Eugene Millar

Eugene Millar, better known as Talon, and formerly known as Kickbutt, is a player character from The Saviors of Sunset City, played by Kaiju. He is a human fighter best known for his fanboying and violent tendencies.
== Personality ==
A reckless fanboy at first, Kickbutt was eager to fight bad guys with his arsenal of a pocket knife, his dad's gun, and a hammer he found in his garage, showing his resourcefulness. Reckless at times, he is also one who tries to understand those he fights, as seen when encountering The Operator.
== History ==
=== Origin Story ===
Eugene loved comic books and superheroes from a young age, and was really hoping that latent mutant genes would at some point give him powers to be just like him. Eugene's sister, Helena, disappeared approximately one year before the events of The Saviors of Sunset City. This caused his parents to become distant, causing him to begin his heroism as a way of both acting out and receiving the attention he lacked. This eventually got him hit by a car, which gave him his resilience to pain as a result of brain and nerve damage.
=== The Saviors of Sunset City ===
Kickbutt randomly appeared behind 10 when he showed off his new suit. Thanks to his donation, Kickbutt is able to fully upgrade his suit at Bert Blythe's Super-Tailor Shop. He joins him and Spinflux to Chili's, before finding out Chili's doesn't have candy bars, finding and eating a half-eaten Snickers bar in the trash can at Chilly's.
Kickbutt joined in the fight against the newly discovered Circuit Breaker, shooting one of the crooks with his dad's gun, and retaliating against Circuit Breaker's failed attack with a hammer to the balls. Kickbutt ended the fight by stabbing him in the balls and knocking him out with a hammer swing to the head.
Kickbutt joined in the fight against Smoke and Mirrors, fighting to distract Smoke by harming Mirrors.
Kickbutt pursued the Silencer, personally ogling her breasts before almost getting smacked by Big Red for it. 10 stopped Big Red from smacking him, before smacking him himself, prompting a negative response from Big Red. Kickbutt fought Life-Form, shooting one of his eyes and doing parkour to avoid the flying dumpster.
Kickbutt went into the Monk Enterprises warehouse ready to aid The Alchemist and Terraformer against The Aces and Abyss. Knocking out the Ace of Spades and hitting the Ace of Clubs in the kneecaps with his hammer.
Kickbutt's next mission was to stop the Masqueraiders, with 10 spinning one of them to him, with Kickbutt finding a diamond in his pocket. Kickbutt kicks the man in the balls, before Scavenger takes the diamond. After finding out it was a dummy diamond, he gets called a little squirrel, which pisses him off. Kickbutt yelled at Vector to make him stop, which works.
Kickbutt aids in the fight in the Hopkins House cafeteria, knocking out Hindsight after White Lion vigorously whipped him, and dodging the tables thrown at him.
Kickbutt gives The Operator advice only a 13-year-old virgin could give, that he should've lived his life to the fullest for them, rather than wallowing in his misery. Kickbutt tried to probe further, before being silenced by the rest of the Eight.
=== Kickbutt and The Infinite Sadness ===
==== Part I ====
Kickbutt is hunting down Bobby Joe Smith to gain info on the gang Knockdown, and it leads him to encountering a bouncer outside of Smith's apartment. He won't let the "gay ass superfucker" in, and in response, Kickbutt calls him a homo erectus, which prompts the bouncer to let him in so Bobby Joe can kick his ass. Kickbutt kicks him in the balls, and goes into the apartment, breaking one of the thugs' ankles, alerting everyone to his presence, to which Kickbutt responds "please don't rape me!"
He fights the thugs, throwing a knife at one, who uses it as a weapon before landing face-first into the punch bowl. Kickbutt knocks the punch bowl onto the thug, before throwing a plastic orange at Bobby Joe, who in response hits him in the chest with a sledgehammer. Suddenly, Kill-Girl arrives, butchering the gang and cutting Bobby Joe's head off, with Kickbutt saying he needed info, and asking if Kill-Girl was a purple dildo as she exits. The bouncer chloroforms Kickbutt.
Kickbutt awakens in a grungy garage or basement of some kind, with The Knocker showing his face to him, asking why he killed his men, bazinga. Kickbutt responds that he was looking for The Knocker, and he leaves Kickbutt with some nameless mooks and Bananamana, an elite torturer in a banana costume. Kickbutt had his feet lit on fire, was kicked in the balls by a man who looked suspiciously like Kevin Hart, and had his eye plucked out. Right after Bananamana leaves him to the mooks, Kill-Girl saves him again, and patches him up. When asked where she got her skills from, she explains that her father is Father Justice, a really good vigilante. He asks if she is on the spectrum, and she says she doesn't know, because her dad never bothered to test her. They handshake, and Kill-Girl names a team for them called "The Kill-Minals," which Kickbutt loves.
Kickbutt is led by Kill-Girl to find George Lopez Bananamana in the hotel Knocker owns, and Kickbutt wants to punish him for taking his eye. Kill-Girl distracts him before Kickbutt shoots him in the kneecap, which allows Kill-Girl to cut him in half. Kill-Girl chainsaws open the door, which causes The Knocker to question her ethics. Kill-Girl tells The Knocker that he is going to pay for putting Father Justice in a coma. Kickbutt tries to intimidate The Knocker, before he pushes Kickbutt into the wall. Kill-Girl decides she's heard enough "bazingas," and decides to graze him with her chainsaw. Kickbutt gets on the Knocker's back and stabs him in the eye, and asks Kill-Girl what they should do with him. Kill-Girl decides she wants to cut him in half, and does so, starting at the balls and ending at the top of The Knocker's head, cutting him clean in half. Kill-Girl raids his mini-fridge and enjoys popsicles with Kickbutt on the balcony, before the two become friends, and she gives him a phone giving him access to the anti-hero world. He asks if killing ever gets easier, and she assures him that it does.
==== Part II ====
The Superiors, over the course of this story, are fighting a villain named Whiteout, who covered the city in ice and snow in the middle of summer. Luckily, Kickbutt grabs a scarf, beanie, and jacket before the winter clothing rush. Kill-Girl used her phone to arrange a meetup with Kickbutt, who is meeting her and Father Justice in an alley way. Father Justice introduces himself, and asks Kickbutt why he didn't name himself Kickass or Kickdick, to which he responds his parents don't let him swear. Kickbutt asks if Father Justice was a priest, and he says that he was, though he lost his faith in God. Kill-Girl gives him a bear hug, and he wraps the scarf around her, to the point where she anime blushes and mutters that any other girl he tries to date will die, thinking he couldn't hear it. He does, and looks frightened. Father Justice mentions that his gift to Kill-Girl is that they're going to kill the leader of the Onryo, Kurogiri. Kickbutt tags along, with Father Justice trying to test Kickbutt's mettle.
They appear on a bridge with a chaotic scene unfolding. The Aces and some Onryo are fighting, and Kickbutt has decided to fight them. He crawls under a car, bruising himself a little on the way, before pulling the Onryo under the car and knocking him out with a hammer. The Ace of Spades watches Kickbutt take out another one, and thinks that he's working with them. Kickbutt takes advantage of this, throwing a knife just barely away from the balls of another Onryo, and the Ace of Clubs is injured by an Onryo before the Ace of Diamonds retaliates. After a failed assassination attempt played as a joke, Kickbutt convinces the Aces to let him tag along, signaling Kill-Girl and Father Justice to follow.
In the van, Kickbutt stabs Clubs in the throat, with Diamonds watching, before knocking the Ace of Spades out, causing the vehicle to careen off-course, as Hearts is kicked out the van door. Kickbutt tries to convince the remaining Ace of Diamonds that he has a million dollars more than Dollface could pay him. He genuinely believes it before Kickbutt shoots him in the head. Kickbutt stops the van, Kill-Girl is starstruck, and Father Justice is impressed. Father Justice takes over driving the commandeered van to the location of an Onryo-owned nightclub, being used to stage a fight.
They find a bouncer outside, and Kickbutt tries to convince the bouncer that his dad's in there. The bouncer asks him his dad's name, before he tells Kill-Girl to kill him. Kill-Girl stabs the bouncer, and the bouncer lets out a visceral scream. Inside, they see a man fighting the other Onryo, before he turns around, ecstatic that other superheroes have come to help him. The man is none other than Yokai Mask, who suits up to battle the Onryo. Kickbutt asks him who he is, and he says that he's Yokai Mask, and he's going to take the Onryo down, to which he says sounded cooler in his head. Kickbutt stabs an Onryo in the leg, before Kill-Girl does a ballerina twirl with her chainsaw, but somehow missing all three targets. Father Justice guns down an Onryo, and Yokai Mask uses his chains to whip two Onryo. Kickbutt plays dead after getting stabbed, causing Kill-Girl to freak out, before he uses this to his advantage and stabs and hammers two Onryo. Kickbutt gives Yokai Mask a handshake, before Kurogiri shows himself, to which Kickbutt asks if he's a peppermint. Kurogiri, despite only having his eyes visible behind his mask, is visibly pissed off by this comment.
Kickbutt tries to piggy-back on Kurogiri, failing, before stabbing him in the balls, and pulling the knife upwards, before Kill-Girl takes it up to eleven, slicing him in half. As Kurogiri lay dying, Kickbutt asks him why this gang war started, with Kurogiri citing the Knocker's death as the inciting incident in this power struggle. Kickbutt takes Kurogiri's katana, the Sublime Dharma, as a new weapon, and Yokai Mask says he's going to have to file a police report about this. Kickbutt gives him a fist bump, and Father Justice gives Kickbutt a look of approval. Kickbutt gives Kill-Girl a headpat, before he leaves to head home.
A couple hours later, he finds a grisly sight, his parents on the floor, lifeless, with kunai in their eye sockets. Kickbutt thinks it's his fault, and after checking his mother's nonexistent pulse, cries. Nightwalker enters the house to console him, and reassures him that there's nothing he could have done. Kickbutt is asked to look away, as he hears a squelching noise behind him, as Nightwalker takes the kunai for evidence. Nightwalker asks him if he wants a ride in the Nightmobile. Kickbutt obliges, and when he arrives in the Nightcave, to which he offers to make Kickbutt an Owlet, to where he states that he has nowhere else to go, and takes the offer. Nightwalker tells him of the similar situation he was in, unmasking to reveal Neil Monk. Benjamin walks in after Nightwalker tells Jethro to prepare Kickbutt's room, pissed that he has to share the Owlet title. Nightwalker recognizes this, and allows Kickbutt to take on a new name, to which he chooses Talon. Kickbutt acknowledges how much of a dick Benjamin has been to him despite his parents just dying. Benjamin freezes after the realization, and Kickbutt asks Nightwalker if he could see his friends again, to which he says he will. Kickbutt goes to bed and cries in the fetal position, to which Jethro places a plate of cookies on the end table and turns off the light.
==== Part III ====
(From this point onward, Kickbutt is referred to as Talon)
Talon goes downstairs to find Neil reading the morning paper, with him wanting to show him something. The kunai he plucked out of Talon's parent's eyes, which have tags written in Kanji in them, which translates to "This is the black duty," of which Kickbutt compares to calling it the "Red Shit," which makes Neil laugh. What catches Neil's eye, however, is how Kurogiri is supposed to only come back approximately 36 hours later, which makes him wonder how he killed his parents. Talon asks if he can keep the Kunai, and Neil says yes, not knowing of Kickbutt's intent with them. Neil asks if Talon has any other enemies who could've probably framed them, speculating that the Ace of Hearts is responsible.
Talon bursts into tears, exclaiming that it's his fault that his parents were killed, thought Neil assures him that it's not his fault. He decides to take him to Dollface's tower for answers, and dons his Nightwalker costume. When they get there, they hear gunshots, and they find a conflict between the Onryo and some unlabeled Ace trainees. Talon uses his dual billy clubs to knock out an Onryo, with this alerting the Onryo and Aces to their presence. Nightwalker beats up an Ace, before Talon kicks his ankle in. Nightwalker tackles another Ace before the two of them see the Ace of Hearts, still alive and ready to kill them. Nightwalker fights off a remaining Onryo before Talon throws Hearts over the stair railing, paralyzing him from the waist down. Helpless, Hearts is unmasked, revealing a standard white man underneath, with Talon waking him up from his adrenaline-induced stupor, before Talon breaks his nose, asking him if he killed his parents.
Hearts explains that he kills a bunch of people every day, and wouldn't know if he was responsible for his parents' death. Continuing to dodge the question, Talon decides to just leave him, and tells him to have fun being crippled.
The duo find Dollface being harassed by a freshly resurrected Kurogiri, and Talon bringing out the Sublime Dharma causes Dollface to run, with Nightwalker chasing after him, asking Talon if he can handle Kurogiri by himself. Talon reassures him that he can, and they begin a katana duel, with Talon sticking one of the Kunai into Kurogiri's eyes after he misses a slash. He slashes Kurogiri behind his kneecap, before sticking another Kunai into his other eye. He taunts Kurogiri, saying that he wants him to remember him. Whenever he closes his eyes, he wants Kurogiri to think of him, and be scared. Talon breaks his ankle, before sticking the Dharma through his chest, taunting him again, asking him how it feels to be beaten by a child again. Kurogiri claims that Talon is an honorable warrior, after remembering who Talon really is. He says he always comes back, before Talon knocks him over, causing the Kunai to go through his eyes and into his brain as he falls onto the floor face-first. Nightwalker arrives with the captured Dollface, and gives Talon a talk about killing criminals, pointing out that just because Kurogiri can come back, doesn't mean that anyone can. Nightwalker is proud of him for actually getting the vengeance that he could never get, and when asked if it gets easier by Talon, Nightwalker says no.
== Relationships ==
=== 10 ===
10 is Kickbutt's idol, and he wants to be as strong as him someday.
=== Nightwalker ===
Nightwalker is Kickbutt's adoptive father, who deeply cares for and sympathizes with him.
=== Owlet ===
Owlet is Kickbutt's adoptive brother, and they are slowly warming up to each other despite being standoffish to each other.
=== Jethro ===
Jethro is Kickbutt's butler, and he feels of Jethro like a grandfather.
=== Kill-Girl ===
Kill-Girl is Kickbutt's best friend, and it's possible they share romantic feelings, even if Kickbutt doesn't know it yet.
=== Father Justice ===
Father Justice is almost like another mentor to Kickbutt, and Kickbutt sees him as such.
=== Kurogiri ===
Kurogiri and Kickbutt have a mutual respect for each other, despite trying to kill each other. Kickbutt took his "honorable warrior" comment to heart.
=== Ace of Hearts ===
Kickbutt hates the Ace of Hearts, but feels slight remorse for crippling him.
=== Yokai Mask ===
Kickbutt sees Yokai Mask as cool, and a great friend.
== Notable Moments ==
* Suddenly showing up
* Eating a half-eaten Snickers bar out of the trash
* Ogling Silencer's breasts
* Various ball blows, ankle breaks, and kneecap violations
* Getting called a squirrel
* Trying to learn The Operator's motivation
* Fending off multiple gangs
* Getting hit by a car
* Surviving torture
* Getting bazinga'd
* Taking out the Aces by himself in a moving vehicle
* Fighting and winning against Kurogiri twice
* Befriending Yokai Mask
* Getting adopted by Nightwalker and becoming Talon
== Powers and Abilities ==
=== Resilence ===
While having no powers of his own, Kickbutt does have an immunity to pain given by getting hit by a car.
== Trivia ==
* Kickbutt is a spoof of Kick-Ass from the comic of the same name and its movie adaptation, with some inspiration from Spider-Man.
* Kickbutt's Talon persona was based on his original idea for the campaign to be the second Owlet.
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