Marcus Reed

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==Summary==
Marcus Reed is the protagonist of True Crime: New York City. Marcus was born to a Jamaican father, Isaiah Reed, and a Guyanese unknown mother. He is a former gangster who has chosen to leave his life of crime to become a detective. Marcus grew up in the Bronx, following in his father's footsteps, who is now a jailed kingpin. After his father's close friend, Terry Higgins, saved his life, Marcus decided to quit his unlawful life. Mentored by Terry, he eventually becomes a beat cop and is soon promoted to a detective 5 years later for the New York City Police Department, with Terry as his partner. He maintains a conflicted relationship with his father, who continues to run his criminal enterprise from his prison cell and hopes to utilize his son's newfound influence to foster his own goals.
==Powers and Stats==
Tier: , higher with melee weapons and firearms
Name: Marcus Reed
Origin: True Crime: New York City
Classification: Human, Police officer, NYPD Detective, Former Drug dealer
Age: 20s
Gender: Male
Powers and Abilities: Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Martial Arts Mastery(Uses mixed martial arts, karate, taekwondo, Muy Thai, Boxing, and wushu), Weapon Mastery (As a NYPD Detective, Marcus is a very skilled and accurate marksman able to accurately shoot his targets without missing his shots and without endangering innocent bystanders. He is also a precision shooter able to use non lethal and lethal shots to incapacitate people and cars to keep them alive and to minimize collateral damage), Stealth Mastery, Enhanced Senses, Pressure Point Strikes (Can easily knock out enemies with a chop striking their pressure points), Explosion Manipulation (via via RPG, and Grenade lauchers), Fire Manipulation via Flamethrower, Acrobatics (Can jump through the air while shooting), Social Influencing (As a police officer can get information out of his targets using interrogation); limited Resistance to Fire Manipulation
Attack Potency: Wall level (Comparable to Nick Kang. Able to destroy cars, wooden crates and other items with his punches), higher with weapons
Speed: Peak Human travel speed (Ran track in high school and easily captured Candy who is a known sprinter), Transonic to Supersonic+ attack speed with weapons
Lifting Strength: Athletic Human (Comparable to the Mob goons that lifted 140lbs barbells with 1 hand)
Striking Strength: Wall level (All of his attacks are through physical force), higher with weapons
Durability: Wall level (Comparable to AP)
Stamina: Athletic (Was a track athlete in high school, and can fight and multiple enemies at once)
Range: Standard Melee Range normally, Extended Melee Range with melee weapons, Hundreds of Meters with most firearms
Standard Equipment: Complete weapon arsenal.
Intelligence: Gifted (Marcus is very intelligent, street wise man, he is able to use his expertise as a former criminal in his work as a detective. He is capable of planning, organizing and completing missions and gather sufficient evidences)
Weaknesses: When he was young Marcus was hot-headed, reckless, and ill-tempered such as when he found out that his so called friend Kev Lar set him and his father up to be killed. When he was older Marcus became more clam and right headed, however he remained street wise and angry as well as foul mouthed. But still loyal and caring to his friends and co-workers such as his mentor Terry Higgins and his unit leader Deena Dixon.
==Notable Matchups==
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