10 Comic Book Characters Every Reader Wants To Be
8. Hunter Rose/Grendel The man who would become Grendel began life as a kid in a nondescript American family. But little Eddie would never be normal. Immediately excelling to the point of brilliance in everything he ever had a hand in, hed memorised every line of Shakespeare by the age of six and written multiple plays, short stories and novels by the age of eight. By fourteen, he was the finest fencer in the world, and by seventeen the newly christened Hunter Rose, a charismatic bestselling author with a striking flash of white through his hair, was masquerading as the fearsome hitman and master criminal Grendel. Only a few years later he would control all crime across the entire eastern seaboard of the United States of America. They called Grendel the devil. That, and a murderous gift for combat rendering him a bloody master of mayhem able to go to-to-toe with both Batman and his own nemesis Argent (a near-psychotic werewolf) are what make the first Grendel cool. What raises him far above your usual perfect killer types like Bullseye, Deadpool, Slaymaster or Deathstroke (man, these guys all went to the same random word generator for their names, didnt they?) is his above genius-level intelligence, his insouciant style and flair for the dramatic, and his phenomenal charisma. That, and the fact that his sinister legacy, even after death, was to inspire first pretenders to the devils mask; then a cult of Grendel; then a worldwide empire. By the 26th century, knights, madmen, cyborgs, vampires and emperors had worn the mask of Grendel. The devil took his due.