Flaring Roach

Flaring Roach is a minor character in the animated webseries Society of Virtue. He was a deadbeat superhero who used to hire a stand-in whenever attending meetings was too inconvenient for him. Eventually, as Flaring Roach fell deeper into his vices, his stand-in proved himself to be a greater superhero than he ever was.
He was voiced by Philip Hersh.
==Biography==
===Background===
There have been several superheroes over the years to assume the identity of Flaring Roach. It was all spearheaded by the shadowy figure known only as "Mysterious Man", who recruited notable figures to join the cause. His most recent recruit had being an equally mysterious man, but one who popularized Flaring Roach as a public figure, fighting crime alongside the Society of Virtue.
===Fall from Grace===
In time, Flaring Roach became more comfortable with the secrecy of his double life and began indulging in more risky hobbies. In order to save more time to himself, he hired Jonathan, a stand-in from a modeling agency, to dress his costume and take his place at superhero meetings. Since his costume covered the whole body and his input wasn't often required, no one noticed it the first times it happened. Flaring Roach also gave him scripts to follow if anyone was to directly talk to him.
One day, however, a casual meeting was overtaken by a sudden threat of alien invasion, and the Society of Virtue would need to go off-planet to stop it. Jonathan started panicking and tried to communicate with the real Flaring Roach during the meeting, who was at the cinema at that time. Flaring Roach refused to leave, telling the stand-in to stall them until he could finish the movie. His attempts to stall the Society fell flat, and they all realized what was really going on. Big Bang, the team's leader, called Flaring Roach over Jonathan's phone to berate him, for this was a breach in their trust and a breach in Roach's contract to the Society. The matter at hand was so urgent, they had to leave immediately and bring Jonathan with them for the incoming war. Surprisingly, not only Jonathan survived, but did very well for a supposed average civilian. After this mission, the imposter Flaring Roach became a regular member of the Society of Virtue, officially replacing the previous one.
===Aftermath===
After an undisclosed time of indulging in his worst vices, the previous Flaring Roach became a broken man, swollen, unkept, unhealthy, living in a small apartment littered with beer cans and moldy pizza slices. Jonathan was a man at his prime, which made Roach envious. As Jonathan was still in his payroll, Roach invited him home for a job review. He then told Jonathan he was doing it horribly, and in order to fulfill the contract he should get down to his level. While Roach was giving Jonathan instructions on how to essentially ruin his own life, he suffered from a fulminating heart attack and is now comatose.
==Gallery==
Flaring Roach - Society of Virtue.jpg
The End of Flaring Roach -Society of Virtue.jpg
==Trivia==
*Flaring Roach is a parody of Blue Beetle with the visual likeness of actor Nicolas Cage.
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