Real Name: Al Simmons. 
Powers and Abilities: Spawn's powers are limited by two things: 
his power level and his imagination. He has been shown to 
teleport, fly, fire blasts of energy, and bring the dead back 
to life. 
                                            
What's the Story?:

  Al was born to loving middle class parents who lived in a quiet 
neighborhood outside of Pittsburgh. he grew up like any other kid, 
going to school, and playing a few sports. However, his competitive 
nature set him apart. He was always driven to win and accepted no 
less than total victory in everything he did, whether it was on the 
ball field, or just having a conversation. He would never start a 
debate unless he could get his point across. To Al, there was no 
point in starting anything if there was no way he could win. Al 
went from High School straight to College where he was first 
noticed and then recruited to the CIA. As part of his new job, 
he joined the military, rapidly going up through the ranks, and 
gaining a place on a special elite unit set to guard the president. 
While on duty with this unit, he saved the President from an 
assassin's bullet for which he was rewarded a huge promotion to 
Lieutenant Colonial. His combat skills and aptitude for quick learning
brought him to the attention of Jason Wynn who became his personal 
mentor, drawing him publicly into the intelligence community.

  Jason Wynn was a master of manipulation, and led Al Simmons into 
believing, at least at first, that everything they did had a purpose 
and was for the good of American Security. The missions became more 
bloody with fewer rational explanations, some even causing civil wars.
What was once a strong friendship, or so it appeared to naive Al, 
rapidly deteriorated as Simmons began to question his commander, Wynn, 
and his motives. This continuous butting of heads would not be 
tolerated by the likes of Jason Wynn, nor would it go unpunished. 

  It was a mission just like the eight previous, where Al was going 
to kill in the name of his government when he was turned on by two of
his fellow agents, Chapel and Priest, ironic names at best. The two
agents opened fire on Al with laser weapons, burning him beyond
recognition. Al had been set up by Jason Wynn because he'd become a 
thorn in the man's side.

  Al Simmons was buried with great media fanfare because he'd been
their darling ever since his televised rescue of the president many
months before. He was a hero, his coffin draped in an American
flag which was given to his widow Wanda Blake while the country
watched. Stories ran for days of the lad buried in Arlington
National Cemetery who'd risked and lost his life, all in the name of
his country.

  But existence didn't end for Al when he was burned by his
treacherous comrades. At the moment of his death, he made a pact
that he'd later barely recall. Al had always had an Achilles' heel,
ill-afforded to a killer in his position. Al loved his wife beyond
bearing and the deal hinged upon this. Though he was an atheist at
the time of his death, Al would do anything to see his wife again and
the Malebolgia took him at his word. In a split-second, or so it
seemed, he was returned to earth. Al Simmons had now become an
officer in training, one of Malebolgia's hand-picked Hellspawn for
this century, bound to a symbiotic uniform and infused with
hell-born energy. Al was able to follow orders, had killer instinct,
and was willing to make the bargain; all of the Malebolgia's
requirements.

  At first, Al was disoriented which was part of the Malebolgia's 
training plan. What had seemed only a second, was actually five years. 
Soon, was beginning to learn however, taught both by a demon chaperone, 
and with some knowledge from the Malebolgia himself. Al was faced with 
the choice of doing nothing with his new powers or using them, for 
good or for ill. If he did nothing, he would be allowing evil to 
continue and that would help serve hell. But he also know that if he 
became a force for good and killed those that were evil with his 
hell-born energy, as his instincts told him to, he would just increase 
the population on the armies in Hell readying for battle with Heaven. 
And even if he became evil, and used the power, accepting what he had
become, he became that much more valuable to hell.

  Worst of all for Al, Hell is not content to wait for him to make his
decision. His Guardian demon, the Clown, is there to dog his steps and
push and prod him. This demon, who transforms into the hideously
disfigured Violator, a creature born in the pits of hell, has chosen 
to target the loved ones from Al's life, and to put Al at odds with 
law enforcement and humanity in general. Spawn is hounded by them now, 
as the mob, the government and the cops all seek to stop this "cloaked
enemy of society". It is this harassment that Hell hopes will drop the
Hellspawn back to his instincts, those of a government-trained 
assassin, who would kill without questioning and act without thinking.

  But it turns out that Al's Achilles' heel is Hell's as well. He 
loved his wife and came back to see her. He has discovered that she 
is remarried, to his best friend, Terry Fitzgerald who was able to 
give her the child he never could. Although frustrated, he realizes 
that she is happy and so he's moved on to search for a new identity 
and a way to come to terms with his new condition. His love for her 
was so deep that it actually helped salve some of his wounds and 
he's begun to heal spiritually. He now has to find a way to go on, 
because this game too, must have a way to win.

  The easiest and most immediate purpose he sees is to exact revenge 
on Jason Wynn, whom he discovered, ordered his death. he's taken to 
living with the homeless people in the alley's Bowery, where he was 
first returned to earth, and has become their defender of sorts. He 
knows he should do something more for them and himself , but he now 
knows that the final curse laid upon him is that his power on Earth is 
finite. Once he is emptied of his Hell-born energy, he will be 
returned to the Malebolgia and become a favored slave leading an army
of the damned with no hope of redemption. His task now is to use his 
powers wisely to figure out a way, if any, to break this contract, 
one that has never before been broken.