Charles McLance

**Charles McLance** (November 27, 1986) is a billionaire, turned Immortal Warrior superhero of Glasgow, and the leader of Team Saltire. Charles is also the CEO of McLance Industries, the family company founded by Charles’ father, Angus McLance. Charles is the superhero known as Saltire, the immortal protector of Scotland and mainly operates within Glasgow. Charles is the fourth Saltire. Saltire was a hero title passed down the males on the paternal side of the McLance family. Saltire began with Dorian McLance, Charles’ Great-Grandfather. Dirty Dingus McLance (Dorian’s son) was Saltire II, Angus McLance had a brief outing as Saltire III thus leaving Charles as Saltire IV.

He was the son of the late Angus McLance and Mhairi McLance, the youngest (adoptive) brother of Ariana McLance, the younger brother of Andrew Lance, the husband of Angelica Potter, and the future father of Rosie Williams, Jordan Williams and Christopher McLance. being immortal, Charles has lived a long life on Earth-1, one that has inspired a multitude of people to become heroes.

Charles was lost from society after his family's yacht sank and made it to the island of Ko Pha Ngan, where he went on a mission of survival and self-discovery, learning skills that include, and aren't limited to, swordsmanship, hand-hand combat, archery etc. He traveled to China and Russia on missions as an agent of D.E.L.T.A for some time. After being presumed dead and lost at sea for five years, CHARLES returned home with a mission to save his city from crime and corruption. He began his crusade as a hero who would eventually become known as **Saltire.**

After the undertaking caused the death of his best friend, Tommy, Charles decided to continue his crusade, while also making a vow to avoid killing whenever possible to honour Tommy's memory. As Saltire, Charles continued working with Arthur and James Armitage, met scientist Norman from Edinburgh, and had confrontations with Jack who he met on the island and had presumed dead. Five months after saving Glasgow from the Rising, Saltire was declared as a hero to the citizens of Glasgow City.

### Relatives

Angus McLance (father; deceased)Mhairi McLance (mother)

Ariana McLance (sister; adopted)

Andrew Lance (brother)

Angelica Potter (Wife)

Christopher McLance (son)

Rosie Williams (daughter)

Jordan Williams (son)

### Affiliation

Multiverse (formerly)The Trinity

Team Saltire

McLance Industries

D.E.L.T.A. (formerly)

Protectors of Time (in secret)

### Occupation

Vigilante (in secret)Leader of Team Saltire

Member of the Trinity

D.E.L.T.A. operative (formerly)

CEO of McLance Industries

Leader of the League of Darkness (briefly; formerly)

## Appearances

### Portrayed by

Bash Dinsmore

Between the years 2018 and 2020, Charles dropped the mantle of Saltire as he had gone through such a huge loss.

Eventually the Protectors of Time seek out his help and Charles is inspired to become Saltire once more.

## Personality

Upon being marooned on Ko Pha NGan, Charles began to change, so much so he stated the day he went missing was the day he died. He originally retreated into a shell, exhibiting depression after Jamie apparently died; albeit by accident (which he realized was his fault) and his father Angus committed suicide right in front of him. After he is helped and taught by Yut Fei how to survive, he endured torture to protect Yut Fei and disguised himself as a mercenary to sneak into Edwin Fyers' camp in an attempt to rescue him. Upon meeting Jack Wilson, Charles began his journey to becoming a warrior. Jack had decided he should perform a coup de grace on Charles to spare him the suffering on the island, but Charles responded by breaking his hand to break free of his restraints, and punching him, inspiring Jack to train him instead. Charles is shown to be a quick learner. After seeing a maneuver Jack taught him to steal a gun from an armed enemy once, Charles was able to perform it on one of Fyers' men. Eventually, Charles excelled in his skills in hand-to-hand combat after training from the two of them.

Overtime, after these events, Charles gained a much needed sense of direction, loyalty, principles and honour. He sacrificed two chances to return home, first by choosing to convince Yut Fei to leave the island with him and second choosing to kill Fyers instead of accepting the former's offer to call in a rescue. Nevertheless, he remained indomitably focused on his goal to return home to Glasgow and his family.

Although it took 5 years for Charles to admit it to himself, due to so much pain and loss Charles endured in his 5 years of hell, he started to enjoy killing, as it was his way to cope for everything he had suffered. If he had the opportunity to kill, he didn't hesitate, but all that time Charles didn't admit it to anyone, not even himself, since he believed it was the monster inside who killed and all the individuals that he killed deserved it.

## Powers and Abilities

* **Light Magic**: Accepting how near-invincible Damien Thomas’ magic is, Charles learned from Matthew Caldor on how to counteract it. As Damien's powers come from the absorption and manipulation of dark energy (i.e. death and fear), Matt taught Charles to channel light energy (i.e. hope and joy), which he can perform by channeling it into the magical tattoo. After a difficult period of overcoming his inner-darkness, he became able to prtoect himself and easily repel Damien away through his dark magic when he attempted to take his life-force. Also, when Damien enhanced his dark magic, Charles was able to tap into the hope of all of Glasgow City's citizens to enhance his light magic to once again neutralise Damien’s dark magic. When using light magic, Charles’ eyes glow a yellow color. Despite the magic tattoo gives him limited access to light magic, should any user of dark magic attempts to attack Charles with something such as life-force absorption, Charles can channel his light magic to repel the attack.

* **Peak of human physical condition:** Charles is in top physical condition. He engages regularly in intense exercises and spars with Henry Watson in the Command Centre during his spare time. Charles is remarkably strong.

* **Master hand-to-hand combatant/Martial artist:** Charles is a highly skilled hand-to-hand combatant, having developed his combat skills during his time on the island.
* **Expert knife wielder/Knife thrower:** Charles is an accomplished knife wielder, when practicing kali knife-fighting techniques with Henry,
* **Master Stick Fighter :** Charles is a highly skilled stick-fighter, capable of wielding an expandable baton as a close quarters combat weapon. Charles could match up to Sarah whenever they sparred using escrima sticks. In a training session, he and Henry teamed up in a practice fight against Sarah Sladen using bo-staffs.
* **Expert swordsman:** Charles displays a remarkable amount of skill in swordsmanship, presumably due to his extreme training over the years with Jack Wilson.
* **High-level intellect/Military training/Master tactician/Leader:** Due to his time with Team Saltire, Charles is highly skilled at formulating plans and executing them and also thinks ahead in case things don't go his way.

## Appearances

### Saltire

#### Pre-Season 1

* “Pilot: immortal Warrior”
* “Don’t Be Alone”
* “A Powerhouse”
* “The Professor”
* “Fighters”
* ”Defender”
* “Trust But Verify”
* “Salvation”
* “The Plan”
* ”Sacrifice”

* “Caledonia”
* ”The Calm”
* ”Identity”
* ” The Society of Justice”
* ”New Recruits”
* ”Armitage”
* ”World on Fire”
* ”This is your Sword”
* ”Devastation”

### Season 1

* ”Repilot: Line of Lance”
* ”A Samaritan”
* ”Guardian of Scotland”
* ”Guilt”
* ” The Council of Vince”
* “The Calm Before the Storm”
* ”Flashback”
* ”Little Runner”
* ” Worldchange pt “2”
* ” The Present”
* ”The Reign of Reverse-Blur”

### Season 2

* ”Fallout”
* “Revival”
* “Family”
* “Beyond Redemption”
* ”Suffering”
* ”Persuasion”
* ”Redemption”
* ”War Pt 2”
* ”A Journey Between Worlds”
* ”Mother”
* ”Gone”
* ”The Return”
* “Way of the Master”
* “Fallen Warrior”
* ”The Trials of Charles McLance”
* “Taking up the Mantle”
* ”Mindgrip”
* ”Goodnight Mister Wentworth”
* ”You Have Saved This City”

### Season 3

* ”Everything Changes”
* ”The Beast Returns”
* ”Promises Kept”
* ”Leap of Faith”
* “Violation”
* ”Three Lives and Counting”
* ”Acceptance”
* ”Neart-A-Staigh”
* ”A Crisis”

### Season 4

* “Reminiscence”
* ’A Flash of the Lightning’
* ”Hunter Returns”
* ”Back to the future”
* ”Damaged”
* "Brothers in Arms"
* "Purgatory"
* "Checkmate"
* "The Brave and the Bold"
* "Finding a Spark"
* "Wentworth and Hunter"
* "Sarah"
* "Past and Future"
* "The Future Calls"
* "Ko Pha Ngan"
* "The Struggle"
* "Lost Canary"
* "Justice"
* "The Lightning"
* "Rewriting Certain Inequities"
* "Cause and Effect"
* "Annihilation"

### Season 5

* Justice’s End
* Future Burdens
* ”Armageddon”
* ”Heroes Join Forces Part 2”
* ”Aces, Charles”
* ”Enter Surge and The Phantom”
* ” The Phantom”
* ”Multiversal Chase”
* ”Origins of Carter Matthews”
* ”Welcome Back”
* ”Departures”

### Specials

* ”Into the Unknown”
* ”Window in Time”
* ”The Old Days”
* "Multiversal War part 2"

### Protectors of Time

* ”Worldchange pt 1”
* “War Pt 4”
* ”Heroes Join Forces Part 3”

### Season 3

* ”Knights of Justice”

* ”War Pt 1”

### Legion of Heroes

* “War Pt 3”
* “Heroes Join Forces Part 1”

### Altered Space

* The Reverse
* “Multiversal Chase”