Strikeback

**Dick Frasier**, also known as **Strikeback**, was a supervillain and old foe of Mister Incredible’s. He was one of the first supervillains to menace Municiberg, using various advanced pieces of gadgets and weaponry to compensate for the fact that he had no real powers. Strikeback was a thorn in the side of the Super community, frequently operating as muscle-for-hire for other supervillains. He was a member of the Unforgivables until he murdered the wife of Avon Deavor, with Xerek Newton deeming this action “too extreme” and expelling him from the syndicate. Strikeback was somehow able to discover Mister Incredible’s identity and broke into his house to kill him with a powerful mech suit, only to be stopped by Elastigirl and killed when the house blew up thanks to a gas leak.

## Biography

Little is known about Dick Frasier’s early life. After the Screenslaver and various other villains began to menace Municiberg, Frasier adopted the costumed identity of Strikeback and joined them, utilizing advanced technology and weaponry of his own design to become one of the city’s first supervillains. However, superheroes began to rise up to oppose them. Working both as a mercenary and of his own accord, Strikeback went up against various Supers including Handsome Jack and Blazestone (after killing Blazestone's father), but his most hated enemy was Mister Incredible. He also assassinated Suzanne Bird on the orders of Baron von Ruthless.

Strikeback was recruited into Xerek Newton’s crime syndicate the Unforgivables. At some point, Xerek’s former patsy and business partner Avon Deavor’s campaigning for superhero rights had compromised one of Xerek’s operations that was in play. In retaliation, Xerek sent Strikeback to the Deavor mansion to intimidate Avon to stop his campaigning. Strikeback broke into the mansion but Mister Incredible and Gazerbeam intervened. In the ensuing confrontation, Strikeback murdered Avon Deavor’s wife (the mother of Winston, Evelyn, and Nelson Deavor). The two Supers defeated Strikeback and he was sent to the NSA prison known as the Stockade. While locked up, Strikeback expected Xerek to free him, but the criminal mastermind contacted him and informed him that he had been excommunicated from the Unforgivables due to the murder of Ellen Deavor.

Several years later, Strikeback escaped from the Stockade, travelling to an old hideout and retrieving a strength-enhancing suit of armor he had been working on before his ill-fated mission to the Deavor mansion. He also managed to discover Mister Incredible’s secret identity as Bob Parr by following the Incredibile and tracking him to his house. One evening, Strikeback donned the armor and broke into the Parr Residence. Bob, expecting a normal burglar, was taken by surprise and overpowered by him. Strikeback proceeded to use Bob as a battering ram to destroy his own house, but he was caught off-guard by Elastigirl, who used her powers to trip him up. This gave Bob the chance to regain his wits and rip off the power pack on the back of Strikeback’s suit, disabling it and immobilizing the villain. As Bob and Helen prepared to contact the NSA, they realized that Strikeback had destroyed a gas line in the struggle and escaped the house just as it exploded in a massive fireball, completely destroying it and killing Strikeback.

It was Strikeback’s final attack and death that caused Buddy Pine to realize the true identities of Mister Incredible and Elastigirl.

## Equipment

* **Strikeback suit:**
* **Strength-enhancing armor:**

## Trivia

* Strikeback's archnemesis was Mr. Incredible.
* Strikeback is based on a version of Syndrome from an unused opening of *The Incredibles*, in which the villain invades Bob and Helen Parr's house but is foiled by his own zero-point energy beam and killed when the house explodes. In this alternate opening, Syndrome (while undercover) introduces himself as Dick Frasier.