Arthur Caldwell

### Relatives

Nigel Caldwell (Father: Deceased), Joan Caldwell (Mother: Deceased), Richard Caldwell (Younger Brother: Alive), Elizabeth Caldwell (Younger Sister: Alive)

## Appearances

### Portrayed by

Charlie Hunam

**Arthur Caldwell** better known as **Excalibur** is the #1 Superhero of England and Leader of the most popular and highest ranking team in Europe, The Round Table

## Biography

### Early Life

Arthur Caldwell was born May 6th, 1962 to Nigel Caldwell, an ex British Commonwealth Solider who fought in the Korea War, and Joan Caldwell, a War Nurse who Nigel met during the War. The pair met during the Korea War after Nigel was bleeding after a gunshot wound. Joan healed him and the two fell in love. But after the war was over, Nigel was different when he returned home. He became a belligerent drunk and a serial cheater to his new wife, probably due to the stress and traumatic drama Nigel had witnessed.

Shortly after Arthur was born, Nigel met with an American representative from Vought as his wife was resting after the birth of their first son (At this time Vought was semi popular at the time and Supes haven't became normal yet as they started to appear less than 20 years ago). The man told Nigel that he was sent from America in offering European families with strong genetic DNA to be involved in an experiment. They wanted to give Nigel and Joan 5,000 pounds in exchange for their son to be injected with Compound V in an attempt to grow the Supe Brand in Europe. Nigel knew Joan wouldn't accept, but since he was recently fired from a bartending job after getting into a fight, he knew they needed the money, now with a new baby. So he accepted and hid the truth from Joan.

When Arthur was 5, he realized he was a Supe, when he lifted the family car after he lost his ball underneath it exposing the truth Nigel hid from his wife. Nigel told Joan the truth and she was outraged and was terrified of her own son, so much so that she couldn't be in the same room with him, not even in the same house. So after she had her last two children, Richard and Elizabeth Caldwell, she divorced Nigel and moved out of London. This was when Nigel became abusive towards Arthur's siblings, since Arthur was way to strong for him, he took out his drunken anger on his normal children. But the beatings would stop as when Arthur was 10, he punched a hole through his father's stomach.

This alerted authorities and Vought, after Arthur and his siblings were taken by local authorities, even when Arthur was too shock from seeing his dead father he went willingly. And met a man who worked with Vought and explained to young Arthur about his current situation. He told Arthur that he was a Supe like the ones he saw on TV like Solider Boy. Excited and anxious that he was going to be another Hero, Vought had major plans for Arthur.

### Transforming Into Excalibur

After officially adopting Arthur by future Vought Europe President, Chris Thomas, Arthur was subjugated by serious Vought Training in hopes of him becoming the European Homelander. Arthur was part of a group of other European children, growing up in a facility hidden in Northern Scotland named The Cave, dozens of children from several European countries were forced into rigorous schedules and almost torturous training with Vought Employees controlling the children with sound machines to subdue any rebels. Arthur was forced into several of these training programs, learning martial arts, swordsmanship, shieldmanship, while also learning and studying increasing his education and intelligence until he reached of age.

Once Arthur turned 24, after Vought cleared him for Hero Duty, Vought President Malcom Goodman had announced the Vought Europe Branch in 1987 showing the first Seven-styled European Superhero Team: Nitro, Blink, Sasquatch, Mr Miraculous, Condor, and their leader, inspired by the stories and tales of King Arthur that Arthur read as he grew up in The Cave, Excalibur, a British Knight-styled Superhero who uses a Sword and Shield alongside his other powers in protecting England and as a beacon of the European Superhero Community.

### Arthur Caldwell or King Arthur

Several years after the announcement of The Round Table and Vought Europe, Supe's had become slightly more common in both continents, with more Supes appearing every year as Vought continue pushing out Compound V in Europe. Arthur's persona as Excalibur in the 90's and 2000's was like Beatles during the 50's and 60's. He was super popular having been on several Talk Shows like Graham Norton Show. Was part of several Charitable Foundations like Dreams and Dragons. Had almost every kind of merchandise to his name like posters, action figures, pillows, foam swords and shields, and starred in several ad campaigns and movies like Excalibur, Excalibur: Dark Days, and Excalibur: Ring of Fire.

But Arthur was also very stressed, being considered the #1 Hero of his continent was very tiresome, he hardly went out on the field like his teammates only for publicity and showmanship, but Bought thought that his image and status would be good enough. This would send Arthur in a downward spiral of drinking and doing drugs. Since his powers negated the regular effects of alcohol and certain substances he would drink and do drugs a lot more than most people could handle so he would get his fix. This is what causes his paranoia and temper to arise in basic interruptions like hitting his teammate Condor after he accidentally bumped into him after walking past him.

This caused sever tension with his teammates and Vought, they thought he was a loose cannon and planned on scrapping him and having someone new take his place. But after knowing they would replace him he would try his hardest to make sure no new member would join, he would harass, berate, assault, or downright bully them until they quit so he would keep his position. After years went by and his team slowly died or left one by one, Vought had came up with a plan to fix him.

### Old Student In New School

In 2018, Arthur would be drugged by Vought, so they could take him to the Cave to keep him sober for several weeks, CEO of Vought Stan Edgar had came to England so try and convince Arthur as Vought believed he was a good asset to the company but needed a kick in the pants to grow. Stan had told Arthur that he needed to stop acting like a child and become a hero. It took awhile to get it through Arthur's head after years of self abuse, but it came around to him, and would be let go. Arthur returned back to London, with a new perspective on life. Vought thought that the team needed a rebrand, so Arthur and his former teammate Mr Miraculous was part of a Gameshow to find The Round Table's newest members. Once they were chosen, Arthur was back to being the Leader he was, while also trying to stay away from his past mistakes.

## Personality

Arthur at first was very bright eyed and sweet person, despite having a temper like his old man, he hardly showed it when he first became Excalibur.

## Powers/Abilities

### Powers

* **Superhuman** **Strength:** In his early stages Arthur could life a car with little to no struggle, he was once dogpiled by a group of thugs and shook all 10 of them off, by the time he was Leader of the Round Table, his strength dramatically increased to that where he can lift much heavier weight like atlas 10 tons.
* **Superhuman Reflexes:** Arthur's reflexes are enhanced to that where he can dodge gunfire even from behind, block bullets with his shield and can slice through bullets mid air
* **Superhuman Durability:** Arthur can survive great impact forces such as gunshots, knife stabs, being repeatedly struck by superhumanly strong opponents, temperature extremes, and falls from great heights without being injured. He even has a High Tolerance to Drugs, Poisons and Alcohol so major amounts would only take small effects on him
* **Slower Aging:** Since being born in the 60's, the Compound V injected into him had slowed down his aging causing him to appear as an early 40's man instead of his realistic 60's age.

### Abilities

* **Genius Intelligence:** Arthur was educated by educational advisors sent by Vought learning basic teaching lessons from middle to College level. Arthur is also extremely bright and is an expert in Arthurian History after he took an interest in reading the stories of King Arthur.
* **Expert Swordsman**: Arthur learned several techniques of Swordsmanship in The Cave, he learned French Fencing, Japanese Kenjutsu and Kendo, and English Short and Longsword. Arthur became well versed in this styles to that where he uses a mix of all styles he learned to be used to his advantage
* **Shield Expert**: Arthur learned how to use Shields alongside learning how to use swords, combine with his swordsmanship, his Shield offers him stronger protection and better defense allowing him to use both with ease.