Chapter 27: Franco 'Frank' Sanchez
When searching for a good drug dealer villain in the DCU, I couldn't find one that worked out of South America. I know, right! I borrowed this villain from James Bond's 'License to Kill'. I tailored the location, but I kept the MI6 flavor. No Bond, but Frank does attack Felix. I made the reason that he found Felix the same reason the League had to get involved. Then League uses an illusion of MI6 to fake out Frank. He was a fun villain to write.
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ORIGIN:
Frank was born in Uruguay where he was raised. He learned to be a ruthless killer in the cocaine fields. He has high intelligence. He quickly found that his family was a liability. They were killed by a local drug lord when his father refused to bow down. The drug lord at the time wanted to punish his father by killing his mother. He was young. The lesson stuck with him. Young Frank didn't miss his father when he was killed a few years later in a drug raid by police.
Frank rose to power by being ruthless and merciless. He demanded the total loyalty of all his men and rewarded that loyalty, but he was vicious to anyone who thought about betraying him. Any who crossed him are promised a painful death by long, slow torture.
Having been born poor and in the fields of a cocaine plantation, Frank had delusions of a grand life. He would often pretend to be cultured and refined by society's standards. Those standards didn't hold long if you failed to do exactly what he demanded of you. He spent his whole life corrupting and bribing all officials in Uruguay from the President on down. He controlled the government and all the city officials of Isthmus City, the capital of his drug empire.
At the time of the story, Frank runs an international drug cartel from South America to Asia. He uses his high intelligence to smuggle his cocaine in gasoline. His known crimes are drug smuggling, corruption, torture, murder, terrorism, blackmail, sabotage, and theft.
Frank has recently come across a local woman with a magical gift. The woman is not trained. She has only had the training given to her by her local wise woman. Her aunt. Her only gift is for divination. The aunt refused to work with Frank. He killed her and took the girl. Frank found a way to exploit this gift. He targeted anyone with even a thought of betrayal against him.
MI6 barely got their operative Felix Leiter out of his operation before Leiter was discovered by the girl. Frank took the fact that Felix fled to indicate that he was a traitor and used his considerable resources to track him down in England with his wife. He tortured and killed the wife in front of Leiter. He tortured Leiter until he assumed the man was dead. Leiter survived but he was now a crippled, traumatized the man.
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FAMILY:
Frank's mother was killed by the previous drug lord. Frank's father was killed in a failed police raid on the previous drug lord. He has no siblings or children.
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MOTIVATION:
Frank is motivated by greed and power. He wants to control every aspect of his empire from the top to the bottom. He refuses to allow anyone any form of free thought. Loyalty to him must be absolute. Failure is not an option for him.
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PERSONALITY:
Frank is ruthless. He pretends to be cultured and refined, but that image falls away rapidly when you do not do what he demands instantly. He rewards loyalty but promises a painful death to any who betray him. He is beyond paranoid.
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POWER/ABILITIES:
High Intelligence: Frank is a genius. He has been able to focus his genius on chemistry. Due to his limited exposure, he is fixated on drugs. He uses his knowledge of drugs and their properties to allow him to smuggle them past customs effectively. He is very effective at manipulation.
Marksmanship: Frank is very skilled with small arms. He is a master marksmen on rifles and skilled with pistols.
Charisma, wealth, resources: Frank has everything needed to make him an effective leader or dictator.
Manipulation: Frank is very skilled at manipulating people. He is good at presenting a pleasant face and demanding what he wants. When that fails, he uses fear and terror. He is a sadist.
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NOTES:
I had to move outside of the DCU to find a decent villain that I could kill without regret. DCU has some great villains, but they don't kill them permanently. Sometimes that is annoying. As much as I like the Joker, the man needs to die and stay dead. Seriously, Batman, get your head out of your ass.
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