BLACK ROOK
REAL NAME: Jason Holmes
AGE: 26
POWERS: Uses a highly advanced battlesuit that
gives him enhanced strength and dexterity and has lasers, rockets, jet boots,
and enhanced senses
APPEARANCE: Tall, rangy Caucasian male out of
armor. Armor is anthropomorphic (man-shaped) and flat black, with two
laser barrels on the left arm and a six-shot missile launcher on the right.
FIRST APPEARANCE: Guardians #4
BACKGROUND: Holmes was a respected test
pilot with a taste for industrial espionage when he was hired to field test one
of the Black King's inventions. The Black King was intrigued by the young,
brash pilot and offered him a long-term contract to test a "special
device." The device turned out to be a prototype powered armor
suit. Holmes jumped at the chance, and the Black Rook was born. Many
of the systems in this armor were prototypes for the Black King's personal
suit.