The Fox

### Alias(es)

The Fox The Weapon The Master Jamen Laze Sir Connor Fox of Londonium Foxtrot The World's Greatest Assassin The World's First Superhero Scumbag

### Occupation

Superhero Student (Formerly) British Naval Officer Gang Member (Formerly) UNICRON Operative (Formerly) Pegasus Security Force Commander (Formerly) British Envoy, SHAPE

### Affiliation

Team Fox Sector Z (Formerly) - Superhuman Task Force British Navy SAS (Formerly) UNICRON (Formerly) The Order (Formerly) The White (Formerly) Pegasus Security (Formerly) Tekna-Gang (Formerly, undercover, as Jamen Laze) United Heroes NATO - SHAPE

## Personal Information

### Relatives

David Carter (father) † Laira Carter (mother) † John Carter (paternal grandfather) † Nobu (maternal grandfather) † Palia (maternal grandmother) † Freda (maternal uncle) † Freda, the Younger (maternal cousin) Bradley Carter (paternal cousin) Jessica Rebecca Carter née Coleman (wife, Altered Timeline) † Jason David Carter (son, Altered Timeline) Cassandra Carter (daughter, Altered Timeline) † Petra Kantor (Fiance) † Unnamed Daughter † (unborn)

## Appearances

### Debut

The Fox Vol. 1

Connor Carter is a British superhero, and founding member of Team Fox, the Sector Z Superhuman Task Force and the United Heroes. Born as part of the Order's mission to create the Weapon, he was been bred to become the world's greatest assassin. He is often acknowledged as the world's first superhero, and has inspired many others to become heroes, notably his own allies in Team Fox. The Fox is respected by superheroes and world militaries as one of the most accomplished and experienced people in super-heroics. He often moves between full-membership and reserve-membership of the UH while he completes specific missions or fulfils other duties.

## History

### **Early Life**

Carter was born in London, England, in 2005 to David Carter, a British businessman and Laira, an assassin and member of the Order, who had fled the group. Laira had been part of the Order's centuries long quest to breed the perfect assassin, known to them as 'the Weapon'. Carter, unbeknownst to his mother, and him for a long time, was that Weapon.

Carter had a fairly normal early childhood, though in secret, he was trained in combat by Laira, though he was not aware of the significance of this, maintaining his skills subconsciously, and realising the genesis of skill later in life. When he was 9, Connor's grandfater Nobu finally tracked down Laira, and her brother (Connor's uncle), Freda, was sent to retrieve her. She went willingly in order to keep the Order in the dark about Connor, protecting him.

This led to Connor becoming a troubled child, acting out, being kicked out school, and getting involved with troubling people. When he was 13 years old, he had become pressured into joining a street gang, the HaSta Boys. Though he was trying to leave, some of the older kids in the gang arrived at his house one night. Outside the showed him a gun they had acquired and tried to goad him into using it. Connor's father heard the commotion and came outside. In a rush to leave, the gang members tried to grab the gun from Carter, causing it go off, killing David. Following that event Carter was left alone by the gang.

Despite inheriting his father's estate and not-insignificant fortune, he was taken a ward by his older cousin, Bradley Carter, who often travelled abroad for work. Connor disciplined himself, being allowed to return to a less gang-infested school. He trained, taking back up the combat exercises taught to him by his mother. He used his youth as a cover to investigate gang activities in London. He secretly kept hold of the handgun which killed his father, still loaded with five rounds, as a motivator. He blamed himself, as well as the five gang members present for his father's death.

#### First Kills

When he was 15 he tracked down the five gangsters, who were all still working for the same gang, though now older and more senior. He waited until the five were hanging out alone, and, dressed in all black, snuck into the drug den they were staying and watching films. He broke in, fought all them, using the remaining bullets one-by-one, killing each gangster. He revealed his identity to the last member before killing him. Somewhat horrified by what he had just done, Carter had a crisis of faith, that his crusade of revenge had been for nothing. He was inspired by the Robin Hood film the gangsters had been watching, and decided to take the money stashed at the drug den and redistribute to try an alleviate the affects of gang violence, he also stole and destroyed the drugs. The police dismissed the killings as gang-on-gang violence.

Carter shifted his quest from just revenge to taking down the gangs of London as a whole, and vowed to not kill those who may have been pressured into that life, as he almost was. He redesigned his black outfit, incorporating ears and a flash of orange, to emulate a fox, like Robin Hood in the move that had been playing that day.

### The Fox Year One

#### Beginning His Crusade

Carter began by following the pecking order of the HaSta Boys, the group that he had already attacked. This was made easier by the fact that the HaSta leaders had become more aggressive, and therefore apparent, due to their belief that one of the neighbouring gangs had killed five of their members. Connor got involved in street fights and shoot outs between various gangs, trying to deescalate the situations, so that know one would die, as well as beating up higher ranking members and trying to gain information. He also spent much of this period, stealing weapons and money from gangs, as well as destroying drugs. It was through this that the Fox gained a reputation as a somewhat urban legend among South London criminals. It was also during this time that Carter became an emancipated minor, and also began operating out of a disused WWII-era bomb shelter.

He soon tracked down Lucas Hart, the main leader of the HaSta Boys, as well as the other high ranking members. He raided their stronghold, and interrogated Hart for information on other gangs, as well as their drug suppliers. He gained some information, though he was soon chased out by other gangsters. Fox tracked down one of Hart's suppliers, a man named Charles, ambushing him at his home, without any backup. Fox beat the information of his network out of him, before killing him. On top of his usual gang fights, he then began staking out the docks where Charles typically had received his shipments, attempting to discover more about other gangs, drug suppliers and the international distributors. One night he intercepted the same drug smugglers, and some of the same gangsters unloading a shipping crate full of smuggled women. He interrupted the transfer, killing a number of the criminals, as well as alerting the authorities to the event, and, though the women were freed, the dock continued to operate, indicating the scope of the operation to Fox, who now believed that corrupt police were involved.

During this time, Connor's best friend, with whom he went to school, Alan Page, began to grow suspicious of his actions. Connor also began a flirtatious relationship with another classmate, Jessica Coleman. Following this, Fox began to make his move on the suppliers, rather than only attacking the gangs, and staking-out the smugglers. He interrogated, killed or had arrested, many of the gangs' drug suppliers, in quick succession. He attempted another raid on the docks, when he learnt that another shipment of trafficked people was due in, but it was an ambush and he had been fed false information. He was attacked by several goons, as well as a warrior with fighting skills far superior to his own. He managed to escape, but he was badly wounded. He went to Page for help, revealing his secret identity, and getting bandaged up. The gang network returned to normal operations believing the Fox to be dead, though, the gang wars ceased, due to the suppliers reining them in.

#### Gaining Allies

Whilst Page was angry with Carter, he slowly came around to the idea of him acting as the Fox, and helped him gather intelligence before he returned to superhero activity when his injuries had healed. Fox, realising that the web of criminal activity was bigger than he had previously thought, refocused his efforts. He began looking into traditional organised crime groups, and discovered that the Russian Mafia - the Bratva, usually inactive in London, especially at that point due to embargoes on Russia - had been making power plays on other mafias in North London, such as the Georgians, Armenians, Turkish, and Italians. They had also been making alliances with street gangs that operated in and around their turf, but mostly those that Fox knew were involved in the smuggling operations. Believing that these more organised operations may have greater information on the bigger picture. He also discovered that long-standing English crime Firms were also involved, but that they were becoming more about the Russians' newfound power.

Fox, with the help of Page, (who had some martial arts experience, but usually played an auxiliary role in their missions) began assaulting and working their way through the ranks of the Bratva. They had a couple skirmishes with Armenian and Georgian gangs, and eventually Fox ambushed their leaders, proposing a summit between them and several other mobs, including the Turks, and the Triads in the West End. They largely refused and the mob violence in the North of city quickly escalated. Alan, wanting to become more involved in Fox's crusade, but being not as able in a fight as him, assisted in stealing body armour, and advanced weaponry from the criminal groups, and forged his new superhero persona as the Centurion. Jessica Coleman, with whom Connor had began going out, soon learned of the pair's secret identities when she arrived at Carter's house to surprise him and discovered the heroes in their costumes. She, also with some combat abilities, begged to be allowed to join them, but Carter refused.

Due to the increased violence against them, the Georgian and Armenian mobs formed an alliance, without the help of Carter. Fox and Centurion once again encountered the warrior, they had previously fought - now revealing his codename, Ajax - and whilst they held their own for a while, they may have been killed, were it not for Coleman's intervention. It was following this that he allowed her to join he and Page in their crimefighting, though not before she joined the pair of them in intense combat training. Coleman took the codename Vixen referencing her partner's codename. During this period, the Georgian Mafia don, Giorgi Bolkvadze was killed by the Russians. His son Giorgi Bolkvadze II, along with the Armenians agreed to help Fox, and hold the summit. They told him that an international criminal cabal known as The Illuminati had been slowly bringing criminals in London under their influence, and had also done so in major cities across the world, particularly in Europe. He learned that the highest ranking Bratva mafioso in Russia, Dmitri Karamazov, had recently becoming a member of the Illuminati's ruling council.

The three heroes, now Team Fox, brought together the Georgians, Armenians, Turks and Triads, at a summit, but it was raided by corrupt police. Team Fox escaped but many other gangsters were killed or imprisoned. The Triads, largely broken, acquiesced and were folded into the Illuminati's organisation, which took over their drug trade. The human trafficking and drug trade ramped up with a now unified criminal underworld in London. Team Fox continued to work against them, carrying out raids and attempting to destroy Illuminati infrastructure, but they were failing to keep up.

#### Russia and the Ruling Council

Connor decided that, as they knew the name of one of the leaders of the Illuminati, they should go directly for him. The trio travelled to Russia and began to work on the Bratva, hoping to locate, and capture (or kill) Karamazov. During one of their raids, they were attacked by Government agents, and Fox was captured. Whilst they could not discern his identity (a side effect of Laira scrubbing information on him from worldwide databases), they knew he was a superhuman and so he was handed off to ZKNI. Whilst being held in their facility, Carter met Sasha, who had been captured. The pair were broken out by Sasha's friends Andreev and Liliya, and the group rendezvoused with the other Team Fox members. Andreev explained his trio's backstory, and Carter did the same for his.

The groups decided to work together, initial targeting several ZKNI outposts, before Andreev and his friends used their powers to get Fox into a Bratva compound, where Karamazov was supposedly residing. However, they discovered that he, going by the codename Agathon had recently left. They failed to hack in to the computers on-site, but Centurion called a friend of his, Charlotte Lipton, who moonlighted as a white-hat hacker, and she helped them gain access. Amongst a large amount of intelligence they gained from this, they discovered that Karamazov would be attending a meeting in London that week, with the Illuminati ruling council.

Team Fox helped Andreev and his friends remain in hiding and gave them intelligence on both ZKNI and Bratva/Illuminati operations throughout Russia, allowing them to continue their quest. Fox also asked them to keep tabs on Agathon, as it may prove useful should they need to get to him. They then returned to the UK in a stolen Russian military cargo plane. When they arrived back in London, they planned to raid the meeting the Illuminati council, which they knew would not only have Agathon present, but Ajax, who they would had not yet been able to beat hand-to-hand, as well as three others - Spartacus, Tiberius, and Erasmus Roterodamus. The location of the meeting was within an office building in the City of London, territory controlled by the old London crime Firms.

Fox arranged with Bolkvadze, one of the few surviving Georgians to be released from custody, as well as a number of street gangs which had been pushed out of their territories by Illuminati sponsored rivals to raid Firm strongholds in and around the City after the meeting had begun to lure away any reinforcements. Centurion and Vixen entered through the buildings basement, working their way up and locking down the main entrances, whilst Fox traversed from a neighbouring building onto the roof and entered the meeting room through the window. Fox was attacked by Ajax once again but managed to hold his own for a while. Tiberius, revealed to be government minister Philippa Graves, fled with the aid of Erasmus Roterodamus, the fashion designer Donatien-Gäeten Martin, who took Centurion and Vixen on in combat. Spartacus, the leader of the Council ordered Ajax to hold back, and took Fox on himself, almost beating him if it was for Vixen intervening. Team Fox escaped the tower, having learned of the true identities of the Illuminati's leadership.

#### Further Investigations

Team Fox, now aware that the Illuminati had ties to government, began looking into Philippa Graves' affairs. They discovered sizeable investment in Sadoban Industries, a technology firm, and so Fox attempted to break into their London headquarters. He encountered another masked individual, using cryogenic weapons, named Glacier. He claimed to be a hero, like him, similarly investigating corruption in Sadoban, revealing his identity as Hester Lawton, a former employee who had had been fired - though Lawton claimed it was because he tried to blow the whistle on the company's activities. The pair teamed up, with Fox nearly even revealing his secret identity, though Centurion and Vixen distrusted him.

Glacier and Fox continued to gather intelligence on Sadoban, and even clashed with Illuminati goons. The pair

### Sector Z

Fox, whilst foiling a prison break attempt by some gangsters, was intercepted by two unknown agents, though he escape them. Though he escaped them, and incapacitated the escaping criminals, he was tagged with a tracker. The following day, the two agents arrived at his home, introducing themselves as Agents Shadow and Rex of Sector Z, a secret, international intelligence agency. They reveal that they orchestrated the breakout to gain his attention. They tell him that a an unknown entity had escaped containment, was heading toward population centres, and they wished to recruit a contingent of superhumans to confront possibly superhuman threat. Fox decided to go with them willingly. Arriving at Sector Z HQ, he met the two other superhumans recruited by the agents - Andrew Adams and Peter Der Bains - though he was reluctant to reveal his identity to them, and even scoffed at Rex and Shadow that they were only able to bring in two other superhumans.

## Powers and Abilities

**Superhuman Physiology** - Fox, being a superhuman as the Order's 'Weapon', has enhanced strength, speed, agility, durability.

**Expert Combatant** - Having been bred as an assassin, as well as trained by his mother, the Order, the White, and others, Fox is considered the greatest fighter in the world. He is also an expert in swordsmanship, marksmanship, and numerous martial arts.

**Master Tactician** - Fox is considered an expert military tactician, having led Team Fox and UNICRON forces, as well served on the Sector Z Superhuman Task Force, and the United Heroes, even operating as an officer for the British Military. He is well respected for his leadership abilities.

#### Equipment

**Fox Suit** - A sleek, black and orange jumpsuit with built in magnetic strips to ensure cohesion as well as to attach equipment, optic lenses, breathing apparatus, communications devices, and later versions including wrist mounted grappling hooks.

**Foxtrot Handguns** - Fox dual wields to handguns of his own design. The modern versions of these carry 12 rounds of ammunition in a magazine, are biometrically cued to be fired only by him and are magnetised to attach to the belt-line of his suit.

**Fox Emblem** - The Fox emblem located at the front of his belt-line is attached to his suit via magnets and can be removed. It contains a number of different pieces of equipment, most notably a combat knife, a LASER-torch, a digital interface, and emergency supplies.

**Sword** - Fox often uses a sword in combat, initially a sword left to him as a child by his mother, and later a sword he received as master of the Order.

**Grappling Hooks** - Fox initially used a grappling gun-ascender that was attached to his belt in order to move around in tight areas and across rooftops, as well as restrain enemies. He has since incorporated these into his suit.

**Explosives** - Fox developed a number of different micro-explosives which he would store in pouches on his belt. These could be used as weapons, to destroy obstacles, or, in the case of smoke-flashbangs, as distractions to make escapes.

**Motorcycle** - Fox generally, especially during his early career used a modified motorcycle to get around, and pursue criminals. This had a high top speed, was armoured, and had built in storage, and weaponry.

**Fox Jet** - Fox has used a series of planes, either stolen of given to him as means of aerial transportation.

## Relationships

#### Family

* David Carter - father, died when he was 13.
* Laira Carter - mother, absent since he was 9, was killed by Freda.
* Bradley Carter - his paternal cousin, who served as his legal guardian from the age of 13.
* Freda, The Younger - maternal cousin, who aided him in taking down the Order.

#### Allies

###### Team Fox

* Centurion - a friend since childhood, who served as his first superhero partner, and is still his closest friend.
* Vixen I - his first girlfriend who served as second partner, alongside Centurion, who was killed by Ajax.
* Charlotte Page - the wife of Centurion and the tech support of Team Fox, she is also one of Fox's closest friends.
* Longbow - another partner he recruited, with whom he continues to work.
* Vixen II - a member of the White, initially sent to kill him, but soon allied with him, becoming the second Vixen. She was killed by agents of the Order.
* Petra Kantor - Fox's ex-fiancé who was killed by operatives of the Order.
* Wolf - a young boy he took in off the streets and trained to be a superhero. Though he served as his legal guardian, Fox and his relationship is more akin to older and younger brothers.
* Vixen III - a more disparate member of the team, whom he didn't train, as she served as Longbow's sidekick, though he maintains a friendly relationship with her, even into her retirement.
* Daybright - a sidekick of his and Centurion's, though she was mainly trained by Centurion. He also has a quasi-older sibling relationship with her.

###### Other Heroes

* Rex
* Shockwave I
* Titan
* Shift
* Tangent
* Shockwave II

## Appearances

* The Fox Vol. 1, 2020 (first appearance, titular character).
* Sector Z Vol. 1, 2022 (main character).
* Ember Origins, 2022, mini-series (first chronological appearance, main character).
* The Fox Vol. 2, 2022 (titular character).
* Titan Vol. 1, 2023 (guest appearance).
* Shift Vol. 2, 2023 (guest appearances).
* Sector Z Vol. 2, 2024 (main character).
* The Fox Vol. 3, 2024 (titular character).
* Shockwave, 2025, mini-series (guest appearance).
* Rex Vol. 1, 2025 (guest appearances).
* Shift Vol. 3, 2025 (guest appearances).
* United Heroes Vol. 1, 2026 (main character).
* The Fox Vol. 4, 2026 (titular character).
* Fox Family, 2028, multi-series (recurring character).
* United Heroes Vol. 2, 2028 (main character).
* The Fox Vol. 5, 2028 (titular character).
* Sunbird Vol. 1, 2030 (cameo appearance).
* United Heroes Vol. 3, 2030 (main character).
* Ultra Guardian Force, 2030, mini-series (guest appearance, as part of the United Heroes).
* The Fox Vol. 6, 2031 (titular character).
* Sunbird & La Liga Latina Vol. 2, 2032 (guest appearance).
* United Heroes Vol. 4, 2032 (recurring character).
* Titan Vol. 3, 2033 (guest appearances).
* The Fox Vol. 7, 2033 (titular character).