Bernard Smith

Bernard Smith (Born 13th August 1967) is the Co-Regional Manager for Thornton Stationery - Kensington & Chelsea Branch, and has worked there since 1990. He has also worked as the Personal Photographer for The Denzel Pepper Detective Agency. Bernard was born in Halifax to a wealthy family and lived in Smith Mansion situated in Ingbirchworth. He studied both Psychology and Criminology at Oxford University and has a Genius Level Intellect. Bernard achieved a Professorship in both Criminology and Psychology within the space of only 2 years. Bernard currently lives in Smith Manor in Kensington and has done since 1995. Bernard has always despised crime, it majorly affected where he grew up and most of all it's what cost him his brother's life at the age of 20. From that moment onward, Bernard swore to stop crime and trained himself to both the physical and mental peaks for 8 years before becoming the Bruiserman.

## Personal Info

**Strengths:**

* Fearlessness
* Unmatched Perspicacity
* Expert Tactile Sense and Ability
* Sheer Indefatigability
* Genius Level Intellect
* Master of the World's Most Highly Advanced Martial Arts
* Unbridled Physical Strength

**Weaknesses:**

* Uncontrollable Resentment and Anger

## Bernard Smith

### Aliases

Bernie Wernie
Big Bezzer

The Bear

The Halifax Knight (Previously 1975 - 1983)

The Master Of Fear (As Bruiserman)

Vengeance (As Bruiserman)

The Caped Crusader (As Bruiserman)

The Dark Knight (As Bruiserman)

### Relatives

Albert Smith (Father)
Beatrix Smith (Mother)

Isaac Smith (Brother) (Deceased)

### Affiliation

Denzel Pepper Detective Agency
Thornton Stationery Company

### Occupation

Co-Regional Manager for Kensington & Chelsea Branch
Vigilante

## Biographical information

### Place of birth

Halifax, West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom

## Appearances

### Debut

1990

Bernard had a comfortable upbringing after being born into the wealthiness and austerity of the notorious Smith family and lived at Smith Mansion in Ingbirchworth. His parents were the owners of a pharmaceutical company named Smith Enterprises and had millions of pounds at their disposal giving Bernard an idealistic childhood. Bernard was always given crude nicknames for this though, the main one being "Richboy," which was constantly used as a verbal assault and a form of bullying against Bernard. Bernard was also always seen as highly intelligent as a kid, which led to envious competitors in his classes and further added to bullying. This however assisted Bernard as he grew up as it provided him with knowledge and expertise in combat. Bernard always despised it when he saw others being picked on too, he donned himself as "The Halifax Knight," and aimed to prevent any activities that were carried out that were against school rules and did so until he was 16 when he attended Rochdale Sixth Form College. On one occasion as the Halifax Knight, when Bernard was just 9 years of age, the infamous bully and sadist "Dickish Dickie Davis," kept on harassing Bernard's longtime childhood friend, Zachary Clough, for his lunch money. This enraged Bernard immensely leading to him bellowing "LEAVE HIM ALONE, YOU LITTLE FUCKING CUNT!" Bernard then snatched Dickie from his feet, lifted him horizontally in the air, and then crushed his spine by slamming it down on his knee leaving Dickie paralysed to this day. It was Bernard's finest hour and one major moment that lead to him becoming the Bruiserman. Bernard then went on to pursue a career in Psychology and Politics at A Levels getting A\*\* grades in both of them allowing him to get a place at the prestigious Oxford University. Bernard is now a Professor of Psychology and Criminology after earning a Professorship in both of them.

## Major Events Leading to Bernard's Vigilantism

At the age of 20, Bernard lost his younger brother Isaac Smith to a mugging in which the previously mentioned was murdered in Goodwin's Court, Covent Garden on the 29th August 1987. It was a late night, Bernard and Isaac had finished watching Liverpool VS Coventry at the Nell Gwynne Tavern and were overjoyed. However, the two were in a hurry to get back home, they were wanted back at Smith Mansion. The two decided to take a shortcut through Goodwin's Court but Bernard stayed behind as he needed to urinate deciding that he would then regroup with Isaac at their lime green 1982 Chevrolet Corvette C3 after he was done. But as Isaac was walking alone, he felt isolated and terrified until a silhouette appeared right before his very eyes. Its demeanour, intimidating and cold, it demanded all of Isaac's belongings to which the stern teenager refused with anger showing characteristics similar to his brother. The figure then pulled out a small firearm and proceeded to shoot Isaac in the chest 3 times. He died immediately. Bernard rushed to the scene of the crime but he was too late. He collapsed to the ground in terror and shock. From that moment forward Bernard knew he had to stop crime. He knew had to strike fear into criminals. He knew he had to become the Bruiserman.

Over the next 8 years, Bernard balanced out working for Thornton Stationery and The Denzel Pepper Detective Agency and honing his techniques in combat across the world to become a master combatant and vigilante. He would do this by working 1 day every month in London and doing a month's worth of work to keep his job as a salesman. As for The Denzel Pepper Detective Agency, Mr. Pepper would always call Bernard if he was needed and without reluctance, Bernard would return to London to assist in solving crimes.

Bernard began his training to fight crime in the favelas of Rio De Janeiro learning Capoeira and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu under his First Sensei, Riccardo Rodriguez. Riccardo liked to implement dance into his fighting style, utilising it to great effect. An example of this is his classic "Headstand Kick," in which the aforementioned would do a headstand maneuver to perplex his opponents and then he would proceed to bash his opponents with a powerful kick. Bernard learned a lot from Riccardo but dance was not his main goal, he wanted to achieve fear within his enemies, he wanted power, he wanted prowess, and on mutual grounds left Brazil after becoming a disciplined student of Riccardo for 2 years. His overall stay was from 1987 - 1989

Bernard then travelled to Seoul, South Korea to learn Hapkido, Muay Thai, and Taekwondo under his Second Sensei Edmund Jeong of Half-British Half-Korean descent. Edmund was a strict but fair instructor under Bernard's tenure, he would greatly reward success whilst harshly disciplining and punishing failure. Bernard proved to be a master of all of these martial arts and surpassed even Edmund's abilities becoming a sensei for a time in South Korea instructing from the highest peak in South Korea, Mount Hallasan for about a year. Bernard specialised in grapples, joint-locks, throwing techniques, and kicks during this time and mainly took inspiration from Hapkido and Taekwondo whilst mainly disregarding Edmund's teachings of Muay Thai. Bernard studied in Korea for 2 years and taught for 1. His overall stay was from 1989 - 1992

Determined to learn more martial arts and become a vigilante, Bernard then turned to Japan to learn Shinobi-Iri and Ninjutsu from master ninja and Bernard's Third Sensei, Kasper Furuhashi. Bernard was a master of infiltration and stealth and once again surpassed one of his mentors in skill and prowess. Within 6 months of Kasper's teaching, Bernard could infiltrate a room with 15 professional military commanders and knock them all out. Bernard's main tactic is fear and he does this through dividing and conquering the forces that stand in the way of him, as he enters any room he plans to infiltrate his tactic is to one by one incapacitate each enemy building tension, panic, and unease in the rest of his soon to be victims. Arguably, this was Bernard's most useful training as, without it, he would not be as skilled as a guerrilla warrior as he is currently. This training took place for 2 years as Bernard felt like had accomplished all there was to accomplish in the art of stealth and infiltration. His overall stay was from 1992 - 1994.

Relentless, Bernard aimed to study any technique that could be extremely useful to him and found it in the form of Krav Maga which he learned in Israel under his Fourth Sensei, Stuart Mizrahi. Bernard knew he had to seek out training for the famous martial art to combat his armed foes in combat. Bernard was trained ruthlessly under Stuart learning every single technique to disarm his enemies in combat. In some scenarios, the techniques used were fatal but Bernard refused to carry them out stating that if he killed, he would be no better than the people he was punishing and that no one deserves the pain of the loss of a relative like he had suffered. Bernard then quit his training under Stuart after about 6 months as he refused to take part in anything that would mean the loss of life. He returned to England on the 4th of January 1995 under the moniker Bruiserman.

## Adventures Overseas as a Salesperson

When he's not being Bruiserman, Bernard is an excellently exceeding salesman for Thornton Stationery Kensington & Chelsea Branch. This lead to him becoming an extremely dear friend of Denzel Pepper. In October 1998, Denzel and Bernard due to their immense success went to a shareholder's meeting of Thornton Stationery in Sydney, Australia. Bernard and Denzel went on an Australian TV show, where they drank too much cider, and instead of talking about Thornton Stationery, they conversed about different types of rum.

On 6th October 1998, Bernard and Denzel took the plane to return to England. However, 10 minutes into the plane ride a baby started crying so Bernard out of extreme rage kicked the child on the head with full force. Bernard reportedly shouted ''IT'S CLOBBERING TIME YOU LITTLE FUCKER!'' The pilots had to stop in Indonesia to kick Bernard and Denzel off of the plane after this outburst. Subsequently, the dynamic duo got lost in the Indonesian jungle, where they slept in a 1986 Hot Pink Toyota Paseo that they found in the rainforest for three days that had the radio blaring Going Up The Country constantly. Bernard called this experience "A massive bag of wank," when asked about it by fellow salesman Cecil Longstaff. Understandably, this was a harrowing event for the two of them, lashing rain and crackling thunder filling the sky as an irritating song played on repeat in an uncomfortable sleeping arrangement with no food in sight. However, on 10th October things looked up for the 2 as they managed to make their way into Miri, Indonesia, where they managed to get tickets to England. However, they accidentally got on the wrong airline and were sent directly to Argentina, where they got lost in the Valdivian Forests of Chile and Argentina.

On 15th October, Bernard and Denzel were discovered by an old man called Miguel Carlos, who was a native of the forest and lived there. Miguel took them in and offered them rum, cider, and Bombay mix among various other alcoholic beverages. Miguel's neighbour, Jakob Muller is believed to have been a Nazi SS officer and moved to Argentina in 1946 to avoid being prosecuted. On 3rd November, Jakob came into Bernard's room at night, which severely frightened Bernard as he had been having nightmares about his brother's murderer so Bernard clobbered him so hard his eye flew out. Jakob's whereabouts were unknown after this event and he is expected to be deceased.

On 6th November, Bernard and Denzel hitchhiked a luminous yellow Renault Clio and their driver and new associate, Damian Santos drove the pair to Buenos Aires. The two explored the city, getting lost several times until they decided to make their way to the airport. Bernard was not one for committing crimes but times were desperate, he stole two tickets to London from the first two people they saw a 23 year old man from St. Petersburg and his son, an 8-year-old from Moscow. Their tickets had to be checked before boarding the plane and the pair managed to pose as these two characters. Bernard posed as the kid, Denzel the adult. This worked to immense success as the tickets they stole were first class. Bernard and Denzel then had a comfortable flight back to Heathrow Airport and made their way back to their homes.

Due to Bernard's past, he has been under threat from many mercenaries including The Man in Maroon and Thugmaster (on separate occasions but they did team up once). The only mission that Thugmaster ever failed was his mission to kill Bernard which ended terribly for the rest of Thugmaster's team.

## Fighting Experience

Bernard is a notorious vigilante making him a formidable foe in combat, he has honed his skills and techniques across the world and is known to be a master of most known martial art forms. Notable Martial Arts Bernard utilises are: Krav Maga, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Hapkido, Ninjutsu, Capoeira, Muay Thai, Shinobi-Iri and Taekwondo. Bernard is a master of espionage, infiltration, and assault, he has been trained to both the mental and physical peaks. His tenacity and strength are unrivalled making him a fearsome opponent for even some of the most experienced warriors. Bernard is driven by passion, will, and justice which further adds to the extreme threat he poses, however, his explosive temper sometimes gets the better of him and clouds his judgment. Bernard is also a skilled, acrobatic combatant making him a difficult enemy to go toe-to-toe with as his agility allows him to evade strikes by multiple enemies, he even defeated the feared Man in Maroon to save a child. Bernard's intellect also adds to his danger in combat, his near genius level IQ allows him to tactically think out a battle before it begins. Furthermore, Bernard is a master of psychology and knows exactly how to strike fear deep within his enemies to either weaken them mentally or make them surrender to him due to the mental harm caused. Bernard's most useful and notable technique is the Great Right Hook which has become feared in the criminal underworld of London.