Andrew Mallory

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> Andrew Mallory

**Andrew Mallory** is an engineer who formerly worked at the US military. He is now the head of the United Nations Superhero Division, and is an antihero named Iron Claw.

## **History**

### Early Life

Andrew's parents were military personnel, with his father being an army general and the first military-supported superhero and his mother is an air force captain, causing him to grow up with strict rules. Andrew showed signs of high intelligence, skipping 3 grades in elementary school and jumping straight to junior high school at the age of 9. He became fascinated with engineering after seeing various machines during one of his school's science fair. Once he graduated senior high school at the age of 14 and took 2 years of break, his parents enrolled him at Greenwood Engineering University, studying mechanical engineering.

At university, Andrew met Angelica Star and Richard Crespo--2 classmates who had also graduated senior high school early. The three of them got along well, doing projects together. In 2005 NASA had retrieved an unidentified object from space, which turned out to be an alien spaceship with a live alien in it. The alien escaped and wreaked havoc on the city. Andrew's father, also known as Golden Hawk, tried to stop the alien but failed, sustaining serious injuries. Furious, Andrew designed his own combat armor to fight the alien. A battle ensued between the two, and Andrew finally came out victorious. Impressed, the military offered Andrew a job as a weapons developer, to which Andrew accepted.

### In the Military

One night in 2008 Andrew received an alarm at one of Project Superion's bases, and met Matthew Pierson and Richard Freese, 2 Superions who claimed to be the ones who sounded the alarm. They told him that illegal experiments were being done inside the building, and begged Andrew to investigate. He did, and found out about Project Superion's plan to create a super army. He, alongside Matthew, who called himself Captain Magnificent, and Richard, who called himself Velocity, sought out to destroy the building. They were met with resistance, but easily defeated them until they were met with the head of the building, Wyatt Kassel. After a fierce battle, Wyatt was defeated and arrested, and Matthew and Richard were called heroes by the public.

In 2010 Andrew and his father were assigned to a superhero team called the Silencers, and their task was to guard a UN building in Mexico. During a speech by one of the spokesperson, an alarm at the front entrance was sounded, indicating potential enemies. The Silencers fought against the intruders, who turned out to be Arms of the Sovereign Angel members. They defeated the intruders, but his father and the spokesperson, who turned out to be Angelica Star, lost their lives. After the incident, Andrew immediately tried to track down the intruders and where they came from, only to discover that his team, the Silencers, were all Sovereign members. Andrew confronted them and killed them, and the American military and the UN labeled him as a traitor and a wanted man. The UN attempted to arrest Andrew by sending a French hero named X-Tend, but Andrew ended up killing him as well. After killing X-Tend, Andrew fell off the grid.

### Against the UN

7 years have passed, and Andrew is putting together a team to kill the head of the UNSD for letting enemy members be a part of the division. He recruited Titanium, Captain Crush, Spectre, Hel, White Magician, and Inferno, and the team flew to Germany, where he was confronted by Captain Magnificent and his team, consisting of Daito, Blitz, Velocity, Iron Cross, Black Eagle, Dragon, and Garuda. The two sides clashed, and Andrew's team was the winner. He discovered that the head of the UNSD was a Sovereign member as well, codename Beta. After another battle, Andrew killed Beta and became the new head of UNSD, continuing his purge and killing any hero affiliated with the Arms of the Sovereign Angel.

## **Abilities**

**High Intellect**: Andrew possesses above average intelligence, being the only person in the world who can engineer his armors.

**Engineer**: Andrew excels at mechanical engineering.

### **Equipment**

**Combat Armor**: Andrew's most prized creation. The suit grants him flight, durability, strength, and a number of gadgets and weapons.

**Guns**: Andrew has 2 guns magnetically locked to his armor's hips. The guns fire beams of energy and its intensity can be adjusted. They can also shoot wires to act as grappling devices.

**Claws**: A retractable blade is built into the armor's forearms.

**Energy Sword**: A sword hilt is attached to the right side of the armor's back. The hilt can emit an energy blade similar to a lightsaber.

**Missiles**: Missiles are hidden throughout the armor: 3 in each forearm, 30 mini missiles in the chest, and 2 missiles in the shoulders.

**Railgun**: The armor has a railgun built into the left side of the armor's back.

## **Battles**

* Iron Claw vs. Kavel Zaid (*defeat*)
* Iron Claw & Golden Hawk vs. Kavel Zaid (*victory*)
* Iron Claw, Captain Magnificent, & Velocity vs. Wyatt Kassel (*victory*)
* Iron Claw vs. White Knight, Apollo, Hellgate, & Infinitium (*victory*)
* Iron Claw vs. X-Tend (*victory*)
* Team Iron Claw vs. Team Captain Magnificent (*victory*)
* Iron Claw vs. Beta (*victory*)

## **Known Multidimensional Variants**

* Sam Hudson / Xenomech (D-259)
* Rosa Shaw / Dysprosia (D-843)
* Theodore Nox / Hydragyrus (D-2984)
* Arthur Fox / Wolfram (D-9842)
* Alexander MacDowell / Anti-Man (D-22935)