Blunt Force Trauma

Blunt Force Trauma

Blunt Force Trauma is a notorious villain group that arose around 2011, led by a villain named The Midnight Lover. Comprised mostly of fanatical former mercenaries, this team is noteworthy for never being caught and have tangled with S.U.P.L.E.X. several times. It is theorized that their origin is related to the Probability Matrix as well. Displaying paramilitary skills, confidence and creative use of their unusual abilities, the team is considered "Villain's Villains" and enjoys enormous popularity in underground villain circles, going so far as to largely control the board of the infamous, Cayman Island based banking institution known as Vibe Financial. They have been speculated to be almost entirely mercenaries, with no clear motivation or goals and unlike many villains, they are habitually shy around press. Even their internal name is only used because of the infamous interview with John Stossel in 2015, conducted while he was covering a prison riot live, and it is believed by experts that much of that was misinformation designed to direct the riot and convey hidden messages to other actors. Still at large, The Midnight Lover has apparently retired and the villain known as Il Maestro has become the new head of Blunt Force Trauma, famous for the Swiss Reserve bank heist that the team conducted with dynamite vests, which many consider the most spectacularly brazen heist of all time.

Known Members

* The Midnight Lover
* The Deacon
* The Long Silence
* The Fadeout Twins
* Count Garlique Von Hunchenpunch
* Venus DeFlytrap
* Monkeyshiner
* Shredhead
* Kitten
* Pretty Princess Fuck You
* Il Maestro
* Ol' Stabby Slashy Hat Hat

Famous Incidents

* The Santa Morena Affair
* Kidnapping of the 2014 LA Laker's Girls
* 2018 Robbery of the Swiss Reserve
* Ravynstrike Prison Riot
* Hostile Takeover of Vibe Financial
* Execution of Lord Sunshine
* Healing Blunt Theft and Dissemination

History

The first recorded activities of Blunt Force Trauma was the Gypsy Jokaz Festival Massacre. The team's true motivation is unknown, but considered by most to be an ill conceived attempt at a criminal takeover since the death of Yosef Kirby, the bearer of the Jester's Mantle since 1994. At the funeral ceremony held in Youngstown, Ohio, over ten thousand active members of the Gypsy Jokaz Gang were present when improvised explosive devices went off and The Midnight Lover rushed the stage, attempting to coerce the gang into following him. This attempt failed, and when the enraged psychotic clowns rushed the stage, several other members of Blunt Force Trauma appeared spraying automatic weapons fire and sonic grenades to clear a path through the crowd and exfiltrate The Midnight Lover. No motive was ever claimed or given for the attack, which caused 2000 casualties and dropped recruitment to a standstill; even now, the 'Bad Pennies' sect is the largest Gypsy Jokas splinter gang and were reported to have just over a thousand members in two states.

After that, the Midnight Lover actively promoted the team in villain circles and secured several jobs with contract villain work, eventually becoming well regarded enough to be entrusted with missions for the primary banking institution for villains, the recently rebranded Vibe Financial Services. They worked almost exclusively for them for two years before eventually betraying them and using a complex scheme involving mind control drugs, torture and blackmail, became stockholders in 2014 and majority shareholders by 2015. They were also spotted several other times, often working solo and for mysterious purposes; experts theorize they were doing the dirty work of Vibe Financial. The Iron Legion promised to look into the matter, and famously assigned Lord Sunshine to the task force. He was assassinated in cold blood, depowered using unknown technology and strangled by the Deacon. His body was hanged left hanging from the peak of the dome of the US Capitol Building.

At least two members of Blunt Force Trauma, the Fadeout Twins, were caught several times by the Iron Legion, but proved impossible to hold, resulting in a four month continual manhunt that resulted in the eventual capture and imprisonment. The Iron Legion imprisoned both twins in a single cell with elaborate anti teleportation technology and even magical wards. However, during a riot instigated by the returning Midnight Lover during his kidnapping and interview with John Stossel who was filming in the prison that day, the wily twins managed to escape again. The Deacon was also captured by S.U.P.L.E.X. and briefly imprisoned in Indiana State Prison, where he was apparently killed during a prison riot but turned up again shortly afterwards by unknown means. Several hundred inmates and three dozen guard were killed in the subsequent riot and the mass escape of supervillains is still being dealt with.

After this heinous crime, Blunt Force Trauma remained off the radar (though some reports place Blunt Force Trauma members doing freelance work in space, such as an infamous deathmatch between Stabby Slashy Hat Hat and the Premier Alpha Class hero known as Mr. Meteor) for the most part until the team was handed over to a notorious psychic villain with a budding reputation and a demonic tank, theorized to be a refugee damned soul from the afterlife wars. Known as Il Maestro, he joined the team and was determined to put the main competitor for Vibe Financial out of business, which was broadly known to be the Swiss Reserve after a series of damaging leaks were published in 2017. After so many years of covert operations, the team boldly strapped themselves with dynamite vests and walked onto the floor of the Swiss Reserve, eventually making off with an unknown tonnage in gold, bearer bonds, bouillon and at least 2 billion in reserve currency.

The location and identities of most of Blunt Force Trauma remain unknown to this day.