Philadelphia

**Philadelphia** is a city in the U.S state of Pennsylvania.

## History

### Birth of a Superhero

After a train derailment of Eastrail 177 that left security guard David Dunn as the sole survivor and unscathed. He was sought by Elijah Price, a comic book artist who suffered from brittle bone disease. He tells David that he has unique abilities and offers to mentor him to hone and embrace these abilities. Although skeptical at first, David realizes that he is unique and decides to use them for good. He makes his first superhero act by saving children during a house invasion committed by a sadistic janitor, and he is regarded as a hero by the media as a result. However, he soon realizes that Elijah, the very person who was responsible for his rise as a superhero, deliberately orchestrated several acts of domestic terrorism around Philadelphia, including the Eastrail 177 derailment, to create a superhero. Shocked, David led the authorities to arrest Elijah for his crimes, but not before Elijah embraced himself as a supervillain and adopted his childhood nickname "**Mr Glass**" as his supervillain moniker.

### Revelation of the Horde

Fifteen years later, a man by the name of Kevin Wendell Crumb, who is possesses 23 distinct personalities as a result of having Dissociative Identity Disorder after living a life of abuse and negligence under his abusive mother after his father died, kidnaps three girls: Marcia, Claire Benoit, and Casey Cooke under his toughened personality **"Dennis"** at the King of Prussia Mall. He takes to a lair underneath the Philadelphia Zoo, where he and another British female personality known as **"Patricia"** intend to use them as prey for known as "**The Beast"**, which "Dennis" and "Patricia" are devout believers of. All the while, Kevin makes visit Dr. Karen Fletcher, a physcartrist who specialized in patients with DID and attempts to prove that DID is indeed a real phenomenon. Unbeknownst to the dominant personality **"Barry"**, "Dennis and "Patricia" have been preparing for The Beast's emergence after "Barry" attempted to subdue "Dennis" and "Patricia" due to their radical natures.

Although the three captive girls attempted to escape, "The Beast" ultimately emerges and kills Dr. Fletcher before devouring Marcia and Claire, who were deemed to be "Impure" due to never having truly suffered. However, Casey was spared by "The Beast" due to having experienced sexual molestation and abuse at the hands of her uncle. The authorities later arrive at the zoo where Casey is rescued and they discover Kevin's actions and his numerous personalities. While Kevin escaped and his "Dennis" and Patricia" personalities announce their plans to change the world through "The Beast," news reports reveal the events at the Philadelphia Zoo and speculation of Kevin's DID and well his numerous personalities. As a result, he is given a new nom-de-guerre: **The Horde**.

### The Overseer vs. The Horde

Three weeks after the events at the Philadelphia Zoo, David, now going under the superhero moniker, the Overseer, attempted to track down Kevin. As a result, they first meet and clash before being captured and taken to Raven Hill Memorial, where Elijah was sent after his crimes were revealed. There, the head physiatrist Dr. Ellie Staple attempts to persuade them that they don't have super abilities and are suffering from delusions of grandeur.