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Real Name: Brendon Doyle
Occupation: Mercenary, professional criminal
Legal Status: Dual citizenship in the United States and Great Britain with no criminal record
Identity: Secret
Place of Birth: Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: None
Base of Operations: Mobile
Past Group Affiliations: None
Known Powers:
Laser Cannon: Monstrous damage with a 15-area range.
Body Armor: Remarkable protection against physical attacks, Incredible protection against energy attacks.
Electric Touch: The Mauler’s left gauntlet is charged with a pulsed electrical shock which does Amazing damage.
Flight: The Mauler armor flies at Amazing speed (25 areas/round).
Life Support: The Mauler can survive for up to three and one-half days in hostile environments without penalties.
Talents:
Doyle is a mercenary with many skills, including Military and Guns Talents.
Contacts:
Doyle has a number of contacts from his mercenary days, and has used James Rhodes in his schemes.
Role-Playing Notes:
Brendon Doyle is a mercenary who will do virtually anything for money (though he was unwilling to kill his old friend James Rhodes). Doyle prides himself on being effective; at the same time, he knows when a fight is impossible to win. Like any good mercenary, he will try to manipulate a given situation for his own personal benefit.
History:
Aaron Soames worked for thirty-five years as a file clerk at the Cord Conglomerate, whose president was industrialist Edwin Cord. When Soames was sixty-three years old, Edwin Cord had the information from the files that Soames maintained computerized, and Soames was laid oft. The computer contained the record of Soames’ employment at the Conglomerate. However, due to a programming error, Soames’ entire thirty-five-year work record was accidentally erased from the computer’s memory. Hence, when Soames applied for his pension from the company, the accounting department refused to give it to him.
The distraught Soames asked Edwin Cord to arrange the pension he deserved, but Cord cruelly refused, taking pleasure in the fact that the programming error gave the company an excuse not to pay Soames. When he also failed to receive Social Security because of the missing records, Soames took matters into his own hands.
The former accountant stole from the Cord Conglomerate the multi-purpose armored battlesuit code-named MAULER (Mobile Armored Utility Laser-guided Electron-beam emitter, Revised) created for the Defense Department as a prototype for a mass-producible, high-technology battle outfit for the U.S. Army.
As the Mauler, wearing the stolen battlesuit, Soames attacked Edwin Cord, first at the latter’s country club, then at his Long Island City factory, but both times had to deal with Dare devil. However, Soames was able to tell Daredevil some of his story. When the Mauler finally did get Cord at his mercy, he didn’t kill the industrialist. Instead, he just removed Cord’s credit cards, driver’s license, bank cash machine cards, and other forms of personal identification and destroyed them. Thus Soames got his revenge by symbolically doing to Cord what Cord and his computer had done to him: wiping out records of his existence.
Soames intended to do no harm to Cord beyond this. But then guards arrived with a powerful “vibra-mace” device, and Daredevil was unable to prevent them from firing it at Soames. The intense vibrations penetrated the Mauler armor and killed Soames. Daredevil, who had come to sympathize with Soames, was one of the few mourners at the accountant’s funeral, which he attended in his real identity of attorney Matt Murdock.
The Defense Department cancelled the Mauler contract with Cord, driving him close to bankruptcy. Cord risked the company’s remaining money in creating a combat suit of similar design, which he called Raider. As a demonstration for a potential customer from SHIELD, he dispatched men wearing Raider suits to attack Iron Man. The demonstration failed, causing the loss of innocent lives. Cord was indicted and convicted of reckless endangerment. Financially ruined, Cord sold his company to Stark International. The Mauler armor was stored, presumably unnoticed, in a Stark warehouse.
Since Soames, however, two men have worn the Mauler battlesuit. One was a common thug named Turk Barrett who used the suit in an unsuccessful attempt to get revenge on Daredevil. The second was mercenary Brendan Doyle, whom the jailed Cord hired to steal the Mauler suit from Stark International. Doyle left Cord’s employ, and began a life of crime as a super-powered mercenary. However, Tony Stark realized that some of the circuits in the Mauler armor (among others) utilized principles stolen from the Iron Man armor. Stark began a crusade to neutralize the technology that had been stolen from him. When confronted by Iron Man, Doyle realized that he could not succeed in stopping Iron Man, and surrendered the Mauler suit without a fight.