Carl Burbank (Earth-616)

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Bushwhacker

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Real Name

Carl Burbank

Current Alias

Bushwhacker

Identity

Secret

Alignment

Bad

Affiliation

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

Relatives

Marilyn (wife), Troy Donahue (ex-brother-in-law), unnamed sister-in-law, unnamed niece

Universe

Earth-616

Characteristics

Gender

Male

Height

6' 0"

Weight

225 lbs (102 kg)

Eyes

Blue

Hair

Blond

Unusual Features

Bushwhacker can change the shape of his right arm, Skin is a plastic indistinguishable from human skin.

Status

Citizenship

American

Marital Status

Married

Occupation

Covert operative; former priest

Origin

Origin

The C.I.A. outfitted him with a cybernetic arm and became an assassin

Creators

Ann Nocenti, Rick Leonardi

First appearance

Daredevil #248 (1987)

History

Originally a priest, Carl Burbank abandoned his vows following the drug-related deaths of young parishioners. He joined the C.I.A., which outfitted him with a cybernetic arm and made him an assassin under the codename Bushwhacker, but ultimately he became a freelancer.

At some point, an event took place that compelled Bushwhacker to begin a war against all mutants. Bushwhacker began hunting and murdering mutants, most often those mutants whose abilities Bushwhacker perceived as making them especially talented in the arts (Burbank also claimed that he was paid large sums of money to kill mutants, but this has yet to be verified.) Burbank's killing spree brought him into conflict with both Wolverine and Matthew Murdock (Earth-616)Daredevil. Wolverine learned of Bushwhacker's activities and began to hunt the killer himself. At the same time, Burbank's wife believed her husband was insane and needed to be placed in a hospital. She sought aid from lawyer Matt Murdock (secretly Daredevil). Daredevil found Wolverine fighting Bushwhacker, and he would have killed him if Daredevil hadn’t stopped him. Unfortunately, this allowed Bushwhacker to escape and continue his rampage. Bushwhacker was ultimately tracked down and defeated by the two heroes, which left the right side of his face horribly scarred, and he was placed in police custody.

Later, Bushwhacker joined with Typhoid Mary and other Daredevil foes in a plan to defeat their common enemy. After the completion of the plan, Mary took Daredevil's body, and Bushwhacker was left to his own activities.

Entering the Kingpin's employ, Burbank attacked the Punisher but was left for dead. It was during this time that his wife finally left him. He reappeared in the employ of a drug lord who hired Bushwhacker to kill reporter Ben Urich who was about to run a story of his illegal activities. Instead, when Bushwhacker learned the truth, he allowed Urich to live and to complete the exposee. However, it was Bushwhacker that was proved right, as the drug lord managed to bribe himself out of jail. Bushwhacker shot him, instead.

Subsequent jobs brought him into conflict with Daredevil, Nomad, the Punisher, Deathlok, Boomerang, and Elektra. His run-in with Nomad, in particular, was over the life of a young baby that Nomad had taken under his care. The baby was the daughter of Troy Donohue, Burbank’s ex-brother-in-law. Burbank hoped that his wife would approve of the rescue and welcome him back.

Imprisoned in the Raft, Burbank escaped during the mass breakout engineered by Electro and was subsequently employed by the Jackal to kill the Punisher, but he was defeated once again by Daredevil. Afterward, Bushwhacker created a disturbance downtown and took a girl hostage to lure The Punisher out of hiding, so he could kill him. The Punisher showed up, but Bushwhacker was shot down by G. W. Bridge and put back in jail.

Powers and Abilities

Powers

Bushwhacker is a cyborg with enhanced strength and resistance to injury. His skin is composed of a malleable plastic that appears human, but can stretch into a variety of shapes around his transformable musculature.

Abilities

Bushwhacker is a trained covert operative with skills in assassination and espionage.

Strength level

Unknown.

Weaknesses

None known.

Paraphernalia

Equipment: None known.
Transportation: None known.
Weapons: Bushwhacker has a cybernetic arm that conceals a variety of firearms. It can transform into one of three modes: human-seeming, a pistol mode where his fingers become hollow and can fire small-caliber handgun rounds, and a machine gun mode where his forearm resembles an automatic carbine complete with handgrip and stock. In machine gun mode he can rapidly fire armor-piercing bullets from four separate barrels simultaneously. Precisely where his body stores ammunition is unknown, but in machine gun mode he ejects spent casings rather than retaining them.

Notes

• Bushwhacker has little regard for the lives of civilians.

Trivia

• No trivia.

See Also

• Appearances of Carl Burbank (Earth-616)
• Character Gallery: Carl Burbank (Earth-616)
• Fan-Art Gallery: Carl Burbank (Earth-616)
• Quotations by Carl Burbank (Earth-616)

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