Villains With Potential-Spymaster

Really, what's not to like about Spymaster? Like the Ghost, he's essentially a corporate raider taken to the next level (and without the Ghost's anti-corporate screed), which is quite interesting. He's a brains-over-brawn sort of villain. With no powers to speak of, Spymaster must be ten steps and two gadgets ahead of his opponents.

Using a variety of skills and technology, he steals the most precious commodity around-information. Information in the form of blueprints, interoffice memos, flashdrives containing state secrets, Nick Fury's Blackberry, the list goes on.

Now, there have been three Spymasters to date, but I'm using the picture of the first one for a good reason-I like him better than the other two. A master of industrial espionage, he 'died' without revealing his identity after a botched assassination attempt on the Ghost, but was recently revealed to have survived and been living under the radar ever since.

Now, why would a man like this go underground like that? Obviously, he's no fool. There were probably quite a few people looking to put him in a pinebox permanently, so he took advantage of an opportunity to slip out of sight.

So why come back? Simple. Like many career criminals, Spymaster enjoys the game. He's been taking it easy, but he's tired of sun and sand and suburbia. In the wake of Secret Invasion, Dark Reign, etc. ad infinitum, there are plenty of corporations out there waiting to be picked clean by certain interested parties. Stark International has been divvied up, but its most expensive secrets have yet to be ferreted out. The same for Oscorp. Too, organizations like SHIELD, SWORD, HAMMER, etc. are leaking like sieves. There's alien technology all over the place, Wakanda just had a coup, and Asgard is a shambles.

It's player's choice and Spymaster is ready to get back in the game.