from Heinz. Agent Graves was in Cleveland, and paid a homeless man to find Remi and write 'Croatoa' in the snow, reactivating Remi. Ronnie threatened him, and Remi pulled his gun. Remi showed the contents of truck only contained magazines, and promised he wasn't skimming. He told Ronnie about the briefcase he found, and if he'd really ruined his brother's life, but Ronnie chose not to answer him. They drove to the Heinz warehouse because Remi suspected the night manager Randall, and his intuition was correct. He was working with Argentinean gangsters who'd recently begun doing business with Mimo as well. They got the drop on the the Rome brothers, slashing Remi's face and shooting Ronnie in the chest. Ronnie survived, and an infuriated Remi took down their attackers, hanging them on meat hooks and dismembering them. He met with Graves, who'd put the Minuteman back together, and Remi was pleased to see his old pal Cole Burns.

(100 Bullets #76, 77) - Remi Rome killed Mia Simone, tossing her out a window and destroying another house of the Trust. Graves applauded his abilities as a buttonman, but told him and Burns that repercussions would be severe, and one of them might be the next to go. He reminded them Lono worked for the Trust and Wylie and Dizzy weren't affiliated with anyone at the moment. Dizzy wanted to kill Graves for making her murder Shepherd, and Wylie called Graves up, telling him to stay away from her. Lono and the Minutemen were partying at a motel when Wylie called Victor, telling him he was with Dizzy, and Victor quickly told Lono, who wanted her dead. Lono called Megan Dietrich, who'd learned of Mia Simone's death, and her attempt to put him in his place were met with vulgarity. He knew Augustus was pleased that another Trust house was gone, even though Graves was responsible, and said to keep up appearances as warlord he was going to Mexico to find Graves, knowing he wouldn't be there. Lono and the rest of the Minutemen made their way south of the border, and all of them were howling for Dizzy's blood. Cole told Graves he had no problem taking out Dizzy and Wylie if they wouldn't go with Graves' plan, and Graves said he wanted Wylie to go with them willingly. Wylie was a natural leader according to him, but Cole was his right hand man because he actually trusted him. Wylie told Mr. Branch the Minutemen were coming, and they could use Benito Medici, who was with them, as bait. Graves sent Wylie's old friend Kuchenko and his criminal friends against Wylie, who killed every one of them in a hail of gunfire.

(100 Bullets #79, 80) - Victor and Wylie had a sit-down about why Graves and Shepherd had chosen Lono as the Trust's new warlord. Victor said Lono was perfect because he'd never had any true allegiances, and told Wylie how Lono had him and Loop shoot but not kill Megan Dietrich so Lono would be needed by the Medicis. Wylie resolved to have a talk with Graves, and Victor promised to keep Dizzy, Branch and Benito safe. Wylie told Branch the plan was still on, and as soon as he left Victor announced he had a job to do, and none of them were safe. He threatened to execute them and asked Branch for a beer. Branch found a handgun in the beer cooler and pointed it at Victor. Wylie met Graves, Cole and Remi, who were disappointed in him for not bringing Dizzy. He claimed Graves was working for the Trust, believing an old lie, and was involved with Dizzy because of a mistake he'd made long ago. Remi didn't want to hear his elaborations and shot him dead. Branch couldn't shoot Victor, who cut one of his fingers off before brutalizing Dizzy and Benito. He left Benito behind for Lono, Loop and Jack to find, and drove off with Diz and Branch. Lono took Benito to a cheap motel and locked him in an adult booth, demanding to know why he was alive. He said Graves would probably kill his father, and Lono would probably kill Graves, but Benito should have been out of the picture the moment he met Wylie. Victor delivered Dizzy to Graves, who said he wanted a private conversation with her. Victor was not pleased with Remi for killing Wylie, and when he protested that Wylie had drawn a weapon Victor said Wylie was a better shot than him, and if he'd wanted to kill Remi he'd be dead. Branch was only being kept alive as leverage against Wylie, so Victor told Cole to clean up his mess. Cole got Branch alone, and said he should have gone to Italy when he had the chance. Graves told Dizzy, who reiterated that she was going to kill him, that Shepherd and Wylie had died not to protect her, but to keep the two of them apart. After a longer conversation Graves introduced Dizzy to Victor, Cole and Remi as the newest Minuteman.

(100 Bullets #84) - Sigmar Rhone's informant Kate told him Augustus and Megan were planning to wed, and warned he'd rule the Trust with Graves. Their meeting was interrupted by Victor and Remi, who'd taken Remi's wife and children hostage, and executed them in front of his eyes before killing him.

(100 Bullets #87) - Joan D'Arcy was next on Graves list, and he had Remi hit a number of properties D'Arcy owned, killing her security. Remi met Graves and Dizzy at a restaurant, complaining that the job was not the cakewalk Graves made it out to be. Graves said he wasn't seeing the big picture before getting up and leaving.

(100 Bullets #90) - Remi, laying low after the failed hit on D'arcy called his mother, who'd gotten a puppy because she was lonely. He didn't like her choice of Bambi as a name saying the other dogs would pick on him, and begged his mother not to get him fixed. He said he was still on a job but promised to visit as soon as he could.

(100 Bullets #93, 95) - Graves arranged a meeting with Javier Vasco, and Lono and Augustus planned on attending as well. Remi called Graves saying he was shadowing D'arcy's safehouse, waiting for her to emerge and kill her, but he soon got a call from his aunt saying his mom'd had a heart attack. He panicked and said he was on his way, deciding to storm the front of D'arcy's safehouse. He slaughtered her security, and she fled inside with her bodyguard Coop. Remi shot them both, but Coop was hooked up to an oxygen tank, which exploded, and Remi's hands were blasted off. Remi survived the blast that took his hands, and Victor met him in the hospital, taking him onto the roof for a smoke. Remi was disappointed to hear D'arcy survived their confrontation, and Victor tried to keep his spirits up, saying he could learn to live with his ability, and he'd be taken care of. Remi told a story about a dog he knew in childhood that was always kept locked-up and had a glassy stare, saying that was no way to live. They saw a man being carted into the hospital on a stretcher, not knowing it was Ronnie, who'd gotten in a severe car accident on the way to visit his brother in the hospital. Remi leapt off the roof, committing suicide and landing on his brother.

Comments: Created by Brian Azzarello & Eduardo Risso.

Remi had a cameo in 100 Bullets #26.

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