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Dr. Brian Braddock, Ph.D a.k.a. Captain Britain was the champion of the British Isles and its peoples. Endowed with mystical powers by the Amulet of Right given to him by the legendary sorcerer Merlyn and his daughter Roma. He was assigned to be the protector of Earth-3237 for the Captain Britain Corps an interdimensional organization who guard the Omniverse, powered by energies from the Otherworld, a realm created from the collective consciousness and will of the British People.
Captain Britain is many things. He's the heroic protector of the United Kingdom, an Omniversal guardian. the King of Otherworld, and leader of Europe's premiere Super Hero team Excalibur. No matter what his role, he always defends his people and the family Braddock.
A Champion in the Making
Brian Braddock’s birth is a part of a carefully conceived plan. Decades ago, Omniversal guardian Merlyn sent his agent James Braddock to Earth-616, one of a multitude of Earths in the Omniverse, to sire a champion that could battle Necrom. James has three children, the studious Brian is his third child, twin to his sister Elizabeth “Betsy” Braddock, AKA Psylocke, and younger brother to James Braddock Jr., AKA Jamie Braddock.
Brian, home on a break from his Thames University physics course, leaves the house when the computer Mastermind, built by his father, slays both of Brian’s parents, making it look like a lab accident. Out on a date with Valerie Campbell at the time, Brian feels overwhelmed with guilt, believing he might have saved them had he been present.
Burying himself in his work, he takes a summer job at Darkmoor nuclear research complex; when the facility is attacked by Joshua Stragg, AKA Reaver, Brian flees on a motorbike to get help, but is forced over a cliff by his pursuers. Dying, he witnesses a vision of Merlyn and the Lady of the Northern Skies, AKA Roma, above a ring of standing stones, offering him a choice between the Sword of Might and Amulet of Right. Concluding that he was no warrior, Brian picked the latter, and is transformed into Captain Britain.
The new hero defeats the Reaver, who, after grabbing the sword, had likewise been transformed by Merlyn’s foes, the Nethergods. Soon after, Brian publicly debuts fighting the crimelord Vixen’s minions in London, though some, such as Scotland Yard’s Chief Inspector Dai Thomas, were not glad to see him; he goes on to battle Albert Potter, AKA Hurricane (another Nethergod-empowered foe), Christopher Thorn, AKA Dr. Synne, and Mastermind, who confessed his role in Brian’s parents’ death.
Otherworldly Powers
Captain Britain possesses superhuman strength (lifting 90 tons), flight (up to 770 mph), enhanced reflexes, stamina and senses, all powered by interdimensional frictional energies focused in a matrix centered on the U.K. Prolonged absence from this matrix weakens him, though this weakness may have been removed when he empowers Kelsey Leigh, AKA Lionheart. Powerful magics can reverse this link under very specific circumstances, so that damage inflicted on Brian would cause energy surges in the field, resulting in damage to U.K. geography.
Brian develops an immunity to his sister Betsy’s telepathic powers. As Britanic, he has prophetic visions, which are tied to memories of experiencing all of history while lost in the timestream.
He’s also a skilled physicist, engineer, roboticist and acrobat. Brian’s uniforms, from the second one onwards, work as both batteries and lenses, storing matrix energies for use when Brian is away from the U.K., and magnifying the human body’s impulses and energy fields. It generates a force field, which can sometimes be extended to provide ranged attack. His helmet provides control, which is keyed to Brian’s specific brain patterns where he can remotely control his costume if another person wears it.
Brian originally wields an extendable quarterstaff that can project both force field and flames. Merlyn later replaces this staff with a Star Sceptre, which adds short periods of flight to the above powers; it’s later merged with Brian’s new costume.
Adversaries
Mastermind, a supercomputer built by Brian’s father, slays both Brian’s parents and eventually Brian learns of Mastermind’s role in their deaths and defeats it.
The reality-warping mutant Sir James Jaspers, AKA Mad Jim Jaspers, goes up against Brian and Brian is no match for him. Brian teams up with heroes Albion and Clarice Ferguson, AKA Blink and defeats Jaspers.
Brain faces off with the assassin Slaymaster and Vixen several times. When the Vixen lures Betsy into a showdown with Slaymaster, the assassin blinds her. Brian, feeling her pain, flies to the scene and kills him.
Captain Britain also goes up against several other Super Villains, including Hurricane, Johann Shmidt, AKA Red Skull, Mordred the Evil, Necrom, and many more.
Attested Allies and Alliances
Betsy Braddock, the mutant oft known as Psylocke, is Brian’s twin sister and they share a close sibling bond. When he returns from traveling the world, he learns that the British government’s Resources Control Executive agency (RCX) convinced her to take up his mantle as Captain Britain. Furious at first, he quits, but when Betsy faces the deadly assassin Slaymaster, he does not hesitate to save his sister.
The vulpine Meggan Puceanu, AKA Meggan, and Brian share a long-term romantic relationship and travel the world together.
In his career as a Super Hero, he is a part of the agents of Merlyn, the Captain Britain Corps, the champions of Otherworld’s Camelot, the Pendragons, and he infiltrates the London branch of the Hellfire Club (Inner Circle).