Editing NECESSARY EVIL in Freedom City SPOILER PAGE (section)

===Dr. Simian=== 

A group of highly-paid (and quite immoral) weapons-system-designers were paid to develop a technique to download the mind and fighting skills of an aging and partially-disabled special ops ‘volunteer’ into the strong young body of a mountain gorilla, hoping to create a covert operative unlike any other. (Their benefactor had many uses for this technology, if successful, including downloading the minds of minions who had failed him into fallow deer and releasing them into his tiger-pens...) 

A power-surge instead suffused all of the occupants of the room in a shimmering net of neuroelectrical forces that drained the researchers (and the commando) of their memories and intellectual abilities, and fed them into the restrained simian. The ape that now calls himself Dr. Simian awakened to consciousness to find himself in a room full of lab-coated humans, all scratching themselves, flinging coffee and howling in ape-like confusion. He freed himself (with newly-discovered commando-like escape skills), and using his vast new knowledge and memories of what his captors had been doing, pillaged their bank accounts before vanishing, with his group of six now permanently ape-minded ‘sidekicks.’ 

He keeps these former scientists safely tucked away in a hidden base, as, even knowing what they had planned, and what sorts of people they were in life, he cannot bring himself to kill them, or let them run free and get themselves hurt. 

Combining knowledges from many fields of study, as well as some measure of combat-training from the former special forces assassin, Dr. Simian has constructed a battlesuit that augments his already noticeable gorilla strength, and allows him to fend off the attacks by the research-teams secret financial backer, Dr. Sin, and his grand-daughter, the Raven! It was during a futile attempt to resist an attack by the Tyranny Syndicate (manipulated into doing so by the Raven), that Dr. Simian was rescued by other members of the Order, and joined this underground collection of heroes, working in secret to foil the Syndicate’s schemes.