The Salamander (anime)

*This article is for the anime version of the character. For the comic character, see: The Salamander.*

## Physical description

### Gender

Male

**The Salamander** is The Bastard's right hand in The Network. When The Bastard retired, The Salamander became the new head of The Network.

## History

At Supermax Prison, The Salamander has the supervillains enjoy a feast sent by Mr. Matts. One of the prisoners calls The Bastard legendary, saying that even though he was older now, he was still very dangerous. He tells the story of a man called Danny, who stole from The Bastard. Every person who was connected to Danny had their heads exploded and the rumor was that The Bastard had caused the 241 deaths. Danny and his girlfriend tried running away, but Danny's girlfriend died in front of him. Danny begged for The Bastard to kill him, but he refused to oblige.

The Salamander approaches the director, saying that he was glad the warden had been taking care of everything. The warden thanks Mr. Matts, saying that it would not be possible without his help. The man says that Mr. Matts valued their connections with their comrades and the warden is approached by two girls. He thanks the man and wonders if Mr. Matts was really taking his fortune overseas, but is told that it was just a rumor.

The Bastard is approached by The Salamander after Supermax and says that the party had gone great. Mr. Matts says that they need to look at things objectively and describes the Network as a natural order.

At Supermax, a guard is nervous that The Bastard would be visiting, but his coworker tells him it would be okay. The Bastard passes them and they are fine. As The Bastard gets out of the car, he says that Supermax is ugly. He is welcomed and taken to a party, which surprises him. He smiles and is allowed to move freely. He makes it to the microphone and tells them that the night would blow their minds. He says that he had two things to say. The first one was that he is retiring and tells them the story of when he decided to be a villain, when he killed his mother. He says that after he retired, The Network would be run by his suboordinates, who had shown him true loyalty so that The Network could run smoothly and prosper. When he leaves, he tells his suboordinates to let him know who in the audience stopped clapping first. When they gathered the people that stopped clapping first, The Bastard started killing them one by one.

The guards on the outside salute The Bastard on his way out, but the woman had her phone out. She quickly put it away, but her coworker shouted at her. When the Bastard leaves, he says that his head was hurting again. She tells him to stop messing with her, but all of a sudden, his head exploded.

In Las Vegas, Carmine wins a lot of money, and bets on one number, trying to get to 1 million dollars. Security believes that he must have some sort of superpower, but he is told that they had not detected any use of powers. They confirm his identity is The Heat and they check the premises to make sure he was not up to something, sent by Salamander.

Later, Carmine is caught as his partner, Walt was hiding in a car. Walt cries, but The Salamander tells him to not be so hard on himself and recognizes him, knowing that he has the ability to see 30 seconds into the future, which meant he knew what was going to happen to the cigar box. The man lets go of the cigar box, which impacts his skull and he is killed. Carmine is lifted by the neck and told that he had 30 days to bring him 100 million dollars.

### One year later

Johnny still wanted to know what to do with Matts one year later because he knew that he loved vengeance. His old friend Tommy was working as a writer for *The New York Times* when he got a letter from "Electro Boy", which had the selfie the villains had taken when stealing from Matts. In the photo, the villains used The Salamander's gang's costumes. Tommy was left in shock by that.

The Bastard walks into The Network, surprising the new heads there. He believed that the article Tom had written had been sent in by Salamander, but he did not know what The Bastard was talking about. The Bastard tells him that he wanted his 800 million dollars back and makes his head explode, saying that he would take one of Salamander's islands. After that, The Bastard made everybody's head explode, saying that he had missed that part of his life.