Duke Bennett (Reboot Timeline)

== Duke Bennett ==
"You know what? $300,000,000 for the man who kills this motherf**ker! In case if you want more motivation, I'll double it if you brought him alive, so I can teach him the true meaning of pain." - Bennett ordering his men and any hired gun to hunt down Jay
Duke Alan Bennett is a main character and the main antagonist of the entire Reboot franchise (most notably in the Canon timeline and the Raider timeline). 
Bennett is a powerful businessman and the feared kingpin of his own criminal organization, The Red Order Syndicate.
== Background ==
Born on May 21, 1993, Duke Alan Bennett grew up in a wealthy family and while it's never known, it's heavily assumed that his father was an influential crime lord and taught Duke how to fight, how to lead, and how to manage profits with relative ease, which turned the young man into a wealthy and powerful crime lord during his teenage years. At an unknown time, his parents disappeared during a trip and despite having not known about the fate of his family, Duke and his brothers Ralph and William managed to take over their father's criminal empire and managed to gain new members, and make more profits, dealing in loan-sharking, extortion, and protection. 
At the age of 18, the Bennett brothers enlisted in the United States Military (Ralph in the USMC, Duke in the Army, and William in the Air Force) and gained extensive knowledge of their tactics, making them more dangerous than before. After 8 years in the Army, Duke went to college. There, he met Jay Roberts, and seeing an opportunity within him, he chose to force him into his criminal organization through death threats and blackmail. However, Duke ends up being betrayed by Jay and after sending men to kill Jay, Duke was eventually arrested and has been dishonorably discharged for his involvement and engagement in criminal activity. 
After 4 years of imprisonment, Duke was released with the help of Ralph and together, they formed what's known as the Red Order Syndicate somewhere in 2027, where their minor crimes (such as extortion, theft, and intimidation) became international through drug dealing, arms trading, gambling, and prostitution around the entire country, having gone from a small-scale criminal operation to a full-blown criminal empire for 10+ years.
== Biography (The Canon Series) ==
After coming out of prison, Duke came back into his leadership position and after tracing Jay's location, he began to enact revenge against Jay by sending an elite hit squad to his home to kill them. After failing to accomplish the mission, Duke placed about three hundred million dollars in the form of a bounty and hired his best friend Dean J. Williamson, and his gang to track him down. He also hired Redwood Security Consulting and the Shadow Company as a backup plan in case Dean failed. 
However, Duke eventually failed in his goal to kill Jay when Jay managed to wipe out half of his organization by killing Dean and his gang, the deployed RSC units, and destroying most, if not all, of his rackets. 
After going back to prison, Duke managed to get out again with the help of Royce Talbot, a former British Army SAS operator and now his second-in-commander and field commander of the Red Order. Even though most of the members are now highly trained, Duke was eventually outgunned and outmatched by Jay, who's now managed to trace his location and finally managed to best him in a physical fight after failing to escape. 
However, Duke's death drove Royce to take over his leadership role and tried to take Duke's entire fortune under the guise of seeking revenge, but failed to accomplish that goal with the entire organization and its associates being either imprisoned or killed by Jay Roberts.
== Biography (The Raider) ==
After getting out of prison and taking some time off, Duke found out that Jay is a celebrity and sent 3 men (Williamson, Weaver, and Talbot) to kill Jay and record it live to showcase his betrayal to the Red Order. 
However, Jay survived the attempt and launched a one-man war against the Red Order, causing Duke to fearlessly order the organization to prepare for war. 
As the war progressed, Duke became more desperate and eager to win, even killing his brother Ralph upon finding out that he stole money from Duke, which broke him completely. 
As Jay attacked the compound and killed most of his men, Duke finally snapped, and knowing that he will die, Duke made his final stand and managed to hold his own against Jay, thanks to his former military training. Despite all of the money and training, Duke eventually died at the hands of his former associate.
== Personality ==
As shown in his backstory, Duke was assumed to be a hard-working, compassionate, and wise man and is always shown to be overprotective of his baby brother, willing to join the military and helped paid for his college and his home. After being taught how to control a criminal empire, Duke became more focused and ambitious like his father but was more intelligent and cunning than his brother.
As his time progressed with leading the Red Order Syndicate, Duke has shown to be publicly seen as an affable and calm individual who bought and owned several business ventures (such as tanning salons, nightclubs, construction sites, and bars) and helped out his fellow criminals with making profits for their deals. 
However, it's revealed that Duke's calm and compassionate side was a facade to hide his true nature as an extremely ruthless, brutal, greedy, callous, and destructive sadist by most of his fellow members, having ordered several deaths, tortures, and managed to gain a position of the Underworld's high table due to his menacing presence. Duke is also very greedy and power-hungry, wanting to gain more wealth and power, despite already being wealthy from owning several rackets and businesses. He was extremely arrogant and charismatic, having managed to convince a large number of highly skilled hitmen to kill Jay and believing that he could beat Jay, despite losing most of his rackets and manpower. His brutal and violent nature is further shown when he ordered Jay's death and has him tortured and killed his own baby brother for robbing him and having sexual intercourse with one of his prostitutes with no hesitation. 
In the Canon series, Duke was more arrogant and egotistical, having believed that he could beat Jay in combat, but as Jay managed to weaken his entire organization, Duke's mask began to fall off and revealed a cowardly and fearful side when Jay kept coming at him with the intent to kill. Duke, at this point, has shown his true nature as a fearful man that hid behind a vicious facade and was hated by almost all of his fellow members, especially the former friend that he was forced to join.
However, in the Raider series, Duke was shown to be more cautious and wiser but is shown to be extremely emotional after losing most of his rackets, killing his brother, and knowing the fact that he was going to die at the hands of his former friend. Unlike in the Canon series, Duke was more braver and confident in his ability to kill Jay than being cowardly, having geared up with an automatic rifle, body armor, and decent H2H skills from the Army to be better able to handle Jay than his men. Despite dying a painful death, Duke managed to land some decent hits and gave Jay somewhat of a problem before falling.
Despite his cowardly and brutal nature, Duke appeared to be more intelligent, competent, and sophisticated than his men, having managed to build his father's organization to become the most powerful criminal syndicate in Georgia, having hired mercenaries and skilled criminals to hunt down Jay, and managed to receive military experience in the past (in the Raider series) to help protect himself from potential danger. He is also patient and cunning, having planned out Jay's assassination and managed to bail himself out of prison with the help of his allies. 
Surprisingly, Duke (despite being one of the most violent and cunning antagonists) has shown sympathy and genuine remorse for his heinous actions and the notable examples is how he talked to Tammy (one of his prostitutes) about how she's feeling and gave her a break from the streets and how he began to drink after killing Craig and even broke down in severe tears. He is shown to care about his fallen soldiers (unlike his Canon counterpart who used his men as pawns and let them get killed), as shown as he motivates his surviving men to hunt down Jay and even offered the bounty to capture or kill Jay. During his final moments and his fight against Jay, a drunken Duke has become more confident and braver than before, fighting Jay with all of his might, angrily claiming that Jay has taken everything away from him and even blamed him for the death of his brother, which does show that Duke is very hypocritical and selfish, knowing that he has killed several people, enslaved and blackmailed his prostitutes, and tortured Jay for his betrayal and showed no remorse or sympathy for the people who he "helped" by using them for his own image. 
Due to his callous nature and the fact that he has shown no remorse for his heinous actions and chose to let himself fall into the dark side rather than admitting his wrongs, Duke led himself to his own downfall and his well-deserved demise at the hands of the former associate whom he failed to turn to his side but failed to kill.
== Appearance ==
In all of his appearances, Duke is an American man, standing at 5'8. He is shown with dark brown hair, hazel eyes, and tanned skin. He also sported various tattoos, despite not showing them.
In almost all of the appearances, Duke is shown to wear a sharp suit (all black with a white shirt and red patterned tie). However, in the Raider series, Duke is shown to wear a military-grade ballistic vest and with his suit slightly tattered from the damage that Jay inflicted.
== Skills ==
* High Intelligence: Duke was shown to be a highly intelligent, competent, and methodical man and was somewhat adaptable to any situation given to him. Before beginning to lose his syndicate, Duke is shown to be extremely level-headed and can handle extreme stress to get out of dangerous situations by using incredible street smarts. He was capable of using his charm and polite side to gain the trust of the public to blend in and complete his task without them knowing that he was a high-ranking crime lord.
* Criminology: As a crime lord of the Red Order Syndicate, Duke has exceptional insight into how the criminal underworld operated and how illegal activities work, such as mercenary groups and feared crime families. He also displayed extensive knowledge of illegal narcotics, able to tell what kind of drugs the Georgia criminal underworld was moving and selling. He also displayed extensive knowledge about how to lead and control a major racket, having founded them himself and making loads of cash from them.
* Intimidation: Due to his rank in the Underworld, Duke is widely known and feared within the criminal underworld and was so infamous that even his own men feared him to a degree. While most, if not all, crime families respected or feared him, some people (such as Jay Roberts) have shown that he wasn't as feared as he thought he was.
* Master Tactician: As a former Army Infantryman, Duke is highly capable of casing out, planning, and executing plans, assassinations, and raids. He is a keen judge of character, often correctly assessing the correct intentions, flaws, and capabilities of both allies and enemies just by observing them. He is a skilled negotiator and interrogator, capable of presenting facts and telling lies without inducing intense emotion. He is a very effective leader and mentor, having trained and led most of his members into various battles against Jay Roberts with strategic facts and thinking, which made him far more dangerous. He's also capable of spotting certain flaws within his plans and using any methods deemed necessary to accomplish his goals, such as using mercenaries and hit squads to hunt Jay down and setting up explosives around the outpost in case his men failed. As shown in the destruction of his compound, Duke is a strong and fierce leader to the core, having commanded and led a massive number of skilled mercenaries and his fellow members to try to take out Jay.
* Connections: Having worked with various criminal organizations, Duke has a vast set that he can use to gain an advantage on his enemies, even with weapons dealers, criminal informants, and government officials to find his targets or to find new rackets to take.
* Master Marksman: As shown in various fights, Duke is extremely proficient with firearms, including pistols, revolvers, rifles, and shotguns, as well as being slightly precise with eliminating targets in both close-range and long-range distances. He's also skilled in using and firing heavier weaponry, such as grenade launchers and light machine guns. His extreme use of handling weapons and his extensive knowledge of guerrilla tactics mostly stem from his time in Army Infantry. In his final stand against Jay, Duke (despite being highly emotional and intoxicated) managed to accurately fire an automatic rifle at him, managed to wound him in the leg, and hit him in the plate carrier before running dry and reloading.
* Master Martial Artist: Having been trained by his father and the Army, Duke is shown to be a decently skilled hand-to-hand fighter. His fighting style is mostly improvised and is consisted of Kickboxing, Krav Maga, Eskrima, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Judo, and Sambo. According to Royce Talbot, Duke can quickly outmaneuver, outmatch, and outlast his opponents in H2H, and this is heavily shown during his fight with Jay Roberts, where he managed to land some devastating hits that dazed Jay very quickly. Despite knowing that Jay was more skilled, Duke lasted about 2 or 3 minutes fighting against Jay, giving him more of a challenge than in the Canon timeline.
* Knife Mastery: Duke is highly skilled in wielding blades, such as knives. Combined with his extensive knowledge and intense experience in Kali, Duke can use blades to find a suitable angle to either wound or kill an opponent in a fight and has shown deadly expertise with a karambit as shown during his fight with Jay, where he managed to wound him in the right shoulder.
* Improvised Weapon Mastery: In addition to his skills with firearms and martial arts, Duke is very good with using whatever tools that he sees during his fights to gain an advantage over his opponents, such as a simple fire extinguisher to hurt Jay before being disarmed.
* Peak Human Condition: As a former soldier of the United States Army, Duke has displayed peak human physicality for a man of his age. He's extremely athletic, and his strength, stamina, speed, agility, reflexes, durability, and pain threshold are in top condition.
* Peak Human Strength: Duke is shown to be on par with Jay in terms of strength, capable of lifting him and slamming him against a wall. He also managed to break a glass case with ease to grab his rifle, albeit with a minor injury.
* Peak Human Durability: Duke is highly resilient and sturdy due to his time in the regiment, having been able to survive an explosion without feeling that much pain (although he was drunk at the time). Duke's notable feats are being able to take a severe beating from Jay, who's more skilled in hand-to-hand, and utilizing brute strength out of anger.
* High Pain Tolerance: Despite his strong combat proficiency, Duke has been injured more than once in his past. In his fight against Jay, Duke managed to land some hits and managed to withstand some of Jay's hardest punches, demonstrating a decent pain threshold than most of his rivals, making him on par with Jay.
== Equipment ==
Weapons:
*Colt M4 (M4A1) Carbine: Bennett's primary firearm. He notably used the rifle to fight against Jay and used it with great precision, managed to pin him down. His rifle is the SOPMOD version outfitted with an EOTECH red dot sight, a 45-degree sight, a MAGPUL AFG (Angled Foregrip), a custom pistol grip, MAGPUL PMAGs with Ranger Plates, and a CQB stock.
*Taurus PT92AFS: Bennett's primary sidearm. He notably used the pistol to execute a disobeying member and tries to deploy it during his fight with Jay, but was quickly disarmed. His pistol was outfitted with Pachmayr Grips.
*Karambit: Bennett's knife. He notably used it to disarm Jay and injured him.
== Deaths ==
Murders committed by Duke:
* 50 Unnamed Rivals: Shot, stabbed, beaten, blown up, burnt, or tortured.
* Ralph Bennett: Slashed, beaten, and stabbed to death.
Deaths connected to Duke:
* Lilly's Double: Raped, beaten, and decapitated. Duke ordered the hit and had 3 men deal with Jay.
* 4 Red Order Syndicate Hitmen: Stabbed, beaten, and shot to death.
* 48 of Duke's Dealers and Enforcers: Shot to death.
* 89 Williamson's Boys Members: Blown up and burnt to death.
*Zane Winters: Impaled in the mouth with a metal pole.
*Dean Josephine Williamson: Bludgeoned to death with a rifle.
*10 of Stewart's Men; Shot to death.
*Stewart Watson: Shot in the head.
*18 of Watson's Men: Shot to death.
*150 Red Order Syndicate Soldiers: Shot and blown up to death.
*Royce Talbot: Eyes gouged out, stabbed in the skull.
* 56 of Dominick's Men: Shot, stabbed, and beaten to death.
*34 of Lee Harper's Men: Shot to death.
*Vincent Lee Harper: Jugular bit off.
*Jacob Walker: Trachea crushed, curb stomped.
*36 Shadow Company Mercenaries: Shot to death.
*Deacon "Smoke" Marlow: Shot in the heart twice.
*Foster: Neck broke.
*77 Shadow Company Mercenaries: Shot, blown up to death.
*Andrew Weaver: Shot in the head.
*Randall Reed: Stabbed in the intestines and bled out.
*80 Redwood Security Consulting Mercenaries: Shot, slashed, and blown up to death.
*Donald Weston: Shot to death.
*David Harrison: Stabbed in the heart.
* 6 of Joseph's Hitmen: Shot to death.
*37 of Arthur's Mercenaries: Shot and blown up to death.
*13 of Joseph's Men: Shot to death.
* 87 of Ryder's Men: Shot to death.
*Ryder Brubaker: Jugular bit off.
* Patrick McCarthy: Beaten and stabbed in the eye by Jonathan Hansel on Jay's orders.
* Martin Angelo: Blown up.
* About a thousand R.S.C. Mercenaries: Blown up by Hansel.
* Arthur Callahan: Bludgeoned to death by Morgan Rook.
* Joseph Von Raines: Beaten and stabbed to death by Morgan Rook.
== Trivia ==
* Duke is the catalyst of almost all of the timeline (such as the Canon and the Raider series), as his attempts of trying to kill Jay Roberts have forced him back into his violent lifestyle and resulted in further action, making him the posthumous overarching antagonist of the entire Reboot timeline.
* Despite being a powerful crime lord, Duke isn't as influential in the decision-making in the Underworld but served as an influence for their profits since both he and Brubaker owned several businesses as fronts.
* While Duke might have several connections and is shown to be a powerful crime boss, he isn't well-liked and even hated by some of his men, Talbot (in a way), and Donald Weston (the RSC founder). In fact, his death has driven most criminal families (notably the Von Raines family and the Vargas gang) to usurp control over the Underworld and has made Donald Weston a lot of money from buying his stocks at a reduced rate.
* Duke was the first antagonist that have power/control over a formidable and well-equipped private army, such as Redwood Security Consulting. Although he isn't in charge of the PMC, Duke controls a significant portion (revealed to be about 25%) of their stock, making him a principal shareholder and partial owner.
* Like most, if not all, of the antagonists, Duke is ex-military and given his military background and position in a highly powerful crime syndicate, he is shown to be on par with Jay Roberts in terms of H2H and gunmanship.
*In the Raider Reloaded series, Duke survived and got crippled by Jay before being imprisoned for life.
*As revealed by his men, Duke was a multi-billionaire, having about $645,000,000,000, and owned a luxury helicopter, airplane, sedan, and even a mansion.