SOLDIERS OF MISFORTUNE

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The Soldiers of Misfortune were superhuman operatives who were enslaved by an organization known as Undertow (not to be confused with Undertow from the team Surf). Each member had an implant within them that gave the cabinet members of the Undertow organization complete control over their superhuman agents. The Soldiers of MisFortune were often sent to commit great atrocities, such as the mass murder of African refugees. They struck without mercy, even killing Oriole and Tanager from Air Force, while enslaving Sparrow, who would go on, against her will to become the member known as Hard.

The Undertow was a terrorist organization run by Protocol.

Name: General Obsidian
First Appearance: New Warriors (V1) #53

Group Affiliation: Undertow, Soldiers of Misfortune

General Obsidian was considered second in command of the terrorist organization, Undertow, and often was designated to update the commander of Undertow, Protocol.

Though often seen without eyes and a mouth, General Obsidian is later shown to have those features, however, they are featureless (his pupils, for example are black).

See General Obsidian’s full profile here.

Exeter

Real Name: Unknown

First Appearance: New Warriors (V1) #56

Group Affiliation: Undertow, Soldiers of Misfortune

History: Nothing is known about Exeter prior to him joining them. He had a unique look in which half of his face appeared to have been burned, and on the scarred side of his face, his eye was red. When Nova and Cardinal burst into the Undertow ship looking for the captured New Warriors and Cardinal’s then, girlfriend, Sparrow (who had been turned into the Soldier of Misfortune named Fast), this individual spit on Cardinal, to which Cardinal responded in kind, killing him by shooting him beneath the chin.

Powers: It is not believed that this individual had any powers. However, unlike many of the other Undertow Terrorists who sat at the command center, this individual had a unique look with half his face appearing to have suffered some wound, and on that side of his face, his eye was red.

Note: The name “Exeter” comes from a cathedral city and the county town of Devon, South West England. It is situated on the River Exe. Exeter became a religious centre in the Middle Ages. Exeter Cathedral, founded in the mid 11th century, became Anglican in the 16th-century English Reformation. The modern name of Exeter is a development of the Old English Escanceaster, from the anglicised form of the river now known as the Exe and the Old English suffix -ceaster used to mark important fortresses or fortified towns. However, it seems more likely that the name “Exe” is a separate development of the Brittonic name—meaning “water” or, more exactly, “full of fish” which seems fitting to the fact that the Undertow operates out of a submarine.

General Admission

Real Name: Unknown

First Appearance: New Warriors (V1) #58

Group Affiliation: Undertow, Soldiers of Misfortune

History: Nothing is known about General Admission prior to him joining them. He had a unique look in which his head is large and bald, and the color of his skin is an olive green color.

He was told by Protocol to pry at Namorita’s memories, who at the time had been under the control of Protocol and a member of the Soldiers of Misfortune, demanding to know the location of the other New Warriors.

Powers: General Admission displayed no super powers during his appearance, however, Protocol called on him to pry at Namorita’s memories when she was their prisoner indicated delicate surgical and nuerological knowledge and potentially genieus level intelligence if he was responsible for the brain washing tool that created the Soldiers of Misfortunate.

Cut

Real Name: John Sharpe

First Appearance: New Warriors (V1) #54

Group Affiliation: Undertow, Soldiers of Misfortune

History: John Sharpe had been an environmentalist before he was enslaved by Undertow and turned into Cut.

Powers: Cut had clawed hands and had become an expert with any form of blade.

Dark

Real Name: Unknown

First Appearance: New Warriors (V1) #54

Group Affiliation: Undertow, Soldiers of Misfortune

History: Before being enslaved to work for Undertow, the person who became Dark was noted as previously being a physicist.

Powers: Though she had the name Dark, the capabilities she was given by Undertow was never clearly seen.

Dry

Real Name: Unknown

First Appearance: New Warriors (V1) #54

Group Affiliation: Undertow, Soldiers of Misfortune

History: Before being enslaved to work for Undertow, the person who became Dry was noted as previously being a professor.

Powers: Dry had the ability to absorb moisture from anything she touched. She was seen touching African refugees and absorbing the moisture from their bodies and killing them. Also, when the ship she was on flooded, she had unwillingly absorbed all the water that had flooded into the ship.

Fast

Real Name: Unrevealed
Aliases: Sparrow
Identity: Secret
Occupation: Mercenary
Citizenship: United States Citizen With A Criminal Record
Place of Birth: Unknown
Known Relatives: None
Group Affiliation: Air Force (formerly), Soldiers of Misfortune (Currently)
First Appearance: New Warriors #35 (V1)
History: Little is known about Sparrow’s history before she became a part of the Air Force unit, along with Killer Shrike, Tanager and Cardinal. One of her first known missions was to assist in freeing Joshua Clendenon (Cardinal) from Riker’s Prison Security, after he had been captured by the New Warriors. After successfully freeing Cardinal from prison, the members of Air Force were assigned to eliminate the New Warriors by any means necessary.

The members of Air Force tracked down the energy signature of the Torpedo armor that Michiko ‘Mickey’ Musashi had been wearing when she assisted the New Warriors in defeating Cardinal and Sea Urchin originally. At Peconic High School in Long Island, Nova (Richard Rider) of the New Warriors, is training Mickey how to use the Torpedo armor. Mickey completed her training and gave to armor over to Mike, whom she shared the armor with. Michael “Mike” Jeffries had been the one who originally found the Torpedo when he was digging around in the attic of his cousins, the Joneses (they of the infamous Brock Jones, patriarch and former Torpedo) when he discovered the costume. Though Mikey had found it, it was clear that Mickey was far better skilled at using the armor. Just as Mikey took off in the armor, he was immediately attacked by the members of Air Force. Mikey recovers as Mickey is trying to get the armor off him so she can assist Nova, who is trying to handle all four members of Air Force. Mikey is however first struck by Sparrow, then cut by Killer Shrike. When Air Force manages to take down Nova, and turn their attention on Mikey, it’s Mickey who devises the plan to defeat Air Force, using water and a live power line to shock the members of Air Force and thus defeating them.

Later, Gloria Hancock, CEO of Hancock Transport Airlines, hired the members of Air Force to take down the Taylor Foundation, because they had rejected a petition to allow use of their landing strips in Bosnia-Herzigovina. The members of Air Force consisted of Sparrow, Cardinal, Tanager and Oriole.

When Air Force attacks the plane full of Taylor Foundation Board of Directors, their pilot, Sprocket recognizes Cardinal and tries to shoot him. She is however, pinned to the wall by Oriole’s sai. Air Force examines the rest of the ship and notes that they’re missing Dwayne Taylor. When Tanager and Sparrow go to examine the cockpit, Tanager asks about the relationship between Sparrow and Cardinal; and she seems to elude to a sexual relationship between the two, but nothing more.

Tanager later goes to examine the cargo hold alone, when she is attacked and defeated by Dwayne Taylor, who has not put on the Night Thrasher outfit, for fear of revealing his secret identity. Dwayne then takes out Oriole, who comes in shortly after Tanager. Using Tanager and Oriole’s armor, Dwayne fashions himself a make shift armor that he uses to defeat Sparrow. Dwayne then uses it to over ride Cardinal’s armor and gives Cardinal the choice – to either assist in the relief efforts in Bosnia-Herzigovina, or fly from the plane – in their armor – with Dwayne in control of their armor. Cardinal agrees to assist in the efforts, because of an early-detection scanner for identifying hostile aircraft that she had previously taken.

While assisting with supplies for Rwandan refugees, Air Force was attacked by the Soldiers of Misfortune. From that battle, only Cardinal escaped. Sparrow was captured and turned into the Soldier of Misfortune known as Fast. Oriole and Tanager both perished.

Height: 5’6″
Weight: 160 lbs.
Eyes: Brown
Hair: Black

Power: As Hard, the person formerly known as Sparrow, was given the ability to breathe underwater and swim at incredible speeds, with enhanced strength and endurance to withstand the depths of the ocean.

Hard

Note – Namorita had been captured by the Soldiers of Misfortune and the leader of the Undertow, Protocol took it upon himself to see Namorita changed and serve him as their newest member “Hard.”

Protocol had found ironic that she would be used to tackle and take down her fellow team mates, the New Warriors, who had tried to interfere with the Soldiers of Misfortune and the Undertow.

Based off what was seen of Namorita as Hard, from the Soldiers of Misfortune, nothing truly changed about her (in regards to her powers or appearance).

Please see Namorita’s profile for more.

Light

Real Name: Unknown

First Appearance: New Warriors (V1) #54

Group Affiliation: Undertow, Soldiers of Misfortune

History: Before being enslaved to work for Undertow, the person who became Light was noted as previously being a preacher.

Powers: Light was able to fire bursts of destructive energy from his eyes.

Right

Real Name: Unknown

First Appearance: New Warriors (V1) #54

Group Affiliation: Undertow, Soldiers of Misfortune

History: Before being enslaved to work for Undertow, the person who became Right was noted as previously being a journalist.

Powers: The person who became Right had a large right arm and fist, with super human strength.

Wrong

Real Name: Unknown

First Appearance: New Warriors (V1) #54

Group Affiliation: Undertow, Soldiers of Misfortune

History: Nothing is known about the one who went by the name Wrong, before their life working for the Undertow.

Powers: Wrong had the ability to completely distorts someone’s view of reality, causing it to warp, bend, and twist, causing massive confusion.