Amos Finch

**Amos Matthew Finch** is a cynical teenage/young adult anti-hero who's main goal is to kill the people responsible for his parents' deaths, and anyone involved. He is three years older than Dave Lizewski and only a year older than Chris D'Amico (school grade wise).

## Early Life

Amos was born to Henry and Arlene Finch, who were former drug addicts. Unfortunately they owed Frank D'Amico money, and with a new child they were slow to pay up.

When Amos was around four years old, his father left for work one day and never came back, warranting a search party. Henry's body was found in a sewer, maimed. Because she was now a single mother, Arlene is paying the D'Amico family even slower, which they definitely didn't like.

Following this incident, when Amos was around six, his mother hid him in a dumpster when she realized she was being followed by D'Amico's men. She died minutes later next to the dumpster Amos was hidden in. Amos waited hours until he pushed himself out and got help. Now with no parents, he was placed into a Christian based orphanage.

Before the first movie starts, Amos just graduated the year before and had gotten a job at the Atomic Comics shop and now lives in a cheap/in shambles apartment, presumably with other people.

## Kick-Ass

Amos was always looking to avenge or at the very least find out who was behind his parents' murder, Kick-Ass just gave him just the right motive and an excuse to do so.

He always had a feeling that their deaths were mob related and the police were payed off, he thought the case was called off way to fast and had a constant gut feeling since he was a teenager, so he started there. He did as much research as he could and put together a black and white costume and set out to find the people responsible. Amos didn't take a hero's approach though. After he got what he wanted from these people, he would beat them to a pulp or even kill them if he felt so inclined. This is what separates him from being a hero, but his intent and goal is what separates him from being a villain.

After a while the news caught wind of him, and he needed a name. Morphine was the name that came to mind so that's what he posted online. It's possible this is related to the pure irony because of the nature of his action's vs the nature of the drug or just because of his interest in being a nurse and medicine. Morphine's website was mostly blank with only the bare minimum of information and almost never posted on. Of course, Amos wasn't foolish and got his laptop a VPN so no one could track the website back to him, even if he never posts.

Even though Kick-Ass was the man that inspired Amos becoming a vigilante, Amos hardly gets involved (voluntarily) outside of his own schemes. Kick-Ass doesn't impress him too much. He is under the impression that Kick-Ass is foolish and naïve.

Before Red Mist met up with Kick-Ass, he decided to bother Morphine first. He made a similar spiel but with no clear end goal since Morphine wasn't a part of the main plan like meeting up with Kick-Ass was. Red Mist stated that he thought Morphine was "sick" and other praises, whether or not he meant any of this initially is somewhat debatable considering his façade with Kick-Ass. Morphine instantly thought Red Mist was aggravating and arrogant. It took quite a bit of convincing since Morphine wasn't big on interacting with this kid and had elsewhere to be, but Red Mist got him to take a look at the Mist Mobile. To Red Mist's disappointment, Morphine clearly stated he thought it looked ridiculous. Morphine did take the ride though, since he needed to be dropped off to interrogate some mob members anyway. When dropping Morphine off at the secondary location, Red Mist gets a little too curious and watches Morphine interrogate and slaughter mob members, who he then recognizes as some of his father's men. Morphine who is now pissed off that Red Mist decided to watch what he was doing, shoves Red around to intimidate him and pushed back into his car. Morphine threatened that Red Mist was going to drive him back where they first met and say nothing about this, or he was simply going to kill Red right there. Red Mist questions if Morphine is even a superhero to begin with, to which Morphine calls him a moron for even thinking so in the first place. The entire ride back, Red Mist seems bothered by something, which Morphine had assumed was the fear for his life, until they reached the destination, and it was proved to be some twisted life-in-peril sexual fantasy. Morphine shoved him away and left his car, mostly revolted, not knowing he just unlocked the future sexual obsession Chris D'Amico would have with Morphine.

It is now known to Frank D'Amico that Morphine is now also a threat to him and his "business", which means he too is a target along with Kick-Ass and his buddies

Later on, when Kick-Ass and Red Mist are on the way to the set-up Frank D'Amico has planned, Red Mist calls for Morphine under the ruse that Red thinks he could help. Morphine picks up the call and hesitantly agrees to come along with. This unfortunately gets Morphine kidnapped and beaten along with the rest of them. While tied up Morphine curses that he always had a feeling that Red Mist was a snake, this could just be him shit talking. Along with getting beaten, one of D'Amico's goons shatters his right arm, assuming that was his dominant hand. After this scene, Amos is immediately rushed to the hospital.

## Post Kick-Ass/Pre Kick-Ass 2

After the first movie ended, Dave Lizewski found out which room Morphine was in, in turn finding out Amos Finch is in fact Morphine.

At this point in time Amos pieces together that Frank D'Amico was behind the murder of his parents and that his lumber business was just a front for his drug money laundering. This is also when Dave breaks the news that Chris D'Amico was Red Mist. This obviously pisses Amos off a lot.

There was a lot of attempts to fix Amos' arm and piece it back together so it could possibly be saved, but inevitably it ended up being amputated at the elbow and given a prosthetic. Due to being on pain medication for the procedures, Amos ironically became addicted to morphine. He was able to kick the addiction 6 months before Kick-Ass 2 started.

All of that happened while going through nursing school/being a nurse and doing physical therapy, but he was never Morphine again in these 2 years.

## Kick-Ass 2

The next time Amos would reappear would be with Kick-Ass at his first Justice Forever meeting. Kick-Ass took into consideration the experience they both shared and decided to take a shot in the dark and text Amos about showing up as Morphine. Amos originally planned on not showing up and make Morphine to continue being MIA since Morphine's goal was partially met (Frank D'Amico was dead, even though Morphine was unfortunately not the one to kill him) but ultimately decided there would be no harm in seeing what they're like. Even Kick-Ass was surprised Morphine actually showed. Morphine seemed to be slightly unimpressed throughout the meeting. With Amos' past as well as being raised in a Christian orphanage, Colonel Stars and Stripes made him uncomfortable. Upon finding out Insect Man was gay, Kick-Ass turned to Morphine and reiterated that Morphine was as well, then making Morphine explain that him being gay is not why he was a vigilante, but instead because his family was killed by the mob. This moment starts Kick-Ass and Battle Guy trying to pair the two even though Morphine seems mostly disinterested. From then on, Morphine wasn't a constant member, but showed up enough to be in the framed image and named on the plaque in their base.

Amos would then see Chris D'Amico in the boxing ring. He started to take boxing courses as a way to help along with physical therapy, that and he just needed an excuse to punch things. He gained a reputation at this place due to his sometimes over aggression, earning him the nickname Animal. He showed up late and didn't quite notice Chris at first, until he was being pushed into the ring and being volunteered after Black Death. Chris only recognized Amos from high school since he never found out about Morphine's identity, so Amos was a lot more devastated to be seeing Chris than vice versa. It was known that Chris D'Amico was a pain in Amos' side all throughout high school whenever he could be, making freshman year Amos' only peaceful year and they have gotten into a few physical fights. Amos successfully and easily knocked Chris down, who then offered him money to join his super villain team. Amos thought the money was tempting for a split second but told Chris to shove it all up his ass.

Amos ends up getting a call back from Javier, who tells Amos to give it a second chance. Amos has now seen that Chris D'Amico is his father's son and not only an arrogant fool like he was years ago, but with this opportunity, he could get even closer to Chris than before, making it easier to ambush. Amos ends up taking the gig and getting the name "Animal", recycled from the ring.

Animal was brought along to kill Colonel Stars and Stripes shortly after joining. He didn't particularly know how to feel about it. He didn't do a lot messing up the place and stayed quiet for the most part. Taking time to look distracted and look at the plaque on the wall, trying to stand in the way of it as much as possible so perhaps the Motherfucker wouldn't see Morphine. Unfortunately, he did when he shoved Animal out of the way, calling him useless. Shortly after comparing the image of Miranda Swedlow to Night Bitch, Motherfucker saw Morphine at the end of the photo and exclaimed that he was still alive. Animal mentioned he didn't see anything so special about Morphine, and that somehow bewildered Motherfucker. Later on in the night it was made clear that he was infatuated (sexually and otherwise) and quite literally obsessed with Morphine. Amos realized he may have set himself up for more than he would have liked.

It was most likely that they did multiple missions but after the break in into Miranda's house, Animal called it quits. That incident is where he crossed the line. He swung at The Motherfucker out on the street, cussing him out in front of the rest of the team. Before more police officers or anyone else could do anything, Amos ran off, making sure there was no camera's watching him anywhere while he removed the Animal costume. He didn't go straight home from there and instead went back to the Justice Forever base. He was quick in and out, deciding that now was the time to take Eisenhower since she was just kept there. He stayed out for a while, knowing that he couldn't go home immediately.

When he did arrive home with the dog, it was absolutely trashed. See he didn't mind too much; they could have done a lot worse. Most things he could fix around the house and get new chairs. He spent time cleaning up and reorganizing the living space and kitchen, and possibly his roommates' rooms, before even thinking about his own room. He let the dog stay in the cage he had just bought and set up for her and finally roamed into his room. His room didn't look too bad, until he saw the Morphine costume pinned to the wall above his bed, somewhat torn. He stared in horror for a minute until The Motherfucker came from the closet. It became a conflict until Morphine grabbed the costume from the wall and ducked out of the window, simply wanting to get out of there.

Amos did show up to Mr. Lizewski's funeral, because he did really feel bad for Dave, somewhat empathizing with him. It was most likely that The Motherfucker wanted to kidnap him along with Dave, but Amos was able to hide and stay behind.

In between that and the final fight, Amos was able to fix/alter the Morphine suit as best as he could. The mask and the sleeves are altered from the original costume design.

Morphine did show up to the final fight, staying near Kick-Ass since him and The Motherfucker still had personal beef. Morphine encouraged Kick-Ass to let go of The Motherfucker on the roof, even going over to try loosening his grip, which also almost got him dragged down with. Once the fight was done and everyone was on the roof, Morphine removed his mask for a minute, letting anyone that was curious see his face until the cops were about to show up.

In the end, Amos is continuing nursing and is the jackass that left the cup of water a little too far away from Chris D'Amico in the hospital.

## Relationships

### Dave Lizewski/Kick-Ass

Amos went to school with Dave while he was a senior and Dave was a freshman, so they hardly knew each other. All Dave knew about Amos was that he was openly gay, punk, fought with Chris D'Amico, and he was terrifying. Amos knew almost nothing about Dave. Amos did see him enough in school to recognize Dave after he shattered his arm in the hospital though.

Morphine thinks Kick-Ass is honestly naïve. He thinks the costume is dumb, he thinks Kick-Ass is dumb and over his head. He can't help but admire his persistence though. It seems like Kick-Ass does view Morphine as a friend and thinks he's good at what he does.

### Mindy Macready/Hit-Girl

Amos is unaware of Hit-Girl's true identity.

Morphine has a respect for Hit-Girl, relating to the mob and specifically the D'Amico's screwing over her life. He acknowledges her skill and knowledge in combat.

### Chris D'Amico/Red Mist/The Motherfucker

Amos and Chris went to school together since they were small, but never got along. It was made clear they both came from completely different walks of life and Chris would like to rub that in. This made it quick for Amos to detest Chris. It was very apparent they hated each other once they were both in high school. There were multiple reports of Chris pushing and egging Amos on, which eventually resulted in Amos reacting violently.

Morphine obviously thought Red Mist was full of himself and even dumb. Red Mist was somewhat enamored with Morphine, whether or not it was genuine is iffy. The two didn't interact very often but when they did, nothing good ever came of it.

Morphine somehow made the The Motherfucker obsessed with him; this is not something Morphine enjoys at all. The Motherfucker is not aware of Morphine's true identity until the second movie, so maybe if he knew beforehand, he wouldn't be so attached.

## Etymology

* Amos is a name with Hebrew origin that means *"to carry; borne by God"*.
* Matthew is a name of Hebrew origin that means *"gift of god"*.
* Finch is an old English last name that was most likely used to refer to someone who caught and sold finches.

## Miscellaneous

* Spotify Playlist
* He is left-handed
* He has Protanopia (red-green color blindness)