Creature Commandos

Creature Commandos

### Current Members

Miranda Shrieve, Dr. Medusa, Bog Baby, Wolfpack, Wraps, Adam Frankenstein, Andrew Bennett, Tig Rafelson

## History

The Supernatural Handlers of Arcane Defense Executive (S.H.A.D.E.) is a paramilitary unit in league with the United Nations meant to investigate and combat the paranormal, weird, and/or absurd threats that plague the nations of this world. Though SHADE is affiliated with the UN and ARGUS, nobody seems to know exactly who they work for, not even the team members themselves. They ultimately get their marching orders from a mysterious personage known as **Father Time** who speaks with them via an arcane means of communication.

SHADE may be the group's official name, but since going semi-public, they are better known by their unofficial moniker of the **Creature Commandos** due to the team's roster heavily relying on supernatural "monsters" to provide operational capability, paranormal might, and martial strength.

### Shady Origins

Rumor has it SHADE was founded by the League of Nations in the early days of WWII to secretly combat the Nazi regime's interest in the occult and when the League of Nations went defunct, they were transitioned to the United Nations. Of course, that's just one story.

There are other theories, such as they were run by the mysterious organization known as Checkmate and an operation compromised SHADE's ultra-black ops nature forcing Checkmate to transition the group to ARGUS in a cover-up.

Others suggest they were created by the American government as part of its secretive "International Operations" under the designation of "Team Six" early on and were later a secretive part of Project Victory and the DEO until ARGUS somehow got hold of them (possibly Waller resurrected the team along with Task Force X?). Whatever the case, the team has been known to operate in some capacity for some time in every decade since the 1940s. It is possible they even pre-date the Second World War. Who is to say?

### Deployment

SHADE is deployed when there is an occult matter that needs resolving or there is a mundane matter that needs an occult solution. They operate out of a sentient structure known as the Shadow Box which can appear and disappear in any flat, open space large enough to contain its 52' x 52' x 52' dimensions (it's actually much larger on the inside). The Shadow Box's teleportation abilities enable the team to rapidly deploy to and extract from all parts of the world. When their mission is completed, all members of SHADE can access the Shadow Box simply by knocking against the obsidian-like exterior and alerting the Box to their presence.

## Team Roster

The team consists of the following:

* **Eve Frankenstein**, a four-armed Fable who came to Earth to find her lover and joined with the team to rescue him from the Nazis during WWII. The longest-serving active member of the team and its current field commander.
* **Miranda Shrieve**, granddaughter of Matthew Shrieve (an earlier commander of the team) and descendant of Abraham Van Helsing, ARGUS Liaison and Sniper.
* **Adam Frankenstein**, a Fable who was used as a Nazi war weapon but captured and deprogrammed by the team during World War II. He's the team's muscle and their Dark Justice liaison who operates as a member of both teams and coordinates the rare joint operation.
* **Warren Griffith**, an immortal werewolf who's been a veteran of the team for a long time. As a reserve member, he comes and goes, usually helping out when the team needs extra muscle or are expecting a big fight.
* **Nina Mazursky**, a metahuman with amphibian adaptations and potent psychic sensitivity. She's also a genius scientist.
* **Dr. Myrra Rhodes**, a surgeon who discovered she was the daughter of the Gorgon Medusa when she suddenly transformed into a partial Gorgon on her thirtieth birthday. She is the team's medic.
* **Aten Khalis**, a mummy who rose from the dead when Cairo was hit during the Manhattaning. Claims to be imbued with powers of the souls of all his descendants that died in that blast. He is the team's lich sorcerer and occult expert.
* **Andrew Bennett**, a powerful vampire with a strong willpower that makes him able to nearly fully control his darker impulses. Like Warren, he comes and goes. He usually works as the team's intelligence agent, alerting them to some problems and only joining them on assignments where his powers are required or the team is expecting a big fight.
* **Tig Rafelson**, the newest recruit. A teenage vampire hunting orphan who nearly killed Andrew Bennett but was convinced to spare him and in exchange became Miranda Shrieve's hunter apprentice. She may be mentally ill. She's a loose cannon and very unpredictable.

## Trivia and Notes

### Trivia

* Their research is handled by Project M.
* The team and Professor Trevor Bruttenholm recovered the cambion Anung Un Rama on December 23, 1944.
* They were originally Team 6 and then were folded into Project Victory through shadowy bureaucratic channels. It is meant to be vague due to the aforementioned shadowy bureaucratic channels.

### Notes

* This organization is a combination of Creature Commandos and SHADE. During the *New 52* the Creature Commandos were agents of SHADE.
* In the comics among its members are vampire Vincent Velcro and reanimated body Elliot "Patches" Taylor. They are replaced by Andrew Bennett and Frankenstein. They are led by Matthew Shrieve, but here he's replaced by Miranda Shrieve from *Flashpoint*. Aten Khalis is a composite of pre-Flashpoint Aten and post-Flashpoint Khalis.

## Links and References

* Appearances of the Creature Commandos
* Team Gallery: Creature Commandos
* Membership of the Creature Commandos

1. ↑ Earth-27 Throws SHADE
2. ↑ (Earth-27 Rosters) Creature Commandos
3. ↑ Network Files: Nina Frankenstein
4. ↑ Roy Reimagines... Hellboy
5. ↑ E27 Sit-Down with Roy: Project Victory