David Kramer (Reboot Timeline)

Operative of the WTO (Formerly)

Demolitions Expert of the Reapers (Formerly)

Leader of Kramer's Raiders (Formerly)

Mercenary/War Criminal (Formerly)

Marksmanship

Expert hand-to-hand combat

Genius-level intelligence

Charisma

Manipulation

Tactical expertise

Intimidation

Wealth

Vast resources

Killing and torturing his victims

Terrorism

Conspiracy

Incrimination

Torture

War crimes

Theft

Treason

Extortion

Blackmail

Kidnapping

Arms trafficking

Crimes against humanity

*"Today, we show the Reapers our true strength. Perhaps it will give you some as well." -* Kramer to Eric Wright about killing their former allies

**David Joseph Kramer** (known as David Kramer or infamously the "Skull") is a main character and a minor antagonist in the Reboot timeline. Kramer is a former Marine Raider that used to be part of the Reapers, an elite unit in the WTO. However, Kramer's love for carnage ultimately led him to "exile" and formed his own group of loyalists that moved into a foreign country.

Kramer served as the main antagonist in both timelines (the Canon series and the Raider series) and became the Reapers' personal threat throughout the years.

## Background

Born on February 18, 1984, David grew up in Manhattan in a working-class background. After a while and wanting adventure, David joined the Marines at the age of 18 and joined the Marine Raider Regiment at a certain time after several months.

After being discharged, David joined the WTO and became a Reaper after Mordecai Winchester personally selected him for his physicality and strong combat prowess.

In both timelines, David was exiled from the Reapers due to his increasingly bloodthirsty attitude and view on killing enemies by both Jay Roberts and Mordecai Senior.

## Biography (The Canon Series)

David isn't seen until the climax of DC's Return, when he ordered his last troops to fight as harder as usual upon seeing Jay.

As Daryl and David fought, David managed to injure Daryl and as he prepared to kill him, Jay sacrificed himself to kill David, saving Daryl from impending death. However, it's revealed "David" isn't the actual David since he died during combat in Burkina Faso, and his son, David Kramer Junior took over and continued his father's mission of seeking vengeance against Jay and the WTO.

## Biography (The Raider)

David is first seen, talking to Eric Wright about the success of killing the Reapers and even threatens to kill him if he changed his motives.

As both Jay and Mordecai fought both armies, David tries to get away, but his escape helicopter was destroyed. As an injured David tries to kill him, he kills Mordecai before dying at the hands of Jay.

## Personality

From his first and last appearance, Kramer is seen as an individual with a total lack of empathy, sadism, ruthlessness, and ambition. According to Mordecai Jr, Kramer is a more dangerous threat, fighting his own wars with no rules and boundaries. This is heavily shown as he ordered his men to kill the Reapers and even wanted to kill Jay and Mordecai personally.

Despite his extreme ruthlessness and sadism, Kramer is highly intelligent and cunning, using a hotel as a hideout and blending in as the owner before being attacked. He also knew that Jay and Mordecai were still alive, despite not being in the fight, and even ordered his men to prepare for a fight. However, his high cunning and intelligence made him more egotistical, which resulted in his demise as Jay caught up to him and died as a highly arrogant and ruthless man that betrayed the Reapers for his bloodlust.

## Appearance

David is an American man, standing at 6'2. He has a heavyset physique, buzzed dark brown hair, blue eyes, various tattoos, and a heavy stubble beard.

In the service, David wore the standard-issue MARPAT uniform and when he worked for the WTO, he wore a standardized uniform, consisting of a white shirt, gray cargo pants, combat boots, and a patrol cap.

In the Reapers, he wore a uniform (brown sleeveless t-shirt, UCP ACU pants, combat boots, and a gray tactical vest) with a designed ballistic mask (white with a black stripe in the middle and a gold and silver chain pattern around the mouth part).

In Dubai, He wore his makeshift combat uniform (black shirt with a skull design, MARPAT pants, and a green bandana).

## Skills

* **High Intelligence**: Kramer was shown to be a highly intelligent, sharp-witted, and methodical man and was highly adaptable to any situation given to him. He is 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 enemies to blend in and to complete his task without them knowing that he was there within their organization.
* **Hacking Skills**: After learning from NSA computer technicians that joined the PMC, he is an intermediate hacker with complete access to even the most secret government servers to find his targets and to trace their location with technical help. He can jam communications, cause blackouts, and disable security systems.
* **Master Tactician**: As a former Infantryman/Marine Raider, Kramer 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 watching 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, fought, and led his army of both Reapers and W.T.O. operatives loyal to him into various battles with strategic facts and thinking. A notable fact is that he managed to order his men to ambush the Reapers, killing them all, except for Jay and Mordecai Jr.
* **Expert Spy**: Having worked with the CIA SAD, Kramer is extremely skilled in stealth, espionage, infiltration, disguises, thievery, and eavesdropping. He's well adept at blending in with his surroundings as well as sneaking around heavily guarded outposts and compounds with ease.
* **Expert Driver**: During his time in the PMC, Kramer has shown exceptional driving skills to the point where he is even capable of driving manual cars, mechanicalized vehicles (tanks, APCs, boats, and helicopters), and motorcycles with ease.
* **Master Marksman**: As shown in various fights, Kramer is extremely proficient with firearms, including pistols, revolvers, rifles, and shotguns, as well as being frighteningly precise with eliminating targets in both close-range and long-range distances (as shown during his fights). He's also skilled with using and firing heavier weaponry, such as grenade launchers, light machine guns, and flamethrowers as well as using mounted weaponry.
* **Master Martial Artist**: Having been trained by the Raiders and various Reaper officers, Kramer is shown to be an incredibly skilled hand-to-hand fighter. His fighting style is mostly improvised and is consisted of Kickboxing, Krav Maga, Eskrima, Kempo Jiu-Jitsu, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Judo, Sambo, Hapkido, Systema, and Ninjutsu.
* **Peak Human Condition**: As a former soldier of the United States Marines, Kramer 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**: Despite his build, Kramer is very strong, capable of overpowering and restraining even larger opponents, knocking out or outright killing a skilled operator with a single strike, breaking their bones and necks with ease, breaking through walls and glass with some difficulty, and surprisingly ripping out their throats, eyes, and ears with relative ease, which shocked allies and enemies alike.
* **Peak Human Durability**: Kramer is highly resilient and sturdy due to his time on the battlefield. Kramer can survive multiple gunshot wounds, stabbings/slashes, and blunt force trauma without feeling that much pain. His durability also made him tougher to kill, as evidenced during his fight against Jay, after surviving a helicopter crash.

## Equipment

* **Beretta 92FS**: Kramer's personal sidearm. He carries it in a vest holster and notably used it to kill Mordecai Jr before being disarmed.

## Deaths

**Murders committed by David**:

* **50+ Insurgents**: Shot, hung, stabbed, and burnt to death.
* **28 Reapers**: Shot to death.

## Trivia

* Next to some villains (Randall Reed, Donald Piper, Ryder Brubaker, etc), Kramer is arguably the most dangerous and evil antagonist in the Reboot franchise because he was a more personal threat to the Reapers. He was far more intelligent, vicious, and ambitious than his fellow Reapers.
* Kramer is the only antagonist to kill a well-known Reaper officer (such as Mordecai Jr.).