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Contents 1 History 2 Powers and Abilities 2.1 Powers 2.2 Abilities 3 See Also 4 Links and References 4.1 Footnotes

History

There was three High Lords aboard the Daemonite ship that crashed on Earth: the ship captain who died in the crash, Helspont was the military leader and Defile was the political leader.

Unlike his fellow surviving Daemonite High Lord, Defile doesn't seek the destruction of mankind. He wants its ultimate corruption to obey his free will, or its death for resisting. For that, he has constantly plotted in the shadows of History. For example, he was the one to introduce gas bombs during the First World War. He usually maneuvers the other influential peoples to do his biddings.

He put in motion a long time scheme by getting the three captured members of StormWatch Prime (Flashpoint, Nautika and Sunburst captured by the MERCs during the Gulf War), and brainwashing them. As his puppets, they sent StormWatch classified information to pit the UN's organization against his long time foe: Emp and his WildC.A.T.s. By capturing Maul, brainwashing him to carry a nuke in a volcano, he got Battalion "killed", and aroused StormWatch's wrath against the WildC.A.T.s. By sending Mr. White to impersonate Maul in the lap of the WildC.A.T.s, he expected to kill Emp. This plan was exposed by Ben Santini and his Black Razors. The fact that Maul had been captured by StormWatch after the nuke incident, the WildC.A.T.s were now also mad at them. And they start fighting each other.

That's when the third key to the Daemonite warship was uncovered. If the three keys could reunited, and the warship found, the owner has access to the destructive potential of the dreadnought. As Daemonite High Lords, Defile had one, Helspont another, the third was the captain's. The race for the keys and the ship began, involving all of Earth's heroes. Even StormWatch and the WildCATs worked together, because the Void had a vision of the outcome of the crisis if the ship fell in the wrong hands. In the end, it appeared that the ship was the Kherubim's but it still held great firepower. In the struggle for its control, Defile unleashed his StormWatch pets (minus Flashpoint who was in custody or having cold bloodedly killed a MERC). Sunburst destroyed Spartan's body, then managed to break Defile's influence and was crippled by his wife Nautika. As his plan failed again, Defile retreated and was never heard of again.

Defile emerged once again after Stormwatch set up it's latest incarnation, Stormwatch P.H.D. (Post Human Division). He led an assault on the police headquarters where P.H.D. member John Doran was stationed. After fending off the assault, Doran and the others escaped. Unfortunately, Defile and his agents were later successful in destroying the station.

After Armageddon, Lord Defile brought an army of Daemonite to Los Angeles, home of the Wildcats. After a confrontation with the Wildcats, Defile agreed to a truce but his true motivations behind this agreement to the truce still have yet to be revealed.^[1] When the Wildcats left the Halo Building and leaving only Ladytron on guard, Lord Defile took the chance to invade the building with his Daemonite army. Defile and Lady Decadence arduously fought Ladytron and almost had her destroy when the Wildcats returned and along with an enrage Majestic. Upon seeing their respective enemy, Defile and Majestic immediately attack each other. As Defile was locked with Majestic, Spartan took the opportunity to open a portal into Otherspace in sending Defile, Decadence, Majestic and the Daemonties into the said dimension. In the process, the Halo Building was destroyed and only Majestic emerged from the building's ruins, leaving the fate of Defile and Decadence in ambiguity.^[2]

Powers and Abilities

Powers

Daemonite Physiology

Cellular Disruption: ability to release a degnerative energy that causes the cells of objects and living beings to start to degrade and rot from the cellular structure outward. In objects they begin to break down as if worn by time and environments and in living beings it literally rots the flesh from their bones at its extremes and withers at less application.

Psionics: he has highly advanced telepathic abilities allowing him any number of psychic feats.

• Personality Transfer: ability to transfer a personality or even his own from one body to another.

Bio-Physical Control: ability to physically control Daemonites by their natural ability to communicate with each other. Due to his high station of birth he is capable of overriding the free will of lower level Daemonites.

Possession: is capable of possessing host bodies. The exact way the process works is unclear, but possession doesn't harm the host; should a Daemonite leave or be forced to leave, the host, while weakened, will remain otherwise unharmed. Occasionally, however, the trauma has been known to kill a host. Daemonites need to possess a host to survive on planets with a climate different from Daemon, like Earth (though a deal with D'ahn eliminated this weakness from all Daemonites that resided on Earth at the time). When possessing a host, the Daemonite has access to all abilities that host has. A Daemonite can change his host into his true, Daemonite form, but can only maintain this form for a short period of time.

Immortality: Daemonite's can survive for millennia and are possibly even immortal.

Regeneration: They are capable of regenerating missing limbs and quickly recover from serious injuries.

Invulnerability: his skin is highly durable making him superhumanly Invulnerable

Superhuman Strength

Claws

Sorcery: Defile is a practitioner of Daemonite sorcery a art not common amongst the Daemonite race but exists none the less. He has reportedly said that the daemonite version of sorcery is not as flashy as earth magic but it gets the job done.

Abilities

Master Manipulator

Leadership

See Also

• Discuss Defile (Earth-50) on the forums
• Appearances of Defile (Earth-50)
• Character Gallery: Defile (Earth-50)
• Images featuring Defile (Earth-50)

Links and References

• None.
  

Footnotes

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