Angelo Salazar (Reboot Timeline)

Charismatic Authority

Torture

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War Crimes

**Angelo Salazar** is a main character and a supporting antagonist in the Reboot timeline.

Salazar is the founder and leader of the Liberty Bombers and served as the main antagonist of the 2nd chapter of the Wartime stories in the Canon series.

## Background

Born on August 10, 1986, Angelo was living in the slums. At the age of 18, Angelo joined the Argentine Army and managed to work his way up as a Major, leading his unit to defeat the ARF in the civil war. After losing most of his men, Angelo went AWOL and quickly led his men into two outposts, which it became their main compound. Sometime later, Angelo and his men quickly devolved into the Liberty Bombers.

## Biography

Angelo is first seen when he made a speech about the WTO's takeover and fires his rifle into the air after declaring war. As Jay's squad took out the 2 outposts, Angelo fought Jay in a brutal fight and ended up being mortally wounded with a dislocated jaw and his hands cut off during the fight. As Angelo cries about their defeat, he is executed by Jay and his mask was taken as a trophy.

## Personality

Before his evolution as the Master, Angelo was an admirable and honorable man and a respectable leader during his time with the Argentine Army.

After going AWOL and believing that the Americans weren't helping with the attacks, Angelo devolved into a brutal, ruthless, cold-hearted, and megalomaniacal individual who relied on extreme amounts of violence and war crimes to defeat the Americans to regain their country from the horrors of war. Despite his ruthlessness, Angelo was highly emotional and angry at the fact that he lost everything to the Front and warfare in general and he blamed himself for devolving himself and his unit into doing horrific war crimes like killing civilians to win the war, knowing that he led himself to his downfall and died a ruthless, vicious, and emotional man who selfishly started his crusade to win.

## Appearance

Angelo is an Argentine man, standing at 5'9. He has a sturdy muscular build, graying and balding black hair, and a 5:00 shadow. He wore a plate carrier and ski mask.

## Skills

* **High Intelligence**: Angelo 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 to gain the trust of his allies to blend in and complete his tasks. He also managed to keep cool in extreme scenarios.
* **Intimidation**: Due to his title as "The Master" and his exceptional combat abilities, Angelo is widely known and feared within the WTO and was so infamous that even his title strikes fear and terror into the hearts and souls of his enemies that incurred his wrath. Angelo used his combat abilities and title to lure enemies away from him, even using a simple speech to further fuel more fear toward him.
* **Multilingualism**: Angelo is shown to be fluent in several languages, including English and Spanish. Out of the languages, Spanish is his most spoken as he communicated with several Argentinian soldiers.
* **Master Tactician**: As a former Argentine Army Major, Angelo is highly capable of casing out, planning, and executing plans, assassinations, and raids. He is a very effective leader and mentor, having led his fellow soldiers into various battles with strategic facts and thinking against the WTO forces. He's also capable of spotting certain flaws within his environment and using any methods deemed necessary to accomplish his goals, such as using sheer numbers to outnumber the stronger and well-equipped WTO forces and blowing up civilian buildings with ease. As shown in the raid against the WTO outpost, Angelo is a strong and fierce leader to the core, having commanded and led a massive number of skilled operatives to try to take out Mordecai Winchester, but failed horribly.
* **Master Marksman**: As shown in various fights, Angelo 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. Due to his extensive knowledge of guerrilla tactics, he has shown to be extremely skilled in scavenging and using whatever firearm that the enemy has to achieve his goals. Angelo can blend his marksmanship with hand-to-hand skills, being able to grapple, disarm, and even use his enemies' weaponry against them with precision.
* **Master Martial Artist**: Having trained himself, Angelo is shown to be a decent, but skilled hand-to-hand fighter. His fighting style is mostly improvised. He can quickly outmaneuver, outmatch, and outlast his opponents, even capable of taking on multiple opponents at once. Due to his quick wit, Angelo is somewhat able to adapt to his opponent's fighting styles, studying them during the fight and trying to adapt to turn their strengths against them as seen in his fights with Mordecai Winchester and Jay Roberts. He also sometimes makes use of the environment around him to gain an advantage.
* **Knife Mastery**: Angelo is highly skilled in wielding and throwing blades, such as knives and axes. Combined with his extensive knowledge of anatomy and intense experience in Kali, Angelo can use blades to find a suitable angle to either wound or kill an opponent in a fight and has shown deadly expertise with a machete as shown during his fights.
* **Improvised Weapon Mastery**: In addition to his skills with firearms and hand-to-hand combat, Angelo is very good with using whatever tools that he sees during his fights to gain an advantage over his opponents, as such a metal pipe to try to kill Jay.
* **Peak Human Condition**: As a former soldier of the Argentine Army, Angelo 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**: To match his build, Angelo is very strong, capable of overpowering and restraining even larger opponents, knocking out or outright killing a skilled operator with a single strike, and breaking their bones and necks with ease.
* **Peak Human Durability**: Angelo is highly resilient and sturdy due to his time on the battlefield. The greatest feats of his durability were surviving a severe beating and being capable of withstanding heavier punches from Jay, who's more skilled in hand-to-hand and utilized brute strength. His durability also made him tougher to kill, as evidenced after his fight with Jay, losing his hands and a dislocated jaw.
* **Peak Human Speed**: Angelo is extremely fast, especially for a man of his age. Angelo can run and sprint far distances uninterrupted. In combat, Angelo's speed made him more dangerous as he used his tactical knowledge to quickly injure an enemy.
* **Peak Human Agility**: Angelo has extreme amounts of stamina. He can fight for considerate amounts of time and run great distances uninterrupted. He can flip and spin his way out of incoming gunfire and vault, scale, and traverse through difficult terrains and obstacles with ease. Even with being extremely injured or tired, Angelo required little time to recover before continuing the fight.
* **Peak Human Reflexes**: Angelo has incredible reflexes. Due to his time on the battlefield, he has displayed a fast reaction time, as he can evade bullets and melee attacks during combat with ease. Due to his expertise in guerrilla warfare, Angelo can correctly assess the situation, understand the purpose, and react effectively, making it harder for the enemy to outwit him in the field. His senses are shown to be enhanced, having the capability to hear and sense his enemies from any direction and to avoid ambushes with ease.
* **High Pain Tolerance**: Despite his strong combat proficiency, Angelo has been frequently injured throughout the series, but demonstrates a near-inhuman tolerance to pain, being able to survive near-fatal injuries, such as gunshot wounds to the hands, blunt force trauma, and physical blows from both Winchester and Roberts with ease.

## Equipment

* **Norinco Type 56**: Angelo's main weapon. He notably used it during his fights against the WTO and Jay's squad. His AK is outfitted with an AKM-styled compensator, walnut furniture, and a skeleton stock.
* **Desert Eagle**: Angelo's main sidearm. He carries and used it as a last resort against the WTO forces. His Desert Eagle is the MK I variant with a blued finish.

## Deaths

* **100+ WTO Operatives**: Shot, dismembered, beaten.

## Trivia

* Angelo, like most antagonists, was ex-military and unlike the others, he genuinely believed in his ideals of a free country.
* Angelo is shown to be more sympathetic than most antagonists, having tried to relate to Jay about freedom and knowing that he lost the war.