Demolition Man (The Police)

NAME/ORIGIN

Character name
 Demolition Man
Song/Album
 "Demolition Man"/ Ghost in the Machine
Act
 The Police (orig performed by Grace Jones)
Writer
 Sting
Release Date
 1981 


ABILITIES

Powers
 None, in the super-power sense
Skills
 Assassination;
"Tied to the tracks... strapped to the wing"
Attributes
 "I'm the sort of thing they ban"
Vulnerabilities
 is mortal
Formidability
 high, but is not super
Attractiveness
 Ironically, high: "You come to me like a moth to the flame"
Source
 highly trained (construction? military? both?), much experience
Goals
 Do the job, leave no evidence


POSSESSIONS

Weapons
 "The bomb is ticking"
A "three-line whip"
Amulets
 N/A
Objects
 Ropes: "Tied... strapped... "
Clothing
 Protective, yet nothing attention-grabbing
Vehicles
 various, as the job requires. Is familiar with trains and planes.
Dwelling
 N/A. May relocate frequently
Milieu
 The shadows


BIOGRAPHY

Gender
 "man"
Age
 adult
Physique
 likely physically fit
Ethnicity
 N/A
Origin
 N/A
Ancestry
 N/A
Profession
 Demolition man (explosives expert) turned hit man 
Education
 may have some chemistry, electrical background
SES
 potentially high
Relationships
 "nobody's friend"
Pets
 N/A


PERSONALITY

Morality
 Immoral, and fine with it.
Intro/extrovert
 "I kill a conversation as a I walk into a room"
"Don't mess around with the Demolition Man"
Intelligence
 High
Emotions
 "I'm a walking nightmare, an arsenal of doom".. a "walking disaster"
Sanity
 frighteningly sane
Enemies
 the client decides the target
Narrative Function
 Protagonist, antagonist
Other Notes
 There are other assassins and hitmen, but only one Demolition Man. He trained by making and placing the kinds of explosives that demolish buildings so that new structures can take their place. But at some point, he was hired (likely by someone in the construction trade who knew of his skills) to demolish a person, and just decided to keep his former professional title since he was going to use the same know-how to do it.
Because people often object to getting blown up, he has taken the practice of using a whip to convince them to comply-- it doesn't leave the kind of evidence a gun does, but still allows him to keep his distance, unlike with a knife. Also, the crack of the whip is like a mini-explosion.
Demolition Man is all business, but he likes his "work," and the respect it commands. Given what he does so well, and his affinity for it, you "don't mess around with the Demolition Man." 



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