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El Corazón de León, a lucha-themed Silver Age hero and former member of the Exemplars. Also known as Lionheart because people weren't as comfortable with foreign-sounding superhero names when he was active. Semi-retired now, in the sense that everyone knows his neighbourhood and not to mess with it, because even though he's old and has no flashy powers he will kick your ass if you try to sell guns or drugs on his turf. He'd heard about Steel moving into town and was keeping an eye on the situation when we stumbled into it.

Detective Marcus Chen, a cop. He's got the total John Woo vibe and all which is neat but... well, he was there to get whoever was giving Steel the weapons and stuff and we kinda... uh... messed that up. Stopping the weapons was a big deal, but apparently the bigger deal was Steel's boss. So, um, yeah. Detective Chen was not happy. It made such a splash it totally messed up his undercover gig, and they kicked him upstairs. He kinda keeps tabs on us now. Sometimes, he points us at something. Sometimes he tells us not to do something, which we do anyway. Which he probably knew we would do anyway, so maybe it's reverse cop psychology? Anyway, it's kinda neat having the local cop boss on your side. It would be nicer if he didn't get so mad, though."

King, a gun runner. I don't see him as some benevolent mentor, although I could see him potentially being the one who brings together the group. After all, he is a criminal, he runs the illegal gun trade in Halcyon City. I think he's an anti-villain and anti-authoritarian with an extra little ideology of metahumans first. He definitely likes to think that he has the best interest of everyone at heart, but he doesn't, he helped Flickr because he can use him, which is the case with everyone he helps. Basically, if he can be friends with all the young superheroes (and he does come across as a really nice guy, not creepy charming) then they're less likely to interfere with his illegal activities and obviously, potentially recruiting them in a more serious way to his organisation is something he would find very useful. As far as powers go, I don't think he actually has the ability to sense superpowers, I think he has another metahuman that can do that. I'm pretty sure that he has the power of resurrection, in that if you kill him he will just come back to life some time later, but apart from that I'm not sure. All ideas. One thing I am sure about is that people just call him King, that's not his real name.