RICOCHET

Real Name: Unrevealed

Class: Human technology-user

Occupation: Supervillain

Group Affiliation: None

Known Relatives: None

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: NYC, NY

First Appearance: Gunfire #1 (May, 1994)

Powers: Ricochet wore a battlesuit that gave him superhuman strength and durability. The suit projected a forcefield, and his gauntlets housed energy guns.

History: (Gunfire #1, 2) - Ricochet was the henchman of Carlton Slater, and when Andrew Van Horn refused to be bullied by Carlton into giving him a commissioned piece of technology his late father was working on for Carlton he had his goons kidnap Andrew's business associate Yvette Dubois. Andrew changed into his superhero identity Gunfire and went after the criminals full bore until Ricochet arrived with Yvette in tow, demanding Colin's CDI, and Gunfire admitted he had no idea what he was being asked for. Gunfire freed Yvette, they battled, and when the police arrived on the scene Carlton called Ricochet and his men off. Ricochet mumbled that he would have won the fight, but obeyed orders. The next day Richocet and more of Carlton's goons broke into a Van Horn warehouse looking for the CDI, but Gunfire, with backup from his friends chased them off, and Ricochet was really starting to hate his job. Gunfire's IT man Ben Nakashima cracked Gunther's experimental weapons manifest, and found that the CDI was a cellular de-integrator, arriving at JFK the next night. One of Carlton's goons had a comm link that picked up the conversation, and Ricochet and his men were there to confront Gunfire at JFK. Gunfire shot one of his energy blasts at the CDI, and the resulting explosion knocked Ricochet into Long Island Sound, and he sank to the bottom. Slater reported to his boss, crimelord Solomon Perggia, who decided to take matters into his own hands as the supervillain Purge.

Comments: Created by Len Wein & Steve Erwin.