Franklin Clay

* Biography
* Threat Assessment
* Trivia and Notes
* Gallery

## Clay

### Franklin Clay: 1971 - 1992

Franklin was born in St. Roch, the son of a military vet-turned-private security expert and an investigative journalist. His father had a long history of military service, stretching back to the United States Civil War and beyond. Franklin never considered *not* joining the military, but he did study an eclectic number of subjects at his mother's request.

Following the Manhattaning, Franklin had to be talked out of running away to join the military. But the day after his high school graduation, Franklin was at the local U.S. Army recruitment office. He was on a bus to basic training shortly thereafter.

Following his training, Frank was stationed at bases in Europe, South America, and the Middle East. He distinguished himself among his base commanders due to his high intelligence and thirst for education. While on leave in Germany, Clay met an American art student and fell madly in love with her. The two had a quick marriage. Following his marriage, Clay decided to make the military his career and convinced his commander to sponsor him for consideration for officer's training. Within a year, Clay was sent Stateside with papers to start officer's training.

### Franklin Clay: 1992 - 2006

Frank attended West Point, majoring in Defense and Strategic Studies and minoring in Foreign Languages. He was among the top of his class throughout all four years. During this time, Clay and his wife had suffered a miscarriage and discovered they were unlikely to have children of their own naturally. The two began looking at adoption when Clay's father approached them with an offer to adopt a young girl. They jumped at the chance and welcomed Lilith into their home.

After graduating, Clay was sent into service as a military intelligence coordinator for a special forces detachment. He went through Ranger school and a wide variety of other specialist programs, making him just as valuable in the field as in command posts — but Clay preferred the view from the frontlines and usually worked right beside his own men.

Shortly after becoming a major, Clay was attached to Delta Force to lead a team of five covert specialists. Though the team had its fair share of struggles and internal personal conflicts, they became well-known for getting the job done and pulling off missions considered impossible with conventional tactics and rules of engagement.

While on assignment in Khandaq with his team, Clay and his unit went missing. Word among military channels was that they had betrayed the U.S., killed dozens of American soldiers, and stole classified hardware. Shortly after this, Clay's wife apparently committed suicide, orphaning their adopted daughter. After being caught trying to enter the country to reach his daughter, Clay was reported to have been killed in a firefight.

### Franklin Clay: 2011 - Present

Clay's demise turned out to be exaggerated as he turned up alive in various foreign countries. Though being "dead", Clay has no trouble leading his disavowed unit which now call themselves "The Losers" as they set out to clear their name, taking on various mercenary work to finance their campaign against the U.S. Military, ARGUS, and Checkmate.

### Supplemental Reports

* (*Submitted by PetuniasFan1*) Since Kelly's death, Clay has become a womanizer with an exclusive attraction to dangerous, unstable, and/or volatile women; possibly as a means of insuring he never loves another woman as much as he loved Kelly. I submit three past lovers as evidence: Amber shot him in the leg, Emma blew up his car, and Aisha is a smoking hot assassin.
* (*Submitted by PetuniasFan1*) Franklin Clay is not dead. Nor is he guilty of the crimes thrown at him and the Losers. Sure, I'm biased on the matter, but I have provided hard, factual evidence to this "Network" that a deepest black ops organization known as Checkmate was involved in our framing. Of course, as this Checkmate don't appear to exist aside from scarce rumor and the word of conspiracy crackpots, it's rather difficult to prove they're to blame. But over the last decade, we've exposed several illicit activities involving the United States military, the CIA, ARGUS and its International Operations, and a number of corporations — all of which have ties to this Checkmate.

## Threat Assessment

### Resources

* Special Forces Military Training
	+ *Master Strategist & Tactician*
	+ *Remarkable Leadership Skills*
	+ *Expert Demolitionist*
	+ *Expert Driver*
	+ *Expert Infiltrator*
	+ *Expert Interrogator*
	+ *Expert Marksman*
	+ *Expert Martial Artist*
	+ *Expert Weaponsmith*
	+ *Multilingual*
		- *English, Spanish, Arabic, Russian, German*
* Indomitable Will

### Weaknesses

* Attracted to Volatile Women
* Drinking Problem
* Vengeance
* Wanted Fugitive

### Analytics

* **Physicality:** 3 — Trained / Exceptional
* **Occult:** 2 — Basic / Typical
* **Weaponry:** 5 — Master / Remarkable
* **Expertise:** 5 — Master / Remarkable
* **Range:** 5 — Master / Remarkable
* **Strategy:** 6 — World-Class / Superb
	+ **TOTAL:** 77
	+ **RANKING:** Moderate Threat

## Trivia and Notes

### Trivia

* Wade LaFarge and a man named "Max" are his enemies. There's also a woman using the "Max" identity, but he's sure she can lead him and his group of Losers to the one that betrayed them.
* When Lilith was young, she would often fall asleep beside her father as they watched old war movies together or he told her PG-rated versions of his missions.
* In 2006 he and some other agents had been accused of defecting, aligning with a terrorist organization, stealing an experimental weapon and killing dozens of US soldiers. He and the others had been on the run ever since.
* Kelly did shoot herself, but it was not suicide. It was due to a visit from a psychic named "Max".
* In 2016 to thank the Losers for give giving them supplies after they were exiled from Heaven the archangels Michael, Raphael, Uriel and Gabriel helped the Losers with there hunt for Max by showing them a door of destinations and sending them to Brijol which was Max's last known location.

### Notes

* Franklin Clay is a character from *The Losers* (the 2003 comic book series, not the World War II *Losers*).
* He is related to Jeb Turnbull, Edward Blake, and John Winchester. All four characters have been played by the actor Jeffrey Dean Morgan.
* Wade LaFarge in the comics is Slade Wilson's half-brother and the third Ravager. It's possible he's a composite character with Wade, enemy of the 2003 *Losers*.
* Amber and Emma were mentioned in the 2010 movie.

## Gallery

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## Network Files

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## Appears In

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## Links and References

* Appearances of Franklin Clay

1. ↑ Network Files: Franklin Clay
2. ↑ Network Files: Max
3. ↑ Network Files: Lilith Clay 1
4. ↑ VOX Box: Fall From Grace 2